Wei Changmi followed Wei Luo to the Bajiao Pavilion in the backyard at first, but later saw Wei Luo talking to others and ignored him, so he ran away feeling bored. At first he was just wandering around the edge of the bamboo forest, Bai Lan followed step by step, and then he walked to the lotus pond behind the bamboo forest, farther and farther away from the octagonal pavilion.
Before the time came, there were no lotus flowers in the lotus pond, only small fish occasionally floating underwater. Wei Changmi stood on the edge of the pond and watched so engrossed that he didn't even care about people passing by.
Li Xiang just came back from the front yard. She was looking for her brother Li Song, but she couldn't find him after searching around. She didn't know where he went, so she had to give up and come back alone. When I passed by the lotus pond, I saw a five or six-year-old boy standing there. He looked pretty and was mumbling something to the surface of the water. Li Xiang had a little impression of him. She met him in the flower hall just now and knew that he was Wei Luo's younger brother. She couldn't help but frowned in disgust. She didn't have any affection for the Wei family.
Just as he was about to walk past him, Li Xiang's thoughts turned and he stopped suddenly.
She turned her head and couldn't help but look at Wei Changmi twice more. Seeing that the little boy was looking at the fish seriously and didn't notice her at all, she couldn't help calling out: "Wei Changmi?"
Wei Changmi followed the sound, but didn't know her, blinked his dark and bright eyes, and asked curiously, "Sister, do you know me?"
Li Xiang walked back to him, with a smile on his lips, and said meaningfully: "I've heard of you."
He let out a thoughtful oh, without any other reaction, squatted down and picked up a handful of purslane on the ground, and sprinkled it on the water to feed the fish. The fish swam over one after another, scrambling to eat the grass he threw down, splashing water onto his face, he raised his sleeves to wipe it indifferently, and continued to pluck the grass to feed the fish.
Li Xiang couldn't get his response, seeing that he wasn't interested in her, she couldn't help but ask again to attract his attention: "Why are you here alone, where is your sister?"
The toe of his soap boots was splashed wet by the fish, he wiped it with his fleshy little hands, raised his head and replied politely: "Sister Ah Luo is talking over there, I didn't disturb her, I was on my own Play." He stretched out his arm and pointed in the direction of the octagonal pavilion.
Li Xiang raised his eyebrows, and immediately asked in surprise: "I don't mean your sister Wei Luo, I mean Wei Zheng, where is your sister Wei Zheng?"
Speaking of Wei Zheng, Wei Changmin's tender face wrinkled into a ball, pouted and said, "I don't like her... I don't play with her."
As soon as Wei Zheng saw him, his expression was not good, and he was so fierce that he wanted to stare a hole out of him. Although he is young, he already knows who likes him and who doesn't. Wei Zheng is full of malice towards him, he is afraid of her, and subconsciously avoids her. Although Wei Luo always said she hated him, her dislike was different from Wei Zheng's. Every time she went to the street, she would bring him snacks. Although she always said it was for the Qin family, most of them fell for him. belly. He knew that Wei Luo didn't really hate him, he just liked sister Wei Luo.
After hearing this, Li Xiang was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help covering her lips with a silk handkerchief and laughing out loud. Her laughter was clear and sarcasm, which sounded not only unpleasant, but harsh on the contrary.
Wei Changmi wrinkled his face, covered his ears and asked, "Sister, what are you laughing at?"
After a long while, Li Xiang finally had enough of laughing, put down the silk handkerchief and looked at him and said, "I'm laughing at you."
His eyes were confused: "Laughing at me?"
"Yes, I laughed at you." Li Xiang raised the corners of his lips and looked him up and down, as if looking at something new. Wei Changmi didn't like the way she looked at him, which made him feel uncomfortable. She finally had enough of seeing it, she looked away and said slowly: "I laugh at you for being stupid and pitiful, you don't even know you've been cheated. How did Wei Luo tell you? Did she say that you are the son of the Qin family, and she lied to you with nice words? ? Let me tell you, in fact, you are not the son of the Qin family at all, your mother is the fifth lady, and Wei Zheng is your real sister!"
