Song Wan originally wanted to go back to the tower first. She was always worried that Xu Lie’s general’s mansion had not been emptied, and she always felt that the silver was waiting for her.
But Gu Yan said anxiously, "There is no rush to return to the tower."
Song Wan asked, "Why? Isn't Tahuiguan closer?"
They were now resting in an inn in a town a hundred miles away from Tahui Pass.
Gu Yan hurriedly poured Song Wan a glass of water and said calmly, "Prince Yu's Mansion has more money."
Song Wan listened and nodded without hesitation. "Okay! Then let's go to Prince Yu's Mansion first, and then pack up the General's Mansion on the way back!"
Song Qin coughed and reminded his sister, "This is outside, Ah Wan, please be more restrained."
Song Wan looked around, puffed out her chest and assured, "Don't worry, they can't hear what I say.
She rested her hand on the table, supporting her chin as she continued, "And don't you want to, second brother? They've bullied you so badly, it would be a shame not to give them some money for medical treatment."
Song Qin continued, "After all, this is not our territory. It's always better to be cautious."
Song Wan thought he was scared. They were only a few days away from Yuzhou. Could it be that his second brother was thinking about what he had suffered in the palace and was tortured and traumatized?
Thinking of this possibility, Song Wan's expression became serious, and she patted Song Qin's shoulder seriously.
Song Qin didn't understand what was going on with his sister.
Then Song Qin heard her say, "Don't be afraid, second brother. Just take things as they come. I will protect you."
She suddenly looked at me with a look that said, "I understand you are scared," and Song Qin didn't know what to say.
He doesn't look scared at all. Being cautious doesn't mean being afraid.
Song Qin was speechless. He didn't know what to do since he had a sister with such a unique way of thinking.
Gu Yan was anxious and tried hard not to laugh. At this time, he couldn't lose face for A Wan.
Song Qin, feeling looked down upon by his own sister, couldn't help but retort. He couldn't lose face in front of his friends and subordinates. "There are only a few of us. A royal palace has a lot of valuables. With your skinny arms and legs, can you possibly carry it all?"
Song Wan didn't expect that there was still someone who dared to look down on her. She glanced at Song Qi and said, "Song Qi, you say."
Song Qi also imitated Song Qin and coughed twice to ease the embarrassment. When asked who to help when the two masters had an internal conflict, he chose Song Wan without hesitation.
However, Song Qi knew when to stop and only said vaguely, "Back in Xinzhou, the eldest lady moved as much as Gu Wu and I did in three trips combined."
He didn't mention how much he was moving. Shouldn't that be considered as giving face to the Second Young Master?
Song Qi, who is usually eloquent, never thought that one day he would be in a situation where he couldn't offend either side but had to take sides.
Song Qin knew Song Qi's strength, and Gu Wu was Gu Yanji's personal bodyguard, so he thought he would not be bad either. So, after not seeing his sister for more than a year, did she learn some unique martial arts?
Mingming had only occasionally run to his or his elder brother's room in the middle of the night and secretly lift them up to practice arm strength.
He and his elder brother went from being shocked at first to resisting, and finally to a silent compromise.
Speaking of this, Song Qin was even more speechless. He still remembered that when his mother gave birth to Awan, he and his elder brother thought it was a sweet and soft girl.
As a result, this sweet and soft girl, who was only six years old, hugged the stone bench in her yard in her arms and refused to let go.
Later, when she grew up a little, the stone bench became a stone table, and then the stone lions at the gate of the marquis's mansion. Finally, her mother stopped allowing her to lift them because she was afraid that she would hurt her feet.
Instead, she secretly ran to the West Garden of her second uncle's family, bribed Ayuan and Ayue with the snacks that her eldest brother brought her from outside, and directly lifted up her younger sisters.
Song Qin discovered this by accident. He was not very old at the time. Seeing that his sister was stronger than himself, he felt a little dissatisfied and thought that his ancestors were biased. Why did he only inherit the talent from his sister, while he, his elder brother, his father and his grandfather were left behind?
The most important thing is that the sweet and soft sister he had been looking forward to for so long is gone just like that.
Fortunately, a few years later, his mother gave birth to a younger sister. At that time, he ran to his father's tent and said that he wanted to go home to see his sister.
At that time, he was only a boy of twelve or thirteen, and had been brought up by his father for less than half a year.
