Chapter 152 The younger brother forces the maid to bring the young lady back home?
"Don't worry, sister. I will help you find out what she is going to do and make sure she vomits everything."
Xie Yan's previous stubbornness and grievance disappeared, his eyes dancing with excitement that was hard to look at, and he even interrupted Bai Zhu.
Bai Zhu clasped his fists and said, "I obey your command."
Xie Yan was about to follow him, but after stepping out of the door, he turned back.
He lifted his clothes and knelt on one knee at Xie Yao's feet in front of the others' surprised gazes.
Xie Yan raised his head and looked up at Xie Yao. His jawline was tense, like a domestic dog that had retracted all its claws in front of its owner, and there was a burning emotion in his eyes.
"Sister, no matter what you want to do, I will stand by your side," he said.
Xie Yao looked at the handsome face of the young man and thought of Xiao Yizi's cousin Xiao Yunzhou.
Yunzhou's cousin is handsome, and he has great vision and admires General Gu.
Compared to him, my younger brother is not as cute, after all, he looks like Xie Mingan.
But he is his brother after all.
She raised her hand, touched Xie Yan's hair with her palm, and patted it twice: "Got it."
Xie Yan seemed to have been comforted in some way. He lowered his head contentedly and lowered his dark brown eyes.
Xu Susu: "But, what exactly is Fang'er going to do?"
Xie Yao said: "No matter what she wants to do, from this moment on, she can't do anything."
Bai Zhu led Ming'er and Xie Yan, and as soon as they left Wanxiangyuan, Xie Yan turned and headed in the opposite direction of the kitchen.
He didn't say a word to Bai Zhu, nor did he explain where he was going.
Although Bai Zhu had some doubts in his heart, he was not Bai Mi - he was a man of few words and did not ask questions.
With Ming'er's guidance, Bai Zhu quietly caught Fang'er on her way back to the kitchen.
When Xie Yan rushed to the woodshed, Fang'er had been tied to a pillar with a piece of cloth stuffed in her mouth, her face full of horror.
Bai Zhu walked forward and saw that there was an extra bag in Xie Yan's hand.
"This is?"
"I went to her residence and searched, and found something," Xie Yan said in a relaxed tone, his smile gentle. "Guard Bai, right? I wonder if you could be so kind as to let me talk to her alone."
Bai Zhu had no objection. Xie Yan was the princess's younger brother and was only a fifteen-year-old boy.
He turned and left, standing outside the door without saying a word.
In the woodshed, only Xie Yan and Fang'er were left.
The young man slowly walked up to Fang'er, seemingly casually, but in fact he was always paying attention to his feet, deliberately avoiding some dirty black charcoal fragments on the ground to avoid dirtying his boots.
He took the cloth out of Fang'er's mouth.
"Young Master, I didn't do anything. I really didn't. They arrested the wrong person. Please let me go!"
Fang'er recognized Xie Yan and immediately started crying.
"Didn't do anything wrong?"
Xie Yan looked down at her with a cold look in his eyes and threw the bag in his hand to the ground.
The bundle fell apart, and he bent over a scattered silver collar, tapping it with his fingertips.
"The monthly allowance that the Bo Mansion gives you is really generous. This is real silver. Did you give it to your brother? I heard he is six years old this year, such a small child."
When Fang'er saw the familiar bundle, she stopped crying instantly, stared blankly at the silver collar, and her face turned pale.
This was the necklace she had hidden in her pillow, intending to send it home to her brother after the hype died down.
"Young Master, how did you know..."
"You call me Little Uncle, so tell me, how should I know?"
Xie Yan's voice was cold and calm: "What on earth did Aunt Sun ask you to do? And how many benefits did she promise you?"
Fang'er's tears welled up again: "Young Master, this servant, this servant, please forgive me, Young Master. I really didn't do anything. I just accepted the money given by the master, but I would never dare to harm anyone."
Xie Yan took a step forward, a shadow looming over her. "You're just a chess piece that's thrown away after being used. Do you really think you'll still be alive to spend those fifty taels after you've done what she told you to do?"
Fang'er trembled all over, remembering that when Miss Xie Zhi was still alive, she would beat and scold her and other maids at will.
