The Legend of Concubine's Daughter Minglan

Chapter 129

It was very cold in the mountain area at night, so Minglan who was still in her period could only curl up to sleep. Gu Tingye encircled her body like a mountain and warmed her cold hands and feet during the whole night. While her cold body was pressed to his body which was as hot as the stove, she felt much more comfortable.

That night, the man had a good sleep. He remembered the look on Minglan's face when was questioned by him before sleep. At that time, her face was super red like the grilled chubby octopus, but she still clenched her white teeth and said nothing. At last when she couldn't bear it anymore, she was so embarrassed that she almost climbed the window to escape. Thinking of that, the man couldn't help but laugh even in his dream. In the meantime, Minglan who saw what was happening only thumped on his chest violently.

The next day before the daybreak, Gu Tingye went to the military camp in the western suburb with Xie Ang and other guards.

"If you get busy, you don't need to come back at night." Minglan muttered that with a drowsy look, "There are lots of guards in the manor. Don't worry about me."

"I see. If anything happens, just make decisions by yourself." Gu Tingye kissed on her warm face and then left the manor.

As Minglan had expected, all the stewards and landlords in the manor were all well-behaved since she had two rows of strong guards standing there including Tu Long whose face seemed so scary. Minglan sat behind a screen while instructing everything to others.

A chief steward like Ba Laofu was well aware of what he was supposed to say and do when his madam inspected the manor. Therefore, he already brought a bunch of stewards and landlords in the early morning to give obeisance to Minglan. With a beaming smile on Ba Laofu's face, he prepared a whole speech to report to Minglan. However, instead of asking him anything, Minglan only chatted with him breezily.

Ba Laofu and the other stewards, as confused as they were, could only engage themselves in the chat with Minglan.

"Madam, they are here." At the moment, Quan Zhu's wife entered the room and reported that reverently.

Minglan replied to her in a gentle voice through the screen, "Tell them to enter in order according to the register."

Danju then picked up the register of names which had been handed in by Ba Laofu and started to read. After that, the other stewards found in surprise that Gongsun Meng was commanding a few servants to carry a waist-high basket.

With a great crashing sound of metals, the basket was put on the ground. Everyone turned around to have a look, and then they nearly jumped in shock– That was a whole basket of copper coins. In the morning sunlight, those coins which were tied together by thick red threads gave off the bright green and grey light and dazzled everyone in the room.

Minglan said gently, "They have worked very hard over the last year. Now that this manor belongs to Gu's family and it's the first time I came here, I'd like to reward the tenants. Hope everyone can feel happy about this."

"Madam, I..." Ba Laofu felt vaguely that something was not right.

Before all the stewards had time to react, Quan Zhu's wife had already started to call out names. Every tenant who entered the room would be given a string of coins first. The ones who had elders over sixty years old in their family would be given more of the coins. Having one elder in the family meant that there would be three hundred more coins. After the coins had been distributed to a tenant, Danju would cross out the number of the money and the tenant's name on the name list. While those tenants staggered out of the hall with heavy strings of coins in their arms, they were still in a muddleheaded state.