The queen is tea-smooth and charming, and she wins the house fight by lying down

Chapter 40 Grandfather: Yan'er married a good daughter-in-law!

"W-What do you mean? Could this dish be poisonous?"

Yunzhi's voice was a little trembling. Looking at the beautiful and colorful pumpkin scallops on the table, there was a bit of fear in her eyes.

The little girl who was speaking was Chunlan. All the food delivered to Qingfeng Courtyard had to pass through her hands every day. It was said that she knew something about medicine.

Chunlan did not answer Yunzhi's question immediately, but after getting Yue Xianhua's consent, she reached out and tested it with a thick and long silver needle, but found nothing abnormal.

Then he took a stack of side dishes, picked up a piece of each dish with a serving chopstick, and tasted them.

"If it is not poisonous within half an hour, please eat it again, Madam."

This time, not only Yunzhi, but even Yue Luhua was a little surprised.

She inexplicably felt that the other party's posture of testing poison was a bit similar to the eunuch in the palace who tasted food for the emperor that Fu Yanyu had mentioned to her.

"Then let's withdraw first."

She didn't say anything, but just asked the maid to take the dishes away.

Chunlan: "Please allow me to explain, Madam."

Yue Xianhua looked up lazily but did not say anything. It was this plain glance that made the originally confident Chunlan inexplicably feel a little nervous.

"Mrs. Jiang once poisoned the young master, and that time almost took his life. From then on, Qingfeng Courtyard will no longer accept any food sent by Mrs. Jiang. This servant is doing this just in case, please don't be offended, Madam!"

"Poisoning..."

Yunzhi and Qing'er's faces changed. They only knew that the new son-in-law was extremely violent, but they never thought that there was such a thing behind it?

Yue Xianhua also frowned, raised his hand to signal Qing'er to help the man up, and his tone was gentler:

"No one else violated it?"

Chunlan froze again, and couldn't help but look up at the elegant and beautiful woman in front of her:
"Yes, yes."

"That……"

"When the young master found out about the traitor, he broke his legs and sold him off. Since then, no one in the courtyard dared to disobey."

Just a few words, but it seemed as if people could smell the blood behind it.

The room became quiet again.

"I know, you go down first."

After a while, Yue Xianhua finally spoke up and sent the person away, and Chunlan bowed and left.

The moment she turned around and walked out of the room, she actually felt like she was alive again.

The young lady was obviously cold and quiet, and had never lost her temper with the servants, but for some reason, people did not dare to neglect her at all when facing her.

"Miss, please eat first. Don't starve."

It was Qing'er who came back to her senses first and reminded him, with a gentle and caring smile on her face, as if she had already forgotten what she had just heard.

Yue Xianhua didn't make things difficult for them and just nodded.

The food that couldn't be delivered to the courtyard was brought to her. This was Xiao Yan telling the servants about her "status" as a young lady.
But asking Chunlan to remind him before the meal showed his attitude: he didn't like her being close to Jiang.

Yue Xianhua paused while eating and said softly, "Bring that dish back."

This sentence made the waitress's expression change slightly, and Yunzhi couldn't help but ask: "Miss?"

Yue Xianhua ignored her, and the little girl had no choice but to go.

Chunlan was talking to the housekeeper outside. When she looked up, she saw the little girl carrying the cooked food back. She was startled and hurriedly stopped her: "What's going on? Didn't you take it away?"

The little girl relayed the young lady's words to Chunlan, and her expression changed: "Madam, what's wrong..."

The unspoken words were silently swallowed back in the face of the butler's cold and old-fashioned eyes.

"Butler Yan, what do you think we should do?" Although the young master did not say it explicitly, his meaning was very clear. He did not want the young mistress to touch Jiang's things.
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"Miss, I have something to say but I don't know if I should say it."

Yue Xihua didn't like too many people serving her when she had meals, so after the little girl who served the dishes left, only the master and his servant were left in the room.

She didn't even raise her eyes: "Since you don't know, then don't tell me."

"But I still think this is not a good idea!"

Yunzhi couldn't help but say, "I will tell you even if you punish me. It's obvious that the son-in-law doesn't have a good relationship with the stepmother. If you get close to her like this, even if the son-in-law doesn't say it, he will feel uncomfortable in his heart."

Yue Xianhua: "If you feel uncomfortable, then divorce."

"Miss."

Even Qing'er was a little surprised this time. She thought that after so long, the young lady had let it go. After all...

"My uncle is actually a nice guy..."

Hearing that Qing'er also supported the son-in-law, Yunzhi's eyes lit up and she nodded:

Yes, yes, yes, the son-in-law is really good!

Just because he actually dismantled the flower stand just for a word from the young lady, he is better than Young Master Fu in her heart!

Yue Huahua said calmly: "It may look good now. But how can it last long if it can seduce people?"

With just one sentence, she simply and crudely attributed Xiao Yan's kindness to her to lust.
Of course, this is just one of them.

Another reason she didn't tell anyone was that she always remembered the future ending of someone in the storybook.

A traitor who attempts to overthrow the dynasty!

Husband and wife are birds of the same forest. Her feelings for him were not deep enough to make her willing to "go down in history" with him and be cursed by future generations for the rest of her life.

Therefore, the best thing to do is to do everything possible to separate from him before anything happens.

"But……"

Yunzhi said weakly: "It seems that the son-in-law really likes the young lady. The young lady is beautiful and talented. If she is willing to lower herself to win over the husband, she may not be as bad as you think."

"and then?"

Yue Xianhua put down her bowl and chopsticks and wiped her lips with a clean handkerchief. Her every move was dignified and elegant.

Yunzhi was stunned: Ah?
Then what?
Yue Huahua said calmly: "Does the good things now change the fact that I was sold?"

Yunzhi felt as if she had been hit hard by a heavy hammer, and her head was a little dizzy.

Then she saw her gentle and beautiful lady smile, which was not gentle at all, but rather sharp and sarcastic:

"Why should I obey and accept my fate just because he likes it?

If they don't like me anymore, should I die and give up my position? "

From beginning to end, no one asked for her opinion.

Looking at the still ignorant little girl, Yue Hua spoke out his true feelings for the first time:
"I can't control my own destiny, but at least I can decide whether or not to be tempted."

Yunzhi really didn't understand. Between her and Qing'er, she was the dumber one.

But at this moment, she vaguely felt that what she was saying now seemed very important to the young lady.

She was trying hard to maintain the only self-respect and self-love she had left.

The conversation between master and servant ended in vain.

But looking at the dish on the table that had been left to cool and had not been touched again, Qing'er, who was left at the end, smiled softly:
Her daughter is always so hard-mouthed but soft-hearted.
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Not long after, when the news that "the eldest lady's dishes were delivered to Qingfeng Courtyard for the first time" reached the ears of Duke Weiguo, he was distracted for a moment and even broke the cup in his hand.

He was stunned at the table for a long time before he said to the old housekeeper beside him: "Yan'er, you married a great daughter-in-law."

(End of this chapter)