"No, it's just sand in my eyes. Auntie won't cry. There are still many things waiting for Auntie to do. Auntie can't cry." Nan Yi rubbed her eyes and continued to dig through the broken wood fragments on the ground.

"Oh." Yun nodded as if she understood. "Yun'er, help Auntie. Maybe Uncle and the others are hiding here, waiting for Yun'er to find them."

"Yes, Yun'er is right, let's look for it together."

“You shouldn’t have argued with the Fourth Prince,” Tong Tinglan came over to persuade her. She had just overheard her sister arguing with the Fourth Prince and was almost stunned.

My younger sister is too inconsiderate. Right now, we need the Fourth Prince. The Tong family only has the three of them left. Without their maternal family, the Fourth Prince is their future support. Instead of trying to please the Fourth Prince, my younger sister has angered him. What will happen if my younger sister loses favor? It will only make things worse for them.

"It's clear that Fourth Master values ​​you highly, so why are you in this predicament? The reason the Tong family was demoted was because Father and my brothers were greedy. How can you blame others? As the saying goes, flies don't land on eggs without cracks. If the Tong family doesn't cause trouble, how can the Nian family possibly do anything to them? You mustn't be confused."

Tong Tinglan's good intentions were not appreciated by Nan Yi. According to her, she should put aside her pride and fawn over Fourth Master without holding a grudge.

Amar and his brothers were greedy. They were just ordinary people, without shrewd minds. They were cunning but unprepared, so who could guard against them?

The Nian family deliberately wanted to cause trouble for the Tong family. Even if they didn't lend money at exorbitant interest rates, they would still cause trouble for the Tong family in other ways.

It's easy to dodge a spear in the open, but hard to guard against an arrow in the dark.

“There are many things you don’t understand. It’s not something I can achieve by simply trying to please him. Don’t worry about it. I know what I’m doing. If you’re worried about losing him as your backer, you’re overthinking it. He owes me. Even if I don’t like him, he wouldn’t dare to mistreat me,” Nan Yi said confidently.

Even if Fourth Master is gone, there's still Old Master Kang. She saved the lives of his three sons; that's a life-saving charm that no amount of gold or silver could buy.

Since she was on good terms with Consort Tong, and Yinzhen disliked her, she was able to find a more powerful backer.

As for the future, that's a matter for more than ten years from now; we'll talk about it then.