Finally, Song Qin got what he wanted. After several years of observation, he found that his second sister was indeed a sweet and soft one.
But at that time he always felt that the look in Awan's eyes when she looked at his younger sister seemed to carry a hint of eagerness to try.
Now recalling this scene from many years ago, Song Qin suddenly realized that she must have been thinking that she finally had a sister to lift up and play with.
But plans cannot keep up with changes. Later, his grandfather took Awan to the northwest border, so he had no younger sister to raise, so he came to find him and his elder brother.
The more Song Qin thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case.
Seeing that Song Qin seemed to be ready to walk away if he couldn't win the argument, Song Wan thought he wanted to quit and immediately became unwilling. "Second brother, I was the one who treated your illness and you haven't even paid for it! So when the time comes, you have to move, and you have to give me half of the share you move!"
Song Qin felt a chill in his heart when he heard what she said. "I'm your biological second brother. Why do you have to make such a distinction?"
Song Wan snorted, "Even brothers have to settle accounts openly, not to mention that we are just siblings, not brothers."
Song Qin: “???”
He clearly remembered that his grandfather had found a female teacher for Awan.
"Anyway, I'll get half of your points when the time comes." Song Wan's muttering could be heard by everyone.
Song Qi and Gu Wu skillfully turned their heads and pretended to look outside. Song Twelve, who lacked experience, wanted to open his mouth to say a few words for Song Qin, but he was too dumb to speak.
Song Qin: "...Then why haven't I seen you and Gu Yan separate so quickly!"
After holding it in for a long time, I finally found his flaw.
Who would have thought that Gu Yan was extremely anxious? He said slowly, "I don't hide any private money."
Song Wan suddenly understood, "That's right, brother. If you don't pay the consultation fee, I'll tell my sister-in-law that you're hiding some private money!"
Song Qin: "..."
Can I still recognize this sister?
In this way, accompanied by the quarrels of Song Wan and Song Qin along the way, five days later, they arrived at Tingzilin, ten miles away from Yuzhou City.
"The bearded man's tricks will definitely not fool Xu Lie for too long. We have to get rid of King Yu quickly." Song Wan stared at the Yuzhou city gate with fiery eyes.
Gu Yan pretended not to understand her meaning, patted her head, and said, "Awan is right, we must deal with King Yu quickly."
If nothing unexpected happens, the letter that was sent in a special way should arrive in the capital in the next few days.
On the morning of the second day after Song Wan and others arrived in Yuzhou, a letter quietly arrived at the Wei Mansion.
Ami was a maid in the backyard of the mansion. When she was a child, her biological father mistakenly gave her a mute drug. Although she vomited out most of the drug in time, it still affected her speech, and people around her often couldn't hear her clearly.
Later, because she had a large black and red birthmark on her neck, her father saw that she could not be sold for a good price in a brothel, so he had to sell her to a human trafficker. Finally, she was passed around several mansions before being taken back to the Wei family and became an ordinary maid in the Wei mansion.
The person who brought her back was Song Qin's mother-in-law, Madam Wei.
Every day, Ami would deliver the clothes that had been washed and dried the previous day to each courtyard in the mansion.
At three quarters past four, she followed her custom, carrying the clothes tray and walking towards the front yard.
On the road, Ami accidentally bumped into a servant who was walking hurriedly. He quickly picked up the clothes that were knocked to the ground and took two steps back.
The servant looked annoyed and said, "Sister Ami, I'm sorry. I was in a hurry to drive the carriage for the young master."
Ami shook his head, "It's okay, go ahead."
The servant scratched his head, hesitated for a moment, and finally left. He decided to apologize to Sister Ami sincerely when he got back.
Ami looked at his leaving back and quickly retracted her gaze. Without looking around, she continued to bend down and lower her eyes, and continued to walk towards the master and mistress's courtyard as she had originally planned.
If you get your clothes dirty, you always have to explain and apologize before going back to wash them again.
But she couldn't help but clench her left hand a little tighter, because hidden in it was the letter that the servant had just stuffed into her hand.
Wei Xuezhi has caught a cold these past two days and is recuperating at home on the pretext of illness. He is almost seventy years old, a rare age for an old minister. The emperor is naturally willing to be considerate of this old minister and gain a good reputation for cherishing his loyal ministers.
