Unexpectedly, after washing, before Ran Qiunian could talk to Xiao Yin again, someone from her grandmother's yard reported that her grandmother wanted to see her.

"Grandmother must have known from my eldest brother that I had come back secretly."

Ran Qiunian took a deep breath, suppressed the weakness of heart that came up, laughed dryly, pulled Qingxi and walked with her to her grandmother's yard.

"Miss, although you came back quietly from the old lady this time, the old lady has always loved you the most, and she will definitely not blame you, don't worry."

Qingxi didn't know the truth, and looked at Ran Qiunian's weak face, and couldn't help but comfort her.

Ran Qiunian nodded carelessly, of course she knew that her grandmother would not really be angry with her, she was not afraid that her grandmother would scold her, but because she knew that she had failed her grandmother's intention to protect her.

Walking to the gate of the courtyard slowly, Ran Qiunian suddenly smelled a faint smell of medicine in her nose, her face changed, and her steps couldn't help but be faster, and she ran in front of her grandmother's house in three steps and two steps.

"Where did the smell of medicine come from? Could it be that my grandmother is unwell? Qingxi, you should have told me earlier. ”

Ran Qiunian complained to Qingxi as she walked, but saw that Qingxi was also at a loss on his face, as if he didn't know anything about it. Could it be that my grandmother is sick?

As she got closer and closer, the smell of medicine became stronger and stronger, until Ran Qiunian stood on the front steps of the house, and finally had to admit that the smell of medicine was indeed coming from her grandmother's house.

"Sister Ginkgo, why does it smell so strong, why does grandmother drink so much medicine?"

Ran Qiunian was about to push the door in, when she saw the door opened, and Ginkgo walked out, she hurriedly stepped forward to ask.

Ginkgo came for this matter, she knew that Ran Qiunian was in a hurry, but she was not busy inviting her into the house, but blocked the door without a trace, and pretended to be relaxed and said:

"I contracted the wind and cold a month ago, and I have been in bed for a few days, and Mama Jin prescribed a prescription for medicinal food, which is used to strengthen my body every day, and Miss doesn't need to worry."

"I see." No wonder Qingxi looked dazed, it turned out that her grandmother's occasional wind chill happened a month ago.

But Ran Qiunian's nose was trained by Aunt Xiu and could distinguish subtle smells, and she could clearly smell that there were a lot of medicinal herbs for treating wind and cold, but Ginkgo said that her grandmother was already well.

She thought it was strange, but she didn't debunk it on the spot.

"Qingxi, you go and help me find out the sandalwood box in the mahogany box that I brought back from the yard, I came in a hurry just now, and I forgot to bring the gift that my uncle prepared for my grandmother."

Although she didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the ginkgo gourd, she still took Qingxi away first.

When Qingxi, who didn't know anything, left, Ginkgo let open the door behind her and invited Ran Qiunian in: "The old lady has been waiting for you for a long time, let's go in quickly." ”

Ran Qiunian wanted to ask what was going on, why she even had to hide it from Qingxi, who had grown up with her since she was a child, but the nervousness about her grandmother's safety prevailed for a while, and she didn't waste time, and walked to her grandmother's house with a stomach full of questions and worries.

"Grandmother," Ran Qiunian came in only to find that Xiao Yin was also inside, she was stunned for a moment, "Big brother is also there?" What happened to Grandmother? ”

Ran Qiunian said, her feet did not stop, she walked to her grandmother's couch, looked at the old man who was half leaning on the bed, her nose was sore, she couldn't help but half kneel on her grandmother's couch, and approached someone and asked:

"How's my grandmother doing? Why don't you let people send a message to the capital, if Nian'er knows that her grandmother is sick, she must come back early to accompany her. ”

"Don't cry, grandmother is just a minor illness, not in the way."

The old lady saw that Ran Qiunian was so frightened that she almost cried, so she quickly touched her head and soothed her gently.

Hearing this, Ran Qiunian raised her head and saw her grandmother's face, although she was still a little pale, but her spirit was very good, which made her hanging heart settle back a little.

"What the hell is going on?"

Ran Qiunian couldn't figure it out, since her grandmother was fine, why she was closed and bedridden, and even Sister Ginkgo was secretive.

The house was seeing that it was cold, but just now she could clearly see that except for these henchmen who were waiting in her grandmother's yard, even Qingxi and her loyal servants seemed to be kept in the dark.

"You girl, I thought that by sending you to the capital to stay, I could avoid many things, but I ran back disobediently." Grandmother sighed, nodded Ran Qiunian's head angrily, and called Xiao Yin, "Tell your eldest brother to explain to you." ”

Just now, the old lady had already told Xiao Yin everything that happened in the house, and when she heard this, Ran Qiunian turned her head and looked at it, waiting for Xiao Yin to explain to herself the cause and effect of all this.

"A few days ago, I found out that someone was secretly suppressing the Ran family's business."

The supply of goods of several shops has been intercepted, and many shops have been negligent at the same time, either the shopkeeper has been poached with heavy money, or the original high-quality goods have inexplicable defects, and can only be reduced to inferior.

The Ran family has a big business, and if it is just an ordinary means, it will not be able to shake the foundation. But shops everywhere had these big and small problems at the same time, which inevitably made the Ran family hurt for a while.

