"Miss." It was the maid from the third branch who reacted quickly.

One person pulled Yu Ruowei up, while the other carried Yu Ningyao away.

Yu Ruowei was pulled out in time, but her upper body got wet and she sneezed several times. After recovering, she started crying loudly.

Cui Ruixin was both angry and annoyed. She glared at Chunying and said, "I asked you to take care of Miss, and this is how you take care of her?"

"This servant deserves to die, this servant deserves to die!" Chunying hurriedly slapped herself in the face to admit her mistake.

Cui Ruixin's attempt to steal a chicken backfired, and she was so angry that she quickly took her daughter back to the yard to change her clothes.

After such an incident, Emerald and Agate dared not let their young master and young lady continue fishing, and quickly led them back to their house.

Along the way, Yu Ziying happily held Yu Ningyao's hand and made her call him "brother".

It wasn't until Yu Ningyao impatiently replied with "Brother," that he unexpectedly became even more enthusiastic.

He insisted on making her call him "brother" more than a dozen times before he finally ran away, satisfied.

He ran incredibly fast, like an arrow released from a bow.

The maid who was taking care of him quickly followed, afraid that he would fall.

Yu Ziying ran out of the third house's courtyard and met her older brother, Yu Ziheng, who had just returned from school.

"Why are you running so fast? Be careful not to fall." Yu Ziheng looked at his reckless younger brother and quickly reached out to stop him.

"Fourth Brother, how did you know that Yaoyao called me brother?" Yu Ziying raised her chin, looking proud.

Yu Ziheng: ...

He didn't want to talk to his silly younger brother.

After showing off, Yu Ziying ran to her second brother's courtyard.

Yu Zizong is playing chess with himself.

He ran so fast that he knocked over the chessboard.

Yu Zizong frowned, but did not scold him. He simply rearranged the chess pieces in silence.

Yu Ziying snorted twice and said, "I'm sorry, Second Brother, I didn't mean to."

"It's alright. Are you alright?" Yu Zizong shook his head.

He moved the table that had been knocked askew back to its original position, and only then did his furrowed brows relax.

"Oh my, how did you know Yaoyao called me brother?" Yu Ziying chuckled.

Yu Zicong: ...

He glanced at his younger brother, saw the smug smile on his silly brother's face, and uttered two words.

"childish."

"You're just jealous of me. I'm not talking to you anymore, I'm going to go talk to my older brother and the others." Yu Ziying made a face at him and ran off towards the courtyard of the main house.

Yu Zizong stared at the black and white chess pieces on the chessboard, thought for a moment, then got up and went to his mother's courtyard.

When they arrived at the gate of their mother's courtyard, they happened to see Yu Ziheng teaching his younger sister to call him "brother".

"Fourth Brother," Yu Zizong greeted his eldest brother.

Yu Ziheng stood up, touched the tip of his nose, pretended nothing had happened, and nodded: "You're here too?"

"Mm." Yu Zizong nodded.

"Ziying said that my little sister can call me brother now, so I came to see."

Yu Ningyao was just annoyed by Yu Ziying, and was afraid that if she called them "brother" again, they would make her keep calling them "brother" like Yu Ziying did.

I simply closed my eyes and pretended to be asleep.

"The second young lady is asleep. Why don't the two young masters go back to the courtyard to rest first?" Liuli, the maid who was taking care of Yu Ningyao, said with a smile.

Yu Ziheng nodded and left.

Yu Zizong, however, remained seated, staring at Yu Ningyao: "No need, I'll wait for my little sister to wake up."

He stared at Yu Ningyao, who was pretending to be asleep, and felt a little uncomfortable looking at her asymmetrical bangs. He gently reached out and started to fiddle with them.

"Hey, Sixth Young Master, don't wake Miss up." Liuli lowered her voice.

"No." He moved very gently, his breathing becoming faint.

The gentler his movements, the more ticklish Yu Ningyao became, and she couldn't help but open her eyes.

Eyes facing each other.

Yu Ningyao gave an awkward smile.

Yu Zizong reached out and poked her right cheek, creating a symmetrical dimple, before saying with satisfaction, "Call me brother."

"Brother." Yu Ningyao called out resignedly.

Yu Zizong left satisfied.

Shen Jinzhu couldn't help but smile as she watched the siblings interact.

At this moment, Qiu Chan, the maid of the eldest son's wife, arrived again.

Upon seeing her, Shen Jinzhu's smile vanished instantly.

"Greetings, Third Madam. After the eldest young lady fell into the water, she caught a chill, and Madam sent me to ask you for some medicine to dispel the cold," Qiu Chan said without any politeness.

"What bad luck, I've run out of supplies. You should ask your sister-in-law to go to Huichuntang to fetch a doctor," Shen Jinzhu said calmly.

"Yes." Having been turned away, Qiu Chan had no choice but to leave awkwardly.

In the past, whenever the eldest branch of the family came to ask the third branch for something, they always left with a full load. This time, the third wife actually refused her.

Agate, standing to the side, was puzzled. After Qiu Chan left, she asked in a low voice, "Madam, isn't there still a bottle of that cold-dispelling pill from last time?"

Emerald said with dissatisfaction, "I saw it clearly earlier. It was Chunying who deliberately made the eldest young lady bump into our second young lady. If the second young lady hadn't happened to be looking for her brother, it would probably have been our young lady who fell into the water. And she still has the nerve to come to the madam for medicine to dispel the cold, I spit on her."

"And look at her attitude. She just takes whatever she wants, as if we're running a pharmacy. She's not polite at all."

"Sigh, in the end, it's because of my extravagant spending over the years that I've fostered their ambitions," Shen Jinzhu sighed.

She was shocked when she heard from Emerald that Chunying had deliberately sent Yu Ruowei to bump into Yu Ningyao.

Chunying was just a maid; how could she dare to do this without her master's permission?

All of this must have been done by my sister-in-law.

But why is it that the elder sister-in-law can't tolerate Yaoyao?

Yaoyao is just a baby who has just turned one year old.

But after thinking about it carefully, she could also figure out the crux of the problem.

It was because she was too lenient that the first wife became greedy.

“Madam, you are just too kind-hearted,” Emerald couldn’t help but chime in.

"Over the years, the eldest son's family has come here and plundered so much. What you did today is truly gratifying. You refused to give it to them, and it's good that you're angry to death."

Upon hearing this, Shen Jinzhu interrupted her, saying, "Alright, once you leave this room, keep all these words to yourself."

"Yes." The two bowed and did not continue speaking.

Living under the same roof, Shen Jinzhu didn't want to have a direct conflict with her sister-in-law, who was the matriarch of the household. Therefore, she could only instruct her maid: "From now on, keep a close eye on the second young lady and don't let anyone from the eldest branch of the family have any contact with her."

……

Qiu Chan returned empty-handed.

Cui Ruixin was furious: "She wouldn't even give me a dose of medicine to dispel the cold?"

"The Third Madam said she's gone." Qiu Chan lowered her head.

Cui Ruixin ground her back teeth in anger.

The small pharmacy in the third room clearly has a lot of medicine on hand, just in case the child gets sick in the middle of the night and there's no time to find a doctor.

Now they're telling her it's gone.

It's obvious they deliberately didn't want to give it to her.

Sure enough, nothing good ever came of that wild girl's arrival.

We still have to kick her out of the manor.

But now that the third son and his wife are both protecting her, where should they start?

After much deliberation, Cui Rui set her sights on the two elders of the Marquis's mansion.

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