Chapter 736 Don't Cut the Man by the Roadside (Part 1)
"Miss, this place is too remote. Besides, there might be wild beasts on this mountain. It feels very dangerous."
Ning Yan remained silent. It was indeed dangerous here, but the danger wasn't to them.
She soon smelled a faint scent of blood.
After walking another twenty meters or so, the two of them saw the man in black lying in the grass.
"Miss, let's leave quickly. What kind of good person would wear night clothes in broad daylight? What if he wakes up and tries to kill us to silence us?"
"Just by looking at this man's attire, you can tell he's no good. Let's not cause any trouble," the maid Xiaotao said hurriedly.
Ning Yan raised an eyebrow. The maid that the original owner's mother arranged for the original owner was really good. But wasn't this one a bad person?
In her previous life, Xiao Tao said the same thing, but unfortunately the original owner didn't listen. She saved people like a saint, asking for nothing in return and not leaving her name. She was such a fool.
She asked for nothing in return, yet someone took advantage of her life-saving grace.
When she came down the mountain, her elder sister saw her with blood on her skirt. Ning Yao followed the way she came and found the Seventh Prince. At that moment, the fate of the Earl's Mansion was sealed.
In this life, she wants to see if Ning Yao can still win the heart of the Seventh Prince and if she can still become the Empress.
"Hmm, Xiaotao, I dropped my handkerchief. Could you go and find it for me?"
Xiao Tao stomped her foot in anger. Where had her mistress lost her handkerchief? She was clearly trying to get rid of her. "Miss..."
"Be good, listen to me."
Xiao Tao had no choice but to turn around and walk back, intending to just make an appearance and then say she couldn't find it later.
After Xiao Tao left, Ning Yan immediately took out a pair of scissors from the Divine Palace, pulled down the Seventh Prince's pants, and cut down on his lower body.
Perhaps it was a tiny bit of pain, because the seventh prince, who was in a deep coma, twitched his eyes, as if he was about to wake up.
Ning Yan directly ripped off his mask and covered his face with it. Then she used a twig to pick up that thing and threw it far away. Of course, if he actually found it after he woke up, then he would be awesome.
This guy needed to stay alive for the time being, so Ning Yan helped him stop the bleeding and relieve the pain, and kindly pulled up his pants.
After confirming that there was no problem, he cleaned up the traces he had left behind and turned to leave.
Xiao Tao, who rushed back, was extremely surprised to see her young mistress. Had she finished rescuing the person so quickly?
Why would Xiaotao think that way?
Because Xia Wenqing was afraid that her daughter would suffer in secret after marriage, she specially hired someone to teach her daughter medicine. All of this was done secretly, and the original owner's father did not know about it. Only the teacher and the personal maid knew about it.
"Has it been found?"
Xiao Tao: "Miss, I couldn't find it."
Ning Yan: It would be strange if we could find it.
"If we can't find it, let's just go back."
Back in her room, Ning Yan washed her hands thoroughly. When it was time for lunch, Ning Yao's servants said she wasn't feeling well and wouldn't be eating. Ning Yan guessed that she had run into the Seventh Prince.
Some encounters are destined, and there's no escaping them.
Xia Wenqing didn't ask any further questions. She told the maid to prepare some food and send it up to her mistress when she got hungry. She was just a second wife, and she didn't dare to interfere with the children of the first wife.
The mother and daughter went to the vegetarian restaurant together and had a delicious vegetarian meal.
Back in her room, Ning Yan started tattling, "Mother, you probably came for nothing today."
Xia Wenqing looked up. "What do you want to say?"
“I overheard my sister complaining to the servants that you favor me, that she doesn’t want the man you found for her, and that you couldn’t possibly have the good intentions to find her a good husband…”
That's it?
Looking at her mother's calm expression, Ning Yan belatedly realized, "Mother, you already knew?"
Xia Wenqing raised an eyebrow, her eyes smiling, "What do you know? Do you know that your sister never even took a liking to the son of the Vice Minister?"
Or do you know she's carefree?
"Silly child, your mother never thought this blind date would work out."
Although Ning Yao wasn't raised by her, she watched her grow up. She was a clueless brat who didn't know right from wrong. No matter how good people were to her, she wouldn't appreciate it.
And her stepmother was the person she hated.
She knew that no matter which husband she chose for Ning Yao, she would not obediently marry him. Therefore, she never intended to interfere in her marriage, but she had to do what she was supposed to do, as it was her duty as the legal mother.
The blind dates she chose for Ning Yao were all among the most handsome and promising young men in the capital. If word got out, no one could find fault with her.
It's better that Ning Yao doesn't like him, lest she ruin someone else's good young man.
Ning Yan: ...This woman truly deserves to be called a master of domestic intrigue, as she is able to win over her husband's heart, avoid being disliked by her mother-in-law, and firmly hold the Marquis's mansion in her hands.
It seems that the previous Earl's Mansion met with trouble because it couldn't overcome the power of authority.
When power oppresses others, those in lower positions have no choice but to obey.
The original owner's father, Earl Kang An, was a notorious playboy in the capital when he was young, while the late Madam was the only daughter of a great Confucian scholar. She was quite talented even when she was still young, and she was very well-behaved and looked down on Earl Kang An, who was still the heir at the time.
However, their marriage was arranged since childhood and could not be canceled.
After marriage, the couple's relationship was lukewarm, and Kang Anbo's visits to his wife's room were merely routine.
Because the late Madam disliked her husband, she didn't care whether Kang Anbo came to her room or not.
A year after their marriage, Ning Yao was born, but the first wife died from massive bleeding.
Despite his dissolute nature, the Earl of Kang'an cared deeply for his only daughter. After his wife's death, he took the child to his own courtyard to raise her personally, fearing that the servants might mistreat her.
After half a year, the old lady couldn't stand it anymore.
Fearing that her son would give all his affection to this daughter and be unwilling to remarry, she forcibly took the child into her own room and then arranged a second wife for her son.
After careful selection, they chose Xia Wenqing, the second daughter of the original owner's mother, a fourth-rank imperial censor.
As the second daughter in her family, Xia Wenqing was loved by her parents, older brothers and sisters, and had a younger brother to bully. She was exceptionally cheerful and lively, and knew how to speak in a way that pleased people.
After marrying the Earl of Kang'an, the two got along particularly well, and their feelings for each other grew stronger day by day. The Earl of Kang'an originally had two concubines in his harem, but after marrying his second wife, he simply stopped going to the concubines' places.
The couple had two sons and a daughter. Because Xia Wenqing kept telling him that she wanted to save up for the children's betrothal gifts and dowries, Kang Anbo also began to work hard. He stopped contacting his cronies and devoted himself to serving the emperor. He even became a confidant of the emperor.
Therefore, many families in the capital are eyeing the marriages of Kang Anbo's children. Some families can't refuse, so they came to the temple today to find a suitable match for Ning Yao and to let the two meet under the pretext of offering incense.
In her previous life, Ning Yao married the Seventh Prince by taking advantage of his life-saving grace. She complained to the Seventh Prince more than once that her stepmother had abused her and her stepsister had taken her things.
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