Chapter 136 Careful Calculation
After a few days, the depressed Song Lan finally recovered some spirits.
Pei Ji wrote to him, saying that they had made some progress in investigating Feng Yi. However, he took the initiative to say, "It's okay if I don't go back to the academy. I can study on my own. I've already learned most of what I needed to learn."
It's not that he doesn't feel lost, but after the accident, the indifference and avoidance of his good friends really hurt him.
In addition, he couldn't bear to see his master making things difficult for him in the academy.
Song Ci: "Brother really doesn't want to go back."
Song Lan nodded as if he had made up his mind. "Even if I don't go back, I'm sure I can get by. You're right, studying is the only way out."
He didn't say that Song Ci was his sister, and he wanted to support the third house in the future and give his support and make decisions for his sister.
He would never let something like Bai Dayong's would happen again. If he wanted to avoid such things, he would first have to have a position. Bai Dayong coveted his sister because he thought that the man from the third room had no position and that he couldn't do anything to him.
He didn't dare to think that if his sister hadn't realized the Bai family's intention that day, and the maidservant around her didn't know martial arts, if anything went wrong in any link, the situation that would have been waiting for him would have been enough to make him regret for the rest of his life.
"Okay, now that you have made up your mind, I will naturally support you. Don't put too much pressure on yourself." Song Ci seemed to see through his thoughts and comforted him in a low voice.
Song Lan felt miserable inside, but pretended to be fine. "I'm your brother, but I've asked you to comfort me. Don't worry, I will definitely pass the exam."
After going out, he planned to go to the bookstore to take a look first.
Many of my previous books were kept in the academy, but now it is inconvenient to get in and out. If I want to review or read them, I have to buy them all again.
I walked out the door, turned a corner, crossed the alley, and the bookstore was across the street.
Suddenly, a figure chased after him. Song Lan took two steps back cautiously before he could see clearly who it was.
"Bai Xiu Xiu."
In just a few days, Bai Xiu Xiu's skin had become sallow, her hair was a little messy, and there were a few scratches on her once smooth and fair face. When she saw Song Lan, she couldn't wait to pounce on him with an anxious look in her eyes.
"You, you help me, Song Lan, you won't ignore me, right?" Bai Xiu Xiu burst into tears.
Song Lan didn't do what he usually did. Instead, he frowned and pulled her hand away. He stood a little distance away before speaking, "What's wrong with you?"
Without time to feel disappointed, thinking about what had happened in the past few days, Bai Xiu Xiu couldn't wait to tell her the purpose of her visit.
"My parents want to marry me off to an old widower in the countryside. They say that if my brother can't be rescued, my life will be ruined. Song Lan, please go to the government office and tell them that this is all a misunderstanding."
"Misunderstanding? He wants to hurt my sister, why should I help him?"
Bai Xiuxiu screamed, "Are you going to watch me being married off to the countryside? Don't you like me and want to marry me? Just release my brother and I'll marry you."
She made up her mind that as soon as her brother came out, she would immediately cut off ties with Song Lan and go find Brother Jing.
"Bai Xiuxiu, are you crazy?" Song Lan's face was full of disbelief. "Why would I still like you and want to marry you if you treat my sister like this? Do you think I'm really stupid?"
The words "You are stupid" were on the tip of her tongue and were about to blurt out, but Bai Xiu Xiu still had her sense and swallowed them back.
"Song Lan, I know you can't bear to do this to me. That day...that day I had no idea my brother would do this. This matter has nothing to do with me." She cried pitifully, trying her best to show her weakness and try to arouse Song Lan's love.
But what about Song Lan? Once his suspicions were formed, no matter how he looked at Bai Xiu Xiu, he thought she was acting and being pretentious.
Song Lan didn't say anything. Bai Xiu Xiu understood the distrust on his face and hated him to death.
She was angry that someone who had always obeyed her suddenly became like this. She was even more unwilling to accept it. Why did someone who she could summon and dismiss at will now act so arrogantly in front of her?
"Song Lan, you won't help me!"
Her voice was sharp, breaking the silence of the alley.
At this moment, Song Lan only felt unprecedented irritation. Bai Xiu Xiu used to be kind, helping the weak, speaking in a gentle tone, and always gentle and humble, satisfying all Song Lan's fantasies about the perfect woman and other half.
But at this moment, Bai Xiu Xiu was so indiscriminate, unreasonable, and spoke in a sharp and crazy tone that broke the last string in Song Lan's heart.
"I won't help you. You don't deserve my help. Thanks to this incident, I can see you clearly. Otherwise, you would have fooled me."
"You are a fool. I was plotting against you. I plotted against you so that you couldn't study. I plotted against you so that you lost all your future. So what if you knew it?"
Filled with grief and anger, Bai Xiu Xiu was unable to think at all and these words came out of her mouth.
Song Lan's eyes were shocked. "What did you say?"
Bai Xiu Xiu regretted it and told the deepest secret in her heart.
"I, I didn't say anything." She took a step back calmly.
Song Lan's eyes were bloodshot, and his hands were clenched into fists. "Let me ask you again, what exactly did you mean by what you just said?"
....
Prince Yu leaned back on the Eight Immortals Chair, twirling an exquisite fan in his hand, listening to his subordinates' report on the New Year's gift sent back by the Third Miss of the Song family.
He twitched the corner of his mouth for a moment, "He's the type who won't take advantage of anyone."
The steward nodded and said, "Your Majesty, how should we deal with these things?"
Prince Yu was about to say, "Give it to Pei Ji," but then changed his mind and said, "Forget it, accept it." Finally, he instructed, "Put it away carefully. There's no point in keeping the other annual gifts, so give them to the people below you. Especially those ministers who follow me, give them some of the most valuable ones."
The steward was surprised. At the end of each year, the annual gifts at Prince Yu’s Mansion could fill up several storehouses. What good things hadn’t the prince seen?
No matter how valuable something is, it will only be played with for a few days before being left there to gather dust and then given away.
Miss Song San's things were insignificant among them, but Prince Yu said to put them away carefully. The importance he attached to them was self-evident.
Anyone who can follow Prince Yu and serve as a manager is naturally not a fool.
However, does Prince Yu admire this Third Miss Song, or is he just attracted to her? There is a difference between the two, but it is enough to show that he must be cautious in treating this Miss Song in the future.
....
"Let me go! Song Lan, what are you doing!" Bai Xiu Xiu struggled and was taken back to the Song family by Song Lan.
Song Ci was in the house, hearing the sharp screams outside. He pushed open the door and walked out, only to see this scene.
"Brother, why did you bring her back?"
The collar of her yellow bodice was lined with soft rabbit fur, and her hair was simply tied up with a pearl hairpin. The pearl at the end was large, round, and translucent, clearly of the highest quality.
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