A Time-Traveling Mishap: I Became an Ancient Nobleman

Chapter 56 Miss Jiang is joking.

As soon as he arrived at the carriage, Jiang Mingyun had some mischievous thoughts again.

"Oh dear, this is my first time visiting. Although things didn't go very well, shouldn't I leave some gifts for that old lady?"

Jiang Xinyi was now only thinking about getting her two grandchildren away as quickly as possible.

If she still didn't realize they were there to cause trouble by this point, then she had lived all these years in vain.

"No need, she won't mind." Jiang Xinyi had a headache.

Jiang Mingyun was not happy about it. "Sister Xinyi, please come back with me. I must bring a gift. Otherwise, if my mother finds out, she will not let me off the hook."

Jiang Xinyi rubbed her head and reminded her, "Alright, alright, I'll go back with you to put down the gift and then we'll leave. But you can't keep talking nonsense."

"How could I? I have always respected my elders. If my words were inappropriate, it is the elders' fault."

"What kind of logic is that? Fine, I can't argue with you. If you're going, then go quickly. I really have something to take care of back home."

Jiang Mingyun gave Zhou Hanzhang a wink, and Zhou Hanzhang immediately understood and stepped into the courtyard first.

Just as they reached the door, they saw Jia Yi smash a cup towards the doorway. "What is that?!"

Jiang Mingyun immediately pulled Jiang Xinyi and hid behind Zhou Hanzhang.

Zhou Hanzhang: ...

She was scared too.

But since she was a man, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and step forward, "Young Master Jia, why are you so angry?"

When the Jia family mother and son saw the group of people who had left but returned, they were extremely embarrassed.

Grandmother Jia quickly stepped forward and picked up the broken cups on the ground.

Jia Yi quickly explained, "I specially went to buy this set of cups, but who knew my mother said they were counterfeit. I got angry and couldn't control myself. I didn't scare you, did I?"

Jiang Mingyun then pulled Jiang Xinyi out from behind Zhou Hanzhang, saying, "Anyone who didn't know better would think that Young Master Jia was dissatisfied with us."

"Miss Jiang is joking."

"That would be great. I was just thinking that it wouldn't be good to come empty-handed on my first visit."

Jiang Mingyun took out her money bag and poured it directly onto their table, spilling out a lot of silver and two silver notes.

"We didn't have time to prepare gifts, so please use this money to buy some things yourselves as a gift for my brother Hanzhang and me on our first visit."

Grandmother Jia looked at the silver and banknotes on the table. She didn't even bother to clean up the cups. She wanted to go over and put the silver away and take a look at the face value of the banknotes.

Seeing her like this, Jiang Mingyun thought for a moment and took the two silver notes back from the table. "I made a mistake with these silver notes. They are not for you."

Grandmother Jia was taken aback, unsure how to react.

Jiang Xinyi had just felt somewhat helpless, but now her mind was really racing, and all she wanted to do was leave as soon as possible.

"Now that we've given you the money, can we leave?"

"Let's go, let's go quickly." Jiang Mingyun pulled Jiang Xinyi and Zhou Hanzhang along, not lingering for even a moment longer.

After they had completely left, Jia Yi finally lost his temper and swept the silver coins off the table, shouting, "This is outrageous!"

Grandmother Jia was anxious and slapped him, "Are you trying to kill me? This is money!"

Then he immediately squatted down and picked up the silver from the ground.

After she picked up all the silver coins, she carefully counted them on the table and found that although they were in small pieces, they added up to nearly five taels of silver (approximately equivalent to modern yuan). She immediately beamed with joy.

"You know what, although this little harlot speaks rudely, she's quite generous with her money."

Grandmother Jia habitually put one of the silver coins to her mouth and bit it, then wiped it on her clothes and carefully wrapped it in a piece of white cloth.

"You advised me to be more patient, and you too, you should spend more time with this little harlot. By the way, isn't she engaged yet?"

"How would I know?!" Jia Yi said impatiently.

"If possible, we should marry her too, and our family will be rich and powerful. This little harlot is much more generous than Jiang Xinyi. When Jiang Xinyi first met me, she only gave me something, a sachet she embroidered herself. Who cares about those things?"

"You didn't see it just now, but the silver notes that the little prostitute took back seemed to have a face value of one hundred strings (one string is approximately equal to 1.25 taels, so one hundred strings is roughly equivalent to more than 600,000 yuan in modern terms)."

Grandmother Jia put away the wrapped silver, saying, "It's obvious how much the family dotes on her, that she, a woman, carries so much money with her when she goes out."

Grandmother Jia's eyes lit up. "See if you can marry her along with the other woman. If not, just dump Jiang Xinyi. Although she speaks harshly, she dresses better than Jiang Xinyi, so her dowry should be more than that Jiang's."

Jia Yi said irritably, "Mother, do you really think your son is a reincarnation of Pan An? I only managed to get close to Jiang Xinyi after a lot of effort."

I almost died trying to save her back then, and I still haven't fully recovered and occasionally feel unwell.

"Forget about Jiang Mingyun. Leaving aside her extremely twisted brother, I don't even dare to think about her relationship with Zhou Hanzhang."

"Zhou Hanzhang?" Grandmother Jia didn't understand.

"It's that extremely handsome man from earlier, the one Jiang Xinyi called 'brother.' He's a descendant of the royal family, personally bestowed the title of 'Little Prince' by the current Emperor. Moreover, it's said that he's incredibly intelligent, almost supernatural. I was terrified just from one glance from him. If he had noticed anything amiss, I wouldn't have been able to marry Jiang Mingyun, let alone Jiang Xinyi."

Upon hearing Jia Yi's words, Grandmother Jia hesitated and asked with some concern, "Then... he didn't notice anything just now, did he?"

"How would I know? I still need to figure out a way to prevent Xinyi from having too much contact with him before the wedding."

“Can my beloved grandson and daughter-in-law still be taken care of? Now that Cui Niang is gone, I have to do all the work. My old bones can hardly take it anymore.”

"Do you think I don't want to? Let's talk about it after we get married. I don't want anything to go wrong in the middle."

"Then why don't you ask that Jiang guy to arrange two maids for me? Anyway, she'll be marrying into the family sooner or later."

Jia Yi nodded. "I'll go and discuss it with her."

Zhou Hanzhang thought he should take Jiang Xinyi home first, but Jiang Xinyi refused, saying, "You rarely come home, so don't take me. Go home and see Aunt Zhou first."

Zhou Hanzhang had no choice but to give up, then looked at Jiang Mingyun and asked, "Are you still coming back with me?"

"Go ahead, aren't we still discussing how to expose Jia Yi's true colors?"

Zhou Hanzhang sighed. Oh well, he couldn't shake him off.

Madam Zhou was taken aback when she saw Zhou Hanzhang return. "Zhang'er, why are you back? Did something happen?"

It's no wonder Mrs. Zhou was worried; what family's child would run home after only two days of school?

"I have some things to take care of, don't worry, I've asked the dean for leave."

Mrs. Zhou was finally relieved.

"Hello, Aunt Zhou." Jiang Mingyun stepped out from behind Zhou Hanzhang and bowed to Madam Zhou.

Madam Zhou looked at Zhou Hanzhang with a questioning look in her eyes, "Why did you bring this guy back?"

Zhou Hanzhang responded with her eyes, "She insists on following me, what can I do?"

You've already spoken to their family, right? Do they know? Mrs. Zhou was very worried.

Of course, I'm not stupid.