The system asked me to chase his wife

Rongzhu brought in some water for Qiao Yuandong to wash his hands. Seeing Xia Mang standing there like a wooden man, she reminded her, "Madam is asking you a question."

Xia Mang woke up as if from a dream, "Oh, oh! Madam Tai praised me for serving you well and asked me to keep up the good work."

As she spoke, she actively took the basin from Rongzhu's hand, indicating that she would personally help the lady wash her hands.

After all, this is also one of the system tasks.

Rongzhu had already gotten used to Xia Mang's sudden diligence recently. After handing her the basin, she prepared to go into the inner room to make the bed.

"Let me do it!" Xia Mang's heartfelt cry scared Rong Zhu.

Rong Zhu looked at her helplessly, and Xia Mang smiled and said, "Good sister, it's my turn to be on duty today, you go and take a rest, I'll do these things."

Rongzhu turned to look at Qiao Yuandong, who jokingly said, "Let her be."

Rongzhu nodded and left, and Xia Mang started to do the task with satisfaction.

Today, I was delayed a bit because of the lady's matter, so the progress of the task is a bit rushed, but this is not a problem for Xia Mang.

Qiao Yuandong propped up his head and watched Xia Mang busying around the room like a butterfly flying through flowers. Her movements were so diligent and there was a happy smile on her face.

What a pleasing girl!
Xia Mang made the bed and happily listened to the jingle of points being credited to her account. She turned around and smiled at Qiao Yuandong with her big white teeth: "Madam, it's getting late. Let's go to bed."

Qiao Yuandong looked at Xia Mang, who was laughing so hard that her teeth were showing, and was inexplicably dazzled by her bright and beautiful smile.

For no reason, she also smiled, and her smile was as bright as ice and snow melting away.

"Tell me, what do you want from me by being so attentive these past two days?"

Qiao Yuandong thought to himself that he still understood Xia Mang. This girl would not get up early unless there was something beneficial to her. She had been trying to please him recently, so he must have some intentions towards her.

But she was half right. Xia Mang did have some plans for her, but he had already got what he wanted.

Xia Mang was happily counting her increasing points when she was suddenly asked this by Qiao Yuandong. She was a little slow to react and looked at Qiao Yuandong blankly.

Qiao Yuandong looked at her with a smile on his face, which said: Madam, I am in a good mood now. Please feel free to ask for anything you want.

Xia Mang obviously understood what Qiao Yuandong meant. Although she didn't understand what caused the lady's good mood, it didn't stop her from getting benefits.

Xia Mang approached Qiao Yuandong with a lecherous face, pinched his shoulders and pounded his back, and said rudely: "Madam, please give me a raise in my monthly salary."

Qiao Yuandong closed his eyes and enjoyed Xia Mang's unprofessional service. When he heard her request, he couldn't help but let out a sigh.

Really have no ambition!
The monthly allowance for a maidservant accompanying the master is one tael of silver. Any increase above that would be against the rules.

However, Qiao Yuandong still decided to consider Xia Mang's request, but for such an exceptional matter, she still had to discuss it with the lady.

The next morning, when Qiao Yuandong went to pay his respects to the old lady, he mentioned the matter of raising Xia Mang's monthly salary.

In order to prevent the Madam Dowager from disagreeing with giving only Xia Mang a raise, Qiao Yuandong also planned to give a raise to all the maids so that the Madam Dowager would not be able to say anything.

As a result, Qiao Yuandong didn't expect that as soon as she started, the lady agreed, and she didn't even have time to ask for the monthly salary for all the maids.

The lady smiled and said, "Mangxia is a clever and lovable child, and I like her very much. It is only right to increase her monthly salary."

My eldest grandson has become a maid, so it is only right that her monthly salary be increased!

Qiao Yuandong was very puzzled by the old lady's attitude. Last night, Xia Mang told her that the old lady liked him very much, and she thought Xia Mang was bragging.

It turns out to be true?

I don’t know how this girl suddenly gained the favor of the lady.

Qiao Yuandong read the lady's expression. According to common sense, since the lady had expressed her love for Xia Mang, she should naturally go with the flow and send Xia Mang to serve her.

But Qiao Yuandong deliberately avoided this thought and said, "How about I give her a raise of 500 yuan?"

The old lady felt that raising the salary by 500 coins was a bit unfair to her eldest grandson, but she also knew that if the increase was too much, it would cause dissatisfaction among other servants.

So she said, "Well, I'll just give the child a one-liang increase, and the money will come from my private treasury, and it will be my pocket money for her."

