After I awakened my inner voice, I became the treasure of my family.

Chapter 40 An Accidental Encounter with Su Qianqian

Seeing this, Li Tingxue rolled her eyes at Shen Xiuyan without hesitation, chuckled, a hint of mockery in her eyes, and whispered in his ear:

"Hmph, aren't you getting ahead of yourself? Don't forget, you yourself have a whole bunch of messy, unresolved issues to deal with, and you're here to laugh at other people's misfortunes?"

Upon hearing Li Tingxue's words, the hint of schadenfreude that had just appeared on Shen Xiuyan's face immediately vanished.

Shen Xiuyan sighed helplessly, muttering to himself, "Sigh! Yes, I still haven't completely resolved Situ Junwen's matter, and it seems... it's really giving me a headache!"

It wasn't that Shen Xiuyan was inactive, but rather that the Prince of Anyang's mansion was not to be trifled with. He had to be careful in his actions and not let the father and son notice his movements.

Otherwise, he was genuinely worried that Situ Junwen and his son might eventually resort to desperate measures and launch a final, frantic counterattack, doing something that would result in mutual destruction and a lose-lose situation.

This is a real problem, since he has a wife, children and elderly parents to take care of, and he really doesn't dare to take a risky gamble!

"Ah-"

"Ah-"

"Ah-"

Just then, Shen Xiujin, who was sitting at his desk intently looking through the account books, suddenly sneezed three times in a row.

He stopped what he was doing, reached out his right hand and gently rubbed his sore nose, muttering to himself, "Who must be talking about me behind my back again?"

As the end of each month approaches, Shen Xiujin, as usual, has to check the accounts. So lately, he has been spending time almost every day carefully checking every single account.

Just then, the shopkeeper, who had just delivered a pot of hot tea to Shen Xiujin, quickly fled and instructed the steward to go to Xu's Meat Pie Shop in the south of the city to buy a serving of crispy meat pie for the Second Master.

The manager felt a headache coming on, but he couldn't disobey the shopkeeper, so he could only quickly nod in agreement.

It's really strange, but normally these kinds of errand-running tasks are handled by the other employees in the shop.

But who would have thought that at this very moment today, everyone seems unusually busy?

And so, the errand-running job naturally fell to Su Qianqian, who was helping out at the shop.

"Huh? They're actually asking me to go?"

When Su Qianqian heard the manager call her name and ask her to buy meat pies, she was completely stunned. Her big eyes widened in disbelief.

She couldn't help but mutter to herself: I'm just someone who came here temporarily to do a few days of short-term work, how could it be my turn to do this?

However, the person in charge completely ignored Su Qianqian's surprise and confusion. He glanced at Su Qianqian out of the corner of his eye, a hint of impatience on his face.

He then urged in a rather curt tone, a hint of impatience on his face, "..."

"Yes, I'm talking about you! Do I have to repeat myself? Can't you see that everyone else is so busy they're practically running out of space?"

Hurry up and stop dawdling! Our employers are eagerly waiting for their meat pies!

"Manager, but... but this isn't my job, is it?"

The manager glared at Su Qianqian and snorted coldly, "What do you mean 'yours' and 'mine'? Once you're in our shop, you have to do all kinds of work. Believe me or not, I can fire you right now."

Upon hearing the steward's threatening words, Su Qianqian immediately dared not utter another sound.

She made such a fool of herself in front of the second young master yesterday, it was so embarrassing that she didn't want to appear in front of him for the next few days. So she found a temporary helper. She couldn't lose this job, otherwise she would really have to sleep on the streets.

With no other option, Su Qianqian left the jewelry shop on an empty stomach and quickly headed towards the south of the city.

The manager breathed a sigh of relief after she left.

Oh dear! Second Master always gets very angry when he looks at the account books, which scares everyone away from provoking him at that time.

But for some reason, whenever he ate Xu Ji's meat pie from Nancheng, his mood would improve a little. However, the old man still wouldn't take the initiative to approach her. Otherwise, would she have the chance to curry favor with her master? She was dreaming!

It took Su Qianqian half an hour to reach Xu's Meat Pie Shop. Looking at the golden, crispy, and fragrant meat pies, she felt even hungrier.

Five coins per piece. Just as she was about to take out the money to buy meat pies, she forgot that she had rushed to buy meat pies and forgotten to ask the manager for money.

Su Qianqian touched the copper coins on her body and sighed silently. Her pockets were so empty that they were practically smoking, with only the jingling of coins. Reluctantly, she took them out and carefully counted them twice, but she still only had ten.

Alas! The poverty I experienced during my time in the world not only limited my imagination but also my mouth.

She was so poor that all she had left was the northwest wind, and at this moment she was so hungry that she couldn't even be bothered to make a sound.

Su Qianqian gritted her teeth, waved her hand, and with not a single copper coin left, generously bought two meat pies. After all, she was going to give them to the man she liked, so she was quite generous.

But the aroma of meat made her even hungrier! Damn ancient times, it's so hard for her to gain weight now!

Su Qianqian didn't even dare to take a deep breath right now, afraid that the meat pie smelled too good and she would secretly eat it.

It was quite a coincidence that Su Qianqian saw the carriage from the Marquis of Xuanhua's residence pass by her right after she finished buying the meat pies.

However, the carriage stopped the next second, and a voice came from inside.

"Oh my, what a coincidence! Su Qianqian, what are you doing here?"

Jiang Mianmian saw Su Qianqian on the street from the car. It wasn't because she was pretty, but because she was so dazzling. The golden light on her head was hard to ignore.

Wow, what a coincidence! She came out to try her luck, but she didn't expect to run into Su Qianqian so soon after leaving home. What an incredible coincidence!

Haha... We can finally get our juicy gossip today!

Su Qianqian was stunned for a moment. When she saw that it was Jiang Mianmian, she was taken aback. Then her face turned red. She chuckled twice and quickly said, "Madam... hello?"

She never expected that going out to buy a meat pie would lead to running into the old lady, and that she would be seen by her. Now she can forget about getting a job at the Marquis's mansion. What a terrible fate!