Chapter 665: Xing Xiuyan's Wisdom and Foundations (Part 2)
This tea party lasted until the afternoon.
Others didn't notice anything , but Xing Xiuyan was the only one who forced herself to smile the whole time. She was already exhausted both physically and mentally, and wished she could go back to the guest room and fall asleep immediately.
However, how can she sleep peacefully unless the issue of Jin Buyao is resolved?
But how should this matter be handled?
Xing Xiuyan was a little confused for a moment.
Although she is smart, she is still young after all. Now she is alone in a foreign country. Even if she can come up with some ideas, how can she put them into practice?
Alas~
Do I really have to bring these jewels back to Rongguo Mansion and let my father use them as gambling money?
However, Xing Xiuyan was absolutely unwilling to waste other people's kindness in this way.
So after returning from the tea party, she sat in front of the dressing table, racking her brains to think about how to make Zhuier obey her without alarming the Sun and Jia families.
Little did she know that while she was worried, Zhuier was also very anxious.
She walked around outside like an ant on the hot pan for more than a hundred times. Seeing the sun setting gradually, she finally couldn't stand it anymore and lifted the curtain to go into the inner room.
"girl."
Xing Xiuyan did not turn around when the girl called out to her - because she had not figured out how to face Zhuier - so she picked up the powder and pretended to be touching up her makeup, and replied indifferently: "What's wrong?"
This indifferent and distant attitude made Zhuier feel a little at a loss.
I felt even more annoyed: Isn't he just related to Madam Xing? His family is so poor, and he has the nerve to put on airs in front of me!
But she didn't dare to say these words out loud.
Trying hard to suppress her contemptuous expression, Zhuier said with a fake smile: "I really didn't see that golden hairpin - but no outsiders have ever entered our room, so you can look through the makeup box again, maybe you saw it wrongly."
Xing Xiuyan had no idea how many times she had looked through the makeup box. When she was dressing up, she had even picked out the jewelry over and over again. So how could she have made a mistake?
But hearing that Zhuier seemed to have something else to say, Xing Xiuyan casually opened the makeup box and fiddled with it with a few scallion-white fingers. Then she saw a golden hairpin with gold flowers and emerald butterflies, trembling in front of her eyes.
The golden hairpin is actually in the makeup box? !
Xing Xiuyan almost screamed out for a moment, but then many questions flashed through her mind.
This golden hairpin was undoubtedly put back by Zhuier.
But in the morning, I tried every way to coerce and bribe her, but she remained indifferent. She was even arrogant and wanted to bite back. Why did she change her mind without saying a word now?
Besides, since she had secretly put the golden hairpin into the makeup box, then she only needed to wait for me to find it. Why would she make things even more complicated and ask me to look for it?
I'm afraid there's something fishy going on here!
Thinking of this, Xing Xiuyan suppressed her ecstasy, quietly put the hairpin into her sleeve, and then pretended to be angry in front of the bronze mirror. Then she turned around and scolded: "It would have been fine if you had been rude before, but how dare you lie to me now?!"
Deception?
Now it was Zhuier's turn to be confused.
After 'accidentally' seeing Sun Erlang's sword dance in the morning, she could no longer bear the fear of suffering in life and being punished after death, so she bit the bullet and asked her mother for the hairpin back, and quietly put it in her makeup box.
It was precisely because she took into consideration that Sun Shaozong would have to "investigate" the evil spirit at night that she couldn't wait for Xing Xiuyan to discover it herself and took the initiative to jump out and add fuel to the fire.
Who would have thought that after Xing Xiuyan got her thing back, she was not happy but annoyed?
"girl?"
Zhuier frowned and asked, "What do you mean by that?"
"What else could it mean?!"
Xing Xiuyan slapped the makeup box in an angry tone, making it rustle. She said angrily, "Come and take a look for yourself. Where is the golden hairpin in here?!"
"How is this possible?!"
