Spring Drunk Chang'an

Aunt Lai called out softly, and a little maid in a peach-pink bodice walked in quickly from outside and glanced at Liu Qingru carefully.

She leaned forward in silence.

Aunt Lai saw this and said, "Tell me, there's no need to hide what's going on here from the young lady."

Liu Qingru's eyes were filled with tears and she was extremely moved.

"As you command," Xiaohong reported softly, "Auntie, it's done. My brother has already followed your instructions and secretly placed 'that thing' into the small Buddhist temple in Liu Laishun's house."

“They didn’t find out.”

"That's good." Aunt Lai was ecstatic. "Once this is done, I will definitely reward you handsomely."

Liu Qingru tilted her head, curious and puzzled, "Auntie, what did you put in Liu Changan's house? Is it something that can help me get revenge? What will happen to them?"

"Will my mother beat them with a stick and sell Liu Changan out of the house?"

"Yes, yes, Miss. As long as it's accomplished, not only Liu Changan, but their whole family will suffer. Auntie will, will..." Auntie Lai paused and lowered her eyes, stroking Liu Qingru's black hair with half pity and half viciousness.

She thought to herself: Auntie will remove all the obstacles in front of you.

Liu Chang'an was unlucky. She had such a face, and Liu Laishun picked her up from the Yan River. No matter whether she was the child or not, she had to die.

You can't blame her for being cruel.

Aunt Lai murmured, "My dearest daughter, I am wholeheartedly devoted to you, and it's all for your future."

Upon hearing this, Liu Qingru lowered her head, rolled her eyes, and said nothing.

-

Chunliyuan.

Xiao Chuo sat upright behind the sandalwood table, her eyes cold and indifferent.

"...Your Highness, Miss Chang'an has been kept by Madam Song. Before I left, she said to me..."

Nanny Liu knelt down and reported, "...The Duke and Prince of Yan are colluding..."

Xiao Chuo's eyebrows remained unchanged, and a cold mockery appeared on her thin lips. "My uncle is a man of many talents and good at scheming."

"The King of Yan and him are like snakes and rats in the same nest."

Nanny Liu kowtowed deeply without saying a word.

Xiao Chuo's long, bony fingers tapped lightly on the table. After a moment, she said, "An Jiu, check Liu Chang'an's background. How could she, a humble servant, get such information?"

"Yes!" A figure responded from the corner of the study and disappeared in an instant.

Xiao Chuo pondered and waved his hand. "You can leave now."

"Yes." Nanny Liu lowered her head and knelt down respectfully.

Xiao Chuo lowered her head, her long eyelashes covering her cold eyes. After a while, she reached out and opened the secret compartment on the table. She took out a scroll and stroked it gently.

Slowly unfold.

In the ink painting of snow-covered ground and dead trees, a girl of four or five years old, wearing a cloak and two small pigtails, is twisting a branch of plum blossoms and laughing wildly.

She had a chubby oval face, willow-shaped eyebrows, almond-shaped eyes, and a rouge-like mole under her lips that looked as if she had been painted with rouge.

Like plum heart.

"Liu Changan, you're lucky, you look so much like her..."

Xiao Chuo closed the scroll and his handsome face turned cold.

-

In the back room of the main courtyard, Liu Changan endured the pain and applied medicine to himself. Guiyuan came running in with a little girl of seven or eight years old wearing a short gray cloth coat.

"Sister Chang'an, I brought Liu Sanxi here."

She shouted happily.

Liu Changan's heart skipped a beat, and she turned around suddenly to see a girl with a big head, a small body, thin eyebrows and eyes, who looked like a little mouse. She gave her a 'toothless' smile.

That was her third sister Liu Sanxi.

In her memory, Sanxi's face was chapped, his ten finger joints were red and swollen, he had frostbite, and yellow pus was oozing out. Whenever he saw her, he had to force himself to be strong for fear that she would worry.

It’s nothing like now, smiling so innocently.

"Good boy, thank you." Liu Changan held back her tears and grabbed two more handfuls of candied dates for Guiyuan.

"I'm supposed to run errands for the sisters. Even if Zao'er wasn't given to me, I should still do it. What's more, my sisters gave me 'wages'." Guiyuan took it with a smile, "If Sister Chang'an needs me in the future, just call me directly."

"I'm leaving first."

She bent her knees very tactfully, turned around and ran away.

Leave the house to the two sisters.

"Big sister, what did you ask me to do? You..." Liu Sanxi ran over curiously, and when he saw the bandages on Liu Changan's body, he became anxious. "What's wrong with your hand? There are also wounds on your face. What happened? Who bullied you?"

"I'm going to tell Dad and Mom!"

"Let mother go find them."

Her eyes widened and she turned around to run out and complain.

"Wait!" Liu Changan quickly called her.

Liu Sanxi turned around, his little face full of anger.

"Sanxi, big sister is fine. These are just minor injuries. I will explain to my parents later." Liu Changan said softly and waved to her, "Big sister asked you to come here because she has something for you to do."

"What could be more important than you being injured like this?" Liu Sanxi clenched his little fists and looked at his elder sister covered in scars. He felt distressed and angry, and his little eyes turned red.

"Why is your hand wrapped like this? Does it hurt?"

The fingers are connected to the heart, so how can it not hurt if the nails are turned out at the roots?

But thinking back to a past life, when Xiao Sanxi was washing clothes in winter, her little finger froze off while washing...

Liu Changan held back his tears, touched his sister's little dark face with his wrapped hands, and said the same words he said to his sister at that time.

"Don't worry, Sanxi, it doesn't hurt!"

——Don’t worry, big sister, Sanxi doesn’t hurt!

"It just looks scary from the outside, I'm fine."

——It’s so cold that I don’t even feel my fingers frozen off. The manager gave me three days off, so I’m fine.

"Sanxi, my eldest sister is looking for something in the mansion. Go back home and check the small Buddhist shrine that mother worships. Check it inside and out, especially behind the Buddha statue and under the Buddha seat. Look carefully and bring back whatever you find."

"Do you understand?"

Liu Ai gave birth to Liu Sanxi prematurely in July. In order to bless the child, she invited a Buddha statue into the courtyard and worshipped it day and night.

"Big sister, is anyone trying to harm our family?" Liu Sanxi had also grown up listening to the infighting in the mansion. He was smart and reacted immediately, "I'll be back right away."

"Wait for me."

After saying that, without wasting a moment, he turned and ran away.

Liu Chang'an sat on the bed, waiting anxiously. About an hour later, Liu Sanxi came running back with his face covered in dust. After entering the room, he quickly closed the door.

Then she took out a small bag from her arms.

Liu Changan's gaze fell on it, and he reached out to pick up the dusty cloth bag with trembling hands.

In her previous life, it was the things in here that caused her adoptive parents to be beaten half to death and sold to the northwest to dig coal, and their life or death was unknown.

"Sister, I dug three feet into the ground of the small Buddhist temple and turned out all the loess. This, this was dug out from the ground under the altar. Yes, yes..."

Liu Sanxi's voice trembled and his face turned pale.

Is it a jade Buddha?

The rumor in the mansion in her previous life was that her adoptive parents stole the Song family’s jade Buddha worth four thousand taels!

Liu Changan untied the small bag with difficulty and lowered his eyes to look.

The almond-shaped eyes suddenly opened wide.

In her palm lay a rag doll with her birth date written on it and pierced with fine needles.