Qin's raising the fifth son's son, this matter is nothing new, and several families that have close contacts with the British government know about it. After all, the Qin family had no signs of pregnancy before, and it was really difficult to explain to outsiders that she had an extra son out of thin air, so she had to tell the truth. Although they didn't say that Mrs. Du did something wrong back then, anyone with a discerning eye would know that if he hadn't made a big mistake, how could he not be able to keep his son by his side
Everyone knew it well, so they didn't talk about it.
Although Li Xiang didn't know the inside story, he could roughly guess six or seven points based on the news from the hearsay. She purposely told Wei Changmi, trying to drive a wedge between him and Wei Luo.
He was so close to Wei Luo in the flower hall just now, and called "Sister Ah Luo" sweeter and sweeter, Wei Zheng's face was very ugly. If he knew that Wei Zheng was his real sister, how would his mother react after being locked up by the Wei family
Unexpectedly, Wei Changmi didn't respond after listening to it. He opened his eyes and looked at her calmly: "Oh, I knew that a long time ago."
Li Xiang's smile faltered, and he stared at him in disbelief: "You know?"
He nodded, not wanting to continue this topic, and squatted back to the lotus pond to feed the fish, "But mother said, Sister Ah Luo is my own sister..."
He always knew that he had two mothers, one lived in the four-bedroom plum garden, and the other lived in the backyard ginkgo garden. He was very afraid of Ginkgo Garden's mother, and wanted to run away every time he saw her. When I was young, my mother cried every time I saw him. Later, as he grew up, she wanted to treat him well, but he didn't like the food she gave him. As long as he refused, she would become very angry. horrible. She didn't speak, and dropped all the dishes on the table, then held his shoulder and asked him, "Did Qin teach you to say that?" Then, she hugged him and sat on the chair, without saying anything, occasionally touching his head and repeating—Chang Mi, you are my son, Chang Mi...
Deep down in his heart, Wei Changmi didn't regard her as a mother, but felt that she was very pitiful. He doesn't have any mother-child feelings for her, and the only mother he believes in is Qin Shi.
Li Xiang didn't expect this result, so he froze, and his tone became impatient: "Are you a fool? Do you recognize someone else as your mother and Wei Luo as your sister? Wei Luo is not a good person, don't be fooled by her." .”
Bai Lan at the side finally couldn't listen anymore, stood up and reminded: "Miss Li, don't say that about my young lady..."
Li Xiang turned to look at her, raised her eyebrows, and said disapprovingly, "Am I wrong? What happened to my brother's injury? Could it have nothing to do with her? And the letter she wrote, you should have participated in it too." Right? You know who she is very well, why bother to cover up in front of me... "
Wei Changmi's cheeks puffed up, and he was so angry that he raised his fist and beat Li Xiang's arm hard: "You are not allowed to speak ill of Sister Ah Luo, shut up!"
Li Xiang frowned, and said in a dissatisfied tone: "Am I wrong? You can't even tell who your sister is, so you have the nerve to hit me?"
Wei Changmi was very angry, teardrops fell down, and beat her while crying: "No, what you said is wrong..."
Li Xiang was annoyed by his beating. Although a child is weak, it doesn't hurt too much when beating, but she just can't stand others being rude to her. She raised her head and subconsciously pushed him, warning: "Enough is enough!"
Wei Changmi was caught off guard and took several steps back. When he was about to fall to the ground, a pair of hands stuck out from behind, caught him firmly, and held him in his arms.
Wei Luo protected Wei Changmi with both hands, raised her eyes to look at the opposite side, and said coldly: "Li Xiang, I think you should stop it."
