Xia Qi chased out the door, but could only watch from afar as the back of his sister's hurried departure disappeared around the corner.

"Young Master, are the slaves and maids in Aunt Bai's yard still going?"

The two grandmothers had been guarding the door and waiting for the master to make a final decision. Xia Xue'er was in a hurry when she went out, and the two of them didn't have time to ask, but now that they see Xia Qi coming out, don't you ask clearly!

When Xia Qi heard this, he didn't rush to answer, but stopped and thought carefully for a moment.

Before leaving, his sister had already confessed not to let him inquire about the matter, even if he felt that there was a secret hidden here, then he could only ignore his sister and let him go. If my sister can't handle it well, it won't be too late for him to intervene again, anyway, Aunt Bai is in the house, and she can't run!

So he waved his hand and said, "No, this is the end of the matter." Then he left in the opposite direction.

He was a person who had something to do, but when he was passing by Tingyuxuan earlier, he happened to see his sister hurriedly going out, and he didn't even notice standing ten steps away, so he followed her to this gloomy underworld and heard a bunch of truths that made people angry. Since his sister wants him to sit and wait for the results, he can only let go obediently and return to the things that are waiting for him to worry about for the time being.

Xia Xue'er was very confused, and after hurriedly stepping out of her brother's sight, she slowed down and thought carefully all the way.

Cuizhu followed behind, not knowing what her young lady was going to do. After a moment of deliberation, he finally asked.

"The slave doesn't understand, it's obviously more appropriate for the eldest young master to come forward to deal with this matter, why didn't the young lady stop it?"

Xia Xue'er didn't answer, but asked worriedly, "Do you remember what Bai Yining said to me before?"

After mentioning this, Cuizhu remembered the so-called reasons for revenge that Bai Yining said as if he was crazy on the day he came out of the Buddha hall. To be honest, when you think about it, in addition to making people feel incredible, her words are really a bit ridiculous! But for some reason, the young lady was convinced of this, and added to these many concerns.

"Doesn't the young lady ever doubt the truth of this?"

Xia Xue'er turned her head to look at Cuizhu, and for a while she didn't understand what she meant.

Cuizhu continued: "The slave maid has never seen or heard of a person who can completely change her appearance and age to make an old woman in her sixties look like a woman in her early thirties.

Xia Xue'er did not answer after hearing this.

She also thought this thing was incredible before, but she never doubted its authenticity, just because in Jiang Qingtian's era, beauty and plastic surgery did exist, and even makeup could achieve the same effect. For example, some movie stars in their forties and fifties can still create the image of seventeen or eighteen-year-old high school students. Therefore, she seems to be familiar with this kind of incident and is accustomed to it.

Although the dynasties we are in are different now, even the light power floating on the screen is commonplace here, so it is difficult to say that there is no special power that can change a person's face!

I don't know how far I walked, and I don't know how long it took, when suddenly a gust of spring breeze hit, sending a burst of coolness, and she realized that she had unconsciously walked to the Qinglian Pond.

His eyes habitually looked at the blue water pavilion, but he saw a slender figure leaning on the guardrail, and his black hair fluttered through the railing in the breeze.

"Cuizhu", Xia Xue'er softly called the girl behind her, pointed to the pink back and asked, "Who is that in the pavilion?"

Cuizhu looked in the direction of the young lady's finger, looking left and right as if she knew the girl on the pavilion, and then moved to the Qinglian Pond to search around, and did not see any suspicious people within a hundred steps, and she couldn't help muttering in her heart.

Neither is he a person in the house, and there is no one who is the master within a hundred steps to accompany him, so it is really strange to meditate alone in this blue water pavilion.

"Miss Hui, the slave maid is clumsy, and she doesn't see who the girl is."

"Is there a visitor in the house today?"

"The slave has never heard of it."

Xia Xue'er frowned slightly when she heard this, and wanted to leave, but she couldn't take a step, and faintly felt that there was a great connection between the girl in the pavilion and herself. So she resolutely stepped onto the winding stone bridge and walked towards the center of the pool, and although she approached step by step, she did not see who the person was.

"Meeting is fate, can the girl turn around......"

Before Xia Xue'er finished speaking, the fair lady slowly turned her head, and the moment she saw the girl's face, Xia Xue'er and Cuizhu were both stunned.

"Second Miss!"

"Second sister!"

