Seeing Qin Yi, Chu Jinyao felt inexplicably guilty. Today, Qin Yi warned her regardless of the danger, but she insisted on doing it. Chu Jinyao didn't think she was wrong, but she felt sorry for Qin Yi's kindness.

Qin Yi's eyes seemed to be covered with thousands of miles of ice. He sat opposite and said to Chu Jinyao: "Give me your hand."

When Qin Yi said this, his voice was flat, but it was like a bow of ten thousand kilograms, containing tremendous pressure. Chu Jinyao listened and stretched out her hand obediently.

Qin Yi's almost transparent hand held Chu Jinyao's fingertips and carefully checked Chu Jinyao's injuries. Chu Jinyao's hands were originally covered with a thin layer of silk cords. After returning to Changxing Marquis' Mansion, she took good care of

them, and the silk cords on her hands faded a lot, and even her skin became fair. Because of this, after being beaten, her palms were swollen, which made her look particularly scary. Qin Yi grew up in the palace since he was a child. All the women he met were delicate and tender. He almost subconsciously thought that women were such delicate porcelain. During these days in Changxing Marquis' Mansion, although he was not very happy at first, he gradually taught Chu Jinyao to behave and write, and later he carefully guided her in the inner house. As long as Qin Yi was around, no one dared to do this to Chu Jinyao, even the maids in the East Palace. And Chu Jinyao was the one he took good care of, but she was beaten like this.

Qin Yi frowned and said nothing. Chu Jinyao gradually became a little uneasy. She whispered to Qin Yi: "I'm fine, it just looks serious, but it doesn't hurt much. I was raised in a free-range environment when I was a child. I'm not as rich as a rich lady. These are nothing to me."

Qin Yi gently touched the palm of Chu Jinyao's hand, and she immediately took a breath uncontrollably. Qin Yi knew that he had used too much force. He retracted his hand and looked at Chu Jinyao and sighed: "It's already like this, and you still say it's not serious?"

Chu Jinyao couldn't reply. Qin Yi looked at her for a while and said, "I remember there is an ointment with a very good effect. After applying it, even whip marks can heal quickly without leaving scars. I remember it seems to be called... Jade Scar Ointment. Ask the maids to look for it in the warehouse."

"Jade Scar Ointment?" Chu Jinyao was surprised. "I remember hearing my cousin from the Lin family mention that Jade Scar Ointment is the best medicine for wounds. It has always been a tribute. Even the Huailing Palace may not have it, so how can I find it in the storehouse of the Changxing Marquisate?"

Qin Yi pinched his eyebrows and said, "Is it a tribute? I can't remember clearly, so let me do it."

Chu Jinyao was scared to death after hearing this. She hurriedly said, "Don't get excited and rob the tribute. You will be beheaded! I think these medicines are the same. Just use my eldest sister's. I can see you, and others should be able to see you too. Don't act rashly!"

Qin Yi didn't say anything, but just said, "Don't worry about these. Give me the medicine. These ointments must be applied thickly so that they will be effective tomorrow morning."

"I only hurt one hand, I can do it myself." Chu Jinyao picked up the medicine bottle and planned to apply the medicine herself. Qin Yi was a man after all, even if he was a monster, the more she felt that this was inappropriate.

Qin Yi stretched out his hand to her and said lightly: "Give it to me."

Chu Jinyao felt an inexplicable pressure. She rarely saw Qin Yi like this. Although he was calm, people dared not look at him closely. Chu Jinyao paused in her hand movement. She looked up at Qin Yi, but was frightened by the undercurrent in the other's eyes. She didn't dare to confront Qin Yi anymore, and obediently put the medicine bottle in Qin Yi's hand.

Qin Yi twisted the medicine bottle and applied the medicine to Chu Jinyao skillfully and lightly. Qin Yi's hands were illusory to begin with, and his movements were very light, so Chu Jinyao didn't feel any pain at all. It was even more comfortable than when Ding Xiang applied the medicine.

Chu Jinyao watched Qin Yi carefully apply the medicine to her, and was a little dazed for a moment. When she came to her senses again, she saw Qin Yi put away the medicine. His slender fingers held the thin neck of the porcelain bottle and gently put it aside. The elegant white porcelain bottle looked particularly beautiful against Qin Yi's exquisite cuffs. Qin Yi was wearing a narrow-sleeved dress, and the fine pattern on the cuffs could be vaguely seen. If it had been a few days earlier, Chu Jinyao would have recognized that this was a four-clawed python dragon pattern.

Qin Yi applied the medicine to Chu Jinyao, put away the things, looked up and said to her: "You are tired today, go to sleep first."

Chu Jinyao thought it was not right: "I go to sleep first? What about you?"