"Grandmother found out that those people seem to have come prepared, they know everything about the Ran family's business, and they suspect that there are ghosts, so they want to send you to the General's Mansion in the capital for temporary refuge, so as to take this opportunity to lure out the people behind the scenes."

Xiao Yin's simple words had already made Ran Qiunian connect all the things that had happened these days, and she understood.

"It turns out that grandmother pretended to be sick in order to lure out the person who attacked the Ran family?" Ran Qiunian looked at the old lady.

The old lady bowed her head and said in a deep voice: "Yes, the wind chill a month ago is real, but Mama Jin found that someone was doing something in my medicine, but there was no result after investigation." I will do what I want, pretending to be sick and waiting for that person to jump out after thinking that the Ran family group of dragons has no leader. ”

Since you want to pretend, you have to pretend to be thorough, and make a deaf look to your grandmother, and even the people in the house don't know that she is so "serious", and she is constantly taking medicine every day.

Those who should know will naturally know, but grandmother didn't expect that the person who jumped out first was the Ran Lin family, who had always been extremely peaceful, and suddenly made her so angry that she almost got sick.

"I knew that this Liu Rumei didn't have a good heart from the beginning, but why did he ...... father" Ran Qiunian didn't say anything, and didn't want to mention these two people again.

Although they didn't embarrass their grandmother openly, they were also secretly trying to take away the housekeeping of the Ran family from their grandmother, these days their grandmother was "seriously ill", and Ran Lin and Liu Rumei didn't come to visit them once, which was really chilling.

"Don't care about them," it's just a clown who jumps off the beam, grandmother knows how many catties and taels her useless son has, and it will never be him who will attack the Ran family's industry behind the scenes," but the Feng family also jumped out impatiently. ”

"With the Feng family's skills, it is possible to do this, maybe this time the thing is that they are doing it behind their backs."

Ran Qiunian thought for a moment and said suspiciously.

The Feng family has developed more and more rapidly in recent years, and it is not surprising that they are about to compete with the Ran family.

"They alone are not enough."

Grandmother is the one who knows the Ran family's industry the most, and there are some hole cards, even Ran Lin and Ran Qiubai don't know.

"And what is Grandmother going to do?"

Ran Qiunian asked worriedly.

Unexpectedly, the grandmother turned her head and said to Xiao Yin: "You have also seen the chaos of the Ran family now, I am afraid that this ancestor worship will be wronged by you, and you must not do it in a big way, it is rare to have such a thing to celebrate, but it is ......."

"I'm not one of those who value that, my grandmother is serious."

Xiao Yin shook his head, he didn't take this matter to heart, he didn't have any sense of belonging to the rest of the Ran family, except for his adoptive father who brought him back to the Ran family and treated him like a parent, only Old Madam Ran could be respected by him as an elder.

Although Ran Qiunian knew that Xiao Yin didn't care about this, she still felt sorry for him, and couldn't help but quietly pull his sleeve.

"After worshipping your ancestors, you're going back to the capital to take your post?"

It turned out that the grandmother hadn't had time to know their next plan from Xiao Yin's mouth, and when Ran Qiunian heard it, she saw that Xiao Yin had no intention of hiding it, so she told her the truth.

"Grandmother, eldest brother, in addition to worshipping his ancestors when he came back this time, he also received a case sent by the emperor to investigate, and after worshipping his ancestors, he has a month to investigate the case here."

"That's right," she added, "it's the case of the loss of iron ore that Qi Ruo and Little Grandpa Qi came back here to investigate, and he also came with him this time." ”

Ran Qiunian called Qi Ruoyun's name in private, almost revealing her disgust for Qi Ruoyun in front of her grandmother, and quickly changed her words.

She can be open-mouthed in front of Xiao Yin, because Xiao Yin won't ask much, but in front of her grandmother, who has an old relationship with the Duke of Qi, it is inconvenient to do so.

Grandmother didn't notice the stumbling block in Ran Qiunian's words, but thought for a while, and then asked, "Where are you going to investigate the case, and how long will it take?" ”

"Go to Lingnan first, and go here for three or five days." Xiao Yin said in a deep voice.

Grandmother nodded, she took Ran Qiunian's hand, put it in Xiao Yin's hand, and said solemnly: "Then take Nian'er with you." ”

"Grandmother? Nian'er is not going anywhere, Nian'er wants to accompany you in the house. ”

Although Ran Qiunian came back this time to help Xiao Yin solve the case, but now her grandmother is sick in bed, although most of it is pretended, she still can't leave her grandmother alone to avoid chaos.

"The house is not safe now, I can't go out of my door, it's difficult to protect Nian'er from time to time, since you promised to protect Nian'er, then this time I went to Lingnan to investigate the case and took her away. With you by her side, I'm always relieved. ”

Grandmother suppressed Ran Qiunian, who was full of reluctance, and said this to Xiao Yin, seeing that he nodded, then pulled Ran Qiunian over and deliberately turned over the old accounts: "You girl, you let you stay in the capital before, you didn't listen, and now let you follow Xiao Yin to Lingnan, do you still want to listen to your grandmother?" ”

"Grandmother, how can that be the same, your body ......"

Ran Qiunian's heart was weak for a moment, and the next moment, it was still his grandmother's worry that prevailed.