Ye Chaoxi leaned weakly against him, tears streaming down her face from the kisses. She covered her mouth and cursed, "You bastard! Why didn't you ask me why I packed my bags?! I'm not angry, why did I leave?!"
She bit his shoulder hard in anger.
Xie Qinglan paused, her sinister expression crumbling, cracking open with a hint of confusion.
"You're really not angry?"
Ye Chaoxi gritted her teeth until they ached, but she didn't complain of pain. She just snorted and spat out, "Why should I be angry? Do you think I'm the kind of person who believes everything I'm told? Of course I'll believe you, a stranger."
"But you, without even asking what happened, treated me like this. My mouth is sore from all this!"
Knowing he was in the wrong, Xie Qinglan quickly reached out and rubbed her lips; they were slightly swollen from his kiss.
"I'm sorry, it was my fault, I won't do it again. But I meant everything I said, you're not allowed to leave me, do you hear me?"
Ye Chaoxi responded with an "oh," which was taken as an agreement.
Realizing it was a misunderstanding, Xie Qinglan abruptly changed the subject, "So where are you packing your bags to go?"
"Tomorrow is your birthday. I was planning to go to a nice place with you, but you treated me like this. Now I don't want to go anymore."
"Where to?" Xie Qinglan coaxed her. "How can we not go? The place you've prepared for me must be wonderful, we absolutely have to go. I haven't been out in a long time, and it's so boring and dull in the manor. How about taking me out to relieve my boredom?"
Ye Chaoxi was worried that Xie Qinglan wouldn't agree to go, but seeing that he was trying to coax her into going out, she readily agreed, "Alright. As for where we're going, it'll be a secret. You'll understand when we get there."
She broke free from Xie Qinglan's embrace and pushed him out, saying, "Have Zhuo Qing pack some clothes for you. We're going to stay away for a few days. I'll go and tell Zhang Shi."
"good."
When Ye Chaoxi arrived at the main courtyard, she found that Zhang was not there. After asking around, she learned that Zhang had gone to Xie Changyu's courtyard to take care of her son.
Ye Chaoxi went to Xie Changyu's Tianxiang Garden again.
A servant announced that the Crown Prince's wife had arrived.
Upon hearing Ye Chaoxi's name, Xie Changyu reacted as if he had seen a ghost, instinctively shrinking two inches into the bed.
His current state is entirely thanks to this woman. If she hadn't slandered him, Xie Qinglan wouldn't have gone mad and had him beaten so badly he couldn't get out of bed for ten days or half a month!
"What is she doing here? Yu'er, you lie down, I'm going to see her." Madam Zhang got up and walked outside.
It was only at this moment that Zhang remembered that she had such a daughter-in-law. She had been busy taking care of her son and hadn't had time to establish authority over Xie Qinglan's wife.
She walked out with the air of a mother-in-law, and before she could even speak, Ye Chaoxi cut to the chase, "Madam, tomorrow is the young master's birthday, and I plan to take him out for a stroll. We won't be staying at the manor for the next few days."
Since Xie Qinglan doesn't consider Zhang Shi her mother, Ye Chaoxi won't call her mother either.
"Qinglan has bad legs and can't see, how can he go out with you to relax? Has his leg gotten better?" Zhang immediately asked, this was her biggest concern.
Ye Chaoxi lowered her eyes forlornly, "It is precisely because his legs have not improved that the young master has been depressed and lying in bed all day long, so I wanted to go out with him to relax and comfort him."
Zhang was relieved. "Alright, you can go now. Remember to let me know if Qinglan's legs have any problems in the future. Although I'm not his biological mother, I still care about him."
“Qinglan and I are not close. We, as mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, should keep in touch more so that I can know how he is doing.”
Ye Chaoxi obediently nodded in agreement, then shyly made an outrageous demand, "We need money to go out and play. The young master's monthly allowance is all used to treat his legs. Tinglan Garden is really out of money. How about the Lady of the Marquis gives us four or five hundred taels as a subsidy?"
Zhang, "..."
Can she say no?
But since he had just said he cared about Xie Qinglan, she had now put him on a pedestal and he couldn't refuse.
Zhang sent someone to fetch four hundred taels of silver for Ye Chaoxi, her eyes conveying an ambiguous meaning, "Have fun, and come back when you've had your fill."
With four hundred taels of silver, Ye Chaoxi returned to Tinglan Garden satisfied.
Xie Qinglan didn't have many things, and Zhuo Qing was prepared, so she packed them up quickly. Almost as soon as Ye Chaoxi returned, her things were packed up.
Xie Qinglan: "Shall we go now?"
Ye Chaoxi originally planned to go early the next morning, but seeing that it was still not late and the hot spring resort in the suburbs of Beijing was not far from the capital, she should be able to arrive before dark, so she said she would go now.
Ye Chaoxi instructed Cuiyu to prepare the carriage, then ran back into the house, stuffed the things she had bought that morning into a bundle, and gave the bundle to Juying to carry.
The group of five quickly left the mansion. Zhuo Qing sat in front driving the carriage, while Ju Ying and Cui Yu sat outside the carriage, showing great foresight.
As soon as the carriage left the manor and turned a corner, Zhuo Qing suddenly said, "Young Master, someone is following us."
"Get rid of them."
"Yes," Zhuo Qing replied, then drove the carriage around, turning a corner towards a more crowded area.
Ye Chaoxi quietly lifted the carriage curtain to look behind her. The people following them didn't dare to get too close, and she couldn't see anything from a distance.
"Who sent them?"
Xie Qinglan had expected this, and her expression remained unchanged. "Zhang Shi."
Zhang had been secretly watching his movements. She dared not make a move while he was in the mansion, fearing she would be held accountable. Now that he was leaving the city, Zhang was not about to let this opportunity pass.
After agreeing to leave the manor with Ye Chaoxi, Xie Qinglan made all the arrangements.
The carriage passed through the bustling city. At this hour, there were many people on the street. The Xie family's carriage was easy to spot. When it passed an intersection, an identical carriage turned out of the alley and merged into the crowd, while Ye Chaoxi's carriage turned into the alley.
The people following them from a distance had their view blocked by several pedestrians. When they went around them, they saw only a horse-drawn carriage driving swaggering down the street. Without suspecting anything, the group quickly followed.
Watching the group disappear from sight, Ye Chaoxi began to flatter, "My husband is so clever! Were all these people arranged by you in advance?"
Xie Qinglan hummed in agreement and smiled faintly, clearly pleased. "My husband is so clever, shouldn't my wife give him a reward?"
What do you want?
Xie Qinglan looked ahead, but raised her hand to find Ye Chaoxi's lips, gently massaging them with her thumb, the meaning of which was self-evident.
Ye Chaoxi slapped his hand away, huffing and puffing, "My mouth still hurts!"
"Has it been hurting for so long? Should we apply some medicine?"
Ye Chaoxi snorted. "That dog of a man, doesn't he know how hard he kissed me? He's just pretending to be so serious."
After about an hour's journey, the carriage arrived at the hot spring estate that Ye Chaoxi had just bought. The previous owner named the estate Wenyue Estate, and Ye Chaoxi thought the name was good, so she didn't change it.
Zhuangzi is located halfway up a mountain. The terrain is not too high. There is a road leading directly to the entrance of Zhuangzi, which is just wide enough for a horse-drawn carriage to pass through.
As soon as they got out of the car, the fresh, grassy scent of the mountains rushed towards them, instantly invigorating the group who had been cooped up in Beijing for a long time.
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