Early morning, General's Mansion.
backyard.
With a "squeak" sound, Qiu Yilan opened the window. In the courtyard outside the window, three or two peach blossoms were blooming in perfect bloom, as red and bright as clouds. When the soft wind blew, the petals flying in the air, filled with mist, penetrated the courtyard and entered the house. , quietly resting on a human head.
She turned around and flattered Ruan Qingyan, who was recuperating on the bed, brushing off a petal that fell on his shoulder, and then used a handkerchief to wipe off the dew on the petals: "My cousin is so hardworking!"
Ruan Qingyan stared at the book in his hand intently, as if he didn't hear her words at all.
Qiu Yilan was not discouraged. After a while, Dong Ran came in with the medicine. She hurriedly went up to take it, coldly blew a spoonful of it, and put it to Ruan Qingyan's lips: "Cousin, it's time to take the medicine."
Ruan Qingyan stepped back and put down the book, but glanced at Dongran behind Qiu Yilan.
Dong Ran smiled awkwardly: "This... princess, how about a maid serving the young master?"
Qiu Yilan had no choice but to return the medicine bowl to her angrily.
After a while, Ruan Qingyan finished drinking the medicine, and Qiu Yilan hurriedly picked up a small plate of candied fruit and handed it over: "Cousin, take one?"
Ruan Qingyan picked up the book again.
From beginning to end, he didn't even look at her.
—Is this Cousin Ruan who was gentle, considerate, caring and tolerant of her in everything? !
"You think I'm easy to bully, don't you?! It's been two days! I've admitted my mistakes three or five times. I've copied "Women's Guide" and other things. I try to make you smile every day and try my best to please you - you give me back Showing off your face?!" Qiu Yilan looked down at the candied fruit in her hand, her expression gradually darkened, and she finally couldn't hold back, "Why do you think I can't help you?"
"Princess..." Dongran saw that something was wrong and had no time to clean up the medicine bowl, so he quickly came up and tried to persuade him to make peace.
However, the brother-sister battle that Dongran was worried about did not happen.
Not only did it not happen - what Qiu Yilan did next was simply unbearable to watch!
With lightning speed, she rushed to the couch and hugged Ruan Qingyan, crying loudly: "Uuuuuuuuah... Cousin, I was wrong, I was wrong, I was really wrong! Don't ignore me anymore. Okay, okay, okay? Wow... I already told you that I am your cousin... How can you treat me like this! You are so ruthless, cruel and unreasonable... Oh, no, you are so cruel and cruel. It penetrates my heart, you know..."
Ruan Qingyan, who originally seemed to be deaf to what was going on outside the window and only focused on reading the books of sages, was completely stunned...
After a long time, he sighed and patted Qiu Yilan's arm. His tone was full of the weakness of her integrity: "Can you not be such a shameless person?" Do you think I will forget if you hug me and cry first? Are you playing "cry once, make trouble and hang yourself" again? !
"Woohoo ... you actually said I Lai Pi!" Qiu Yanlan was crying even more, "You said me so much about my cousin, what's the point of living ..."
She let go of Ruan Qingyan, "I think I'll just go out and jump in the lotus pond! Or I can hit the stone lions at the door or buy arsenic to mix with rice... Anyway, I don't want to live anymore!"
As soon as the three sure-kill moves came out, Ruan Qingyan's face turned red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple for a while, and he stroking his forehead slumped: "Speak well! I'll learn what those ignorant market women do!"
"I know you love me the most, cousin!" Qiu Yilan's crying suddenly stopped, and after wiping her face, she immediately acted as if there was no such thing as crying at all, and said sweetly, "Cousin Why are you so willing to ignore me, right?"
... Ruan Qingyan's heart was in a mess, and he finally suppressed the urge to jump up and find the family law. He gritted his teeth and asked, "Did you go back to do it when Lu committed suicide two days ago? You are becoming more and more courageous, and you dare not do such a big thing as human life." Hands on! Who taught you this?”
Qiu Yilan's bright peach blossom eyes blinked innocently: "Oh, this is none of my business. I just ran back and laughed a few words. As for how Lu died, I'm afraid my uncle only knows!"
Ruan Qingyan's pupils shrank slightly: "Really?"
