Wang Qiang immediately took off the bracelet and returned it to her, "I don't want it, it was given to you by someone else!"
"Don't do that, I'm going to get angry!" Jiang Mingzhi glared at her. "Since you said that we've been friends since childhood, why are you being so distant with me? Are you lying?"
Jiang Mingzhi was born cold and aloof, but when her beautiful eyes moved, her frowns and smiles had a different kind of liveliness and vitality. Wang Qiang pinched the bracelet, gently stroking the delicate carvings on it with her fingertips, and blushed a little.
She knew that she must have been staring at the bracelet just now and her cousin noticed it. Such a beautiful bracelet, even if she grew up in a wealthy family, she couldn't help but take a few more glances at it, so how could her cousin not be interested in it?
Thinking of this, Wang Qiang's heart suddenly warmed up. She took the bracelet. Seeing this, Jiang Mingzhi smiled again and said, "Well, there are many guests at home today. Let's not stay here all the time, otherwise people will find out and say that we are not good at hospitality."
Wang Qiang giggled, nodded in agreement, and followed Jiang Mingzhi back to the flower hall.
Because it was just a birthday for a young person, none of the male guests stayed for dinner. Instead, a few tables were set up in the aunt's place in the inner courtyard to entertain the ladies from various mansions.
Jiang Mingzhi has lived for almost twenty years, and has never been as popular as today. Apart from Qin's little episode, her birthday was a complete success, and she was very happy, genuinely happy.
She hadn't laughed like this for a long time since she learned about the fate of the Zhou family. Thinking that maybe soon she would be able to see her mother and find out the whereabouts of the surviving members of the Zhou family, the wine in her throat became less spicy. But even so, she still choked accidentally.
Everything in front of her eyes was blurry and full of water. Her aunt was startled and came forward to pat her back. Maybe she was drunk, she threw herself into her aunt's arms, tears streaming down her face. She knew that she might be acting inappropriately, but in her aunt's warm embrace, she couldn't help feeling wronged. Her nose was sore and she burst into tears. She felt wronged like a child, and her aunt was also heartbroken and shed tears.
How much injustice must she have suffered to cry like this when she feels a little bit of warmth.
Zhang saw the ladies around her looking over, and while wiping her tears with a handkerchief, she apologized to them with a smile, "I'm really sorry. The child drank a little too much and was wronged in the past. We are like mother and daughter, so I couldn't control myself for a moment."
The ladies all expressed their understanding, but some of them couldn't help but think too much about the words "suffering injustice", and couldn't help but think of the mess in the Jinyi Marquis' Mansion. Could it be that her stepmother treated them badly?
Otherwise, how could one of them be feeling so wronged while the other one is still bedridden and hasn't recovered yet, and they didn't even come to their own sister's birthday today?
While the ladies were lost in thought, Zhang called Wang Qiang to the side and said, "You kid, seeing your cousin was drunk and didn't even remind her, you just followed her and made trouble. I'll teach you a lesson later!"
Then he called the maid who was serving him personally, "Quick, help me take my cousin to the warm room in the inner room."
Although she was drunk, Jiang Mingzhi was still aware of what she was doing. After hearing her aunt's words, she suddenly felt that her worries were ridiculous. She simply let her temper go and held her aunt's arm tightly, which made her laugh. Her smile was full of heartache and love, a real warmth that Jiang Mingzhi had never felt before...
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