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“Is this matter unclear?”

Liu's wrist was wrapped in a white medical bandage; the wound from which the medicine had just been applied was causing her great pain.

When I think about what the doctor said about this injury, it will take at least two months to heal, and the pain will get even worse when the weather gets hot.

Liu's hatred grew even deeper.

After Liu finished speaking, the maidservant beside her said, "Madam, the sharp weapon that hurt you was made of sharp stone, and we can't find out where it came from. The old uncle has sent someone to hand it over to the government office. The maids and servants were searched, and no one had a sharp weapon on them. Madam, please wait a moment..."

"Wait?" Liu sneered, "Those present here are the princes, nobles, and young talents who came to the banquet. Why don't you search them?"

"What are you talking about? After offending those princes and nobles, young talents, will they do anything to the Ning'an Marquis's Mansion?"

Jiang Xingchuan stepped into the room, looked at his angry wife, frowned, and scolded: "I know everything that happened this morning."

Liu was afraid that he would be angry, so she said with trembling lips, "Master, that was just a word I said in anger. I won't really send someone to search those distinguished guests."

She was just dissatisfied with the old uncle's obvious favoritism. The affairs of the fourth family were a big deal, and when it came to her, why should she swallow her anger in silence?

Jiang Xingchuan sat on the side of the bed, looked at Liu and said, "I know you have suffered for more than 20 days and have been wronged."

When Liu heard this, her eyes turned red.

When she saw her husband coming in, she was afraid that he would blame her for being ignorant.

A good husband would understand her painstaking efforts, but he didn't.

"But why are you so ignorant?"

Jiang Xingzhou's face suddenly darkened.

Liu's tearful eyes were filled with shock, and she looked at him at a loss, "I have always been tactful..."

"Are you going to hide it from me?" Jiang Xingchuan said sternly, "Fourth brother has already told me everything."

"If I hadn't run into Fourth Brother and stopped him from going to find my father, how would this have ended? Have you ever thought about it?" He said with some complaints, "You know how much Fourth Brother cares about his wife and daughter. Why did you have to touch his heart when you couldn't touch anyone else? You insisted that his daughter was wrong. If this matter gets out of hand, do you really think anyone will believe your one-sided words?"

Liu's face turned pale and she lowered her head.

"Yes, that girl is right."

But she clenched her fingers tightly, not showing any guilt on her face, but she said loudly: "But what have I done wrong?"

His tone was filled with resentment.

“

Qin is good at managing the household. If she can invite a troupe from the opera world, the uncle and the old lady will definitely be happy. When they are happy, I am unhappy, and I feel sad for the master. The old man originally favors the fourth room. If he sees the fourth room's advantages, wouldn't it be even more unfair? ”

Jiang Xingchuan's expression relaxed slightly, but he frowned instead, "But you can't make up the facts..."

"I don't want this to happen. But if I don't confuse right and wrong, that sharp-tongued girl will go to the old master to complain. Then I will suffer the loss and the master will also be embarrassed! For the sake of the master's reputation, I have to take a gamble..."

Liu raised her eyes and looked at the man in front of her with resentment, "I have been thinking of ways to let the old master see the bad things about the fourth house, if it is not for the old master to remember the good things about our family and ensure that your title will be safe. Master, I am doing this all for you..."

Jiang Xingchuan's expression changed slightly.

He looked at his wife with tears in her eyes, frowned for a long time, and his eyes were hesitant.

In the end, I couldn't bear to blame Liu anymore.

But before he stood up and left, he warned Liu, "You should stay at home and recover from your injuries. Don't show up at the birthday banquet today."

Liu clenched her teeth. If she didn't attend the old lady's birthday banquet on such an important day, outsiders would really think that Qin was the head of the Ning'an Marquis's Mansion.

If word spreads from one person to ten people, and from ten to a hundred people, where will she put her face?

She stood up suddenly and said, "My wrist is injured, not my legs or feet."

Jiang Xingchuan ignored her words.

He ordered a servant to stay in the yard and watch over Liu.

