Lady Sun, like Master Sun, has a rich body and a warm smile on her face, which invariably gives the same feeling of closeness.
Song Wan Yue smiled and said, “Madam has praised me, I am just a mere mortal girl, there is nothing out of the ordinary, let alone a phoenix among men.”
Madam Sun laughed at her words, and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes deepened.
Liu Cui Lan hurriedly said, “Yue’er, come over here, sit with the guests and chat, second aunt will bring you tea.”
She kept smiling with her, her face almost stiff.
Song Shu was no better than her, and smiled and also said, “The tea is too hot, it’s better for me to do it.”
Without waiting for Song Wangyue to reply, the two of them hurriedly walked out.
Song Wan Yue smiled and gestured for Master Sun and Madam Sun to sit down, she herself sat down on the chair where Liu Cui Lan had just sat and said, “You two are not to blame, my second uncle and second aunt are both honest people.”
“I can see that.”
Madam Sun smiled and finished her sentence and changed the subject, “Master and I arrived in the capital this morning and came over after hearing about Madam Song from Jin’er, so I hope I didn’t disturb you.”
Sun Jin was married to a princess and had a princess residence given by the emperor, so there was no need for the Sun family to prepare anything, which was why the two had come so late. When they came and heard about Xiao Yao’s injury, they asked Sun Jin to bring them over.
“You two arrived at just the right time, if you had come over a day earlier, we would have closed our doors to thank our guests.”
“Then it’s quite a coincidence that we’ve come.”
The two laughed and spoke as Master Sun listened on the side, waiting until the two had stopped talking before he spoke, “Does Miss Song know that someone has now made the hotpot base.”
It wasn’t as good as the one made by the Song family, but it was cheap and there were some people buying it.
“Sooner or later.”
Song Wangyue didn’t care, the hotpot base wasn’t much of a complicated recipe, as long as one had the will to research it, sooner or later they would make it, that’s why she had the workers in the workshop sign a five-year death contract.
“Then …… does Miss Song have a way to deal with it?”
Master Sun had gotten a great deal of sweetness from selling hotpot base, it had only been two months since the days were cold and he had already sold more than 100,000 taels, and the colder it got later on, the more would be sold.
“Don’t worry, Master Sun, my recipe is unique, no one will be able to make it for a while, when I return, I will ask the people in the workshop to make a few more flavours out.”
Master Sun was relieved.
Over there, inside the side hall.
“Brother Song Si ……”
Sun Jin held his tea, addressing Song Si as he always did, but his heart was bitter, he could detect Song Si’s distancing from him.
“Can you help me go to the wedding to welcome the bride when I get married?”
Although he was marrying a princess, all the necessary processes were in place, and as the Sun family was out of town, he only had relatives from within the three clans of his family come, and there were too few people to welcome the bride, the group of peers from the Hanlin Academy were willing to help, but he wanted Song Si to go.
Song Si smiled, “If you’re not afraid of causing you trouble, I naturally can.”
Sun Jin’s eyes lit up, all the bitterness in his heart receded, and his words became a little more eager, “We are good brothers, let others say what they want to say.”
“Good,” Song Si responded, “I’ll definitely go.”
Sun Jin was overjoyed and wanted to say that his sister-in-law should also go, but when he thought of Xiao Yao’s injury, even after twenty days or so, he might not be able to recover, so he did not say anything.
After sending the Sun family away, Song Wangyue went to pick out a few of the medicinal herbs that the emperor had rewarded her with and carried them back to the house with the ones she had bought, closing the door and instructing no one to disturb them. She stayed busy until Grandma Song and Aunt Song had cooked the rice, and only then did she come out of the house.
She still smelt of medicine, so the family thought she was making a recipe for Xiao Yao and didn’t care, they just put some vegetables into her bowl and told her to eat more.
The following day, the two of them came over after breakfast. Xiao Yao was already much better and was sitting leaning against the bed, while Song Si sat in front of her, holding a book for her to read.
“Isn’t it time for you to go to the court?”
Xiao Yao asked softly when he finished reading a page.
She didn’t dare to speak loudly for fear of pulling the wound on her neck.
“Lord Shang Shu has granted me half a month’s wedding leave.”
Xiao Yao subconsciously wanted to nod, and just as she moved, she remembered her wound and hurriedly stopped, “Then you ……”
Wanted Song Si to go outside to help, he has been in the house with himself for several days, although the family seems nothing unhappy, but she still felt bad.
Song Si laughed lightly, lowered his head and kissed her on the lips, looked at Xiao Yao’s red and transparent face, smiled and said, “Don’t think so much, the family would not want me to accompany you at all times.”
Xiao Yao’s face was so red that it almost dripped blood.
“Miss, the old lady and madam have arrived.”
Qing’er’s voice rang out at the door.
Xiao Yao wanted to sit up, but was stopped by Song Si, “It’s not an outsider, grandmother and mother-in-law won’t pick on you.”
The two in-laws of the Duke of Ding’s wife came in and were overjoyed to see the blush on Xiao Yao’s face, Mrs. Xiao Zheng said, “It looks like it will be fine in a few more days.”
“No.”
She sat down on the round stool made by Song Si just now, and the smile on her face deepened when she saw the book on the bed, grabbing Xiao Yao’s hand, “Song Si is a good husband who is hard to find even with a lantern, you must treat him well in the future.”
Xiao Yao’s face became even redder.
After a few people had spoken for a while, the Duke of Ding’s wife held her forehead, “I seem to have caught a cold last night, my head is a little uncomfortable, you two mothers should talk, I will go over to look for the Moon maid.”
“I’ll help you over.”
Song Si stepped forward to assist.
The Duchess of Tingguo did not refuse and let him help her, talking to him as she walked outside. When she reached Song Wangyue’s door, she heard the sound of pounding medicine coming from inside the house, and the Duchess of Ding said with a smile, “You go and get busy, I’ll let Yue’er take a look at it and talk to her for a while in the meantime.”
Song Si answered and knocked on the door.
“Come in!”
Song Si pushed open the door, Song Wan Yue was squatting on the floor pounding medicine, at the sound of the voice she raised her head, seeing that it was the Duchess of Ding Guo, she immediately stopped the action in her hand.
“Yatou Yue, this head of mine is a bit uncomfortable ……”
The Duke of Ding’s wife walked inside the door, Song Si did not follow her in, closed the door and went to the study.
Inside the house.
Song Wangyue told the Duchess of Ding Guo to sit down and took a pill to her, “Take it three days in advance, even the eunuchs won’t be able to detect it after the miscarriage.”
The Duchess of Ding Guo held the pill tightly in her hand. She had not slept all night last night, and today she was haggard and did not look well, so her voice was very low, “Is there any damage to your body?”
Her daughter had already given a lot for the sake of the Ding Guo Mansion, she didn’t want her daughter to hurt her body again.
“As long as she takes care of herself, she will be fine.”
The Lady of the Ding Country was relieved, grabbed Song Wan Yue’s hand and solemnly thanked her, “Miss Yue, thank you.”
……
Two quarters of an hour later, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law came out of Song’s house and returned to the Ding Duke’s residence. After another quarter of an hour, they passed a sign towards the palace, and Consort Xiao Xian quickly had someone send word over to allow the Ding Duke’s wife to enter the palace.
After the two of them went back to the palace, and after another quarter of an hour, they handed over the sign to the palace.