Jiang Yuyao covered her face and screamed as she ran towards the side room, her hairpins scattered all over the floor. Xinyi Mingyao slowly wiped her armor: "Do you really think I can't see your dirty thoughts?"
Jiang Songyi watched the farce with a cold eye. She turned to leave but Xin Yiyan grabbed her belt and said, "How cruel of you, the county lady! You didn't even invite me to drink a coming-of-age wine?"
"The tofu at Rong'en Temple is so bland that it makes my mouth water." Xin Yiyan lifted the restraining step on Jiang Songyi's waist with her fingertips. "I heard that the county lady can even subdue a ghost fetus. How can she be better than that?"
"Let go of my sister!" Jiang Baichuan rushed over, holding a bamboo broom, the corner of his robe still stained with stable straw. "How dare you, a lewd nun, come to my house?"
Xin Yiyan dodged behind Jiang Songyi and poked out her bald head. "Second Young Master Jiang has a bad memory. Who said last year, 'I, Jiang Baichuan, only have one sister, Yuyao'?" She deliberately pinched her throat and imitated his words. "Now I call Songyi sister, what does it have to do with you?"
Jiang Baichuan's broom hit the stone steps, and the bamboo strips burst. "That was my mistake!"
"This isn't the only time Second Brother has been foolish." Jiang Songyi brushed Xin Yiyan's hand away. "Last year, you pushed Qing He into the icy lake to defend Yu Yao."
"I accidentally did it!" Jiang Baichuan was so anxious that he tried to pull her sleeve, but Xin Yiyan used Buddhist beads to pull her hand away.
"He came from the pure land of Buddhism, but his hands are not clean." Xin Yiyan protected Jiang Songyi behind her. "If the second young master touches me again, I will recite the Diamond Sutra."
Jiang Baichuan was so angry that he jumped up and down: "This is my home!"
"You're wrong." Xin Yiyan waved her certificate of ordination. "The emperor personally granted the right to 'Pray for the Nation at Rong'en Temple.' All lands under heaven belong to the emperor. How can there be a distinction between your home and mine?"
While the clamor was raging, Xinyi Mingyao stared intently at the jade hairpin in Jiang Songyi's hair—it was a tribute of mutton-fat jade from Nanzhao, something she had been begging her father for six months in vain. Burning with jealousy, she suddenly saw Jiang Yuyao return with ointment applied, her face smeared with three bloodstains.
"Nun Tai is so majestic." Xin Yimingyao said sarcastically, "I just wonder if the Buddha will send down a thunderbolt if he sees his disciple being so frivolous?"
Xin Yiyan turned around and clasped her hands together. "Amitabha, I am just about to go to the Buddha to receive my punishment." She suddenly grabbed Jiang Songyi's wrist and said, "Would the county lady be willing to bear witness?"
Before Jiang Songyi could reply, she was dragged through the moon-shaped gate. Jiang Baichuan, picking up his broom, tried to chase after her, but was stopped by a servant: "Second Master, the Marquis ordered you to kneel in the study!"
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