What's wrong with a grandmother giving pocket money to her beloved grandson?
Qiao Yuandong choked. Two taels per month, wouldn’t that make her a concubine?

This thought flashed through his mind for a moment and was then suppressed. When Qiao Yuandong saw that the lady actually took money from the private treasury to reward her maid, wasn't this a clear indication that she wanted Xia Mang?
She suppressed her inner conflict and said, "Since Grandmother likes Mang Xia so much, why not transfer her back to the main courtyard to serve her?"

The old lady was moved for a moment. It would be great if her eldest grandson could be with her all the time. However, they were a young couple after all. How could she separate them?
She waved her hand and sighed, "She's a good kid, it's just right for her to stay with you."

Isn't it a good time to recognize each other when you have developed feelings for each other?
The lady thought she had made a good calculation.

Qiao Yuandong breathed a sigh of relief for no reason, and chatted with the lady for a while to discuss Xiang Xiu'an's marriage.

After thinking it over, the lady decided not to tell Xiang Xiu'an for the time being. She would wait until she took him to visit the Liu family after a while, and it would not be too late to mention it then.

After all, the child is young and cannot control his temper. If he makes a fuss now and runs to the Liu family to make trouble, it will ruin other people's impression of him.

However, what the lady didn't know was that the Liu family had already told Liu Wuniang about this matter directly.

Mrs. Liu and the lady dowager had different considerations. She felt that her children's marriage should depend on whether the children like it or not.

Liu Wuniang had been raised by herself to have a simple and honest character. Madam Liu was afraid that she would misunderstand her daughter's intentions. If she didn't like Xiang Xiu'an and made a fuss, it would bring shame to both families.

It would be better to explain it clearly to my daughter first. If she doesn't mean that, I can regret it before the dust settles.

When Liu Wuniang found out that she was engaged, and that the man she was engaged to was Xiang Xiu'an, an acquaintance of hers, Mrs. Liu did not show any reaction that a girl should have.

Liu Wu Niang scratched her head and asked Madam Liu, "Mother, do you mean that Xiang Xiu'an and I will live like father and mother in the future?"

Mrs. Liu looked at her daughter's calm and composed face and doubted whether she knew what it meant to get married.

She nodded and tried to teach her daughter some knowledge about being a wife, but Liu Wuniang turned and left.

"Hey! Where are you going?"

Liu Wu Niang said without even turning her head: "I'm going out to play!"

The little girl ran away so fast that Madam Liu couldn't even catch up with her, so she had to let her go. Finally, she said with a headache, "Forget it, she's going to get married anyway."

After having lunch at the Imperial College, Xiang Xiu'an went to the library to read some books. He had not finished reading the "Zuo Zhuan" last time, and there was an article that he did not quite understand, so he planned to ask the teacher in the library about it.

Xiang Xiu'an found the book he wanted to read with familiarity and found a quiet corner to sit down and read. There were few people coming to the library at this time, so it was very quiet, which was a good time to read.

Xiang Xiu'an was reading with fascination when a classmate came over to him. Without even raising his eyes, Xiang Xiu'an said, "Go ahead." Suddenly, a hand reached out from the side and pressed on the book. The five fingers of that hand could not cover a single page of the book, but instead made the yellowed, old pages look as white as jade.

The fingers were plump, small and tender pink in color. There were four small flesh dimples evenly distributed on the delicate back of the hand. It was obvious that the hands were the result of a pampered life.

Whose spoiled nobleman is this?

Xiang Xiu'an frowned and looked at the owner of the hand, and happened to meet a pair of smiling crescent eyes. The baby fat on the face made the person look a little cute and naive.

If it’s not Liu Wuniang, then who else could it be?

Xiang Xiu'an gasped for a moment, and he looked around in panic to see if anyone had noticed anything unusual here, but Liu Wuniang was still looking at him with a heartless smile.

Xiang Xiu'an lost his temper because of her laughter. He hid in the corner again and then asked quietly, "How did you get in?"

At this time, Liu Wuniang was dressed like a young man, with her hair tied up high on her head. Some scattered soft hair hung beside her ears, making her look fluffy and cute.

Liu Wuniang seemed to find it very amusing that Xiang Xiu'an had been frightened. She winked at him and laughed even more heartily.

"You guess."

When Xiang Xiu'an saw her sneaky look, he immediately thought of a possibility: "Did Wu Wendong bring you in?"

