Spring Courtyard Forbidden Pet

Ye Zhen's eyelashes trembled and her breathing stopped.

Liuxia was delighted, thinking that the Second Master had finally noticed that something was wrong with the young lady! She turned around and was about to call him, but she found that Li Xuan was referring to the four sedan bearers who were passing by on the official road.

Ye Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, but felt a bit depressed.

The four sedan chair bearers knelt and crawled over. Seeing that the Imperial Master was in a bad mood, they determined that Ye Zhen had said something and started to cry out that they were innocent.

"My Lord, please understand. It's not that we don't want to carry the sedan chair. It's because Second Miss Ye said the mountain road is rough and she doesn't like the bumpy ride and refuses to sit on it. She insists on walking on her own."

"After we got down the mountain, no matter how much we begged, it was useless. We had to catch up with them all the way."

The sedan bearer was quite clever. He immediately took out the silver that Meng Qianru had given him from his pocket and said, "I feel unworthy of this."

Meng Qianru carefully covered the candied fruit tray with her handkerchief, fearing that it would get dusty.

She was not happy to be disturbed by these people, and she scolded them coldly, "Ms. Ye is the benefactor of the Imperial Master. You must have failed to serve her well, which made her angry. Now you want to slander her."

"I didn't." The sedan bearer was so frightened that he trembled and dared not say anything else except these four words.

Meng Qianru was about to ask the guards to chase the man away, but unexpectedly Li Xuan spoke up, "Bumpy? Why didn't I and the princess feel bumpy?"

Li Xu sat there quietly, his face without a trace of emotion, but the rosary in his hand was plucked very loudly, one by one, like the sound of a sharp blade scraping against bones, which sounded creepy.

Even Meng Qianru couldn't help but take a look, wondering why the peach wood beads could make such a noise?

The sedan bearers looked at each other, so anxious that they were sweating profusely and could not utter a word.

Li Xuan stared at them, his dark eyes were like a bottomless abyss, which made people feel terrified.

She actually walked all the way! No wonder she couldn't even lift her left foot.

In fact, he noticed early in the morning that Ye Zhen's sedan chair had not caught up, but thinking of the unpleasantness of last night, he refrained from asking and tried not to think about it. But later he found that no matter what he did, he couldn't put it into his heart, so he had to suggest that the princess take a rest, but in fact he wanted to wait for Ye Zhen.

He restrained himself from fortune-telling and sensing the energy of the rosary, trying to distance himself slowly and not cause trouble to her anymore. Maybe when they met again after some time, she would still be able to easily call him Second Master.

But he waited for a really long time, Meng Qianru talked to him a lot, and there were so many interesting things on the mountain and in the palace, but nothing could make him forget the name Ye Zhen.

Just when he couldn't bear it anymore and was about to commit suicide, he finally saw her coming.

She was very tired, and he thought she was walking towards him to get away from him. At that moment, he almost crushed the beads in his hand.

Now, it is these sedan bearers who are making things difficult for her!

This is because they are afraid that he will have no place to vent his anger.

He pointed at Liuxia who had walked behind the tree and said, "Liuxia, go ahead."

Liuxia was crying and snotting. When she heard the Imperial Master calling her name, she ran over like a wandering child who had found warmth. She knelt down and said, "Second Master!"

"They deliberately took one deep step and one shallow step when going down the mountain. The Second Miss bumped her head in the sedan chair no less than five times. I felt so sad just hearing that."

"Tell them to walk slower. They said they were afraid that the princess would blame us, so they asked us to be patient."

"They are all sedan bearers. You and the princess' sedan bearers walked very steadily. Even if the mountain road is difficult to walk on, it doesn't make sense that every step you take is unsteady."

Liuxia was already angry, but she had been holding it in all the way. Now she found that Ye Zhen had sprained her ankle and her clothes were soaked with sweat due to the pain. She vented all her grievances and burst into tears.

