After hearing this, Old Madam Shen was quite pleased.

But Xianglan was listening nearby, her eyes almost popping out of her head.

Even Banxia looked incredulous.

Shen Qiyin's reaction was much calmer than theirs.

"Oh, mother is really filial." She smiled brightly, her red lips curled slightly. "It's just that grandma has been unwell for a while, why did you just think of giving her bird's nest?"

"I……"

"Is that why I got it for free?"

Mrs. Shen's face froze.

She went to see Mrs. Shen, and indeed saw that the latter's face had lost all smiles and looked gloomy.

But Shen Qiyin continued to say: "It's a coincidence today that the Jianning Marquis' Mansion sent some tonics. If they didn't, would you let grandma suffer like this?"

"Since you are so concerned about her health, you should buy her bird's nests as well as abalone, ginseng, shark's fin and fish maw as soon as possible."

"If you say that you don't have any money, that doesn't make sense. Isn't the key to the treasury in your hand? How much money can you afford? Are you reluctant to give it?"

Mrs. Shen quickly denied: "...How is it possible!"

Shen Qiyin understood and said, "Oh, it's not that you don't want to, it's that you feel that spending the family's money is not enough to show your filial piety to your grandmother, so you want to spend your own money to buy it for your grandmother."

"That makes sense. I remember that your dowry was pawned for more than three thousand taels of silver. It was enough to buy bird's nests for grandma until she recovered."

"This this……"

Mrs. Shen hesitated, looking depressed.

Xianglan was speechless and said: Come on, why don't you say anything? Wasn't your little mouth chattering just now?

As a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, how could Old Madam Shen not know what kind of daughter-in-law she was? She rolled her eyes and said sarcastically: "I'm afraid I would have died of illness long ago if I waited for her to eat that bite of bird's nest!"

Mrs. Shen twisted her handkerchief, not knowing how to respond.

She secretly glared at Shen Qiyin several times, but the latter just lowered his head to look at the bricks, and finally left under the pretext of "feeling unwell".

Madam Shen, who used to want to take advantage of everything, acted out of character. Not only did she not blame Shen Qiyin, she even instructed the kitchen to prepare delicious food for her in different ways every day. In the end, she did not forget to scold Madam Shen.

"You bastard wife, is this how you act as a mother? That second girl is your biological daughter, why don't you know how to love her?"

"If anything happens to her, I will settle the score with you!"

Madam Shen was still wondering when the old lady had changed her temper, but then she heard her say, "In this family now, only the second girl has some potential. If something happens to her, who can I count on?"

A family like theirs could actually make the Marquis's Mansion come to apologize, which shows how powerful that girl is now.

Who knew that just as he was thinking this, he heard a servant come to report that someone from the Wu'an Marquis's Mansion came to visit Shen Qiyin.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had no time to argue and hurriedly tidied their clothes to prepare to greet the guest.

The person from the Wei family is the eldest concubine, Ruan Xinghu.

He also brought a bunch of things and, in accordance with his parents-in-law's wishes, personally handed them over to Shen Qiyin.

Then not long after she left, the Feng siblings came again!

Shen Qiyin was quite surprised to see Feng Ruoying: "Why are you here too?!"

"Of course I came to visit you!" Feng Ruoying looked as if to ask, "Why are you asking this?" "Didn't you take poison?"

"...Oh." She almost forgot.

Feng Ruoying looked her up and down. She made a "tsk" sound and frowned more and more tightly: "You..."

She caught a glimpse of Madam Shen and the others still there, so she decisively pulled Shen Qiyin out and said, "Come on, come on, this is my first time in your house, please take me around."

"Hmm... Is it possible... I took poison and need to rest?"

"That's right!" Feng Ruoying seemed to have just woken up from a dream: "Then don't turn around, just go directly to your room."

After saying that, without caring about other people's reactions, he took Shen Qiyin's hand and walked out.

When they arrived at Haitang Courtyard and closed the door, Feng Ruoying immediately grabbed her and asked, "Is the story about you being poisoned fake?"

Shen Qiyin raised his eyebrows: "Who said that?"

"My brother."

"Why did he say that?"