He then looked at Liu's personal maid and ordered in a cold voice, "Take good care of Madam, and don't let Madam go out."

The implication is, keep an eye on your madam.

Liu burst into tears of grievance.

After Mr. Jiang left, the maid beside Liu wiped the tears from her face.

As Jiang Xingchuan's figure disappeared, the sadness on Liu's face gradually dissipated.

His eyes turned sinister due to his obsession.

"The master is just too confused, a woman's heart is too soft."

She cursed in a low voice, turned her head to look at her personal maid, and clenched her fists, "I didn't want to get to this point."

The maid understood what she meant, "The sweet soup that Madam mentioned yesterday..."

Liu looked up and saw the flowers blooming outside, but her heart felt as cold as if a bucket of water had been poured over it.

Her husband was unaware of her painstaking efforts, and out of pity for her as a woman, she resorted to all means to scheme for her husband's title.

If we don't find a way to guard against the Fourth Room, sooner or later, they will become a serious concern.

The affairs of her shop are unclear, perhaps the fourth room is responsible.

It would be better to cut them off completely as soon as they return to Jinling, so that they can be completely humiliated early and leave Jinling in disgrace.

Thinking of this, he said hatefully: "Let's arrange it."

If many guests at the banquet get sick.

Qin, who was in charge of organizing the banquet, must be responsible.

Including the little girl who embarrassed her this morning, she is also not free from blame.

Liu sneered and suddenly felt that being locked up in this yard was not so uncomfortable.

When it was time for lunch, she was waiting to see Qin's joke.

…

The sky was getting brighter, the guests gradually arrived, and the opera troupe at Tingyin Pavilion was already in order.

It's still a long time before lunch.

After the old man arrived at the Tingyin Courtyard, the opera troupe started singing on the stage. The gongs and drums on the stage were noisy, and the place suddenly became lively.

Yu Yinxue was not in the mood to listen to the opera. His eyes moved towards the female relatives from time to time. He glanced at Jiang Rao's back, clenched his fingers into fists, and made a secret decision.

Jiang Rao was also not in the mood to listen to the opera.

She was among the women, looking carefully at the jewelry on each person's hand.

Looking for the woman wearing the green bracelet in her dream.

But the girls were all wearing clothes with wide sleeves, which covered their wrists tightly, so everyone's wrists could not be seen.

Jiang Rao suddenly became even more curious about what she was dreaming about.

The opera troupe sang, recited, acted and fought on the stage.

It was as if there was a troupe of actors in her heart, guessing the various directions that the dream would take.

Her heart was noisy, and the stage was noisy too. Jiang Rao quietly got up and left her seat, going to the small pavilion outside Tingyin Courtyard, where her heart finally calmed down a little.

Afraid that she might be careless, she asked Mingshao to get a paintbrush and drawing paper and drew the pattern on the green bracelet. She also described the color of the green bracelet to Mingshao and asked her to talk to the other maids in her family and ask them to pay attention to see if there was any girl at the banquet wearing a green bracelet.

After Ming Shao left, Jiang Rao wanted to wait until her mother accompanied the old lady to finish watching the opera, then find her mother and ask her to check whether there were any problems with the food at today's birthday banquet.

Her mother had stayed in the backyard much longer than she did and had seen more than she did.

She couldn't figure out what the problem was, but maybe her mother could.

Thinking of this, Jiang Rao stayed in the pavilion, waiting for the sound of opera singing in the music hall to fade away.

Instead of waiting for the singing to die down, I heard the childish voice of an elder sister.

Jiang Jinxing remembers Sister

Almost got kidnapped.

When he couldn't find Jiang Rao, he became a little panicked.

It was not until he found Jiang Rao in the pavilion that he breathed a sigh of relief and ran towards Jiang Rao with his arms outstretched.

Jiang Rao embraced her brother who opened his arms, hugged him, and frowned, "Why have you become lighter?"

I stared at his face again and looked at it carefully. It seemed that his face was not as chubby as before.

Jiang Jinxing said in a serious tone: "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."

Jiang Rao waited for the next sentence of his nonsense.

