Tao Lengshuang and the other two looked at Xiao Feng in surprise. Tao Lengshuang, in particular, was astonished, "Xiao Feng, why don't you want it? Your father is very wealthy."
"With your father's businesses, you'll be able to eat well and live comfortably, and never worry about your livelihood again."
Xiao Feng pouted dismissively, "I can earn money to support myself and Mother. I don't want Father's businesses."
Tao Lengshuang and the other two exchanged glances. Tao Lengshuang asked, confused, "Xiao Feng, why don't you want it?"
Xiao Feng explained in a childish voice, "If I take Father's businesses, I'll have to work for him. Moreover, Father will have other children, and I don't want to fight with them."
Tao Lengshuang and Madam Sheng: "..." Where did this child learn such strange things?
Mo Lingxi pinched his brow and explained weakly, "Xiao Feng, if Father truly has other children, they would be born to your mother."
Xiao Feng looked at his father with disbelief, then poked him in the chest, "Father hasn't even appeased Mother, yet he's thinking of having more siblings with Mother. He's shameless."
Tao Lengshuang and Madam Sheng chuckled, neither of them reprimanding Xiao Feng. In many ways, Xiao Feng was right.
Mo Lingxi felt a pang in his chest. This was truly his good son, always striking at his father's heart.
"...Xiao Feng, Father will win over your mother soon."
Xiao Feng grumbled, "How soon is 'soon' according to Father? It's been so long, and Father can't even hold Mother's hand. What's there to talk about having more siblings for Xiao Feng? Xiao Feng won't be fooled anymore."
Hearing this, Mo Lingxi looked at Tao Lengshuang mournfully, "See? Even the child knows you're not good to me. Can't you be a little nicer to me?"
Tao Lengshuang replied indifferently, "Many people want to be nice to Prince Mingrui. You can find those people."
"I only want you!" Mo Lingxi quickly declared, "Just be a little nicer to me, and Xiao Feng won't say these things."
Xiao Feng nodded repeatedly.
Tao Lengshuang smiled and lightly tapped his forehead, then glanced sideways at Mo Lingxi, "Are you implying that you think I'm usually very bad to you?"
Mo Lingxi immediately tensed up, "Not at all. You're very good to me usually. I just... want you to be even better."
Tao Lengshuang said she would study how to be better to him when she had time.
"Coincidentally, I have a lot of good medicinal herbs here. They'll surely make you comfortable."
Mo Lingxi repeatedly declined, "How can I trouble you?"
Tao Lengshuang snorted and didn't pursue the topic further. "Godmother, I plan to go to the fields to check the situation early so I can start planting soon."
Madam Sheng was a little worried, "Zhou Wenxing is watching now. Why don't you arrange for someone to go? You don't understand farming, do you?"
Mo Lingxi immediately stated that he would arrange for professional personnel to go. "The sweet potatoes planted earlier have made some progress. It will be better for this group of people to go."
Tao Lengshuang was well aware of her lack of knowledge in agriculture and entrusted the matter to Mo Lingxi. "We need to guard against people like Zhou Wenxing harming the sweet potatoes. This batch of sweet potatoes is very important, as it relates to whether they can be widely cultivated in the future."
Mo Lingxi had considered all of this and had made preparations, assuring Tao Lengshuang not to worry. "If Zhou Wenxing and the others tamper with it, it will actually give us an opportunity."
Tao Lengshuang understood but felt sorry for the sweet potatoes. Fortunately, she had plenty of sweet potatoes in her spatial medicinal garden.
"Madam." Just then, a wet nurse walked in and curtsied with a smile, "Madam, many ladies and young ladies want to buy the beauty and youth-enhancing pills from the eldest young lady."
"Madam, you don't know, but some ladies and young ladies who have used the pills prepared by the eldest young lady have seen their complexions improve significantly. Now, everyone wants to buy them."
Madam Sheng was very proud upon hearing this, "The pills Lengshuang prepares are truly good. I found my skin improved after taking them."
"The ladies and young ladies in this circle care most about their appearance. To have a good appearance and stay younger, they are willing to spend large sums of money."
Tao Lengshuang was also aware of this. As the saying goes, it's easiest to earn money from women and children, which was why she was willing to sell pills back then.
Moreover, with this good business now, she wouldn't have to worry about her future livelihood.
Tao Lengshuang's beauty and youth-enhancing pills were favored by many ladies and young ladies, and even some handsome young gentlemen were using them, which made Sheng Li and others extremely unbalanced.
"What pills prepared by Tao Lengshuang? I think these pills were prepared by someone else, and Tao Lengshuang stole them to gain a good reputation," Sheng Li said mockingly, full of jealousy.
Luo Yang's eyes rolled, and she had a good plan. "Madam is absolutely right. Tao Lengshuang is just a village girl. What could she possibly understand? She might understand how to eat chicken."
"Madam, taking too many of these pills can be dangerous, don't you think?"
Sheng Li was not stupid. Upon hearing this, she came up with a malicious plan. "You're right, taking too many of these pills can cause facial damage."
This time, she was determined to ruin Tao Lengshuang's reputation and leave her no chance to recover.
Luo Yang smiled gently, "Madam, I heard that Tao Lengshuang often goes out alone recently. It's easy for something to happen when one goes out alone."
Sheng Li looked at her approvingly and said proudly, "If you listen to me obediently and do things for me, you won't be shortchanged."
Luo Yang lowered her eyes, hiding the calculation and malice in them. She said obediently, "Yes, I will listen to Madam carefully."
Sheng Li, you foolish woman, just do my bidding well.
Sheng Li elegantly picked up her teacup and took a sip, enjoying her comfortable life and planning how to ruin Tao Lengshuang's reputation and even kill her in one fell swoop.
As she was thinking, she suddenly heard the cries of the person she hated the most.
"Sheng Li, Mother is here to find you!"
Sheng Li turned her head and saw the exaggeratedly dressed Yu shi, happily running over with Old Master Tao and others. She immediately and angrily ordered her servants.
"Beat these people to death, quickly beat them to death!"
The servants stood there like wooden stakes.
This made Sheng Li furious, but what made her even more enraged was that the parasitic Tao family had clung to her again, demanding that she arrange official positions of the fifth rank or higher for the men of the Tao family, and they must be positions with real power.
Even if Sheng Li had the means, she wouldn't help the Tao family, let alone the fact that she had no means now. She naturally refused outright.
However, the Tao family was persistent, constantly bothering Sheng Li, insisting that she help them, or else they would throw tantrums and cause trouble, which greatly annoyed Sheng Li.
What's more, Zhou Wenxing completely ignored the matter and did not allow the servants in the mansion to help Sheng Li, which enraged Sheng Li. She argued with Zhou Wenxing a lot, but in return, Zhou Wenxing became even more displeased with her.
Filled with extreme hatred and anger, Sheng Li blamed Tao Lengshuang for everything, vowing to make her pay the most painful price.