"Quickly, comfort her." Tong Mo rushed into the house and shoved Cai Shuyi into Ye Yunniang's arms.
Ye Yunniang hugged Cai Shuyi, "Shushu is crying so hard, has she been wronged?"
“Sister-in-law~, my brother bullied me, waaaah…” Cai Shuyi hugged Ye Yunniang and cried even louder.
“I didn’t. Cai Shuyi, you can’t wrong me,” Tong Mo retorted.
Ye Yunniang glanced at Tong Mo, signaling him to be quiet.
"Shushu, tell your sister-in-law, how did your brother bully you?"
Ye Yunniang gently patted Cai Shuyi's back to soothe her emotions.
Cai Shuyi sobbed and stretched out her arm for Ye Yunniang to see.
Her fair and tender arms had several red and swollen scratches.
It's shocking.
How did you get hurt?
"My brother hit him."
"No. I didn't," Tong Mo hurriedly retorted.
"Be quiet, don't speak," Ye Yunniang stopped Tong Mo and asked Cai Shuyi in a low voice.
"Can Shushu tell her sister-in-law how her brother hit her?"
“He just… he just raised his hand and hit me… Waaah… Sister-in-law, it hurts so much…” Cai Shuyi cried again as she spoke.
"It's red and swollen, it must hurt. My sister-in-law cleaned Shushu's wound and applied medicine. It doesn't hurt anymore after we applied the medicine."
While comforting Cai Shuyi, Ye Yunniang took the clean handkerchief handed to her by Qiushuang and cleaned the area around the scratch.
Gently apply the medicine to Cai Shuyi while blowing on it.
"Sister-in-law, blow on it for Shushu."
Tsai Shu-yi also joined in the blowing, without crying.
After bandaging her arm, Cai Shuyi said she was sleepy.
Ye Yunniang took Shushu back to her room to rest, while giving Tong Mo a wink, signaling him to wait a moment, as she had something to ask him.
Ye Yunniang and Shushu left, and Tong Mo coldly looked at Baise.
"You gave Zhong Zhaoli advice on how to sleep with me?"
Baise was not intimidated by the coldness in Tong Mo's eyes, "and gave some suggestions."
“Tell her that we can’t be together.” Tong Mo spoke of Zhong Zhaoli with mostly disgust.
He doesn't like women who are too calculating.
"Miss Zhong won't listen to me. Miss Zhong comes from a good family, aren't you sure you don't want to reconsider?"
"I'll let it slide for Ye Yunniang's sake. But if you interfere again, I won't be so polite." Tong Mo's eyes flashed with murderous intent.
Baise smiled, "Does Yunniang know about this side of you?"
Are you threatening me?
"Now I understand why Yunniang doesn't like you?"
"Why?"
“You’re too easily provoked, like a grumpy cat,” Baise said, making a cat-petting motion with her hand.
"You're courting death." Tong Mo gathered his inner strength and attacked.
Bang!
Autumn Frost took a few steps back and stopped.
After Tong Mo's first strike, he was about to make another move.
"Young Master Tong, Madam has returned."
Tong Mo stopped his attack upon hearing Ye Yunniang's footsteps.
Ye Yunniang went inside, looked at Tong Mo and then at Baise, and sensed that something was wrong.
I still couldn't figure it out.
Forget it, let's find out about Shushu's injury first.
What happened to Shushu's arm?
“She already said it was me who hit her,” Tong Mo said sternly.
“That’s what Shushu says. I want to hear your version.” Ye Yunniang looked at Tong Mo intently.
Tong Mo snorted and explained Cai Shuyi's injury.
Cai Shuyi and Zhou Yunluo were playing hide-and-seek when Cai Shuyi accidentally rolled into a tree branch and got tangled up while hiding.
Tong Mo rescued her.
"The little girl didn't thank me, and she even wronged me." Tong Mo felt aggrieved as she said this.
“Shushu is just a child. Sometimes she talks nonsense. I was just talking about her, don’t be angry.” Ye Yunniang comforted Tong Mo, “Tong Mo, you are a good older brother.”
Ye Yunniang's praise softened Tong Mo's expression.
Baise watched from the side, deep in thought.
After seeing off Baise and Tongmo,
Qiu Shuang recounted to Ye Yunniang what Tong Mo and Baise had said after Ye Yunniang left.
That evening, Ye Yunniang recounted the day's events to Jiang Mingzhe.
Ye Yunniang didn't understand why Baise had angered Tong Mo.
"Provoke Tong Mo and make him take action. Make you angry, then make demands on Zhong Zhaoli." Jiang Mingzhe revealed Baise's scheme.
"She's plotting against me again," Ye Yunniang thought unhappily.
"If you don't want to have contact with her, then don't."
“I’m afraid she might scheme against the children.”
"The people of Baise are intelligent." Intelligent people are better at calculating gains and losses.
Ye Yunniang nodded, making up her mind to stay away from Baise.
Baise sensed Ye Yunniang's estrangement but did not try to win her back.
The two gradually and tacitly became strangers.
"How was the instruction given to the princes today?"
"The stupid ones are incredibly stupid. The shrewd ones are as cunning as a sieve."
Jiang Mingzhe rested his head on Ye Yunniang's neck, breathing in her fragrance to drive away his fatigue.
"If all else fails, you can suggest to the Emperor that each of them be given a shop and let them run it themselves. Theory without practice is ultimately superficial," Ye Yunniang said, reciting a new phrase she had learned from Li Pan that day.
Jiang Mingzhe sat up straight and gave Ye Yunniang a quick kiss on the cheek.
"My wife is so clever."
Jiang Mingzhe felt that he had become stupid from teaching.
"You're overthinking it."
Ye Yunniang knew that Jiang Mingzhe was acting this way because he was afraid of angering the emperor and causing his family to suffer.
How Jiang Mingzhe persuaded the emperor is not mentioned.
Ye Yunniang was seeing Li Pan through the gate of the Imperial College.
"Pan'er, don't panic. Do what you can do, and don't do what you can't. Even if you don't go to the Imperial Academy, there are other good academies you can attend." Ye Yunniang was afraid that Li Pan would put too much pressure on her.
"Okay, Mother, you can go back now. I'm not nervous." Li Pan waved to Ye Yunniang and walked into the Imperial College.
Ye Yunniang was also anxious when she got back, so she went to a teahouse near the Imperial College to sit and wait.
I had just sat down when there was a knock on the door.
Qiushuang opened the door, and Hongling was standing in the doorway.
"Madam Jiang, my young lady requests your presence."
“If Miss Zhong wants to see my lady, let her come herself,” Qiu Shuang said firmly.
Ye Yunniang is now the Lady of Suyan, a title conferred by the imperial court, and holds an official title.
Zhong Zhaoli came from a prominent family, but she did not hold an imperial title.
Sending a maid to invite Ye Yunniang shows that they still regard her as a lowly merchant's wife.
Hongling's smile couldn't be kept up.
"ginger,"
*Smack*
Qiu Shuang closed the door directly.
Hongling looked unwell. She returned to the private room and whispered what Qiushuang had said.
“Things are different now. Ye Yunniang’s status is different now, it’s my turn to see her.” Zhong Zhaoli put down her teacup, walked out of the room, and went to Ye Yunniang’s private room.
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