Jiang Jinxing measured his belly and said, "Who made the dog hole here so thin?"

Jiang Rao didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

It turns out that his weight change was due to the dog hole.

Jiang Rao looked at the servant behind Jiang Jinxing and said, "Keep an eye on the young master."

In the past, if Jiang Jinxing heard Jiang Rao asking the servant to keep a close eye on him, he would definitely make a fuss.

But today he was staring at Jiang Rao.

Seeing that his sister acted as if nothing had happened, he really wanted to tell her that he might be locked up in Bailu Academy and never get out.

But he was afraid that she would worry, so he held it in and didn't say anything. He just stared at Jiang Rao's face and secretly looked at her a few more times.

Jiang Rao withdrew her gaze and suddenly remembered something.

He looked at the servant again and said, "Go find a thin blanket and give it to His Highness the Ninth Prince."

When Liu was injured just now, she glanced at Rong Ting among the guests. She saw that he seemed to have caught a cold, so she wanted to ask someone to send him a blanket.

It was just that Liu was suddenly injured, and the servants who came over were all there for Liu, and they couldn't find a suitable person, so they were delayed for a while.

Jiang Jinxing volunteered: "Sister, I'll go help you."

He will soon be locked up in the academy, and will be locked up until he turns from a human into a ghost, and will not be able to get out.

I originally wanted to grow up well and support my elder sister when I grow up.

But he couldn't do it.

Before being locked up, he had to do something to help his sister.

Before running away, he looked at Jiang Rao with nostalgia.

That glance was like a farewell.

When I turned back I felt like crying.

Even though he wanted to do many things for his sister.

But when we met again, he had become a ghost brother.

It’s all Yan Nanxun’s fault.

That is a ghost living in the human world! Will eat children!

Jiang Jinxing felt like crying a whole tank of tears was flowing in his heart.

While running, thinking...

Sister, I can only help you up to this point.

…

When Yu Yinxue saw Jiang Rao leave the table, he started to have a devilish idea in his mind.

He also wanted to find an excuse to leave temporarily and then create an opportunity to meet Jiang Rao by chance.

Just now, when he spoke up for Jiang Rao in front of Liu and presented the birthday gift to the old lady, it turned out that Fourth Master Jiang loved his daughter as much as the rumors said, and his attitude towards him was a little more polite than towards others.

But this politeness was alienating, and was far from being willing to have him as their son-in-law.

Yu Yinxue was thinking about this in his mind, and after a while, he got up and left the table, making an excuse to go to the toilet.

But after walking out of Tingyinyuan, he heard a voice behind him, "Brother, please stay."

Looking back, I saw it was Rong Ting.

Rong Ting controlled the wheelchair and moved towards him, "Senior Brother Yu."

He had a faint smile on his face, which made him look harmless. The young man was wearing black clothes, and his face looked particularly clean in the sunlight, making him look non-aggressive.

But Yu Yinxue was already dissatisfied with Rong Ting taking his place. Seeing the young boy so handsome, he felt even more unhappy. When he bowed and lowered his head, his eyes were slightly cold, "Ninth Prince."

Although his voice was respectful, it concealed a hint of displeasure, "Where are you going, Your Highness?"

Rong Ting curled his lips.

There was a smile in his eyes, but for some reason Yu Yinxue felt that his smile was cold and somewhat piercing.

Rong Ting did not answer Yu Yinxue's question.

But like a little fox, he threw Yu Yinxue's question back to him, "Where are you going, senior brother?"

Yu Yinxue naturally couldn't say that he was going to find Jiang Rao.

If people knew what he was thinking, countless people would despise him for his attempt to curry favor with the powerful.

Having been in a low position for many years, he has come to understand the importance of being frightened by what others say.

Just as he was about to speak, he heard Rong Ting say, "Are you going to look for Miss Jiang?"

Yu Yinxue choked.

How does he know?

The thoughts he wanted to hide were exposed and laid bare, and he couldn't help but feel a little flustered.

Rong Ting saw that Yu Yinxue's expression changed in front of him, which was exactly what he had expected.

The resentment in my heart became even stronger.