Qin Yi paused for a while. He was already seventeen years old, and he was old enough to marry a concubine. Although in the eyes of the elders, he was still a prince who needed to be well cared for, but for Qin Yi, he had been walking independently in the court for many years and was already an adult man. Hearing Chu Jinyao's words, Qin Yi naturally thought of another meaning that all men in the world would think of, and then he forced himself to turn his thoughts back, and said to Chu Jinyao with a bit of disappointment: "You speak... Think about it!"

Chu Jinyao was simply puzzled: "What's wrong?" Because Qin Yi needed to stay by the jade pendant, she always slept in the inner room and put the jade pendant on the table in the second room. Sometimes when Qin Yi was in a good mood, Chu Jinyao would say good night to Qin Yi before going to bed. Therefore, Chu Jinyao asked this question casually, and she really couldn't understand what was wrong with it.

Chu Jinyao never expected that such a simple sentence would be misunderstood by someone.

Qin Yi's ears were a little red, but he was a soul body, so faint that it was almost invisible. Qin Yi didn't want to explain, so he rushed Chu Jinyao with a serious face: "Go to bed, don't worry about it!"

Chu Jinyao was pushed to bed in a daze. She was still wondering in her heart, what's wrong with this person, why is his talk incoherent.

Chu Jinyao wanted to rest, Qin Yi returned to the jade pendant, and asked Dingxiang, Kikyo and others to come in and help Chu Jinyao remove her hair and change clothes. After the lights in the inner room went out and the noise stopped, Qin Yi emerged from the jade pendant, avoided Dingxiang and others, and walked towards the dark and silent Changxing Marquis Mansion.

The next day, Chu Zhu, Lin Xiyuan and others were leaving. Although there was a lot of noise yesterday, the date set to return to the palace could not be changed. Chuzhu got up early in the morning. After she had done her makeup, she directed the servants to load things onto the car. Chu Jinmiao knew that Chuzhu was leaving, so she came early. After she entered the room, she timidly said to Chuzhu, "Aunt." When

Chuzhu saw Chu Jinmiao, she quickly pulled her over to take a closer look. She asked the maid to continue moving things outside, and she pulled Chu Jinmiao into the inner room, sat down and comforted her: "Miao'er, your grandmother was angry yesterday, and I couldn't plead for you. You won't blame your aunt, right?"

"Of course not." Chu Jinmiao smiled shyly and said, "I know how good my aunt is to me."

"That's good." Chu Zhu smiled with relief. She looked at Chu Jinmiao's hand and said distressedly, "You have been in pain for a long time since you were a child when you were pricked by a needle. Yesterday you were beaten with a stick. What a thing. Mother is really, it's obviously not your fault, why do you have to beat you too!"

Chu Jinmiao also felt very wronged. When Chu Zhu said this, she almost shed tears. Chu Jinmiao said tearfully: "Aunt, don't say anything, don't blame grandma."

Then who should be blamed? Chu Jinmiao didn't say anything more, but Chu Zhu already understood. Chu Zhu was furious, so she patted Chu Jinmiao's hand and said, "Miao'er, don't worry. When I return to the palace, I will tell the princess and my mother-in-law about our family affairs. They are both high-ranking and knowledgeable people. They will definitely know who is the real rough diamond."

Chu Jinmiao was delighted and said quickly, "Thank you, aunt."

Chu Jinmiao was secretly pleased with herself. She had already convinced Nanny Deng, and now she had her aunt to help her. She was almost certain to get the position of tutor! Chu Jinmiao had not expected that the self-torture trick would work so well. A slap on the hand helped her get the position of tutor. In this case, Chu Jinmiao no longer felt resentful about the slap yesterday and Old Madam Chu who had given the order. She would let them go for now. When she became the tutor of the county lord and was appreciated by the crown prince in the future, Old Madam Chu would naturally realize her mistake and take the initiative to speak well of her.

Chu Jinmiao kept talking to Chu Zhu, and when the sun got higher, she accompanied Chu Zhu to sit in the old lady's room. When Chu Jinmiao walked in, she saw Chu Jinxian sitting on one side. When Chu Jinxian saw them, she stood up, bowed and saluted, then withdrew her gaze indifferently. Chu Jinmiao snorted in her heart, and sat on the other side with Chu Zhu, secretly competing with Chu Jinxian.

Chu Jinyao arrived soon after. She saluted the old lady, Chu Zhu and others, and then stood quietly on one side. Her expression was very calm. If her hands were not still wrapped in gauze, everyone would have thought that nothing had happened yesterday. When

the old lady Chu saw her daughter, she became more emotional and kept telling them to be careful on the road. More and more people came to Rongning Hall. Today Chu Zhu was leaving, and everyone had to come out to see her off. Chuzhu and Old Lady Chu were reluctantly saying goodbye when they saw a servant running in from outside. He bowed to Chuzhu and said, "Second Madam, the prince said everything is almost ready, it's time to go."

