CHAPTER 23: CHAPTER 23: MIANMIAN, DID SOMETHING HAPPEN?

At this moment, the Liu mother’s daughter pair went mad again.

Others were eating salty porridge, but they still had leftover pork from yesterday.

They ate heartily in front of everyone, not even bothering to hide it, and spoke while eating.

"My son has already gone out to heal his wounds, there are some things I didn’t tell you in advance, don’t blame me."

"Those present who join our Qi Mansion and pledge loyalty to me and my son, may perhaps get some soup later. When my son returns, he will bring thousands of supplies! For us, this exile journey will be without any suffering at all."

She ate the pork proudly, glaring viciously at Nanny Fang.

Thinking of taking this opportunity to make some of the Ruan Mansion people switch sides!

However, at this moment, Ruan Mian returned to the post station.

Just as Mrs. Liu wanted to continue her sarcastic comments, a carriage stopped at the door.

A man with a black gourd hanging from his waistband jumped off the carriage and walked straight to Ruan Mian.

"Miss Ruan, this is specially prepared by my lord, please kindly accept it."

With these words, Ruan Mian smiled slightly and bowed: "Thank you for taking care of me, please convey my regards to my lord."

The man scratched his head awkwardly, "Miss Ruan, since I’ve delivered the item, I’ll take my leave now."

Saying so, he left in a flash before Ruan Mian could react.

Ruan’s father hurried over, only catching a glimpse of that person’s coat corner.

He could only look at Ruan Mian with concern and asked, "Mianmian, did something happen?"

Ruan Mian shook her head: "Nothing, father, please go back and rest, I’ll distribute the supplies to the family."

She also took the opportunity to take some things from the space.

The government officers stood at the door, exchanged glances, and pretended not to see.

After Ruan Mian distributed the supplies to the Ruan Family, she saw there were some "defective products" left and decided to give them to Mrs. Wang.

Mrs. Wang was extremely surprised, never expecting Ruan Mian would share with them. Even though pride made her reluctant to accept without reason, the situation forced their hand, and they couldn’t act tough.

Thus, Mrs. Wang accepted with a smile and personally brought Lin to thank Ruan Mian.

"Miss Ruan, we didn’t expect you would consider our family too, I... really don’t know how to thank you."

Ruan Mian glanced at the corner where Ruan Jiao’s eyes were red, smiled indifferently, then turned to call Cui Zhu to bring a few more eggs.

"No need to be polite, madam. Now we are all in the same boat, although we had no dealings before, in the future, we will see each other often, having more friends is always good."

"Last time I saw Lin wanted to eat eggs, but we didn’t have them then. Now it’s better, I’ve bought some more, take these and cook them for Lin."

Mrs. Wang was stunned, truly grateful this time.

Lin was even happier, dancing with joy, immediately grabbing his mother to go cook the eggs.

Cui Zhu saw this and couldn’t help but whisper a reminder to Ruan Mian: "Miss, I’ve heard the Princely Heir at Uncle’s Mansion is already half-dead, barely hanging on in the Ministry of Justice’s prison, he certainly cannot make it. Are we really going to share more supplies with Uncle’s Mansion’s people?"

"Miss, you might not know, but Mrs. Wang is no good person, she... she’s involved in many murder cases."

Ruan Mian patted Cui Zhu’s shoulder, smiling: "Are you trying to tell me that the many women who died in Uncle’s Mansion were all related to Mrs. Wang?"

"You knew, miss?"

Of course, she knew.

In the original book, Mrs. Wang single-handedly supported the entire Uncle’s Mansion, and later even the Princely Heir had to bow to her.

She was the main wife, outwardly elegant and composed, even personally choosing concubines for the Princely Heir.

But behind the scenes, the number of women tortured to death by her was innumerable. And in such a large Uncle’s Mansion, she was the only one with offspring.

If it weren’t for the fact she needed to save Lin in the original book, she would never have been plotted against by the Princely Heir and met a tragic end.

The Princely Heir, having endured her oppression for long, killed his wife to favor his concubines. Yet Mrs. Wang’s death led to the decline in management of Uncle’s Mansion, causing chaos in the backyard and huge troubles for the Princely Heir.

So, she has the means and ambition. If there’s no conflict with her, naturally it’s best to befriend her.

Ruan Mian wrapped a scarf she made around Cui Zhu’s neck, saying, "Better to have more friends than enemies. Does it keep you warm?"

Cui Zhu quickly felt the warmth around her neck, as if she were wrapped in fur.

"Miss! It’s really warm, what did you sew inside?"

Just as Ruan Mian was about to speak, Mrs. Liu came over angrily. Seeing that everyone had mattresses and good food, even Uncle’s Mansion’s people, she immediately felt it unfair.

She questioned angrily: "Ruan Mian! Do you really disregard people from the Qi Mansion?? You even gave Uncle’s Mansion the mattresses, why not us! We are your husband’s family anyway! Such ill-treatment of your in-laws is truly disrespectful, you can’t even walk the Yellow Spring Road..."

"It’s a former husband’s family, and you, a former mother-in-law."

Ruan Mian interrupted her without hesitation, correcting: "Besides, your whole family is about to soar, surely you don’t lack a few mattresses?"

With these words, Mrs. Liu raised her nose to look at people, snorting.

"You are certainly right! It’s just a few mattresses, when my Nanfeng returns, we can have whatever we want, you folks will just have to be jealous!"

After speaking, she glared fiercely at Ruan Mian: "You’re courting trouble, don’t regret it when Nanfeng returns!"

Unexpectedly, speaking of Cao Cao and here Cao Cao arrives.

At the door, there were voices of Qi Nanfeng and government officers chatting, and Mrs. Liu immediately realized it was her son who returned, her face filled with joy, she shouted to everyone.

"My son is back! My son brought the supplies back!"

Everyone else was curious, recalling how their family previously moved to better rooms, ate better, wore better, maybe this time they had help from some benefactor and would really defy fate.

But when Mrs. Liu went to greet Qi Nanfeng, Qi Nanfeng’s face was serious, urging: "Quickly pack up, we need to be on our way immediately."

Mrs. Liu, seeing nothing outside, was anxious about the promised supplies, not even a single hair to be seen.

"What happened? Where are the items Lord Dong promised you? Didn’t you bring them back after seeing the doctor?"

"Lord Dong, this and that! He’s been captured, what more things do we have! If you don’t want to be implicated, move now!"

Just now he had already explained to the officers the situation, the Dong Mansion got into trouble, countless slaves escaped, Purple Leaf City was in chaos, and if they, the exiles, didn’t leave soon, they might get robbed by those slaves.

Seeing this, the officers hurriedly urged everyone to pack and set off immediately!

And hearing their hopes dashed, Mrs. Liu slumped to the ground on the spot.

Others seeing this couldn’t help but comment.

"Mrs. Qi, where are your thousands of supplies?"

"Oh dear, maybe it’s my bad eyesight, how come I don’t see anything at all?"

Mrs. Liu’s old face turned red, she glared at those people, and hurriedly ran into the house to pack her things.