Chapter 566 - Displeasure (2/2)

Idle people…

Chang Zai twitched his mouth. Sure enough, Little Master doesn’t like the unnecessary servants.

Wei Ziqin gazed at her daughter in mirth, and the mother and daughter walked arm in arm affectionately towards the main hall.

“It’s actually not many people. Your grandmother likes it to be more lively at home, so we bought around a dozen servant girls and boy servants. We set aside two servant girls to accompany and chat with your grandmother. Tallying everyone up, our Qiao Family today only has 21 people in total. Compared to the operational structure of usual estates, we really have much fewer servant girls and boy servants,” Wei Ziqin explained to her daughter goodnaturedly.

Qiao Mu turned her head around and glared at the crown prince in displeasure.

It’s definitely because this fellow gave this and that practically every day that made the family extremely well-off. Otherwise, if they were to only depend on her father and second uncle going out to complete a mission occasionally, how could they support such a large batch of people?

In other words, the crown prince was supporting more than half of these idle people.

Giving a perfectly guileless look, the crown prince stepped forward and hooked Qiao Mu’s small fingers with his own. “Qiaoqiao. Auntie isn’t wrong in that the family hasn’t taken in that many servants. Besides, they’re living in such a large courtyard now, which is quite troublesome to maintain. You don’t want Auntie to be too exhausted, right.”

Qiao Mu gave a humph and turned her head aside, not wanting to bother with him.

On the other hand, Wei Ziqin was a bit panic-stricken and hastily stepped forward to separate the two’s hands. She gazed at her own daughter, hesitating to speak. “Qiao, Qiaoqiao, there’s something Mom n-needs to tell you.”

The crown prince was baffled and couldn’t comprehend why his mother-in-law stepped forward to break up mandarin ducks[1].

“Mom, tell me, what is it.”

“Daughter, this morning, our family received a royal edict. For some reason, the king betrothed you to the current crown prince! I-I don’t know what to say… sigh,” Wei Ziqin sighed.

[1] mandarin ducks = affectionate couple

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