"No, it's not." The sedan bearer tried to argue, "It's just that Miss Ye is too delicate and can't stand the occasional bumps, so she left in anger."

Liuxia's eyes were blurred with tears. "Whose young lady sprained her ankle and is still angry with you guys?"

"She didn't say anything when she saw the Imperial Master and the Princess, but you guys came up and threw dirty water on my young lady!"

She didn't complain?

The sedan bearer was startled, and subconsciously looked into the pavilion. Seeing Meng Qianru making tea with a cold face, he panicked, "I didn't know she sprained her ankle."

Li Xuan threw the rosary on the stone table with a "pa" sound, and looked at Meng Qianru with his phoenix eyes. He said nothing and showed no emotion at all, leaving Meng Qianru with no energy to continue making tea.

She frowned, "I was inconsiderate. I thought the sedan bearers who were used to going up and down the mountain would have no problem. I didn't expect that these bastards would wrong Miss Ye Er."

Li Xuan'an raised his brows slightly, revealing an imperceptible coldness, and his narrowed eyes revealed a sense of danger, making his gentle voice sound chilling.

"It's not that anyone is wronged, but they did things in the name of the princess, and after doing so much, they turned against her. The good reputation that the princess has accumulated over the years has been tarnished by them."

"Now I am walking down the mountain and spraining my ankle, but I have not complained to you or me."

"After all, you are someone who helped me. I trusted you and followed your arrangements. Now that something like this has happened, it's really..."

He didn't say anything else, but just shook his head with a mocking smile, apparently very disappointed.

Meng Qianru no longer had the energy to sort out the candied fruits and tea. After a moment's thought, she said, "I was negligent."

"Come here, take these four people down and give each of them thirty sticks. From now on, they are not allowed to make a living by carrying sedan chairs."

At her command, the four sedan bearers were dragged away by the guards before they could react. Yin Xiang quickly stuffed their mouths and scolded them, "Stop yelling! You'll make the Imperial Master and the County Lord angry."

Meng Qianru stood up and walked out of the pavilion again, and said softly to Ye Zhen, "This princess apologizes to Miss Ye Er. You sprained your ankle, so can you squeeze in with this princess later?"

Ye Zhen took a break, but the pain didn't lessen, instead it became even more severe, and even her calves were shaking violently.

Fortunately, Liuxia noticed that she had difficulty getting up and ran over to steady her, allowing Ye Zhen to turn around and greet Meng Qianru, "How dare I bother the princess."

"My Lady, do not blame yourself. The people below are used to fooling you, and they thought you were easy to fool too."

"Ye Zhen is already thankful that I haven't ruined the princess's reputation." She knelt down and kowtowed as she spoke.

Meng Qianru then understood that she had deliberately followed on foot to make the sedan bearers worry about being reported, so she came up and told everything, and then used the reason that it affected her reputation to force her to order the punishment.

She was so innocent in doing something that hurt the enemy by a thousand and hurt herself by eight hundred.

Meng Qianru's heart sank slightly, and seeing her kneeling with difficulty, she quickly raised her hand to excuse herself, "I should thank Second Miss Ye for her intelligence, otherwise if today's incident gets out, people will say that I am foolish, but being misunderstood as treating Second Master badly will be a big deal."

"Yinxiang, quickly help Miss Ye to rest in my sedan chair, and then hurry up and ask the imperial physician to wait at the city gate."

Ye Zhen struggled to stand still, her voice hoarse, "I'm fine, I'll let my father take a look when I get home, and I'll be fine after two days of rest..."

Before he finished speaking, Li Xuanan snorted softly, "Second Miss Ye has a strong body. She doesn't think it's an injury unless her leg is broken."

"Since she doesn't appreciate it, the princess doesn't have to be a good person."

Ye Zhen's expression froze slightly, and he lowered his head a little bit without saying anything.

Meng Qianru smiled gently upon hearing this, "Second Master is angry that Second Miss Ye doesn't take care of herself!"

"Miss Ye Er, be obedient and go to my sedan chair to rest."