Zhou Zhi was no fool. After comparing the two broken swords, he quickly discovered the difference.

The broken sword that the master had just given him was broken in front of him using his internal force, so some uneven marks could be clearly seen on the cross section. However, the section that Miss Jiang had broken using her internal force had a smooth and even cross section, as if it had been cut with a sharper blade.

"This...Miss Jiang didn't have any weapons in her hands just now, right?"

He had clearly been watching from the side, but now he was a little uncertain.

Pei Zhanzhou didn't say anything, but just looked at the two obviously different broken swords in his hands, his eyes becoming darker.

With such strength, if someone was sent to assassinate him, she would have many opportunities to do it.

But not only did she not kill him, she also saved him once in Zhenxiu Pavilion, and even told him the truth about Jianzhou's case, revealing Su Huanyu's true face.

It seems that she doesn't want to take his life, so what is her real purpose?

As for the people she was talking about who were after him...

Pei Zhanzhou didn't believe it at all!

The woman was clever and cunning, full of mystery, and could say anything.

But no matter what her purpose is, if she keeps him by her side and watches him, she will always be able to find out something.

For some reason, Pei Zhanzhou suddenly thought of what his subordinates had reported about her actions in the Prime Minister's Mansion.

It's fun to keep such a person around!

"A chirp!"

Jiang Wansang rubbed his nose, feeling like someone was talking about him.

No need to think, it must be the suspicious villain Pei Zhanzhou.

That guy might be thinking about how to find out the suspicious points about himself right now!

Jiang Wansang was not panicked at all.

Cooperation does not necessarily require complete trust in each other. As long as their goals are the same, she doesn't mind Pei Zhanzhou checking.

If he could find out, she would call him dad!

Jiang Wansang returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion in a good mood and met many servants on the way.

Although these people were not as respectful and fawning to her as they were to other masters, they would not ignore or be perfunctory to her as before, and would even try to trip her up occasionally.

Jiang Wansang didn't care much and walked briskly back to Tingsang Pavilion. However, when he saw Zheliu sitting in the yard with red eyes, the smile on his face turned cold.

When Zheliu saw her, he immediately stood up, wiped his tears, and ran forward with a smile on his face, "Miss, you're back."

After enduring humiliation in the Prime Minister's Mansion for so many years, she and the young lady were used to showing their best side to each other every time, so her first reaction was to keep her grievances to herself.

But Jiang Wansang stared at her slightly messy hair and the red marks on her face, his voice and expression a little cold, "Who did it?"

On the night when the ancestral hall was on fire, she knew that Zheliu was beaten with a fire poker by the kitchen maid in order to bring her food. The next day, she went to the kitchen in person to avenge Zheliu and broke one of the maid's hands.

After this matter spread among the servants in the mansion, they would take a detour when they saw Zhe Liu. Also, because Meng Lianshu had people send a lot of good things to Tingsang Pavilion, they were too busy trying to curry favor with Zhe Liu, so who would dare to fight her?

Zheliu was used to swallowing all her grievances, especially when facing her own young lady. She didn't want her to be unhappy because of her own affairs, so she subconsciously wanted to shake her head and say it was okay.

But when she met Jiang Wansang's cold expression, she suddenly remembered what the young lady had said after she had helped her clean up the kitchen maid that day: "If you're bullied, fight back. My people don't swallow their grievances!"

Zhe Liu suddenly didn't want to endure it anymore, and her cute face was full of grievances, "Miss, someone... someone stole something and hit me..."

She told the story in a tearful voice.

It turned out that after she separated from Jiang Wansang, she bought some small daily necessities on the street and went straight back to Tingsang Pavilion.

As a result, when she passed by the warehouse, she found that the lock on the door was missing.

In the past, even if she heard that Sang Ge’s warehouse was empty, Zhe Liu would lock it. Now that so many good things had just been carried in, she would definitely not forget to lock it, so her first reaction was that a thief had broken in.

When she carefully pushed open the door of the warehouse, she saw a sneaky figure putting something into his arms.

She immediately rushed forward to stop him, but she didn't expect that the other party not only ran away with the things, but also hit her in the chaos.

Jiang Wansang breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that apart from being beaten, she had not suffered any other bullying.

But the theft happened to her. It seemed that what she heard Sang Ge do that night was not deeply rooted in people's minds!

Jiang Wansang reached out and pinched Zhe Liu's aggrieved face, "Do you know who stole it?"

Zhe Liu shook his head. "She was hiding her face, so I didn't see her. But after I caught up with her, I saw her go into the servants' quarters."

Mentioning this, she blamed herself very much. "I really saw her run in with my own eyes, but I asked several people who were in the room at the time, and they all said they didn't see it and that I was mistaken."

The situation at that time was definitely not as simple as the servants accusing her of making a mistake. If she had not walked quickly, those people would have attacked her directly.

She didn't say the rest of the words because she was afraid that her young lady would worry, but Jiang Wansang was not stupid and she could guess that she was hiding some of the grievances she had suffered.

Jiang Wansang didn't expose it, but she had a rough idea in her heart.

There is certainly more than one maid named Zheliu in the huge Tingsang Pavilion, but Zheliu is the only one who truly regards her as her master.

Those servants said they didn’t see anything. Either they were covering up for the perpetrator, or they were all thieves!

Jiang Wansang's eyes moved slightly, and she asked some more detailed questions, probably already having a guess in her mind.

Just at this moment, Lin Tong came back after finishing the task she had assigned him and was about to report.

Jiang Wansang waved her hands, "No hurry, first help me clean up the termites in Tingsang Pavilion..."

Soon, she explained clearly what Lin Tong and Zhe Liu needed to do, and then she moved a chair and sat in the middle of the yard.

Everyone in the Prime Minister's Mansion knew that Lin Tong was the man assigned by Master Pei to the eldest lady, so when Lin Tong personally asked the housekeeper for some strong servants, the housekeeper agreed without hesitation and personally took him to choose.

In comparison, breaking willows is much more difficult.

She went to the servants' room and asked everyone to gather in the yard, saying that this was the young lady's order.

Although these servants were no longer as sarcastic and mocking to her as before, they still ignored her.

Especially in the servants' room where she had just entered to catch the thief, the maids inside simply treated her as air.

Zhe Liu wanted to say something else, but thinking of the young lady's instructions, he swallowed the words and turned back to make a pot of tea and brought it to Jiang Wansang in the yard.

I don't know how long it took before a few servants came to the yard one after another.

Although they didn't say anything, the way they looked at Jiang Wansang showed no respect at all, and even a hint of impatience.

It was not until Lin Tong showed up with a dozen strong servants holding long sticks that those people finally became well-behaved. Even the other servants who had been dragging their feet and had not appeared came out one after another.

Seeing this, Jiang Wansang's lips curled up into a cold smile. "Lin Tong, everyone who came after you will be punished with a stick."

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