Shen Qiyin quickly pulled Xianglan back several steps, then held up his cloak and stood in front of the two of them.

Most of those firecrackers fell to the ground, and when they exploded, countless snowflakes were splashed.

However, they were all blocked by Shen Qiyin's cloak.

But only one of them fell on her cloak and exploded with a "pop".

The firecrackers Jia Lan was playing with were made up of small whips taken from a whole string of firecrackers. They were not very powerful, especially with a layer of cloak between them. They did not hurt Shen Qiyin and Xianglan, but only scared the latter.

When Jia Lan heard Xiang Lan screaming out in fear, he jumped up and down excitedly and clapped his hands, "Haha, you coward!"

What's more terrible is——

The sparks from the explosion splashed onto the fur of the cloak, instantly catching fire.

Seeing this, Jia Lan seemed to find it more and more interesting.

"Oh! Oh! Fire, fire!" He looked very happy, without any fear of death at his age: "Come and see, they are going to be burned to death."

Shen Cang and Jiang Wan rushed over, and the latter quickly covered Jia Lan's mouth to stop him from talking nonsense.

On the other side, Shen Qiyin acted decisively, took off his cloak and threw it into the snow. Xianglan cooperated tacitly and threw up a few handfuls of snow, and the fire was put out in an instant.

"Qi Yin!" Shen Cang rarely showed a worried and concerned expression to her: "Are you hurt?" He was still pointing at her face and hooking it with Master Xiao, it couldn't be ruined like this.

As father and daughter, Shen Qiyin knew what he was thinking, so she ignored him and just looked past him at Jia Lan who was not far away, her eyes as cold as the frost and snow that covered the sky.

Jiang Wan's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly hid Jia Lan behind him. He turned his head and whispered to the maid beside him, "Take the young master back first."

"……Yes."

Zhu'er responded hesitantly and secretly glanced at Shen Qiyin several times.

Will the Second Miss agree?

Sure enough, Zhu'er had just taken a step when she heard Shen Qiyin's voice faintly: "Stop."

Zhu'er stopped immediately!

Jiang Wan's brows tightened.

She seemed to be quite hesitant and wrung her hands, then said thoughtfully, "Second Miss, Lan'er is still just a child, so it's inevitable that he is a little naughty. You are a magnanimous person, so don't bother with him."

"Compared to my aunt, I am still a child. If I do something to displease my aunt later, please don't bother with me."

After she finished speaking, she raised her hand and pointed at Jia Lan: "Tie him to the tree for me!"

"Let's see who dares!" Jiang Wan thought his intimidation was quite powerful, but when he turned around, he saw that the rope on Jia Lan had been wrapped around twice.

Jia Lan struggled for a while: "Mom!"

"help me!"

"I don't want to be tied to a tree, I don't want it!"

Seeing this, Jiang Wan hurried to beg Shen Cang: "Master, please persuade the second young lady quickly. Lan Ge'er is just a child after all. What if he is scared by shouting and killing like this?"

Shen Cang had a gloomy face and said nothing.

Shen Qiyin said with a half-smile, "He was so easily frightened, and Auntie still let him play with firecrackers?"

"...Yes, I was negligent. I won't let him play with it anymore."

"We'll talk about the future later."

"Aunt, I said last time that I never argue with children. If he hits me, I hit him. If he scolds me, I scold him. Today he hits me with a whip, so I can only hit him back."

"What?! You're going to explode back?" Jiang Wan couldn't believe his ears: "Those are firecrackers! They can hurt people!"

"Oh, so you knew that firecrackers can hurt people? Then why did you let him play with them?"

"But didn't I say it wouldn't happen again?"

"Then I say that today's work should be done today!"

After saying that, Shen Qiyin didn't waste any more words with her. He just had Jia Lan tied up tightly and then asked someone to fetch a whip.

In front of Jiang Wan, they were pulled down one by one.

Jiang Wan saw that she was determined to beat Jia Lan to death with the whip, and she couldn't persuade her anyway, so she had to go to Shen Cang for help again.

She simply knelt at his feet and begged with tears in her eyes, "Master, please say something. Please persuade the Second Miss. If Lan'er gets hurt, will I still be able to live?"

Shen Cang moved his mouth and was about to say something, but he heard Shen Qiyin say, "Your father's own children died or went crazy, and you didn't do anything. Now you feel sorry for other people's children?"

Shen Cang's face darkened when he heard this.

