Reborn Lady - Chapter 23

After Yin Hui returned to Chengxin Hall, she first went to the room to see Xiao Heng. 

Xiao Heng had just finished a meal and fell asleep. He was wearing a small gown with a red background and black borders. He had a chubby face, and his two small arms were raised up. 

Yin Hui took out a thick stack of ten thousand taels her grandfather gave her. 

“Look at how kind your great-grandfather is to you. He has given you so much silver at such an age. You have to respect him when you grow up,” Yin Hui muttered to the sleeping Heng.

She could guarantee that among the four-month-old children in Pingcheng, her son must be the richest. 

It was a pity that he didn’t  know his family background, he just slept soundly. 

Yin Hui was also sleepy looking at it, and didn’t care whether he heard it or not. She wiped her hands and face, and lay down next to her son.

King Yan came back early from the court that day. When Eunuch Hai was serving him to change his regular clothes, he smiled and said, “My lord, the third lady has just returned home today. She brought back a box of sea bass. Should I let the kitchen make it for tonight?” 

King Yan said, “The Yin family sent it, so Ben Wang can enjoy the blessings.” 

Hai Gonggong: “That’s because you are thrifty, and can’t bear to waste money, otherwise you could eat the delicacies of the world.” 

Yan Wang just said so casually, and didn’t really mean to dislike the Yin family. After changing his clothes, he said, “Just steam the fish. The weather has been dry recently, so make some light food.” 

Eunuch Hai asked another eunuch to pass on the message. 

King Yan ate dinner alone, and the sky just got dark after eating. After he finished, he took Eunuch Shanghai to the west side. 

All the people living there were his wives and concubines. While walking on the road, King Yan still wanted to go to Concubine Guo, but was distracted by other thoughts. When he came back to his senses, he had already arrived at Madam Wen’s Jinghao Hall nearby. 

Mrs. Wen: …

King Yan hesitated for a moment.

Mrs. Wen was the first concubine he took after coming to Yandi. When he first came to Pingcheng, he was relatively new to everything in Pingcheng. He often went to patrol the streets in modest clothes. He happened to pass by the door of Wen’s house that day, and a girl in a green shirt and white skirt suddenly opened the door to come out. Seeing him, the startled girl immediately shrank, King Yan couldn’t forget that beautiful face and surprised and shy eyes. After asking someone to inquire about it, he brought Wen Shi into the mansion. 

It was a pity that although Mrs. Wen was beautiful, she had too little experience, and the two of them were not speculative. After the initial novelty faded, King Yan’s interest in Mrs. Wen also faded. With five wives and concubines, King Yan favored Mrs. Wen the least number of times . 

Mrs. Wen just finished dinner. Because the sea bass was too expensive, it was the first time for Jinghao Hall’s chef to deal with such a good ingredient, so he hesitated to do it. First, he took an ordinary fish and tried it according to Yin Hui’s recipe, and only when he found that the taste was very good did the cook gain confidence, and made a grilled fish with two vegetarian dishes, and brought it to Mrs. Wen. 

The grilled fish was so delicious, Mrs. Wen barely touched the two vegetarian dishes, and ate the two-foot-long fish by herself. 

After eating too much, Mrs. Wen walked back and forth in the yard, and when she looked up, she saw King Yan whom she hadn’t seen for a long time. 

“My lord,” Mrs. Wen greeted him. 

King Yan stopped and looked at her carefully, and saw that her face was red, which added a bit of charm to the original beauty. 

“You look good,” Yan Wang held Mrs. Wen’s hand and walked inside side by side. 

Mrs. Wen touched her face with the other hand, feeling very annoyed in her heart. If she had known that the prince was back, she would not have eaten so much. 

It wasn’t long before dinner was removed. When King Yan stepped into the hall, he could smell the aroma of grilled fish, and it was even more fragrant than any fish he had eaten before. 

He looked at Mrs. Wen’s face again, and suddenly understood where her good looks came from. 

“I heard that the third daughter-in-law sent a sea fish to each room. The cook here is really good at cooking and doesn’t waste good things,” King Yan smelled the lingering fragrance, and said what he thought. 　　

Mrs. Wen thought the prince was teasing her for being greedy, so she blushed even more, and said indiscriminately, “Yes, the third daughter-in-law showed me how to make it. It’s really delicious. I didn’t know that the prince was coming. Otherwise, I would have waited for you to eat.” 

Yan Wang sat on the chair and said strangely, “The third daughter-in-law showed you? How did she do it?” 

Mrs. Wen couldn’t remember it all at once, and went to the inner room to take her daughter-in-law’s recipe and handed it to King Yan for review. 

Seeing his third daughter-in-law’s handwriting, King Yan nodded in approval. He did not expect her, who usually looked shy, to have such good handwriting. 

After carefully reading the recipe, King Yan handed it to Eunuch Hai. 

Mrs. Wen was so in awe of her husband that she didn’t think it mattered that the paper was taken away by him. 

King Yan guessed that she needed time to digest, and continued to chat, “Did you give the third daughter-in-law a gift to take to Mr. Yin when she went back to visit her relatives today?” 

It could only be done by Mrs. Wen, and asking her to give a gift to Mr. Yin was to think too highly of the Yin family. 

Mrs. Wen still understood it, and explained the ginseng she arranged and the picture of autumn chrysanthemums that Mr. Yin gave back. 

When King Yan wanted to see it, Mrs. Wen took it out obediently.