In the blink of an eye, the year has come to an end, and all the relationships in the Xia Mansion need to be touched, and there is an endless stream of guests. Mrs. Xia is also as busy as in previous years, putting aside her children's affection, she is still a virtuous and capable general's wife.

Unlike previous years, this year, Xia Qingxuan's labor army in the north did not return, and Mrs. Xia's right-hand man, Aunt Li, was punished in the Buddhist hall, so the whole house pointed to Mrs. Xia up and down, inside and out, and she was really busy.

Fortunately, Xia Xue'er is not only smart and clever, but also able to understand her mother's hard work, and has rushed to Yalanxuan early in the morning to help her. The mother and daughter are busy in their hands, and they can still talk about themselves, which also enhances their relationship.

"Mother, I heard that the old lady was difficult for you yesterday?"

Mrs. Xia smiled slightly, and said lightly: "She is an elder, I am a junior, and it is natural for the elders to admonish the juniors, and it is not difficult." ”

"Since I was stirred up, she hasn't given you a good look, and she has embarrassed you for three days, and this is all my fault, I have tired my mother."

Xia Xue'er was full of guilt, and what happened to her mother now was caused by her.

Only the poisoning incident not only made the parents separate, but the father has not returned from home, and he has never even had half a letter to the family, and his mother has become old and haggard overnight; also let the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law separate, the old lady didn't know who heard about the events of that night, and she felt that it was her mother's fault that her baby son Handong Layue refused to go home in the bitter cold land of the border, and the poisoning had already been known to everyone in the capital, so the old lady didn't want to see their mother and daughter.

Mrs. Xia put down the matter at hand, stretched out her hand to hold her daughter's face and said, "My silly girl, don't feel ashamed of your mother." It's not your fault, so why bother you to bear the consequences? My mother knows that you want to marry a man you really admire, so my mother will promise that your marriage is all up to you, for the happiness of your daughter, what is it for me to suffer a little! ”

Hearing this, Xia Xue'er felt sour and had the urge to cry.

It just so happened that at this time, a maid came in with a small notebook and reported: "Madam, the Pingyang Hou Mansion has sent a New Year's gift, this is a gift list." ”

Mrs. Xia instantly sorted out her mood, turned her head to take the gift list held by the maid, only opened it and glanced at it, then closed it and handed it back to the maid, and ordered: "Okay, let's put it in the warehouse." ”

Then he turned his head to look at Mama Gui and said, "If I'm not mistaken, it will be Mrs. Pingyang's birthday in two days, right?" ”

"Yes, ma'am."

"This year is not a full birthday, and the Hou Mansion has not sent an invitation, I don't think I plan to set up a banquet, but the relationship between the two houses has always been quite close, and the etiquette we should have is indispensable", Mrs. Xia said while standing up and walking to the table, and after rummaging, she took out a gift list, handed it to her daughter and explained: "This is the gift list I prepared a month ago, the Hou Shizi of Pingyang was crowned an official a few days ago, and he is the most beloved son of the Hou Mansion, you look at what you are adding to it, it is all ready, and it will be sent to the person on the day of your birthday." ”

"Yes, my daughter will definitely take care of this."

Xia Xueer took the gift list and turned around to leave.

As soon as he walked out of Yalan Xuan, he was stopped by someone.

"Yo yo, look who this is! Isn't that our third lady! ”

Xia Xue'er raised her eyes and looked at Bai Yining with a smug expression, and she didn't plan to talk to her more, so she was about to take a detour.

"Don't mind, I didn't do anything, why are you in such a hurry to leave?"

Bai Yining hurriedly stopped her, and during this time, her personal maid also walked quickly to Xia Xue'er, completely blocking her way.

Cuizhu scolded loudly: "Bold, you dare to block the third lady's road?" ”

And the maid just bowed her head and stood there, neither letting go of the way nor saying a word. Seeing this, Xia Xue'er smiled lightly, stretched out her hand to stop Cuizhu's impulse to teach the girl who didn't know whether she was alive or dead, and turned to look at Bai Yining with a calm face.

"What? Dare to come out and run around for fear that you won't be able to talk to people? I thought that the third lady would hide in the house for the rest of her life and dare not go out! Hahaha~"

In the face of Bai Yining's provocation, Xia Xue'er was not angry, but smiled lightly, and replied indifferently: "As Miss Yan of Xia Mansion, where can I not go?" What's more, I didn't notice that anyone was talking, and I thought it was the puppy whose face was scratched by the eagle that day came out blind again! ”

What Bai Yining can't stand the most is Xia Xue'er's confident and fearless appearance, which is simply the same virtue as her mother Zhao Yulan! Disgusting!

