Sir Song, do you want to pledge yourself to me?

The next day, Ji Nuan returned to the provincial capital with Chen's father and son.

Ma Jin shouted in the front yard, "The young lady is back." Ji's mother hurried out of the flower hall with Aunt Fang, and started scolding Ji Nuan as soon as she saw her.

"You naughty child, you dare to rescue people alone without even saying hello. Tell me, how come you are so brave? Huh? You dare to break into a bandit's den, do you want to live?" As he said that, he slapped her arm twice.

Ji Nuan felt pain, but just smiled with her lips pursed.

"Mom, I'm back safe and sound, so don't be angry." Ji Nuan coquettishly took her mother's hand, her tone full of flattery.

Mother Ji sighed and looked Ji Nuan up and down. After confirming that she was fine, she felt relieved. "Don't do this next time, okay? If anything happens, at least tell the family and don't let them worry."

Ji Nuan responded obediently, "I know, Mom! This incident happened so suddenly that I didn't have time to explain it to you. I won't do it again next time."

After hearing this, Ji's mother's expression eased a little and she said, "Okay, you've been traveling for most of the day. You must be hungry, right? I'll make you something delicious."

Ji Nuan held her back and said with a smile, "Don't bother, Mom. I've already eaten on the way."

Mother Ji looked at her lovingly and said, "Then go back to your room and rest. I'll have someone bring hot water over. Take a good bath and relax."

"Thank you, mother!"

As soon as Ji Nuan stepped into the room, hot bath water was brought in.

As she soaked in the tub, her thoughts drifted back to the events of the past two days. Thinking it over, she felt more and more that Chen Yu's fate might be linked to her. If she hadn't implicated him, how could such a coincidence have happened? She had just beaten Wen Jida, and then the Chen family was immediately targeted.

Thinking of this, she suddenly remembered the letters Song Jinbai had given her to keep. They were all found in the bandit camp. Perhaps they could hold the key to the people who wanted to deal with the Chen family.

The water in the bathtub gradually cooled down. Ji Nuan stood up, dried her body carefully, changed into clean clothes, and then sat down at the table to take out the letter she had put into the space before.

Ji Nuan roughly counted the letters, and found they numbered as many as seventy or eighty. She opened them one by one, discovering they were all from different hands, all addressed to a single person, Li Chuhao. The content of each letter involved bribing Jinfengzhai to secretly deal with their respective rivals, or collaborating to rob a designated wealthy merchant.

The contents of the last letter were even more shocking: they had robbed and killed the Chen family caravan, kidnapped the Chen family father and son, and plotted to seize the Chen family's property. At the end of the letter, it was clearly signed "Xu Qing".

Xu Qing?

Ji Nuan read through the letters one by one and found that this name was not unfamiliar to her. More than ten letters before her were written by this Xu Qing to Li Chuhao.

From this we can see that Xu Qing is a cruel, greedy person with a long history of bad deeds, and his relationship with Li Chuhao is obviously unusual.

One letter instructs Li Chuhao to kidnap his cousin. The reason is simply because she refuses to marry Xu Qing, and Xu Qing is attempting to discredit her. Then, he pretends to be magnanimous and doesn't mind her loss of innocence, offering to take her as his concubine. This is truly insane!

After Ji Nuan finished reading all the letters and started to organize them, she was thinking about how to deal with the villain Xu Qing.

Not to mention that he ordered Jinfengzhai to rob Chen Yu and caused him to be covered in injuries, the despicable things he did were enough to make Ji Nuan indignant and determined to enforce justice.

Just as she was immersed in her thoughts, the sound of a child crying came from the backyard.

Ji Nuan quickly put the letters back into her space. These were solemnly entrusted to her by Song Jinbai for safekeeping. Each letter was a crucial piece of evidence and must not be lost in her hands.

She walked quickly to the backyard, which was already in a mess.

The five children of the family actually started fighting with Ji Feng's two sons, and the scene was in chaos.

The two sons of housekeeper Liu were holding Ji Feng's eldest son, Lu Dan'er, tightly, while Jin Dou'er was standing on tiptoe, trying desperately to snatch the golden lock hanging on Lu Dan'er's neck.

Donkey Egg was being pulled and couldn't run away, but he twisted his body flexibly, making it difficult for Jindou to take it off for a long time.

Jin Dou'er shouted angrily, "That's Yuange's gold lock. How can you just steal it?"

Donkey Egg, however, remained arrogant and replied without showing any weakness: "So what if I stole it? My grandma said he was just a servant, why should he wear such a fine thing?"

Ji Feng's youngest sons Niu Dan'er and Yin Dou'er were standing aside, frightened by the scene and burst into tears.

Yuange's eyes were red, and he stood there stubbornly without moving, as if he had suffered great injustice.

"This is a gift from my aunt to him, so it's his. You steal other people's things and think you're right?" Jindou'er was also furious. She grabbed Ludan'er's hair and successfully took the golden lock back.

When the two sons of Butler Liu saw that Jin Douer had already got the golden lock, they all let go of their hands.

When Donkey Egg saw that the golden lock was stolen, he immediately refused to do it. He sat down on the ground, kicked and cried loudly.

He cried and shouted, "He's just a bought servant, why did that wild girl Ji Nuan give him a gold locket! I'm the eldest grandson of the Ji family, and she didn't even buy one for me. I'm going to tell my grandma that your family is bullying me!"

Tsk! This behavior is exactly what he learned from his grandma!

Ji Nuan walked over slowly, leaned against the tree trunk with her arms crossed, and said calmly, "Then go back and tell your grandma."

Donkey Egg stopped kicking his legs, his face covered in tears, and looked up at Ji Nuan. Seeing that Ji Nuan had no intention of coaxing him, he jumped up from the ground, glared at Ji Nuan and shouted, "Wild girl!" Then he left Niu Egg and ran away crying.

"I've really spoiled you. You're just like your father, a bad seed!"

Ji's mother also came to the backyard cursing. Obviously, she had just heard Donkey'er, a junior, call Ji Nuan a wild girl, and she was extremely dissatisfied with the eldest wife's upbringing.

She coaxed the two crying children and went to the front to eat candy cakes.

Jin Dou'er quickly handed Yuange's gold lock to him and comforted him, "Yuange, don't be sad. Look, your gold lock has been returned."

"Thank you, Jindou'er!" Yuange looked at Jindou'er gratefully, then turned to Ji Nuan, "Miss, Yuange doesn't want Jinsuo anymore."

"Yuan Ge, don't listen to Donkey's nonsense. This is your golden locket. Your mother prepared it specially for you. Look, your name is engraved here." Ji Nuan touched Yuan Ge's head and pointed to the name on the back of the golden locket.

Yuange gently stroked her own name, and she could no longer remember what her mother looked like. Tears fell like broken strings.

Looking at this child who lost his mother just after learning to walk, Ji Nuan felt extremely distressed and held him in her arms to comfort him.