Ji Yun'an was speechless.
She didn't even give him the jade pendant, but gave it to her sister. Maybe she really didn't like him.
He suddenly felt uncomfortable all over. "No! I have an appointment with her for another fight. I'm going to find her now!"
"Go change your clothes first and dress up~" Zhuo Wei was worried about her second son's lifelong affairs.
The road has been paved to this point. If Ji Yunan fails to win over the girl, he deserves to be single for the rest of his life!
Shangguan Ruoxue's knees were sore from kneeling, but she couldn't break free from the restraints. Instead, two maids twisted her arms and tied her up.
"Let me go! What gives you the right to tie me up? I'm the cousin of the Prime Minister's Mansion. If you dare to touch me, the old lady will not let you go!"
The housekeeper came out of the house, shook his head at Zhuo Wei, and sighed, "I'm afraid it's not good. I won't be able to move anymore."
Zhuo Wei slapped Shangguan Ruoxue in the face, and Shangguan Ruoxue fell to the ground with a red mark on her face.
"How dare you mention the old lady? You used her to block a knife, causing her to become paralyzed and unconscious in bed. And you still expect her to help you?"
The housekeeper grabbed Shangguan Ruoxue's hair and pulled her up to kneel. "What do you mean by cousin? It's just a compliment from the old lady. You're just a distant relative who has nothing to do with us. To put it bluntly, you're just asking for money. I give you the honor of calling you cousin, but if I don't, you're not even as good as the servants in this house."
"Since you refuse to stay in the ancestral temple, you have to go somewhere else!"
Shangguan Ruoxue froze in her tracks. The old lady hadn't woken up yet? Who else could help her?
She looked around and saw that everyone was watching coldly. Ji Yunhuan was even more proud. Everyone looked down on her. There was not a single good person in the Prime Minister's Mansion!
Shangguan Ruoxue knelt on the ground and burst into tears, "Madam! Please have mercy on me! I didn't mean to do that. I was just panicking and didn't think too much about it. Madam is kind and compassionate, she will definitely not blame me."
"Xue'er knows that her status is low and she is not worthy of living in your mansion. Xue'er is willing to go to the farm and be an ordinary peasant woman. Xue'er will work hard. Please, Madam, spare Xue'er."
Zhuo Wei sneered, "You're dreaming. The Ji family's farm is right on the edge of the capital. You can always find a chance to come back. Keeping you here is a hidden danger. This lady is not that stupid."
"You two take her back to Linxi Village. Be alert along the way and don't let her run away."
Shangguan Ruoxue was originally from Linxi Village. After her parents died, they left them land and a small shop in the county town. She was considered a very wealthy family in the village.
When Shangguan Ruoxue thought about leaving the capital and returning to that dirty and lowly little village, she struggled like a madman. She kowtowed frantically towards the house and screamed.
"No! I won't go back! I'd rather die than go back! Old Madam, please wake up, Old Madam, please save Xue'er..."
Along with Shangguan Ruoxue's shrill cries, a loud thunder sounded in the sky and rain fell instantly.
Ji Yunhuan quickly pulled his mother to the corridor, and Xizi also ran in meowing to avoid the rain.
The servants who were busy in the garden stopped their work and looked for places to shelter from the rain. The Prime Minister's Mansion has always been kind and there is no rule of making people work in heavy rain.
Only Shangguan Ruoxue knelt stubbornly on the spot, as if she had suffered a great injustice, and roared in the storm.
"God, please open your eyes! Why don't you kill these evil people? Why don't you even leave me a way to survive? You want to force me to die, but I won't accept my fate!"
"Why should I be born inferior to you? I refuse to accept it! Even if I become a ghost, I will not let you go."
Shangguan Ruoxue rushed towards the mahogany pillar. The two maids were quick-witted and dragged her to the corridor in the heavy rain.
"Miss, please stop making trouble. We are tired of seeing all these tricks of yours. Just accept your fate as soon as possible, otherwise I will have plenty of ways to deal with you."
"Madam is kindhearted and cannot stand the secretive methods used in the inner house. We have no place to use our power. A cousin like you, who is not a decent person, is flirting with the boys in the courtyard and is also involved with men outside. If it were in another family, you would have been dealt with long ago, and there would be absolutely no fault to be found."
The two maids pinched Shangguan Ruoxue somewhere, and she softened like noodles, her mouth open but unable to make a sound.
Ji Yunhuan was amazed when she saw this. She thought her mother only knew how to do business and didn't know how to deal with matters in the inner house.
If you think about it carefully, my mother was able to manage so many employees and the shopkeeper without being deceived by anyone. She must be a person with a rough mind but is definitely not a reckless person.
Zhuo Wei glanced at Shangguan Ruoxue with disdain. "I didn't bother with you before, but you really think you're a rich lady? These are turbulent times. I can't keep you here. Take you away!"
"Stop! Let's see who dares!" A roar came from inside the house, and the old lady actually woke up!
The old lady was awakened by the thunder outside. She slapped the edge of the bed hard and shouted for someone to push her out.
With a bang, the door was kicked open from the outside.
Ji Yunhuan leaned against the doorway and sneered, "Hasn't the old lady suffered enough for her? If you keep her, you will only die faster."
The old lady tried to sit up, but she found that her lower body had lost all feeling. She was terrified. "What's going on? Why can't I move? It's you! What did you do? Are you trying to poison me?"
The doctor next to her explained, "The old lady's illness was not caused by poisoning, but by shock and hemiplegia caused by a stroke."
The old lady didn't listen at all. She fell off the bed at the maid's scream and crawled towards the door with her sick body.
"You two, mother and daughter, have teamed up to harm me. Don't think I don't know what you're up to. Send Xue'er away first, so you can control an old man like me! From now on, this mansion will be your world. No one will care whether I live or die."
"If you dare to send Xue'er away today, I will go to the government office and beat the drum to complain, letting the whole capital know how you tortured my mother-in-law. As the prime minister of a country, you are disloyal, unfilial, unkind and unjust, and have forced my mother to die. I think he has no use for the position of prime minister!"
The maids and servants in the room didn't dare to breathe, and the doctor kept wiping his cold sweat, wishing he didn't have ears.
The two maids outside the room did not dare to move and held Shangguan Ruoxue down, not daring to drag her out any further.
Ji Yunhuan couldn't believe his ears.
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