The Fallen Medicine Woman: The Daily Life of Chun Nuan-Chapter 115 - 97: Qiu Yan’s Sorrows

Chun Nuan always thought the Luo family was very intelligent.

Dealing with smart people takes no effort at all.

You don’t even need to remind them much; she just knows what to do.

Having Luo Xiaogang follow Chun Ning, and letting Sanya follow Chunyan and Chun Shu, they have a strong ability to accept things, willing to try as soon as you mention it.

Just like Uncle Luo, who listened to advice, didn’t stubbornly go to the river to haul ropes in the summer, thus avoiding a disaster.

Moreover, he’s willing to learn, and as for massage, he has done quite well now.

Relying on this newly learned skill, he successfully transformed from a hauler to a half-doctor.

Now he wants to learn knowledge with the Xiao family’s children, showing they know how to seize opportunities.

The opportunity to change one’s fate is always in one’s own hands.

Following Chun Nuan’s request, Chun Ning brought thin stone slabs and laid them on the floor inside the house.

Uncle Luo went home and said to his wife, "People from the Capital truly know how to enjoy life; they don’t even get their feet dirty walking."

"Of course, just look at what kind of family they used to have." Aunt Luo said, "They say a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. See how quickly they’ve been able to buy land and build a house."

"Now, the members of the great Xiao family must be regretting it so much!"

"That’s hard to say."

The great Xiao family indeed received the information.

"They’ve added a son?"

"Bought land in Shuikou Village?"

"Even acquired Old Master Zhang’s two acres to build a big courtyard?"

"It was silver sent by Xiao Chunyu from the Capital."

One thing after another, the clan leader didn’t say much after listening.

"Changfa, do you think the first house could rise again?"

The clan leader, resting with closed eyes on the grand master’s chair, finally asked his son standing beside him after a long pause.

"Father, the first house relied on that father and son, both of whom are dead. The younger generation isn’t capable, with some beheaded and some exiled. The group of women and children who’ve returned to Shu City have nothing remarkable."

"I heard it’s been that Chun Ning holding things up all along?"

"A mere child is no threat."

The clan leader finally bothered to open his eyes.

"Changfa, back when we discussed expelling them from the clan, I didn’t quite agree, but the elders were all afraid of being implicated and insisted on expelling them." The clan leader said, "You were also the most agitated; in a moment of hot-headedness, I made that decision."

"Father, that’s quite normal. People die for money, birds for food. The first house caused trouble in the Capital. If we didn’t quickly distance ourselves, and if there were implications, the entire Xiao family, hundreds of people, would suffer."

"Alas..."

The clan leader sighed.

"I’m most afraid of being neither here nor there." Xiao Clan Leader said, "Look, we used to cooperate well with Master Zhou Qi, and suddenly it became useless. Between the lines, it seems like our Xiao family doesn’t keep its word."

"I’ve thought about it for a long time, and the most wrong thing we did was probably expelling the first house from the clan."

"Father, that Zhou Qi himself is just a cunning person; he can flip the table when things don’t go his way, such a person..."

"Don’t provoke Master Zhou Qi."

"Haven’t provoked." Xiao Changfa said, "I just don’t understand. If he stopped cooperating because of this, why help the first house? Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to cooperate with us, the great Xiao family?"

"It means the first house has something he values more." The clan leader was exceptionally clear-headed: "A person like Zhou Qi doesn’t do anything without benefit. He must have seen something he values to make him choose to abandon our entire Xiao family."

"What could it be?"

Xiao Changfa suddenly thought of something, "A beauty!"

"Zhou Qi indeed has a taste for such things." The clan leader remembered the girl in plain clothes, "What’s that girl’s name? It seems she’s come of age."

"I’ve looked closely, and she is indeed stunning."

Xiao Changfa, not entirely upright himself, had his eyes appraising and couldn’t deny Chun Nuan’s beauty at first sight, though out of decorum, he only had the heart of a thief but not the courage.

"That would explain why Master Zhou Qi would support them."

"So what do we do?"

Xiao Changfa became anxious, "Are we really not going to cooperate with Master Zhou Qi anymore?"

"Unless you put a knife to his throat, you can’t make it happen."

This son, his thinking was indeed lacking.

Back then, in that situation, the clan’s opinions were unanimous, and Xiao Changfa joined in fanning the flames.

In his hotheadedness, he truly made the decision to expel them from the clan.

Thinking back now, it was his own misjudgment.

For just that group of women and children, giving them a manor meant showing goodwill and could also avoid some risk.