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Because of the plague, they stayed here for a few more days. The officers were also afraid of contracting the disease on the road, so the best arrangement was to isolate them here for a period of time.

Jiang Nianwei and her family were properly settled in a quiet little courtyard, surrounded by lush greenery and very quiet. This place was relatively remote and therefore not affected by the plague.

Ye Zhengqing once mentioned that in the vegetable garden in this small courtyard, fresh vegetables can be picked at will without any worries.

Nanny Liu stepped lightly into the vegetable garden. She carefully selected a few plump green peppers and plucked a handful of juicy green sweet potato vines, preparing to cook two home-cooked dishes for everyone - stir-fried pork with hot peppers and stir-fried sweet potato vines.

The cured pork ribs soup in the pot was simmering slowly, filling the entire yard. The aroma made people's appetite grow as soon as they smelled it.

Jiang Siyu stood aside, watching the steam rising from the pot, and couldn't help swallowing.

Suddenly, Taozhi saw Abei walking towards them leading a ewe and a lamb, and she felt strange.

"Abei, where did you get this sheep? It looks like a milk-producing ewe."

Ah Bei also found it incredible. He scratched his head and explained, "Just now I saw an old man lying on the ground at the door, so I helped him up. Who knew that he gave me these two sheep to thank me."

Of course he didn't know that it was the secret guard pretending to be a master.

Jiang Nianwei found it funny after hearing this, "But there are benefits to keeping this ewe. Chen Ge can eat it. If breast milk is not enough, goat milk can make up the difference."

Jiang Mian next door naturally also smelled the fragrance. Jiang Shen's family had little food left, and as soon as Jiang Hao smelled the fragrance, he started clamoring for meat.

But when he thought of Jiang Lanxu's ferocious look, he didn't dare to ask for it. Jiang Hao sighed helplessly, and an unspeakable bitterness surged in his heart, "If mother was still alive, she would definitely find a way to let us eat meat. Now we can't even eat enough, and we don't even have a decent woman."

He glanced again at his clothes that were already covered with dirt. Originally, Yunniang helped him wash clothes, but ever since Yunniang got the strange disease of red rash, Jiang Shen was afraid that she would infect others, so he didn't let her do these things anymore.

He began to miss Shen Xiangdi more and more, "If only my mother were here, we wouldn't have to suffer like this."

Whenever she mentioned Shen Xiangdi, Jiang Mian would always feel an inexplicable irritation in her heart. She suppressed the discomfort in her heart and said, "We still have some money on hand. Dad also said before that we would buy someone to take care of our lives when we get to the town. Now it seems that the plague outside has been brought under control. Why don't I ask the police to make some concessions and let me go to the town to buy some food and buy a maid by the way."

After hearing this, Jiang Shen was indeed tempted. Not to mention his appetite, Yunniang couldn't be touched these days, and the medicinal herbs were all eaten up, and there was no one to serve her.

Jiang Mian hangs around Qin Ziqian all day long, and Jiang Hao is even more ignorant and cannot be relied upon. If he could go to the town and buy a maid, it would definitely alleviate his loneliness.

He nodded, indicating his agreement with Jiang Mian's suggestion, "Buy a pretty and clean girl back."

Yunniang has been using nettles for a long time, and the red rashes on her body have begun to fester. Jiang Shen now doesn't even want to look at her.

With one more person, there was one more burden and one more food consumption. In Jiang Shen's eyes, she had become useless. Jiang Shen wanted to let her fend for herself and starve to death, so he never gave her any food.

Yunniang had already seen through the ugly faces of this family. Fortunately, Jiang Nianwei would ask Taozhi to secretly deliver food to her every day, so she would not starve to death.

At this moment, Taozhi came lightly, holding the basket in her hand, which was filled with the food that Jiang Hao had been thinking about just now. Looking at the fragrant food, he sighed softly: "I really didn't expect that my uncle still cares about us so much."

Taozhi put the basket on the table and said, "Take your time to eat. I'll take the basket back later."

I don’t know why the young lady sends them food every day. If she really wants to, she would rather give food to these ungrateful wolves than to dogs!

Jiang Hao stared at Taozhi's back for a long time, unable to recover from his shock. This cousin had two maids by her side, so why didn't she give one to him?

But he didn't dare to act rashly now, for fear that his arm would be broken by Abei beside her again. He really didn't want to suffer such pain again.

"It's just some small favors, big brother, you can't be bought by them."

Jiang Mian said this, and after seeing that Jiang Hao ate the food without any abnormality, he secretly left some for Qin Ziqian.

