Before Meng Zhixuan could fully react, he heard an excited and joyful voice.
"Zhixuan, you're here! You really scared me to death!"
It's Wei Wei!
Despite the excruciating pain in his ribs from the impact, Meng Zhixuan's voice sounded both surprised and bewildered: "Awei! You're alright?!"
Wei Wei nestled in his arms and nodded vigorously, looking up at him with tears in her eyes: "I stabbed those bad guys with a silver hairpin, and they ran away immediately in fright."
"I didn't dare wait for you where I was, so I hid to the side."
Meng Zhixuan's gaze fell on the silver hairpin that she was holding tightly in her hand.
The blood on it had already congealed, but the smell of blood had not yet disappeared.
He never expected that Wei Wei would single-handedly scare three grown men into backing away!
He suddenly felt inexplicably uneasy; this person was completely different from the one he remembered!
His heart skipped a beat, and he took another serious look at the person in his arms.
Her eyes reflected both trust in him and unease and fear about what had happened before.
It seems like nothing has changed.
While she was still in a daze, Wei Wei suddenly asked, "Did you just say that you were going to send someone to the Qin family to find me?"
"Isn't Zhixuan afraid they'll try to renege on their promise and frame me?"
Meng Zhixuan composed himself, his eyes flashing. "I was too anxious. For a moment, I wished I could kill all those people."
After saying that, she breathed a sigh of relief and, despite the pain, said, "Now that you're alright, I'm relieved."
Wei Wei clung tightly to Meng Zhixuan; his intention just now was to make her the target of everyone's condemnation!
If it were an ordinary young lady or lady from a poor family, they would have hanged themselves from the roof beam long ago by making such a big show of demanding people back!
Meng Zhixuan, oh Meng Zhixuan, your ruthlessness is truly direct.
Looking at the silver hairpin in her hand, which was now pointing directly at his heart, she wished she could forcefully stab it in right now, but she couldn't; that would be too easy on him.
The pain in his chest was too intense, and Meng Zhixuan gasped, finally unable to hold back any longer, and asked, "Awei, is something on you pressing on my chest?"
Wei Wei then seemed to remember something and pulled out half of a jade pendant from her collar.
It's not very big, but it's very thick.
It resembles a dragon and a phoenix intertwined, surrounded by auspicious clouds.
This jade pendant is translucent and made of the finest material.
Unfortunately, only the top half is shown.
Meng Zhixuan's eyes narrowed as he stared intently at the jade pendant until Wei Wei waved her hand in front of his face: "Zhixuan, can you hear me?"
Looking at the man's obviously distracted appearance, her smile deepened: "I found this this morning when I took out my dressing case from the storeroom."
"However, there were too many people and it was chaotic at the time, so by the time we saw the jade pendant inside, it was only half left."
She laughed and said, "I don't know if it was only half a piece to begin with, or if it was only half a piece left when my second brother accidentally knocked it to the ground."
With a hint of regret in her voice, she said, "If I had known there would be such a beautiful jade pendant, I would never have dared to let my second brother cause trouble!"
Meng Zhixuan's expression became increasingly strange, but anger was the dominant emotion.
He tentatively asked, "Didn't you notice before?"
Wei Wei shook her head: "That dowry was part of my mother's dowry. Although she specifically told me to keep it safe the day before my wedding, she didn't mention what was inside. Zhi Xuan, you know I have a lot of good things. I never thought there would be such a beautiful thing hidden inside."
Meng Zhixuan's gaze was frantic, as if he wanted to stare a hole through the jade pendant.
Wei Wei deliberately and slowly stuffed the jade pendant back into her neck.
That look was quite unusual: "Although it's only half, it doesn't look any worse than the others to me."
"Once we find the other half, we'll find the most skilled craftsman to restore it to its original state. It will be absolutely beautiful then!"
Wei Wei smiled at him, her voice seductive: "Zhi Xuan, will you help me find that other half?"
Meng Zhixuan tried to pretend he didn't care, but his rapid breathing betrayed the turbulent storm in his heart.
He said with a dark look in his eyes, "Okay."
Upon hearing the answer, Wei Wei smiled with satisfaction, as if she could already foresee the upheaval that would soon befall the Meng family.
Those who lingered in her house will surely meet a terrible end!
——
Meng Zhixuan was even more impatient than she had imagined.
Once the two returned to the Meng residence, after sending Wei Wei back to Tingfeng Pavilion, they turned around and, on the grounds that Meng Zhinan disrespected his elder sister-in-law, made someone kneel in the ancestral hall all night.
His anxiety and anger were alarming, but what was even more alarming was that after he made this decision, everyone, including the old lady, seemed to be speechless and no one objected.
At this moment, it was as if he had become the master of the entire Meng family.
Well, except for Madam Meng the Second.
Meng Zhinan had just been slapped by Wei Wei during the day and was thinking of complaining to Meng Zhixuan when he returned home, to show him what kind of person he had married!
Who would have thought that Meng Zhixuan would not stand up for them when he returned, but instead make his own son suffer!
In a hurry, he cried and begged Old Madam Meng.
The old lady refused to see her and sent someone to deliver a message: "Zhinan is indeed a bit naughty. It would be good for his older brother to keep an eye on him."
However, he immediately followed up with, "If you really don't want your child to suffer, you should go find your child's sister-in-law. The one who tied the knot must untie it."
Madam Meng was extremely unwilling. She had finally waited for her husband to return, only to find him to be a drunkard who couldn't even speak coherently.
She wanted to go find Meng Zhixuan, but Meng Zhixuan left home in a hurry after dealing with the matter.
She gritted her teeth and sat in the courtyard wiping away her tears for a long time. Her resentment and anxiety grew stronger, and she led her men to Tingfeng Pavilion in a menacing manner.
At this time, Wei Wei had already gone to bed.
The bitter and fishy taste in my mouth hadn't dissipated yet, and even though I spat out the medicine in time, I was still worried that some residue would be absorbed by my body.
Seeing Zhang Mama enter from outside, Wei Wei's expression turned cold.
This old man, who takes things too seriously, wasn't as arrogant after being made an example of a few days ago, but he still wouldn't let up on the matter of her taking the medicine.
We should take advantage of this opportunity to deal with her.
Even if Meng Zhixuan only believed a fraction of what she said, he would never easily give up the possibility of finding the jade pendant.
That thing was extremely important to him.
It's destined that the Meng family will be restless from tonight onwards; the disappearance of a few more people won't seem so abrupt.
Her eyes were unfathomable as she looked at the gloomy-faced Zhang Mama, her thoughts in turmoil.
"What the young mistress did was extremely unethical."
Just as she was pondering this, Granny Zhang's angry voice rang out, causing Wei Wei to raise her eyebrows.
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