Chapter 272 She is very pitiful, but it is not her fault

When Yan Xingchuan arrived at Qingsong Courtyard, it was already half dark.

The lights were just coming on, the night wind was blowing rather hard, the sky was gloomy, and it seemed like it was going to rain.

The maids were collecting the herbs that were drying in the yard. Cui Si sat in the corridor of the main house, took half a piece of cut herb, smelled it, and then made a note in the book.

"Put all the herbs in the east wing. It's going to rain soon. Don't put them in the corridor or they will get wet."

Realizing someone was looking at her, she turned around and saw Yan Xingchuan standing in the corridor opposite, looking at her, and the expression on her face froze.

Aunt Deng bowed and said, "Sixth Lady, the King of Northern Yan has arrived and wants to see you. The old lady asked him to come and talk to you. I will wait outside and come back in half an hour."

"Half an hour?" Cui Si was speechless. It seemed that the old lady really wanted her to get married. In this half hour, everything that could be done and what should not be done should be done.

"Okay, go back and take care of grandma. She can't leave you alone."

"I'll take my leave."

Aunt Deng bowed and turned to leave, while Yan Xingchuan walked up to her and picked up a half-dried medicinal herb.

"What's this?"

“It’s Forsythia.”

Yan Xingchuan looked at the many medicinal herbs drying in the yard and was a little surprised: "Why are you drying herbs?"

"I'm bored, so I'm looking for something to do. The medicine I usually take is too bitter. I'm going to see if I can make it into rice-sized pills that I can swallow directly with water.

Or if there are medicinal herbs that need emergency treatment, grind them into powder, mix them with hot water, and you can take them immediately."

"Don't we have these medicines?"

"Yes, there are, but they are very rare." She rubbed the pills in her hands. It was indeed there. Apart from other things, the fake death medicine that Jiang Cinian gave her was just a pill.

"They are usually precious medicines. I thought that ordinary herbs could be made into something like this. For example, there are corresponding medicines for symptoms like fever and cold."

Yan Xingchuan didn't expect that she actually started tinkering with medicinal herbs and began to study medicine.

But it's also good. Having something to do is better than being depressed all day long.

“No matter what it is, once it falls into your hands, you will always have some creative ideas and be able to draw inferences from it.”

Cui Si thought to herself, that’s because I have memories of later generations and have seen many things that you haven’t seen.

"Have you had dinner?" she asked suddenly.

"Huh?" Yan Xingchuan was stunned, suspecting that he had heard it wrong.

But at that time he immediately thought, even if he heard it wrong, he still heard it.

"I haven't used it yet. Have you? How about I use some with you?"

Cui Si thought about it, nodded, and asked someone to prepare more dinner.

Yan Xingchuan looked at the completely dark sky outside and asked her, "Why haven't you had dinner yet?"

Nowadays, people eat two meals a day, and they probably start having dinner after the afternoon. Now it is dark and it is very late.

"At noon, Ah Hao, several sisters from the clan and I made some snacks together. We ate a little too much, so we didn't eat it." Cui Si said as she put the dried herbs into the jar and sealed it.

Yan Xingchuan leaned over to the beauty sitting next to him, and reached out to help her pack up the herbs, and then sealed the jar.

A gust of wind blew, and the bamboo curtain that had just been hung in the corridor swayed slightly, the lanterns swayed, the lights flickered, dark clouds gathered in the sky, the wind became colder and colder, and it seemed that rain was coming.

Yan Xingchuan looked up at the sky, but his heart was unusually calm.

He didn't know how long it had been since he had spent some time with her quietly like this.

He didn't even dare to mention the matter between Chen Sui and Lin Qingning, fearing that the peace and happiness he had finally achieved would be shattered.

When the food was delivered from the kitchen, it was already raining. First, large drops of rain fell on the eaves, making crackling sounds, and then heavy rain came, pouring down.

Instead of going into the house, the two of them set up a table on the porch and ate their late dinner while listening to the sound of rain and feeling the cool breeze.

The sound of raindrops fell on his heart. He ate slowly, and occasionally when she was not paying attention, he would quietly look at her profile.

The light shone on her face, and her long eyelashes trembled slightly, casting a shadow, making her look very soft and quiet, as if she had shed her majesty and dominance, and became a quiet and gentle young lady.

How he wished he could stay with her forever, without quarrels or disagreements.

Yan Xingchuan calculated that the time was almost up, squeezed his palms, and said, "Lin Qingning... I will send someone to send her back to Beiyan City in two days. I will send someone to take good care of her in the future and will not let her cause trouble in front of you again."

"In the future, I will choose a husband for her and marry her into the Lin family. The child will have the surname Lin. If...if Northern Yan ever conquers the world, I will grant the Lin child the title of marquis as a token of my gratitude to the Lin family."

"What if she causes trouble again?" Cui Si asked him.

Yan Xingchuan paused, then said, "If it's a small matter, I won't bother with her. But if she goes too far, I will prepare a separate courtyard for her and let her live out her days there."

Yan Xingchuan added, "I will arrange for someone to discipline her. She had no one to teach her before, and she really wanted someone to rely on, so she kept clinging to me. Once she has a stable life and thinks things through, maybe everything will be fine."

He spoke coldly when he threatened Lin Qingning, but it was impossible for him to just ignore her.

"What if she doesn't change?"

"Then I can only teach her for a lifetime. I hope she can keep learning until she's old."

Cui Si was surprised at first, then frowned, and finally felt it made sense: "Just make your own decision."

Yan Xingchuan wanted to discipline his own relatives and teach them well, so she naturally had no objection, as long as she didn't have to spend money or effort.

She didn't want to help Lin Qingning.

It's not that she is petty and vindictive, but she really can't repay evil with kindness.

She could not forgive a woman who had snatched away her husband and the power and status she had worked hard for half her life. She had been brooding over the humiliation she had suffered in her previous life for most of her life, and it was all because of Lin Qingning's selfishness.

Lin Qingning suffered too much and was very pitiful, but it was not her fault.

However, she was quite satisfied that Yan Xingchuan could make such arrangements.

She didn't want Yan Xingchuan to do anything too extreme, for fear that he would regret it in the future. Then he might blame her, thinking that he had let the Lin family down because of her, which would be bad.

"Since you've said that, I'll give you a favor this time and not bother with her. However, if she attacks again, you can't stop me from fighting back."

"You should know my methods. If she fights with me, she will be skinned alive."