Thirteenth Lady's Comback: Her Everyday Life as a Bystander-Chapter 327 - 7: Mid-Autumn Festival (1) (Second Update)

Chapter 327: Chapter 7: Mid-Autumn Festival (1) (Second Update)

Last year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, Susu spent in Tong County at the manor in the Capital, accompanied by a few servants. Hong Sheng entrusted Yangwei Escort Agency to send over many festival gifts. Back then, they still needed to exchange letters via messenger pigeons.

And now, she has married Hong Sheng, come to the Northwest, and met her brother.

In a trance, it feels like just a fleeting moment.

"Master, Master!"

Susu’s thoughts were brought back from her memories by someone’s call, she saw it was Fen Dai and sighed, "Fen Dai, do you think I’m getting old?"

I heard only those getting older particularly love reminiscing about the past.

Fen Dai looked at the master, who was merely fifteen years old, with beauty like a flower and skin like jade, flawless, and couldn’t help but be exasperated. Aren’t you simply showing off?

"Master, if you’re bored, why not think about how to handle Fourth Miss after the Mid-Autumn Festival?"

Now, it was Susu who was speechless, her grievances towards Prince Ke were relentless.

Why can’t you stay put at Ningxia Guard, where it’s safer, instead of rushing to Hami Guard, the very front line? You’re not creating unnecessary trouble for everyone?

Actually, Susu doesn’t really care if Prince Ke comes to Hami or not. What she mostly fears is that someone might link her to Sister Ten through those particular eyes.

Susu even suspects Fourth Miss is already suspicious, but fortunately, Fourth Miss Song is most intelligent and clever. For the sake of the Song Family, she would never seek confirmation from Susu.

The reason secrets are called secrets is naturally because the fewer people know, the better.

Not just Susu, but even Commander Liu cursed aloud. Hami was already chaotic, and Prince Ke coming here would only add to the chaos!

However, having received a secret letter sent by his brother-in-law, Commander Liu was determined. Well, even if he comes, he might be useful; might as well lure the snake out of its hole.

As a fervent follower of Qin Dusi, Commander Liu had never considered: What if Prince Ke met a heroic end?

At this moment, Susu was unaware of Qin Dusi and Commander Liu’s bold actions, just as Hami was about to be thrown into upheaval with Prince Ke and Prince Yong’s arrival.

Just thinking about the trouble Prince Ke would bring to Hami made her brain ache.

"Bring some walnuts over, I feel my brain isn’t efficient lately, need some brain food!"

Fen Dai, hearing the master’s request, though finding it amusing, still went to fetch some walnuts. However, she felt like she had forgotten something.

Just as she was about to lift the curtain to leave the bedroom, Fen Dai slapped her forehead and turned back to Susu, speechless, "Your servant almost forgot the real task." Then she returned and handed the menu to Susu.

"Here’s the menu for tonight; your servant’s mother says if you don’t see anything wrong, the kitchen will start preparing."

Susu casually glanced at it, the Mid-Autumn family feast prepared a total of three classes of dishes: the first class for Susu and Hong Sheng, one table; the second class for the four trusted aides along with Ninth Son and Tie Dan, one table; the third class for Fen Dai and the household servants, two tables.

"Sixteen dishes for the main table are a bit much, remove the salted ox lips, pig brain, fake leopard fetus, steamed camel hump, pear slices mixed with steamed civet."

Prepare two tables for the second class, tell your mother to make them in large quantity so Leng Xiao and the others can distribute and send them home. Can’t reunite with family during Mid-Autumn, naturally, there should be some compensation. Tell your mother to add two meat dishes for the last class!"

Fen Dai noted it down one by one, was about to head to the kitchen but was stopped by Susu.

"Where’s Linlang gone, get her to come reply!"

"Linlang’s teaching Ruan Ji, Tie Dan, Chang Sheng, and Bai Yue their martial arts techniques. Can hear Chang Sheng’s screams from afar!"

This matter Susu knew, it was requested by Hong Sheng. Ninth Son and Tie Dan also needing to go to the battlefield, with Leng Xiao and others having no time to ’play’ with kids, Linlang who had seriously learned martial arts since arriving at the military camp had been summoned by Hong Sheng to be training partners for Ninth Son and Tie Dan.

Upon hearing this, Susu called over Linlang, asking her to take Chang Sheng and Bai Yue along.

Fen Dai left the main room, and soon Linlang arrived. Susu handed her a large prepared bundle, "When night falls, take it stealthily to the Ruan Family, hand it to Ruan Shizhang."

Linlang was no stranger to such tasks. The master instructed, she followed suit, never asking too much, never curious. In Susu’s heart, this little girl was even more trustworthy than Fen Dai and the others four.

Linlang didn’t speak much; after taking the bundle, she earnestly said, "Master, can you have someone send my share of mooncakes to Wu Jun?" She said, with a face brimming with pity.

"Wu Jun? Who’s that?" Had her little cabbage been taken by someone while she was unaware?

"Wu Jun is Shuai brother, leader of the Little Beggar Gang!"

Upon hearing Linlang’s words, Susu realized she had thought too much. But whenever she heard that leader of the Little Beggar Gang’s nickname ’in the jianghu,’ Susu felt her own eye corner twitch slightly.

"Shuai brother is called Wu Jun?" Hmph, she even thought he was called Wu Xie, given his bold face!

"Am I such a petty person? Keep the mooncakes to yourself; I’ve already had someone deliver to them two large boxes, over five hundred pieces. Your Shuai brother could sleep on mooncakes for days."

Linlang hadn’t noticed Susu’s reference to ’your Shuai brother,’ but even if she did, she wouldn’t care. Saving some food from her mouth, it’s great that Shuai brother could have some mooncakes.

Uncle said it right, the master was truly like a fairy!

On the other side, the four trusted aides and Tie Dan hadn’t expected Susu, seeing they couldn’t go home for Mid-Autumn, would specially reward their families with a table of dishes.

A table consisting of twenty dishes and dim sum, large enough quantities to share with another table, they decided to get plates and split each dish into six portions, making sure their families could taste everything.

Not only Tie Dan, but even Leng Xiao and the others couldn’t help but feel warmth seeing those crabs, prawns, and other seafood, not easily obtainable in the Northwest.

A basket of fresh crabs needed ten taels of silver in the Capital, reaching the Northwest required fifty taels.

A single crab could cost one tael of silver, it’s unaffordable for anyone but wealthy families.

And Ruan Ji secretly wiped tears, feeling both sad and proud, watching the happy expressions on the soldiers and Tie Dan, wanting so badly to tell them: That’s my sister, you’re all sharing my glory!

But he couldn’t take his eyes off those luscious yellow crabs, while a few images flashed through his mind.

Ruan Ji now understood, the beautiful woman in his memories was naturally his mother, but he dared not ask Thirteen Sister how she was doing now.

Apart from his biological mother who had passed before their family was exiled, Sixth Brother, Seventh Brother, Eighth Brother, and Ling all seemed to have forgotten they had a mother, probably afraid to hear terrible news and fearing to make Thirteen Sister uneasy.

People often say: No news is good news. Let them hold onto that bit of hope, their mother must be living happily somewhere like Thirteen Sister is. Waiting for her sons to grow and bring her back home.

The six of them sent the food home, filled with the joy of seeing their family’s smiles, more fulfilling than eating the feast themselves.

In the evening, Hong Family Courtyard was naturally bustling, but since it was the period of battle preparations, alcohol was put aside, everyone toasted Susu and Hong Sheng with juice instead.

Glasses clinked and exchanged, plates and cups scattered, and as the feast drew to a close, the moon was already high in the sky.