Yi Ning recalled that before she fainted, she seemed to have seen Luo Shenyuan, but when she looked around, she couldn't see him.

"Xuezhi...how did I get back?" Yining asked.

Xuezhi wiped her tears and said, "Sister, it was the Third Young Master who brought you back."

It was Luo Shenyuan who actually saved her. Yi Ning felt a little complicated. Although he was cruel, Luo Shenyuan was really tolerant and indulgent towards his biological sister. He always saved her in times of crisis.

Xuezhi picked up a booklet from the small table beside her. "The Third Young Master gave you this. I brought it back from Tingfeng Pavilion."

Yi Ning took it and looked at it. The calligraphy was very fresh. Although it was written in plum blossom small regular script, the strokes were vigorous and powerful, and it was obvious that it was written by a man.

Yining thought to himself, put the booklet aside, and wanted to get up from the bed.

Lin Hairu quickly held her down and said, "Don't move. Take good care of yourself. The kitchen just made some medicine for you, and you'll need it soon."

Yi Ning smiled bitterly and said, "Mother, I'm fine. I don't have a fever anymore."

Lin Hairu glared at her: "You are not allowed to get up either."

After a while, Mrs. Luo also came in and supervised Yi Ning to drink the entire bowl of medicine. Yi Ning was helpless. Who made her faint on the way to school? After she finished the medicine, the two women also supervised her to lie down and rest.

Yi Ning shook her head and said, "The teacher punished me by making me copy the 'Rules for Disciples' five times, and I haven't finished yet. I'd better finish it and send it to her."

Old Mrs. Luo was so angry that she pressed her head. "Usually, you're so naughty and spoiled that no one dares to bully you. I even advised you to be gentler. But now you're too gentle. You don't even resist when people bully you! What are you copying? I don't think anyone would dare ask you to copy."

Yining saw that the old lady looked angry and smiled.

She felt sorry for the old little Yining. Was it because others always treated her so badly, and she had no place to reason, so she could only resist in her own way? In fact, the world always sympathizes with the weak.

But after all, she was just a poor child.

She hugged Old Lady Luo and said, "Grandma, I didn't let her bully me. It's just that I didn't listen to her, and people will say I'm spoiled!"

Mrs. Luo recalled Luo Chengzhang's furious entrance just now, and then listened to her granddaughter's gentle, truthful words. Her eyes couldn't help but well up. The little girl clearly knew what was going on, yet she had endured it silently.

Aunt Qiao was in the room holding Xuan'er and coaxing him, while Luo Yilian was helping her mother wind the silk thread.

Seeing her younger brother crying non-stop, Luo Yilian whispered, "Mother, how can you be so sure that father will punish my seventh sister..."

Aunt Qiao coaxed the child to sleep, handed her to the nurse to sleep, and said to her daughter, "Your father has been patient with her for a long time. Besides, what your father can't tolerate most is disrespect for teachers. He is where he is today thanks to the teacher's guidance and the smooth sailing in the officialdom."

Aunt Qiao looked at Luo Yilian in a trance as she spoke.

Luo Yilian felt uneasy when Aunt Qiao looked at her, and couldn't help asking, "Mother, what's wrong?"

Aunt Qiao sighed and said, "My child, you are a concubine's daughter. If you don't please your father, you will have nothing. Fortunately, our wife is pregnant, otherwise you would have suffered."

Luo Yilian felt a little aggrieved when she heard her mother say this. She said unwillingly, "Even though I'm better than Yi Ning in everything, so what? Grandma's partiality towards Yi Ning is simply outrageous. Sometimes I really don't like Yi Ning. She used to humiliate me like that, and my father just scolded her a few times, but in my heart I wanted to slap her in the face..."

Aunt Qiao smiled slowly: "You have to endure it. The more you let Yi Ning bully you, the more pitiful you act, and the more your father will love you. You are unhappy when she bullies you, but mother is happy for you. Your father loves you more because he dislikes Yi Ning again and again."

Luo Yilian thought about it and realized that it was indeed the case. She seemed to be the one being bullied, but in reality, apart from being bullied, she was the one who benefited the most. The mother and daughter were about to continue winding the silk thread when they heard the voice of a maid outside the door. Luo Yilian was about to look up to see what was happening when she saw Luo Chengzhang walk in with a gloomy face.

Aunt Qiao saw that his face was not right, and her heart sank suddenly. She stepped forward and said with a gentle smile, "What's wrong with you, Master? But Miss Seven..."

Luo Chengzhang brushed her hand away and said coldly, "Kneel down!"

Aunt Qiao took a step back, not daring to disobey him. She quickly knelt on the ground, her face pale as she said, "Master, if you have something to say, just talk it over nicely. Why are you so angry? I wonder what I have done to displease you..."

"Shut up!" Luo Chengzhang said coldly, pointing at Luo Yilian. "Who said Mei Jie'er disobeyed her teacher and refused to go to school out of spite today? Mei Jie'er was clearly ill and fainted. You can't tell right from wrong, but instead you're criticizing Mei Jie'er behind her back. You almost made me wrongly accuse her! How can I be worthy of your seventh sister if I don't punish you today?"