The Rich and Powerful Chang An Chapter 37

T/N: The longest chapter ever! and the most annoying too! 

Chapter 37

“How did Wang Fei say it, he could not come directly?” Nanxi was lying on the bed, could not see any discomfort in her body, but her face was still slightly pale.

“Miss, Wang Fei just said he had something to do in the courtyard. He'll come over to see you later.” Looking carefully at the expression on the face of her master, the yatou knew that Wang Fei was the master in this Wang Residence, but now in her theory, this person before her eyes was the right master.

“Miss, I don't think Wang Fei had anything to do. He just doesn't want to see you. Wang Fei like this it's definitely because Wang Ye's heart favors Miss, and he feels angry with Miss. So he made an excuse for not coming." After careful reflection, the yatou said so. When the words fell, she looked at her Miss, who did not seem to be angry, and then boldly said: “Miss, you just came to Wang Residence, you do not know, although Wang Ye has married concubines, but now Wang Ye's women in the backyard, none of them can reassure Wang Ye."

That two personal maids (1) gifted by Inner Palace, did not know how long has it been yet have not served Wang Ye, as for the two newly married cefei, even their rooms have not yet be rounded by Wang Ye. As for Wang Fei… Although Wang Ye spent most of his time in Wang Fei's place, nubi heard that Wang Ye was only sleeping there, and that there has nothing to do with Wang Fei.” Everyone in Wang Residence seemed accustomed to the cold treatment of Wang Residence to the people in the back house. Now they were so attentive to this Miss, and at the same time, they were surprised, they had a little more misgivings about Nanxi, so they naturally had to be careful to serve.

“You this small yatou, I didn't ask you for this. You saying these to me for what? It is just that my body suddenly has some discomfort. If Wang Fei does not come, who will report to the residence to send me a physician?" Nanxi did look a little pale, but there was no hurry in between the words, actually unable to tell from the appearance how much pain was there.

The small yatou had wanted to show herself before her master. Now, seeing her master like this, she suddenly realized that the opportunity had come, so she comforted with a few words to Nanxi and ran out directly.

Xiao Qing Yan's excuse was that he was injured, so he hadn't gone to court recently. He heard the quarrel outside, put away the things in front of him and let Zhu Quan beside him go to see what was going on.

As soon as Zhu Quan went out, he had not opened his mouth, the yatou knelt down to Zhu Quan as if she had seen the savior.

“Steward Zhu, please let nubi in to see Wang Ye, Miss Nanxi suddenly has some discomfort, went to seek for Wang Fei, but Wang Fei was not there. Miss is now seriously in pain, begging Wang Ye to go to see her quickly!” When the small yatou knelt down, her face was fine, and when she had finished speaking, she looked up again, her face was full of tears.

Zhu Quan supposedly wanted to help, but when he saw this yatou like this, he was suddenly tired of it. His father told him that these face changes was quicker than the sky in June. Most of these people were people who speak and act in one way but actually aim at something quite different, people who were deceitful in many ways, had to be careful of them.

“Enough-enough, what are you crying about? This Wang residence can only have two masters; Wang Ye and Wang Fei, all right. Who are you crying to?” Zhu Quan had some impatience on his face, but in his heart he was worried. Wang Ye seemed to be really quite set to the girl named Nanxi. In case of a moment of anger, what should Wang Fei do? “Since Miss Nanxi is not well, why don't go to the physician. What are you doing running to Wang Ye? Don't you know that Wang Ye is busy doing proper business? No one can afford to delay Wang Ye's business. You go first and watch Miss Nanxi, I will send someone out to invite the physician, and he will be there soon.” Zhu Quan was the only son of Zhu Guanjia, and Zhu Guanjia was the one sent by Xiao Qing Yan's mother. Zhu Quan had been the object of all those who wanted to curry favor with Xiao Qing Yan since he followed him.

He didn't need to curry favor to anybody; Zhu Quan could rely on himself to do the things he liked. Although the master was being unusual about that Nanxi, but Zhu Quan did not like that Nanxi; he always felt that the woman had some problems, whether it was her identity or the several encounters with his family's Wang Ye.

Apart from these, Zhu Quan also extremely disagreeable with Nanxi's resting place and Nanxi's attire! Obviously it was only a little fall injury, the physician also said that it was not a big problem, but passing all these days, how did she feel discomfort, and came to see Wang Ye with great fanfare (2), she was obviously looking for something!

Didn't expect this Zhu Quan to have such a response, the small yatou was taken aback! Even if Wang Ye was concern about her Miss, did this Zhu Quan ate the leopard's courage? Unexpectedly being such perfunctory to her!