Chuzhu had no choice but to get up. Old Lady Chu didn't know when she would see him again, so she couldn't help but shed tears. Chuzhu also cried and said, "Mother, I'm leaving, take care!"

The old lady and Chuzhu both shed tears. When others saw this, they gave her some advice. Lin Xiyuan came in to say goodbye to Old Lady Chu. Seeing the mother and daughter crying, she said, "Old Lady Chu, there is no need to be like this. Grandmother will celebrate her birthday in a few days. I hope you can come. Then, you and Second Aunt will be able to see each other again." Old Lady

Chu wiped her tears and laughed, "Your Highness is right. Why are you crying like this? There will be many opportunities to meet each other in the future."

Chu Zhu also wiped her tears and agreed. Chu Zhu took Lin Xining, Lin Baohuan and Lin Baoying to say goodbye to Old Lady Chu, and then walked out. The others followed them out. Old Lady Chu was the elder, so there was no reason for her to go out to see her daughter off, so she could only stay in Rongning Hall. Others, such as Zhao, naturally had to personally see their aunt out of the house.

Lin Xiyuan took two steps and suddenly said, "Old Madam Chu, I suddenly remembered that I can't find a collection of my articles. Maybe I left it in the back room yesterday. Can I go and look for it?"

Old Madam Chu said quickly, "Why didn't you tell me earlier that the book you wrote was lost? This is a big deal. Go find it quickly!" Chu

Jinxian was accompanying Old Madam Chu. She was originally planning to go out to see Chu Zhu and others off. After hearing what Lin Xiyuan said, she stopped inexplicably.

Lin Xiyuan went to the back room, and he came back after a while. The old lady saw that Lin Xiyuan had the book in his hand, and she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's good that you found it. The prince is so polite. If you lost something, you can just come and look for it. Why wait a night?" As the old lady spoke, her eyes fell on the things in Lin Xiyuan's hand. She paused and asked, "Prince, you lost two books?"

"No." Lin Xiyuan raised another thread-bound book and looked at Old Madam Chu calmly, "This seems to be the Fourth Miss's collection of poems."

Old Madam Chu's expression suddenly changed. Chu Jinxian raised one eyebrow slightly and said, "Didn't the Fourth Miss say that she only had one collection of poems and it was torn up yesterday?"

Chu Jinmiao was standing at the door. When she heard her name, she hurried in to see, "Grandma, you called me?"

She came in with a smile. As soon as she walked through the partition, she saw what Lin Xiyuan was holding. Her face changed suddenly, "This..."

She wanted to say, how could this be here! This is a handwritten copy of her collection of poems, which she has always kept in her room. She had secretly used the manuscript to deceive people yesterday. The original copy of her poetry collection was torn up by the third lady's wife. Chu Jinmiao was very distressed, so she simply took advantage of the situation and secretly went back to get the manuscript. She showed it to everyone and put it away to avoid being recognized as wrong. Then she deliberately called people out and left Chu Jinyao behind. When she came back, she asked the maid to take out the torn original copy from her sleeve and pretended that she had just found it, so as to pin all the blame on Chu Jinyao.

So when Chu Jinyao questioned her yesterday and asked her not to have the manuscript, she was so panicked. Of course she had it, and Chu Jinyao guessed the truth without intending to.

Yesterday, Chu Jinmiao refused to admit it and even fooled Mrs. Zhao and Old Madam Chu, making everyone believe her and believe that it was Chu Jinyao who was jealous of Chu Jinmiao and tore up the collection of poems. Chu Jinmiao secretly took the intact copy back to her room, intending to give it to Madam Deng the next day as her own copy that she had rushed out overnight, and let Madam Deng take it back to the palace. This move can not only show her talent to Princess Huailing, but also completely destroy the evidence, killing two birds with one stone.

Chu Jinmiao made good arrangements and put the copy away yesterday, waiting to give it to Madam Deng at dawn. However, she did not expect that when she woke up early this morning, she could not find the copy. Chu Jinmiao asked people to look for it for a long time and had a big temper in the house, but still could not find it. Chu Jinmiao had no choice but to tell Aunt Deng that her poetry collection was torn by Chu Jinyao, and she was injured in her hand and could not stop him, so she had to break the appointment. Yesterday's incident had already reached Aunt Deng's ears. Aunt Deng understood what she meant and thought that Chu Jinmiao's hard work was really destroyed, so she comforted Chu Jinmiao and never mentioned it again.

After that, things went too smoothly, so smoothly that Chu Jinmiao forgot everything and even neglected the abnormality of this poetry collection that disappeared inexplicably. This time, when Chu Jinmiao saw it in Lin Xiyuan's hands unexpectedly, she felt like a thunderbolt hit her head in the clear sky, and she was unable to move or speak.

