The General's Darling Is Delicate-Chapter 79: Even a Bumpkin Dares to Pretend to Be a Phoenix!
"The General has truly grown up, even the cry of ’nursemaid’ is beneath him."
The woman’s expression was half-smiling, half-serious.
Yun Chunnuan noticed that the large hand holding hers suddenly tightened.
He furrowed his brow, appeared full of displeasure, yet found it difficult to voice his feelings.
Yun Chunnuan remembered the idle chat when she was trimming Qiao’er’s hair earlier in the day and brought up this Aunt Jing.
Relying on being the nursemaid of the Barbarian General, she behaved tyrannically within the mansion, not to mention secretly amassing an unknown amount of silver and treasures from the General Mansion, rendering it a mess.
When the Barbarian General discovered this, considering sentiment, he didn’t expose her, nor did he recover the stolen treasures.
He simply stripped her of the housekeeper position due to her harsh treatment of the servants.
After Aunt Jing sought death, Yelyu Lie went to the barracks, and then Lian Qiao arrived, taking over the management of the General Mansion.
Aunt Jing was supposed to spend her old age leisurely in the mansion, yet somehow Lian Qiao dispatched her here to feed livestock.
Qiao’er also mentioned that the reason Ayang was so fixated on marrying the General was Aunt Jing’s idea.
Knowing full well Ayang didn’t like her brother, she forced her, saying that if she couldn’t climb into the General’s bed, she would marry Ayang to her brother.
Ayang was frightened and took a desperate gamble, pulling off such a stunt.
Unexpectedly, she ended up sacrificing herself.
Originally, Yun Chunnuan couldn’t believe a mother would force her daughter to become a warming tool for her master, but seeing Aunt Jing’s hostile face, she believed it.
Oh, Qiao’er also mentioned that Aunt Jing secretly approached her brother, proposing some business deal with Banlai.
As for what kind of business, Qiao’er didn’t hear, only knew that her brother was scared enough to chase Aunt Jing away and didn’t dare propose marriage to Ayang again.
The Barbarian General was unaware of this matter.
Qiao’er had subtly inquired with her brother, knowing that the business deal should be related to the barracks.
That’s why Banlai was so afraid...
But now, Yun Chunnuan knows.
Such disloyal and unrighteous people, just because they fed the master two mouthfuls of milk, think they can lord over the master.
Someone who can sell her own daughter may one day sell her family’s Barbarian General.
This is something Yun Chunnuan absolutely will not allow to happen.
She fell in love with him unhesitatingly, regarding this place as her own home.
A harmful element in the family should be purified early.
"Aunt Jing, being in a foul mood, taking it out on a rooster won’t help. This Princess is right here. If you think I’ve punished your daughter too harshly, let your anger be directed at me."
Aunt Jing coldly snorted and spat on the ground, "Pah! Even a wild chicken wants to act like a phoenix! Old hag is here to hit you!"
Saying this, she raised her stick again, intending to strike that rooster.
After pecking Aunt Jing, the rooster flapped its wings and fled.
The person and the rooster chased each other around the courtyard, finally ending with the rooster jumping into the pen where the hen rested.
Though Aunt Jing hit the rooster, she knew how valuable it was, afraid that if one died, it wouldn’t even be worth selling it off.
The rooster, once inside the hen’s pen, would be immediately frightened into trying to open the pen’s door.
Yelyu Lie stopped her, "You truly are unruly. With this General here, how dare you act impudently!"
Aunt Jing’s gaze never left the chicken coop. Seeing Yelyu Lie holding her back, she slapped her thigh, "General, can’t you see that little brute pecking dear Bao? If it kills it, don’t blame this old woman!"
Inside the chicken coop, the rooster indeed launched a fierce attack on the hen.
Not just pecking, it also spread its wings, trying its best to fly onto the hen.
Yun Chunnuan noticed, her face turning dark, "Isn’t this mating? How could it peck it to death?"
As a child, she saw roosters bullying hens at her grandmother’s place, angrily throwing stones at them.
But her grandmother covered her eyes and led her away...
Growing older, she understood this was the roosters and hens breeding offspring.
Though hens can lay eggs on their own, only fertilized eggs can hatch chicks.
Her so-called ’arranged marriage’ meant letting the big rooster mate with two hens to get more eggs that could hatch chicks.
Unexpectedly, it was almost ruined by Aunt Jing.
Grandmother said when roosters and hens are breeding chicks, if frightened, they won’t produce chicks afterward.
In her time, if one chicken couldn’t breed, they’d simply swap it for another.
But now, how valuable these three chickens are!
Aunt Jing gave a sideways glance, unwilling to accept this, "What mating? Aren’t you a young lady? Aren’t you ashamed? No wonder the General follows your every command, you clearly use these sly tricks..."
"Enough!"
Aunt Jing’s words were interrupted by a harsh rebuke.
"Have you never considered this General?"
Aunt Jing flinched a bit but still stiffened her neck, discontentedly grumbling, "This General marries a wife and forgets how he grew up! The way he used to say he’d be filially obedient to this old woman!
I took it as golden advice, believing it wholeheartedly! Never thought you’d turn out for a..."
"Aunt Jing."
She was just speaking when suddenly a sweet soft voice interrupted.
Yun Chunnuan smiled sweetly, looking at the woman with a face full of horizontal flesh, "My husband’s eaten a few mouthfuls of milk from you, and you truly think of yourself as his mother? Are you unaware of who my husband’s father is?
Even if I call you mother, do you truly deserve it?"
The voice wasn’t loud, even soft.
Aunt Jing suddenly stiffened upon hearing it.
This couple, one by one, were so adept at making a fuss! She casually mentioned feeding milk, so what? She could drag King and the Central Plains Emperor into it!
Her daughter casually said ’wipe out all Central Plains people,’ so what? This young rascal lacked reason, directly deceived her Ayang into joining the army, almost leading to military punishment!
She thought, the General wasn’t like this before, all thanks to this vile woman teaching him!
The more Aunt Jing thought, the angrier she got, the stick in her hand wished to strike this pretty face right in front of her!
Spoil it, and see how she’ll seduce men with it again!
Yet dared not imagine.
She could throw a tantrum, throwing the stick to the ground, collapsing on the floor to cause a scene.
Just then, that stunningly beautiful face suddenly came close to her.
Whispering one sentence in her ear, Aunt Jing was scared still.
All her cries stuck in her throat, staring fearfully at the young girl, muttering ’you, you, you’ for a long time, unable to say another word.
"Aunt Jing, you have no business here now. If convenient, please hand over the yard’s keys."
The girl smiled sweetly, her fair tender palm turned upwards in front of the woman.
