Ling Qingrui raised her eyebrows and said, "Punishment? Why should I punish you? ”

Bingyue said: "Before the young lady went to the palace, she repeatedly told the slave and maid to keep an eye on the Shen family and lead her to the designated place, but later the young lady was injured, and the slave and maid listened to the instructions of the pavilion master and stopped the plan without authorization, I am afraid that it has aroused the suspicion of the Shen family." It was the slave and the maid who did not fulfill their duties as slaves and maids, and asked the young lady to punish them. ”

"Get up." Ling Qingrui explained: "You can't blame you for this, and Ling Xiao has already told me. ”

Bingyue and the two of them were suddenly in their hearts, but Bingyan looked like she wanted to speak and stopped.

"Say whatever you want."

Bingyan said playfully with a smile: "Miss is in the palace, and the pavilion master has taken the risk to sneak in, it can be seen that the pavilion master is sincere to Miss, when will Miss become the pavilion master's wife?" ”

Hearing this, Ling Qingrui glanced at Bing Yan, but Bing Yan stuck out her tongue fearlessly and ran away with a smile.

After Ling Qingrui had eaten, Chu Xue sent a few notes, all of which were some news sent by Uncle Jiang during this time, but Chu Xue had already destroyed most of the news that was not very important after reading it according to Ling Qingrui's instructions, and only these few were left.

After Ling Qingrui read them one by one, one of the pieces of news caught her attention, Uncle Jiang told her not to approach Prince De, let alone have anything to do with him, Ling Qingrui couldn't help but be puzzled.

Shaking her head slightly, Ling Qingrui put aside this doubt for the time being, and found Bingyan and a few people to study it carefully, before she used her mother Ling's relics to hide a note in it, intending to lure Shen to the secluded mansion where she had been, so that Shen could find the clues about the Ling family's ancestral heirlooms that she had deliberately left, so as to plan for the future.

Ling Qingrui went to participate in the birthday banquet, which was originally an opportunity specially reserved for the Shen family, in order not to make the Shen family suspicious, although she let the Shen family participate in the birthday banquet, she also found an opportunity to seriously injure her, and she didn't want to delay, so the plan failed to happen.

During this period of time, the Shen family repeatedly secretly went to the mansion but found nothing, and was already a little suspicious, Ling Qingrui had to find a way to dispel her suspicions, so that she could be logical, but she also worked hard to find something.

After asking Bingyue in detail about the actions of the Shen family during this time, Ling Qingrui frowned slightly, where should she start, so as not to arouse the suspicion of the Shen family, after all, she couldn't find it before, she could find it as soon as she came back, it was too much of a coincidence.

Ling Qingrui had judged that the Shen family could only contact his brother Shen Chengyun, so Shen Chengyun might have to keep an eye on it as well.

Bing Yan's eyes suddenly lit up, and she said, "Miss, maybe you can take advantage of Liu Mengxi." ”

"Liu Mengxi? What's wrong with her? Ling Qingrui was a little puzzled, how could it be involved in Liu Mengxi.

"Miss doesn't know, during this period of time, Liu Mengxi said on her face that she accidentally contracted the wind cold, and it didn't heal, even the Shen family didn't know, in fact, she met a handsome boy some time ago, and it was Jiang Yong, who was almost killed by the deceased son before."

Jiang use? How could it be him, at the last banquet of the Shen family's Fuzheng, this Jiang used a drunk to mistakenly break into the woman's side, and was whipped half to death by Ye Zhanli with a few whips, it is said that it was not his father Jiang Xingsheng who asked for the miracle medicine, and he would have become a corpse a long time ago.

At that time, Jiang Yong almost teased Liu Mengyan, how could Liu Mengxi fall in love with such a gentleman, didn't she swear to marry the fifth prince? And......

Thinking of what Liu Wenzhe once said, Jiang Xingsheng's temptation of him, I am afraid that there must be something hidden in this.

This matter still needs to be well planned, and now what she has to do is to visit, and Liu Mengxi, who is sick, may be able to find a breakthrough.

From the things given by the Queen Mother, Ling Qingrui selected a few things such as Ganoderma lucidum bird's nest for nourishing the body, and said, "Chu Xue, come with me to visit my sick big sister." ”

The smile on her lips was meaningful, making Chu Xue feel that there was a kind of ill-will in this smile.

Soon, Ling Qingrui took the first snow to the Hongxi Pavilion in Liu Mengxi.

The maid stepped forward with a smile and saluted Ling Qingrui and said, "The slave maid has seen the county lord An Jin, and the eldest lady is resting unwell, I am afraid that she is going to snub the county lord." ”

Although this maid was forced to be calm, after all, she showed cowardice in her eyes, Ling Qingrui not only raised her eyebrows, could it be that this Liu Mengxi actually ran away for a tryst?

Ling Qingrui was silent, but it was Chu Xue who said: "Cuixi, the county lord is noble, how can you be a slave and maid to stop it?" Don't get out of the way! ”

Cui Xi's face turned pale and said, "The eldest lady has really rested, the county lord, the county lord should not disturb the eldest lady's rest." ”

Maybe it was because she was in a hurry, Cui Xi suddenly remembered a word, and hurriedly said: "Sister Chuxue is right, the county lord is noble, and the slave and maid can't let the county lord in, in case she is sick and gives the county lord a bad breath, the eldest lady has to kill the slave and maid, and ask the county lord to forgive her sins." ”

As he spoke, Cui Xi knelt down with a "poof", kowtowed, and said, "Please also ask the county lord to be kind and have mercy on the slaves." ”

Cui Xi was determined to stop Ling Qingrui, not only knelt on her path, but also made a gesture to hug her legs, Chu Xue's cheeks flushed angrily, and she stepped forward and pushed Cui Xi away.

