The servants who were about to jump into the lake to save the man looked at each other, not knowing whether to jump or not. They looked at Liu's expression hesitantly.

Liu was stunned for a moment, then quickly shouted, "What are you doing? Go and pull the cousin up!"

The servants nodded in agreement and someone immediately jumped in. Without even swimming, they took a few steps towards Zhao Yuanrou and caught her. Several people worked together to help her climb out of the pond.

Sheng quickly hugged her tightly, and Gao Xuan's heart finally settled down.

Her face was filled with shock, fear, and heartache, and her tears could not stop flowing. Since her husband passed away, she only had Roujieer left. If anything happened to Roujieer again, she would not want to live anymore!

Cough cough cough!

Zhao Yuanrou was still coughing. She subconsciously looked towards Sheng Xiyan and saw a calm face and a condescending look.

An unspeakable feeling of grievance welled up in Zhao Yuanrou's heart. She had always felt sorry for Sheng Xiyan, pitied her for marrying a man who didn't love her at all, pitied her for not being liked by her biological father, pitied her for being as humble and tolerant as all the women of that era, without any autonomy.

But now, she was the one looking down upon him.

"Yan...cough cough cough!"

Zhao Yuanrou felt uncomfortable and her chest hurt from coughing. She couldn't utter a word.

Sheng Xiyan had a happy smile on her face.

In her previous life, Zhao Yuanrou also wanted to jump into the pond, but unfortunately, in the end not even her skirt got wet.

How could she not fulfill her wish in this life?

She and Zhou Jingxun were truly deeply in love, even when they fell into the water, they were one after the other, sharing the pain.

Sheng Xiyan pushed him hard, not caring about the excitement, and said, "Mother, if there is nothing else, I will take my leave now."

"Stop!" Sheng stared at Sheng Xiyan's jade-like face. When she thought of her daughter's great loss, her eyes turned cold and her face was gloomy. "Sheng Xiyan, do you want to just leave like this?"

Sheng tightly grasped the handkerchief. Her daughter, out of consideration for the sisterly love, came to reconcile with her out of kindness. If she was willing to say a few soft words to her daughter, how could her daughter be so upset! ?

"What does it have to do with me?" Sheng Xiyan frowned slightly in confusion: "Cousin Rou was so happy admiring the lotus that she slipped and fell down, didn't she? Mother, what do you think?"

Sheng Xiyan's lips curled up, and she said with a half-smile: "Or was she pushed down by you, mother?"

Liu was terrified and her heart was beating wildly.

The situation just now was so delicate. She wanted to say that she didn't push him on purpose, but it was indeed because of her negligence that Zhao Yuanrou fell into the pond.

Even if Sheng didn't see it, if Sheng Xiyan insisted on it, she wouldn't be able to explain it even if she had ten thousand mouths.

She was not afraid before, but now, Sheng Xiyan seemed to have changed into a different person, no longer gentle and obedient as before, but rather unreasonable. She would make excuses for even the most unreasonable things, not to mention that she was really guilty now.

Liu smiled and said, "Aunt, Sister Rou slipped on her own. It has nothing to do with our Sister Yan. Please don't misunderstand."

Sheng: “…”

Sheng was stunned and blurted out: "Sister-in-law, you are actually speaking for her!"

Liu wished she could go back half an hour and slap herself hard.

Originally, she just wanted to use Zhao Yuanrou to provoke Sheng Xiyan and make her act less recklessly. Later, she was afraid that if something really happened to Zhao Yuanrou, the Sheng family would make a big fuss with her, so she wanted to shift all the hatred of the Sheng family to Sheng Xiyan, and then it would have nothing to do with her.

She didn't expect that this would cause her to fall out with the Sheng family. If she had known this earlier, she would have sent Zhao Yuanrou away long ago.

Mrs. Liu's smile was uglier than crying: "Aunt, the water in this pond is so shallow. Sister Rou knew that she would be fine if she fell in, but she insisted on jumping in. Who can be blamed for this?" The implication of her words was that Zhao Yuanrou was just pretending to be so. She cried, made a fuss, and even threatened to hang herself.

"you!"

Sheng frowned and was about to get angry when her daughter in her arms gently pinched her arm.

Zhao Yuanrou looked unhappy. Every word Liu said was like a slap in her face, making her feel extremely embarrassed. Especially in front of so many servants, she felt so embarrassed after such a quarrel.

"Mom, please don't say anything..." Zhao Yuanrou said weakly, "It was my daughter who slipped..."

Sheng couldn't believe it: "Sister Rou?!"

She felt very upset. It was because they were an orphan and a widow with no one to rely on that her daughter endured the injustice and did not pursue the matter.

The more Sheng thought about it, the angrier she got. Veins popped out on her forehead. "No, I can't just let this go! Sister-in-law, you have to give me an explanation today!"

Liu was also holding her breath, and sneered when she heard this: "Aunt, if the Yongning Marquis' Mansion knew that Sister Rou had just been engaged and she came to my Sheng family to make a fuss, what would the Yongning Marquis' Mansion think? I'm afraid they would think that Sister Rou, who was raised by a widow, is not presentable."

Sheng's eyes were instantly filled with hatred. Liu's words simply pierced her heart.

