Qiu Yelan said with a smile, “Uncle Mengmin, if I really have a good idea, won’t you listen? What a shame. Even if big brother inherits your title, half of his thought is on study and the other half is on women for all these years, talking about how to manage a family, in my opinion he may not be better than me, does he? After you and aunt left, I wonder who will benefit from your assets?”
Princess Yang snarled, “How dare you despoil our assets?”
“Uncle, Yang Family can’t be trusted. Ding Family is not better,” Qiu Yelan blinked and yelled towards inside, “Has Ding Family ever helped you this time? They follow Prime Minister Xue wholeheartedly. They were willing to marry their official daughter to big brother before. Because they felt satisfied that you had no connection with the two Empresses. Otherwise, Miss Ding is said to be excellent. And their family values the close descent system. How could they marry her to big brother? I’m sure that Ding Family mu
"I am having sent all the servants out. Now, what do you want to say, say it. What do you want to do, do it." said Madame Lu, looking at the closing door, putting down her tea.Qiu Yelan did not want to beat about the bush anymore. She said bluntly, "Did you kill my brother?"Madame Lu answered her coldly, "Nonsense. We all know that his poor fate contributed to his premature death.""But your grandson told me this when he was alive," said Qiu Yelan. Her words shocked Madame Lu. She stood up abruptly, pointing at her and saying inconceivably, "You... you! Yuqing has been always saying you killed Jinzhang. Is it true?"Although Madame Lu once said to Qiu Mengmin that she thought it was Qiu Yelan who killed Kang Jinzhang. However, all the people in the Prince's Mansion thought that Kang Jinzhang was buried due to avalanche. Nobody realized that Qiu Yelan, twelve years old at that time had the power to kill his cousin, seventeen years
Madame Lu eventually gave in. She kneeled on the ground in front of Qiu Yelan, slapping herself 10 times and begging for her mercy. Madame Lu must regret deeply that she agreed to talk with Qiu Yelan alone.She went back to her residence with a gloomy face. Her intimate old maidservant immediately ordered one maid to prepare hot water for washing up.Cui Xin got a towel for Madame Lu. Madame Lu screamed while Cui Xin was helping her with face washing up. Hearing her scream, Cui Xin immediately kneeled on the ground. Madame Lu slapped her heavily and said angrily, "So hard? You also intend to kill me, don’t you?"In general, Cui Xin was one of her favorite maidservants. She knew that Madame Lu would lash out at anybody whenever she was furious. She must hold back her tears. She kneeled on the ground and kowtowed over and over again, saying to Madame Lu, "Sorry, my grace! Sorry.""You want to kill me and then you can give your oath t
Sending Qiu Mengmin away, Madame Lu asked servants in to clean and dress her up, and she was figuring out how to make this drama, "committing suicide to protect son," much more real. So, she ordered servants to take two grandsons here to kindly and pleasantly show solicitude for them.Qiu Hongzhi didn't feel any strange for he had always been spoiled by his grandmother and father. But as to Qiu Yinzhi, who had been disliked by Madame Lu due to Princess Yang and had always been rebuked, he felt extremely flattered with surprise then.After all they were her own grandsons. Seeing them, Madame Lu's heart suddenly softened, and she opened a chest, taking a pair of jade kylins to give them, "These are the best pair of jade crafts of mine. Just for you brothers, exactly one for each.""Thanks, grandma!" Both grandsons said with one voice.They both thought that Madame Lu was about to leave Prince's Mansion. Thus, at this time, it was not
The spring breeze was still a little cold at the night on the end of February. The shadows of the crape myrtle trees are trembling and vague in winds, with only Qiu Yelan's eyes brightly shining, looking out of here, mockingly and silently.It took Qiu Mengmin a while to cover the door, and then he turned around, but with no surprise on his face. He only said faintly, "In the early years, I heard that General Ruan was superior in martial arts. Sure enough, you are a real offspring of Ruan. The servants I sent here to guard?""Fainted, over there. I know it's not easy for uncle to cultivate your men. How could I just kill them?" Qiu Yelan covered her lips, laughing, and said softly."You know that I haven't learned martial arts, so how about coming here to talk?" Qiu Mengmin blew out the lantern hanging under the back door and greeted, "I guess you stunned my men in the middle of the night, waiting for me here but still keeping the secret for me
About a three-or-four-day walk away from Jing City, there was a little hill, behind which stood a mountain of medium height and in front of which flew a river less than ten Chinese feet. This little hill could be counted as a good place of blessing because of the mountain behind it and the river before it, though neither the mountain was high nor the river was deep."What a good place!" Qiu Yelan said with a half-smile holding the curtain in the carriage which had just arrived at the foot of the hill at sunset. Her eyes were fixed on a frightened hare, especially on its big beautiful back legs, for a long while and she finally decided to switch her eyes to the top of the hill.By the light of the sunset, she could see there were a bunch of people wearing plain clothes."Send someone over and ask them whether they belong to Prince's Mansion of Xihe," Qiu Yelan stared at them for a moment and smiled significantly. "Let the leading person come her
Morning, General's Mansion.Backyard.Qiu Yelan pushed the window open with a cracking sound. A few peach blossoms were in bloom in the yard outside the window. They were red like a sunset glow. When the soft wind blew, falling petals went through the yard and entered the room with mist, and finally landed on people’s head softly.She turned around and fawningly flicked away a petal on Ruan Qingyan’s shoulder who was healing his wounds in bed. And then she wiped off the dew he got from the petal with a handkerchief, “Cousin, you are so hardworking.”Ruan Qingyan stared at the book in his hand intently. It seemed that he didn’t hear her.Qiu Yelan wasn’t discouraged. Dongran came in holding a bowl of medicine after a while. She approached and took it over in a hurry. She blew on a spoon of the medicine affably and fed it to Ruan Qingyan, “Cousin, it’s time for your medicine.”Ruan Qingyan tried to avoid and
At Jiang's residence, Lian Chen was surprised when he saw Qiu Yelan. "I thought you are out of town," said he."I've been to the old Princess's and my mother's tombs for a while," said Qiu Yelan. Old Princess Lian's tomb was close to Princess Ruan's. Qiu Yelan wanted to say something privately to Princess Ruan. She commanded Su He and others to sweep the tomb. How could she not feel shame when she said so? "When I was coming back, I forgot to say goodbye to my uncle.""Sure. I should have been there too," said Lian Chen, stroking his long beard. He sighed and continued, "Now we all know how mean Qiu Mengmin is. Lu suicided for fearing the punishment. So, it sounded reasonable for you to mourn them...."Hearing what he said, Qiu Yelan was shocked and said, "Lu suicided because of fearing for the punishment?""This has been concluded by the judge," smiled Lian Jianhao.Qiu Yelan understood that this must be the conclusio
Because the matter was so great, at the end of the discussion, Lian Chen still couldn't agree with Lian Ding’s suggestion and he decided to think about some other methods. Chivalry, loyalty and friendship... these sounded like attractive for young people like Lian Ding. But for sophisticated old people like Lian Chen, these are empty words as drifting clouds.Lian Chen had met with Qiu Feng before but still can't believe him; Qiu Yelan, a person who remained doubtful about Ruan Qingyan's origin, was even more reluctant to take risks."Have you ever heard of this guy, Qiu Feng?" Qiu Yelan asked Chunran and Xiaran on the way back to Prince's Mansion of Xihe.Both of them nodded, "Although the Iron Master Qiu only appears for recent few years, but his reputation is so great and spreading so fast that even the stadholder of Jiao Zhou wants to recruit him. However, because nobody knows his origin and he could hardly be met with... so finally, the st