After having lunch with Jiang Lianshan and Meng Wanjie, Jiang Ling returned to Jinyunyuan. Xiao Ding was already waiting for her.
He clasped his fists and saluted: "Miss, Qi Tianyang agreed."
"Good, well done." Jiang Ling nodded. "Did he ask who you belong to?"
"I did ask, but I didn't tell you anything. I only said what the young lady asked me to say."
Ding recounted the events to Jiang Ling. Qi Tianyang was initially dismissive. He'd been searching for so many things, and he had no information. How could someone else have found it first? But when he saw the "Cold Mountain Night Moon Painting," he was completely stunned. This was truly the most important thing to him right now. After several attempts to get information about the person behind the scenes from Xiao Ding, he finally opened the note.
Looking at the crooked and barely recognizable words, Qi Tianyang was silent for five seconds.
"...your master."
Hearing his hesitant tone, Xiao Ding felt a little nervous. Could it be that his disguise had been seen through? But as a secret guard, he usually did not show his face, so he should not have seen him.
Qi Tianyang was very disgusted: "The handwriting is really ugly."
It was uglier than what he had written. Shouldn't he take this note back to his father to show him that he wasn't the most uneducated person?
Man:......
"Qi Tianyang promised not to mention it to anyone else and will fulfill his promise in five days." Xiao Ding reported.
"You've worked hard. Go down and have a rest." Jiang Ling nodded with satisfaction.
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Chen Lianyi's father, Chen Heng, served as the Left Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate, one of the Three Departments. He had the power to supervise and impeach officials, so most people did not dare to offend him easily. Chen Lianyi's personality was similar to her father's. She was smooth and flawless in her work and never offended anyone. It made people feel at ease to get along with her. Whether it was for her father or her, everyone was willing to give her face.
Jiang Ling was welcomed into the flower hall, where there were already many young ladies from official families. She picked a few familiar faces, greeted them, and then sat alone aside.
After a while, a woman came in surrounded by people. The girls' giggling made people look over.
The visitor wore a crescent-white, cross-collared, wide-sleeved kimono made of embroidered chiffon. She looked ethereal as she walked. Her hair was styled in a bun, with her hair hanging down and parted into a small bun. She wore few accessories, save for a few simple flower hairpins and a pair of auspicious white jade hairpins. She had a slender figure and beautiful features, and her smile was like a warm spring breeze. Even with her simple makeup, she gave off an air of ethereal elegance, as pure and refined as a snow lotus.
"Is this Shen Qingru?" Jiang Ling put down the pastry in his hand and kept looking over there, very curious.
She is indeed the heroine. Her appearance and temperament are like the snow lotus of Tianshan Mountain. No wonder she is so popular.
Lu Zhu snorted, "She looks like a beautiful girl, but she has a heart of a vicious snake." Thinking of how the young lady almost died at her hands, Lu Zhu gritted her teeth in anger and said, "Young lady, do you want me to go up and slap her twice?"
Jiang Ling held her back and scanned the hall. "No need for you. Hitting her will hurt your hand. Someone will do it for you later."
Luzhu was puzzled and wanted to fight for the chance to hit someone, but suddenly she heard a quarrel coming from the other side. They looked over and saw a woman rushing forward and slapping Shen Qingru in the face regardless of the people around her trying to stop her.
Her strength was not great, but it was very loud. After this slap, the hall instantly fell silent.
Jiang Ling took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, glanced out the window, and sure enough, saw a dark blue figure walking towards him, so he stood up leisurely and walked over there.
Take a deep breath, it's her turn.
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The person who beat people up was Wu Wanying, the second cannon fodder female supporting role that Jiang Ling asked Xiao Bing to rescue a few days ago. She was originally going to be killed by Shen Qingru. She was straightforward like her original self and often argued with Shen Qingru. Now that she was almost killed by her, she must be furious. She didn't take revenge before because she was either recuperating or was stopped by her family. After all, they were all colleagues in the court and they couldn't make things so ugly.
But Wu Wanying had caught her chance at the banquet today, and she certainly couldn't bear it. Sure enough, she slapped her.
What a pity, it's not very powerful.
When Jiang Ling walked over, the two had already been pulled apart. Wu Wanying was cursing loudly, and Shen Qingru had tears in her eyes, covering half of her face, feeling very aggrieved.
"Wanying, calm down and don't make a fuss here." Jiang Ling took Wu Wanying's arm and comforted her softly, looking scared as she spoke.
Shen Qingru didn't expect that Wu Wanying was not dead. The people sent clearly said that they had sunk her into the lake. How could she not be dead?
The slap didn't hurt, but her self-esteem was trampled underfoot, and her face felt hot. She looked unhappy to begin with, and who would have thought that the next second she would see another damn person appear in front of her alive.
How come that bitch Jiang Ling didn't die?!
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Wu Wanying looked at Jiang Ling. She hadn't thought about how they didn't have a close relationship and were even a little hostile because they both liked Zhou Jing'an. Why was she so warmly holding her arm today? As a result, she saw Jiang Ling looking cowardly and scared. He pulled her back and lowered his head, not daring to look at Shen Qingru in front of him.
In just a moment, Wu Wanying's usually dull mind suddenly opened up and asked her, "Have you also been harmed by her?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the people around who were trying to mediate fell silent.
What does it mean? What does "也" mean?
Seeing Jiang Ling not daring to speak and only lowering her head to persuade her not to be impulsive, she became even more angry: "I was wondering why you have been sick and not going out these days. Normally, you can't wait to go out and have fun every day. I know it!"
"Well, Shen Qingru is such a good person! I never thought you had such a vicious heart." Wu Wanying's chest heaved with anger. "I just said a few words to you when I didn't like you, but I never tried to trip you up in secret. Yet, you sent someone to knock me unconscious and throw me into the lake on my way out. If I hadn't been saved by a passerby, I wouldn't be standing here right now!"
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