An ugly girl starts off, then becomes a beauty

At midnight, Wei Chu came back and said: The doctor has bandaged Shen Huajun, but Shen Huajun has not yet woken up. Zong Xiang is keeping watch over there. Ah Zeng and Yin Fu have already returned to the third courtyard.

She asked Xiao Yuanxing and Yan Yao to take good care of Cheng Lao. She returned to her bedroom, washed up under Wei Chu's clothes, and lay down in the tent, then stared at the dust above her head for a long time.

In fact, she was so troubled by thoughts that she couldn't fall asleep at all. However, she hadn't closed her eyes for two days and her whole body was exhausted. Finally, she fell asleep.

In her dream, she went back to the eleventh year of Jiansi, when she was still living in Gao's mansion. She had quarreled with Cheng's wife several times over the matter of weighing, while Ya'nu was laughing on the side and her cousin was always watching from outside the yard. That day, she took the initiative to help her cousin measure his height. Because the difference between the two was so great, she had to stand on a stool to measure it. She missed a step and almost fell down, but her cousin held her up.

That year, her heart was wavering and she almost couldn't control herself.

But this time in her dream, she could clearly feel that there was no ripple in her heart.

Most of the time, I just look back on the past calmly.

Even though her cousin is close to her, his mentality is completely different from what it used to be.

There was a dull thunder in the sky. I don't know when my aunt stood at the gate of the courtyard with a sullen face, followed by the daughter of the Zhou family.

After a while, Sang Wu and Ma also came.

There seemed to be a layer of ice on everyone's face, and they looked at her indifferently.

She couldn't help but look back and found that her cousin was gone, and even Cheng'ao and Ya'nu were nowhere to be seen.

"Young Madam." Someone seemed to be calling her, "Young Madam—" The voice became more and more urgent. Sang Ling suddenly woke up and saw Wei Chu in front of her.

It was bright outside the window.

"What time is it?"

Wei Chu leaned forward into the tent, wiped the sweat off her face, and replied, "It's 9 o'clock. The eldest master has already arrived at the front hall of the main hall, and the Shen family's wife has also woken up. Zong Xiang is watching."

She slept until noon. She felt her head was still a little heavy and subconsciously wanted to lie down for a while. However, after staring at the bright room for a while, she finally got up to change her clothes.

"Maybe I have been too worried these past two days, so I slept until now." Nie Guang knelt on the felt mat in the main hall, not knowing how long he had been waiting.

It was obvious that he had dressed up. Even in the two connected mansions, he wore a long crown and a black robe, a green gauze Zen robe, and the jade rings on his waist were neatly worn. Even the two traces of beard on his lips were neatly arranged.

This look is not as good as usual. It is too elaborate, making him look greasy and powdered, like a male prostitute kept in the mansion.

She smiled slightly, and did not answer Nie Guang's question. She cleverly changed the subject, "Something happened last night. Did you hear about it, brother?"

The people in Wuyuan would not spread the message, but the doctors in the mansion might not. She did not give any special instructions, and it was possible that the message had spread to other places in the two mansions.

"What's the matter?" Nie Guang obviously didn't know.

Sang Ling then gave Wei Chu a look and quietly retreated. She turned her head and said softly, "I wanted to talk it out with Madam Shen yesterday, but as you can see, I have been very tired these past two days. I overslept, and it was three o'clock in the morning when I opened my eyes. The servants came back and said that Madam Shen mistakenly thought that we were going to murder her last night, and she tried to break the door and escape in a hurry. I don't know how she got her hand caught in the door. A servant wanted to help her, but she struggled hard to get free, and then..." She stopped talking.

Nie Guang raised his thick eyebrows, still a little confused. "So what?"

"My hand is broken." Sang Ling said in a low voice.

"Broken?" The eldest son blinked. "She was so strong, she broke her hand?"

"I didn't see it either. The subordinates later invited a doctor to take a look. He said that the hand could not be reattached, but her life would not be saved. It's just that the Shen family's wife seemed to be hysterical and kept saying that we harmed her." Sang Ling looked indifferent and acted very calmly. "Brother, how should I explain it? I left her in Wuyuan specifically to clear up the misunderstanding. If I want to harm her now, wouldn't I be shooting myself in the foot? If I really want to make a fuss, wouldn't it be the wisest thing to go to the county governor's mansion openly?"

When the daughter of the Sang family spoke, there was a charm in her eyes and eyebrows, which always made people involuntarily glue their eyes to her. Even though Nie Guang vaguely felt that something was wrong, he was unwilling to raise questions in front of her - he didn't want to embarrass the beauty.

I agreed, "My cousin is a little stubborn sometimes. I don't like talking to her."

"What should I do next?" How could Sang Ling not feel his direct gaze?

The beauty frowned slightly, her tone carrying a hint of grievance, "Brother, Xuanwen is not at home now, and I have never been able to speak. If there is a quarrel again, you have to make the decision for me."

"Yeah." Nie Guang responded immediately, "Of course."

While the master was talking, there were four or five servants waiting in the corridor. Two of them came from the West Mansion with the eldest son, and the rest were Wuyuan's own servants. Xiao Yuanxing was just changing the ashes from the incense burner, and as Sister Wei Chu had instructed before, she fell down under the sycamore tree in the courtyard.

As he was moving, he saw someone walking at the gate of the courtyard, so he put down the copper stove in his hand and walked forward quickly. He saw that it was Zhu Ying, the maid of Jingyuan. Xiao Yuan Xing had worked in Jingsi Residence in the front courtyard before, and he had an impression of the servants who served their masters in the various courtyards of the East Palace.

Zhu Ying is the maidservant of the Fourth Madam.

Although Xiao Yuan Xing had just started working in Wuyuan, she had been in the Marquis' Mansion for quite some time and knew how to work under her master.

So he turned around and immediately picked up the copper stove and hurried back to the main room.

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Zhu Ying naturally recognized the servants who followed Nie Guang. She only needed to take a look from a distance in front of the Wuyuan Gate to recognize the people.

She came here just to find out the situation as asked by the Fourth Madam.

So he didn't stay too long and went back to report the news.

At that time, the fourth lady was kneeling behind her dressing box and doing her hair, and the servants in the room were basically lying flat on the ground.

Zhu Ying knelt down as well. After a long silence, she waited for her master's voice to come from above her head, "Have you checked carefully? Is it really someone close to him?"

"Yes-yes." Her voice trembled, and her hands on her knees couldn't help but move back.

After the answer, there was another suffocating silence. Everyone in the room dared not breathe. I don't know how long they waited before the fourth lady spoke again, "Go again and wait carefully at the door. See how long it takes him to come out, and report to me immediately."

"Yes, ma'am." Zhu Ying took a deep breath, stood up and hurried out of the room.