Shen Xiaoyan opened her mouth, not knowing what to say, so she closed it again and threw herself into the wooden chair.
Seeing Shen Xiaoyan's lazy demeanor, Zheng Wei's eyes flashed with a doting smile. He then turned to Pan Shi and Bai Zhong and said, "No matter what, Xiaoyan and I are also from Baiyun Manor. We will do what we should do."
Shen Xiaoyan was a little surprised to hear Zheng Wei call her Xiaoyan. She turned her head and looked at Zheng Wei's profile. After a moment, her brain started to function again.
Did Zheng Wei not want to show affection in front of outsiders? Did he know that showing affection too much would lead to a bad ending?
Shen Xiaoyan was happily thinking about Zheng Wei's profile, completely unaware that Pan Shi and Bai Zhong were looking at her.
"Xiaoyan, Aunt is talking to you."
Zheng Wei thought Shen Xiaoyan was just habitually glancing at him, but after waiting for a long time, Pan Shi had already spoken to her, and she still hadn't reacted. He could only turn his head and say to Shen Xiaoyan in a low voice.
"Huh?" Shen Xiaoyan was startled by Zheng Wei's words, and then she looked at Pan Shi in surprise. "Aunt called me? What did you say?"
After asking, Shen Xiaoyan felt something was wrong. She smiled awkwardly and explained, "I was daydreaming just now, hehe. What did Aunt just say?"
Pan Shi looked at Shen Xiaoyan's face, which instantly turned red, and found it a little amusing.
They had been married for several years, and they already had three children. But Shen Xiaoyan was still like this, often shy, which looked very funny.
"I was just asking if what little Zheng just said is true?" Pan Shi said, suppressing a smile.
"Huh?"
Shen Xiaoyan was even more confused this time. What did Zheng Wei say just now?
She only remembered looking at Zheng Wei's profile and had no idea what he said.
"What did you say?" Helpless, Shen Xiaoyan had to turn her head and ask Zheng Wei in a low voice.
Zheng Wei found Shen Xiaoyan's confused and embarrassed look incredibly amusing. He dared not show any of it on his face.
Otherwise, after Pan Shi and Bai Zhong left, Shen Xiaoyan would definitely be enraged and come to settle accounts with him. Worse still, he feared Shen Xiaoyan would ignore him.
"We will help the village overcome this snow disaster, but it doesn't mean they can stay in our house."
After hearing Zheng Wei's words, Shen Xiaoyan became even more depressed.
These words were as good as saying nothing.
Even facing Pan Shi's hopeful gaze, Shen Xiaoyan still smiled and nodded, saying, "Yes, it's true. We are all people of Baiyun Manor. When the villagers encounter difficulties, we naturally have to lend a helping hand."
Shen Xiaoyan's words were not entirely insincere. Although her relationship with the villagers was not good, and she didn't even know many of them.
But, after all, these people had never done anything to harm her.
Even if she helped, it couldn't be in the way Bai Yonggui suggested.
Otherwise, these people would only attribute the help to Bai Yonggui and forget who actually gave it to them.
Seeing Shen Xiaoyan's affirmative answer, Pan Shi finally felt relieved.
She disliked Bai Yonggui's approach, but she also hoped that Shen Xiaoyan would extend a hand to the villagers, either for her sake or for the sake of being a fellow villager.
"Aunt, don't you know what kind of person I am?" Shen Xiaoyan said with a wry smile.
Pan Shi also smiled when she heard this. She knew that Shen Xiaoyan was just as she imagined.
"Then what are your plans? I think the village head might say something arbitrary in front of the elders of the clan. If it gets out, it won't be good for you," Bai Zhong said.
Shen Xiaoyan and Zheng Wei both nodded solemnly.
A person's character can only be known when their own interests are involved.
Their usual behavior cannot be used as a standard to judge whether a person is good or bad.
"Don't worry about him. You will know our specific plans tomorrow," Shen Xiaoyan said with a smile.
Pan Shi and Bai Zhong saw that Shen Xiaoyan spoke with no pretense and seemed confident, so they put their minds at ease for the time being.
"Aunt believes you," Pan Shi said.
After Pan Shi finished speaking, they all laughed together.
At noon, Shen Xiaoyan kept Pan Shi and the other three for lunch before letting them leave.
After they left, Shen Xiaoyan and the others sat down to discuss how to help the villagers.
"What do you think?" Yizhixie asked Shen Xiaoyan after a long period of contemplation.
Shen Xiaoyan shook her head. "I don't have any ideas. Otherwise, I wouldn't have asked you all to come and discuss it."
Yizhixie couldn't help but cover his forehead upon hearing this answer.
He knew that based on his understanding of Shen Xiaoyan, if she truly had a plan and it was already mature, she wouldn't be sitting here discussing it with them.
"Then how do you want us to proceed?" Yizhixie rephrased the question.
"Brother Xiaoxie, aren't you asking the obvious? Is your question any different from the previous one?" Namu Zhong said, giving Yizhixie a big eye-roll.
"If you don't understand, don't speak rashly," Yizhixie said with a smile.
"What did you say?" Namu Zhong narrowed her eyes, and her voice turned a little cold. Had she not disciplined him for a few days, and his boldness had grown? Was he prepared to challenge her?
"Uh, Mu Zhong," Yizhixie said sheepishly, looking at Namu Zhong with an apologetic expression, though he still tried to maintain some dignity. "Aren't we discussing important matters? I just misspoke. You are magnanimous and don't hold grudges against me. You know, I have a bad memory. Oh, yes, what did I say just now..."
By the end, Yizhixie had a look of bewilderment, as if he truly didn't know what had just happened.
"We were just discussing the issue of how to provide relief to the villagers," Namu Zhong said indifferently.
"Oh, oh, oh, I remember now. Yes, we were discussing this issue just now," Yizhixie said, as if suddenly enlightened.
"We also talked about other things, like what came later. You remember all of this, but you can't possibly remember nothing else, can you?" Namu Zhong asked coolly.
Looking at Namu Zhong's expression and recalling her previous words, Yizhixie realized that Namu Zhong had dug a pit for him to fall into.
Shen Xiaoyan listened to their conversation and all she wanted to say to Namu Zhong at that moment was two words: "Strategy."
It was truly full of strategy.
Shen Xiaoyan wanted to see Yizhixie make a fool of himself, because she really couldn't imagine how Yizhixie would answer.
But unexpectedly, Yizhixie smiled brightly at Namu Zhong and said, "I have selective, intermittent amnesia."
"What?" Namu Zhong frowned at Yizhixie. She didn't understand what Yizhixie meant.
"Pfft..."
Namu Zhong hadn't understood Yizhixie's meaning yet, but Shen Xiaoyan had already understood.