Although the girl in front of her was described as thin, with bulging cheekbones, and her skin was not as fair as before, no one expected that this person was actually Xia Qiaoyun who was confined to the family temple!

On the contrary, Xia Qiaoyun didn't have much surprise after seeing Xia Xue'er, as if she was waiting here on purpose. Just smiled, stood up, bent slightly as if saluting, and said, "I haven't seen you for a long time, but the third sister doesn't recognize me?"

Xia Xue'er came back to her senses, did not hide her surprise at all, and said: "It's just that I didn't expect it to be you, I only know that the second sister prayed in the family temple, but I don't know when she has quietly returned home."

"Prayer?" Xia Qiaoyun suddenly laughed when she heard this word, and then said: "What the third sister said is really subtle, I don't have such noble qualities. It's just that he committed a taboo that he shouldn't have committed, was ruthlessly kicked out of his house, and exiled to a family temple in the barren mountains and mountains, and killed himself! If it hadn't been for my grandmother's letter a few days ago, I wouldn't have been able to come back in any year! ”

Knowing that it was the old lady who picked her up, Xia Xue'er was not surprised.

Since the day of her mother's accident, the relationship between her and the old lady has been deadlocked, if it weren't for the jealousy of the Jiangnan Zhao family, the old lady would not tolerate her in every way. According to the old lady's arrogant nature, how could she be willing to let her granddaughter suppress it all the time, but didn't she want to find someone who could block Xia Xue'er?

Xia Xue'er smiled slightly and said, "That's the old lady's kindness."

Hearing this, Xia Qiaoyun smiled coldly and said disapprerovingly: "It seems that you really don't know our grandmother, kindness has never been one of her qualities."

Xia Xue'er didn't answer after hearing this, she still had a signature smile on her face that could not be suspected, but she couldn't help but sigh in her heart: After this incident, Xia Qiaoyun saw it quite thoroughly!

"I didn't want to come back, to be free and alone outside, to live in the mountains away from the noise, to get up in the morning and sleep late, without so much red tape, and without those people and things that pierce your eyes to hang in front of you, happy and relaxed!

"When the old lady handed me a letter from home, I was still stunned, I never felt that anyone in this family had ever cared about my little concubine, but now she suddenly gave you a letter with affection, which really made the second monk scratch his head.

"But as soon as the carriage entered the city gate, the glorious deeds of the third lady of the Xia family were heard in my ears, which really surprised me. I thought that without me, your life in this deep-walled compound would be very boring, but I didn't expect it to be so colorful, not only became a well-known "celebrity", but also openly raised the bar with the old lady! ”

Xia Xue'er just sneered after hearing this, and when she mentioned this, she either wanted to laugh at her or show her superiority. As soon as I came back to the house, I started to find faults, and it seems that the old lady is quite right!

Seeing that Xia Xue'er ignored herself, Xia Qiaoyun continued to talk to herself.

"After entering the house, the old lady counted you in front of me, and didn't ask me how I was doing alone for a few months, and I realized that the old lady's letter called me back, not the so-called missing my granddaughter, it's just that you are too rampant and want to find someone to restrain you!"

Xia Xue'er looked at Xia Qiaoyun meaningfully.

As we all know, the old lady is quite obsessed with authority, and she is stubborn by nature, and once she has made a decision, she will not change it lightly, because in her eyes it is undoubtedly self-denial!

If it is really as Xia Qiaoyun herself said, then there is really no way to imagine that the old lady has made such a decision. She knows Xia Qiaoyun well, although she has a plan, she may not be able to do it seamlessly.

It's just that no matter what, if she really becomes the old lady's minions, even if the means are inferior, it is inevitable that the old lady will protect her regardless of qiē, and that is the real trouble.

Unexpectedly, Xia Qiaoyun's next words were far beyond her expectations.

"It's just that her old man seems to think of me Xia Qiaoyun too simply! Since you dared to attack you in the first place, how could you be willing to become a knife and axe in the hands of others? ”

"Oh?"

"If I say that Xia Qiaoyun who is standing in front of you now is no longer the Xia Qiaoyun he was at the beginning, will the third sister believe it?"

