"Sister Meixiang?" Ah Man opened the door and saw Meixiang there. She jumped up and called out, "Come in, Sister Meixiang."
Meixiang was wearing a pink autumn shirt she had just bought at a clothing store, and her long black hair was tied up in the fashionable style of young ladies in the capital. She hesitated for a moment, then followed Xiong Er into the threshold, holding up her skirt.
"Don't shout, a young lady should behave like a young lady." Meixiang's mood was very different when she saw Ah Man. She used to be a maid in the Taifu Mansion, Ah Man was Miss Sun, and now she was also a young lady. Although her uncle had not officially acknowledged her father as his relative, wasn't it sooner or later?
She unconsciously put on the airs of a lady.
"Little kids, where's your mom?" Xiong Er saw Erniu and Sanniu running over. He had heard Ah Man call Jian Ning's mom before, so he thought the three of them were Jian Ning's children. "I need something from your mom. Can you take me to see her?"
"I'll take you there. My mother and second father are cooking." Ah Man called Meixiang again, "Sister Meixiang, come too."
"You are not allowed to enter our house!" Erniu opened her hands to stop Meixiang.
Sanniu also followed and stopped her.
"Shame on you! Is this your home?" Mei Xiang angrily put her hands on her hips and poked each of them in the forehead. "You two country girls, can your family afford such a nice yard? This is Ah Man's home. Ah Man and I are both young ladies now, and my uncle is the prince of Dayue. How dare you stop me? Get out of here!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Sanniu slapped her in the stomach. She screamed and staggered two steps. Before she could stand firmly, she was knocked to the ground by Erniu. Her new clothes were all covered in dust, which made her heartbroken.
Meixiang got up and wanted to teach Erniu and Sanniu a lesson, but when she saw the two little girls with fierce looks on their faces and ready to fight, she suddenly remembered that they had been learning martial arts with Jian Ning. Although she might be able to deal with them with brute force, the problem was that Jian Ning was behind them.
"I'll beat you two wild girls this time, so that people won't accuse me of bullying the weak."
"Sister Meixiang." Ah Man still didn't know about Meixiang and didn't understand why she became a young lady. But she was unhappy about Meixiang talking about Erniu and Sanniu like this. "Jiajia and Yaoyao are both my sisters. If you are mean to my sisters, I don't like you anymore. I don't want you to come into my house."
Xiong Er scratched his head. He had only come here on his general's orders to do Jian Ning a favor. He didn't want to cause trouble, nor did he want Meixiang to cause any. They hadn't come to the Grand Banquet Kingdom expecting to find Concubine Li's missing eldest son. Even Concubine Li herself hadn't held out hope. Therefore, they didn't know what other features there were besides the human tooth pendant. They could only wait for someone from there to confirm.
"Miss Meixiang, Madam Jian saved the general's life. It's not good to cause trouble here. You'd better go back first." Xiong Er didn't ask her to come, but she insisted on coming. She was not worried about the general punishing her, but she was worried about him.
"Why are you speaking in their favor? You're just a servant serving my uncle. Why do you have the right to interfere with me?"
Yuji was very upset. "I am a general under the general."
The implication is that he is not a servant.
"Does it make any difference? My uncle is in charge of you anyway." Although she said that, Meixiang still turned around and left angrily. Mainly because her clothes were dirty and she was in no mood.
After Meixiang knew that Jian Ning and Ding Youtian lived in the villa of Huo's house, she originally came here to show off. She thought that her status was different now, so she wanted to come here to slap Jian Ning and Ding Youtian in the face, and by the way, see if Ding Youtian regretted it.
If she regretted it, she could consider lowering her status and making some sacrifices. After all, Ding Youtian was the first man she fell in love with when she first fell in love.
Meixiang still misses him in her heart.
"I seem to hear Meixiang's voice." Jian Ning stirred the eggs in the bowl with chopsticks and walked towards the kitchen door while speaking. She stood on tiptoe and looked over, and saw Xiong Er and A Man and the others turning around from behind a cluster of flowers.
"Mom, this uncle is looking for you."
Ah Man ran towards Jian Ning, "I like mother's cooking the most, and her flatbreads too. Mother's flatbreads are the best."
"I'll make it for you in two days." Jian Ning said, looking at Xiong Er, "But is there something wrong?"
Yuji said, "Yes, please excuse me for a moment."
"Wait a moment." Jian Ning put the dishes back on the stove, said hello to Ding Youtian, and led Xiong Er to the small flower hall where the meal was served. "Please sit down. What can I do for you?"
"I won't sit down anymore. I'll just say a few words and then leave." Yuji clasped his hands in a bow and lowered his voice slightly. "Last time, the Bodhisattva saved my general with her miraculous healing hands. Today, I've come here on my general's orders to return her life."
"Oh, what do you mean?"
Xiong Er told Pei Xiyuan and Suo Wen about running into Yunniang at Fenggu Building, "Do you recognize a female Bodhisattva named Wang Zhanggui?"
Shopkeeper Wang? Jian Ning shook her head, but she knew Concubine Min's last name was Wang. "Go on."
Xiong Er said, "He's the brother-in-law of a concubine. He opened a medicine shop called Huichuntang. He has captured the concubine in this mansion and is using this to threaten her into giving her poison to harm you. You'd better be very careful and vigilant."
"My general says you'd better not live here anymore."
Jian Ning said, "Go back and thank your general for me. When I'm free in a couple of days, I'll go visit you with my husband to express my gratitude."
"You have a saying in the Central Plains: a drop of kindness should be repaid with a spring. My general said you don't need to thank me. He also said that one life is worth another, and from now on, he and the female Bodhisattva owe each other nothing."
Isn't it about repaying with a kind of kindness? A life for a life and that's it?
Jian Ning didn't know whether Xiong Er's message was wrong or Pei Xiyuan's original words were like this, but it didn't matter. She received the medical fee for treating Pei Xiyuan, and she didn't save him for the sake of his repayment.
After sending Xiong Er away, she returned to the kitchen and saw Huo Jincheng talking with Ah Man, Erniu, and Sanniu. Ah Man saw her and ran over, hugged her waist, and asked, "Mom, my dad also likes the dumplings you make. Dad wants you to make them tomorrow. Is that okay?"
Jian Ning pinched her nose and said, "Aren't you angry with your father and don't talk to him?"
"Before, at my grandparents' place, my father came to find Jiajia, Yaoyao, and me. Since he was nice to Jiajia, Yaoyao, mother, and second father, I forgave him." Ah Man was not a person who held grudges. This was the first time that she ignored Huo Jincheng for nearly half a month.
"Just now I saw you leading someone to the flower hall over there. I heard Man'er say that you live in the courtyard across the street, and Meixiang is with them. Didn't she marry that idiot? Why are you back in the capital? Has something happened?"
Huo Jincheng also didn't know about Meixiang.
Jian Ning gave him a meaningful look and said, "Let's talk about it after dinner."
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