Zhuier was horrified, and hurried a few steps closer to look around, only to see that in the open makeup box, there were several gold and emerald jewellery pieces shining brightly, but the golden hairpin with the Butterfly Love Flower pattern was missing!
How could she have imagined that Xing Xiuyan had secretly hidden this?
She couldn't help but screamed: "How could it be?! I clearly put the hairpin in at noon..."
Pah~
Before she could finish her words, Xing Xiuyan slammed the golden hairpin on the table and sneered, "What a guilt-free maid! But I wonder if this is considered catching the perpetrator red-handed now?!"
Zhuier was just dumbfounded.
Just when he didn't know how to argue, Xing Xiuyan raised her eyebrows and scolded him harshly: "Kneel down and answer!"
Zhuier was intimidated by her aura, and his knees softened and he knelt down.
After she knelt down, her morale was dampened, and she was naturally no match for Xing Xiuyan's righteous words.
In just a few words, she was lured by the promise of leniency if she confessed, and told the whole story how she stole the jewelry and how she was forced by Sun Shaozong's bloody eyes to exchange the hairpin back.
Zhuier was still confused by the situation. After hearing this, Xing Xiuyan couldn't help but feel ashamed and grateful.
When they were sailing north on the same ship, she learned the truth about the bloody eyes from Xue Baoqin. Naturally, she knew that it was not an " invasion of evil spirits" but the result of the blood rising when dancing with the sword.
Therefore, Xing Xiuyan only had to think about it for a moment before she guessed that this was not a "coincidence", but a trap set by someone to deliberately intimidate Zhuier!
However, she did not expect that this would be the result of Yuanyang and Qingwen acting first and reporting later, and she thought that it was Sun Shaozong who did it all.
As a result, many ripples arose in my heart unconsciously.
Since leaving Suzhou, she has seen the fickleness of the world and the warmth and coldness of human nature. Only Sun Shaozong has repeatedly helped her and considerately taken care of her face. He either asked others to do it for her or pretended that it was an accident.
Even Miaoyu, whom he had known since childhood, was not as considerate as he was...
wrong!
Lord Sun is Sister Miaoyu’s sweetheart!
Besides, Lord Sun is at the peak of his career. How can a girl like me, who comes from a common family, possibly marry him?
As for being a concubine...
Shaking her head, she threw all the fanciful thoughts and fantasies out of her mind . Xing Xiuyan ordered without question, "In this case, I will record everything you said and you sign it yourself. Don't worry! I will not give this confession to my aunt. It's just in case."
When Zhuier heard that he had to sign his name, he tried every possible way to avoid it.
But Xing Xiuyan refused to agree and threatened to tell Mrs. Xing directly. Finally, Zhuier had no choice but to put his fingerprints on the confession.
Only now did she realize that although Miss Xing looked indifferent, she was actually a fierce tiger inside!
However, after getting the confession, Xing Xiuyan was afraid of any troubles in her future, so she hurriedly sent the jewelry back.
Jia Yingchun refused for a long time, but seeing that she was determined not to give it, she had no choice but to give in to her and put the jewelry away first, but said that it would not be too late to give it to her after she had promised to marry someone.
After that, Xing Xiuyan also thought about thanking Sun Shaozong in person, but she never got the right opportunity.
It happened that the next morning, someone from the Rongguo Mansion came to pick her up, so she had no choice but to put aside her feelings and followed the carriage back to the Jia residence.
When they arrived at the Rongguo Mansion, they saw that everyone, from the maids to the men, looked joyful.
Xing Xiuyun was puzzled, so she went to find Jia Xichun to find out what happened. Only then did she know that Jia Lian had returned from inspecting the manor last night and brought many gifts to distribute everywhere.
Although most of them are grains, smoked meat and sausages, if they are really precious things, how can they be given to the servants?
As a result, the whole family was naturally filled with joy.
Only Wang Xifeng and Ping'er, the master and servant, were not happy at all, but were filled with annoyance...
