The princes were all in a bad mood after being scolded by their father and emperor for no reason, and they all had gloomy faces when they walked out of the palace.

The fifth prince felt even worse.

He was confined to his house for three months without doing anything, and his salary was also fined for one year. More importantly, his father suspected him of harming his brothers and sisters, which was a disaster that came out of nowhere.

Among them, Yu Jin was the calmest.

Glancing at his calm expression, the Fifth Prince became furious and strode closer: "Stop!"

Yu Jin glanced at the fifth prince and smiled, "Brothers are friendly and respectful."

The Fifth Prince immediately held his breath in his chest, swallowing it unwillingly, and showing that he was too cowardly to do so.

If he had fought with the seventh brother just after leaving the palace, his father would probably have skinned him alive.

"Just wait for me!" In the end, the fifth prince could only leave a harsh remark and walk away.

Yu Jin raised his hand and pressed the wound on his arm. The wound was wrapped with a white handkerchief, a ginger-like handkerchief.

Thinking of Jiang Si's cold words, Yu Jin felt a dull pain in the wound.

"Seventh brother." A gentle voice came.

Facing others, Yu Jin was impeccably cold and hard: "Fourth brother, is there something wrong?"

The fourth prince was almost choked to death, and then he smiled and said, "It's not safe outside, come to my place for a while. I heard today that you were assassinated, and your fourth sister-in-law and I are very worried..."

Yu Jin smiled but said nothing.

He just listened to the other party's nonsense.

The fourth prince coughed lightly and patted Yu Jin on the shoulder: "Let's go."

Yu Jin raised her hand and pushed away the Fourth Prince's hand: "No, I'm used to living alone."

To him, except for Asi, everyone else is an outsider, and he has no interest in living with outsiders.

Seeing Yu Jin walking away, the Eighth Prince, who had a decent relationship with the Fourth Prince, came over and said, "Fourth Brother, you treat him as your own brother, but others don't think so."

The fourth prince followed the tall figure in the distance and smiled, "Seventh brother has lived outside the palace since he was young, so he is different from us. I hope my brothers and sisters will bear with me."

"Fourth brother is such a good man." The eighth prince curled his lips.

The Fourth Prince said nothing more, but sneered in his heart.

It doesn't matter whether he is a good person or not, saying nice things doesn't cost money anyway. The more unsympathetic the seventh brother is, the more his virtue will be revealed. And isn't it the situation of brothers being friendly and respectful to each other that the emperor wants to see most?

Yu Jin returned to his house in Quezi Hutong, lay down on the bed, and stared at the ceiling without saying a word.

Long Dan poked his head out quietly and said to Leng Ying with some concern, "Master, is the poison still there? He seems a little strange."

"Um."

Long Dan rolled his eyes and said, "Speak like a human being."

It’s better to talk to Erniu than to someone like Leng Ying who has nothing to do with you.

"I don't know, but something is definitely wrong." Leng Ying said a few more words, which was rare.

"Why don't you go and persuade him?" Long Dan urged his young companion.

Lengying shook his head.

He is just a man of few words, not stupid. Running over to persuade them at this time would be like walking into the muzzle of a gun.

Long Dan thought for a moment, then waved to Erniu who was lying in the corner, "Erniu, go check on the master. If you can make the master happy, you will have braised beef in sauce later."

Erniu glanced at Longdan with disdain and went into the house.

The room was quiet. Erniu came to the bed, jumped up with his hind legs, and lay down beside Yu Jin.

Yu Jin turned and stared at Erniu for a while, then suddenly smiled, stroking the fur on its back and sighing, "In the future... you can't just jump onto my bed casually, understand?"

Erniu tilted his head and looked at his master: "Woof!"

"Go down quickly, or you'll get all the hair on the bed." Yu Jin said with a cold face.

Erniu was not afraid of Yu Jin's cold face. He opened his mouth, bit his sleeve and pulled him under the bed.

"Erniu——" Yu Jin stretched out his voice to warn.

He really wasn't in the mood to join in the fun with Erniu.

Erniu persisted in pulling people down.

Yu Jin stood up with a sullen face and let Erniu drag him into the yard.

It was almost noon. The leaves of the albizzia trees in the yard were glowing white, and the cicadas hidden deep in the branches were chirping in an annoying way.

Erniu quickly ran to a corner and started digging. After a while, he dug out something, ran back with it in his mouth and put it in Yu Jin's hand.

It was a small rattan ball. Although it looked worn out from being buried in the soil, it was delicately crafted.

Yu Jin remembered that this happened when Erniu had just arrived in the capital and saw a few children playing sepak takraw and almost trying to steal the ball in the street, so he asked Long Dan to buy a sepak takraw ball for him to play with.

Erniu likes to dig holes and hide his favorite things, and the sepak takraw ball is obviously one of them.

Yu Jin looked at the rattan ball in his hand, and his chilled heart warmed up.

If that cruel girl makes him sad again, he might as well just live with Erniu.

Erniu glanced at his master warily.

I don’t know what kind of messed up things the owner is thinking about. If he had the time to bring the mistress back earlier, it would have been less worried.

Erniu looked towards the courtyard gate, and some terrifying scenes flashed through his mind, which was much simpler than that of humans.

After leaving the rented house, Jiang Si did not return to the Dongping Marquis's Mansion, but went to a forest in the city.

Today is the summer solstice, the day she has been waiting for for a long time, and this is also why she chose this day to leave the Yongchang Earl's Mansion.

On the summer solstice, the yin energy arrives and the yang energy begins to decline. This day is at a delicate balance point between the yin and yang energies, which is a good time to nourish certain unique living creatures.

She wants to raise a kind of insect, the mother of which parasitizes on a tree called "Taiping". When it is born, it lies at the root of the tree and gradually moves upward until it moves to the top of the tree, closest to the sun, on the summer solstice. After the summer solstice, if no one collects the mother insect, which grows on the tree like a tumor, the mother insect will burst open and everything will return to dust.

Jiang Si didn't want to miss this day and wait until next year. She still had a lot of things to do in the future, and having one more kind of insect in hand meant having one more tool.

Sitting high on the treetop, Jiang Si took the mother insect he had found without hesitation.

This kind of insect has a nice name, called Spring Return. Just like the Huanying, it can be collected in the hand through special means and nourished with its own flesh and blood.

She had raised phantom insects in her previous life, but had never raised this kind of dragon.

Thinking of this, Jiang Si laughed to himself.

At first she thought that she had no use for the dragon and was disgusted by its abilities. Now she thinks it was a stupid decision.

There are no useless abilities in this world, only useless people.

These insects live on the palm of their owner's hand. However, they are the size of a copper coin, and the actual number of them is impossible to estimate. They can enter the corpse like dust and control the movements of the corpse according to the owner's mind. People who don't know the inside story would think that the dead have come back to life or are stealing corpses, so it is named "Spring Return".

Having successfully received the spring return, Jiang seemed to put his worries aside. He jumped down from the tree lightly, landed on the ground, and stepped on the thick grass without making much sound.

She steadied herself, raised her hand to tidy up her loose long hair, and then paused.

Not far away, a handsome young man looked at the girl falling from the sky with a dull expression.