Just thinking that it was not appropriate to shed blood today, he suppressed those dark thoughts quietly in his heart, and put on a warm and gentle smile on his face, "Brother, don't panic, I won't think too much."

The young boy's gentle reassuring tone and the pleasant look on his face made Yu Yinxue feel relieved.

Little did she know that the slight change in his expression and his silence at that moment had made Rong Ting certain of what he wanted to do.

The boy's voice suddenly deepened, more like a gentle knife, and then changed the subject, it became sharper, "I want to go find Miss Jiang too."

Yu Yinxuexin asked again, "Why?"

Rong Ting stared at the expression on Yu Yinxue's face. His eyes were deep, as if he could see through people completely. The light flickering in his eyes showed the pleasure of playing with the person in front of him, but it was also very subtle. In his dark pupils, world-weariness was still the underlying tone.

"Her aunt is Concubine Yun in the palace. She and I are of similar age. We used to meet each other in the palace. We have known each other since childhood. I found the opera sung by that troupe boring, and she is the only one I recognize here..."

Yu Yinxue breathed a sigh of relief.

Rong Ting suddenly frowned, "But..."

Yu Yinxue's mood was mixed up by Rong Ting's words, and he couldn't help feeling a little tired. He asked wearily, "But what..."

"I suddenly don't want to go find her anymore."

Rong Ting looked as if he suddenly remembered something and stopped the wheelchair.

Yu Yinxue couldn't help but wonder, "Why do you suddenly want to go back?"

"I'm afraid of making her angry."

Rong Ting shrugged, "Her aunt ruined her mood early in the morning, and my senior brother saw it too."

"She has always had a temper since she was a child, and she tends to sulk when she gets angry."

His frown deepened, and he avoided the question in a tone that was too tight to avoid, "When she was sulking alone, she was unhappy with everyone she met. I didn't want to make her unhappy. Fortunately, I just remembered this and didn't cause any disaster."

After learning it for a while, Yu Yin didn't dare to go any further.

Rong Ting raised his eyes and looked at him.

The clear light in his pupils flickered, and his expression was sincere, as if he was trying to persuade someone to stop and turn back. "Brother, you should go back too. If you make her unhappy the first time you meet her, then in the future..."

He deliberately left half of the words unsaid.

But precisely because it was not said, the consequences seemed more serious.

Yu Yinxue hesitated because of Rong Ting's words.

If Jiang Rao was in a bad mood at the moment, it would not be a good thing for him to approach her rashly.

It’s better to have Rong Ting remind me, otherwise I almost did something wrong...

It’s just that Yu Yinxue is a scheming and manipulative person in his daily life.

He soon realized something was wrong.

Rong Ting's appearance that he and Jiang Rao have a very good relationship, and his tone as if he knows her very well... where does it come from?

He was a prince raised by the Queen, and the Queen and Concubine Yun had a bad relationship...

How could he be so familiar with Jiang Rao?

It is obvious that the Queen's child and the Imperial Concubine's niece should be in an irreconcilable relationship.

He began to doubt Rong Ting's words.

It was even unclear what Rong Ting's purpose was in saying this to him.

Rong Ting had always been a loner in the academy, didn't like having fun, and hardly ever socialized with anyone. He looked gloomy, weird, and aloof.

They had only met a few times before, and Rong Ting was lukewarm towards him.

How come he suddenly became so warm and kind?

Yu Yinxue felt that Rong Ting in front of him was increasingly unfamiliar, and became more wary of him.

At this moment, a white ball came running from afar.

When I got closer, I realized it was a little kid holding a fox fur blanket.

The little boy stopped in front of the two men.

He showed his two eyes from behind the thin velvet, his round eyes blinked, and his gaze rolled over Rong Ting and Yu Yinxue.

Jiang Jinxing didn't know Yu Yinxue and just glanced at him.

Finally, he stopped at Rong Ting, laughed, and took two steps towards Rong Ting in an especially friendly manner, "Ninth Prince, my sister was afraid that you would catch a cold, so she asked me to bring you a thin blanket."