He was already starving, and when he saw the food Jiang Mian brought, he wolfed it down as if it were a life-saving straw.

He used to be so glorious, but now he has fallen to such a state, which is really sad.

Qin Mengrui, who was standing aside, was busy sewing a small bellyband.

Jiang Mian's eyes unconsciously fell on this exquisite bellyband. She tilted her head slightly and admired it carefully.

Qin Mengrui noticed Jiang Mian's gaze, stopped sewing, looked up at her, and a strange light flashed in her eyes.

She asked quietly, "Does it look good?"

Jiang Mian was slightly stunned. She didn't expect Qin Mengrui to take the initiative to talk to her.

She was secretly delighted, knowing that this was a good opportunity to improve the relationship. She smiled and nodded, "It looks good, Mengrui. I didn't expect you to have such skills."

Qin Mengrui snorted, "Girls like us who were born in wealthy families naturally have to learn some needlework, unlike you who come from a small family."

Jiang Mian knew that she had always been so spoiled, so he just cursed her in his heart, but appeared normal on the surface and did not refute her.

Qin Mengrui's eyes suddenly flashed with cruelty, and she said in a low voice: "Is your cousin's newly born baby cute?"

Jiang Mian naturally answered honestly: "You are talking about that baby. Newborn babies are naturally cute."

She didn't know that Qin Mengrui once liked Jiang Lanxu, and she didn't know what grudge there was between them.

At this moment, Qin Mengrui gently folded up the carefully sewn bellyband and said, "Perhaps, you should prepare a gift for that child. What do you think of this bellyband?"

Jiang Mian was flattered. This future sister-in-law was always a little willful. She didn't expect that she would be so considerate today. She knew that she was thinking about her. She didn't doubt it. "Thank you for your kindness."

After Jiang Mian left, she couldn't help but started to dry heave.

When Zhuang Qiuhe heard the sound of Qin Mengrui vomiting, she was shocked. It had been almost two months since they left Longzhou.

She hurriedly moved closer to Qin Mengrui and carefully checked her physical condition. Qin Mengrui had not had her period for two months and was now retching non-stop. She had experienced this before and naturally knew that she was most likely pregnant.

Qin Mengrui is still unmarried. If someone finds out that she is pregnant, she will never be able to raise her head again.

A thought suddenly flashed through Zhuang Qiuhe's mind: Doesn't Jiang Mian have a brother?

Although that person seemed a little dull, that was precisely why he was easy to fool.

If he was willing to marry Qin Mengrui, then at least her daughter would have a home, and most importantly, she would not be criticized even if she got pregnant.

She had always disagreed with Qin Ziqian marrying Jiang Mian, but today she changed her mind and said, "I think Jiang Mian is sincere to you, so I agree with you marrying her."

Qin Ziqian was pleasantly surprised when he heard this, but also felt strange. The change in his attitude seemed a little abrupt. "Mom, do you have any other purpose?"

"Of course, I am thinking about you. Jiang Nianwei is annoying, but Jiang Mian has always been very caring towards you. I have seen it all. Once we get to Yazhou and settle down, I will arrange a marriage for you."

Qin Ziqian didn't know what Zhuang Qiuhe's purpose was, but it was always a good thing to be able to speak up, "That's great."

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At this moment, Jiang Mian was thinking about how to give the exquisite bellyband in his hand to his cousin's baby child.

Although she was somewhat displeased with that family in her heart, she would inevitably need to rely on them for many things in the future, which was why she had to humble herself and take the initiative to show goodwill.

She picked up the finely crafted bellyband lightly, her eyes gleaming with pride, and complimented Qiu Xuemei, her words full of praise for the baby, "Look at this child, he is so pink and tender that it makes people feel distressed. This is the bellyband I specially sewed for him, and I put a lot of thought into it."

Although Qiu Xuemei was somewhat puzzled, she was always gentle and knew the principle of not hitting someone who smiled at her, so she accepted Jiang Mian's gift with a smile, "Thank you so much, cousin."

Jiang Mian was still feeling smug in his heart, "Do you want to change the doll?"

Unexpectedly, Jiang Nianwei, who had been silent all the time, suddenly said, "Wait a minute, there seems to be something wrong with this bellyband."

Jiang Mian was stunned, and the smug smile on his face froze instantly.

She turned her head and looked at Jiang Nianwei's cold face, feeling an inexplicable uneasiness in her heart. She frowned in dissatisfaction, and her tone was somewhat provocative: "Cousin, do you have any opinion about me? This bellyband is so exquisite, what can be wrong? If you have any dissatisfaction with me, you can just say it directly, why do you have to frame me in this way!"

