After the report was over, Anshi said goodbye and left. When she walked into the yard, she heard the laughter of the old and the young coming from the house, and she couldn't help but stop in her tracks.
She secretly said in her heart: "It's really a monster with some tricks, even the old lady who has been shrewd all her life is coaxed by her, and she looks like a monster all over her body."
"What a good and sensible child he was before, how could he be targeted by a monster? You can't let this monster do evil in Yun's house!"
An Shi sighed, and couldn't help feeling sorry for Yun Ruoyan, "I don't know how the spirit has been harmed by monsters. Even if the monsters are expelled, they will become a fool. Don't worry too!"
"Ma'am, what's the matter with you?" Hongyu, the maid next to An's, asked worriedly.
She watched An's sudden stop, with a dazed look, and a smile suddenly appeared on her lips, which was quite strange.
An Shi came to his senses, waved his hands, and walked out of Xianglan Garden.
As she walked, she thought to herself, "The realgar wine has been used by that girl for seven or eight days, why is there no reaction at all."
As she was walking, An suddenly turned her head and called Hongyu, "Call Lily of the Land right away, I want to ask her a question."
Not long after An Shi left, Yun Ruoyan saw that Liu Shi was faintly drowsy, so she got up to leave.
Mrs. Liu asked Xiaolan to take out a small sandalwood box from the cabinet and give it to Yun Ruoyan.
She opened it in front of Yun Ruoyan, and saw some jewelry and some silver taels inside.
Although the jewelry is not more expensive than the ones Lin Yuemei left her, they are still good. There are about one hundred taels of silver, not too much but not too much.
Although the Lin family had some money, Yun Ruoyan still couldn't open her mouth unless it was absolutely necessary. This hundred taels could just relieve her current rather tense financial situation.
"Ruoyan." Liu said rather emotionally: "All these years, grandma hasn't given you anything, so you can use these things to buy yourself some good clothes."
Yun Ruoyan was also not polite, hugged Liu's arm coquettishly, made Liu laugh non-stop, and then picked up the box and prepared to leave.
When she walked to the door and raised the curtain, she seemed to have thought of something suddenly, and she turned around and asked, "Grandma, will my brother come back to wish you a birthday?"
Mrs. Liu was leaning on the soft couch, and Xiaolan was waiting for her to put on the brocade and prepare for her lunch break. Hearing Yun Ruoyan's words, she slightly opened her eyes and said, "I have asked your father to send a letter to the barracks. No reply."
"Oh, that's it." Yun Ruoyan's tone was a little lonely for a moment, but she quickly said cheerfully: "Grandmother, take a good rest, and Ruoyan will come to play cards with you tomorrow when she is free."
Xiaolan sent Yun Ruoyan out of the house, and turned around to enter the house to serve Mrs. Liu, but Yun Ruoyan stopped her.
"Sister Xiaolan." Yun Ruoyan smiled and took Xiaolan's hand.
Xiaolan looked at Yun Ruoyan, saw her black hair like clouds, smiling eyes like stars, with a peach blossom veil on her face, but her face was more delicate than that peach blossom. It's really beautiful and makes people happy.
"Miss Ruoyan, do you have any orders?"
Yun Ruoyan took out a sapphire bracelet from her sleeve pocket and put it on Xiaolan's wrist.
"Miss, this is impossible."
Xiaolan stepped back in a hurry, Yun Ruoyan held her hand and said, "This is a thank you gift, the phoenix flower you drew for me is very beautiful, I like it very much. Xilan has already embroidered it On the pillow, I also want to embroider the same pattern on the upper of the shoe in a smaller size, I don’t know if Sister Xiaolan has time to draw it for me.”
Since it was a thank you gift, Xiaolan couldn't refuse to refuse, so she quickly agreed to draw when she was free in the evening.
After entering the room, Xiaolan showed the bracelet to Mrs. Liu, who nodded slightly and said that since it was for you, you can keep it.
"This child has been holding back for so long, and finally asked." Liu closed her eyes, but she didn't feel as sleepy as before.
"Is the master being a little harsh on the young master and young lady, but the brothers and sisters don't let them communicate with each other?"
Xiaolan said: "Miss is also very pitiful. She obviously misses her brother very much, but she dare not ask openly. She beat around the bush for a long time before finally asking."
"Old madam, you didn't see the disappointed look in the lady's eyes when you said that there was no news just now, it really hurts people."
Mrs. Liu sighed, and said slowly: "Xiao'er has a stubborn temper and is very protective of Ruoyan. When I came back to report on work three years ago, in order to protect Ruoyan, I beat Mo Yuan from his fourth uncle's house. He was seriously injured. If he knew that Ruoyan was expelled from the family academy, there would be a big fuss."
"Then won't the young master know about Miss Ruoyan's expulsion this time when he comes back?" Xiaolan asked worriedly.
"It's different now."
A faint smile appeared on Liu's old face, "Ruoyan strived for her own strength, and obtained the qualification to enter the Kongming Academy by virtue of her own ability. Complaining."
