Transmigrating Female Supreme: The Peerless Husband Depends on Me

The morning light shines through the carved window lattices, casting tiny spots of light on the blue brick floor.

After Liang Junze and Gu Qingyan went out as usual, Lin Yuxuan was more careful. He stood in the corridor, his fingertips unconsciously stroking the jade pendant given by Su Yue in his sleeve.

He looked in the direction where Chen Dali left, and a hint of coldness flashed in his eyes.

What was hidden in the man's sleeve was definitely not an ordinary object.

Three days later, Lin Yuxuan "accidentally" ran into Chen Dali in the pharmacy.

"Mr. Lin, Mr. Lin!" Chen Dali hurriedly stuffed a packet of medicine powder into his arms, sweat oozing from his forehead.

Lin Yuxuan smiled slightly and tapped the medicine cabinet with his fingertips: "Do you also understand pharmacology?"

"No, I don't understand. I just... got some calming spices for Mr. Liang."

"Really?" Lin Yuxuan approached slowly, the silver needle in his sleeve sliding silently into his palm, "Brother Aze, have you been sleeping poorly lately?"

"Yes, yes..." Chen Dali laughed dryly, his eyes wandering.

Lin Yuxuan didn't ask any more questions. When he turned around, he gently poked the medicine bag in Chen Dali's arms with a silver needle. A crack appeared in the medicine bag, and a few bright blue particles rolled to the ground.

Lin Yuxuan did not alert the enemy, but began to pay attention to the movements of the servants in the mansion.

——Liu Er, who is in charge of laundry, recently got a jade pendant of excellent quality around his waist, but his monthly salary is only two taels of silver.

——Afu, the kitchen servant, always strolled to the side yard at night, and that place was right next to the warehouse that they strictly forbade servants to approach.

——Even the usually honest gardener Lao Zhou, after "accidentally" knocked over Lin Yuxuan's medicine basket one day, always glanced in the direction of his room.

Lin Yuxuan chose an afternoon when Liang Junze and Gu Qingyan were not at home, and deliberately "forgot" to lock the door of his room.

He placed a gold-plated jade pendant inlaid with jade in the secret compartment of his bed - it was the birthday gift Su Yue gave him last year, and it was very valuable.

Then, he sat in the next room holding Hanhan, waiting quietly through the half-open window.

Sure enough, at three quarters past noon, a sneaky figure slipped in - it was Ah Fu.

The boy was very quick and found the secret compartment in no time. Just as he got the jade pendant, a light laugh suddenly came from outside the door.

"Does it look good?"

Ah Fu was so scared that he turned around and saw Lin Yuxuan leaning against the door, with Hanhan in his arms looking at him with his round eyes.

"Mr. Lin! I'm just here to clean..."

"Did you clean it into my dressing table?" Lin Yuxuan slowly approached, his fingertips gently stroking Hanhan's soft hair. "Tell me, if I report it to the police, can you still keep your hands?"

Ah Fu's legs went limp and he fell to his knees. "Master, spare me! It was Steward Chen who forced me to do this! He said... that if I stole anything valuable, he'd give me 30%..."

Lin Yuxuan did not get angry immediately.

He gave Ah Fu a choice——

"Tomorrow at this time, bring Chen Dali to see me. If you dare to tip off..." He smiled faintly, and a silver needle on his fingertip flashed with cold light, "I don't mind letting you taste the taste of 'Thousand Ants Gnawing at My Heart'."

Ah Fu's face turned pale and he kowtowed repeatedly.

That night, when Liang Junze returned from the shop, he brought back a box of candied fruit.

"Try some newly arrived apricots." He picked up a piece and stuffed it into Lin Yuxuan's mouth. There was a faint scent of ink on his fingertips - it was the cinnabar ink he used when reconciling the accounts today.

Lin Yuxuan bit the apricot and said vaguely, "Is there a problem with the account?"

Liang Junze was stunned, pulled back his hand and coughed lightly: "Well, thirty taels are missing."