“Wang Ye! Wang Ye! Requesting you to go seek for Miss Nanxi, Wang Ye, you come out quickly ah!”

“What's going on?” Xiao Qing Yan opened his door and his face was intolerant. Zhu Quan didn't realize that the small yatou was so brave that she dared not to listen to him. After staring at the yatou who knelt down again, Zhu Quan quickly reported to his Wang Ye, “Wang Ye, this yatou just said that Miss Nanxi was not feeling well. Xiaode (3) let her go to watch Miss Nanxi first, and Xiaode already ordered someone to invite the physician. Who would have known that she did not return as per Xiaode's words, but also cried on her knees." His family's Wang Ye had always disliked such a bold servant, if Zhu Quan could not, Wang Ye would teach this small yatou a lesson himself!

“Nanxi is not well, why don't you tell me earlier? Still kneeling here to do what, hurry to take me there! ”

“Yes, yes! Wang Ye, you hurry up to go with nubi!” She knew that Miss was special in the heart of Wang Ye, the small yatou's heart excited without a question! After Miss being doted on, she could have a good life in Wang Residence.

Zhu Quan didn't expect that Wang Ye would not acknowledge him, just followed his small yatou away. Thinking of what the small yatou had just said, he hurried to Wang Fei's courtyard.

When Xiao Qing Yan hurried to Nanxi's place, Nanxi was ready to get up and get out of bed, he hurriedly rushed to support the person to lie down. Xiao Qing Yan looked a little bad, but there was no angry tone toward Nanxi, but somewhat helpless.

“What's wrong with your body? If there's anything, let the yatou do it. What do you get up to do?”

“Wang Ye, I've been lying down for days, and if I continue to lie down, even a healthy person could recline in health, so I think of sitting up. I was a peasant woman, and my body is not that valuable."     “Right, just now your small yatou in the courtyard said you are not well, what's wrong with you?” Did not know whether it was intentional, after helping the person to lie down, Xiao Qing Yan's hand had been holding Nanxi's hand did not let go, and saying the words of concern to Nanxi, the hand holding strength even slightly aggravated.

Nanxi was about to open her mouth to explain, but her yatou took the first step: “Reporting to Wang Ye, just then Miss had some discomfort, Miss did not know that Wang Ye is in Wang Residence, also did not dare to disturb Wang Ye, then sent nubi to Wang Fei's place, want to seek Wang Fei to invite a physician, who knows that Wang Fei said he had something to do in the courtyard. Don't mind about not coming to take a look, he did not even send people to ask about."

“What are you talking about?! I just made Wang Fei to come, just want to explain some things to Wang Fei, and then I think about it again it was not right, how could I make Wang Fei come to me, it should be me coming to meet Wang Fei. You this yatou, if you don't know, don't talk too much!” Nanxi's words were a little anxious, like eager to explain something to Xiao Qing Yan, but her words did not make Xiao Qing Yan happy, but his face became more ugly!

“Explain what? You don't have to explain anything to him. Although he is Wang Fei, this Wang residence is Wang's residence. There is Wang in this place, he can't make the decision. You can rest assured that you do not have to worry about the matter of paying respect. As the master I excuse you from all the rites/ceremonies in Wang Residence." Slowly stood up, Xiao Qing Yan looked at the room, looked at the yatou next to him, and began to say: “There are still too few people here to serve, I'll pick a few more people for you later, you can command them anything, also have people to serve you at any time.”

“Thank you, Wang Ye, but no need. How can I trouble Wang Ye like this?” Nanxi refused, but Xiao Qing Yan insisted even more, said to the yatou beside him: “You are in the residence for a long time, your master's body is getting better, accompany her to go out it would be good for the body.”

“Yes, Wang Ye, nubi knows.” The small yatou had difficulty to hide the happiness on her face, she kept in mind that she gambling everything today.

“You have a good rest first. I'll go to Wang Fei's place.”

“Wang Ye, take care.”

The two knew that Xiao Qing Yan going to Wang Fei's place certainly was not for anything good.

“Miss, Wang Ye really likes you.” After Xiao Qing Yan left, the small yatou went to bed with excitement and congratulated her. Wang Ye had no offspring under his knee. Wang Ye liked Miss so much that she would surely have his eldest son later. Then Miss would have a bright future and a prosperous life.

“By the way, I don't know what your name is.” This yatou was going to follow her in the future. Was this counted as her own confidant?

