Chapter 670 - 668 Going Through the Motions
Maternal Aunt Zhao has been living comfortably these past days. Although Ye Yuan was staying at the Duchess’s compound, ensuring the child’s safety, she couldn’t bear not being able to see her son much, it deeply tormented and pained her heart.
She had been looking forward to the return of the Eldest Lady and the Eldest Daughter, but things turned out even better than she had hoped. Now she could not only take care of her son herself, but her son was also allowed to be taken to the Eldest Daughter’s room to play with the two boys from the Qi family whom the Duke favored.
Just like now, Brother Yuan’s wet nurse and a nanny sent by the Duchess were accompanying him, playing in the Eldest Daughter’s room. Both of the Qi family boys liked him, especially Brother Jia, who would affectionately call him ’little brother’ every day, truly treating Brother Yuan as his own younger brother.
She certainly didn’t disdain the fact that Qi Jiaer was from the countryside. After all, he was a child regarded as a blood brother by the Eldest Daughter. If Qi Jiaer could be treated as a real brother, then her Brother Yuan was naturally the Eldest Daughter’s real brother too, definitely not a nominal brother like the sons in the house, the Eldest Son and the Second Son.
Maternal Aunt Zhao wasn’t the type to be annoying. Knowing where to draw the line, she naturally wouldn’t be so tactless as to overstep her bounds. She smiled and asked, "Eldest Lady, what do you think should be done with the New Year’s gifts?"
Madam Yin was simply pleased. She was content just glancing through her son-in-law’s gift list and did not plan to take it to her room or oversee its distribution.
She handed the gift list back to Maternal Aunt Zhao, "This is the Jiang Family’s New Year’s gift to our household. Our household has few people, so there’s no need to split the gifts. Maternal Aunt Zhao, just record it in the account books—it’s fine for everyone to use together." That way, everyone would know that her Ah Yan was doing well, that her marriage wasn’t to a monster but merely encountered some twists and turns for the best.
After Maternal Aunt Zhao left, Madam Yin and Nanny Huang sat there, smiling sweetly at the box without speaking or moving, which made Ye Xinyan feel quite uneasy.
What’s the situation here? How could they gaze at a box with such affection? It looked quite eerie.