Chapter 664: The Mandarin Duck Girl Earns the Gold Hairpin (Part 1)
But just when Xing Xiuyan was in a dilemma, someone in the corridor outside had already heard everything.
This person was naturally Yuanyang. She had just seen that both the master and servant seemed to be hiding something - especially Zhuier, who looked guilty. Although she didn't want to ask them about the details, she was still worried.
So he walked a few steps out of the door, gritted his teeth, turned back and hid under the porch outside the window, just in time to hear the conversation between the master and servant.
After hearing the whole story, Yuanyang pondered for a moment, then quietly left the courtyard, pondering all the way as she walked towards Jia Yingchun's courtyard.
Because she was thinking about something, she almost bumped into Qingwen who was running towards her. Before she could say anything, Qingwen spat at her half-seriously, "Bah! What's the matter? You're running around like a lost soul in broad daylight."
Yuanyang had no intention of arguing with her at this moment. After a little hesitation, she pulled Qingwen to a corner and told her everything she had just heard.
Qingwen was a person who would not tolerate any injustice. When she heard Zhuier was so arrogant, she immediately cursed, "What a shameless little whore! I thought she was cunning, but I never thought she was such a thief !"
At the beginning, Zhuier's mother wanted to send her to Baoyu to serve him, and she followed the path of Xiren and Qingwen.
Originally Xiren had agreed, but Baoyu happened to be checking the accounts, and both of them were implicated by their family members and suffered penalties. Although they were forgiven later, it was not a good idea to bring anyone into the house again.
So the pendant was assigned to Madam Xing.
Therefore, Qingwen still had some impression of this girl.
Then Qingwen could not help complaining: "Since you know that she is a treacherous servant who bullies her master and a thief who cannot be tamed, why don't you rush in and scold her a few times, so as to seek justice for Miss Xing!"
Yuanyang said helplessly: "You are so impatient, you think it's simple. She can say 'catching a thief and taking stolen goods', so I think she has already hidden her hairpins. If I rush in rashly and fail to catch her in the end, won't it make Miss Xing even more difficult?"
Qingwen thought about it and agreed. Xing Xiuyun did not point out the matter in front of Yuanyang, obviously because she did not want the matter to be known to everyone.
But if we don't make a big deal out of this, how can we get the Golden Buyao back considering Zhuier's current attitude?
In short, this matter is not a big deal, but it is not easy to cut tofu with a knife so that both sides are smooth.
So the two of them looked at each other in silence, both with worried brows.
In fact, this matter has little to do with them. If they were cold-hearted, they would probably just let Xing Xiuyan suffer.
But Qingwen and Yuanyang are not people with such personalities.
Especially during the past few days of getting along, Xing Xiuyan's neither humble nor arrogant, generous and generous attitude is quite in line with their personalities.
After discussing for a long time, the two finally made up their minds: if they wanted to settle this matter without anyone noticing, they would probably have to rely on the "power of ghosts and gods."
Fortunately, the Sun Mansion has no shortage of this "power of ghosts and gods".
So the two of them thought about it carefully again, and after confirming that the plan was 70% to 80% successful, they went their separate ways.
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The plum garden of the Sun Mansion was renovated only this spring. The dozens of plum trees were moved here at the turn of spring and summer, so they have never shown their colors until now.
As luck would have it, early this morning I heard the old woman who looks after the garden come to report that several tiger-hoof plum trees had bloomed ahead of schedule. She also talked nonsense, associating the graceful yellow flower buds with some auspicious omen.
This aroused Jia Yingchun's interest, and she invited Xing Xiuyan, Ruan Rong and others to come over for tea and flower viewing.
But Xing Xiuyun had lost her golden hairpin, so she couldn't bring herself to return the jewelry, so she picked out half a set of jewelry to dress up - although it didn't look as neat as a full set of jewelry, it made her look more playful and simple.
In addition, there was no sign of reluctance in her words and actions. Not to mention Jia Yingchun and Ruan Rong, even the mandarin ducks who knew her well could not see any flaws.
Just as he was secretly admiring Xing Xiuyan's calmness, the old woman guarding the garden suddenly came forward to report that Zhuier's mother came to talk to her daughter.
After hearing this, Yuanyang left the garden first.
