"Yangyang, what do you think?"
"Me?" still holding the squirrel, he asked listlessly, "Can I give a squirrel? After all, our family doesnāt have any heirlooms."
"Who says we donāt?" Ye Ziāan said to Yang Chuxia, "Those silver items I gave you could be used as family heirlooms."
"But the problem is we have three sons and a daughter!"
"Just have three more sets made and thatās that." Ye Ziāan waved his hand indifferently.
Lele rolled her eyes speechlessly, "Four sets of items and still calling them heirlooms? You might as well give them to my younger brother, I wonāt compete with him."
"Why all the fuss?" Yangyang casually took off his red gold collar, with a transparent glass bead embedded in it, and stuffed it into Yang Chuxiaās hand, "Here, this will do. Young master wore it himself, this is the real token."
"Are you sure?" Yang Chuxia looked at him.
"Sure!" Yangyang huffed, "Getting a pretty wife for nothing, why wouldnāt I want that?"
However, years later, when the news that the Mu Family had an uninspiring daughter spread, Yangyang nearly cried his eyes out.
Standing on top of the Mu Residenceās wall, he covered his face, wondering which wire had crossed in his brain when he was a child, to believe that phoenixes beget phoenixes, that a child born to beautiful parents must be beautiful too?
After saying that, the smug kid holding the squirrel left.
Yang Chuxia looked at the collar in her hand and turned to Ye Ziāan, feeling defeated, "Brother An, Iām barely past twenty. Why do I feel like Iāve already become a mother-in-law?"
"Hehe," Ye Ziāan chuckled, his wifeās glass heart showing again, then he walked up to her and embraced her, saying, "Just think of it as gaining a daughter."
"Sigh!"
Yang Chuxia waved her hand weakly, had Mingcui find a box to put the collar in, and sent it to the Mu Residence.
Mu Shaoling almost spat blood when he received it and cursed. Yang Chuxia was too stingy; he had offered a treasure, and this guy sent over a collar? Little did he know, that thing wasnāt chosen by Yang Chuxia at all.
"Mom, shall we go out to the streets again this afternoon? Who knows when weāll be able to come to Capital City next time?" After a while, Yangyang came back, this time leading a monkey.
"Iād rather not, Capital City is too much trouble. Every time we go out, itās one thing after another, so tedious." Yang Chuxia thought to herself, feeling exasperated. Was she naturally at odds with Capital City? Everywhere she went, there were problems.
"Really, Mom? Do you have to be like this?" Yangyangās eyes widened upon hearing her. Seeing that Yang Chuxia didnāt change her mind, he ran to pull Ye Ziāan, "Handsome dad, letās go, shall we?"
"Alright, letās go!" Ye Ziāan said to Yang Chuxia, "We donāt have to worry about getting into trouble. After all, trouble always finds us, not the other way around."
"Thatās exactly why Iām worried."
Although Yang Chuxia was reluctant, she couldnāt resist the enthusiasm of the three gentlemen, and eventually agreed.
After having lunch, however, their plans fell through because the decrees from the various princeās mansions arrived.
After hearing the news, Ye Ziāan incidentally felt that the designated residence wasnāt that great. It was located at the very edge of the inner city and was pretty dilapidated. It was once the residence of a prince from the previous emperorās time. After that prince committed an offense and was stripped of his title, the mansion was abandoned. Subsequently, whenever a prince got married and left the palace, everyone thought that residence was unlucky. Rather than staying there, the princes preferred to spend their own money to buy a house and stay away from that place.
Now the residence had been bestowed upon Lele. After hearing this, Ye Ziāan wondered if this was the Emperorās intention, or if nobody reminded the Emperor about it?