Noble Lady

Just when Qiuhua thought they were about to go home, Du Jingyuan came over.

After receiving Xue Chenyu's instructions, she quickly got out of the car.

"Is your girl in the car?"

Qiu Hua asked back, "Miss Du, have you made up your mind?"

Nonsense? Haven't you decided to come over?

Du Jingyuan rolled her eyes without any hesitation and directly took out the thing that she had been refused at the pawn shop from her arms.

It was wrapped in a piece of red cloth, in a long strip, but only about the length of two palms.

However, Du Jingyuan did not unveil the red cloth in the street. She glanced at Qiuhua and got into the carriage.

in the car.

Du Jingyuan and Xue Chenyu looked at each other and rolled their eyes at the same time.

Yuzhu almost laughed out loud.

Why do the girl and Miss Du still have such childish tempers?

"Take a look." Du Jingyuan handed the thing over in a stiff tone.

Xue Chenyu lifted the red cloth. Although she had already guessed it in her heart, she was still surprised to see the exquisite dagger wrapped in the red cloth!

It really is this dagger!

She loved this dagger so much that after seeing it for the first time, she wanted to have an identical one.

However, because the dagger was too valuable and the craftsmanship was too advanced, this idea was never realized.

When she saw Du Jingyuan just now, she was thinking that although the conditions at the general's mansion were not as good as before because General Du had retired.

But recently, there has been no news of any major incident in the general's mansion that requires pawning valuables to meet the emergency.

She guessed that something had happened to Du Jingyuan and she had to sell things to fill the hole.

But the Du family is not like their Wu'an Marquis Mansion. Madam Du and Old Madam Du both prefer male heirs.

The only things of value around Du Jingyuan, apart from her several sets of headdresses that she used to show off, were her clothes.

But those were necessities for her to go out, and she couldn't pawn them.

The only thing she could exchange for money was the dagger that the late emperor had given to General Du, and that General Du had given to her.

Of course, after a moment's thought, Xue Chenyu curled her lips and said, "I said you couldn't come up with anything else of value."

"Xue, Chen, Yu! Don't be so ungrateful!" Du Jingyuan gritted her teeth in hatred!

Xue Chenyu held up her cheek and smiled at her, "I just like seeing you so angry and frustrated but unable to do anything to me. How about it? Are you happy?"

They didn't treat each other well.

But after all, it was Du Jingyuan who needed help, and he was so angry that he gritted his teeth but there was nothing he could do about her.

Because Xue Chenyu may be her last resort.

"Like you said, I don't have anything valuable on me. Just this dagger, how much do you think it's worth?"

Du Jingyuan said this in a tough tone, and then added weakly, "...If possible, I don't want money."

"Then what do you want?" Xue Chenyu said slowly, "As long as it's not too much, I can satisfy you."

Du Jingyuan's face darkened. "Who's asking for such a high price? Am I that kind of person?"

"I'm not afraid to tell you the truth. I broke something that the Ninth Princess had given me. If I can't compensate her, I can only tell the truth to my family and ask them to take care of the matter."

"Of course, the condition is that I must obey my family's arrangements and marry a poor scholar."

The Ninth Princess? She broke the gift from the Emperor?

Xue Chenyu was stunned for a moment, but was still heartbroken by the sentence "obeying family arrangements and marrying a poor scholar".

"The situation is like this now, so my parents must have their own reasons for making this arrangement."

Xue Chenyu herself is the descendant of a military general and married into a family of noble character that had fallen on hard times, so she has a say in such matters.

Du Jingyuan sneered, "Of course their arrangement was my own intention. Isn't it just to pave the way for my brother?"

Xue Chenyu couldn't refute this. According to the Du family's tradition, they were indeed capable of doing such a thing.

"Your parents chose a scholar for you. Perhaps they were paving the way for your brother, but maybe they also wanted you to have a better future."

After a pause, he said, "Of course, the intention is good, but the result may not be good."

These words sound a bit sad.

Du Jingyuan immediately became interested. "From what you said, it seems that you married poorly?"

Xue Chenyu placed the dagger on the small table and sneered.

"I don't even bother to ask who you're going to marry, but you're asking how I'm doing? Why, even if I'm not doing well, can it be worse than you?"

At least she had money.

Xue, Chen, Yu!

Du Jingyuan wanted to curse but she held it back!

"Let's get down to business. How much do you want to pay for this dagger?"

Du Jingyuan rolled her eyes and said, "If you can help me get the Ninth Princess's thing, I'll give you the dagger and I can add a little money."

As long as I can avoid getting married and not be manipulated by my family, there is nothing I can't give up, even this dagger.

"Didn't you say you broke something that was a gift from the Emperor? Where can I get something that was a gift from the Emperor?"

Money is the simplest thing for her.

The things bestowed by the Emperor are the trouble.

Hear the words.

Du Jingyuan's face fell again.

Although she was born into a general's family, she inherited her father's good looks, with fair and clean complexion, and looked very pretty.

If not for this, I wouldn't have been deceived by her when I was a child, this liar.

Xue Chenyu thought about it and despised herself for being a person who only cared about appearances since she was a child and was so easily deceived.

"Xue Chenyu, please help me this time because we've known each other since childhood. I'm really at my wit's end."

Du Jingyuan suddenly knelt down solemnly in front of her and said, "I don't want to marry someone I've never even met in such a muddled way."

"You get up first and then talk."

At this moment, Xue Chenyu felt compassion.

Or rather, she felt pity for Du Jingyuan when she saw her appearing alone on the street.

In her previous life, she had no contact with Du Jingyuan before she got married, and she only heard about her later when someone mentioned her by chance.

It is said that the eldest daughter of General Du's family followed her family's arrangement and married a teacher at the Imperial College.

But after marriage, she was unwilling to be lonely and had an affair with someone else. She was caught in the act and later ended her life hastily with a white silk thread.

At that time, she had been married for more than a year.

At that moment, all her dissatisfaction with Du Jingyuan disappeared.

After all, they have been playmates since childhood and there is no deep hatred between them.

Those minor conflicts between them are insignificant matters compared to matters of life and death.

Now when he saw her again, Xue Chenyu felt a little reluctant.

"Du Jingyuan, can I ask you who your family arranged for you?"

"You wouldn't recognize him even if I told you." Du Jingyuan said with disdain, but still gave the man's name, "Chen Mingxuan, the top Jinshi in this year's imperial examination and the youngest instructor in the Imperial College."

"It's him?!"

Du Jingyuan jumped up, "Do you recognize him?"

After saying this, without waiting for Xue Chenyu to speak, he said, "Yes, the man you married is a man of integrity, and he is also a scholar. Perhaps there is some kind of interaction between them?"

"Xue Chenyu, do you know his background?" Then he continued to talk to himself, "I'm not getting married, why would I want to know his background?"

She spoke at length, and Xue Chenyu sighed helplessly, "Well, if there wasn't another instructor with the same name in the Imperial College, then the He family really had no dealings with him."

Du Jingyuan: Do you want to listen to what you are saying?