Chapter 18: A Plan
Mu Ruqing came back from the back door, followed by a man wearing a large cloak, the man's entire body and face were buried in the cloak, and he couldn't see his face clearly.
The two went directly to Ruan Mianmian's room, and the mysterious person reached out to untie the cloak, revealing a dignified middle-aged man's face, which was Anyang Hou himself.
"Father? You... How did you get here? Liu Xin'er was so frightened that she fell to her knees with a thud, her voice trembling a little.
"Xin'er, don't be afraid, I know you're here, I'm not trying to take you back." An Yanghou helped Liu Xin'er up and looked at her gently, "I heard from Boss Mu that Miss Ruan was sick, so I came to visit." The rest, we'll talk about that later. ”
"Since Master Hou is also here, then we won't hide it, and we just happened to tell Ruqing. We know some things, and we still need you to know. Jiang Xinyue's face was a little cold, after all, the murderer of this murderous person was the eldest lady of his Anyang Hou Mansion, and she naturally regarded Anyang Hou as a cowardly and fearful person.
"It's... What happened? Isn't Mianmian suffering from a sudden illness? Looking at the people with unkind faces in front of him, Anyang Hou was confused.
"Mianmian, this is not an emergency illness, this is a drug, speaking of which, it is still a problem with the upbringing of your Hou Mansion." Jiang Xinyue is still squinting at the Marquis of Anyang, she is used to wandering the rivers and lakes freely, what do you have to say, naturally she doesn't take these nobles in her eyes.
"Miss Ruan's illness is related to our Hou Mansion?" Anyang Hou was shocked.
"Let's let the second lady explain to you the reason for the matter, this thing can't be faked." Jiang Xinyue waved her hand, turned around to wipe the sweat from Ruan Mianmian's forehead, and stopped talking.
"Father, it's like this..."Liu Xin'er started from the medicine in Liu Xi'er's blood, to Liu Xi'er's love for Mu Ruqing, and then to Ruan Mianmian because of jealousy, and explained this series of things clearly.
Mu Ruqing was also stunned after hearing this, he never thought that he would hurt Ruan Mianmian because of this inexplicable love, and he was suddenly so angry that his hands and feet were cold, and he felt guilty for Ruan Mianmian who was lying unconscious in bed.
"Anyway, thank you Miss Xin'er for treating Mianmian, as for Liu Xi'er, although we are soft-spoken, we will definitely seek justice for Mianmian." Mu Ruqing opened his mouth, the first half of the sentence was naturally to thank Liu Xin'er, and the second half of the sentence was to express his attitude to Anyang Hou, although it was fate and friendship, but his daughter hurt her sister-in-law, and some words naturally had to be said separately.
Over there, Anyang Hou himself was also surprised, and he was furious: "This Liu Xi'er! How dare she! I used to missee her, I always thought she was well-behaved and obedient, but who knew that she was a poisonous woman. When I go back, I ask for a family law and beat her up! That bastard daughter, if she commits such a crime, even if it is expelled from the family tree! ”
Anyang Hou's words are very serious, only the man who inherits the family business in the big family, as well as the wife and children can write the family tree, like Liu Xin'er, although the life is good, but the woman who is born in the family tree cannot be recorded in the family tree, if Liu Xi'er is expelled from the family tree, it is equivalent to depriving her of the status of the concubine, and she is even lower than the concubine in terms of identity, she can only be regarded as a sin girl, and it is impossible to get involved in the title and family industry in the future.
Here, Liu Xin'er hugged Anyang Hou's calf: "Father, I said these things today, if I go back, I will definitely not be able to live, please father let me stay in Yipinxiang, so that my mother and I can have a way to live!" ”
Since Liu Xin'er came out, she has made up her mind that she will not go back, although she also wants to see Liu Xi'er punished, but she also has to plan for herself.
