Ye Shiqi didn’t bother about insignificant people. As long as they didn’t provoke her in the future, and if they did, they weren’t exactly pushovers either.
Ye Fengqi didn’t hear Qing’s response, but that didn’t stop her from voicing her opinions, deeming the rich man’s daughters worthless.
The maid at her side covered her mouth and laughed, not daring to speak out. They had already been professionally trained by other maids about what they should and shouldn’t say.
There were things their master could say, but they couldn’t. Not only could they not endorse their master’s poor behavior, but they also had to advise against it.
When the young Lady had been badmouthing others, the maid should have fulfilled her duty to advise her, yet seeing the behavior of those people in the morning also made her feel repulsed. She too was annoyed that her Lady had been bullied!
As Ye Fengqi talked, she felt her mouth go dry and asked the maid to pour her some water. The room, warmed by a heater, was too warm to sleep, and she didn’t want to lie down since she was a little girl and quite active!
So, she sat on a stool next to a table laden with delicious food, glanced back at Qing, and seeing she was not asleep, invited her:
"Qing, why lie there? Come eat with me."
They had just finished eating earlier, and she had been eating constantly in the morning while many people were around.
Ye Shiqi had already understood from such a young age that one shouldn’t overeat when full, and even meals should only be eaten to half-satisfaction.
"Sister, you just said those two women were so fat because they can’t resist good food. Don’t you want to grow up to be like them?"
Ye Fengqi’s hand, which had been reaching for food, stopped, and then she retorted:
"Qing, do I look like a plump person to you?"
Ye Fengqi seemed to see disbelief in Ye Shiqi’s eyes, then she stood up and started jumping.
"I jump while I eat, burning off the extra fat—who would dare call me chubby!"
Ye Shiqi mocked, "Sister, you better hope others don’t hear you say that. Wasting food like that is frowned upon!"
"Whatever! My family isn’t poor. I can do what I want. I like wasting food. What can they do about it?"
Ye Fengqi continued to eat and talk, food spraying from her mouth unknowingly, her body still hopping around. The sight was indeed laughable.
The maid stood by like a statue, striving to make herself invisible, yet the expression as she covered her mouth with a handkerchief betrayed her thoughts.
Ye Shiqi gave her sister a thumbs up: "You rock!"
"Hehe, Qing, don’t praise me like that!" Ye Fengqi pretended to be shy.
Ye Shiqi was speechless, considering this the end of their bickering. At the moment, what she cared about was what kind of book the Great King had given her last night, and what else was in that bag?
She didn’t dare to take out what was in her space, even between sisters. Her elder sisters already knew too many of her secrets, and now it wasn’t just her elder sisters present, but also a maid.
She had long been able to control everything in that space with just her thoughts. The medical book and that bag quietly lay at her Treasure Pavilion.
The well-trained bees wouldn’t damage her things, and everything in the Treasure Pavilion was stored in a wooden cabinet made specially by her father.
Her Treasure Pavilion held not just gold and silver jewelry, nor only things given by the Great King.
It also held the house contracts and land deeds her parents had placed there, along with some money they had earned. She was to keep it safe unless needed.
Especially the silver notes, which weren’t suited to be stored in her parents’ room for various reasons. Ye Shiqi knew that, as they say, it’s hard to guard against a thief within one’s own household.
Even though there were secret tunnels in the house for storing items like food, Ye Shiqi wouldn’t consider putting money there.
As for the food in her space, she only occasionally stored some there.
Ye Shiqi didn’t consider the house’s secret tunnels very safe; a house that displayed wealth was bound to attract attention.
She felt it was better to hide more items within her own space, but with so many crops and some of the harvested food stored in her space, it was getting cramped.
If she were older and the space got larger, it would be much more convenient for her to use it.
The family had already become wealthy, and there was no need to expose her space to earn money. That was also why she helped her parents build the estate, to keep her own space hidden.
The honey couldn’t be explained initially until the estate opened up and it was revealed that their estate included beekeeping. That finally clarified why they had honey.
Ye Shiqi first opened the medical book. Previously, she had no medical skills and couldn’t understand the medical theories in the book.
Moreover, the medical book also contained illustrations and texts of herbs that resembled those seen on the official website of the "Compendium of Materia Medica."
But many of the herbs listed were still unrecognizable to her, making it impossible to learn from just looking at them.