in2ebook Chapter 271 Giving Gifts
Chapter 271 Giving Gifts
Chapter 271 Gift Giving
Quan Qingyun sent away the secret guards in the room, leaving only one person behind, and asked in detail about what happened to Ye Wenyan.
The man told the truth about everything he saw, and then added: "Master, what do you think happened to Miss Ye Si? Why didn't she do anything that seemed to be from the mortal world? A living person was blown up in her hands. What did she use to blow it up? And what was the white light in her hand? Master, I am not a coward, but Miss Ye Si was too scary."
Quan Qingyun didn't find it strange. It would be abnormal if the Emperor's men didn't have some extraordinary means.
Therefore, his focus was not on Ye Wenyan's abnormality, he was more concerned about Ye Wenyan's judgment of the group of secret guards.
"Miss Four said that it was Prince Su's men?" "Yes." The secret guard immediately said seriously, "Although we don't understand how Miss Four judged that, when we threw the man into Prince Su's villa, we saw someone coming out to check, and after checking, he immediately carried him to the backyard."
Quan Qingyun frowned. Lao Liu's people? It seems that Lao Liu is also involved in this matter.
That's right, the news originally came from Lao Liu. It was Ye Hongzhuang who heard Lao Liu talking to the Regent and told Fei Zhou, so Fei Zhou went to steal. But he didn't expect Lao Liu to be so persistent and even planned to steal it back.
What was even more unexpected was that when Lao Liu sent people to steal things, he actually used first-class secret guards. What's the logic behind this?
He then asked his men, "Were you discovered when you went to Prince Su's Mansion to send that fool off?"
The subordinate shook his head and said, "We have not been discovered, but we have found many hiding places of secret guards, but they are only first-class secret guards. It is said that if there are secret guards in the palace who are in the elite realm or desperate realm, they will immediately show up to intercept us, but unfortunately there are none. Therefore, I judge that the highest-level masters in the Prince Su's villa are only first-class."
The more Quan Qingyun listened, the more he felt something was wrong. He knew the Sixth Prince too well. He was the legitimate prince and the only son of the Queen Mother. Whether it was his father, the Queen Mother, or the Li family, they all gave him the best. There were more than a dozen Secret Guards in the mansion, not to mention the Secret Guards of the Supreme Realm. Everyone knew how important the three letters were. If he wanted to get them, why did he only send out people with first-class martial arts? And why didn't the other courtyard even have a Master of the Supreme Realm? This didn't make sense!
This matter is becoming more and more interesting. To what extent will the abnormal Sixth Brother and the indifferent Fourth Brother push this matter?
"Go down!" He waved his hand and reminded the secret guard, "Don't mention the Fourth Young Lady's methods to anyone."
"I understand." The secret guard left quickly and disappeared into the night.
After a night of tossing and turning, it was already half past the morning when Ye Wenyan finally got a good night's sleep. It would be dawn in a little while, which really made her feel helpless. She could use her spiritual power to recover her spirit, but she didn't like that since she was a child. She still liked to eat and sleep like ordinary people. She had to use her spiritual power. If everything depended on spiritual power, she would gradually lose her human nature, and life would lose a lot of fun. And those fun things were what she didn't want to lose.
At noon, Ye Wenyan got up, and Xiangdong came in to wait on her as usual. Xiangdong was more attentive than Zhuier to matters in the courtyard and the house, so she usually wanted Xiangdong to take care of her at home and take Zhuier with her when she went out.
Xiang Dong's personality is similar to Ye Qingmei's. He is a good person, but he is soft-hearted and not easily influenced. His temper is relatively weaker. He is the type of person who dares not fight back when being bullied, and even if he does, he is unlikely to fight back in the right way.
Therefore, when dealing with external parties, she prefers Zhuier because she is bold and outspoken, and can see things more clearly about people and things.
But Zhuier also has a shortcoming, that is, she is not careful enough. For example, Xiangdong can easily tell where something is placed in her room, but Zhuier has to think for a long time, and sometimes what she thinks is wrong. Fortunately, she has many people around her now, two maids, one in charge of the interior and the other in charge of the exterior, and Nanny Ji to help on both sides, so the order inside and outside the courtyard is in good order.
Seeing that her mistress had gotten up but was just sitting on the couch in a daze, Xiang Dong hurried over and said, "You came back late yesterday, why don't you sleep a little longer, Miss? It's still early now!"
Ye Wenyan shook his head and said, "I'm not going to sleep anymore. I have to go to the Jiang family today. I have to get up early so that I can be back before noon."
Xiang Dong thought of the incident that night when the Yu family came to make trouble, and nodded, "Young lady should go. Young lady Jiang came to help late at night, and it is reasonable to thank her. But we should not go empty-handed. I will prepare the gifts and ask Zhuier to come in and serve Young lady."
Xiangdong is also a man of action. He leaves as soon as he says he will. After a while, Zhuier comes in.
Zhuier was lively and asked as soon as she came in: "Miss, are you going to Jiang's house? Then should we go to the Jixiang shop on Shuntian Street to buy some candy cakes? I heard that the Jixiang shop has opened, and many families are lining up to buy them. If you want to buy some, I will ask people to line up and buy a big box for you. Miss Jiang will definitely like it."
