Chapter 34 I also want to protect my brother
Tang Ning was stunned for a moment, then softened.
She could feel that the man in front of her was angry, and his face was so cold that ice chips could fall off. However, even though he was extremely angry, he still remembered to take care of her and not let her efforts go to waste.
The slight fear that Tang Ning had just felt suddenly disappeared, and he just spoke obediently to Madam Qin.
"Sister Qin, please listen to my brother first. Leave the medicine here. I'll have Hua Wu apply it after I see the imperial physician." She said softly, "Didn't you just say you had something else to do?"
"ah?"
Madam Qin was confused for a moment, but when she saw Tang Ning wink at her, she quickly came to her senses.
"Oh, yes. I have an appointment with another doctor today. I'll keep this medicine for you. Remember to have this girl apply it to you later. The dosage and instructions are the same as I told you before. I'll be leaving now."
She finished speaking very quickly and gathered all the bottles and jars on the table into her arms.
"Well, Lord Governor, I'm leaving first."
Madam Qin waved her hand and before Xiao Yan could say anything, she ran out with the things in her arms, "Tang Ning, I'll come see you tomorrow!!"
"Hua Wu, you go out too."
"Girl..."
"It's okay, go out."
Hua Wu looked at Xiao Yan with some uneasiness. She was quite afraid of this governor, but since the girl asked her to leave, she could only leave reluctantly.
She walked out of the room but did not go far away. She stood quietly not far from the door, listening attentively for fear that her girl would suffer any harm.
Without outsiders in the room, it was extremely quiet for a moment. Xiao Yan didn't know what Tang Ning wanted to do, so he just looked at her quietly.
Tang Ning stood up from the couch and moved step by step to Xiao Yan's side. He folded his hands in front of him and gently pulled at him. He lowered his head and whispered, "Brother, don't be angry."
Xiao Yan had long legs, his hands on his knees, and he said nothing.
Tang Ning mustered up the courage to speak softly, "I didn't mean to scare you, brother. I didn't know you were coming. And if I hadn't fainted first, my grandmother would have collapsed in my house."
"They have the best timing and location, and they are my grandmother and aunt. If I don't use some tricks, I will be suppressed by them and unable to move."
She knew Madam Song very well. In her previous life, whenever she fainted, her aunt would be infamous. Whenever she vomited blood, even though she was the one who was wronged, she was the one who ended up being criticized by everyone.
With just a word of respect for elders and a word of filial piety, she could easily clear away all the bad reputations that the Song family had done before and put all the blame on her and her aunt.
Tang Ning could only retaliate in their own way and use the same methods that Old Lady Song used to deal with them.
She squatted in front of Xiao Yan and carefully wiped the "blood" off his sleeves:
"I know my method isn't honorable, and it's a bit despicable, but I have no other choice. I don't want to go back to the Song family, and I don't want to be blackmailed by them using their status as an elder..."
Xiao Yan's face was lifted up, and his eyes were cold: "Song Tangning, do you know how I climbed to my current position?"
Tang Ning looked up at the man who was so close to her.
"On my first day in the palace, I managed to kill the eunuch in charge of the Treasury who was trying to use me as a scapegoat. In the two years since I became an eunuch, countless people have died at my hands. I have stepped on countless corpses to reach the sight of His Majesty and reach this day."
"Countless people in the palace are trying to climb the ladder of power and status. They'll do anything to gain power and status. I've used all sorts of despicable means to save my life or get what I want. What you did today is nothing compared to that."
"Brother..." Tang Ning shrank back.
Xiao Yan released his hand, his jaw tensing as he lowered his eyes. "I'm not blaming you for resorting to these tactics, but the Song family isn't worth you hurting yourself."
If the old woman from the Song family had been a little more ruthless, if that slap had really disfigured Tang Ning's face, he would recall that when he heard the Song family was coming and rushed over, he saw the girl lying limp on the ground with blood all over her face as soon as he stepped into the hall. The shock he felt at that moment made him unable to help but feel angry whenever he thought about it.
"There are many ways to deal with the Song family. Why hurt yourself..."
"I know, but I can't wait."
Xiao Yan frowned and saw the girl's hand wrapped in white cloth placed on the back of his hand through her sleeve, her dark almond eyes full of tranquility.
"I know that if I want to deal with them, my brother has many ways, and he can also be more thorough and appropriate to get me out without any harm, but I don't want to wait any longer."
"I don't want to be entangled with the Song family. I don't want to go back to that place. I don't want them to come to my door again and again, and let the eyes of the entire capital fall on Jiyun Lane. I don't want them to use my name to slander you."
During this period, the servants in the mansion rarely mentioned things outside. Occasionally, they only talked about the Song family and how Song Jinxiu was being abused.
But Tang Ning had lived a lifetime after all, and she was not deaf or blind. How could she not know that after the Qian family incident, Xiao Yan was also affected and criticized.
He was already notorious and despised by others, and now he was even more notorious for using his power to "rob" the daughter of the Song family.
He interfered in the Song family's affairs. How could those court officials and aristocratic families who were not on good terms with him miss such a good opportunity to attack him?
"I know my brother will protect me, but I can't hide under his wings forever. The Song family is not worth it, but my brother is."
The little girl raised her head and whispered,
"I want to protect my brother too."
She didn't want anyone to slander such a good brother.
Xiao Yan met her dark eyes, watched her red lips move, and said some naive words that made people laugh.
He should have laughed at her for overestimating her abilities, and laughed at why he needed a little girl to protect him, but there was not a trace of falsehood in those clear and clean eyes, which were full of seriousness and sincerity.
His hands on his knees stiffened and then slowly relaxed, and as his lips pursed slightly, his heart sank a little bit.
When the massacre broke out that year, in the sky full of flames, A'niang pushed him and told him to run quickly. After Aunt Xue helped him escape, she hid him and told him to live.
The people around him died one by one, leaving him alone to desperately endure and survive day by day until today.
It has been many years since anyone said they wanted to protect him.
After a long silence, Xiao Yan put his hand on her forehead.
“Who taught you those sweet words?”
He is even better at coaxing people than when he was a child.
Tang Ning's hair was ruffled, and when she heard his tone soften, she tilted her head and rubbed his palm lightly, with two dimples appearing at the corners of her mouth.
"Brother, you've set such a good example before me. Of course I have to learn on my own too."
"Since I can't match my brother's strategy and cunning, I'll just be sweeter and try to make him happy."
Xiao Yan's voice was low and slow, as if he was laughing: "You are so disrespectful."
Tang Ning pouted.
Then he smiled again, and put his hand on her forehead again: "Call me brother, and I'll allow you to be disrespectful."
"Brother!"
Tang Ning's smiling eyes and dimples are charming.
A laugh escaped from Xiao Yan's throat, like the warm sun rising, the cold snow beginning to melt, and the cold jade in the mountains stained with rosy clouds, low but gentle and warm.
"good."
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