As soon as Mu Jin stepped into the General's Mansion, she saw Eleven appear by the gate.
Mu Jin greeted Eleven casually, "It's so late, aren't you resting yet?"
After Mu Jin finished speaking, she headed back towards Qingwan Courtyard. After taking only a few steps, she noticed that Eleven was silently following behind her, so she stopped and turned around.
"You're still up so late, are you waiting for me? Is there something you need from me?"
Today, Mu Jin and Su Yi went out. Eleven originally wanted to go with them, but Su Yi stopped him. The reason was that the carriage was small and could not carry many people. Moreover, Su Yi and his guards were no less skilled than him, so he did not need to worry about Mu Jin's safety. Mu Jin also had important matters to entrust to him and Qing'er.
After dinner, when Eleven saw that Mu Jin had not yet returned to the mansion, he couldn't help but worry. He went to the gate of the General's Mansion and waited until Hai Shi (9-11 PM) before he saw the carriage of Prince Yi's Mansion slowly approaching the General's Mansion. He quickly slipped behind the gate.
In fact, Eleven didn't know what he wanted to say to Mu Jin. He just instinctively followed Mu Jin when he saw her.
Upon hearing Mu Jin's sudden question, Eleven was momentarily speechless, and he paused for a moment before reacting.
"Today, Miss instructed me and Qing'er to sell the dowry items for 20,000 taels of silver. The remaining items, including the gift from Prince Yi and the thumb ring from Li Yansong, are kept at Shuyu Tower. As for the price, Zhao Yefan said that you can go and discuss it with him tomorrow."
Mu Jin nodded: "Okay, I understand. Thank you for your hard work. You can go and rest now."
"Did you enjoy your outing with Prince Yi today, Miss?"
Mu Jin was about to take a step after speaking when she didn't expect Eleven to ask such a question.
Mu Jin said, "It's not a matter of feeling comfortable or uncomfortable. He was just very bored and took me outside the city to see what happened to Li Yansong, who was ambushed and killed."
Mu Jin's answer surprised Eleven: "Li Yansong was killed?"
Mu Jin nodded: "I'm not interested in finding out who killed him. It should have been Li Yansong's superior who was afraid of being implicated by Li Yansong and getting into unnecessary trouble, so he killed Li Yansong directly."
“But this assassination attempt was actually detrimental to Miss by Nangong Ce.” Eleven finished speaking and lowered her head.
Mu Jin smiled and said, "I know. After you come with me to Shuyu Tower tomorrow and we finish dealing with the grain purchase, I will accompany you back to Nangong Shenzong."
Hearing Mu Jin say that, Eleven nodded happily: "Mm."
"Alright, go back and rest."
"I'll escort Miss to Qingwan Courtyard and then return."
In the Yunwang Mansion, the oil lamp in the study of Yunjing Garden burned all night until dawn, when the oil in the lamp ran out and the lamp was finally extinguished.
Yesterday, a Miao doctor came to the manor to treat Su Yuntian. After a careful examination and diagnosis, the Miao doctor confirmed that Su Yuntian had been poisoned by a Gu curse.
According to Miao medicine practitioners, this poison enters the human body along with food. Initially, it only causes symptoms such as diarrhea, but over time, the whole body will gradually become weak and sore, leading people to mistakenly believe that their body has been damaged by diarrhea.
However, even without treatment, the poison will disappear automatically after two months. Clearly, the person who cast the poison did not intend for him to suffer indefinitely; at most, they just wanted to teach him a lesson.
With the Miao doctor successfully removing the curse, Su Yuntian's body quickly recovered and he was no longer weak and powerless.
However, while he was still immersed in the joy of his body finally returning to normal, he heard from his guards that Su Yi had taken Mu Jin out of the city by carriage again today, and they did not return to the city until close to 7 p.m. The two of them even went to a beef restaurant for dinner. After dinner, Su Yi sent Mu Jin back to the general's mansion.
Upon hearing the report from the guard, Su Yuntian was enraged. He completely lost control, smashing everything in the study to pieces, but even that couldn't quell his fury.
Su Yuntian stayed in the study all night, as if he had gone mad, his mind filled with thoughts of what Su Yi and Mu Jin had done in the carriage during their time outside the city.
Did Su Yi and Mu Jin kiss without regard for others? Did they cross the line because they couldn't control their feelings?
Various memories kept flashing through Su Yuntian's mind. He remembered the scene when Su Yi first visited the Yunwang Mansion and inquired about Mu Jin.
He also remembered that Su Yi never attended palace banquets on ordinary days, but he unexpectedly appeared at that banquet and even sat with Mu Jin.
Su Muxue pulled Mu Jin to sit with Su Yi. Was this at Su Yi's behest?
If not, then how do you explain Su Yi giving the peeled crab to Mu Jin under the guise of peeling crab for Su Muxue?
Every time Su Yi looked at Mu Jin, it wasn't the way he would look at his sister-in-law. He was a man too, and he knew what it meant for a man to look at a woman like that.
In the end, in order to prevent him from getting close to Mu Jin, they even used a curse on him!
Thinking of this, he wished he could kill Su Yi right now. That person not only stole his father's love, but now he was trying to steal his Mu Jin.
Su Yuntian stood up unsteadily. He hadn't rested well for a long time, which had made him not only thin, but also his eyes were terribly red.
He picked up the brush and paper from the ground, returned to his desk, quickly wrote a few lines, folded them up, and called over his bodyguard.
"Give this to Imperial Censor Qin Minglang." The guard received the message, accepted the order, and left.
After the guards left, the study returned to its tranquil state, a stillness as deep as stagnant water, where even the sound of a pin dropping could create ripples.
Not only the study, but the entire Yun Prince's mansion was shrouded in a heavy silence, as if time had frozen. The servants dared not make a sound when they walked, for fear that the prince would hear them and grab them to ask if it was the princess returning.
Su Yuntian opened the study and walked out of Yunjing Courtyard. He wandered aimlessly in the Yunwang Mansion. When he came to his senses and stopped, he found that he had unknowingly walked to the entrance of Cuizhu Courtyard.
Inside the Green Bamboo Courtyard, a group of new servants were busy at work. They were brought in by Su Yuntian after Mu Jin left, and were specifically responsible for maintaining the Green Bamboo Courtyard.
Su Yuntian demanded that they do exactly the same thing as when Mu Jin was there, from the placement of objects to the trimming of every plant, nothing could be neglected. Su Yuntian was worried that if there was even the slightest negligence, Mu Jin would turn against him again when she calmed down and saw that the Green Bamboo Courtyard was unattended.
He had once been so close to that radiant smile, yet he had carelessly let it slip away. He wanted to enter the Bamboo Grove, but with each step closer, the pain in his heart became unbearable. Finally, he closed his eyes, clenched his fists, turned, and strode away.
After Chen Qianqian was banished from the manor, Cuixiang's life in the Prince's manor became very difficult. Those servants who had been oppressed by her in the past now often banded together to mock and ridicule her.
She was no longer the same as before. Not only had she lost Shen Qianqian's support, but if it were any other time, she would have torn the hair out of the servant who had humiliated her, scratched his face, and cursed his whole family.
Nowadays, Cuixiang can only do chores like emptying chamber pots. Today, she had just finished cleaning the toilet and was passing by the back door when she heard two maids standing by the door talking about something. There seemed to be a woman crying outside. She quickly hid behind a large tree nearby to listen carefully.
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