The reborn girl always wants to escape, but the abstinent marquis hugs her and coaxes her!

Chapter 34 A New Neighbor Arrives at the Xu Mansion

In the Wutong Courtyard, Luo Shu sat outside the courtyard watching the wind.

In the courtyard, Xu Rongrong was calmly drinking tea, while Liu Ning'er stood by with her hands hanging down. "I have already done as the young lady instructed. I hope the young lady will not break her promise."

Xu Rongrong put down the cup: "Are you negotiating with me?"

Liu Ning'er knelt down with a simple voice: "I dare not."

Xu Rongrong fiddled with the housekeeper's key, pondering in silence.

The young lady who used to be manipulated by others was now so unpredictable. This made Liu Ning'er feel very unfamiliar. She raised her head slightly, peeked at Xu Rongrong's face, which was difficult to tell whether she was happy or angry, and a chill ran down her spine.

She couldn't help but fall to the ground: "I have no one to rely on, please have mercy on me, young lady."

"Since I've agreed to your request, I will definitely save your life. Although the Madam has been deprived of her power as housekeeper, she hates you deeply. If she finds an opportunity, you will still be dead."

"I'm a slave."

"Survival isn't difficult. Just leave the Xu Mansion and go as far as possible. Now that I'm in charge of the Xu family, it's reasonable to replace a group of people without arousing suspicion. Letting you out is just a piece of cake."

"But I am a house-born child, and my indentures are in the hands of my mistress. Even if I wanted to leave, I couldn't leave the capital."

Xu Rongrong lightly threw down a piece of thin paper.

Liu Ning'er opened it and found her own indenture.

She kowtowed repeatedly in surprise and said, "Thank you, Miss. I will pack up and leave the capital immediately, and never come back!"

Xu Rongrong waved her hand, not wanting to get entangled with her any further. After Liu Ning'er left, Wen Yao and Luo Shu gathered around Xu Rongrong.

"Miss, Liu Ning'er embezzled a lot of money from the mansion before. Are you going to let her take it away like this?" Wen Yao asked.

Xu Rongrong nodded. "Don't push someone like Liu Ning'er into a corner. Otherwise, she'll bite you back. Even if it's not fatal, it will hurt for a while."

"But why would she listen to the young lady so obediently? If she hadn't gone to the main courtyard to make trouble today, I'm afraid the master would still be trying to smooth things over... Also, when the young lady asked me to take her, I still don't understand what she meant." Secretary Luo felt that he was just following the young lady's orders and telling Liu Ning'er that "the time has come", so how could it cause such a big commotion?

Xu Rongrong took a sip of tea and said, "Do you still remember when we were at Shaohua Temple, I asked your brother to do something for me?"

Luo Shu nodded.

"That's the cause that was planted back then," Xu Rongrong explained. "I asked your brother to tell her that once Xu Liu's plot to frame me is exposed, she'll inevitably shift the blame onto someone else, making her a ready-made scapegoat."

"I also told her not to pin her hopes on Wu Ping and the Changxing Marquisate. Even if she gave Wu Ping her innocence, it would mean nothing in his eyes. And the Changxing Marquisate would never ask the Xu family for a maidservant like her."

"I also told her that Wu Ping had committed such a shameful act in Shaohua Temple, a place the late Empress Dowager revered the most. His Majesty would be furious, and if that happened, the consequences would spread to the Changxing Marquisate. The Master and the Mistress would definitely sever all ties with him. Only her death would completely end that."

"If she wants to survive, she has no choice but to cooperate with me because I am the only one in the Xu Mansion who wants her to live and expose the truth for me."

"But Miss, aren't you afraid that both she and the others will be destroyed?" Luo Shu was puzzled.

Wen Yao figured it out at this moment: "No, she has saved so much private money, how could she bear to die? It is impossible for her to rise to prominence by relying on the son of Changxing Marquis, and it is a good choice for her to take the money and exchange it for freedom." "But this is too easy for her." Luo Shu said hatefully. Liu Ning'er aided and abetted the evil and almost harmed the young lady. How could such a person be allowed to live a good life?

Xu Rongrong smiled and tapped her nose. "Think about who we're dealing with. It's not Liu Ning'er, but she can help us achieve our goal. If that's the case, why are you so worried?"

After being enlightened by Xu Rongrong, Luo Shu stopped worrying about it.

Liu Ning'er packed up her belongings and left the house overnight. For the first time in seventeen years, she felt the taste of freedom.

Fearing that Xu Rongrong would go back on her word, she hired a donkey cart to leave the city overnight.

Shortly after leaving the city gate, the driver got off the car to urinate and never came back.

Liu Ning was getting impatient and just lifted the car curtain.

There was a flash of white light, and she was nailed to the wall of the carriage by the dagger.

In her pupils, which had not yet lost their luster, she saw a man in coarse linen clothes, playing with a jade button in his hand, walking further and further away...

Early in the morning, Xu Rongrong sat by the window, watching two maids picking grapes from the racks in the yard.

"Luo Shu, where is your jade button?" Wen Yao circled around Luo Shu.

Luo Shu then remembered: "It disappeared after returning from Shaohua Temple. I think the rope loosened and it fell somewhere."

"You little girl, that was a gift from the young lady, one for each of us, and you just threw it away like that?"

"I was so busy and urgent those two days that I really didn't have time to look for it."

Seeing the two maids arguing in the courtyard, Xu Rongrong came out and asked, "What happened?"

Wen Yao's eyes turned red with anger: "Luo Shu lost the jade buckle that the young lady gave us back then, and he... he didn't care!"

"Sister, I don't mind, but Shaohua Mountain is so vast I can't find it back." Xu Rongrong glanced over and saw a small, white jade buckle hanging around Wen Yao's waist. She remembered it was seven years ago. She bought it and gave it to the two girls when she first left the mansion.

She didn't have much money from her monthly allowance at that time, so naturally she couldn't buy anything good. The two jade buttons were not valuable, but in her previous life, both of them wore them until they died.

When Mu Yi brought back their ashes, he also brought the jade buckle back. She has been wearing it around her waist ever since then, and has never taken it off except for the one time when she lost it in the palace.

The jade button doesn’t leave many good memories, so just let it go.

She comforted Wen Yao with a few words, and the girl smiled again.

While the master and his two servants were chatting and laughing, Xu Chaoqian walked into the yard. Today was his day off, and he wanted to take Xu Rongrong to visit the new neighbors.

"Now that you're in charge of the household, you need to start learning the ways of the world. It just so happens that a family moved in next door yesterday. I heard that all their belongings are exquisite, and their accents are from the capital. I imagine they're not ordinary people. Come with me to visit them."

Xu Rongrong wanted to refuse, but after listening to Xu Chaoqian's description, she suddenly became curious.

The neighborhood where the Xu family lives is not prosperous, and the surrounding neighbors are all ordinary families. The official rank is not high, and the business is small. How could a rich and elegant person suddenly move in?

Moreover, that family's yard was only separated from his own by a wall, but he didn't hear any movement yesterday. How could it be so mysterious?

So she asked Wen Yao to open the warehouse, select some exquisite ornaments as gifts, and then followed Xu Chaoqian.

Because they had just moved in, there was no plaque hanging on the door of the mansion yet.

Xu Chaoqian's servant went to knock on the door, and soon someone came to answer it.

The door opened, and a familiar face smiled.

If this isn’t Mu Yi, the chief secretary of Weiyuan Marquis’ Mansion, then who else could it be?

Before Xu Chaoqian could react, Xu Rongrong frowned slightly and subconsciously wanted to walk away.

But the next second, a tall man in a green shirt came out from the corner and met her eyes.