An Yanghou thought for a while, and said in a deep voice: "I am good friends with Boss Mu, I am naturally relieved that you stay here, if Boss Mu agrees, then you will stay for the time being, just don't cause any trouble, your mother's side, I will send someone to take care of it alone, and I will not let people bully her." ”
After that, Anyang Hou got up and hurried to return home, but Mu Ruqing stretched out his hand to stop him: "There is nothing wrong with the second miss living here, but we hope that we want to solve the hatred of Mianmian in our own way." If it makes a big fuss, everyone will feel uncomfortable, but it is better to let her suffer a long memory, and it will not affect the reputation of the Hou Mansion. ”
Mu Ruqing's words are to let Anyang Hou hand over the power to punish Liu Xi'er, and beating him out of the family tree is naturally to relieve hatred, but how can there be a more appropriate way to listen to the bitter master? This is Mu Ruqing fighting for Ruan Mianmian, and it is also for Anyang Hou to save face, so that he does not have to be embarrassed for the father-daughter relationship.
"This matter, it turned out that our Hou Mansion couldn't live with a pin of incense, and there was nothing wrong with handing it over to you, so I won't interfere anymore, and I won't have any objections to your decision."
"Then thank you Hou Ye, Hou Ye go slowly." After sending off Anyang Hou, Mu Ruqing closed the door and led everyone to sit around the square table in Ruan Mianmian's room.
Everyone's complexion was not very good, and Liu Xin'er still had tears on her face. Ruan Mianmian, who was still lying on the bed at this time, let out a sigh and opened his eyes.
She looked at the curtain on the top of the bed in a trance, and said in a daze: "Cannon, what's wrong with me?" ”
Fang Dacang heard Ruan Mianmian's voice, and rushed over like an arrow from a string, he was very happy, and he didn't care about the presence of many people, so he hurriedly helped Ruan Mianmian up and leaned against the head of the bed, and fed her the prepared warm tonic decoction spoonful by spoonful.
Seeing Ruan Mianmian wake up and turn around, everyone's mood was a lot better, and then looking at Fang Mianmian's anxious appearance, I couldn't help but be a little funny, this Fang Mianmian was so attentive to Ruan Mianmian, and everyone could see that the friendship was not only between brother and sister, but Ruan Mianmian had never touched such friendship since he was a child, and I am afraid that he was fascinated by the authorities.
Besides, Fang Dacang's heart was already happy at this time, and she woke up from sleep, and the first thing she called was her own name, does this mean that she trusts herself very much in her heart? The corners of Fang Cannon's mouth were grinning to the sky, and he didn't know it yet.
Ruan Mianmian felt that the abdominal pain had been reduced a lot at this time, but his body was very weak, and he seemed to be very weak, and he couldn't even raise his arm.
Fang Cannon hurriedly pressed her shoulder to prevent her from getting up: "Don't move yet, you are still weak now, lie down well." ”
Jiang Xinyue and the others also came over and told Ruan Mianmian about the whole story, and also said that Anyang Hou handed over the handling of this matter to Yi Pinxiang, and asked Ruan Mianmian what he thought.
"I... Naturally, I also want Liu Xi'er to be punished, but I don't have any brains, and I support Brother Mu and Sister Xinyue. Ruan Mianmian raised her head and smiled lightly.
"In that case, I have a solution." Mu Ruqing gathered among the crowd and said, Liu Xin'er also sat aside and added a few words from time to time, muttering for a long time before going back to the room to rest.
Liu Xin'er came suddenly, and caught up with Ruan Mianmian who was sick, naturally no one had time to clean up a room for her alone, and she didn't pick it, so she and Ruan Mianmian slept together, just enough to take care of her.
On the second day, Yipinxiang released the news from Mu Ruqing that it would cooperate with the Hou Mansion of Anyang to jointly launch a new project, and at the same time, a banquet would be held in the Hou Mansion of Anyang ten days later, and the nobles of the Hou Mansion would dine together and exchange feelings.
So in the past ten days, Yipinxiang, who was originally in a hot business, did not even open the door to do business, this is a trick that Mu Ruqing came up with, in the eyes of ordinary people, this is because Yipinxiang is preparing for a new project, and in the eyes of Mrs. Anyang Hou and eldest lady Liu Xi'er, it is because of Ruan Mianmian's symptoms that Yipinxiang panicked and was helpless.