In the Yilan Courtyard, Hongyu brought Lily of the Valley into the back room, and An Shi was getting impatient with the wait.
"Why did it take you so long to come here?" She asked coldly.
Lily of the valley still looked trembling.
"Back... back to Da Furen, that Xi Lan insisted on dragging me to the big kitchen, saying that she was making some soup for the young lady while the cooks were on their lunch break. She asked me to light a fire for her, and it took half an hour I'm free."
Anshi looked at Hongyu, Hongyu nodded slightly, Anshi's complexion improved, and asked: "Did you put the thing I gave you in that soup?"
"Let's go." Ling Lan replied with her head down, "As long as there is a chance, Ling Lan will put some in Miss's food. But it smells like wine, and Ling Lan dare not put too much for fear of being noticed."
"En." Anshi nodded, thought for a while, and said, "Just keep looking for opportunities to let it go. You can go back."
At this time, Ling Lan was already so nervous that her heart would jump out of her heart. This was the first time she lied in front of the eldest lady. Fortunately, she always gave people the impression that she was trembling and afraid of everything, so There is no need to deliberately hide anything.
Hearing that An Shi asked her to go back, Ling Lan breathed a sigh of relief, said yes, turned around and was about to leave, but An Shi called her back.
"Come on, this is your reward." An Shi handed a small piece of scattered silver to Hongyu, and Hongyu handed the silver to Lily of the Valley.
"Take care of the matter for Madam well, Madam will not treat you badly." Hongyu said.
Ling Lan thankfully took the broken silver, and bowed again and again, before Anshi waved her hand in satisfaction to signal that she could leave.
In the courtyard of Tinglanyuan, Shaoyao and Xilan are doing needlework.
Holding a handkerchief that she got from somewhere, Ling Lan pretended to be sitting on the bamboo chair, imitating An's appearance and said: "The Tinglan Garden is still alive recently, you have to keep an eye on them, lest What's wrong with them, don't be discovered."
"Cough cough." Ling Lan coughed twice, changed her sitting position, raised her arms and spread out her palms and said, "Come on, this is your reward."
Puff!
Both Shaoyao and Xilan couldn't help bursting out laughing, they stopped doing needlework, and both rubbed their bellies and laughed out of breath.
"Okay, good you, Lily of the Valley." Xi Lan covered her stomach with one hand, pointed at Lily of the Land with a trembling hand, and said with a smile, "I thought you were honest, but I didn't expect you to be more of a demon than me."
"Okay, you." Shao Yao smiled and said to Xi Lan, "It's not all caused by you."
At this time, Yun Ruoyan walked into the courtyard with the box in her arms, and was quite puzzled seeing the three girls laughing like crazy.
"What a happy event, laugh like this, and tell the lady that I am happy." She laughed.
Xi Lan immediately jumped up from the stool, imitating what Suzuran had learned just now.
Sure enough, Yun Ruoyan was also amused, she looked at Ling Lan. Ling Lan stood up from the bamboo chair a long time ago, stood aside respectfully, with her head bowed, her little face was bright red.
Suddenly Ling Lan raised her head, reached out her hand and took out a piece of scattered silver from her trouser pocket and handed it to Yun Ruoyan, "Miss, this is a reward from the Da Furen."
Yun Ruoyan's gaze shifted from the broken silver in her hand to her body. The girls of the Yun family all had maid uniforms corresponding to their grades, and Ling Lan was considered a third-class girl who wore sackcloth.
It looked neat, but the third-class girl's shoes had to be bought by herself, and Ling Lan's shoes had already been patched a lot.
"As a reward, you can keep it and buy yourself a good pair of shoes." Yun Ruoyan said.
The lady still cares about her shoes? Ling Lan's heart warmed, and she almost shed tears.
In Xianglan Garden, An's, Yun Ruoyao and others gathered together again.
"This evildoer really can't stay." An Shi said: "The old lady is so fascinated by her now."
Yi Qianying continued: "First His Highness the Crown Prince, then the old grandmother, and then the father. When everyone is bewildered by her, the entire Yun family will fall under her control."
"Then... what to do then!"
Yun Ruoyu was a little flustered, everyone present hated Yun Ruoyan, but only she and Yi Qianying hated it, wishing to carve out the flesh and bones.
"Mother, didn't you ask someone to drink realgar wine for her? Why didn't it work?" Yun Ruoyao asked.
"I think this monster's cultivation level is quite high. Ordinary realgar wine probably won't work on her." An said in a deep voice.
"Then what should I do, mother, you have to think of other ways, and you must not let her go against the sky." Yun Ruoyu shouted.
An's glanced at her sideways, and hated seeing her bluffing like this.
"Ordinary realgar wine won't work." An smirk appeared on An's face, "Then we'll have to speculate."
Yun Ruoyao, Yun Ruoyu, and Yi Qianying all looked at An Shi involuntarily, and asked at the same time, "What's the surprise?"