The warm winter sun shining on your body makes you feel as comfortable as a spring breeze.

Bai Youyou was holding the Qilin Bow and walking towards Lu's Fangfei Garden, where she ran into Aunt Qiao who was coming out of the Lu's courtyard.

Her eyes were red and swollen, and she walked with a limp.

Seeing Bai Youyou, she pushed Chunliu away, staggered over, and knelt down in front of Bai Youyou.

"Fourth Miss, you are kind-hearted, please let your third brother go!"

When people who didn't know what she said thought, they would think she had done something to Bai Muchen.

Bai Youyou did not avoid Aunt Qiao's gift. She looked down at her and smiled coldly, "Aunt Qiao, why are you so polite? You are a concubine, but you are also the one who has helped my second house to expand. Even if you have no merit, you have worked hard. I am the legitimate daughter, so I have to accept your gift, but you said that you are asking me to let my third brother go. I don't understand what you mean."

"Fourth Miss, your third brother is still young. He was just bewildered for a moment and did such a foolish thing. Please forgive him for the sake of our blood relationship!"

Aunt Qiao begged bitterly with tears streaming down her cheeks.

"I kowtow to you, please spare his life!"

She banged her head on the ground, and muffled "bang bang bang" sounds continued to be heard from the wooden corridor.

The maids and servants who were cleaning the surroundings heard the noise and dropped their work and ran over.

They saw Aunt Qiao kneeling on the ground and kowtowing to Bai Youyou, and they all looked shocked.

"What is this Aunt Qiao doing? She actually kneels down and kowtows to the Fourth Young Miss."

"Maybe the Fourth Miss is standing up for the Second Madam and punishing Aunt Qiao."

"If the Second Master knew that you humiliated Aunt Qiao in public like this, he would definitely scold the Fourth Miss again."

......

The people present were whispering to each other, with many different opinions.

Bai Youyou glanced at the group of people and deliberately raised her voice, "Aunt Qiao, my third brother colluded with the gambling house manager to frame my second brother, causing him to owe the gambling house 100,000 taels of silver. Is this a blood-related relative? Are there any relatives who would harm their brothers like this?!"

"hiss!!!"

Everyone watching knew that Bai Luochuan had lost 100,000 taels of silver in a gambling house. Now they heard that he was framed by Bai Muchen and the manager of the gambling house, and they all gasped.

One hundred thousand taels!

It’s not ten taels of silver!

Their monthly salary was only five or six hundred coins, so one hundred thousand taels of silver was an astronomical figure for them.

"The fact that the Second Young Master owed the gambling house money was actually a trap set up by the Third Young Master and outsiders. Oh my god, the Third Young Master is too scary!"

"Yeah, they're not real brothers, even enemies probably wouldn't be this cruel."

"Don't judge a person by his appearance, and don't measure the depth of the sea. I didn't expect the Third Young Master to be such a person. He's so cruel!"

......

Aunt Qiao had a cut on her forehead, and blood was dripping down from her brow.

Listening to the discussions of the maids and servants around her, she felt a little regretful for coming to beg Bai Youyou in public.

But things had come to this point, she gritted her teeth and could only slam her head heavily on the ground.

"Fourth Miss, the Third Young Master was really confused for a moment. He already knows he was wrong. Please forgive him!"

The muffled sound of "bang bang" continued to be heard, and Bai Youyou took a step back to prevent blood from splashing on himself.

"If you don't teach your child well, you are unworthy of being a mother! Do you think you can get away with it by kowtowing and pretending to be pitiful to gain sympathy?"

Bai Youyou walked straight past her holding a longbow and said coldly: "If you make a mistake, you must accept the punishment, otherwise what is the point of this law!"

"Fourth Miss!!"

Aunt Qiao twisted her body and rushed over to grab Bai Youyou's ankle, but she dodged nimbly.

Aunt Qiao missed her target and fell heavily to the ground.

Her face was covered in blood, and she no longer had the dignified look she had in the past when she was in favor. She crawled on the ground like a beaten wild dog.

"Bai Youyou, he is your third brother, you can't be so cruel!!!"

"Auntie."

Chunliu walked over and supported her.

Aunt Qiao cried miserably, blood gushed out of her head, her eyes went dark, she couldn't breathe, her body went limp, and she fell down.

Bai Youyou glanced back, ignored it, and walked towards Lu who was standing under the lotus archway watching the fun.

"mother."

"My son is back."

Seeing that she was holding a bow in her arms, Lu was surprised and asked, "Why did you buy a longbow?"

"Isn't my seventh cousin's birthday coming up soon? He may not be here, but he can't be left out of the birthday gift."

Bai Youyou followed Lu into the house. When she put the bow on the table, Lu's eyes lit up when she saw the complete longbow.

"This bow!"

She herself does not wield swords or guns, but as the daughter of a general, she is not unfamiliar with these weapons.

She could tell at a glance that the longbow in front of her was no ordinary object.

Lu couldn't help but stretched out her hand to hook the bowstring, but it didn't move at all. She looked carefully and was suddenly shocked, "This bowstring is made of tiger tendons!"

"Well, I bought this at Xunbaolou for one thousand taels."

"One thousand taels?"

Lu paused as she stroked the longbow, a little incredulous, "This bow costs one thousand taels?"

Bai Youyou thought she thought she overpaid, so she smiled and said, "Don't worry, mother. It's only one thousand taels of silver. I can earn it back in no time."

"no......"

Mrs. Lu was so excited that she was a little incoherent. "Such a good bow only costs one thousand taels of silver?"

"Well, just one thousand taels. You can find something to pack it up later. I'll go find my uncle first."

Bai Youyou hurried to find her uncle Bai Qingyu. Without further explanation, she gave Lu a few words of instruction and left the room.

Lu looked at the heavy longbow again and again, and was very curious about it.

"This tiger tendon longbow can be bought for only one thousand taels."

"I told you so. The person you met before must have been a dishonest businessman. Otherwise, why would he ask for 30,000 taels?"

“How cruel!”

While Lu was playing with her longbow at home, Bai Youyou had already arrived at the main courtyard of the east wing.

"Auntie."

As soon as Li came out of the room, she saw the maid leading Bai Youyou over.

Seeing her, Li's face did not show any surprise, she just smiled faintly, "Youyou is here."

Bai Youyou got straight to the point, "I have something to ask Uncle, do you have time now?"

"Come in quickly, your uncle is awake right now."

Li handed the bowl of medicine in her hand to the maid beside her and waved to Bai Youyou.

When Bai Qingyu heard the sound in the house, he got off the couch, picked up the cloak from the shelf and put it on.

"Uncle."

"sit down."

Bai Qingyu pointed to the pear wood round table in front, and Bai Youyou walked over and sat down.

"But is it because of your second brother? Ahem...?"

Bai Qingyu looked sick, and he covered his mouth and coughed a few times.

Li stood behind him, stroking his back, looking at Bai Youyou with a smile in her eyes, "The cakes on the table were just made by the cook in my small kitchen. Try them and see if you like them."

"Thank you, auntie."

Bai Youyou thanked him but did not touch the cakes. Instead, she said to Bai Qingyu in a serious tone, "Uncle, my third brother teamed up with Chen Guanshi from Lao Zhang's gambling house to frame my second brother. My mother plans to take this to the government."

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