Chapter 4 How dare you, a deserted woman with no manners, lay hands on me?!
So I agreed.
The next morning, Ruan Mian found his sister-in-law Chen and explained the situation.
Chen was a smart person. She knew that Ruan Mian wanted them to seek refuge first. She had a deep friendship with Ruan Qingsong, so she quickly shook her head.
"Mian'er, no. Your brother's condition is unclear right now, how can I leave with peace of mind? I'll let Rui'er go first, and I'll stay in the mansion waiting for my husband to return!"
"Sister-in-law, I'm here. I won't let anything happen to my brother! Rui'er is still young. How can I feel at ease without you by his side to look after him?"
"But……"
"No buts. My eldest brother still doesn't know what the situation is, so I can only prepare for the future. You take Rui Ge'er away for now. I will definitely write to you when things are settled at home. In half a month, we will go to Jizhou to meet you."
"You will come to Jizhou? Mian'er, do you know something?"
Ruan Mian couldn't tell the whole story right now, otherwise Chen and the others would be so scared that their legs would go weak, and it would be difficult to explain to her parents.
I can only comfort her first: "Rui Ge'er is my eldest brother's only child, and you are my eldest brother's wife. If something happens to you, how can my eldest brother deal with it with peace of mind?"
These words really irritated Chen. After some consideration, she finally followed Ruan Mian's arrangement.
Before leaving, Ruan Mian put a stack of banknotes into Chen's bag, and took out some silver and handed it to Liu Changqing.
Seeing that he wanted to refuse, Ruan Mian persuaded him, "We need money to pay for food and drinks along the way. Although Jizhou is not far away, we still need you to conceal your tracks and escort us!"
After seeing them off, Ruan Mian went out again without stopping.
She originally wanted to ask the people in the mansion to stockpile supplies together, but she was worried that it would make too much noise and cause trouble, so she had to prepare some necessary things first.
The next morning, they would be exiled to Wuheng, a border town thousands of miles away.
It is a cold and uninhabited place. The journey alone is tiring enough, not to mention the suffering involved in getting there.
It is impossible that the whole family on this journey would die before reaching the place of exile as mentioned in the original book.
The Ruan family was originally a merchant family. There are many shops in Beijing now, especially medicine shops, which are basically all under the Ruan family's name.
Several shop owners of the herbal medicine shop knew her. Before Ruan Mian got married, she often managed the business for her family.
Now when they see her coming, they are all polite.
Ruan Mian didn't waste any time and said directly, "Boss, I have something to do at home. In addition to the basic herbs on sale, please register and pack all the herbs in the warehouse for me. I need to take them away today."
The shopkeeper was surprised when he heard this, "Miss, those herbs are stockpiled goods. If they are gone, we won't be able to sell them. It will take a lot of time to transport them at short notice. Besides, we haven't heard the master mention this matter yet."
Ruan Mian took out the Ruan family seal and smiled.
"Father is not feeling well and cannot travel, so I'll make the decision on this matter. As for the issue of replenishing the stock, we'll have a result in three days. For now, just help me load the goods."
When they saw Ruan's seal, the shopkeepers stopped talking and helped her organize it diligently.
Then she hurried to several cloth shops and used some of the silver notes she had on hand to buy a lot of ready-made clothes and various kinds of fabrics.
The weather is freezing and the journey is long, so keeping warm is of paramount importance.
But there was no cotton at that time, and warm clothes were mostly made of animal skins, and the price of an animal skin on the market was not low.
Fortunately, she had emptied the Qi Mansion's private treasury in advance.
So she bought all the animal skins, cloths, and charcoal available at the market.
When she went to the cloth shop to pick up the goods, she unexpectedly found a token of Chen Anbo's Mansion on the shop's counter.
Her eyebrows moved, and she put the token into the space.
The next second, a sarcastic voice sounded behind him.
"Hey, look who is this?"
Hearing this, Ruan Mian raised her eyebrows slightly and looked up. It was the original owner's half-sister Ruan Jiao, whose biological mother was the concubine in the Ruan Mansion who was sold off in her early years.
She got married in the same year as Ruan Mian. Her husband was the eldest son of Chen Anbo's mansion, but she was just a lowly concubine in the mansion.
Ruan Jiao, who was in front of him, was wearing a fox fur coat and a hairpin as she walked towards Ruan Mian.
Mingyan's face was full of sarcasm.
"Hasn't my sister already divorced? How dare you show up like this? Aren't you afraid of losing face for the Ruan family by showing up at the market? You're just making a fool of yourself!"
As soon as she said this, the two well-dressed women beside her echoed her words.
"So this is the legal wife who was expelled from the Qi Mansion."
"Divorce? I think it's divorce. If it were me, I would have jumped into the river long ago."
Ruan Jiao smiled and consoled her, "Sister, think back to when you married into the Qi Mansion with such great success and lived as a widow for three years, and now you've been divorced. As your sister, I really feel ashamed for you."
After saying that, he looked at the several animal skin garments and the top-grade brocade Shu material beside Ruan Mian. Suddenly, his expression changed slightly. He grabbed them and said to the shopkeeper.
"I want all of these."
The shopkeeper looked at it and felt a little embarrassed: "Miss, this... has been favored by this lady."
"Look? Look, so what?! Why don't you go and ask, does she still have money to give you?"
The woman behind Ruan Jiao stepped forward and raised her chin high: "That's right, we are from Chen Anbo's mansion, and everything we buy is directly registered under the name of the prince. Why don't you pack it up quickly!"
Seeing them making a fuss, Ruan Mian smiled coldly and simply sat aside, letting the shopkeeper give them the things.
Seeing that she didn't resist, Ruan Jiao moved closer to her and deliberately provoked her.
"Ruan Mian, when you got married with such a large dowry, you certainly never imagined that something like this would happen today, right? Back then, everyone laughed at me for becoming a concubine, while you preferred to remain a widow to secure your position as the mistress of the Qi family.
But what about now? Things have changed, and your eldest brother, Ruan Qingsong, is about to face disaster. Your Ruan family is about to collapse!
As for me, I was married to the Bo Mansion and was not divorced. The confiscation of the Ruan Mansion has nothing to do with me! I am no longer a member of the Ruan Mansion, but you are going to be in big trouble! "
I don’t know where she got the information from, but it seems like she came here on purpose to make fun of Ruan Mian.
Ruan Jiao grabbed Ruan Mian's collar, and before she could finish her mocking words, everyone only heard a crisp "pop" sound!
Ruan Mian smiled and slapped her a few times, turning Ruan Jiao's little face into a pig's head.
She hadn't expected Ruan Mian to actually lay hands on her, and she immediately roared, "I belong to the Bo Mansion! How dare you, an abandoned woman, lay hands on me?!"
Ruan Mian took the animal skin garments and threw them aside. "Bofu? Since you are from Bofu, you should take out the silver to buy them. If you don't have the silver and want to register them under the name of the Bofu Crown Prince, then at least take out the Bofu token and let them see it."
Ruan Jiao reached for her purse in frustration, but suddenly remembered that she had put the token on the table when she was about to pay the bill.
So he hurriedly got up and went to look for it, but couldn't find it.
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