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"You...you're being unreasonable."

"Really? Then let's go find the person in charge and let them judge the matter. Anyway, I'm in the right, so what am I afraid of?"

The woman did arrive later than Du Mingxian, and she was afraid that Du Mingxian would make a big fuss and she would be kicked out. Such a good job, if she were really kicked out, it would be a loss.

Most importantly, she was in the wrong.

"What are you yelling about? If you have something to say, go find the manager. You're really good at complaining. I'll give you this position, humph." The woman immediately packed up her things and hurriedly left with the winnowing basket.

The woman's other companion also immediately left with the winnowing basket.

Liu Ya stepped forward and said, "Thank you."

Du Mingxian chuckled, "If I hadn't spoken up, Sister Liu Ya would definitely have asked for her seat back herself, it's just that I beat her to it."

"Sit down, let's finish this quickly so we can leave sooner."

"it is good."

The two sat down to work.

However, what happened in the room did not escape the ears of the steward, and soon the news spread to the third courtyard.

The junior steward and the senior steward were talking. The weather had been cold these past two days, and this kind of scrambling for good spots had happened more than once or twice. However, Du Mingxian and Liu Ya were their main targets of observation today, so the news spread to the third courtyard.

After listening, the head steward remained silent for a moment before speaking, "This Liu Ya, we asked her to enter the inner courtyard before, but she refused. There's no need to worry about charcoal braziers in the inner courtyard, but now she's fighting with others for them in the outer courtyard."

"He took the day off yesterday, he must have been sick. I can still see signs of illness on his face today." The junior manager said seriously, "Du Mingxian, who's with Liu Ya, has also been working very hard these days."

The head steward has been heard about, but he hasn't come for several days in a row.

"He hadn't come for several days in a row, but when he came back, he worked hard. I don't know if this change was intentional or if he really wanted to make more money."

"The people sent to investigate the Ling family have returned. They're just ordinary farmers; they probably want to make more money."

Because the Ling family supplied the military camp, this matter was suppressed and could not be easily investigated. After Du Mingxian discovered that something was wrong with this house, she told the Crown Prince.

The Crown Prince has already sent people to make Du Mingxian and Ling Silang's silhouettes appear as ordinary people, poor scholars, with no background whatsoever.

The head steward laughed, "It's good that you want to make more money. We're just missing someone like you who wants to make more money. Today, Du Mingxian was able to go up and snatch back the spot next to the charcoal basin, which proves that she's not someone to be trifled with, but she's not stupid either."

"Then why don't we let her stay in the outer courtyard? We don't need someone too smart," the steward suggested.

The head steward pondered without answering. "The people in the front yard should keep an eye on things. For other reasons, we don't plan to let new people into the inner yard for the time being. We'll talk about it after this period is over. We're not in a hurry."

"Yes."

Du Mingxian didn't know what the two supervisors were talking about. She had been working diligently all afternoon and finished early, returning home with Liu Ya as soon as possible.

When they returned to the courtyard, they found... there were still people in the courtyard.

It was the homeowner, and Jiang Liting was also speaking.

Du Mingxian stood there, wondering what was going on. The curtain of her room was lifted from the inside, and Ling Silang came out. He stepped forward and took Du Mingxian's hand, saying, "It's too cold outside. Come home and have some hot soup to warm yourself up."

"it is good."

Back in their room, Du Mingxian couldn't wait to ask, "Did Jiang Liting cancel the reservation for the back room?"

“He quit. You left in the afternoon, and he didn’t even read the book. He just kept moving things because there was charcoal, which was hard to move. He hadn’t done any work before, and he didn’t finish until half an hour before you came back.”

“He went to find someone himself and only came back a while ago. From what I overheard the two of them talking, the landlord had already returned the money. So Jiang Liting isn’t a complete idiot.”

Du Mingxian was quite surprised. She always felt that Jiang Liting was someone who didn't know anything. "Now Sister Liu Ya must feel sorry for him."

Sure enough, Liu Ya, who was in the courtyard, saw that the things in the back room had been cleared out and heard that the landlord had returned all the money. She felt sorry for him.

It wasn't that I was heartbroken about the money, but rather that I felt sorry for Jiang Liting.

After the homeowner left, the two went inside. Liu Ya didn't even look at how the things were arranged in the room. She turned around and looked at Jiang Liting in a hurry, saying, "You're in too much of a rush. I'll move them when I get back from work. How can you do such rude things?"

“If you can do it, why can’t I? I’m still the man of the house.” After saying that, Jiang Liting said with some grievance, “I was moving things and then I went to find the landlord, so I didn’t have time to boil water and you couldn’t warm yourself up.”

Liu Ya realized that Jiang Liting had overheard Ling Silang's words in the courtyard. She was both angry and amused. "Alright, you... I'll do it. I'll do these chores."

Jiang Liting stepped forward and stopped her hand from doing the work, saying, "You rest, I'll do it. You're still not well."

"Okay, I'm fine now, let's work together." Liu Ya couldn't stand and work, leaving Jiang Liting to do all the work.

Seeing that she was determined to do it, Jiang Liting had no choice but to compromise, "Okay, but you must tell me if you feel unwell."

"Well, don't worry."

"By the way, the money you spent when you were sick... was paid by Brother Ling and the others. I... I don't know where the money is at home."

Liu Ya didn't know about this and was quite nervous after hearing it. "It's okay, don't worry, I'll return it to them."

She went to get the silver, then took one tael and put it into Jiang Liting's hand. "Take this silver. Buy whatever you need. Look, the silver is in the tattered patch of this old garment."

This was to tell Jiang Liting where the money in the house was kept.

Jiang Liting put away the silver. "I'll keep the silver you gave me. You... I'll go with you to the Ling family to return the silver."

"No need. You've been working hard all afternoon, so take a good rest. I'll go pay back the money now, and then I'll come back and cook. Please don't lift a finger."

Jiang Liting subconsciously replied, "Okay." This was a habit he had developed in the past.

It wasn't until Liu Ya took the silver and left that he realized how wrong he had been to listen to her and let a woman go alone.

It seems that we need to gradually change these habitual practices.

Now that a problem has been identified, it should be addressed immediately.

Liu Ya was heading to the Ling family's house when Lin Guixiang, who came out from across the street, hurriedly called out to her, "Sister Liu Ya, where are you going? Why is your family thinking of returning the back house?"

“It would be so much better to cook separately. Cooking in the same room means the smell will linger and it really affects the man’s studies. I was even thinking of renting a separate room, but you just canceled the one you had already rented. We can’t let this little bit of money affect the man’s studies. That would be a huge loss.”