Gu Qingyan was holding Yaoyao and teaching her to read. Hearing this, he looked up and asked, "Is it Chen Dali who did this again?"

The three of them looked at each other and understood each other tacitly.

Lin Yuxuan stood in the dark, watching Ah Fu nervously lead Chen Dali into the side room.

Chen Dali rubbed his hands with a flattering smile on his face: "Mr. Lin, are you looking for me?" He glanced at the gilded jewelry box on the dressing table, and his Adam's apple rolled unconsciously.

"Yeah." Lin Yuxuan poured a cup of tea slowly. "I heard that you have a new daughter?"

Chen Dali was stunned for a moment, then smiled innocently: "Thanks to the host, my brother just gave birth last month."

"That's really a happy occasion." Lin Yuxuan tapped the table with his fingertips. "I remember your monthly allowance was five taels of silver. How come you were able to buy a pair of silver bracelets in the East Market the day before yesterday? That would have cost at least twenty taels."

Chen Dali's smile froze on his face.

In the cellar, three servants knelt in a row.

Chen Dali's wife was waiting outside the mansion, holding their one-month-old daughter, crying so hard that she almost fainted.

It's not that I feel bad that Chen Dali was discovered, I just want to get some unexpected gains from it

Chen Dali is such a loser. He was discovered after taking such a small amount of things.

"We...we were just confused for a moment!" Liu Er kowtowed. "In other mansions, men have to hand over even their monthly allowance to their wives, and they'll be whipped if they don't obey...In the Su Mansion, the masters never beat or scold us..."

Ah Fu trembled as he added, "My wife said... that if I could bring back more money, she would allow my brother to be exempted from the hard labor of marrying into the mine..."

Lin Yuxuan listened quietly, recalling the most common scene in Mingxi Country - men crawling in the mines with hunched backs, and women standing in the sun with whips to supervise.

An embroiderer in a silk shop earned ten taels of silver a month, while a man with the same skills could only earn three taels.

Even official documents state: A man's virtue lies in his lack of talent.

Liang Junze flipped through the account book and sneered: "Stealing is stealing." He pointed his finger at one place and said: "You even dared to touch Yaoyao's longevity lock. Do you know that I used the profits from my first shop to buy it?"

Gu Qingyan played with the dagger and said, "I've never seen such a fool among the prisoners I've interrogated in the Shadow Pavilion—he stole something and still dared to wear it on his body to show off."

The three servants looked pale.

Only then did they realize that these "easy-going" masters in front of them were all ruthless characters who could make a name for themselves in this cannibalistic world.

When Liang Junze came to the Su Mansion, he took over the family business and sold Yangzhou silk to the Western Regions; Gu Qingyan was the head of the Shadow Pavilion; Lin Yuxuan's medical skills were praised even by the Imperial Hospital.

And they themselves...are just ants that can be replaced at any time.

Chen Dali suddenly broke down and burst into tears. "My wife said... if I don't get ten taels of silver back this month, she'll give my one-year-old son away!" He ripped open his collar, revealing the crisscrossing whip marks on his back. "Last time... just because I broke a teacup..."

Lin Yuxuan's pupils shrank slightly.

He remembered the day Liang Junze gave birth, Su Yue cried uncontrollably, but still remembered to tell him: "Nothing is more important than you, my Lord."

Remembering that Gu Qingyan was injured during the mission, Su Yue rode three hundred miles overnight to bring him home.

Recalling the time when he was feeling inferior and withdrawn, Su Yue held his hand and said, "My Ah Xuan is the best doctor in the world."

Finally, Liang Junze closed the account book and said, "The items will be discounted for compensation. You three..."

"Send it to the mine." Gu Qingyan said coldly.

The three men looked ashen--that was a man's hell on earth.

"No." Lin Yuxuan suddenly said, "Let them work in the medicinal fields and use the wages to pay off the debt." He looked at the three shocked faces, "But I have a condition."

"On the first day of every month, bring your wives to my house for tea." The corner of his mouth curled up dangerously, "I will personally teach them how to behave like human beings."