Reborn, I was pursued by the Prince of the Broken Sleeves

Su Manman waved her hand. "It's only a matter of time before we meet Madam Qian. She's just a little old lady, what's there to be afraid of? Don't worry."

After thinking for a moment, she stood up and said, "Qingluan, send the painting of Hundred Longevity to Yixiang Garden."

"Just say I'm sick and feeling unwell, so it's not convenient for me to visit you in person. I'll definitely go and pay my respects to Grandmother later."

She didn't want to engage in perfunctory pleasantries, but she still had to consider some etiquette.

"Yes!" Qingluan agreed, opened the box, found the scroll, and carried it to Yixiangyuan.

She did not see Old Madam Qian, but handed the things directly to Nanny Lan, and then conveyed the girl's words word for word, and left with a cold face.

Old Madam Qian was waiting for Su Manman to come over, intending to leave her out for a bit to vent her anger.

Who would have thought that she would send a maid with a useless scroll.

Old Madam Qian was so angry that she threw the paper roll to the ground.

Just when I had no place to vent my anger, Xinghua brought a tray, and from the soup bowl on the plate, wisps of mouth-watering aroma of broth emerged.

"Madam, have some pigeon soup to replenish your body!" She handed over the soup bowl in a flattering manner.

"What are you replenishing?"

The old lady got angry and overturned the soup bowl, causing the boiling pigeon soup to spill out.

Overnight, the back of Xinghua's hand turned red. The pain made her eyes tear up and her hands tremble, but she dared not cry out in pain.

"You're so clumsy, why don't you clean up!" Nanny Lan gave her a look.

Xinghua lowered her head in a hurry, not caring about the pain on the back of her hand, picked up the broken pieces, and left in a hurry.

Ever since she entered the Su Mansion and caught the old lady's eye, she had never been treated like this.

Xinghua felt very aggrieved and kept crying all the way.

In the afternoon, Taohong happily returned to Cuixiangyuan with a basket.

She and Qingluan were busy in the small kitchen for a while, and the three of them finally had their first meal after returning home.

After dinner, Su Manman leaned on the couch in front of the window, feeling very sleepy.

The heart-protecting mirror can suppress toxins. She always carries it with her, and sometimes she forgets that there is poison in her body.

As soon as the heart-protecting mirror leaves the body, the toxins lurking in the body will come out.

In addition, she had been traveling for days and then had to receive acupuncture for a long time after returning, which made her whole body sore and she always wanted to sleep.

Taohong handed over a cup of ginseng tea, "Miss, have some."

She took the water and took a sip. She raised her eyes, seeing that he was still standing there, and smiled faintly, "Why, do you have some gossip to talk about?"

Taohong smiled with her eyebrows curved, "Nothing can be hidden from the girl."

"When I returned home, I wandered around and found out some information."

Taohong went out for some shopping and came back home with a bag of melon seeds. She walked around the entire Su Mansion, greeted everyone she met, chatted with them, and shared the melon seeds with them.

The Su Mansion was large, and he didn’t even know many of the maids and servants in the various courtyards.

She just said that she had just arrived and others didn't know that she was a grown woman. Some people were not careful with their mouths and asked her to get some information out of them.

"Xinghua went back very angry, but was turned away.

"For dinner, I specially cooked the old lady's favorite pigeon soup, but Old Lady Qian knocked the bowl over and burned her hand."

"Bah! Serves you right! No matter how favored a maid is, she still dares to act so presumptuously in front of a young lady."

Taohong described the story vividly, and finally exclaimed, "Girl, it seems that the old lady is biased towards you."

Su Manman took a sip of the ginseng soup and shook her head with a smile.

How could Madam Qian be biased towards her?

Her grandmother was a profit-seeking person all her life, and Su Tinggui was exactly like her.

They are just holding back now because they can't figure out her true strength. That's why they dare not act rashly.

Only when he couldn't help it would he vent his anger on the apricot blossoms.

That's it!

As long as she kept quiet, she didn't want to provoke her.

After drinking a bowl of ginseng soup, she put down the bowl and didn't want to go to sleep in the other room. She spread the bedding on the soft couch in her mother's room, crawled into the quilt, and fell asleep.

She was so sleepy.