Old Madam Chu looked at the poetry collection in Lin Xiyuan's hand, and then looked at Chu Jinmiao's expression. What else did she not understand? In this way, it was also very strange that Lin Xiyuan suddenly proposed to go to the annex to find something. Is it such a coincidence that Lin Xiyuan just lost something, and while looking for something in the annex, he just happened to find the poetry collection that Chu Jinmiao said should have been torn up.

What is the trick, Old Madam Chu couldn't figure it out for a while, but she was at least sure that Chu Jinmiao lied. The old lady sneered in her heart, Chu Jinmiao, you framed the girl of their Chu family, not to mention, you even dared to set your sights on her! Is she, Old Madam Chu, so easy to calculate?

Madam Chu glanced at Chu Jinmiao silently, and Chu Jinmiao suddenly broke out in a cold sweat and almost knelt down. All the masters of the Chu family were standing outside the house. They were all outside sending Chu Zhu home in a bustling manner and had no idea what happened inside the house. Only three masters were standing in the house: Lin Xiyuan, Chu Jinxian and the old lady. If the old lady raised her voice a little and startled the others, Chu Jinmiao would be completely finished!

Tears welled up in Chu Jinmiao's eyes all of a sudden. She trembled and whispered to Madam Chu: "Grandma, I don't know what's going on either. You have to believe me! I really don't know anything!"

Madam Chu frowned and said nothing. The lines around her mouth drooped deeply. Chu Jinyao was standing at the door. She saw that Chu Jinmiao had been inside for a long time, and she felt something was wrong, so she turned around and went in. Chu Jinyao walked into the inner room and found that the atmosphere was not right. She didn't know what was going on, so she had to slow down and asked carefully: "Grandmother, elder sister, what's wrong?"

Chu Jinxian glanced at Chu Jinmiao with a sarcastic smile in her eyes. Old Madam Chu seemed to have finally made up her mind. She said to Lin Xiyuan: "Since the prince has found the book, everyone is happy. My girl is not promising, and I embarrass you. Come, take the things in the prince's hand."

The old lady's maid stepped forward and took the collection of poems from Lin Xiyuan. Taking this opportunity, Chu Jinyao finally saw clearly what Lin Xiyuan was holding in his hand.

Chu Jinyao opened her mouth in surprise, then she thought of something, immediately restrained her expression, and lowered her head quickly. Lin Xiyuan watched Old Madam Chu take the collection of poems, and he knew in his heart that the old ancestor of the Chu family did not intend to make a big deal out of this matter. After all, it was not a glorious thing for a girl who had been raised for thirteen years to frame the real daughter who had just returned. But Old Madam Chu was the leader of the back house, as long as she knew who was right and who was wrong, it was enough.

Lin Xiyuan let the maid put away the evidence and let the old lady settle the matter. He smiled and saluted to the old lady: "Old Madam Chu, I will take my leave first. There will be a banquet in the palace tomorrow, I hope you will not hesitate to come."

Old Madam Chu smiled faintly and nodded in agreement. Lin Xiyuan asked his followers to collect the things, and then walked out. When he passed by Chu Jinyao, he stopped and said, "I heard that the fifth cousin suffered yesterday. The fifth cousin is so proud and righteous that people admire her. This is the jade scar cream in the palace. It was given to me by the East Palace when I went to Beijing last year. These things will just be covered with dust if they are kept here. Why not give them to the fifth cousin?"

How could Chu Jinyao accept it? She immediately declined. Old Madam Chu held her sleeves and looked at it for a while, and said, "Jinyao, since the prince gave it to you, you should accept it."

She actually asked her to accept it? Chu Jinyao was overwhelmed, but since the old lady said so, she could only bow to Lin Xiyuan and obey, "Thank you, Prince."

The old lady said again, "Madame Gu, please escort the prince for me."

"Yes." Madame Gu walked towards Lin Xiyuan with a smile on her face and personally escorted Lin Xiyuan out. Chu Jinyao turned aside and waited for Lin Xiyuan and Madame Gu to leave. Chu Jinyao raised her head and secretly asked Chu Jinxian with her eyes.

What happened?

Chu Jinxian just shook her head, indicating that she should wait and see.

After Lin Xiyuan left, Chu Zhu's carriage could finally start. All the female relatives stood at the second gate and sent Chu Zhu away. In Rongning Hall, Old Madam Chu slammed the table in anger and shouted, "Why don't you kneel down!"

Chu Jinmiao's knees softened and she could no longer stand. She fell to her knees with a thump. Chu Jinmiao was frightened when she thought of the poetry collection that appeared inexplicably. She felt cold all over and couldn't figure out why.