Chapter 162 You are destined to be poor, so you have to donate your coffin
Chapter 162 You are destined to be poor, so you have to donate your coffin
Xiao Jin glanced at the fair and delicate Su Di in front of him, then slowly took out a silver note from his sleeve pocket and placed it in her palm.
Xie Lan smiled happily as she held the banknote, but she soon realized something was wrong.
"Why is there one thousand taels missing?"
Xiao Jin lowered his eyes and looked at her puffy cheeks, and felt his hands itching.
To avoid being pinched accidentally, he could only put his hands behind his back.
"That one thousand taels is the reward."
Xie Lan looked puzzled, "What reward?"
Seeing that she didn't react, Xiao Jin kindly answered her, "I just saved the girl's life. I know you are a grateful person. In order to repay you, you must give me a reward.
I thought that I was an old acquaintance of yours, so I didn't bother to be polite with you and directly accepted the one thousand taels as a reward."
Xie Lan glared at Xiao Jin's sleeve with a resentful look on his face, wishing he could just grab the one thousand taels back.
If it weren't for the onlookers staring at her with gossipy faces, Xie Lan really wanted to roar, "This fairy lady doesn't want to repay the favor. I'm just a vulgar person who is greedy for money."
It’s all Chen Mu’s fault. If he hadn’t tried to assassinate her, she wouldn’t have lost such a large sum of money.
That was a full one thousand taels, and Xie Lan felt pain in his heart just thinking about it.
Seeing that she was so angry that smoke was about to come out of her head, a smile flashed across Xiao Jin's eyes.
Yang Feng glanced at Xiao Jin from time to time, wondering in his heart, his master obviously had no shortage of money, and he had never asked for any reward when he saved people in the past.
Why did he go against his usual practice and ask the girl to give him a reward this time?
He looked at his master's behavior and it seemed like... he was deliberately trying to irritate Miss Xie?
Yang Feng complained in his heart, it was a good thing that Miss Xie was not the master's sweetheart, otherwise, with his asking for a beating, he would regret it in the future.
Seeing that Xie Lan was obviously reluctant to pay the 1,000 taels but couldn't ask for it because of her image, Xiao Jin added fuel to the fire, "Why, young lady, are you unwilling to pay the reward, or do you think that the life of a fairy like you is not worth 1,000 taels?"
After a pause, he added, "Are you really unwilling? It seems that I was just being sentimental and misunderstood what the lady meant. I will return the banknote to the lady right now."
Xie Lan gnashed his teeth in anger. This Lord Xiao was taking advantage of her and still acting ungrateful. She really wanted to slap that handsome face.
Taking a deep breath, Xie Lan said with a fake smile, "I'm not unwilling. My lord, you saved me, so I should give you a reward. My lord, you still have to deal with the case, so I won't bother you anymore. Goodbye."
Looking at her back as she left angrily, Xiao Jin pinched his fingers. It seemed like he had become very popular?
After a moment of silence, Xiao Jin frowned again. Why did he always want to make Miss Xie angry every time he saw her?
After leaving Wanhua Tower, Xie Lan asked Tiechui to drive directly back home.
Halfway through the journey, he suddenly slapped his forehead.
She hadn't seen Pang Ya for a long time, and she originally wanted to ask Lord Xiao whether the parrot had come to find him.
I didn't expect that I was so angry about the 1,000 taels of silver that I forgot about it.
I don’t know where the fat bird is, so happy that it doesn’t miss its master at all.
Xie Lan thought about it and became a little worried that the fat bird had been slaughtered and made into soup, which was why he hadn't seen it for a long time.
Fortunately, she calculated and found that there was nothing wrong with it, so she felt relieved.
When he returned to the mansion and just entered the door, he saw a maid waiting for Xie Lan at the gate.
"My dear, you are finally back. The old lady is waiting for you in the main hall. I told you to go there after you return home."
Xie Lan was unhappy about the loss of one thousand taels and originally didn't want to pay attention to it.
Then she thought, the old lady specially sent someone to wait for her, so there must be something she had to see.
If she didn't go, they might send people to her yard to invite her again and again.