Jiang Nianwei took the bellyband directly, picked up the scissors beside her and cut it open. Jiang Mian, who was about to get angry, saw a few wriggling leeches falling into the bellyband.

"Is this the bellyband you gave to Brother Chen? The bellyband with leeches hidden in it."

Qiu Meixue was startled. She recalled the moment when the bellyband was almost worn on the child. She was immediately frightened and her body began to tremble involuntarily. "Jiang Mian, I have no grudge against you. Why did you harm my child like this?"

Even the young baby seemed to sense the fear in his mother's heart, and he pouted and burst into tears.

Jiang Mian's face was as pale as snow. Her lips trembled as she denied it again and again: "I...I really didn't...I didn't do it."

The leeches on the ground were still squirming. Jiang Mian waved his hands hurriedly, his voice filled with anxiety and innocence: "It really wasn't me. I didn't embroider this bellyband. Qin Mengrui...she asked me to give it to the child."

Jiang Nianwei listened and suddenly understood a little.

Qin Mengrui still didn't give up. She hit the child with the abacus beads again. Fearing that the poison in the body was not strong enough and the pain was not enough, she actually used Jiang Mian to harm the child.

Jiang Mian stood there with his hands twisted together, looking a little uneasy.

Jiang Nianwei stood aside indifferently: "I told you long ago that there is no good person in the Qin family. You didn't believe me and insisted on getting involved with Qin Ziqian."

Jiang Mian watched helplessly as the people around her cast suspicious glances at her, which were as sharp as needles and made her feel uneasy.

She bit her lower lip and tried to defend herself. "Ziqian and his sister have completely different personalities. He knows nothing about this. All of this was done by the vicious Qin Mengrui behind the scenes. I was also blinded. Cousin, cousin's wife, you know that no one is perfect. Please be kind and forgive me this time. I promise that I will never give anything to the child easily again."

Jiang Mian had cursed Qin Mengrui thousands of times in his heart. It was fine for her to hurt others, but she actually put all the blame on him. Wasn't this trying to kill her?

"I'm going to confront that bitch Qin Mengrui! I really didn't do it, please believe me!"

Jiang Nianwei helped her up and pretended to comfort her: "Now you know who wants to harm you. What if I forgive you? Look at my cousin's wife and Chen Ge'er, they were almost scared to death."

Jiang Mian's eyes instantly turned red, tears rolled down her cheeks, and she choked up and said, "I really didn't mean it. I will definitely seek justice for my cousin's wife and make that Qin Mengrui pay the price!"

Jiang Nianwei nodded slightly, with a meaningful smile on her lips: "Then you have to think carefully about how to deal with Qin Mengrui."

Even if Jiang Nianwei didn't bring up this matter, Jiang Mian would try his best to take revenge on this damn Qin Mengrui.

I was so kind to her and tolerated her bad temper, but she actually used her to kill people! It was really chilling.

"Fortunately, Brother Chen was not hurt. You can take care of yourself!"

Jiang Mian was about to leave with a look of grievance on her face, but the moment she turned around, a look of resentment appeared on her face, and she walked angrily towards the Qin family's residence.

Unexpectedly, when Zhuang Qiuhe saw her coming, she changed her usual cold attitude and greeted her with extra enthusiasm this time. "Mianmian, you came at the right time." She said with a smile, "We just happened to have something to discuss with you."

Jiang Mian's eyebrows flashed with displeasure, and he asked with a somewhat cold tone: "What's the matter?"

She held Jiang Mian's hand, smiling, and seemed very intimate. "I think you are kind and a rare good girl. I hope you can marry Ziqian from our family."

Jiang Mian's heart tightened when she heard this. She remembered that Zhuang Qiuhe had always been very critical of her before, but now he had changed his attitude and was begging her so humbly.

Thinking of what Qin Mengrui had done to her, she was still terrified. "Even if you guys are willing to marry me, I may not be willing to marry you!"

"But who has provoked you to make you so angry?" Zhuang Qiuhe spoke softly, with some concern, and waved to Qin Ziqian.

Qin Ziqian came over after hearing the voice. His eyes fell on Jiang Mian tenderly and he gently held her hand: "Mianmian, now mother has agreed to our marriage. Although I am in trouble now, one day I swear to revive the family business and make you the distinguished mistress of the Marquis's family."

Jiang Mian must have been moved to hear such words. She once had a dream in which Qin Ziqian became the regent with all the power in the world, but the person standing next to him was not Jiang Nianwei, nor her, but a strange woman.

Now that there is such an opportunity in front of her, she also wants to gain wealth and glory and replace that woman!