Chapter 357 - 356 Packing
Ye Xinyan, seeing Qi Yougui looking at her as if he wanted to say something, hurriedly spoke before he could open his mouth, "Great Uncle is right, we’ve been delayed here for so long; there really won’t be anything to eat if we go back now." As she spoke, she turned her head and instructed Nanny Jin and Nanny Liu, "Nannies, go to the kitchen first to see if there are any oiled paper food boxes or the like. Collect the meals and ingredients we brought, making sure not to leave anything behind. See how much we can pack. Our entire family needs to eat their fill. Everything wrapped up and brought back means no need to bother with cooking again."
Nanny Jin didn’t feel much, but Nanny Liu was somewhat caught between laughter and tears. What kind of Miss was this? Even if they had really suffered some hardships after leaving the capital, it shouldn’t have come to this, right? Not wanting to let the Qi Yourong family take away the food, how could she not deal with it herself? But she insisted on having them pack it up to take away.
Was their household really lacking that little bit of food? If they took the meals back home, Sixth Master would probably die of laughter. At that time, the fault would be great on them, the servants.
But since Miss Ye had ordered it, they, as the servants, still had to obey. Nanny Liu was full of conflict, yet her face showed great willingness. She first apologized to Lady Wang and asked Lady Xu to help. Then she went with Nanny Jin, leading Nanny Ding and another old woman servant, to the kitchen to fetch the food boxes and gather the kitchen’s things.
Anshun’s household stood behind Ye Xinyan, imperceptibly twitching the corner of their mouth, somewhat taking pleasure in the misfortune as they watched Nanny Liu and Nanny Jin go out to the kitchen.
Madam Song was originally quite eager, ready to immediately go to the old house’s kitchen to pack up the utensils and the meals.
It was nonsense that the Second Branch family hadn’t prepared meals—did they think she didn’t know? The Second Branch had guests over since yesterday afternoon, intending to spend the New Year at their home; surely, they had extra meals prepared. It was her own family that hadn’t prepared meals, indeed not for tonight, nor for tomorrow.
However, Qi Ye had said to pack up their own brought meals and ingredients, taking everything back. Her family had come empty-handed, none of this belonged to the Third Branch.