Chapter 129: Big White??? Jiang Chengyan's New Favorite!

This time, Jiang Chengyan didn’t scold Bai Yan harshly. Instead, he pulled her over to sit beside him and asked calmly, “Who taught you that? That all it takes is money to get whatever you want?”

“That’s something I can’t tell you,” Bai Yan replied firmly, without hesitation or giving anything away. “Men become spoiled once they have money. Keeping mistresses is expensive, so if you hold the money in your own hands, it’s like holding a man’s life in your grasp.”

Her straightforward words left no doubt in Jiang Chengyan’s mind about who had taught her that—it sounded exactly like something from the Zhao family, nagging behind the scenes once again.

“Those are ordinary men,” Jiang Chengyan said, lifting his robe slightly and leaning forward as he sat upright across from Bai Yan. His voice was slow and deliberate. “The Zhao family may be gone, but the ability to make money lives on. Even if all their silver was given to you before, you can still earn more in the future—but none of that belongs to you.”

Bai Yan blinked in surprise, but soon her eyes reddened, almost on the verge of tears.

“You actually want to earn money to spend on others?” Bai Yan pouted and shot Jiang Chengyan a glare, then grabbed her little hoe and slipped off to the field, clearly refusing to talk to him any longer.

Watching her storm off angrily into the field, Jiang Chengyan chuckled softly but didn’t follow.

…

Bai Yan ignored Jiang Chengyan the entire morning. When he handed her water, she drank it down without a word, paying him no mind.

“How about I make you some goat’s milk tomorrow?” Jiang Chengyan asked.

Because Zhao’s family had overfed her before, her goat’s milk was stopped, and she hadn’t had a drop recently.

When Bai Yan heard the mention of goat’s milk, her eyes brightened, but she still didn’t acknowledge him.

She carried her little hoe and walked ahead leisurely, with Jiang Chengyan trailing behind, keeping his distance.

Knowing he had pushed too hard too fast, and with Zhao’s family and Jiang’s father staying over at Hengfeng recently, the house had been just the two of them.

Bai Yan hurried home, then began to wash up, covered in dirt after a morning of digging in the fields.

…

After finishing, Bai Yan sat at her little rabbit vanity, swinging her head and humming softly, feeling quite pleased with herself.

Usually, when she sat there like this, Jiang Chengyan would come over with a small blanket to dry her hair.

But today, she waited a long time and he never appeared.

Only the little blanket she was used to lay quietly on the kang.

Pouting, she grabbed the blanket herself and wrapped it around her head, starting to rub.

“Hey! Hey!!” she called out. Good grief, she didn’t even call him “husband” anymore, just kept shouting “hey.”

Just as Bai Yan called for the third time, a man’s voice rang out from outside: “You call me ‘husband’ when you want money, but just ‘hey’ when you don’t like something?”

Bai Yan dashed out from under the blanket, but before she could shout anything else, the sight before her stunned her into silence.

She stared wide-eyed at the courtyard scene: the man was lounging leisurely in her little recliner, cradling a plump, fluffy white rabbit.

His long, broad palm gently patted the rabbit’s head—once, that hand had only touched her.

“Little darling, go fetch that little shorty for me. Big White’s nails need trimming,” Jiang Chengyan said calmly.

Big White?? That fluffy white rabbit???

The little shorty was the one who usually trimmed her nails!!

Bai Yan spun her head three times, still fuming, and then swiped at Jiang Chengyan’s face with a claw-like hand!