However, when Zhuier heard that her mother had come to visit, she was not surprised at all. She just thought that she was here to inquire about the funeral arrangements - after all, Zhuier had taken advantage of her mother's visit yesterday evening to sneak the golden hairpin out.
So she didn't think much about it, pretended to be nice to Xing Xiuyan, and went straight to the front yard to look for her mother.
Unexpectedly, not long after leaving the garden, I heard a strong wind ahead, but I didn't see the strong wind blowing towards me.
Zhuier was curious and hurried out of the three gates. He saw a figure as majestic as a mountain in the middle of the courtyard, wielding a hideous two-handed sword, so powerful that no water could penetrate it!
And that whirring sound was the sound of the giant sword breaking through the air!
How often had Zhuier seen such majesty in Rongguo Mansion?
He was dazzled by what he saw and thought to himself that no wonder this Lord Sun was said to be invincible - with that huge strange sword swung by him, even Buddha would not be able to withstand a few strikes.
As I was looking at it intently, I suddenly heard some discussions.
"Second Master, what's wrong with you? Dancing with swords is fine, but why did you open the blood eye on your forehead? This... this is no joke!"
Listening to the sound, it turned out to be mandarin ducks talking.
But after hearing this, Zhuier no longer cared about the mandarin ducks.
He stood on tiptoe to take a closer look and found that there was a bright red blood eye between Sun Shaozong's eyebrows.
How could she know that this was caused by the upward rush of qi and blood?
At that moment, I remembered all the rumors, and my calves felt weak.
Just as he was about to quickly bypass this place to avoid being implicated, he suddenly heard someone angrily say, "What can I say? The Second Master was originally fine, but somehow that bloody eye was actually alarmed by the evil spirit emanating from the villain!"
This time, it was clearly Qingwen who spoke.
"Oh!"
Yuanyang cried out in surprise: "How could there be evil spirits from bad people in our house?!"
"Who knows who is so blind as to dare to stir up trouble in our house? Even if he is not afraid of being caught and punished by the government, isn't he afraid that after his death, he will be thrown into the eighteenth level of hell by the Second Master, suffering endless torture and never being able to be reborn?"
Qingwen paused, and continued, "Second Master also felt that there couldn't be anyone in our house who was so bold, and thought that maybe it was a bad guy passing by - that's why he practiced sword skills to suppress the blood in his body. If he could still sense that evil spirit at night, he would search our house carefully!"
After hearing these words, Na Zhuier was frightened.
I secretly wondered, could it be that the evil spirit that offended Master Sun's bloody eyes was caused by me?
Feeling guilty, when she looked at the bloodshot eyes again, she felt that they looked even more ferocious and terrifying. As she looked around, it seemed as if they were faintly looking at her !
Zhuier was so frightened that his heart and liver were about to burst. He turned around and ran more than a hundred steps away before he stopped with a lingering fear.
At the same time, Yuanyang and Qingwen turned their gazes to where she originally stood.
Qingwen was troubled and asked, "Do you think she will return the hairpin?"
"I can't say for sure."
Yuanyang shook his head and said with a wry smile: "We can only do this much. Whether it can be successful or not depends on Miss Xing's luck."
As he was talking, someone suddenly asked from the corridor, "So, the guilty thief just now is Miss Xing's personal maid?"
The two girls were startled and looked in the direction of the voice, only to find that Sun Shaozong had stopped his moves at some point and was looking at them while holding Frostmourne.
Yuanyang and Qingwen hurriedly called out "Second Master", but they hesitated, not knowing whether they should reveal the matter of Xing Xiuyan.
"Daddy, dance with the sword! Daddy, dance with the sword!"
"Daddy's sword!"
At this moment, two childish voices not far away suddenly started clamoring one after another.
It turned out that after Qingwen and Yuanyang made the plan to take advantage of the power of others, they did not go directly to Sun Shaozong to discuss the matter. Instead, they borrowed the names of the two little guys and let Sun Shaozong perform sword dance here.
But how smart is Sun Shaozong?
He had figured out early on that someone was instigating him, so he was observing the situation around him while dancing with the sword, so he was able to get up in time and just barely hear the end of it.
Seeing the two little ones shouting in unison, Sun Shaozong reluctantly raised the sword to his shoulder and said, "I don't have time to argue with you right now. Let's make the two little ancestors happy, and then I'll listen to what you are up to."
Having said that, he went to the middle, took up his stance, and started to wave his weapons with great force.
