When Xie Lingqin returned to Qingshui Pavilion, she thought she wouldn't see Yuwen Yao, but she felt that her whole body was filled with Yuwen Yao's aura, which almost made her lose her mind.
"Miss, Miss Li is requesting an audience outside the mansion gate."
Xie Lingqin was just about to lie down on the bed to rest for a while when Zihe quickly walked in.
Xie Lingqin looked at Zihe, "How many people?"
“Just Miss Li and her maid,” Zihe said, then added, “They don’t look anything special.”
"Hmm." Xie Lingqin nodded, lost in thought, before going to see the Crown Prince, only to be turned away. He then came to see her...
They really don't find it tiring.
“Miss, if you don’t want to see Miss Li, I will go and make her leave right away.”
“No need,” Xie Lingqin stopped her. “Just after noon, Master Liu and Liu Yunzhou came to see me. I saw them, but I deliberately turned away Li Qingyu. Wouldn’t that give people something to suspect and cause gossip? Please come in.”
Xie Lingqin rolled up her sleeves with a cool expression. "Please come in, Miss Li."
"yes."
Zihe turned and left.
Xie Lingqin's eyes were vacant. Come to think of it, it had been a long time since she had visited Qi Rufeng in prison.
These past two days, because she was injured and unable to investigate the case, Qi Rufeng has had to stay in jail.
Tridacna shell.
Xie Lingqin called towards the door.
Tridacna was giving instructions to the maid in the courtyard when she heard the noise. She quickly walked into the house, greeted her with a smile, and said, "Miss, what are your orders?"
"Help me tend to my wound. Li Qingyu's discerning eyes are extraordinary. To be the disciple of an old man in his twilight years, her sense of smell must be quite remarkable."
"yes."
As Zihe led Li Qingyu into the courtyard and into the main house, Xie Lingqin was already sitting on the bed, much like Lin Daiyu.
"I'm so sorry that I couldn't get up to greet Miss Li when she came to visit me."
As soon as Li Qingyu entered the outer room, Xie Lingqin's extremely polite voice came from inside.
Li Qingyu, dressed in an ink-wash style dress, glanced at Xie Lingqin with gentle grace and said, "Miss Xie, you look much better."
"yes."
She tried her best to make the giant clam shells make her look pale, but Li Qingyu's eyes aren't blind, and she even said that her complexion had improved a lot.
How ironic.
"Zihe, please find a seat for Miss Li."
"yes."
"Miss Li, please have a seat."
Zihe arranged the stool for Li Qingyu and immediately stepped back to stand beside her.
"The maids in Miss Xie's room are all very sensible."
"Miss Li, you flatter me. She is nothing like your maid, who tried to harm me at the Jingzhao Prefecture that day."
Upon hearing this, Li Qingyu, who had been secretly glancing around, paused for a moment, then looked at Xie Lingqin and said, "This... so many days have passed, yet Miss Xie still remembers the maid's mistake."
"Hey." Xie Lingqin smiled. "There's nothing I can do about it. I don't have any other special characteristics, but I'm particularly vengeful. It's fine with my own people, but it's absolutely unacceptable with others. I've had such a miserable life in the past, and I really don't dare to let anyone bully me again. Miss Li, don't you think so?"
“This…” A glint flashed in Li Qingyu’s beautiful eyes, and she was speechless for a moment.
She came to ask Xie Lingqin for a favor, but before she could even open her mouth, a tense atmosphere already filled the air between the two of them.
This is not a good sign.
"Qing'er, give the pastries I made myself to Miss Xie to try," Li Qingyu instructed the maid behind her.
Although the maid was unhappy before, she still handed the pastries to Zihe, saying, "These were made by my young lady herself."
At Xie Lingqin's prompting, Zihe accepted the gift. In contrast to the coldness of the other maid, Zihe thanked Xie Lingqin with a smile.
"Miss Li, you probably think more than just me. Why don't you be frank? After all, we don't seem to have much of a relationship before."
Xie Lingqin was truly blunt, rendering Li Qingyu's prepared remarks useless. A glance at Xie Lingqin was enough for Li Qingyu to drop the pretense and get straight to the point: "Since Miss Xie is so straightforward, I won't beat around the bush either. These past two days, because of your injury, not only has the Prefect of the Capital been searching everywhere for the assassin, but you also haven't been able to investigate the case the Emperor assigned to you. However, my junior brother has been in this prison for quite some time. If there's nothing wrong with that, could you please release him?"
"Oh dear, if Miss Li hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten about it."
Xie Lingqin looked as if she had suddenly remembered something.
Seeing this, Li Qingyu breathed a slight sigh of relief and stepped forward. "In that case, Miss Xie, could you please send a message to Lord Huo to release my junior brother?"
"But……"
Xie Lingqin frowned, then changed the subject, looking at Li Qingyu with a hint of helplessness in her eyes, "Miss Li, as you said, I haven't been able to investigate the case these past two days because of my injury, so naturally there's been no progress. Besides, I haven't shown my face at all. So, is it... inappropriate to suddenly ask Lord Huo to release the person?"
"How could this be..."
“Look, since the Emperor values me so much and has assigned me to investigate the case, and everyone in the capital knows that I am on good terms with Prince Yi, and Qi Rufeng is Prince Yi’s junior brother, won’t people say that I am showing favoritism?”
"No……"
"Although Qi Rufeng is also your junior brother, Miss Li, in the eyes of the world, I will eventually be subject to gossip."
As Xie Lingqin spoke, she touched her chest and coughed softly.
"Miss, are you alright?" Tridacna and Purple River immediately stepped forward anxiously to ask.
The two ran quickly, creating a gust of wind.
Li Qingyu watched, her hands clenching tightly in her sleeves. She knew that Xie Lingqin, though seemingly sincere and harmless, was actually unyielding and shrewd.
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