“Miss, you are now nubi's master, nubi's previously name is chosen at will. You decide a name to give me.” It was a rule for the master to name slaves. Many slaves with their original names would probably be renamed by the master if they change their master's name, indicating that their identities had changed and had nothing to do with the former master.

“I think you are smart enough, I'll call you Lark (4).” Nanxi's mind ended up with it, she named the yatou, and in the future she would really be her own person.     “The name is very nice, nubi likes it very much,” she said.

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“What did you say? Why is that person so annoying!” Chunyu had just returned with her young master, and was about to let someone to prepare a bath for her young master. Who would have known that Zhu Quan all in a fluster pulled her aside and told her a rather baffling thing?

“Wang Ye has gone to Miss Nanxi, if the situation is like that, Wang Ye may be angry. You go make Wang Fei quickly think about countermeasures.”

“Know it, thank you ah.”

“That… Chunyu! Um… Forget it, I'll come to you next time, and hurry up go to seek Wang Fei.” Originally he wanted to ask Chunyu, if Wang Fei let her to look for a family. But now in this situation, if he asked, Chunyu surely would scold him. There's still next time.

“I know, you quickly go! Go to Wang Ye and say something nice about my family's Wang Fei ah!" A moment ago when bumping with the small yatou on the way, Chunyu didn't take that yatou's words to heart at all, but she didn't expect that the people of Tongxin Garden ran to Wang Ye to complain! How could the woman named Nan Xi's heart be so bad ah?!

Quickly went into the room and said this to her young master, Chunyu was worried, but didn't expect that her young man to listen to her yet seemed as if it had nothing to do with him.

“Afraid of what, Wang Ye is not an unreasonable person, and we are not wrong in this matter.” Xu Chang An was not afraid at all, it was not other people who did not to let himself be alone in contact with Nanxi,  it was Xiao Qing Yan himself. Why would he be angry because of this?

“You don't be flustered. Go quickly to prepare my bath water. I've just been sweating all over my body and I'm feeling a little uncomfortable now.” Xu Chang An paid no attention to it, but he didn't expect Xiao Qing Yan to turn up, even erupted in big temper!

“Are you starting to put on Wang Fei's arrogant now?”

“… Chen dared not.” What's wrong with Xiao Qing Yan? What cause the temper without reason? Xu Chang An was about to take a bath and change clothes. The outside yatou came in panic and reported that Wang Ye had come, he looked very angry.

“Even if Wang Ye is angry, you should tell me what the reason is.” Was it really because of Nanxi? Impossible ah!

“Nan Xi is unwell, ask you to go to invite the physician. Why don't you go?”

“…” Xu Chang An didn't know how things got here. Why did Xiao Qing Yan become like this? Was it not that the yatou in Nanxi's courtyard happened to meet him on the way, and then made him go to Nanxi's courtyard, said there was something to seek for him, but she did not say what it was!

“Wang Ye, Chang An is a man after all. It is not proper to meet Miss Nanxi alone, and the yatou didn't say clearly that Miss Nanxi was sick, only made me go there. I had just returned from my horse ride, smelling of sweat. I was so anxious to come back and clean up that I didn't ask for details. Wang Ye, please calm down." Xu Chang An really felt wronged, and at the same time he suspected in his heart about that woman named Nanxi, it seemed that he guessed right, absolutely never expect this woman's surface seemingly naive and kindhearted.

“Humph! It's not proper to meet alone? There are so many yatous around you, and there are also people in Nanxi's. How can you meet alone? If you want to make excuses, then find a good excuse to give to Wang!”    “Wang Ye! Laonu pays respect to Wang Ye!” Chunyu saw the momentum was not right, secretly asked Fang Momo to come over, young master said they were not in the wrong! Then Wang Ye's losing temper was just unreasonable, it's purely partial! There was Fang Momo, and there were established rules, it would be bad of Wang Ye to openly embarrass her family's young master!

As soon as Fang Momo came over, she saw that Wang Ye was angry with Wang Fei. Wang Residence had recently settled in a girl, who Wang Ye though highly of; she knew early of this matter. The thoughts inside a man's stomach, Fang Momo understood, but even in ordinary people's homes, there must be rules, even if the outside Xiaode once obtained love from one's man, still could not give airs in front of the legal wife madam. Let alone here was Wang Residence, the status of Wang Fei was respectable, now that woman did not even have a status, how could she compare with Wang Fei?

“Wang Ye, today's matter is precisely that woman who was crossing the boundary, how can you rebuke Wang Fei? Wang Ye, since you have the intention to keep that woman here, you should teach her the established rules of Wang Residence. Otherwise, how will Wang Fei discipline the servants in Wang Residence if the servants follow suit in the future?"