Aunt Sun tried to dissuade them on the surface, and acted very virtuous and considerate to the servants in front of outsiders, but she would turn around and sell anyone who offended the eldest lady to a farm in the countryside to do hard labor.
Yes, Aunt Sun is so generous this time, will she really let her go?
Seeing the panic in her eyes, Xie Yan's tone suddenly softened, even bringing out a gentleness that made people indulge: "But, you don't have to be afraid."
He raised his hand as if to wipe Fang'er's tears, but his fingertips did not touch her. Instead, he put the collar in her arms.
Xie Yan was standing with his back to the light. The boy's face was already handsome, and now his coldness had faded, his eyes showed a bit of pity, which made Fang'er's heart beat faster.
She had been in the uncle's house for three years, and this was the first time she saw the young uncle so closely. She hadn't expected him to be so handsome.
"Fang'er, your master's Aunt Sun is just a concubine of my father, the Earl of Wenchang, and I am the legitimate son of the Earl's family. From now on, everything in this Earl's family, including your life and death, will have the final say."
"As long as you tell me the truth, I promise I will keep you safe." Xie Yan approached her with a smile on his face, as if making a promise.
Fang'er's breathing became disordered.
"Not only that, I can also help you escape from slavery, and your brother will definitely receive the gift you give him."
Xie Yan's last words completely tilted Fang'er's heart.
"Three days ago, fifty taels of silver and a letter suddenly appeared in my own box at my residence. Aunt Sun knew I could read a few words, so she instructed me in the letter to accuse Madam Bo of poisoning the Second Young Lady at her return banquet!"
"Be good, continue—"
After a while, Xie Yan walked out of the woodshed and told Bai Zhu what Fang'er had said.
When Bai Zhu saw that Fang'er was actually untied by him and still looked shy and fearful, he was stunned for a moment and still said nothing.
He asked two of the palace's personal guards and Xie Yan to continue guarding the woodshed, while he himself rushed back to Wanxiangyuan to report to the princess.
At this moment, the sun was at its peak. Xu Susu went to the front hall and sent someone to pass on the message: "The banquet will probably start in half an hour. Princess, you can move to the dining room."
Xie Yao took a sip of her mother's snow-capped green tea and listened to Bai Zhu relay Xie Yan's words to her.
"Fang'er, are you only responsible for slandering your mother?"
Xie Yao murmured this, lowering her eyes to think carefully.
Yes, my mother was very dedicated to this return banquet and was very cautious. It was indeed difficult for her to let a maid who used to be in Aunt Sun's courtyard and was not very loyal do anything.
If she were Aunt Sun, she would not do such a risky thing.
Fang'er was just a backup plan used by Aunt Sun and Xie Ming'an to frame my mother, or in other words, she was the one who jumped out and pointed the finger at my mother.
There was a flash of understanding in her eyes.
I wonder if Xie Mingan will be anxious when Fang'er is gone...
Xie Yao put down the teacup, stood up and said, "Let's go to the front yard. The banquet is about to start."
As soon as I arrived at the dining room door, Xie Mingan came towards me.
Tea and snacks have been prepared on the table, and the servants are working in an orderly manner.
At this time, the guard Jiang Si came in panic: "Master, someone came to the front yard and said that Concubine Liu from the Anping Marquis's Mansion has returned with Miss Zhi."
When Xie Mingan learned that they were from the Anping Marquis Mansion, he was happy at first, but when he heard the second half of the sentence, his face darkened again.
Xie Zhi, that disgraceful thing, was just sent to Anping Hou as his concubine three days ago. How dare she return home at this time?
"Madam Liu from the Marquis of Anping's Mansion, which Madam Liu?" Xie Mingan asked.
Jiang Si said awkwardly, "It was Man'er who used to be a maid in Miss Zhi's room. Uncle, you forgot that she, Miss Zhi, and Anping Hou were together in Chengfo Temple—"
Xie Mingan interrupted angrily: "Enough!"
Jiang Si immediately fell silent.
Xie Ming'an's face became more and more ugly. He remembered that because of the maid's clean family background, Eunuch Qing took her away and freed her from slavery, saying that she had risen to a wealthy family and was taken as a concubine by Marquis Anping.
Now, the maid from their Xie family has become a legitimate concubine in the marquis's mansion, but his concubine's daughter Xie Zhi is just a concubine!
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