Chapter 113 A Gentle Kiss on Those Long Eyelashes
Upon hearing this, Shen Qingnian looked up at him with disbelief.
What did Xie Yanzhi mean by that? Did he mean he was willing to let her go?
Looking into his cold eyes, she couldn't believe he would be so kind.
However, Shen Qingnian still felt a little hopeful about being able to leave the manor.
Confined in this mansion, she was suffocating.
Ling'er also stopped crying. Did the eldest young master mean he was willing to let the young lady leave the manor?
Everyone looked at Xie Yanzhi with expectant eyes.
Xie Yanzhi said, "Don't you like going out of the manor to make a living? Now go out and beg. Don't come back if you don't beg for a single tael of silver today!"
One tael of silver! Xie Yanzhi turned his face away, refusing to look at Shen Qingnian's eyes, which were filled with resentment.
Yuan Qing was so shocked his jaw almost dropped. Begging for one or two taels of silver a day! It might be somewhat possible to send Miss Qing out to rob someone.
I might as well just let Miss Qing ask him directly! Why do you have to torture her like this?
Shen Qingnian slowly stood up and walked shakily towards the outside of Guanlan Residence.
As she brushed past Xie Yanzhi, she heard his deep, ruthless voice: "Don't even think about escaping. Think about your girl and your aunt."
Shen Qingnian glared at him resentfully and stepped out of the door.
Xie Yanzhi also turned and went into the house.
Ling'er wanted to go with Shen Qingnian, but Yuan Qing said, "You'll only be a burden to Miss Qing as you are now. Miss Qing is smart and will surely be able to raise the money."
Ling'er could only stand at the door, tears streaming down her face, watching her mistress's figure grow smaller and smaller until it disappeared from sight.
When Shen Qingnian came to the street, some people even pointed and whispered about her when they saw her like this.
She lowered her head, feeling extremely uncomfortable. She felt as if she were being stared at naked, and she was incredibly ashamed.
She touched the bracelet on her wrist and stopped in front of a pawnshop.
At this moment, a man came up, looking ahead, but lowered his voice and whispered in her ear, "Miss, the young master only allows begging to earn money."
Shen Qingnian smiled bitterly. Xie Yanzhi had thought things through thoroughly, even sending someone to watch over her begging.
She continued walking, and as she passed a clinic, the young apprentice at the door said, "Young lady, come in and have a look. You're injured."
Shen Qingnian shook her head: "I don't have any money on me, and I can't afford to treat my injuries."
Looking at the black medicine in the young apprentice's hand, she suddenly felt that she was more bitter than the medicine itself.
Less than two days had passed, but it already felt incredibly long. How was she going to get through the rest of the days?
But then she thought, she still had to live; her mother was still waiting for her in that cannibalistic house.
Thinking this, Shen Qingnian asked the medicine boy for a piece of paper to wrap the medicine.
Then, he found a corner, sat down, and spread the papers on the floor.
Passersby, some kind-hearted girls saw her like this and gave her a few copper coins.
Some people, seeing her dressed as a maid and with her face bruised and battered, called her a vixen who seduced her master.
Some women even threw vegetable leaves at her head for amusement.
Shen Qingnian reached out and grabbed the man's clothes, coldly saying, "You've already smashed it, it's time to pay."
Seeing that she couldn't tear off the clothes, the woman reluctantly took out a copper coin and threw it on the ground: "You damned beggar!"
Shen Qingnian picked up the coin and put it into her sleeve.
Even if she becomes a beggar, she will survive and show Xie Yanzhi that she will never submit to his tyranny.
Suddenly, a man dismounted and tossed her a few pieces of silver: "Miss, take this money to the clinic to treat your injuries."
Upon hearing the sound, Shen Qingnian lowered her head, and a tear fell to the ground.
That sound was peace.
If Young Master Xiao were also there, she couldn't let him see her like this.
She bowed to Ping An, who replied, "Miss, there's no need to be so polite. This money was given to me by my young master anyway. I can use it however I want."
After saying that, Ping An mounted his horse again.
She didn't look up until the chestnut horse's legs were out of her sight.
But she didn't see the figure she wanted to see.
Now that you've returned safely to the capital, will Young Master Xiao also come back?
Shen Qingnian picked up the few pieces of silver, feeling both sorrow and joy.
With this money, she was still a dozen or so coins short of a tael of silver.
In some mysterious way, Young Master Xiao helped her once again.
As darkness fell and the pedestrians gradually disappeared, Shen Qingnian finally managed to scrape together one tael of silver.
She dragged her weary body up the steps of the Jingnan Marquis's residence, reached out and pulled the door knocker.
The doorman glanced at her through the crack in the door and then left.
Shen Qingnian waited for a while longer, but no one came to open the car.
She could only huddle in the corner by the door, hugging herself to keep warm, and slowly drifted off to sleep.
In her dream, Young Master Xiao gently patted her back and said to her, "Miss Chen, wake up."
She saw that his smiling eyes were full of stars.
In a daze, she saw her mother again under the crabapple tree, sewing a vest for her while watching her and Ling'er play and laugh in the yard, her eyes full of love.
Suddenly, Xie Yanzhi grabbed her by the neck, glared at her fiercely, and told her, word by word, "Don't even think about escaping!"
Then she saw a basin of water being poured over her head and toes, which frightened her so much that she struggled to get up.
Shen Qingnian opened her eyes. There was no one in front of the Marquis's mansion. A bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, and raindrops fell on her face.
Shen Qingnian smiled wryly and held out her hand: "So it's raining."
A cold wind blew against her, and she wrapped her clothes tighter around herself. Although it was tough, she was free.
As she watched, Shen Qingnian's eyelids grew so heavy that she could no longer open them.
Thunder rumbled in his ears, and Xie Yanzhi lay on the bed, feeling agitated.
Ping An, Xiao Huaiyi's servant, came again today, saying that Xiao Huaiyi would be visiting him in a few days.
Xie Yanzhi had a guess in his mind as to why Xiao Huaiyi had come.
But why did he come back so quickly?
The Xiao family has gotten into trouble, and the Emperor has ordered him to investigate thoroughly. At this critical juncture, what is he doing coming back? Shouldn't he be hiding far away?
Xie Yanzhi got up and went to the window. Looking at the rain covering the sky, he couldn't help but think of that stubborn face.
The men he sent out to follow her said she had already begged for one tael of silver, but now he had ordered them to lock her in front of the mansion gate and prevent her from entering.
Xie Yanzhi snorted coldly. Shen Qingnian would rather beg without dignity than admit her mistake and beg for forgiveness from him!
He couldn't understand why he was so fixated on such a stubborn person.
Thinking it over, he opened his umbrella and went outside.
The gatekeeper opened the gate for Xie Yanzhi, and a blast of cold air rushed towards him.
He glanced around and saw that tiny figure, wrapped up in a small ball, huddled in a corner, shivering.
He walked up to her, only to find her with her brows furrowed and eyes closed, as if she couldn't sense his approach at all.
He reached out, wanting to touch her face.
Shen Qingnian's long eyelashes seemed to sense his fingers approaching and fluttered uneasily a few times.
Xie Yanzhi gently kissed her long eyelashes, as if to comfort her.
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