He snorted coldly and shook off Jiang Wan's hand, saying unhappily: "Lan Ge'er is so naughty, he will get into trouble sooner or later. Since you are reluctant to take care of him, it's better to let Qi Yin take care of him for you."

"master!"

"Alright!" Shen Cang became even more annoyed: "Look at what's going on. Don't you think I'm annoying enough?"

The house was almost burned down, and she still has the nerve to beg for mercy!

Jiang Wan knew that Shen Cang was getting impatient, so he could only compromise and say, "... Master, what you said is reasonable. Brother Lang should be punished. Slapping the palms of his hands or spanking his buttocks are all fine, but how can you let the whip break a child?"

"If the news gets out, I'm afraid that others will not only think that Lang'er is naughty, but will think that the master is partial to one and mistreats the other because he is not your biological son."

Hearing this, Shen Qiyin laughed: "Not only is he not my father's biological son, he is not even yours, is he?"

Others were not surprised by this, but Jia Lan was not happy: "You are talking nonsense! I was born by my mother!"

"No."

"that is!"

"No!" Shen Qiyin argued with him with great interest: "Your mother herself admitted that you were someone else's child and she just adopted you and raised you."

After hearing this, Jia Lan suddenly stopped being anxious: "Haha, she lied to you."

"You are a bunch of fools!"

Jiang Wan was extremely anxious: "Brother Lan!"

Jia Lan looked very proud: "I am her child, don't you know? Humph!"

"Haha." Shen Qiyin also laughed: "Of course, I don't know."

With clear eyes, she looked at Shen Cang: "Father probably doesn't know either, right?"

Shen Cang's brows were furrowed into the shape of a "川" character, and his eyes were full of suspicion when he looked at Jiang Wan.

Their eyes met, and Jiang Wan shook his head helplessly: "That's just a kid's nonsense, how can you believe it, Master? Have you forgotten what I told you before? I have my reasons."

Shen Cang naturally didn't forget.

But the things that I believed in before now make me full of doubt.

He was lost in thought when he suddenly heard a "pop" sound, which startled him and brought him back to his senses instantly.

It turned out that Shen Qiyin had lit a small whip at some point and threw it right at Jia Lan's feet, scaring him so much that he let out a scream.

With a perverse smile on her face, she slowly lit up another cigarette.

Jiang Wan rushed over and hugged Jia Lan, holding him tightly in his arms: "Second Miss is an adult after all, why do you have to argue with a child?"

"Besides, Lang'er didn't mean to hurt you. He just thought it was fun and was playing a joke on you."

Hearing this, Shen Qiyin suddenly smiled: "Are you kidding? Of course."

"Am I not just joking with him?"

"Look how happy he is."

Jia Lan cried loudly.

Jiang Wan couldn't coax her no matter what she did, so she could only change her tone and say, "No, no! Second Miss, please stop! I beg you, please let us go."

She spoke so pitifully that two servants in the crowd began to feel sympathy for her. They thought that Shen Qiyin was too petty and heartless to be so vindictive towards a child.

Shen Qiyin could guess what they were thinking by looking at the expressions on their faces, but she still went her own way.

We feel pity for Jiang Wan and her son because the firecrackers were not thrown at them!

After the second whip was thrown, Shen Qiyin suddenly turned his back and said, "I can't see it anymore. If you don't want to be hit, stay away!"

As soon as the words fell, everyone scattered like birds and beasts.

When Xianglan saw this scene, she felt that her mammary ducts were unblocked.

In life, if you don’t go crazy and torture others, you will consume yourself because of other people’s madness.

In this regard, the second young lady of their family did a very good job.

She felt that their second young lady was the kind of person who would kill the person who instigated the trouble if anyone tried to harm her.

Although his moral bottom line is weak, his ability to abuse scum is amazing!

Look how scared that kid is...

Tsk tsk tsk, I peed my pants.

In fact, it's not just Jia Lan who is afraid, Jiang Wan is also afraid.

She originally thought that even if Shen Qiyin used a whip to kill Jia Lan, her purpose was just to intimidate the mother and daughter, and she should be restrained in her actions. Who knew she was so crazy!

The firecrackers crackled, splashing countless flying snowflakes that fell all over the mother and daughter.

Jia Lan wet his pants again, and the wet pants stuck to his body. The cold wind blew and he sneezed several times because of the cold.

In the end, I don’t know if it was because of the cold or because I was scared, but I fainted.

Shen Qiyin then withdrew his hand with a look of reluctance.