The ten-day period passed quickly, and on this day, the Hou Mansion of Anyang sent two carriages to pick up the people of Yipinxiang to attend the banquet, one for Mu Ruqing and Fang Cannon, and one for Ruan Mianmian and Jiang Xinyue.
As for Uncle Hua and Liu Xin'er, Uncle Hua didn't like aristocratic habits, so he didn't want to go, and Liu Xin'er couldn't show up because Anyang Hou claimed in the mansion that the second lady disrespected the elders and punished her to go to Zhuangzi to think about it behind closed doors.
What's more, this scene can only be more complete if Liu Xin'er doesn't go.
The carriage was parked firmly at the back door of Yipinxiang, and Jiang Xinyue helped Ruan Mianmian, who appeared for the first time in ten days, out of the door.
Today, Ruan Mianmian's dress is also thoughtful, she only wears a plain white full-breasted skirt without any modification, and the laceration on her chest is aqua blue, which makes her slender waist not full of hand, and there is a sense of weakness at the beginning of a serious illness. The hair is only loosely coiled up with a headband, without any extra tidying, and only a few silver beaded flowers are on the sideburns, which is a sentimental and sickly sick Xi Shi posture.
Jiang Xinyue put on the same white cloak with a fur-edged coat for her, carefully put on a hat for her, and then helped her into the carriage.
As soon as the curtain of the carriage was lowered, Ruan Mianmian's sick state disappeared in an instant, and he grinned and held Jiang Xinyue's arm: "How about sister, do I pretend to be like this?" ”
"Like, very good, when you get to the Marquis of Anyang's mansion, you can act like this." Jiang Xinyue's fingertips tapped Ruan Mianmian's eyebrows, turned around and looked down to find something.
Ruan Mianmian's sick appearance was also taught by Mu Ruqing and Jiang Xinyue, thanks to Liu Xin'er, her illness gradually got better on the second day, and now she has already recovered. It's just that she has to make a weak appearance, so that Liu Xi'er thinks that Yipinxiang has not understood the cause of her illness and cannot be treated.
Jiang Xinyue fumbled in the carriage for a while, and then found a secret compartment, pulled out a large wooden box from it, and opened it to see that the box was filled with all kinds of pastries. The lotus leaf cake is as small as a fingernail, the lotus paste cake is soft and fragrant, and there is even a cake the size of a palm.
"Huh? This cake is not our craftsmanship, how can it be in the carriage of the Hou Mansion? Ruan Mianmian scratched his head.
"Silly girl, let's cooperate with the Hou Mansion with Yipinxiang, Ruqing took out the recipe for the cake, and the Hou Mansion naturally has it."
Jiang Xinyue said with her mouth, but her hands didn't stop, she took out all those pastries and put them on the small table, and poured another cup of tea and put it in front of Ruan Mianmian: "Take advantage of the moment to eat some pastries and make a mat, and make a full set of plays, and later at the banquet in the Hou Mansion, you have to pretend that you have no appetite, and you can't eat more, Ruqing is afraid that you will be hungry by then, so I specially asked the Hou Ye to prepare these for you." ”
Ruan Mianmian nodded, pinched up a piece of pastry and put it in her mouth, and when the carriage stopped at the gate of the Hou Mansion, most of those pastries had been eaten by her, and even the cake was not left by her. She burped contentedly, rubbed her stomach a little embarrassed and smiled: "Sister Yue, I'm full." ”
"Okay, then let's get out of the car and cover our stomachs so that others don't see it." Jiang Xinyue looked at Ruan Mianmian's belly, which had grown up after she was full, and reached out to loosen the ties on her chest for her, trying to make her clothes look looser.
got out of the car, Ruan Mianmian became the sick girl who was weak and supported the wind again, and she was about to hold Jiang Xinyue's arm and gasp when she took two steps, and even Mu Ruqing and Fang Cannon, who were in front, sighed, this girl's acting skills are so good, if she didn't know the inside story, I'm afraid I really thought she was so sick and weak.