“You are only a servant, Wang only give you some face in the face of my imperial mother. How dare you teach Wang a lesson? Who do you think you are?” Xiao Qing Yan used to give Fang Momo a lot of face, but now he had not left any face. As everyone knew, Wang Ye was really angry today.

“Laonu purpose of coming to Wang Residence is to teach everyone the established rules.” Xiao Qing Yan's face was angry, but Fang Momo was neither humble nor overbearing, seemed not a bit afraid, and the words said even made Xiao Qing Yan unable to object.

He was indeed the master, but he was only the master of Wang Residence, and Fang Momo came to teach the established rules of Wang Residence, was the decree of the master under the heaven!

Xiao Qing Yan just now did not enter the room, in this parlor there was a room's yatou, he did not want to argue with Fang Momo, Xiao Qing Yan only looked at Xu Chang An, said word by word: “Wang Fei's words and deeds are wrong and contradicting with Wang, confine in the room for 10 days! No one can visit without Wang's permission!”

“Yes, Wang Ye.” Except for Xu Chang An's quiet response, there was no one in the hall spoke. They had never thought that Wang Ye would have loses such a big temper to Wang Fei.

After Xiao Qing Yan left, Chunyu came to her young master's side, her tears had flowed out, but dared not cry in front of her young master, also did not know how to comfort her young master, she could only stand around in silent tears.

“Thank you for today, Momo.” If there were no Fang Momo, Xiao Qing Yan's temper would only be bigger, and his punishment would only be heavier.

The news that Wang Fei was punished was known all over the residence in a short time.

Minyu returned from her mother's house a few days ago, and then shut herself in her courtyard. She never left the room for a few days. Today, when she heard that Xu Chang An had been punished, she felt a little better and took her yatou to Qinxin's place.

“He deserves it today.” After Qinxin moved away, Minyu was not used to it. Although she did not like Qinxin, but Qinxin was the only one who could talk with her in this house.

“What is meimei happy about?”

“Why are you asking a question when you already knew the answer? Since we entered Wang Residence, how much trouble did Xu Chang An find for us? Doesn't he deserve it today?! Let me say, it's cheaper for him, why didn't Wang Ye flog him?” She went back that day and told her mother about the wrongs she had suffered in Wang Residence. Her mother was not only indifferent but also told her to be honest and not to cause trouble. The most annoying thing was that her mother even went as far as to make her not to return home in the future. Now that she was Xian Wang Residence's people, she had to avoid doing anything that cause suspicion at home! Minyu listened to her mother's words, and finally thought through some things, but she was still unwilling to believe that she would be as helpless as Qinxin.

Obviously, she was different from Qinxin. She was the daughter of the legal wife, and she grew up in the cups of her parents' hollow hands. How could they have the heart to really not care about her?

Xu Chang An's affairs made Minyu a little happier, but she could think of her own affairs. Qinxin looked at Minyu's indeterminate cloudy and clear face, and predicted that she was set to go back to bump the wall. Now she was worried about her future.

“If memei coming over here just to say this, then go back first. Jiejie still has something and need go out, so I won't stay with meimei." Qinxin did not know what this Minyu was happy about in the end.

She did not have to think about it. Why Wang Ye punish Wang Fei without any reason? Because of another woman Wang Ye had punished Wang Fei, how could it be good for them?

On the contrary, if possible, she hoped that the person who Wang Ye would always favor on should be Wang Fei. Wang Fei was a man, no matter how much he was favored, yet again what about it? A person's youth was just few years, now Wang Fei was young and good-looking; Wang Ye's desire was only natural. But a few years later, Wang Fei would grow up and became manly; Wang Ye would not like it so much. Moreover, Wang Fei was a man, now even if he was the favorite, he could not bear offspring, so there was no threat to her in the future.

But if it was a woman, a woman held Wang Ye's heart, then their days would not be better.

Even though Wang Ye did not like them, he would surely come to their courtyard for his offspring in a few years, but now Wang Ye had a woman he likes. What's the use of them?

(1)actually  通房 (tōng fang)=  maid in name, concubine in reality –> too long so I put in as personal maid

(2) Fanfare is a loud, proud burst of something to get attention.

(3)Xiaode = I (when talking to a superior) That yatou called him Guanshi (in-charge of sth) instead of Guanjia (steward), but he is also steward-in-training.

(4)百灵 [bǎi líng] = Lark. Because slaves had no constant names, and usually just named with flowers, season, animals… so I left it there as translated.

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