Although Xia Xue'er didn't know what kind of medicine she was selling in her gourd, she still smiled slightly and replied, "Of course! Time passes, and it is difficult to find the past. I haven't seen her for a few months, and the second sister has indeed lost a lot of weight, and even Cuizhu and I didn't see it. ”

Xia Qiaoyun smiled faintly and replied: "The family temple is located in the green mountains, the life is quiet and poor, and the three meals of green vegetables and radishes a day are certainly not something that people in your prosperous place can imagine."

"Second sister, is she tired of living a poor life, and she misses the life of fine clothes and food in the deep-walled compound?"

"Everyone is still afraid of hardship, although I miss the life of being a lady, but at the same time I have understood a lot of truths, people are born different, the more you have, the more responsibilities you have to bear. Just like you, no matter how beautiful you were at the beginning, now you are a little lonely, don't you want to step on it? ”

After saying this, Xia Qiaoyun put away the faint smile on her face, and said very sincerely: "When I come back this time, I just want to help you!"

"Help me?"

"Yes, help you!"

Xia Qiaoyun nodded, with a determined expression.

Xia Xue'er looked at Xia Qiaoyun with questions, and she didn't understand what she meant.

I haven't seen her for a few months, she Xia Qiaoyun is really not the Xia Qiaoyun she used to be, not only her posture and appearance are different from before, but even her heart is very different! It's hard to guess what she thinks now, how can she extend an olive branch to her former enemy for no reason?

"If I'm not mistaken, the last time we met, you still hated me like an enemy, just hoping that I would disappear quietly one day, why do you say you want to help me now?"

"So my sister still won't forgive me?"

"It's not forgiving, it's just distrust. I don't trust someone who wants to take my life when I'm going well will genuinely help me when I'm in trouble. ”

Xia Qiaoyun smiled slightly, her face seemed to be helpless, but she didn't give up, she took a step forward and approached Xia Xue'er, and then looked into her eyes and said:

"I know that you are still haunted by my previous mistake of pushing you into the Blue Lotus Pond, since you don't trust me, then wait and see, I will prove with my actions that I am no longer your enemy."

Xia Xue'er didn't speak, still looking at her second sister who didn't know what intentions she had with a calm smile.

It's hard to figure out what she's thinking.

After the two looked at each other for a few seconds, the maid Qing'er beside Mrs. Xia found the Qinglian Pond and saw Xia Xue'er standing in the blue water pavilion, so she stood on the shore and shouted: "Third Miss, Dr. Zhang has come to prick Mrs. with a needle!"

Hearing this, Xia Xue'er retracted her eyes, didn't say a word, turned around and left.

In the past half a month that Mrs. Xia has been in a coma, Senior Brother Zhang will come to the house every three days to give her needles for diagnosis and treatment. And every time the needle pricking process is extremely painful, Xia Xueer will be by her mother's side. Today happens to be the day of my mother's treatment.

Cuizhu, what do you think? ”

After walking out of the Bishui Pavilion, Xia Xue'er asked Cuizhu in a low voice.

Cuizhu is a pure contemporary, and she knows everyone in the Xia Mansion more thoroughly than her, and besides, the two of them are in different positions and have different contacts with different people. Sometimes she might be able to see the essence of things from a different angle, and she wanted to hear Cuizhu's thoughts.

"Miss Hui, the second lady in the past looked very timid on the outside, and she was only willing to talk and had a lot of scruples, and she never dared to be as calm and relaxed as she is today, and she didn't dare to say anything about the old lady.

According to the slave maid, since the young lady can't guess what kind of wishful thinking she has in her heart, it is better to ignore it and see what she will do in the future. ”

Xia Xue'er sighed and said, "My mother is still in a coma, and my father has not returned home, so I can't stay by her side all the time. The position of the wife is too tempting, how many pairs of eyes are staring, and the slightest carelessness will make the unscrupulous person take advantage of the loophole.

"Now that Bai Yining's affairs have not been dealt with properly, I really don't want to spend too much energy on her. It's just that now she has said to her face that it would be inappropriate to ignore it, and Aunt Shen is not a fuel-efficient lamp, don't let them all join hands! ”

"Isn't there a young lady's grandfather, the Zhao family?"

"The name of the Zhao family can only suppress the old lady, and the rest are not afraid! And after all, the Zhao family is thousands of miles away, and they can't always take care of their daughter who marries far away, for fear of accidents! ”

"And what is the young lady going to do?"

Xia Xue'er thought for a while and beckoned to Cuizhu and ordered, "Come here with your ears."

Then he whispered to Cuizhu's ear.