"You!" Hearing that the other party compared himself to a puppy, Bai Yining was really angry, but then after thinking about it, he suppressed the anger in his heart, and said pretendly: "I heard that Mrs. suffered a lot of grievances in Livable Pavilion yesterday, the third lady just came out of Yalanxuan, I don't know if Mrs. is better?" ”

"No matter how much my mother is not treated by the old lady, after all, she sits firmly in the position of the housewife, and no matter how much your Aunt Bai is blessed by the old lady, she is just a dispensable concubine!"

Bai Yining smiled lightly and replied: "Although the concubine is dispensable, she also lives a chic and comfortable life, unlike the housewife, although she holds great power, she is physically and mentally exhausted, and she accidentally becomes a joke after everyone's tea and dinner." ”

"A wife is a wife, a concubine is a concubine, there are many visitors at the end of the year, but what visitor is not proud of being personally received and entertained by Mrs. Xia, who is being married by the Ming media, but will want to see a little-known concubine? From this aspect, you can see that there is a huge gap between people who are busy and people who are idle and have nothing to do! In the final analysis, no matter how noble a person is, he is noble, and a lowly person will never be able to ascend to the hall of elegance! ”

Bai Yining's face turned green with anger when he heard this, and the hands in his sleeve robe couldn't help but tremble slightly. Didn't Xia Xue'er make it clear that she was ridiculing her Bai Yining had been in the Xia Mansion for more than ten years, but she was still trampled under Zhao Yulan's feet after all the organs? ! She wanted to kill the little girl in front of her, but considering the long-term plan, she had to hold back!

And Xia Xue'er just likes to see Bai Yining's deflated appearance, and her heart is finally smoother. Her principle is: it's okay to belittle her, it's okay to count her, but never to affect anyone who loves her, especially her mother!

She is not a noble person, if people don't offend me, I won't offend anyone, but if people offend me, I will offend people!

After a long time, Bai Yining barely suppressed the anger in his heart, and said through gritted teeth: "Noble? Didn't the third lady forget the ridiculous thing a month ago? The dignified Miss of the Xia family, but the noble body was messing with wild men in her own courtyard in the dead of night, this matter has been rumored in the streets, and it has long been a well-known secret, and the third lady can still discuss the lowly and noble with me in this unashamed manner? Xia Fu's face has been lost by you, a "noble" person! ”

Xia Xue'er didn't think so after hearing this, and sneered, such a high-sounding reason was justified, but when did she Bai Yining care about the reputation of Xia Mansion?

"The body is not afraid of the shadow, so it is not straight, and the words of reversing black and white are just groundless, how can it stand without evidence?"

Listening to Xia Xue'er's righteous answer in front of her, Bai Yining sneered in her heart, this little girl is still too young and too simple. Deep down in people's hearts, they love gossip and scandals, the truth? Never the most appealing thing!

This is by far the most correct move she has made, and it has been very rewarding to kill two birds with one stone. As long as the follow-up treatment is good, it will be the biggest heel in the lives of Zhao Yulan and her baby daughter!

So she pretended to look at Xia Xue'er apologetically and said: "It doesn't matter if it's true, or if it's groundless, as long as someone believes it, then your innocent reputation as the third lady of the Xia family will be ruined, if the broken mirror can't be reunited, it will be a crack for your life!" ”

"Lies will be broken!"

Immediately, Xia Xue'er raised her eyebrows, stared at Bai Yining with interest and said: "But I have never had a personal relationship with Aunt Bai, but seeing that you care so much about my reputation, you have to make people wonder if you talk about it three times or twice!" ”

Bai Yining was stared at by Xia Xue'er's eyes, and her body trembled unconsciously, obviously smiling, but she always had a chill, as if she had fallen into an ice cave.

Hurriedly turned his head to the side, as if admiring the bare branches of the peach tree on the side of the road, and replied: "I am also from the Xia Mansion, one is prosperous, and the other is lost, I just want to be able to continue to be rich and prosperous in the future." ”

"Oh? Really? Isn't there any selfishness? ”

Xia Xue'er took a step forward, so that Bai Yining's gaze had nowhere to hide, and she had to face herself.