"What Cousin Kang told me, I don't know if it's true or not." Qiu Yilan shamelessly distorted the facts, lest Ruan Qingyan know that she actually went into danger to uncover Qiu Mengmin's mother-killing—you know what Ruan Qingyan has been doing these days The reason for ignoring her was just because she hurriedly dragged Kang Lizhang back to the palace that day without saying hello to him or asking for his permission...
The nurse’s eager cousin must know how she deliberately planned to irritate Qiu Mengmin and the others, and how she dealt with the unforgiving and mean Lu family’s funeral—not afraid of going too far and offending Qiu Mengmin and his son. Fight her to the death - I guess it would be strange if Ruan Qingyan wasn't so angry that she vomited blood!
Sure enough, when Ruan Qingyan heard that Kang Lizhang had revealed it to her, his face softened slightly and he hummed: "This woman is not kind-hearted, so she may not be trustworthy."
"My cousin taught me a lesson!" Qiu Yilan agreed.
Anyway, the most important thing now is to coax this cousin Ruan well. As for how to turn around, she is no stranger to this routine of going against the will!
Ruan Qingyan, who still had the last hope for his cousin's integrity, was confused by her docile and teachable appearance. He felt a little better and asked her about her grave-sweeping experience.
Qiu Yilan carefully observed his expression, looking for something to say that would not irritate him, and finally said: "... Because I met my eldest brother on the road, and my eldest brother repeatedly told me to move back to the palace to live after I come back this time."
Qiu Hongzhi was so angry with her several times during this grave-sweeping trip. Of course, it was impossible to warn her like this - even if she did, Qiu Yilan would definitely ignore it if she didn't want to go back to live. She said this simply because she no longer wanted to live in the General's Mansion.
After all, I moved here because I was worried that I would be harmed if I stayed in the palace, and I also wanted to find a way out of the palace.
Now that the goal has been achieved, if we don't take advantage of the good situation to go back to avenge ourselves and expand our territory, how about we continue to stay in the general's mansion
After all, there is no mistress in the General's Mansion now. Even if Deng Yi is here, her reputation will inevitably be discussed over time. Qiu Yilan doesn't care about it, but Ruan Qingyan is the son-in-law candidate that the Jiang family likes. Although Qiu Yilan When this news was revealed to Ruan Qingyan, Ruan Qingyan looked calm, but at that moment the burning heat flashed deep in his eyes made Qiu Yilan understand that this cousin was also very interested in becoming the son-in-law of the Jiang family.
In this case, Qiu Yilan certainly didn't want to block his way.
"Why do you care about him?" Ruan Qingyan's face looked better when he heard that she was going back to the palace, but suddenly it turned ugly again, "Grandpa is your direct maternal grandfather. You are serving the elders, who can talk too much?! If you are afraid of people gossiping? , I will send Deng Yi away later, and I will go out to find a close friend to stay with..."
"I think what my eldest cousin said makes sense: I am a member of the Qiu family after all, and it is really outrageous to live here all the time." Qiu Yilan said quickly, "And after what happened this time, especially after Lu's death, How can the palace dare to manipulate me like before? Besides, I am such a manipulative person?"
You are the heir! Grandpa is seriously ill and you actually want to run out! Do you want to be impeached by the censor until you die
Seeing what Ruan Qingyan wanted to say, Qiu Yilan quickly changed the subject: "I want to move back, and I want to ask my cousin to do me a favor - I don't want to use the family in the palace to have children, and I plan to buy a few servants to make up for it. But I haven’t bought this person before, so my cousin needs to give me a slap in the face?”
Ruan Qingyan was not fooled, and said expressionlessly: "I still don't agree with you moving back! No matter how Lu died, everyone in the palace must hate you now! Why did Qiu Hongzhi call you to go back? I didn't want you to go back. To deal with you?"
"Am I so easy to deal with?" Qiu Yilan coquettishly pulled his sleeves and shook them back and forth, shamelessly cooing, "Besides, Qiu Hongzhi is now eager to compete with Qiu Yinzhi for the heir apparent - Qiu Yin's age Although they are small, the Yang family is not someone to be trifled with. Qiu Hongzhi’s wife’s family, the Ding family, is not as powerful as the Yang family. He will have no time to cause trouble for me in the future. He should be lucky if I don’t cause him any trouble! "
Ruan Qingyan sneered and said: "It's easy for you to say! Do you also want to get involved? So you are in a hurry to go back?"
