Everyone Wants to Pamper the Lucky Daughter

Chapter 30: Buying a Mansion

Translator: Vicky_

“Fine. What do you want to eat?” Su Hu naturally did as she wished.

“Steamed eggs, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, stewed tofu with cabbage, and millet congee.”

Considering that the baby could not eat greasy food because of his weak intestines, Su Qingluo ordered bland vegetarian dishes.

“How about some braised pork?”

Su Hu thought the dishes were too vegetarian, which was not conducive to the growth of the little child.

“It’s okay to have some.”

Su Qingluo secretly thought she would eat the pork alone and not let the baby see it.

“Okay, I will bring it to you.” Su Hu contentedly nodded and walked toward the stairs with broad steps.

After watching her father go past the corner, Su Qingluo quietly closed the door. But, before she could turn back, the baby’s soft and aggrieved voice came behind her. “Sister, I also want to eat meat.”

Su Qingluo. “…”

What a torment of a child!

Couldn’t he sleep a little longer?

The following day, Su Hu and Xiu’e went to the medical center opposite the inn to visit the unconscious woman.

The woman had a narrow escape from death. She had gotten a fever in the middle of the night, but thankfully, the doctor had noticed it in time. After taking medicine, she passed the critical period.

The doctor was very relieved to see Su Hu and his wife and vowed to guarantee that the woman would wake up in three days.

Hearing this, the couple was so delighted that they advanced several days’ fees for the doctor and medicine and left the medical center. Then they went to an intermediary agency with the children to find out if there was a suitable house in the county for sale.

The baby naturally followed them, clinging to Qingluo all the way, and insisted that she hold him.

When they arrived at the intermediary agency, they received excellent care. The agency sent someone to show them around the county all morning and recommended two moderately priced houses.

The two houses had their advantages and disadvantages. The one with the lower price was too far from Minshui College, and the environment was poorer.

The one with the higher price was near Minshui College—just a few hundred meters from the college gate—with a spacious courtyard and newer houses.

However, 3,500 taels of silver far exceeded the couple’s budget.

The children liked the new mansion near the college. Su Qingluo was even coaxing the couple to buy it.

As a result, the couple gritted their teeth and paid the deposit, intending to sell pearls at the Treasure Gathering Hall first and then come back tomorrow to pay for the rest of the house.

They discussed it with the bartender, who agreed readily and couldn’t stop smiling from ear to ear at the thought of a new deal.

In the backyard of the Treasure Gathering Hall, the young master stood in front of the window with a depressed face and kept complaining to the old housekeeper.

“The Empress has lost her mind, favoring the Honorary Baron without limits. And now she orders us to customize the same robe style for him to attend the feast of her fortieth birthday.”

“The Imperial Household Department was urging us to send the pearls. Why did it have to be now that there was a typhoon in the East Sea? Pearl farming has suffered heavy losses, and the production is less than one-tenth of previous years. We can’t even acquire many ordinary pearls, let alone large ones.”

“Hey, young master, keep your voice down. Don’t let anyone hear you.”

The old housekeeper saw his excitement, closed the door and windows, and gently reminded him, “To disagree with the Empress is a big crime. You could be beheaded.”

“Of course, I know that, but I just can’t help it!”

The young master was still inflamed with passion, and he had to vent it out. “The specifications of the royal merchants’ annual tribute to the Imperial Household Department are customized, but the Empress wants to make an extra robe for her lover on a whim. How dare the Imperial Household Department disobey the Empress? So they take it out on us, the merchants.

“Forcing us to pay twice as much tribute as in previous years before her birthday. Otherwise, they will revoke our qualifications as imperial merchants. Father was so anxious in the past two days that his old illness recurred. He almost vomited blood!”

“The Empress favors the Honorary Baron, and it’s not for a year or two. So it’s useless to complain.”