Chapter 75 The snoring was too loud
Back inside.
Jiang Wanru diligently brought over a vegetarian soup.
"I noticed my sister didn't eat much for dinner, so I went to the kitchen to ask for some."
"Breakfast tomorrow will not be served until after the Buddhist scriptures are finished, and I don't know when that will be. Sister, you should have something to eat first."
Jiang Wan Ning took the soup bowl, rubbing her fingers back and forth on the bowl's surface. "My sister remembered it wrong."
I ate a lot for dinner.
"Monks believe in not wasting food, so why don't you drink this bowl of soup, sister?"
As Jiang Wanning spoke, she held out the soup bowl to Jiang Wanru's side.
A smile played on his lips.
Jiang Wanru was taken aback at first, but quickly took the soup bowl back. "It's because my sister didn't see it clearly."
"How about the older sister has a cup of tea to keep her younger sister company?"
“My sister and I haven’t had a meal or chatted together in a long time. I think my sister might have some misunderstanding about me.”
Jiang Wan Ning smiled and said, "Little sister, you're overthinking it. What misunderstanding could there be?"
He took the teacup, gently blew away the foam on the surface of the tea, and took a sip.
He glanced at Jiang Wanru, who was drinking soup, and saw a smug smile flash across her face.
late at night.
Jiang Wanru called out "sister" softly several times.
Seeing that the other party did not answer, he sneered, "Jiang Wan Ning, after today I want to see who will want a woman who has not kept her chastity."
"Even if the Prince of Langya loves you very much, he can't withstand the ridicule of the world."
“My dear sister, with your chaste and resolute nature, I really don’t know whether you will shave your head and become a nun or kill yourself when you wake up tomorrow.”
After Jiang Wanru finished speaking, she raised her hand and patted the ground.
The door was opened from the outside.
Zhang Sheng complained, "Why did it take so long?"
It was so cold up in the mountain. He squatted by the back window for a long time, and then covered his mouth and sneezed as he spoke.
Jiang Wanru got out of bed. "If we're going to do something, we should do it perfectly. I'll wait until she's really asleep. Even though she's been drugged, we still have to be careful."
Zhang Sheng looked at Jiang Wan Ning, who was lying on the bed with her eyes closed, and subconsciously swallowed. "Okay, you can go now."
He then started to take off his clothes and get into bed.
"What do you mean, 'exit'!" Jiang Wanru scoffed. "If you're all in this room, how am I supposed to explain this tomorrow?"
"Isn't your house right next door? Move her into your house."
"Then, tomorrow morning I'll say that she went out in the middle of the night saying she had a stomachache, and never came back."
Zhang Sheng stroked his chin and quickly closed his clothes. "Damn it, why didn't you say so earlier?"
He was already quite impatient; Jiang Wan Ning was not only the legitimate daughter of the Marquis's mansion, but also incredibly beautiful.
It's true that dying under a peony is still a romantic death.
Zhang Sheng carried the person to the next house.
Early the next morning.
The crowd listening to the master's lecture on Buddhist scriptures was about to disperse.
Jiang Wanru rushed to Zhou Shi and cried out, "Mother, something terrible has happened!"
Zhou frowned slightly. "What's the matter? Why are you in such a panic? Where is Ningning?"
Shen Ruzhi had also been with Zhou Shi since early morning. "Yes, where is Ningning?"
Jiang Wanru cried out anxiously, "My sister is missing!"
"What did you say?!"
Zhou and Shen Ruzhi spoke in unison.
"Why did it just disappear?"
“Last night my sister had tea with me. In the middle of the night she said she had a stomachache and wanted to go out. I wanted to stay with her, but she refused.”
"When I woke up this morning, I saw that there was no one by my sister's bedside, so I thought she had come to look for our mother."
“But after asking the crabapple and peony, they both said they hadn’t seen it. That’s why I rushed here to tell my mother.”
Zhou lost her balance and fell backward, but Shen Ruzhi quickly caught her.
Normally, if a woman goes missing and doesn't return home overnight, her family would secretly search for her.
Jiang Wanru took advantage of the presence of so many people to tell him that even if nothing happened, there would be bad rumors circulating in the future.
Shen Ruzhi said unhappily, "What nonsense are you talking about! Ningning must have taken the wrong way this morning."
"I...I'm not making this up. At first, I thought so too, but then I found that my sister's bedding was exactly the same as when she went out last night."
"This only means that my sister didn't come back all night!"
"Mother, we should quickly send someone to look for my sister, in case something has happened to her."
Jiang Wanru looked worried.
The ladies and young women from the surrounding mansions offered their condolences, while others were simply curious to see what was going on.
"Yes, let's look for it first. There were quite a few people in these mountains yesterday. Maybe we went to the wrong house."
"It's okay if we go to the wrong room, but it would be bad if that room turned out to be a man's room."
"What are you saying, Madam Li?" said the woman next to Madam Li, the wife of the Earl of Qingyuan. "The person hasn't even been found yet, so don't make wild guesses."
After saying that, he stepped forward to comfort Zhou, "Don't worry, Ning is smart and kind, she will surely be able to turn bad luck into good."
The speaker was Madam Wang, the wife of the Earl of Rong'an.
"Yes, Auntie, Ningning is so smart, of course she won't get into trouble, and she certainly won't let anyone with ulterior motives succeed,"
As she spoke, Shen Ruzhi glanced at Jiang Wanning beside her with an unfriendly look.
"Sister Chen, what are you saying? I'm just worried about you." Jiang Wanru said, shrinking back with a wronged expression, her shoulders trembling.
"I didn't say anything about you, why are you so eager to admit it?"
Shen Ruzhi, who has always had a fiery temper and is very straightforward, said, "Or are you feeling guilty?"
"If anything happens to Ningning, I'll make sure you pay with your life!"
"Alright, finding the person is the priority right now," said Lady Rong'an.
Zhou had calmed down by then. "What about the crabapple and peony?"
“They might be with Ningning,” Shen Ruzhi immediately chimed in.
If the three of them are together, it won't be just one person staying out all night, and it won't harm their reputation.
"Let's go find someone first," Zhou said.
The others followed and walked towards the meditation room in the backyard.
Some genuinely wanted to help find the person, such as Lady Rong'an.
Some people, like Lady Qingyuan, were waiting to see what would happen.
The group searched room by room.
At this time, the male guests who had gone to have breakfast also returned one after another. Seeing that everyone looked flustered, they inquired and went along with them.
When they arrived at Zhang Sheng's room from the previous day, they were about to knock on the door.
The door was opened from the inside.
"Ningning?"
Zhou was taken aback at first, then called out urgently.
"Sister, you scared me to death!" Jiang Wanru said, peeking slightly into the room. "What are you doing in this room, sister?"
"Your neck?"
Jiang Wan Ning covered herself with her collar, "It's nothing, I just got bitten by mosquitoes last night."
“Your snoring was so loud at night that I couldn’t stand it. Luckily, the next room was empty, so I came over.”
Jiang Wanning explained simply.
Jiang Wanru blushed. "I...when did I snore?"
Talking about a woman snoring in front of so many people, isn't that just making people laugh?
"You're naturally unaware of snoring."
“Mother, I’m fine, let’s go.” Jiang Wan Ning took Zhou’s hand.
Zhou, being an experienced woman, could tell whether the red mark on Jiang Wan Ning's neck was from a mosquito or something else. Not only her, but also...
Which of the ladies present doesn't know this?
"If I remember correctly, this meditation room was full yesterday."
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