Liu Wu Niang nodded: "That's right, I was planning to come in to find you by myself, but when I walked to the place where I climbed over the wall last time, I happened to run into him climbing over the wall, so I asked him to take me to find you!"

Xiang Xiu'an glanced at her and said cautiously, "Today is not the ten-day holiday, I won't skip class to play with you."

"I know." Liu Wuniang approached Xiang Xiu'an and said, "I just came to tell you something."

Xiang Xiu'an saw her mysterious look and couldn't help but lean over and ask, "What's the matter?"

Liu Wuniang whispered in his ear: "My mother wants to marry me to you!"

Xiang Xiu'an took two or three breaths to understand what Liu Wuniang meant. He suddenly widened his eyes and asked in disbelief: "What did you say?"

Xiang Xiu'an was so shocked that he didn't even bother to control the volume. Fortunately, Liu Wuniang was prepared and quickly covered his mouth with her hand.

Xiang Xiu'an only felt a sweet breath coming towards him, and then something soft crashed into his arms.

He saw Liu Wuniang's face close at hand.

A snow-white, soft hand was pressed on her lips, and the index finger of the other hand was pressed against her lips.

"Shh!"

Xiang Xiu'an's face suddenly turned blood red, and he hurriedly held Liu Wuniang's shoulders to distance the two of them.

"Hug, hug, hug. Sorry! I was so reckless!"

Liu Wuniang saw that he was like a frightened rabbit, and it seemed that he was about to dig a hole and escape at the next moment.

She smiled with her eyebrows curved, "You are really not easily frightened!"

Xiang Xiu'an tried hard to calm his frantic emotions. When he heard Liu Wuniang's words, he felt as if he had fallen into an icy cave. He said with a pale face, "Are you lying to me?"

Liu Wu Niang shrugged and said, "No, my mother told me that herself. Didn't your family tell you?"

Xiang Xiuan: “.”

After this incident, Xiang Xiu'an managed to calm down a little. After sorting out what happened, he buried his head and rubbed the auspicious cloud pattern on his cuffs, not daring to look at Liu Wuniang.

After a while, Xiang Xiu'an asked, "What do you think?"

Liu Wuniang said without hesitation: "I agree to this marriage."

This was said so naturally, as if Liu Wuniang was not talking about her own marriage, but discussing where to go for fun.

Xiang Xiu'an was once again overwhelmed by Liu Wuniang's bluntness. He was so embarrassed that blood was about to drip from the tips of his ears. He was in a trance, as if he was drunk.

"I, I agree too."

Liu Wuniang clapped her hands and said happily, "It's good that you agree, but I have to make three rules with you!"

Xiang Xiu'an glanced at her quickly before saying, "You go ahead."

"First." Liu Wuniang raised her index finger, "From now on, you have to listen to me. My father listens to my mother at home."

Xiang Xiu'an nodded, his face red all the way to his neck.

"Second, I don't like vegetables, so you can't force me to eat them. Third, my mother said that a good man shouldn't have three wives and four concubines. If you fall in love with someone else in the future, I will divorce you."

Upon hearing this, Xiang Xiu'an immediately swore to be loyal.

Liu Wuniang looked at his promise with satisfaction, patted Xiang Xiu'an on the shoulder and said proudly, "Good buddy! From now on, we will be husband and wife!"

Xiang Xiu'an didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "What are you talking about?"

After Liu Wuniang explained everything, she was ready to slip away. Xiang Xiu'an personally watched her climb over the wall to leave.

Liu Wuniang rode on the top of the wall and turned around to wave goodbye to him. Xiang Xiu'an's face was still blushing. Looking at Liu Wuniang, who had suddenly become his fiancée, he felt reluctant for the first time.

"Where are you going now?" he asked.

Liu Wu Niang scratched her head and said uncertainly: "My mother said that girls who are getting married should embroider dowries, but I don't know how to embroider dowries. I will go back and ask my mother if it is too late to learn now."

Xiang Xiu'an had no sisters, so naturally he didn't know this rule. Seeing Liu Wuniang frowning in distress, he couldn't help but say, "It's okay, just find an embroiderer to do it."

"Okay, I'll go back and tell my mother right away!" This is what Liu Wu Niang was waiting for him to say.

Seeing that she was about to leave, Xiang Xiu'an gritted his teeth and said, "How about I take you back?"

At this time, Xiao Xiang had obviously forgotten his words of never skipping classes, but Liu Wuniang considerately rejected his kindness.

"Just study your book. I came here in a carriage. You don't need to send me off!"

"Oh."

(End of this chapter)