"Uh..." Sure enough, the credit is not enough? Qiu Yilan quickly thought about what to say at this time to make Ruan Qingyan believe in her
"Young Master! Young Master! I'm so happy! I'm so happy!" As the atmosphere in the room gradually became a little awkward, the sound of chaotic footsteps suddenly came from the corridor. Following a series of announcements, the door was pushed open with a "bang", and a man in Tsing Yi The servant was the first to rush in, his face beaming with joy, and he shouted loudly, "Congratulations to the young master for ranking 35th on the apricot list of high school!"
The three original people in the room were stunned at first, and then Qiu Yilan and Dong Ran showed ecstasy on their faces: "Win?!"
"No. 35 on the apricot list, it's unmistakable! I saw it with my own eyes and saw it clearly!" This servant in Tsing Yi was the one who was sent to see the list this morning - Qiu Yi, who was left to dry for two days by Ruan Qingyan. Lan, the reason why she came to Ruan Qingyan's inner room early this morning to show her courtesy was because the results for today's test would be posted, and it was really hard to coax Ruan Qingyan into doing so. At least, she still had something to do as a concubine.
As a result, the brother and sister got into a fight and forgot such a big thing together!
Now that the servant said that he had been selected, Qiu Yilan suddenly smiled and said happily to Ruan Qingyan: "Cousin, I want to reward them!"
"Reward." Compared to the joy of his sister and the others, Ruan Qingyan was unusually calm. Although he was smiling at the moment, he was far from excited. He only nodded slightly, "Dongran, go and distribute the reward."
Asking Dongran to take his servants out, he then turned to Qiu Yilan and brought up the past, "About you continuing to live in the General's Mansion..."
"Cousin, you have already won the exam, are you still afraid that I will be wronged?" Qiu Yilan coquettishly said, "Before, you only promoted people, and they couldn't do anything to us brothers and sisters. Now that you are a tribute scholar, you will soon be a Jinshi... Who will dare to offend me openly in the future?"
Ruan Qingyan said solemnly: "What about in private?"
"Then I still have you?" Qiu Yilan said sweetly, "Can't you stand up for me now that I'm here?"
She lowered her voice, "Now that Qiu Mengmin and his wife are ill, and you are in high school, it is not an exaggeration to say that I am going back with great momentum! There will be no such good things in the future - to be honest, cousin, I don't You may stay here until you leave the house, right? So instead of going back later, it’s better to choose the best time to go back! If you miss it now, it will be more troublesome to go back later!”
After all the talk, Ruan Qingyan sighed and said, "Be careful! If anything goes wrong, come back immediately... Don't worry about other people's opinions. Your safety is the top priority, you know?"
"I know, I know!" Qiu Yilan nodded frequently and said sternly, "I still have to wait for you, cousin, to show off your power after you rise to prominence! I can't bear to do anything wrong to myself!"
... After leaving the General's Mansion, Qiu Yilan breathed a sigh of relief as she looked at the visitors who had already flocked in: "In the future, the Ruan family will not be without relatives and friends."
"I'm so happy today!" Su He sighed, "Even the princess's voice is much lighter than usual!"
"This is because people are in high spirits when happy events happen, and they naturally feel lighter." Qiu Yilan squinted her eyes slightly, stretched out her hand to take a handful of the spring light that shone in from under the half-rolled car curtain, and said happily.
Su Hetian said honestly: "It would be great if there could be such a happy event every day!"
Both Chun Ran and Xia Ran laughed: "How can we publish the results every day in the spring?"
"Although we can't release the results every spring, we can find other happy events to be happy about!" Qiu Yilan smiled slyly, touched Su He's head, and said sweetly, "Let's go! Go see Uncle Lian and the others - let you know why. I didn’t ask you to mention the dowry of the concubine and the mother-in-law before!”
In the spring of Budeze, all things are radiant - in such good times, good seasons and good years, she doesn't want those annoying people to enjoy it as much as she does!
Happiness built with the enemy's pain is the real happiness, and it is the true meaning of happiness. Qiu Yilan, who has limited moral integrity and incorrect outlook on life, firmly believes in this!