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Seeing that there was nothing else for Zhou Chenli to do, he said goodbye to the Duke's wife and left the house to have tea.

The Duke's wife waved her hand: "Go quickly, don't delay me from getting close to my son. Their breakfast here is quite delicious, I want to join in the fun."

Duke Zhou Chenli, with a cheerful face, led his servant out for tea. The servant was holding the Duke's precious bird cage in his hand.

As for the servant from the Xu Mansion, he squatted miserably outside the gate of the Duke's Mansion all night.

He had been circling the walls of the Duke's Mansion since yesterday afternoon, hoping to see if any of the Duke's Mansion's servants were out shopping and offering them some silver so he could get a glimpse into the situation.

There were quite a few servants coming in and out of the Duke's Mansion, but no one paid any attention to him.

He wanted to give money to the servants, but he didn't give them the money. Instead, he gave the chief steward of the Duke's Mansion out.

The chief steward asked him seriously what he wanted to do and why he was hanging around the Duke's Mansion.

The servant hurriedly said that Lord Xu loved his daughter very much and wanted to know how his daughter was doing in the Duke's Mansion after getting married.

Alas, he didn't dare to say that it was Lord Xu who asked him to inquire about the news and find out whether the young master of the Duke's Mansion was alive or dead.

When the chief steward heard that he was a servant from the Xu residence, he did not make things difficult for him. He told him not to wander around the gate of the Duke's Mansion and turned around to go back to the Duke's Mansion.

The servant was so anxious that he kept jumping outside: "Headmaster, since you have come out, you can just tell me a few words. Why are you going back without saying anything?"

Asking someone for information won't work, and climbing over the wall is even more impossible.

The guards in the Duke's Mansion are no pushovers. If he dares to climb the wall, he will surely die.

There was no other choice but to wait. The servant found a corner outside the gate of the Duke's Mansion, away from the wind, and waited there all night.

The servants at the Duke's Mansion were quite kind, bringing him two large, hot steamed buns in the middle of the night. It would have been even better if they had also brought him a bowl of hot water!

Early in the morning, the servant of Xu's house saw the Duke walking out of the house slowly and leisurely with his square steps, followed by a smiling servant who was carrying a birdcage.

The servant of Xu's residence was delighted: "This is a good thing." He stood up and ran to Xu's residence.

The servant ran back to the Xu residence and knelt before Xu Jingyi: "My lord, it's done. I saw the Duke leaving the residence early this morning carrying the birdcage."

Xu Jingyi: "The Duke went out for a stroll with the birdcage! It seems that the damn girl Xu Miao is fine. God bless you, nothing happened to the Duke's Mansion."

"Hurry, help your master change his clothes. I'm going to meet the Duke."

Xu Jingyi spent the whole night tossing and turning in the study room in the outer courtyard.

The new clothes he was wearing were now wrinkled like a rag, a circle of black beard had grown on his chin, and his head was covered with a mess of hair like a chicken coop.

Xu Jingyi looked at the servant with golden eyes: "Bring it here."

The servant was confused: "Master, what did you say?"

"Of course it was me who gave you the two hundred taels of silver. You spent the entire night squatting outside the Duke's Mansion and didn't even give the money away. How could you still be thinking of embezzling it?"

The servant burst into tears: "Master, I am innocent! I didn't mean to embezzle it. I haven't had time to return it to you yet, have I?"

After saying that, the servant hurriedly took out the two hundred taels of silver from his pocket and handed it to Xu Jingyi tremblingly.

This old man is so stingy. He froze outside the Duke's Mansion all night. Even if he didn't do anything, he still worked hard. Why is he going back now?

Xu Jingyi took the banknotes and handed one to the servant kneeling on the ground: "Here, if I find out that the information you brought is wrong, I will beat you to death."

Mr. Xu is in a good mood today and doesn't need the one hundred taels of silver.

The servant took the banknote with a charming smile on his face and said, "Master, don't worry. I saw it clearly this morning. The Duke was so happy that he was even humming a little tune. Master, this is definitely correct."

Servant: Bodhisattva, please bless the second young lady to have a successful wedding.

Xu Jingyi was busy here, dressing himself up like a colorful peacock, and went out excitedly with his servant to meet the Duke.

Inner courtyard of Xu Mansion.

"What are you talking about? The master changed into new clothes early in the morning and hurried out with the servant? That servant was squatting at the door of the Duke's Mansion last night!"

As soon as Mrs. Xu got up, she heard the maid come back and say that Master Xu had excitedly left the house with his servant.

It seems that Xu Miao, that damned slave, has done something wrong again. She is really lucky, as she succeeds in every family she manages.

Mrs. Xu didn't sleep well last night, and finally decided to hope that the dead girl Xu Miao would be alright.

If something really happened to the young master of the Duke's Mansion, it would be a major event that would cost her life. Not only would she die, but her entire family would also die. Her good days had just begun, so there was no need to compete with a servant who was just there to bring good luck.

Besides, even if Xu Miao married into the Duke's Mansion, she would still be the legal mother. Xu Miao would always call her "Mother".

And he has the girl in the backyard in his hands. Humph, Xu Miao can't make any waves.

Lady Dingguo, Duke of Dingguo, happily ate a bowl of shredded pork noodles and a lot of cold bean sprouts with Xu Miao and the others.

She never thought that bean sprouts were delicious.

But Xu Miao said that bean sprouts are a vegetable with vitality. The fact that they grow slowly from such a tiny seed shows that they have tenacious life.

This was the first time she had heard such talk, as if bean sprouts were extremely valuable. Her silly son was also stunned by what he heard, and kept stuffing bean sprouts into his mouth.

Also, the porridge oil her son drank this morning seemed pretty good too.

It was said to be the essence of rice porridge, but unfortunately, only Zhou Jiyuan's portion was prepared. She was embarrassed to ask for it, so she asked the kitchen staff to make her a bowl when she got home.

No, make two bowls. Give one to the prince as well.

The Duke's wife did not leave after eating and drinking, and pulled Xu Miao to sit in the outer room and chat.

Zhou Jiyuan fell asleep again after eating. He was still weak.

"Xu Miao, I'll call you A Miao from now on. A Yuan and A Miao sound like we're a family."

"I remember the eldest daughter of your Xu family was named Mingzhu, but how come you only have the character Miao?"

The Duke's wife made small talk and chatted with Xu Miao.

Xu Miao was also happy to chat with the Duke's wife, as she truly liked this lady.

"Madam, you may not know that my eldest sister was named by my father, Lord Xu. She was his first child, and since she was a legitimate daughter, she was naturally precious, so he named her Mingzhu."

"Later, Zhi'er and I were concubines' daughters, and our names were chosen by our stepmother. My mother said that when she was naming me, she saw some newly sprouted grass outside and gave me the character 'Miao'."

"As for my younger sister Zhi'er, she was named after my surname. You know what the character "枝" (branch) means, madam, but the character "枝" (branch) is too ugly, so I changed her name to her current one. It's the "志" (Ganoderma lucidum)."

"Fortunately, no concubine sister was born in the Xu family. If there was another concubine sister, she would probably be named Chaer. Cha means tree branch."

After hearing Xu Miao's remarks, the Duke's wife laughed so hard that she fell backwards, but as she laughed she felt something was wrong.

He looked at Xu Miao with eyes full of pity: "Ah Miao, you are so pitiful. That damn Madam Xu, when I have the chance to see her, I will definitely scold her for you."