Before Yulan died, Qiangwei was guarding in the room. When she said this, she thought she was just chatting. Unexpectedly, after she finished speaking, she immediately took a pair of scissors and stabbed her neck. When Qiangwei rushed to grab it, Yulan had already died, and this sentence became her last words.

At the time, she was so noisy that she didn't understand it, but now she felt that there might be some deep meaning. She thought about it carefully and said, "Yulan said that Doctor Sun's youngest son is uneducated and has been making friends with ruffians all day long. He will definitely cause trouble in the future."

Haitang asked in surprise, "Just this one sentence?"

Qiangwei nodded: "Yes, just this nonsensical sentence, could it be that Doctor Sun's youngest son is helping her?"

Haitang thought about it for a while and felt that it didn't seem possible. She and Qiangwei guessed a few reasons and they all felt that it was unlikely.

Cheng Songan waited for them to finish cleaning for him, called Taxue in, and asked her to say this to her.

When Taxue heard this, the corners of his mouth curved to his chin, and then he smiled and said, "I'm afraid he won't get into trouble. Find a few people to lead him to a bigger one."

Haitang knocked her head and said, "You are just making things worse."

Cheng Songan smiled slightly. Her four girls were somewhat intelligent and steady, but too honest, not as smart and agile as Treading Snow. But these days, especially today, the extremes of this girl were also fully demonstrated.

After a moment's hesitation, Cheng Songan looked at her and said, "I'll give you half a month to copy Mencius carefully and bring it to me. Then I'll leave Doctor Sun's work to you."

Taxue was surprised and delighted, and asked, "Really? Miss, don't underestimate me. I can finish copying it in ten days."

Cheng Songan glanced at her and said with a smile, "The whole chapter of Mencius is about 40,000 words. If you ask a scholar to copy it, it can be copied in less than two days. But you have only learned to write for more than a month, and you can't even recognize all the characters. Half a month is already difficult for you. Since you are bragging, then ten days will be enough."

Taxue nodded and clapped repeatedly, with a slightly proud look on his face.

Cheng Songan said, "But there is one thing. When you hand the copy to me, you must tell me where the saying 'always accept your fate and seek your own happiness' comes from and what it means."

Taxue immediately became depressed and pursed his lips: "Then half a month is half a month."

After she left, Cheng Songan said to Haitang and Qiangwei, "Taxue is a pure child. He loves her and wants her to live, and hates her and wants her to die. He is also a bit wild. If he is not guided, he will either go astray or lose his life first."

Haitang sighed, "We should have a girl like this around us, who would be more suitable for the girl's temperament."

Cheng Songan forced a smile. She had lost her wildness and was willing to be imprisoned. It was ultimately a fate that she had no alternative but she had to let Taxue give up her own part in order to save her life.

The way she fought Cui Yuanqing today, if she had met any other master, she would have been dragged away and beaten to death on the spot for disobeying her master. But Cui Yuanqing ignored her.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, ever since Cheng Songan said that he was not allowed to beat, scold, teach or order her people around, Cui Yuanqing seemed to have been adhering to this rule. Last time, it was Li Wenbin who pointed a dagger at him, and this time it was Taxue who stood in front of him like a wolf and glared at him. He did not punish any of them.

But everyone knows that he is lenient to the servants in his house because they perform their duties conscientiously, not because he has a good temper.

Cui Yuanqing was never a good-tempered person. Just take his previous life as an example. When he went to the south of the Yangtze River, he leveraged the intertwined clan power in several cities of Suzhou and Hangzhou, and replaced the local officialdom with blood. No one knows how many people died.

Cheng Songan still remembers clearly that not long after she fell ill in her previous life, Zhang forced Cui Yuanqing to move out of Yunxiang Pavilion. At that time, Qiangwei and Mudan were married, and Haitang was the only one left by her side. The rest were a few maids that Zhang had transferred to her before. Sometimes, Haitang had to make hot tea for her at night. But one day, Cui Yuanqing suddenly appeared in the middle of the night, took the two maids with an expressionless face, strangled them to death in the courtyard of Yunxiang Pavilion, and left without saying a word. Since then, although Yunxiang Pavilion was still deserted, it never lacked anything.

Now that she thought about it, Cui Yuanqing was very prone to madness in his previous life. If Taxue really angered him, she might not even be able to save him.

These past events were like tiny grains of sand, falling into the memories of Cheng Songan's two lives. From time to time, one of them would float out and blind his eyes.

"Raise the regular silver to Li Wenbin to five taels, and have him keep a close eye on Doctor Sun's youngest son," Cheng Songan instructed Qiangwei, "Don't let Cheng Wanxin's men get hold of us first."

Qiangwei was a little confused: "Miss, do you want to protect him?"

Cheng Songan laughed: "Taxue that girl almost told you everything, but you still don't know."

When Doctor Sun came to check her pulse for the first time, she was a little puzzled. In the previous life, he appeared later than now. At that time, she had been infected with lipstick for more than three years. It should be more serious than in this life, but he did not mention that he was harmed by cinnabar and musk. In this life, he directly said that she had eaten the elixir by mistake. This shows that Doctor Sun was bribed by Cheng Wanxin in the previous life, but it was later. He still had a conscience at that time. Although he did not tell her the real condition, he did not kill her immediately. Instead, he kept her alive for several years.

Now with Yulan's words, everything made sense. Doctor Sun was not after money or sex, but for his useless little son. And at least so far, Cheng Wanxin had only been eyeing him, and hadn't caught anything substantial that could threaten him.

Taxue, a clever fellow, figured out the plan at once after just one listen - instead of waiting for him to get into some unknown trouble and then trying to rescue him, it would be better to set up the plan directly to invite him in, and then be a good person and do him a favor.

The method was a bit dirty, but it wouldn't cause any trouble. Cheng Song was happy to let Taxue go and make trouble himself, and he only had to keep an eye on Cheng Wanxin.

Haitang listened and nodded continuously, "We have lost all our willpower in the mansion and have become blind and deaf. Fortunately, we have Taxue, the troublemaker, who has muddied the waters and helped us to survive."

Cheng Songan smiled and took Qiangwei out. Princess Xiang was hosting a banquet at Hongyan Tower tonight, so she had to inform Cixian Hall and Chunhui Garden.

Zhang from Cixiantang was still depressed about the death of someone in the mansion. After Cui Yuanqing resigned, she closed the gate of the courtyard early and refused to see anyone.

Cheng Songan pretended to explain to Xiuhe, then went straight to Chunhui Garden, but he did not expect that Chunhui Garden was also locked.

Qiangwei knocked on the door a few times before someone came out to ask questions. When he saw it was them, he turned around and ran back. After a while, he opened the door slightly and let them in.

When they reached the door of the main hall, Qiangwei was left outside and Cheng Songan was allowed to enter the house alone - while inside the house, Cui Yuanqing was kneeling on the ground with his head lowered, wearing only his middle clothes.

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