Chapter 44: Frame-up
Ye Qingshang felt guilty for a moment, but she was unwilling to lose to Qin, so she said with a stiff upper lip: "Mrs. Qin, you must keep your mouth shut in the Ye Mansion. I am the legitimate daughter of the Ye Mansion. If I do something wrong, it is okay for my father to punish me. But it is different for you to live under someone else's roof."
"Ayue! Pull out her flowers and plants!"
Several maids responded and started to attack. In a panic, Qin reached out to stop them, but was pushed to the ground by an old nanny.
The nanny felt she hadn't used enough force, but Qin actually fell down. She didn't dare to move anymore. She looked up to see what Ye Qingshang meant, and she heard her shout, "What are you standing there for? Keep pulling! Clear out Qifang Pavilion!"
Ye Wang immediately ran over to help his mother, but found that Qin seemed to be struggling with him. His thin body was unable to help her up. "Mother?"
Ye Wang shouted, but Qin looked towards the entrance of Qifang Pavilion.
Ye Zhixing had been standing there quietly for some time, as if he had been watching this farce for a long time.
"master!"
Qin hurriedly knelt on the ground. Her plain clothes were covered with dust because of the fall, and her face looked even more panicked and sloppy.
She said, "Why is the master here? The second young lady and Ye Si were having a little quarrel. They are just young ladies, and they got into some friction over some flowers and plants."
Ye Qingshang hurriedly explained, "No, father, it was Brother Chu who asked the Ye family for a few Clivia plants a few days ago, and I wanted to plant a few and send them over. I thought that since Fourth Sister likes flowers and plants, she might be able to give me some advice, but who knew that Fourth Sister actually gave me rotten seeds."
Ye Zhixing stood at the door of Qifang Pavilion. His dark blue robe made him look dignified. Seeing the farce in the pavilion, he frowned and said nothing.
He slowly walked up to Qin and took her wrist. He saw a wound on her palm with a few drops of blood on it. He asked in a deep voice, "Why did you make such a fuss just for a few seeds?"
Qin hurriedly pulled her wrist out and put it into her sleeve, mumbling, "No, Master, I accidentally touched it earlier."
She turned around and glanced at Ye Qingshang angrily, then looked at the nanny beside Ye Qingshang, and then said, "It wasn't the second young lady who did it."
The words were meant to conceal something, but the young Ye Wang naturally couldn't hear the intricacies behind them. He thought it was his mother's weakness and immediately said, "Mother, you're lying! It was clearly the nanny next to my second sister who pushed her!"
Ye Qingshang knew that she was wronged. The nanny beside her clearly didn't use any force, so how could Qin's hand be scratched? This mother and daughter must have joined forces to deal with her!
What nonsense! She said she stayed in the backyard, Qifang Pavilion, and didn't get in the way of the world. Such a scheme was really hateful!
"What did you say?" Ye Qingshang raised her hand and was about to hit Ye Wang. Just as the slap was about to land on her face, Ye Zhixing said in a deep voice, "Shang'er, don't be rude."
Ye Zhixing couldn't stand Ye Wang, his daughter of unknown origin, but he was indeed somewhat obsessed with Qin. Moreover, when he entered the room, he saw that it was the nanny who pushed her down, so he thought that Qin said that because she didn't want to argue with others.
Knowing that he had spoiled Ye Qingshang too much, and that he dared to attack her while she was still standing there, he said in a deep voice: "Shang'er, do you look like a lady from a noble family?"
"Father……"
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