Fan Meiniang sat beside them, quietly listening to the Second Madam and Lu Qingqing chatting about family matters. She couldn't get a word in, and twisted her handkerchief, feeling a little uncomfortable.

Lu Qingqing picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea. Then she looked at Fan Meiniang and asked, "What do you want to see me about?"

Seeing Lu Qingqing asking, Fan Meiniang handed the painting in her hand to her and said seriously: "When the Fourth Master was in trouble that day, Gu Yunran actually went to meet this person secretly."

"But are you serious?" Lu Qingqing asked.

"Of course," Fan Meiniang said firmly, "The person I sent saw it with their own eyes." After a pause, she continued, "It was the idiot I just bought from the human trafficking market. She secretly followed Gu Yunran and saw it with her own eyes."

Lu Qingqing looked at the person in the painting. He was wearing the clothes of a guard. The jade pendant around his waist was the one that Fan Meiniang had mentioned before. The bracelet on the jade pendant was the same as the one Fan Meiniang showed her.

"This man is the shogunate's guard, Chisato."

Lu Jiajia, who was sitting next to Lu Qingqing, said, "On the day of Imperial Physician Mu's birthday, I and Gu Yunran went to the shogunate and met him."

A sneer of disdain appeared on her lips: "Gu Yunran is really so hungry that she would not choose her food. The daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion has fallen for a guard."

"If this matter gets out, not even the Prime Minister will forgive her."

"If she destroys the family tradition, I don't believe her good brother will still protect her."

Lu Qingqing rubbed the portrait in her hands, her face gloomy. "No wonder Qingzhou wanted to disfigure her. I'm afraid she couldn't help herself and went to find that wild man in the shogunate that day, and was caught by Qingzhou."

Lu Qingqing took a deep breath and said, "How can such a shameless bitch be the mistress of my Lu family?"

She turned her gaze to Fan Meiniang and asked, "Are the people you sent out reliable?"

Fan Meiniang nodded: "She is a person who remembers people well. If I treat her well, she will definitely not be bribed by Gu Yunran again."

"That's good."

After tomorrow, find some time..." Lu Qingqing waved to Fan Meiniang, asking her to come closer, and Fan Meiniang walked over.

Lu Qingqing leaned close to her ear and whispered a few words. Her voice was so low that only the two of them could hear.

Fan Meiniang nodded frequently as she listened.

"Then I'll go prepare it now."

"Go ahead."

Lu Qingqing waved her hand, and Fan Meiniang retreated and left with her maid.

After she left, Lu Jiajia pouted angrily and complained, "Sister, what did you say to that little bitch Aunt Fan?"

Lu Qingqing picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, then glared at Lu Jiajia: "Why are you so ignorant of the rules? She is your fourth sister-in-law after all, how can you say such rude words?"

"She is just a concubine..."

Lu Jiajia wanted to say something, but Lu Qingqing put the teacup heavily on the table, her face darkening, and Lu Jiajia was so scared that she quickly shut up.

Lu Qingqing sighed and said, "Jia Jia, with your temper, you're going to get into trouble sooner or later."

"I can't hide anything. It's all shown on my face. If I tell you, Gu Yunran will probably know it before tonight."

She paused and continued, "Also, although Fan Mei Niang is a concubine, she is not stupid. Even if you have eight brains, they are not as good as hers."

"We have to deal with Gu Yunran now. She is the gun that charges into battle. If things succeed, it will benefit everyone. If things fail, it was her idea and she did it. It has nothing to do with us."

"Do you understand?"

After hearing Lu Qingqing's explanation, Lu Jiajia opened her mouth in shock. She had no idea that her elder sister was so smart. This was killing someone with a borrowed knife.

There's not even a drop of blood on my hands.

"Sister, you are really amazing." Lu Jiajia pulled Lu Qingqing's arm and acted like a child. "With you planning for the Lu family, the Lu family will definitely get better and better."

Mrs. Lu sat aside, holding a handkerchief, looking at Lu Qingqing with complicated eyes, not knowing what she was thinking.

After Fan Mei Niang left Baomo Hall, she did not go back to Nianmei Pavilion directly. Instead, she said to Bai Zhu, "Let's go to Fangxing Courtyard."

"yes."

As they walked along the road, Fan Mei Niang asked, "Have you prepared the things I asked you to prepare?"

"Everything is ready."

"Um."

The master and servant arrived at the gate of Fang Xing's courtyard and saw Gu Yunran picking balsam flowers in the yard and putting them in a small bamboo basket.

Fan Mei Niang walked in and asked with a smile, "Madam, what are you doing?"

"Of course I'm picking flowers." Gu Yunran washed his hands in the water, took the handkerchief handed to him by Zhuye, and gently wiped his jade-like fingers.

"Can't Aunt Fan see?"

Gu Yunran smiled lightly and threw the handkerchief into the copper basin.

Fan Meiniang's face froze. She had just asked a polite question, but she didn't expect Gu Yunran to be so disrespectful to her and speak back to her.

She smiled awkwardly, "Of course I saw it."

"Um."

Taohua quickly washed the Impatiens in clean water, as if crushing it in a mortar. I don't know how this Impatiens was cultivated, but it smelled of an alluring fragrance.

Fan Meiniang sniffed it, as if intoxicated by the fragrance of the flowers.

Gu Yunran frowned and asked, "Why did you come to see me?"

Fan Meiniang's thoughts were interrupted, and she finally came back to her senses. She looked at Gu Yunran and said with a smile, "I saw a powder box on the street a few days ago. It was very good, so I bought two more."

As she spoke, Bai Zhu, the maid beside her, placed the powder box on the stone table in front of Gu Yunran. Fan Meiniang opened the powder box and said, "Madam, look at this powder. It is very fine and makes your face very rosy when you apply it on it."

Gu Yunran glanced at the powder box and chuckled, "Xianglongzhai's powder box?"

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