Chapter 484: Krypton Gold Palace Intrigue System (19)

Seeing her daughter eating with such relish, the Third Madam, who had finally managed to stop her tears, began to let them stream down again.

"How much suffering has my precious girl endured?"

Her little daughter, who used to love meat above all else, was now eating a few bowls of wild vegetable wontons as if they were rare delicacies.

And look at this small, thin frame... Oh my! Her poor daughter, what kind of life has she been living these past two years!

Main System: A carefree and comfortable life.

Xie Yang: "..."

She just got hungry quickly, perhaps because practicing her techniques consumed too much energy, but she really hadn't eaten poorly.

The three Xie Jing brothers also assumed their sister had suffered outside and desperately tried to feed her.

One handed her sugar water, another peeled pine nuts, and the youngest, Xie Jue, used his chubby little hands to grab a handful of pine nut kernels and feed them into Xie Yang's mouth.

"Yang Er, how did Daddy's precious little girl get so thin?"

Master Xie San's eyes were also filled with love and pity.

How cute his chubby daughter used to be; not having seen her for two years, she had become so thin—how much hardship must she have endured!

"Your master, she..." She didn't abuse you, did she?

Xie Yang: "..."

What kind of look is this cheap father giving her?

"Master is very good to Yang Er. It's just that Yang Er lost weight from diligently practicing her techniques."

"Your master really taught you martial arts?" Master Xie San perked up. "Can you demonstrate a set for Daddy to see?"

The Third Madam glared at him angrily: "Master! Yang Er just got back, her seat isn't even warm yet and you want her to practice martial arts for you? Is there any father like you?"

"..."

"Daddy, do you only want to see the techniques, and not the treasures your daughter brought back?"

"Oh? What treasures?" Master Xie San's eyes lit up. "Are they like those pewter wares?"

"Even better than those!" Having eaten her fill, Xie Yang wiped her little mouth, hopped off the daybed, and trotted on her short legs to a chest; she had specifically told the maids not to put this one into the storeroom.

"These are precious medicinal herbs my master and I found in Nanyang. This half of the chest is for Mother, and this half is for Daddy. Oh, and here is the medicinal efficacy that Master had someone transcribe."

Master Xie San took the yellowed rice paper that Xie Yang had deliberately aged, read it at a glance, and nearly choked on his own saliva.

Aren't these just tonics for nourishing yin and strengthening yang?

"Did your master tell you to pass these on?"

"Yes!" Xie Yang feigned ignorance. "Master said these are miracle drugs from Nanyang; if Master hadn't saved a local person, no amount of Silver could buy them!"

"..."

Master Xie San's mouth twitched.

Although he felt his daughter's master was even more unscrupulous than he was—who gives gifts of yin-nourishing and yang-strengthening drugs? —

it was, after all, the old lady's kind intention, so he moved the chest into the bedroom to test the efficacy later.

At the time, he held an attitude of "take it or leave it," but after trying them, the couple tasted the benefits and nearly worshipped these two miracle drugs.

The Third Madam even helped a childhood friend who had been infertile for years conceive a child in her later years and deliver it safely; Master Xie San gave a few taels of Tongkat Ali to an old friend whose vigor was fading, which tightened up his network of connections, which had previously been rather weak.

But that is a story for another time.

For now, the couple simply accepted this strange gift politely out of respect for their daughter's master.

"Yang Er, where is your master? Your mother and I haven't properly thanked her for the great kindness of saving you back then."

"Master had business and went beyond the frontier." Xie Yang casually made up an excuse.

"Ah? Beyond the frontier? Why go to the frontier?"

"I don't know! Master received a letter and then instructed Ning Gu to protect me on the way home."

Ning Gu?

Only then did everyone notice that there was an extra woman in the room, one with an ordinary appearance who was easily overlooked in a crowd.

Upon learning that she was the most capable protector under the Thousand-Faced Saintess, the Xie couple immediately invited her to sit and treated her with the etiquette due to an honored guest.

Anyone sent by the Saintess to protect their daughter must be a martial arts expert; they must not be slighted!

As for Ning Gu being expressionless and even stingy with nodding in greeting, no one cared.

People who possess peerless martial arts are often arrogant; they could understand, they could understand!

To prevent her family from staring at the Robot Bodyguard, Xie Yang opened another chest to show off her treasures, which immediately captured everyone's attention:

"Is this the 'Golden Silk Blood Bird's Nest' that is rarely seen in a lifetime? Your master is too polite! Why send so much!"

"This coral ornament is truly beautiful! It's a pity it's a few days late; if your brother's betrothal gifts had included such an exquisite ornament, it would have earned your future sister-in-law more face."

The Third Madam stroked the coral ornament, unable to put it down, feeling a little regretful.

Xie Yang had already returned to the daybed, eating wild berries washed by her eldest brother and pine nut kernels peeled for her by her two younger brothers, swinging her short legs as she said:

"It's not too late to send it over now! Just say it's a dowry supplement from Yang Er and Master to the sister-in-law."

"That's right!"

The Third Madam slapped her thigh, quickly selected a few fine items, and immediately sent someone to deliver them to Feng Fu in the name of the Saintess and her disciple.

Upon receiving the six mahogany chests sent by the Third Branch of the Xie family and opening them, everyone in the Feng family was dumbfounded.

A box filled to the brim with round and plump top-grade Nanyang pearls!

A box filled to the brim with bright and translucent premium jade seed material!

An entire chest filled with exquisite and magnificent coral ornaments!

And Nanyang Spice, which is extremely hard to buy in Jingcheng, was stacked in a full chest here!

The most valuable of all was likely the Golden Silk Blood Bird's Nest, which was measured by the catty!

The Feng family: "!!!"

"I heard the Seventh Young Lady of the Xie Mansion returned home today! She brought twenty carriages of supplies with her."

"Twenty carriages?! They couldn't all be such fine goods, could they?"

"At the very least, there won't be any less. Otherwise, why would they be delivered by the crate?"

"I originally thought this marriage was decided too hastily, and that Feng Zhen had been wronged. Now it seems, Feng Zhen's good fortune is yet to come!"

Everyone in the Feng Fu sighed with emotion.

First there was the suite of furniture custom-made from fine timber, and now this generous gift, which would be rare and precious even in the palace; even if the Duke Mansion's noble title declined with each generation, the life of the Third Branch would certainly not be bad from now on.

Master Feng stroked his beard, feeling very gratified.

He had originally worried that this marriage wronged his little daughter, but now it seemed it was a case of a lucky mistake; this was excellent!

The Third Branch of the Xie Mansion.

The couple looked at the several large crates of jade pebbles and gold nuggets, unable to recover their senses for a long while.

They had originally thought it was just the top layer, with cloth lining and cotton batting underneath, but they never expected it to be filled from top to bottom. The key was that it wasn't just one crate, but a full six large crates—three large crates of jade pebbles and three large crates of gold nuggets.

Although the pebbles were not large in size and the gold was mostly in small grains, the total amount when combined was massive!

Moreover, these jade pebbles were only small in size, but their quality was absolutely comparable to the treasures of the shop in the jewelry pavilions of Peking University.

The gold nuggets were also pure red gold without impurities; taking them out to spend directly might easily attract attention, but finding a goldsmith to melt them down and craft them into gilded hairpins or filigree gold bracelets, or using some jade pebbles to make beaded jewelry, gemstone rings, or earrings—that would be incredible!

Third Master Xie rubbed his hands excitedly and paced back and forth in the room.

He dared to say that the family fortune accumulated by two generations of Dukes in the mansion's treasury was not even this substantial.