Chu Xue was about to reprimand Cui Xi for her rudeness, but Ling Qingrui opened her mouth lightly and said, "It's okay, where is this county lord so delicate, not to mention that this county lord is quite proficient in medicine, and he just happens to treat the eldest sister." ”

As soon as Ling Qingrui's words came out, Cui Xi's face turned completely pale, Ling Qingrui's words were gentle, but her eyes were like ice and snow in the middle of winter, which froze Cui Xi in place, and when she reacted and wanted to stop it again, she found that Ling Qingrui had already stepped into Liu Mengxi's boudoir.

"The county, the county lord stays, the slave maid, the slave maid goes to talk to the eldest lady." Cui Xi's volume was slightly sharp, obviously reminding someone inside.

Ling Qingrui didn't pay attention to Cui Xi, Chu Xue also opened the door curtain and invited her own young lady in, Ling Qingrui just walked to the door of Liu Mengxi's bedroom, her footsteps paused slightly, and she saw a line of footprints in the house from the window, all the way to Liu Mengxi's bed, and a pair of embroidered shoes stained with a little mud were hidden in the corner of the bed.

It seems that it is better to come early than to be in time, this Liu Mengxi is just in time to come back.

Ling Qingrui didn't find out what she did, and went straight to Liu Mengxi's bed, and said, "Big sister, are you better?" ”

Half an hour later, behind the hanging curtains, a hoarse voice said, "Thank you...... cough cough cough ...... Thank you for your concern, I'm fine, cough cough cough...... The county lord should leave early, don't get sick, cough cough ......"

Liu Mengxi deliberately lowered her voice and coughed frequently, but Ling Qingrui still heard it keenly, Liu Mengxi should have climbed the window in a hurry, and her breath was a little short.

"The eldest sister is so seriously ill, it's really worrying, so I'll check the pulse of the eldest sister."

After that, she reached out to open the bed curtain, but Ling Qingrui's move startled Liu Mengxi on the bed, she had indeed just rushed back from outside, and she heard Cui Xi and Ling Qingrui holding each other outside the door, so she hurriedly climbed the window back to the room.

Liu Mengxi didn't have time to take care of it at all, so she could only take off her shoes in a hurry, and shrunk into the quilt in the dress she was wearing to go out, she didn't want Ling Qingrui to open the bed curtain at this time, if she saw her dressed like this, it would definitely arouse Ling Qingrui's suspicions, and Liu Mengxi's sweat came down instantly.

Seeing that a pair of plain hands reached over and were about to remove the bed curtain, Liu Mengxi was anxious, and suddenly pulled the sleeves up, and then grabbed the bed curtain with one hand, and the wrist that pulled up the sleeves stretched out from the bed curtain.

"Since the county lord is looking at it, then bother the county lord, but there is one thing, it is better to block the sickness through the bed curtain." Liu Mengxi coughed anxiously, said so much in one breath, and then reacted, and hurriedly coughed a few more times to cover up.

Looking at the wrist stretching out of the bed curtain, Ling Qingrui hooked her lips slightly, and no longer pulled the bed curtain, and really diagnosed the pulse carefully, but under this diagnosis, her heart couldn't help but ripple.

Cui Xi, who chased in from behind, looked at Ling Qingrui's pulse diagnosis tremblingly, and took advantage of her inattention to secretly kick Liu Mengxi's embroidered shoes with mud under the bed.

Then, Cui Xi began to babble: "Is the eldest lady seriously ill? Before, Mrs. invited many doctors to diagnose the pulse, and everyone said that the eldest lady was not very serious, and a few pairs of decoctions would be fine, but I didn't want the eldest lady to be sick for so many days, it was really bad Madame, if the county lord could cure the eldest lady, it would be really good......"

Seeing that she didn't mean to stop as soon as she spoke, Chu Xue couldn't help but scold: "Shut up!" Don't you know that you need to be quiet when you check your pulse? ”

Cui Xi trembled slightly, but said again and again: "Sister Chu Xue's lesson is that it is the slave and maid who are too talkative, and she also asks the county lord to forgive her sins, and Sister Chu Xue should not be angry with the slave and maid." ”

Chu Xue couldn't help but roll her eyes, she could see that this Cui Xi was clearly deliberate, she just wanted to disturb Miss to diagnose her pulse, probably for fear that Miss would diagnose Liu Mengxi pretending to be sick.

After a while, Ling Qingrui slowly withdrew her hand and said with a light smile: "Madam said that the eldest sister was infected with the wind and cold, but I don't think so, and the medicine is not as good as the food supplement, which will inevitably hurt the eldest sister's body, I think those decoctions should be stopped." ”

Speaking of this, Ling Qingrui paused slightly, and then continued: "The Queen Mother rewarded a lot of bird's nests with excellent body replenishment, which happened to stew for the eldest sister to replenish her body and relieve cough. ”

"Then thank you, Lord County." Liu Mengxi saw that she didn't seem to have discovered anything, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

When Ling Qingrui returned from Hongxi Pavilion, she immediately ordered Bingyue to keep an eye on Liu Mengxi, and just as Bingyue was about to retreat, she heard Ling Qingrui say again: "If Liu Mengxi secretly orders someone to go to the medicinal herb shop to grab the medicine, you must try to replace those medicinal materials." ”

Hearing this, Bingyue was a little puzzled, Liu Mengxi was pretending to be sick, no matter what herbs were decoctioned, they never entered her mouth, what to do with the dressing?