These days, we have been traveling for days, sleeping in the open air, and suffering a lot.

But it’s good, as long as mom is here, home is here.

She was very happy that she could save her mother.

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At night, the moon was high in the sky, and the prison of Dali Temple was dark, damp, and smelled fishy.

On the haystack on the ground, Aunt Liu and a group of people gathered together, their eyes full of panic.

In my ears were the sad pleas of unknown prisoners, their painful groans, and the crisp sound of shackles swinging.

After they were interrogated by Lord Cao during the day, no one told them how to deal with them, and they were kept in custody.

Aunt Liu was in a panic. She was surrounded by maids and old women in the center. She didn't care about the dirt and stench and sat down on a pile of hay.

For dinner, the jailer brought a few black-faced steamed buns and half a bowl of brown rice porridge in a black porcelain bowl.

How could such crude food be acceptable to her?

Aunt Liu was so angry that she overturned the rice bowl, and no one in the group could eat a bite.

At night, the food spilled on the ground attracted hungry mice to rush over and grab the food.

Some mice were fighting over the food and started squeaking and biting each other, which frightened Aunt Liu so much that she screamed.

Since she was a child, she has been most afraid of mice.

Now she has to live in the same room with mice, which is almost killing her.

She banged on the cell door desperately, shouting, "I'm innocent. I didn't poison anyone. Let me out!"

Aunt Liu

Aunt Liu

The maids and servants were so frightened that they stopped her from going crazy.

Nanny Li squatted in a corner, watching indifferently.

What are these rats!

Cuixiangyuan is located in a remote area and was originally a deserted courtyard. Ever since the lady fell ill, the master was unhappy and, at the instigation of Concubine Liu, let her move here alone.

When they first went there, the yard was full of wild mice, and the stove in the small kitchen was piled with mouse droppings.

When I slept at night, mice on the beams would fight and squeak from time to time.

When I lifted the quilt on the bed, the bedbugs underneath ran around everywhere.

My wife is ill and needs to be carefully taken care of everywhere. How can she recover in such an environment?

She was just an old slave and couldn't say anything.

The lady was soft-hearted and didn't want to talk to the master, so she asked her to go to Aunt Liu to withdraw some money to buy rat and insecticide, and then hire someone to clean up the yard to prevent rats and insects from breeding.

Unexpectedly, Aunt Liu did not agree to this small request.

She clearly remembered covering her nose with a handkerchief and laughing sweetly, "That yard was deserted, no one lived there, so rats and insects took over first. Now that someone lives there, with the presence of people, those rats and insects are afraid and naturally don't dare to come anymore."

She was unwilling to pay even a few copper coins.

Finally, the lady had no choice but to take off her hairpins and sell them outside. She exchanged the money for silver and bought all the daily necessities.

The poison bowl was bought by Nanny Zhang during this opportunity.

"What are you making so much noise for!" The jailer whipped the iron bars of the prison, making a sharp sound. "Anyone who makes any more noise will be locked up in a small dark cell."

When she heard that she was locked up in a small dark room, Aunt Liu's crying stopped abruptly. She grabbed the hand of the maid beside her and dared not say a word.

As soon as the jailer left, Concubine Liu felt more and more aggrieved. She could not help but rush forward and yell at Aunt Zhang next door through the prison bars: "You lowly slave, did you embezzle Lin's money to buy the poison bowl and make me suffer with you?"

Aunt Zhang had been huddled in the corner. When she heard her scolding, she slowly raised her head and gave her a deep look: "Isn't it what Auntie wanted that Lin died of illness?"

"I want..." Aunt Liu wanted to refute, but the words were on the tip of her tongue and she was powerless to refute.

Indeed, this was all she wanted.

The master is her childhood sweetheart. They grew up together and have a deep relationship.

If Lin hadn't gotten involved, she would be the mistress of the Su Mansion now.

"I didn't ask you to poison Lin." Aunt Liu spoke softly, emphasizing.

"This old servant did not intend to poison Madam." Nanny Zhang smiled bitterly and murmured, "Unfortunately, this old servant has no choice. There is nothing she can do."

The moon is setting in the west, and the shadows of the trees are swaying on the window, telling a secret unknown to the public.

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