Chapter 23
In the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion, Xu Shuying casually threw away the talisman paper obtained from the temple, took out a dagger from his arms, and stabbed it viciously.
"Miss, why do you like playing with daggers so much lately? Be careful not to hurt yourself."
"It's okay. There's no harm in practicing self-defense techniques."
Lanzhi put the things away and couldn't help but chuckle, "Miss, you worry too much. As a daughter of a marquis, you have servants and thugs. Why should you, a precious body, endure such suffering?"
"You don't understand. Sometimes, other people are unreliable."
"Miss? What happened?"
Lanzhi felt that her young lady had become a little strange, but she couldn't tell what was strange.
"Nothing. After going through so much, I'm no longer the girl who didn't know the sorrows of the world."
Every time the young lady went out with the Sixth Prince, she would come back unhappy. Lanzhi didn't understand why she agreed to marry the Sixth Prince if she didn't like him.
No, he is not the Sixth Prince now, he has been crowned king.
The Marquis clearly did not agree to this marriage, but why did the young lady take the initiative to agree to it?
Such a person is unfaithful, cruel and inhumane, but for some reason he is so favored. It is said that the emperor even intends to pass the throne to him.
But even if he could ascend to the throne, how could he have a good life following such a person?
"My lady, I am a talkative person. Even if I cannot marry the one I love, there is no need to marry someone like that."
Lanzhi massaged her shoulders to relieve her fatigue, with an indignant look on her face. No matter how noble the status of the Prince was, it was not as important as the happiness of the young lady.
Xu Shuying closed her eyes and lowered them, smiling darkly, "Silly girl, your young lady is not a kind person. I have my own considerations, you don't need to understand."
As the shoulders were pinched, the collar opened slightly, and a faint red mark appeared on the neck.
"Miss, do you have a rash? I'll get some ointment."
Xu Shuying stiffened when she heard this, "I just wiped it."
She pulled Lanzhi in front of her and said, "I'm destined to spend my life in a large mansion. You and I grew up together, and I've always treated you like my own sister. Can you go out and see the world for me?"
"Miss, are you trying to kick me out?" Lanzhi fell to her knees upon hearing this. The Marquis's Mansion was her home. She had grown up with the young lady, and she didn't want to leave her.
"You know, I've always wanted to see the outside world. I enjoy the honors that come with being a young lady in a marquisate, but I also have family responsibilities that I need to shoulder."
Xu Shuying held her hands, her eyes filled with passion. In the past, she and Jun Qingmo had shared similar interests and read many travelogues together. Whenever they came across something of interest, they would agree to visit it in person.
Now, she is about to become the Princess of Chengqin, and she will no longer have any freedom in the future.
She held Lanzhi's hands tightly. She was reluctant to leave this sister who had always revolved around her since childhood. She didn't want to take her to that dangerous place, so she had no choice but to send her away.
"I have no hope of freedom. Please go out and explore for me. Every time you go to a place, write me a letter and tell me what beautiful sights you saw, what delicious food you ate, and what interesting things happened to you. Okay?"
"Young lady has been served by me since she was a child, how can I feel at ease? Most importantly, young lady is about to get married, and will need to manage the affairs of the mansion in the future. If she has a young master in the future, there will be even more things to do. How can I leave you?"
"I have already agreed with my mother that after you leave, Nanny Zhou, who is by her side, will be transferred to me. Nanny Zhou has been through a lot, and with her by my side, you can go with peace of mind."
Lanzhi's eyes were filled with tears. "I don't want to leave the young lady. The young lady is used to me serving her. I won't go anywhere. Wherever the young lady is, I will go there."
Xu Shuying immediately threw away the soft thing in her hand and her face suddenly became cold.
"Even you are going to disobey me now?"
"Miss, I didn't, I didn't." Lanzhi knelt on the ground to explain, hugging her master's legs to beg for mercy. This time, Xu Shuying did not ask her to get up.
"I said I treat you like a sister, but do you really think you deserve it? I'm the master, and you're the servant. Whatever I say, you do. And when is it your turn to bargain? I'm giving you a little bit of face, but you really don't know your own name?"
Xu Shuying moved away and kicked the man down, "A servant is a servant. You don't know the rules of respect and inferiority. Kneel down and reflect on yourself."
Afterwards, without caring about Lanzhi's maid's face, he called someone in to help her wash and dress.
The maids came in and saw Lanzhi kneeling on the ground. They didn't know what to do for a moment. Usually, Lanzhi was responsible for the young lady's daily life. Today, it seemed that she had angered the young lady.
"Why are you looking at her? Do you need to find a nanny to teach you how to serve others?"
The maids waited nervously, not daring to look around.
This young lady is becoming increasingly difficult to please. Ever since her engagement with Prince Cheng, she has become increasingly unsympathetic, and her former polite and well-mannered self has gradually become sarcastic and mean.
When the maidservant was about to come over to undress, Xu Shuying suddenly thought of something and got angry and drove everyone out.
Then, he went to wash up.
Lanzhi didn't know how things suddenly turned out like this. She knelt on the spot with her red eyes, lowered her head and shed tears silently.
She didn't know what she had done wrong, even though she had done nothing.