Just now Jin Lu said that Wei Changmi was here and met Li Xiang, so she knew something was going to happen. After hurrying over, I really saw such a scene. Li Xiang didn't even let a five-year-old child go? She is really more despicable than she imagined.
Along with Wei Luo were Liang Yurong and Zhao Jie. Wei Changmi disappeared just now, and Liang Yurong also helped to find him. Hearing Wei Changmi's whereabouts on the way, he followed him. Seeing Li Xiang bullying a five or six-year-old child right now, she felt very disdainful for her.
Li Xiang was not guilty at all, looked at Wei Luo, then at Wei Changmi in her arms, and said with a smile: "You all saw it just now, I didn't do anything, it was he who wanted to hit me, so I pushed back." open him."
Hearing this, Wei Changmi turned around and lay in Wei Luo's arms, crying, "She's a bad person... She said bad things about Sister Ah Luo, so I hit her..."
The cry of the child, whistling, sounded very pitiful.
After hearing this, Li Xiang didn't show any panic on his face. Instead, he smiled lightly and asked confidently: "I just told him the truth and told him about my life experience. It shouldn't be a secret, shouldn't he know?" ?”
Wei Luo pursed her lips, looked at her steadfastly, and didn't say a word.
She always thought that Li Xiang was shameless, but seeing her today, she is really the only one who can be so shameless.
Wei Luo handed Wei Changmi to Liang Yurong who was at the side, stepped forward, and stood opposite Li Xiang. She was one year older than Li Xiang, and a little taller than Li Xiang. When she looked at her, her eyelids drooped, and she looked condescending. The corners of her lips were slightly raised, and a smile curved out, "You're right, it's really not a secret."
Li Xiang let out a smug expression on his face.
Wei Luo immediately said, "Since you know so much, you should have guessed what you want to do next?"
Li Xiang raised her lips disapprovingly: "How do I know..."
The next moment, before she could finish speaking, Wei Luo raised his hand and slapped her hard on the face!
There was only a "pop-" sound, heavy and loud.
Li Xiang was stunned, and when he realized it, he was both ashamed and angry. She glared at Wei Luo angrily, and raised her hand to fight back!
It's a pity that someone blocked her arm in mid-air, and she never returned the slap. Zhao Jie stood in front of her, holding her arm and said coldly: "Li Xiang, stop."
He was too obvious to protect his weaknesses, obviously Li Xiang was slapped by Wei Luo, but he had no intention of blaming Wei Luo at all. On the contrary, Li Xiang just raised his hand, and before he had time to put it down, he couldn't stand it anymore.
Li Xiang stared at the two of them, gritted his teeth, very annoyed.
It stands to reason that Zhao Jie is her cousin, and they are related by blood, but at this time, why did he help Wei Luo but not her
Until the end of the full moon banquet, Li Xiang stayed in the lotus pond, not daring to go out to see anyone. There is an obvious slap print on her face, she doesn't want people to see it, and make people laugh.
She hid until almost all the guests at the banquet had left before she walked out of this place.
Princess Gaoyang had been waiting anxiously at the gate of Duke Dingguo's mansion, and ordered people to look for her two or three times before she came out of the mansion.
Sitting on the carriage back home, Li Xiang threw herself into the arms of Princess Gaoyang without warning, crying loudly, venting all the grievances she had suffered today. She accused Wei Luo of what she did today, raised her small face, and let Princess Gaoyang look at her face: "Mother, look, it's still swollen..."
Princess Gao Yang took a closer look, and although it was not obvious, there was indeed a slap mark. A slap was made on her daughter's flowery face, and she felt distressed: "Why did Wei Luo hit you? Are you having a conflict?"
Li Xiang cried aggrievedly, with tears streaming down her face, but she still didn't forget to turn right and wrong into black and white: "She is unreasonable, and threatened to teach me if two sentences didn't match..."
