"Qiao Qiao, mother will naturally not interfere with you, but those rumors will always hurt you." Ji Muhe was still worried.
Jiang Qiao held her hand tightly. "To me, the rumors are just jealousy. I don't care."
"Okay, let's go back first."
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The General's Mansion.
Shitou stood in front of the door of Mingyue Pavilion, not daring to go in.
He had changed his appearance, wearing servant's clothes and his face was washed, but he still looked dull.
Shitou is thirteen years old this year. He grew up in a poor village. Later, when there was a famine, his parents sold his sister to a brothel in exchange for a bag of millet.
He was unwilling to eat the food he had exchanged for his sister, so he chose to run away from home and wanted to find his sister. However, he could not recognize a few big words and did not know the way. After walking for three days, he fainted from hunger on the official road and was picked up by Jiang Qiao.
Jiang Qiao treated him well and gave him some cakes, and Shitou also stayed in the team.
Jiang Anran came to Mingyue Pavilion to deliver pastries, but she ran into this young boy. She remembered that this child was brought back by Jiang Qiao.
A plan came to her mind and she walked over.
"Are you here to see Jiang Qiao?"
The light voice brought Shi Tou back to his senses.
Shitou turned around and saw a woman wearing a pink and white long-sleeved silk dress. The silver bells on her wrists rang with her steps, making her look pretty and lovely.
He didn't know this woman, but from her clothes and the maids following her, he knew that she was of noble status, probably the same as the general.
Shitou did not dare to neglect the noble man, so he knelt down to Jiang Anran, but he didn't know what to say because he didn't know the rules.
"I...I'm waiting for the general."
Jiang Anran had no intention of letting her get up. Instead, she sneered, "General? What kind of general is she? The Northern Han Kingdom has never had a female official. The emperor only sent my sister to the battlefield to test the waters. Don't call me that anymore. Others will laugh at me."
Shitou was a simple-minded man. When he heard that others would laugh at the general for this, he kowtowed repeatedly and said, "No, no, I won't call you that anymore."
Jiang Anran looked at his funny appearance and laughed out loud. He was indeed a lowly bastard, without any manners at all, and couldn't understand what she meant.
"May I have your name?"
"Stone."
"What's a cheesy name?"
But Shitou answered seriously, "A humble name is easy to maintain."
Jiang Anran rolled her eyes imperceptibly, but took out a piece of cake from the lunch box and handed it to him, "Why don't you follow me from now on? My sister has too many people in her yard to take care of you."
She just likes Jiang Qiao's things, and she wants to take away everything Jiang Qiao has, bit by bit.
Why has Jiang Qiao been better than her since childhood? Why does she have such a good father and a mother of noble status!
Jiang Anran has always liked to "fight" for herself.
Shitou didn't take the cake. "It's okay. I can do anything for Miss Jiang..."
He must follow the general. The general is so good and so powerful. He is a great hero.
Jiang Anran was rejected and was so angry that she threw the cake in her hand to the ground. She still said with a smile, "Oh, Jiang Qiao has a good dog. He is just a beggar, but he dares to disobey me. Do you know who I am?"
Shitou didn't care how others described him, "I don't know."
"You!" Jiang Anran was truly enraged. She hated her identity the most, but even a beggar didn't recognize her. "Someone, drag him out and give him twenty lashes of the cane."
However, the people behind him did not dare to move. Jiang Anran's personal maid Feicui reminded him, "Miss, he is someone brought back by the eldest lady. If you fight like this, I'm afraid someone will die."
"Can't I hit a beggar?" Jiang Anran was angry.
After all, she is the second young lady in the mansion. Doesn't she have to look at Jiang Qiao's mood to deal with that bitch?
"Of course you can't hit him, because he is mine. Even if his influence is insignificant, I brought him back." Jiang Qiao walked over from not far away, but his face was pale.
Jiang Qiao rode in a carriage all the way, and maybe because she was too tired, she got carsick! Carriage sickness!
So she got off the carriage and planned to go back to her yard to have a good rest, but who would have thought that she would encounter such a thing again.
Jiang Anran is quite restless.
When Shi Tou saw Jiang Qiao coming back, his eyes lit up.
Jiang Qiao saw that he was still kneeling and frowned slightly, "Shi Tou, you get up first."
"Thank you, Miss." Shitou remembered that he could no longer call her General.
Jiang Anran saw Jiang Qiao's expression, which was slightly startled. After hearing what she said, she felt a pang of sadness. She calmed down and explained, "Sister, why are you back so late? I made your favorite lotus seed cake and wanted to bring it to you, but I didn't expect this kid to bump into me. I was just about to teach him a lesson."
Jiang Qiao asked her in return, "How did he offend you?"
"Maybe he had never eaten lotus cake before, and he still had that beggar's spirit in him. He even wanted to snatch the food box. I felt sorry for him, so I gave him a piece, but he threw it on the ground, so I..." Jiang Anran glanced at the broken lotus cake on the ground and thought of an excuse.
"Sister, if you keep him, he will be a disaster sooner or later. Otherwise, you'd better kick him out!"
Shitou was slandered and pointed at Jiang Anran to defend himself, "No, you are lying. It's obvious that you threw the lotus cake yourself."
Afraid that Jiang Qiao would actually listen to Jiang Anran, Shitou explained to Jiang Qiao, "Miss, I didn't do that. She came over and wanted to take me away, asking me to follow her. I didn't ask for her lotus cake, and... I'm not a beggar."
Jiang Anran had never been exposed in such a way before, so she resorted to her old tricks, tears streaming down her face, causing people to feel distressed. "Sister, you trust him, an outsider, but not me?"
However, Jiang Qiao was really tired. She only thought in her heart that she had always recognized Jiang Anran's acting skills. She could see it from the fact that the original owner was hated when she returned to Beijing.
Jiang Anran strong d(^_^o)
Jiang Qiao certainly knew that Shi Tou was not that kind of person. After all, when he was in the military camp, this child was diligent and honest, and she saw it all.
She cleared her throat to interrupt Jiang Anran. She was too lazy to watch the show anymore. She was really tired. "Jiang Anran, leave the cakes here. You can go now."
As far as I can remember, Jiang Anran’s cooking skills were indeed quite good, and Jiang Qiao also knew that she wouldn’t dare to poison. If Jiang Anran dared to poison, there would be no role for Yan Qingli.
Jiang Anran stopped crying halfway: Ah?
She hasn't finished her performance yet.
"Shi Tou, have you ever eaten osmanthus cake?" Jiang Qiao turned and asked the child.
Shitou shook his head: "No."
Jiang Qiao took the food box from Feicui's hand and patted Jiang Anran's shoulder. "Sister Anran, thank you for your hard work. I want to eat osmanthus cake tomorrow."
Jiang Anran: ...are you here to order food from me? (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
"Sister, he is just an outsider. Do you want to protect him like this?"
Jiang Qiao handed the food box to Shitou and casually lowered his eyes. "Jiang Anran, I'm not protecting him. I'm just telling you in disguise that I can tell who's against me. I'm not a fool."
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