"He said that with your personality, there is no way you would do something to seek death. If you really did it, it must be a trap. It can't be true!"

Feng Ruoying has always been to Feng Heng.

Now seeing that Shen Qiyin had a rosy complexion and was in excellent spirits, he felt more and more that his brother's guess was correct.

Shen Qiyin was curious: "Do you trust your brother so much?"

"Of course I believe it!" Feng Ruoying not only believed it herself, she also wanted Shen Qiyin to believe it with her: "Don't look at my brother's bad reputation, and his words and deeds are a bit nonsense, but he is actually very smart and can judge people very well."

"When Song Huai showed his kindness to me at first, I thought he was a good person because he was so gentle and polite."

"But my brother told me at that time not to pay attention to him. Even if I met him by chance, I should always be vigilant and not have anything to do with him."

"Did you listen to your brother?"

"Of course!"

"You didn't even ask him why?"

"I asked, but he didn't tell me." But she knows now!

This hypocrite! Bah!

Although her brother also slept with many women, he was always open about it and never avoided people.

Unlike that Mr. Song, who went to a place like Nanfeng Pavilion, it would be fine, but he actually put down his bowl and scolded the cook! What a thing! So annoying!

"So, was my brother right or not? Was the story about you being poisoned a lie?"

Shen Qiyin shook his head decisively: "No!"

The answer is “no”.

"But I see that you don't look like you've been poisoned." Feng Ruoying said, glancing down at the half-eaten snacks on the table.

"Already solved."

"It can't be so fast."

"Are you disappointed that I got better so quickly?"

"That's not the case..." She naturally hoped that she was fine.

With such a family, it would be too pitiful for her if she didn't treat herself well.

"Since you are really ill, take this money and buy yourself some delicious food to nourish yourself." Feng Ruoying took out a bag of money, handed it to Shen Qiyin, and said, "I thought your poisoning was fake, so I didn't prepare anything for you when I came."

"This is all I brought with me when I went out. Don't think it's too little. I'll give you more next time we meet."

Shen Qiyin held the bag of money in his hand, and he couldn't tell what he felt.

Feng Ruoying was looking around curiously, examining her boudoir. When she turned around, she saw Shen Qiyin looking at her with tender eyes. The look was so gentle that it was unbelievable.

Miss Feng was stunned for a moment, and asked in a mysterious way: "Can you always be like this in the future?"

Shen Qiyin tilted his head: "What?"

"Just like before, gentle and kind, not talking, not getting angry, and not bullying me."

"Oh, no."

"..."

Seeing Feng Ruoying's expression change instantly, Shen Qiyin couldn't help laughing.

Thinking of something, she asked, "By the way, how is Xie Qing doing recently?"

"My mother is looking for a marriage partner for her." When Feng Ruoying mentioned Xie Qing, her eyes dimmed.

Sometimes it doesn’t take too long to see a person’s true face, just a moment is enough.

Shen Qiyin thought this was a good idea.

After all, Xie Qing is a junior and lives under the roof of the Feng family. If Mrs. Feng really does something to her, it will inevitably give people a chance to talk about her. It would be better to find someone to marry her off to prevent her from having any bad intentions.

The two talked for a while, and then Feng Ruoying left.

When she left, she was still thinking in her mind, as if she had forgotten something, but when she tried to think about it, she had no clue.

After she left, Shen Qiyin stared at the bag of money she left behind in a daze.

I rarely felt guilty and wanted to return the money to her, but she refused to take it.

Well, in that case, she would invest the money in the spice shop, and when she made some money in the future, she would be given a bonus as per the rules.

Probably because people from two marquisates and one vice minister's mansion came to visit the patient, Shen Qiyin was invisibly elevated, and even people from other mansions were lured to come and "join in the fun."

Throughout the afternoon, there was a constant stream of people coming to the Shen family to deliver things.

By the evening, Shen Qiyin looked at the inner room that was so crowded that there was almost no space to stand, and a bright smile appeared on his face.

She and Rendong were just choosing when Xiao Yan came walking on the moon in a black robe.

When he saw her, the first thing he said was, "I heard that you are not familiar with me?"

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