Bai Jinglie sat back down. "Then be straightforward and get to the point. Grandmother should be waiting for me to have a meal right now."
"Now that you've taken over the sea trade, you'll definitely need helpers under you," Bai Yugang said. "Take your younger brother with you when you go out this time."
"Bai Jingyang?" Bai Jinglie laughed. "Just for this?"
"Of course there's more. Since you are the Princely Heir, you should take up the affairs of the mansion. Your mother isn't cut out to manage the household; it still needs the Deng Family to come back and handle things..."
"My mother? Isn't my mother enshrined in the ancestral hall? How does a lowly concubine who climbed the ranks deserve that title?" Bai Jinglie cut him off directly. "Besides, whoever created this mess should be the one to clean it up.
"After scraping by for so many years and funneling the mansion's wealth into her private treasury, she actually has the nerve to ask me to fill this hole now.