It would be better to go over and take a look now. If there is any trouble again, she will be upset and can vent her anger on someone so that her bad mood will not affect her sleep.
Arriving at the main hall, Xie Lan glanced casually and found that in addition to the old lady, Liu and her two sisters-in-law were also there.
She slightly bent her knees towards the old lady, without exchanging pleasantries, and went straight to the point, "Greetings, Grandmother. I wonder if you have asked the maid to wait for me at the gate. Is there something urgent?"
Xie Lan's greeting was a bit perfunctory, and he thought she would find fault with it.
Unexpectedly, the old lady pretended not to see anything and said in a friendly manner, "Miss Lan is back, sit down and talk." She then ordered the maid, "Hurry up and serve tea to the young lady." Her grandmother, who had always disliked her, actually changed her attitude. This was so abnormal that she could see what tricks she was planning.
Xie Lan sat down and waited for the maid to serve tea. He drank half a cup quietly before asking the old lady again.
"I wonder what grandma wants me to do?"
"Lan girl, I heard that you were in the Yongyi Marquis's mansion, helping the Yongyi Marquis and his wife escape death, and saving the Yongyi Marquis and his wife and their two children. Is this true?"
Xie Lan glanced at Liu and guessed that it was she who told the old lady what happened in the Yongyi Marquis's Mansion.
"Yes, it does happen."
The old lady smiled more happily, "Lan girl, so your mystical skills are very powerful, can you tell any hexagram?"
"good."
I thought Xie Lan would say a few more words when I mentioned her expertise, but I didn't expect her to be so perfunctory.
The old lady's face froze and she felt unhappy, but when she thought of the gifts she received today, she finally smiled again.
"Girl Lan, I asked the maid to call you over here. The wife of the Marquis of Pingnan heard that you are very good at fortune-telling, so she asked her nanny to visit you today and wants you to come to her house to tell her fortune."
Xie Lan was a little disappointed. She thought the old lady and the others were going to cause trouble again, and she just wanted to find someone to vent her anger.
Unexpectedly, she was asked to help the wife of Marquis Pingnan to tell fortunes.
"Grandmother, I'm a little tired recently and don't plan to go out. Please go back to the wife of Pingnan Marquis and ask her to ask another Taoist priest to tell her fortune."
"How can that be possible, Lan girl? The Marquis of Pingnan is in a high position and has great power, so we cannot offend his wife.
Otherwise, if Marquis Pingnan is unhappy, your father and your second and third uncles might lose their official positions.
If your father loses his official position, you won’t be able to be a lady from an official family.”
Xie Lan was not moved at all, "Don't worry, grandma, I have been in Sanqing Mountain for more than ten years, and I am living well even if I am not a lady from an official family.
Even if my father loses his job, I won’t starve to death.”
The old lady was angry. If it weren't for the five thousand taels promised by the wife of Marquis Pingnan, she would not have bothered to pay attention to the fourth girl.
"Girl Lan, the wife of the Marquis of Pingnan asked the nanny to deliver five hundred taels today. She promised that if your divination is accurate, she will give you another five hundred taels.
If you are tired today, then take a good rest and you can go to the Pingnan Marquis Mansion tomorrow.
It's just fortune-telling, it won't be tiring, just treat it as a trip to the Pingnan Marquis's mansion."
Xie Lan sneered. The old lady had tried so hard to persuade her, so the silver note given by the Pingnan Marquisate must be more than one thousand taels.
If she agrees this time, such things will definitely happen more and more in the future.
The Xie family has never supported her for a single day, but now the old lady wants to use her mystical skills to make a fortune for the Xie family. That’s just wishful thinking.
The old lady was also annoyed when she saw that Xie Lan refused to tell fortunes for the wife of Marquis Pingnan no matter what she said. "Lan girl, are you really not going to care about the life and death of your family?"
"Grandma, I'm not telling fortunes for Lady Pingnan because it's for your own good.
I was bored yesterday, so I read my grandmother’s fortune. The fortune showed that you are not destined to be rich, so you have to donate your coffin. Otherwise, you will be paralyzed in bed with broken arms and legs for the rest of your life, unable to move…”
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