Tao Lengshuang turned her head, surprised and confused, and looked him up and down. "Are you burning up?"
Saying that, she reached out and touched his forehead. "You don't have a fever. Why are you talking nonsense?"
Mo Lingxi: "...I'm not talking nonsense, I'm being very serious about this."
Tao Lengshuang gave a perfunctory "oh" and continued to sort the boxes. She didn't believe Mo Lingxi's nonsense.
Mo Lingxi felt a bit helpless and said word by word, "I am truly prepared to give you all my assets."
"Thank you, but I don't need it."
These few old clothes of Xiao Feng could still be worn, so she would give them to Aunt Shen the Second. These unusable things could also be given to Aunt Shen the Second.
After selling more medicinal pills, she would buy some things for the family.
This house now completely belonged to her, so she had to buy some things properly.
Mo Lingxi did not expect that neither of these methods would work. He looked at Tao Lengshuang for a moment, pondered for a while, looked at her again, and pondered for a while more...
"What are you looking at?" Tao Lengshuang frowned and glared at him. "You're not sleeping at night. What are you messing around for?"
Mo Lingxi's mouth slipped when he heard this. "It's just that I have too much energy, and you won't let me vent."
Tao Lengshuang was dumbfounded. "...Did you take the wrong medicine? I'm telling you, if you dare to do anything, I'll make you a eunuch for the rest of your life."
Saying that, she made a fierce scissor-like gesture.
Mo Lingxi instinctively clenched his legs, feeling a sharp pain in his groin. "Tao Lengshuang, I'm a normal man, and you're my wife. You can't do this."
Tao Lengshuang put on a sour face and said sarcastically, "Look at what young master Mo is saying. You have a bestowed marriage. If you have anything, go find your real wife, don't come to me."
As soon as Mo Lingxi heard this, he knew Tao Lengshuang was still angry. The more he said now, the more wrong he would be. It was better to go to sleep.
Therefore, he wrapped himself in the quilt and lay down to sleep.
Tao Lengshuang snorted, "Little brat, I still can't handle you."
After tidying up her things, she also lay down to rest, but then she heard Mo Lingxi say something.
"Tao Lengshuang, you have to give me a chance."
Tao Lengshuang did not answer him. She turned over and faced away from him.
Mo Lingxi understood her meaning and thought that he had to resolve the bestowed marriage issue as soon as possible, and such a thing should not happen again in the future.
...
The next day, in the morning.
Because she had to resolve the bestowed marriage issue, Mo Lingxi did not stay until the afternoon. He left early in the wind and snow.
This time, Tao Lengshuang did not see him off. Only Xiao Feng saw his father to the main entrance and watched him disappear into the wind and snow.
Tao Lengshuang saw Xiao Feng return to the room and gently brushed the snow off him. "Go play."
Xiao Feng didn't go to play. He hummed, "Is mother still angry with father? Actually, father also has his own difficulties."
Tao Lengshuang lightly tapped the tip of his nose, finding it quite amusing. "What do you know about difficulties as a child?"
Xiao Feng nodded his little head heavily and said softly, "I know. It's like when Xiao Feng encounters the problem of whether to eat candy first or cake first, or a difficult problem."
Tao Lengshuang pursed her lips and smiled, without any mockery. "This is indeed a big problem, but your father's problem is much more difficult than this."
"Is father's problem related to mother?"
"It is very related. With this matter, mother will definitely separate from father."
As soon as Xiao Feng heard this, his eyes immediately turned red, and he was on the verge of tears. He sniffled, "Then it really is a very, very big problem. It's no wonder mother is so angry with father."
"But this proves that mother cares about father. Before, mother didn't care about father, so she wouldn't care what happened to father, nor would she be angry."
Listening to his babbling, Tao Lengshuang was stunned for a moment. She cared about Mo Lingxi!?
"Mother, mother, are you listening to Xiao Feng?" Xiao Feng puffed out his cheeks, huffily waving his hand in front of her.
Tao Lengshuang came back to her senses, picked him up, and sat him on her lap. "Sorry, sorry, mother was thinking about something just now. Did Xiao Feng say anything to mother?"
The easily appeased Xiao Feng expressed his forgiveness. "Mother, you have your difficulties, Xiao Feng has his difficulties, and father also has his difficulties. Why doesn't mother give father a chance? Perhaps father can solve it well."
Tao Lengshuang sighed in her heart, with a faint sorrow in her eyes. If the bestowed marriage issue were so easy to resolve, she wouldn't be so worried.
This matter could not be explained to Xiao Feng. He was still too young to truly understand such things.
"Doctor."
At this moment, a dark guard, covered in wind and snow, stood at the doorway and bowed. "I have something important to tell the doctor."
Tao Lengshuang invited him in to sit and talk, and poured him a bowl of warm water. "What is the important matter?"
The dark guard thanked her, finished the water in one gulp, and said with a slightly quickened pace, "Doctor, the business of the medicinal pills can't go on..."
According to him, the medicinal pill business was originally good, but the He family had set their sights on the medicinal pill business and had snatched away all of Tao Lengshuang's customers within two days.
The He family sold medicinal pills at a much lower price, without any limit. Moreover, the He family was a royal merchant, with a favored concubine in the palace supporting them, explicitly forbidding anyone from buying Tao Lengshuang's medicinal pills.
Compared to the He family, Tao Lengshuang, who did not use her real name or have any reputation, was naturally abandoned.
"Doctor, the master already knows about this and will find a way to resolve it."
Tao Lengshuang indicated that Mo Lingxi did not need to trouble himself. "If one He family is resolved, there will be a second, a third... To put it bluntly, it's because I have no power and no influence that anyone dares to step on me."
This world was like this. Those with power and influence could do whatever they wanted, while those without power and influence found it difficult to do anything.
The dark guard said, "Doctor, the He family dares to act this way only because of the favored concubine in the palace. This matter is not difficult to resolve, as there is more than one daughter of the He family in the palace."
How could Tao Lengshuang not know these things? But she didn't want to trouble Mo Lingxi. Firstly, Mo Lingxi himself faced many troubles and dangers. Secondly, the current situation was not good, and a single move could affect the whole situation.
"You tell Mo Lingxi that I will find a way to resolve this matter and that he should not intervene. If I really can't sell medicinal pills, I also have other ways to make money."
Fortunately, she had already made a sum of money through medicinal pills, so at least for a period of time in the future, she would not be too worried.
However, she needed to find a way to make money as soon as possible and not just live off her savings.
Tao Lengshuang was worried about how to make money. In this era, there were refugees everywhere, and many people didn't even have a mouthful of food. Where would they have the money to buy other things?
Wealthy families had their own channels to buy all sorts of good things and would not buy things from strangers for no reason. Moreover, she couldn't always trouble Mo Lingxi.
She was stumped by the difficulty of making money once again.
As Tao Lengshuang was thinking hard about making money, Mo Lingxi was also thinking about how to help her resolve the He family issue, when he learned that someone had come to see him.