"Third Miss is alluding to poisoning, right?"

"Let's talk about it."

Xia Xue'er wants to set her up! Bai Yining lowered her head and smiled coldly, and replied, "I don't have anything to say, I can only say that Aunt Li is a bold person who has done a great deed!" ”

Bai Yining is good at this point, although she can dance tricks and demagoguery, she never bothers to hide her true opinions when expressing her opinions, so she belongs to the unconventional existence in the house.

"Aunt Li? Do you really think that I will assume that Aunt Li did this? ”

"Third Miss, this means something, I hope that I did it, so that I can change to a more violent poison, wouldn't it be better to send you back to the West directly? I don't have to worry about today's lengthy conversation! ”

"A more violent poison? For example, one of the three strange poisons, the rotten bones devouring the heart? ”

Hearing that the rotten bones devoured his heart, Bai Yining frowned, and a nameless fire rushed up. Rotten bones devouring hearts is her biggest killer weapon, how many unjust souls have been taken away! It's a pity that it was used on Xia Xue'er in vain, not only did it not remove this thorn in the eye, but it brought her a body that is invincible to all poisons!

"I don't know what you're talking about, Third Miss."

Xia Xue'er didn't continue to dwell on the matter of rotting bones and devouring hearts, in her opinion, it was already a sure thing, so she turned around and said: "Yes, all the fingers pointed at Aunt Li in this poisoning, but the evidence speaks." ”

"What do you mean?"

"You think you've done it seamlessly, but it's full of loopholes."

"I want to hear about it."

Bai Yining raised her head and smiled, in her opinion, her poisoning method was unexpected, it was amazing, how could she be easily grabbed by the little girl in front of her? She's just pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger!

Xia Xue'er didn't pay attention to Bai Yining's self-confidence and arrogance, but calmly analyzed: "First, Aunt Li has come to me many times to listen to Yuxuan's coming, there are many witnesses, as long as I make a slight mistake, then the first person to suspect must be her, what is the difference between this and stabbing me in public?" Second, spring poison has been regarded as a low-grade and lowly poison since ancient times, and has always been despised by the world, and it is boldly used on the only concubine of the general, even if the conspiracy succeeds, the initiator cannot escape a severe punishment; Thirdly, the time of my poisoning was too coincidental, not sooner or later, but when a cup of fragrant tea was in the stomach after the meal, the unclean thing was either in the meal or in the tea, and I remember that the tea was a birthday gift sent by you! ”

Bai Yining laughed at first, and then said, "The so-called evidence of the third young lady seems to be a bit far-fetched!" Don't forget, when you were tormented by the deep spring poison, it was not someone else who broke into your Tingyuxuan, but that Li ~ Tan ~ flower! ”

"Li Zongyang?" Xia Xue'er paced behind Bai Yining, and said softly: "If I guess correctly, he is just a chess piece in your move." ”

"Oh? How so? ”

"If he was really the initiator, then how could he leave Tingyuxuan lightly after Cuizhu's three or two sentences? Isn't that, according to you, when he has the best chance of getting it? ”

"I don't know about this, after all, it's you who are having a 'secret private meeting'"

Bai Yining deliberately accentuated the sound of the words "secret private meeting", intending to remind Xia Xue'er that she was already ruined at this moment, and she was almost no different from Cao Jiao.

Xia Xue'er didn't get angry, Bai Yining really reflected the deep hatred for her in her heart, and it was easier to get carried away and enter her trap.

"My aunt relied on two non-toxin things to achieve the same effect as aphrodisic poison after using them together, so it can be seen that you really seem to have made a lot of preparations to poison me!"

Hearing this, Bai Yining's body froze completely, thinking that Xia Xue'er would never find out that she was the mastermind behind the scenes, and she didn't want to be so powerful!

Seeing Bai Yining's expression at the moment, Xia Xue'er couldn't help but exclaim: "It's really you?!" ”

She hadn't found anything, because she couldn't find anything either. All the food she ate that night had been examined by the imperial doctor under the pretext of diarrhea, and no trace was found.

I suddenly remembered that in the 21st century, my grandmother told her that tomatoes should not be eaten with shrimp, because the collision of two nutritious ingredients will produce arsenic! I thought about deceiving her, but I didn't expect that the blind cat bumped into a dead mouse!

Bai Yining put away the frosty smile on his face, looked at Xia Xue'er and replied, "That's right! I planned this qiē single-handedly, what can you do with me? ”