The emperor not only asked his personal eunuch to deliver several boxes of precious medicinal herbs and jewelry, he even sent an imperial physician to accompany him.
When Ami came over, Madam Wei was just seeing Eunuch Xu and the imperial physician out.
Like the other maids in the yard, Ami stepped aside with her head lowered.
After sending the people from the palace away, Madam Wei glanced at Ami calmly, then signaled a maid in the yard, "Luhuan, go and get the clothes. The master will wear them tomorrow."
"Yes." Lu Huan responded softly, then walked towards Ami, "Give it to me."
Without giving Lu Huan time to react, Ami knelt on the ground and began to apologize, "Please punish me, Madam. I accidentally cut a hole in the master's clothes."
When Madam Wei heard her words, she raised her eyelids and then asked Luhuan to bring the person over so that she could take a look herself.
"Do you know that this dress is the master's favorite one?" Although Madam Wei's tone was calm, Luhuan could hear the anger in her voice, and her eyes flashed slightly.
In front of all the servants in the yard, Madam Wei turned over the clothes in Ami's hand, and there were several scratches on it, as if they were caused by a wild cat's claws.
Ami lowered his head even deeper, with his hands hanging in front of his forehead.
Madam Wei closed her eyes, then opened them again and asked Lu Huan to take the man away. "This month's salary will be cut in half. Go down and get ten beatings."
Ami knelt and kowtowed, "Thank you, Madam, for your generosity."
Ten boards may not seem like a lot, but Green Ring knows that each one is hit on the same place, which is not pleasant. After ten boards, he will have to lie in bed for at least half a month.
Green Ring felt a little sympathetic towards her.
Madam Wei asked Lu Huan to supervise the execution and not to fool around.
Lu Huan agreed respectfully on the surface, but she was secretly complaining in her heart, wondering how a laundry maid with little savings could have the money to bribe the person in charge of beating people with a stick.
But even though she complained in her heart, she still had to do her work, so she quickly took Ami to the place where he would be beaten.
As soon as the two of them left, Madam Wei turned around and went back to the inner room.
Minister Wei had just finished taking today's medicine and had rested for three days. His cold was finally almost cured.
He saw his wife suddenly come back and frowned habitually, "Why, the emperor's people haven't left yet?"
Madam Wei walked over to the bed and sat down, shaking her head. "They're gone. I saw them get into the sedan chair with my own eyes."
Wei Xuezhi didn't understand. "Then why do you still look like that?"
Madam Wei looked at Prime Minister Wei several times, then finally sighed and handed him the thing in her hand, "This is what Ami just took the opportunity to give it to me."
Wei Xuezhi stared at the piece of paper in his wife's hand, thinking he had misheard, "Are you sure it's A-mi?"
Madam Wei nodded.
Wei Xuezhi opened his mouth, tremblingly took the paper ball from her hand, slowly opened it, and smoothed it out.
The words on it were very small and densely covered the entire paper. They were familiar handwriting.
After a quick look, when Wei Xuezhi saw a certain place, his eyes became hot and his hands shook even more violently.
Madam Wei thought something serious had happened and asked hurriedly, "What does the letter say?"
"The letter said that Xin'er gave birth to a great-granddaughter for us, and that boy Song Qin is still alive." Wei Xuezhi breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart suddenly felt much more relaxed.
Madam Wei couldn't believe it, "Really?"
Wei Xuezhi handed the letter over to her and let her read it herself.
Madam Wei read the letter and finally dared to confirm it. She joked, "That's good. You finally didn't really offend your own son, daughter-in-law, and grandson."
The only person in the family who knew about everything Wei Xuezhi did was Old Madam Wei. Faced with the misunderstanding of his son and grandson, he could only bear it silently.
Especially after he burned down his granddaughter's boudoir, his son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren moved directly to the residence of a fourth-rank official assigned by the court after learning about it, and were unwilling to live in the same place with him and his wife.
The huge Wei Mansion is now occupied by this old couple.
"I will go to court tomorrow."
"But you haven't recovered from the cold yet." Madam Wei didn't want to see him really tired.
Wei Xuezhi felt refreshed and energetic. "No problem, I know my own body. Besides, I have to go to court. The letter is more important."
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No second update today. I've been having insomnia lately and haven't been sleeping well, so I plan to take a melatonin pill today, go to bed early, and get a good night's sleep~
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