The young lady had never treated her like this before. The floor was cold and hard, and it hurt her. But what hurt the most was her heart.
Previously, although she was a servant, she was considered half a master in this courtyard. Not to mention kneeling, Xu Shuying wouldn't even let her do the most important or dirty work.
She felt aggrieved as she felt the pain in her knees.
Pain and sadness intertwined, and tears flowed like a waterfall.
After Xu Shuying finished washing up, she walked over to her side. Her words lacked the warmth she had in the past, but were now cold and distant. "Have you thought it through now?"
"Miss." Lanzhi called her Miss aggrievedly. She was usually eloquent, but now she couldn't utter a word.
She was also afraid of saying something wrong and making the young lady even angrier.
"I want to go to the south of the Yangtze River and see the misty rain. I also want to go to the frontier and see the endless grasslands. I also want to go to the top of the snow-capped mountains and the ends of the earth. This mansion is already bound by many rules and etiquette. Wouldn't the royal family be even more oppressive and boring? Please go out and take a look for me. Bring back some letters every time so that I can see the world outside."
Xu Shuying helped the man up, her eyes filled with pity. "I have sent someone to deposit the money at a bank. You can take this and exchange it at any Tianfu bank."
"Miss. Are you hiding something from me?"
Lanzhi held the seal in her hand, and even though it might make the young lady angry, she still mustered up the courage to ask.
"No matter what happens, I will stand by your side. Even if it means sacrificing my life, I will do it willingly."
"You've always been by my side, so why should I hide anything from you?"
Xu Shuying walked to the window, turned her back to everyone, and hid the loneliness in her eyes.
She stretched out her hand to catch the moonlight, her fair skin glowed white in the moonlight. The beauty looking at the moon was so beautiful.
If she could turn into a bird, she would like to fly in the sky.
But she is not a bird, she still has a lot of things to do.
A big tree, eh? Can a mayfly really not shake it?
Who knows.
In the future, perhaps the favor from the Marquisate can go even further.
Yuan Jin, I’m afraid you won’t be able to repay me even in the next life.
Jun Qingmo held the invitation from the palace in his hand, his brows tightly furrowed.
That day, he thought Jun Chengyu was just making a joke to embarrass him, but he never imagined that he actually received an invitation from the Chengqin Mansion.
Three days later, Jun Chengyu and Xu Shuying got married and invited him to attend the ceremony.
He is already disabled, so even if there were any grudges between them in the past, what can they do now?
"Why not pretend to be sick? Since you're already like this, it wouldn't be out of place to pretend to be sick."
"Didn't you tell me that when faced with a problem, the first thing to think about is how to solve it, not just avoid it?" Jun Qingmo closed the letter, still in the mood for a laugh. He often got humiliated by Zhang Yunniang, and he was always thinking about how to win back the game.
"Isn't pretending to be sick a solution? Who said it was an escape?"
She made a shuttlecock and kicked it around for fun.
Ever since Jun Qingmo joined the work team, she felt a little more relaxed and had a little more free time.
She used to be able to sneak out to play or work part-time, but of course she can’t do that now. She also needs some entertainment to relieve her mood.
"Since he has specifically posted it, Prince Cheng will not let it go unless he truly wants to be buried. Pretending to be sick will only lead to trouble."
Zhang Yunniang turned around and kicked a big back kick. As for everything, practice makes perfect. The more you do it, the better you will get.
In my previous life, when I played shuttlecock, I couldn’t even lift twenty properly, but now I can kick it without dropping it even when I jump and skip.
"Then go ahead. It's just some taunts and ridicules. What's the big deal? It's better not to give the villains the chance to take it to heart than to worry about it."
Jun Qingmo sneered, "Yeah, those taunts and ridicules can never compare to your lethality."
"I can make a living under your hand, so what else can't I endure? Ah!"
A shuttlecock fell on his head, and Jun Qingmo covered his head to catch it. Although it didn't hurt, he still cried out in a feigned weakness.
"Can you please watch yourselves? I haven't punished you for kicking shuttlecock in front of me, and you're taking advantage of me?" Jun Qingmo's face darkened. Look at what a human being would do. Running and jumping in front of a disabled person, what else could that be but a provocation?
"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it."
"You did it on purpose."
"Oh, I did it on purpose, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing, be careful if the feathers are broken, you won't be able to play anymore."
Zhang Yunniang took the shuttlecock. Playing with it alone was indeed less fun. She turned her eyes and had a new idea.
She used vines and other things to wrap it into a semicircle, and then inserted the remaining chicken tail feathers on it, making a homemade badminton-like object.
Jun Qingmo watched her fiddling with something he didn't know what it was, and was quite interested.
"Hey, the flowers finally bloomed, why did you pull out the vines?"
The vines on the rockery are thin and have many small blue flowers on them.
"It's going to take two beats."
Zhang Yunniang thought about it and realized that since there was no plastic rope, this vine was the only one that could be used.
"Flowers and plants are my forte. I can create a scene for you that's no worse than this."
Jun Qingmo looked at the finished product, a line of black lines falling from his forehead, and asked in doubt: "Is it just for this? What is it used for?"
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