It's not a day or two since Princess Gaoyang heard bad things about Wei Luo from her mouth. The last time she came back from Jinghe Villa, she hated Wei Luo to the bone. They hurt Wei Changhong last time, and now it's Wei Luo who beat Li Xiang. The hurt of other people's children is different from that of their own. Princess Gaoyang was both distressed and dissatisfied, and she wanted to talk about Wei Luo. However, since the hunting competition, the Ruyang Palace has been in the same situation as the British government. .
Princess Gaoyang sighed, and was about to say something, when someone outside suddenly raised the curtain of the car in a panic, and said in a panic: "Princess, it's not good! My son's arm was broken and he was seriously injured!"
Princess Gao Yang felt her body go limp, her eyes turned black, and she asked tremblingly, "What did you say?"
Song'er was injured? how is this possible? He possesses martial arts, ordinary people can't hurt him at all, let alone seriously injured!
The man replied honestly: "The villain couldn't find the elder son just now, so he borrowed someone from Dingguo's mansion and looked for it together. Later, he found the elder son in a bamboo forest. Not only did the elder son have a broken arm, but his body was also covered with bruises." Injuries big and small."
With a thunderbolt from the blue sky, Princess Gaoyang was too shocked to speak. I just feel dizzy in front of my eyes, and my hands and feet are cold.
Not long after, the three of them carried Li Song into the black lacquered flat-top carriage, put him on Luo Yin's mattress, and the three of them retreated one after another. Apart from his pale face, he had no abnormality at all. However, as soon as Princess Gaoyang lifted off his sky-blue solid gauze and gold men's clothing, she saw that there were bruises on his chest, ranging from heavy to light, and even his back was not spared. The heaviest thing was the wrist of his left hand, which was bent into a strange arc, and it looked like it had been discounted.
After all, Zhu Geng showed a little kindness to him, and he didn't do anything cruel. He only broke one of his arms, but he didn't completely cripple his hands.
Li Xiang forgot to cry, and shouted dumbfounded: "Brother!"
Princess Gaoyang looked at her seriously injured son, her heart ached beyond measure, she covered her lips and sobbed, and hurriedly ordered the coachman to rush back to Ruyang Palace.
When they arrived at Ruyang Palace, they carefully carried him into the courtyard.
The servants hurriedly invited the doctor, and Princess Gaoyang asked the doctor to examine his injuries. This torment lasted for more than an hour. After the doctor showed him the injury, he applied medicine to bandage it, and clamped a board on his left arm to fix the bone. Finally, he stroked his beard and said, "Take care of it well, the injured tendons move." The bone will last for a hundred days, so don't move that arm in the next three months, or it will hinder the healing."
In addition, the doctor prescribed two prescriptions, one for trauma and one for internal injuries.
Princess Gaoyang wiped her tears sadly, thanked the doctor, and ordered someone to pay the doctor a lot of money before sending him away.
She didn't know who had such a big grudge against Li Song and wanted to beat him like this.
Li Zhiliang had already brought people back to Duke Dingguo's mansion to search the bamboo forest, no matter what, he had to find out who the murderer was. If the murderer is found, she will not let him go!
Probably because she was crying too sadly, Princess Gao Yang's body went limp and passed out not long after.
Li Xiang hurriedly sent her back to her room to rest well.
After sending away Princess Gaoyang, she and Li Song were the only ones left in the room. Li Song was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, his handsome brows were furrowed, maybe because of the pain, he couldn't sleep well.
Li Xiang stood at the head of his bed for a while, leaned over to tuck the quilt for him, and put his uninjured hand back under the quilt. When she raised his hand, she suddenly paused, feeling something in his hand. She lifted up his sleeve, looked down, and saw that what he was holding was a golden hairpin inlaid with emeralds and cicadas. It was very valuable, and it looked like it belonged to a rich family.
Not only did she snort curiously, how could my brother have such a thing
She reached out to take it out for a closer look, but she tugged, but it didn't move.
Li Song held the hairpin tightly and refused to let go.