Liu was helpless, she twitched her lips and played both the bad cop and the good cop: "Aunt, you are also an experienced person. If a married daughter doesn't have her parents' support in the future, her life will be difficult. Roujie married into a marquis's mansion. Don't you think so?"

Zhao Yuanrou's eyebrows jumped, and she tugged at Sheng's sleeve again, shaking her head slowly: "Mother..."

Her mind went blank just now. She had no idea how she fell. No matter if she slipped or was pushed down by someone, it would be useless to dwell on it, and it would only cause unnecessary humiliation to the Sheng family.

This is fine. Sheng Xiyan didn't appreciate it, so from now on, I don't owe her anything.

Seeing her daughter's sad and forbearing look, Sheng's eyes dimmed for a moment and her heart ached even more.

However, Liu Wanru was right in one thing she said, the Zhao family was unreliable, and after her daughter married into the Yongning Marquis's Mansion, she would still have to rely on the Sheng family. The affairs of the inner house were always managed by someone with the surname Liu. If she quarreled with her now, she would definitely abandon her daughter in the future.

She endured it again and again, her heart beating violently, she hugged Zhao Yuanrou, and finally stopped talking. She hated Liu completely in her heart.

The few of them just stood there stiffly by the pond. The only sound in the silence was Zhao Yuanrou's coughing, over and over again.

After watching all the excitement, Sheng Xiyan should go out. She bowed and said, "Mother, if there is nothing else, I will take my leave first."

In the previous life, Zhao Yuanrou had not been harmed at all, but under the instigation of Liu, Sheng hated her to death and poured all her anger on her...

She means well, and wants to put everything back on track!

Sheng Xiyan had told Liu early in the morning that she was going out, and now she went straight to the ceremony gate.

After getting on the carriage, we headed straight to Huashang Street.

The last time she went shopping in Hua, Sheng Xiyan only walked halfway through the street, but she still vaguely remembered that "Qingming Tea House" was at the end of the street.

It turns out that her memory is still pretty good.

Sheng Xiyan glanced at the black sign with the words "Qingming Tea House" in gold letters and walked in.

The shopkeeper came out to greet her warmly. He was a little fat and smiled as he spoke: "What kind of tea do you want, young lady? We have all kinds of tea in our shop."

Sheng Xiyan asked with a smile: "What kind of good tea do you have here, shopkeeper?"

"Please come this way, young lady." The shopkeeper led her to the counter and took out several kinds of tea. The teas were placed in several small plates according to categories and presented to Sheng Xiyan one by one, allowing her to choose.

Sheng Xiyan picked up a small plate, sniffed the rich tea aroma, and her sleeves seemed to slide down a little inadvertently, revealing a black jade pendant with flowing clouds and a hundred blessings on it in her left palm at an angle that Xigui could not see.

The shopkeeper's pupils shrank, but his expression remained unchanged. He said with a smile, "Do you like any of them, young lady?"

Sheng Xiyan calmly put the jade pendant back into her sleeve pocket, pointed to the small plate she had just taken, and said, "Let's take this Pu'er. Shopkeeper, weigh half a pound for me."

"Okay, wait a moment, young lady." The shopkeeper turned around to weigh the tea for her. After a while, he said with a guilty look on his face, "Young lady, look, our shop has just sold out of the 10-year-old Pu'er tea. Could you please sit in the tea room upstairs for a while? I'll ask someone to go to the branch store to get it for you."

Sheng Xiyan thought for a moment and nodded slightly: "Okay. I'm tired too, so it's a good time to take a break."

The shopkeeper personally led the master and servant to the tea room on the second floor.

In addition to selling tea and tea sets, tea houses in the capital also set up tea rooms for tea drinkers to chat and drink tea. Some large tea houses even turn the entire courtyard into a tea room.

The shopkeeper poured Sheng Xiyan a cup of tea, said "Please wait a moment, young lady" and went away.

Sheng Xiyan originally thought that she only needed to find an opportunity to give the letter to the shopkeeper and everything would be fine. However, he had not responded to her just now, and now his attitude seemed more like someone was coming to see her.

"We should have bought some peach blossom cakes." Sheng Xiyan said regretfully, taking a sip of hot tea. "Now we can have some snacks while drinking tea."

Xigui has also been much more lively these days, and said with a smile: "At that moment, the young lady is resting in the carriage, I will go to line up for you!"

Sheng Xiyan clapped her hands and smiled, "I also want golden milk puff pastry and thousand-layer cake."

"Girl, you eat so much, be careful not to digest it."

"More tea, then?"

…

The master and servant were chatting happily. After about an incense stick's time, a waiter came up and said that the Pu'er tea had arrived. Sheng Xiyan then sent Xigui down to get it.

As Xigui left, the partition door between the two tea rooms made a slight sound. Sheng Xiyan was startled and looked up. She saw the two partition doors slowly opening from the middle.

In the tea room next door, there was a young man wearing a dark brocade robe and a jade hairpin in his hair. He elegantly held the teapot and poured himself a cup of tea. The whole tea room was filled with the elegant fragrance of tea.

This is... Xiao Shuo.

It was Xiao Shuo who came to see her in person! Was he not hiding his relationship with Chu Yuanchen from her at all?

Well, if you know too much, it will be difficult to get off the boat!