Ye Wenyan thought for a while and soon remembered that there was a dim sum shop on Shuntian Street, named Jixiang, which sold a variety of dim sum. Not only were the designs exquisite and beautiful, but they were also very popular to eat.
It is said that the old gentleman who opened the shop was a retired chef from the imperial kitchen of the palace. He had exquisite skills and used the finest ingredients. Many chefs in the official residences tried to imitate him, but they could not even learn one half of his essence.
Later, people gave up and no longer thought about learning it. They just lined up to buy it every day and took it back to satisfy their masters' cravings.
But the auspicious shop is only open half a day, opening at 9:00 p.m. and closing at 5:00 p.m. every day. It is very punctual. If you come too late, you will not be able to buy anything.
In the past, Miss Ye Si loved to eat the snacks from Jixiangpu, Jiang Wanting also loved it, including Chi Feifei. The three of them often urged the maids to queue up, and sometimes even queued up themselves. Today, she went to visit the Jiang family, and it would be nice to bring a box of snacks.
So he nodded and said, "Let's ask someone to queue up! We can buy a few more boxes each time we queue up. In addition to giving them to the Jiang family, we can also keep some for our own family and give them to my mother and sister."
"Okay, I'll go right away." The little maid went there happily and came back soon. "Don't worry, young lady. Ali went to buy it. It's fast to go back and forth by carriage. He will be back in less than half an hour. We can wash, change clothes and have breakfast. After we finish cleaning up, the snacks will be back. I just don't know if the lucky shop can make so much after it was renovated."
Ye Wenyan stood up and washed up, thinking that since this was his first visit, he should give some thoughtful gifts. Although he had been to the Jiang family on New Year's Day, the earth was turning over, so a visit was not considered a visit. Besides, he was going to express his gratitude this time, so it didn't seem good to just give some things bought on the street.
After much thought, he finally decided to use his spiritual power to create a lifelike image of Mrs. Jiang while Zhuier was out preparing breakfast.
The portrait was full-body, with a faint floral scent. It was exactly the appearance of Madam Jiang that I saw at the palace banquet on New Year's Eve. It didn't look like the work of a painter of this era, but more like a photo taken by a camera in the past. But if you look closely, it is much more detailed than a photo, and has a sense of three-dimensionality. It feels a bit like a person in the past life looking in the mirror, a one-to-one restoration, like two of themselves.
The painting is on silk, and the scroll is made by crushing ten flowers, which is guaranteed to last for at least twenty years.
This kind of thing is not like the surgical instruments of later generations, because it does not exist in this era at all, so it is easy to conjure up, but the retention time is very short. If she wants to preserve it for a long time, she has to crush a lot of flowers. But when she was treating the wounded in the outer city, she was not willing to crush so many flowers.
Scrolls and canvases were different. The Northern Qi Dynasty also had these things, so only ten flowers were needed to keep them for twenty years. However, the painting on the cloth imitated the advanced technology and printing and dyeing materials of later generations, so she had to crush nearly a hundred wintersweets in one go to successfully draw it, but it could only be kept for ten years.
But it doesn't matter. When spring comes and the flowers bloom, after she has saved a large number of flowers, she will go to the Jiang family again to refill her spiritual power. This way, the painting can be preserved for a long time.
Zhuier couldn't stay idle, so she went to help Xiangdong. Ye Wenyan called Jiduo in, and asked her while eating: "Is Jirong not back yet? Is the Yu family's affairs difficult to deal with?"
Ji Duo answered, "It's not that difficult, it's just that the Yu family is too shameless. The eldest lady proposed a divorce, but Mr. Yu was only willing to write a divorce letter. In the end, it was the Jiang family who put pressure on them, and they reluctantly signed the divorce letter. But they wanted the eldest lady to leave the house with nothing, and even confiscated the dowry that was brought into the mansion and the things prepared for Miss Yu's marriage. Ji Rong wanted to help them get it back, but the eldest lady didn't agree. She just said forget it, it's good for people to walk out of the Yu family alive, money is just external things, and when you return to your parents' home, you can always have a place to live and a meal."
He calculated as he spoke, and then added: "It will probably be a matter of one or two days. The Yu family will move out of the inner city, and the eldest lady will take the eldest lady with her. If the master is worried about it, I will ask about it when you are a guest at the Jiang family later, or call Ji Rong back and let her tell the young lady herself."
Ye Wenyan nodded and asked again, "Where is the young lady who was soaking in water?" Ji Duo snorted coldly, "Don't mention her. When I carried her to the water, she tried to flirt with me, which made me so angry that I let go and soaked her half to death before pulling her out. That night, we were watched by the craftsmen in the outer city. Someone even said that he recognized her and that she was the lover of a young master in the outer city. The two of them had been flirting with each other for half a year."
"Do you have a lover?" She pondered for a while, then instructed Ji Duo, "Ride your horse quickly to the outer city and ask around. It would be best if you could find that lover for me and bring him to the inner city."