Chapter 1202 - 380: Educating the Daughter, a Great Harvest
Mo Yan returned home and immediately wrote a letter to Xiao Ruiyuan, informing him that her best friend was pregnant and that she was about to become a godmother. In her words, an unconcealed joy shone through for her friend, who had a gentle and considerate husband, and soon they would welcome a new life, causing her, an outsider, to feel happy too.
The letter was just some trivial family matters, plain and no different from usual. But to Xiao Ruiyuan, the words took on a different taste.
The next day, after lunch, while Mo Yan sprawled in a rattan chair, fanning herself and eating watermelon pulled up from the well, she asked Lixiu when the start of autumn was as the bells under the eaves in the courtyard started to ring. When Liyan ran to open the gate, a procession of bulky items wrapped in old quilts was carried in, one after the other.
These lumpy objects, about two feet in length, width, and height and quite heavy, required the strength of two men to bring inside. Once Mo Yan found out that these "big things" had been specially transported from the Hou Mansion by Xiao Ruiyuan, she was so surprised that she couldn’t close her mouth.
She belatedly realized that someone had been provoked by her letter from the day before, and by sending over so many ice blocks today, was he not bluntly telling her that there was no need to envy anyone—she too had a considerate fiancé?
These ice blocks had been stored since last winter and were kept in the ice cellar of the Hou Mansion. The Hou Mansion only housed Xiao Xiong, who had been stripped of his marquis title, and couldn’t possibly use so many ice blocks. The General Mansion, inhabited entirely by burly men, paid no heed to the scorching heat.
Therefore, at Xiao Eleven’s reminder, Xiao Ruiyuan finally remembered that the Hou Mansion had these excellent items for warding off summer’s heat and ordered most of them moved to the Mo Family residence.