Seeing Lan Qingtian sitting to the side with a worried expression, Lan Linxue rolled her eyes before lazily walking over: "Seventh Uncle, why did the Emperor send you? How strange!"
Lan Qingtian rolled her eyes and said irritably, "If I don't come, who will? Who else do you think you can send from the palace?"
"I didn't do anything, so why did he send you here?"
Lan Linxue stubbornly held his head high, but when Lan Qingtian glared at him, he coughed twice, his eyes darting left and right as he muttered under his breath, "There was no evidence to suggest that I was involved in any of this!"
"You still dare to be stubborn, don't you!"
Lan Qingtian feels pain in her heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys whenever she looks at Lan Linxue.
Lan Linxue glanced at Lan Qingtian, then hummed and mumbled without saying a word.
Lan Qingtian turned her head and glared at him, saying in a low but sharp voice, "The Emperor sends eighty pairs of eyes to watch you every day, afraid you'll cause trouble! And yet, you just had to do something so outrageous right under their noses. Tell me, if the Emperor didn't really know, why would he send me here with such urgent news? Let me tell you, Lan Linxue, your father is so angry in the palace that he's about to slit his own throat and hang himself to find your mother!"
Lan Linxue snorted coldly, "Who are you trying to scare? If he wanted to find my mother, he wouldn't have waited until today!"
Lan Qingtian got angry again and slapped Lan Linxue on the head.
Lan Linxue immediately jumped up and growled at Lan Qingtian, "Seventh Uncle! Can't you speak properly? Don't hit me on the head when you're angry! How old am I!"
Lan Linxue was very unhappy about being hit on the back of the head all the time.
"You're so old and you still cause trouble, how dare you say that!" Lan Qingtian shouted back at Lan Linxue without any regard for her feelings. "Let me tell you, Lan Linxue, this time you'd better beg and plead with your grandpa and grandma to make sure those little bastards don't find out about this, otherwise even your father won't be able to protect you!"
Lan Linxue rolled her eyes. "I never intended for him to protect me!"
Lan Qingtian glared at Lan Linxue, feeling a throbbing pain in her temples.
"What exactly are you trying to do by destroying fields and blowing up dikes? Huh? Come here, tell Uncle Qi, you've been running around like crazy, what exactly are you trying to do?"
Lan Qingtian started slamming her fist on the table again as she finished speaking.
"I don't want to do anything! I'm happy!"
After saying that, Lan Linxue sat down and continued to shake her leg infuriatingly.
Lan Qingtian felt she really didn't have many days left to live, so she went up and kicked Lan Linxue in the sole of her foot: "You sit properly! Show some manners!"
Lan Linxue was kicked and was a little upset. She glared at Lan Qingtian, feeling very depressed.
"Why did the old man send you here?"
Lan Qingtian glared at him again, "What do you mean by doing? You've turned Jiangnan upside down. Jiang Ming is practically writing a petition every day to complain and lodge a complaint. And now you're doing this, so of course I'm going to force you to go back."
Lan Linxue slammed her fist on the table: "Seventh Uncle! I have to make this clear beforehand. I'm a good kid who hasn't done anything wrong. If you and the old man hear any rumors and pin them on me, I won't stand for it!"
Lan Qingtian was filled with hatred and raised her hand to look at the master again, but Lan Linxue nimbly ran away in a flash.
"Can't we communicate properly?" Lan Linxue ran to the side and started yelling.
Lan Qingtian pointed at Lan Linxue and said through gritted teeth, "Was that a fabrication? Lan Linxue, ask yourself honestly, did the Emperor and I wrong you?"
Lan Linxue frowned. If she kept denying it, it would probably never end.
"So what if I did it? Are you going to kill me or punish me?"
Lan Qingtian, hands on her hips and head tilted, stared at Lan Linxue with a face full of resentment, saying, "Lan Linxue, don't tell me you did all this just to spite your father? I'll look down on you if you do! Besides, I'm not here to kill you or punish you today, but to save your life! I really don't know what your father and I owed you in our past lives. You've caused us two old folks so much trouble, and we still have to clean up your mess. You might not even remember a single good thing we did for you! Tell me, what are we even doing all this for!"
"What do I need to protect my life for? I'm fine, I'll be going back to the capital in a couple of days. Why did you come all this way as if something terrible happened in the capital!"
To be honest, Lan Linxue didn't really appreciate it.
"Pah! Stop talking nonsense in front of Lao Zhi! With Lan Xiuyuan here, you think you can easily return to the capital? Dream on!" Lan Qingtian sometimes really wanted to open Lan Linxue's smart head to see what was going on inside. Sometimes she was so smart it was frightening, and sometimes she was so stupid it could make a pig worry.
"What can Lan Xiuyuan do? What else can he do besides complaining to the old man?"
Lan Linxue was particularly disdainful of Lan Xiuyuan's complaint.
"What?" Lan Qingtian pointed at Lan Linxue with a troubled expression and whispered, "I'm asking you, if Lan Xiuyuan finds out about this and leaks the news to the people of Yangzhou, tell me, how are you going to walk out of Yangzhou? How are you going to leave the Jiangnan region?"
At this point, Lan Qingtian's voice grew even colder, "Relying on that Qin Kou'er?"
"This has nothing to do with Ke'er! Don't try to drag her into this!"
Upon hearing the name Qin Kou'er, Lan Linxue immediately flew into a rage and roared.
"Whether it's related or not, it's not up to you to decide, it's up to you, Lao Zhi, to decide." Lan Qingtian completely disregarded Lan Linxue's feelings and roared angrily, "Don't say anything else now, just tell me, once Lan Xiuyuan finds out that this matter has even the slightest connection with you, how will you leave Jiangnan? Even if you do leave, how will you face the people of the world? Do you really want people to gossip about you behind your back every day? Lan Linxue, I think you've gone mad!"
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