She brushed her sleeves and said as Jiang Wan passed by her with the child in his arms, "I think this child has a bad temper. He might come to seek revenge on me someday."

"Don't forget my words, Auntie."

"I will deal with him the same way he deals with me."

Having said that, she began to look forward to what this brat would do next.

Jiang Wan's expression was stiff: "...I've made a note of it."

"besides……"

"Miss, is there anything else you want to tell me?"

"My cloak was burned, Auntie, remember to compensate me."

"……Yes."

Jiang Wan agreed readily, but in his heart he was thinking that he might have to sell some of his jewelry.

Shen Cang, this bastard, has been holding on to the money in the mansion tightly since the death of Shen Guangzong, not allowing her to get any of it. He is so hateful!

As if things didn't get worse, Jia Lan fell ill.

There is a ready-made doctor, Shen Cang, at home, so the consultation fee can be saved, but it still costs money to prescribe medicine.

Jiang Wan asked Shen Cang for it, but the latter replied, "You don't have it yourself?"

Jiang Wan was almost laughed out of anger by him.

She thought to herself, if I had it, I would still ask you for it!

He had given her a lot of money before, but she needed to buy clothes, jewelry, rouge and powder, as well as food and entertainment for Jia Lan.

There was also a sum of money for her distant aunt, otherwise why would she take care of her children.

Seeing that she couldn't come up with the money, Shen Cang didn't know whether he didn't believe that she didn't have it or why, but he said, "I don't think Lan Ge'er's condition is that serious. He just has a little fever. Just give him some wine to cool him down first."

Jiang Wan couldn't believe it. These were words a human could say!

But think about it, he could be so cruel to his own children, let alone Jia Lan, an outsider.

But she had to try her best. She didn't want to watch her child burning, so she said, "Isn't the second young lady...she is treating patients in the clinic..."

"Master, can you talk to her and ask her to bring back some herbs?"

"What did you say?" Shen Cang even suspected that there was something wrong with his ears, and he didn't doubt that Jiang Wan was so whimsical: "You still want her to help you get the medicine back, you are really crazy."

"...I, I know that the Second Miss doesn't like Lan Ge'er, so I beg you to go and tell her." In order to coax Shen Cang to run around for him, Jiang Wan just praised him highly: "The Second Miss may not listen to others, but you are her father, do you dare not obey?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Cang glared at him fiercely.

He thought to himself, you know that what I say is just like fart to that girl, yet you still say this, if this isn't sincere mockery of me, then what is it?

Jiang Wan looked at this uncertain and uncertain guy and was too lazy to deal with him any more.

But she just couldn't swallow this anger.

Before leaving, she pretended to be casual and said, "Forget it. Life is hard now. If I don't want to get medicine, then I won't get medicine. I'll save as much as I can. The fourth girl will get married soon, and I have to prepare a dowry for her."

After a pause, she continued, "But then again, since you've given me a dowry, I've got to collect a betrothal gift, too."

"The fourth young lady is marrying into a marquis's mansion, so I think the betrothal gift will be a must. I wonder what kind of family the second young lady will marry into in the future? I see how she looks, so I think the betrothal gift will be more than the fourth young lady's, not less."

"Come to think of it, the second young lady is already sixteen years old, and will be seventeen after the New Year. Has the master found a boyfriend for her?"

When this matter was mentioned, Shen Cang's sullen expression suddenly changed, and his brows relaxed: "No need..."

He originally thought that marrying into the Marquis's Mansion would be the best he could hope for, but who could have imagined that Qiyin, that girl, quietly hooked up with the Young Master of the Duke's Mansion!

Everyone said that Master Xiao was moody and not interested in women, but from what he saw that night, he clearly cared a lot about Qi Yin.

In this way, I think the betrothal gift can be increased.

However, Jiang Wan's words did serve as a reminder to him that the girl was not a child anymore, and it was not good for her to show up in public all day long. What if the Duke's Mansion refused to let her in?

Therefore, this marriage should be finalized as soon as possible, before the prince gets tired of her.

So on this day, Shen Cang, who rarely went out, actually waited in front of the gate of Qiying Pavilion early. As soon as Xiao Yan came on horseback, he hurried to greet him.

"Greetings, my Lord. My regards, my Lord."

Xiao Yan sat high on his horse and glanced at him coldly.

Shen Cang swallowed his saliva and said calmly, "I came here today to discuss your marriage with my daughter with the prince."

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