Zhao Xiaonian chuckled and was about to say that he wasn't lying when his gaze fell on the person walking in from outside the courtyard. He immediately frowned and said, "This female benefactor is suffering from a strange poison. She should not touch those poisonous things again in the future, lest she damage her body and die young."
Jiang Yimian was taken aback. She looked at Liu'er, who had walked in from outside, and raised an eyebrow. "What, have you made up your mind?"
After waiting for several days, she thought the other party had their own plans and didn't want to stay.
Liu'er nodded, glanced at Zhao Xiaonian, and had a strange expression on her face, it was hard to tell whether she was angry or something else.
Jiang Yimian quickly explained, "Don't pay any attention to him. He's just talking nonsense. He tells everyone he meets that he died young, which is very unlucky."
Zhao Xiaonian wanted to refute, but then felt that his words were indeed inappropriate, so he just shut his mouth awkwardly.
Although he was not very skilled, his calculations of fate were still correct.
Liu'er nodded, glanced at Zhao Xiaonian a few more times, and then said, "Let's find a quiet place to have a good talk."
Jiang Yimian nodded, ignoring Zhao Xiaonian who was still spouting nonsense, and led Liu'er straight to a quiet room.
As soon as she sat down, Liu'er got straight to the point: "I don't need your help to cure the poison on my face. I did it on purpose."
Being too beautiful is not a good thing in this village.
Jiang Yimian glanced at the dark red birthmark on her face, and then, thinking about the situation at the estate, nodded before saying, "Alright, what have you thought about what I said the other day? Do you want to help me manage the estate?"
Liu'er simply nodded and said, "Okay, just tell me what you need to do. I only have one request."
"you say."
"I want to live in my old courtyard," Liu'er said earnestly.
She'd already put in a lot of effort, and if she left now, it would be a waste. She couldn't give up halfway through raising it after all that hard work.
Although Jiang Yimian was curious, she didn't ask any more questions. She simply said, "Okay, I don't care what you do, but you have to promise not to hurt the people in the manor."
Although I hadn't deliberately investigated what Liu'er was doing, I learned from Old Chen that she was also a master of poisons.
I suspect they're raising some kind of poisonous creature in this village.
Liu'er nodded quickly and said with a smile, "Miss Jiang, don't worry, I will definitely not hurt anyone else."
That thing is no ordinary poison; once it appears, it's something that all poison doctors would vie for, and they'd be too busy hiding it to use it to harm people.
Jiang Yimian was relieved.
Liu'er, however, seemed to be thinking of something and hesitated for a moment before tentatively asking, "Miss Jiang, does that mean everyone on the estate will just be workers from now on?"
Jiang Yimian looked at her with a puzzled expression, not quite understanding what she meant.
Liu'er remained silent for a while before saying, "You wouldn't make them entertain guests like Zhu Shichang did, would you?"
Although they could clearly sense that the person in front of them was not bad after spending the past few days together, they were still afraid of the worst. If this person was just deceiving them and still using them to entertain customers, then it would be better to exile them.
Although she had previously helped Zhu Shichang, she would still help innocent people here to the best of her ability.
I don't want to see these people, who have finally found hope, be disappointed again.
Rather than that, it's better to live in disappointment forever.
Jiang Yimian glanced at the other person with some surprise and quickly said, "No, they are just ordinary workers, maids and servants here. They just need to do their jobs."
She thought this person wouldn't care about others, but now it seems she was mistaken.
Rather than hiring someone of dubious origin who harbors many secrets, she prefers someone who always maintains a kind heart.
Liu'er breathed a sigh of relief, but then frowned and asked, "What is the relationship between that Young Master Lin and Zhu Shichang?"
Although that guy was a bit strange, she had already equated him with Zhu Shichang in her mind because he could associate with Zhu Shichang; otherwise, she wouldn't have treated him the same way she always had from the beginning.
Jiang Yimian could only smile and glance at her, explaining, "They don't know each other. It's just that Zhu Shichang wanted to cooperate with Lin Yan'an because of some things, so Lin Yan'an had no choice but to come to the manor."
The thought of Lin Yan'an staring intently at the estate before leaving, cursing a few times, and how she would have loved to buy it and have it demolished if she hadn't heard it was already hers, made her want to laugh.
Lin Yan'an will probably never forget what happened here.
Liu'er was stunned, somewhat surprised by the answer. Her firm belief was slightly shaken. Could it be that she had really misunderstood that day?
That guy looked like a spoiled rich kid, but I didn't expect him to be someone like Zhu Shichang.
No wonder the other party came to her a few days ago, looking very unhappy as he tried to prove his innocence, and even complained about how a true citizen of the Great Jin Dynasty could have such lowbrow tastes.
She dismissed it as mere sophistry and simply kicked the person out.
It seems that she really did misunderstand.
Just then, Zhao Xiaonian's excited voice rang out from outside the door, "Sister Yimian, Uncle Jiang is awake, come and see!"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Yimian was stunned for a moment, and without continuing to talk to Liu'er, she hurriedly went to the next room.
Upon entering, they saw a person who had been unconscious for several days and had been in a daze, being helped up from the bed by Lu Cijian.
The man's face was still pale, and his thin body was weakly helped to sit up by Lu Cijian. His eyes were constantly looking at the surrounding environment warily, and his whole body was tense, clearly out of fear.
Until Zhao Xiaonian ran in excitedly.
His expression immediately lit up with joy, but before he could ask any questions, he saw Jiang Yimian following behind him.
He was stunned for a moment, then his eyes instantly reddened, and his voice became hoarse as he asked incredulously, "Yi Mian, are you Yi Mian?"
He could hardly believe it. When did his daughter, who was so thin and small in his memory, grow so tall? If it weren't for the fact that he could still see traces of her former self in her eyes and brows, he wouldn't have recognized her as his daughter.
Seeing his excited expression, Jiang Yimian felt a pang of sadness and nodded stiffly.
Jiang Dazhuang quickly said, "Quick, let your father see you."
As she spoke, she threw off the covers and was about to get out of bed.
Jiang Yimian quickly stepped forward, pressed the other person down, and said somewhat awkwardly, "Father, you are still injured, don't move around, lie down and rest."
The man's complexion was already poor, and coupled with long hours of labor, he was withered and thin, making the redness around his eyes all the more noticeable.
He was so thin that he looked like a refugee.
Jiang Dazhuang shook his head with red eyes and murmured softly, "It's alright, Father is alright. Yi Mian, what are you doing here? Were you also taken to the mine by those people?"
"Where are your mother, your eldest brother, your younger brother and sister? Are they alright?"
He couldn't even imagine what his wife and children would suffer if they were taken to the mine. He knew he could bear the hardship alone; he didn't want his family to suffer like him.
He wouldn't have survived the past year if he hadn't been constantly thinking about his family.
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