With quick reflexes, Shen Qiyin pulled Xianglan back several steps, then raised her cloak to shield the two of them.
Most of the firecrackers fell to the ground, exploding and sending up countless snowflakes.
However, Shen Qiyin blocked them all with her cloak.
But one of them landed right on her cloak and exploded with a "snap".
The firecrackers that Jia Lan was playing with were small pieces taken from a whole string of firecrackers. They weren't very powerful, especially since they were separated by a cloak. They didn't hurt Shen Qiyin or Xianglan, but they did startle the latter.
Hearing Xianglan scream in fright, Jia Lan jumped up and down excitedly, clapping his hands and saying, "Haha, coward!"
Even more deadly is—
Sparks from the explosion landed on the cloak's fur and instantly caught fire.
Seeing this, Jia Lan seemed to find it even more interesting.
"Oh! Oh! Fire! Fire!" He exclaimed happily, showing no fear of death that one should have at his age. "Come and see! They're going to be burned to death!"
Shen Cang and Jiang Wan rushed over, and the latter quickly covered Jia Lan's mouth to stop him from talking nonsense.
On the other side, Shen Qiyin made a decisive move, taking off her cloak and throwing it into the snow. Xianglan cooperated perfectly, throwing up a few handfuls of snow, which instantly extinguished the fire.
"Qiyin!" Shen Cang rarely showed her a worried and concerned expression: "Are you alright?" He was pointing at her face to hook up with Prince Xiao, so he couldn't let it be ruined like this.
As father and daughter, Shen Qiyin knew exactly what he was thinking, so she ignored him completely, simply walking past him and looking coldly at Jia Lan not far away, her eyes as icy as the overwhelming frost and snow.
Jiang Wan's heart skipped a beat. She quickly shielded Jia Lan behind her and whispered to the maid beside her, "Take the young master back first."
"……yes."
Zhu'er hesitated before responding, secretly glancing at Chen Qiyin several times.
Would the second young lady agree?
Sure enough, just as Zhu'er took a step, she heard Shen Qiyin's voice sound calmly: "Stop."
Pearl immediately stopped in her tracks!
Jiang Wan frowned.
She seemed to hesitate for a moment, then twisted her hands and said carefully, "Second Miss, Lan'er is still just a child, and it's inevitable that he'll be a little naughty. You're a magnanimous person, so please don't hold it against him."
"Compared to my aunt, I am still a child. If I do anything to upset her later, please don't hold it against me."
After saying that, she pointed at Jia Lan and said, "Tie him to a tree!"
"Let's see who dares!" Jiang Wan thought his intimidation was quite impressive, but when he turned his head, he saw that the ropes on Jia Lan's body were already wrapped around her twice.
Jia Lan struggled for a while: "Mother!"
"Help me!"
"I don't want to be tied to a tree, I don't want to!"
Seeing this, Jiang Wan hurriedly pleaded with Shen Cang: "Master, please persuade the second young lady. Lan'er is still a child. What if he gets frightened by these shouts of violence?"
Shen Cang, however, had a gloomy face and did not speak.
Shen Qiyin said with a half-smile, "So easily frightened, yet you still let him play with firecrackers, Auntie?"
"...Yes, it was my oversight. I won't let him play with it anymore."
"We'll talk about the future later."
“Auntie, I said before that I never argue with children. If he hits me, I hit him back; if he scolds me, I scold him back. Today he whipped me, so I can only whip him back.”
"What?! You're going to throw it back?" Jiang Wan couldn't believe her ears. "Those are firecrackers! They can hurt people!"
"Oh, so you knew firecrackers could hurt people? You still let him play with them?"
"But I...didn't I say this is the last time?"
"Then I would have said that we should finish today's work today!"
After saying that, Shen Qiyin didn't waste any more words with her. She just had Jia Lan tied up tightly and then sent someone to fetch a string of whips.
In front of Jiang Wan, they were all pulled out one by one.
Seeing that she was determined to whip Jia Lan, and knowing that she couldn't persuade her otherwise, Jiang Wan had no choice but to go and beg Shen Cang again.
She knelt at his feet, pleading with a sob in her voice, "Master, please say something! Please persuade the second young lady. What if something bad happens to Lan'er? How am I supposed to live?"
Shen Cang's mouth moved, about to say something, but Shen Qiyin spoke up: "Father, your own children are either dead or insane, and you don't seem to care. Now you're suddenly worried about other people's children?"
Upon hearing this, Shen Cang's face darkened.
He snorted and shook off Jiang Wan's hand, saying unhappily, "Lan Ge'er is so unruly, he'll cause a big disaster sooner or later. Since you yourself are unwilling to discipline him, it's good to let Qi Yin help you manage him."
"master!"
"Alright!" Shen Cang became even more annoyed. "Look at the mess you've made! Aren't you going to annoy me enough already?"
Her perfectly good house almost burned down, and she still had the nerve to beg for mercy!
Jiang Wan knew that Shen Cang was getting impatient, so she could only compromise and say, "...What the master said is certainly reasonable. Lan Ge'er should be punished. Slapping his palms and spanking his bottom are all acceptable, but how can we let the child be whipped to death?"
"If word gets out, people might not say that Lan-ge'er is naughty, but they might think that the master is being unfair to him, and that he is being mistreated because he is not your biological son."
Upon hearing this, Shen Qiyin chuckled: "He's not only not Father's biological son, he's not even your son, Aunt, is he?"
Others didn't react negatively to this, but Jia Lan objected: "You're talking nonsense! I'm my mother's biological son!"
"no."
"that is!"
“No, that’s not it!” Shen Qiyin argued with him with great interest: “Your mother herself admitted that you were born to someone else, and that she just took you in and raised you.”
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