Ren Dong cried out "Ah!" and apologized while saying to Song Huai who was standing next to her, "My young lady is exhausted and can't be saved. This time it's up to you, young master."

After he finished speaking, everyone looked at Song Huai.

Song Huai, under the “eyes of the public”: “…” I really want to escape.

Save her, it would be wrong not to marry her.

If I don't save him, my real purpose of rushing into the water will be exposed.

Just when Song Huai was in a dilemma, he suddenly heard someone next to him say, "Hey! Miss Xie, can you swim?"

Hearing this, Song Huai immediately looked towards the lake and saw Xie Qing paddling hard.

Under the threat of death, she didn't think carefully at all, and relied entirely on instinct to save herself, without realizing what she had inadvertently exposed.

Until she sat on the shore, gasping for breath, Shen Qiyin slowly squatted in front of her and said in a faint voice: "Miss Xie is really a hidden talent."

She froze in place instantly, as if she had fallen into an ice cellar!

Thinking of a possibility, she suddenly raised her eyes and looked at Shen Qiyin, her eyes full of resentment that was difficult to conceal.

is her!

She pushed herself into the water on purpose!

But Xie Qing still didn't understand how Shen Qiyin knew that she could swim? Even her uncle and aunt didn't know about this.

But she didn't know, and Shen Qiyin actually didn't know either.

She was simply "fighting fire in kind".

If Xie Qing could swim, then driven by her survival instinct, she might reveal this fact.

And if she can't swim...

It was her bad luck to be drowned.

There is no way Shen Qiyin would have any mercy on such a person.

Because when a person who harms others has the intention to harm others, he should be prepared to be harmed.

Without paying any more attention to Xie Qing, Shen Qiyin turned and left.

Shiyue, the maidservant beside Ruan Xinghu, led her to change her clothes and explained to her, "This is the clothes of our Crown Prince's Consort. We have never worn them before. You can wear them without worry, young lady."

Shen Qiyin nodded slightly: "Thank you."

Shiyue personally helped her wring out her hair.

I thought she would leave after packing up, but she actually went to meet Feng Ruoying.

The latter had already woken up and was being fed ginger soup spoonful by spoonful by a maid. She was surrounded by several young ladies who had a good relationship with her and were asking her about her well-being.

When Shen Qiyin walked in, he just heard them mentioning him.

"Ruoying, I remember you and Shen Qiyin didn't get along well. Why would she risk her life to save you?"

“…I, how would I know!”

At that time, she thought she was going to die, so she had no time to think about those things.

And if they hadn’t told her, she wouldn’t have known that the person who came to rescue her was Shen Qiyin!

What does she want?

At this time, another person said: "Anyway, she saved your life. I like her much better now. She is much better than your pretentious cousin."

When it comes to Xie Qing, several people have something to say.

"Ruoying, you may not know that your cousin can actually swim!"

Feng Ruoying was indeed shocked: "My cousin can swim?!"

How come she doesn't know?

"Ah, you don't know?"

"When you first fell into the water, she acted so anxious that she wanted to jump into the water to save you. But her maid stopped her, saying that she couldn't swim. Bah! The master and servant are acting out their roles. How hypocritical!"

"That's right! When she fell into the water, the creature swam happily like a duck with its legs twitching."

"Also, the third young master of the Jianning Marquis's Mansion wanted to go into the water to save you, but was stopped by the maidservant beside Shen Qiyin."

"It seems that he is sincere to you..."

Hearing this, Feng Ruoying was stunned, and the color on her face faded away completely.

The sisters just thought she fell into the water and didn't think much about it. They wanted to continue asking, "By the way, Ruoying, how did you fall into the lake? Did your feet slip?"

"I……"

Feng Ruoying had just said the word "I" when she saw Shen Qiyin walking in from outside.

The others also fell silent at the same time.

Shen Qiyin said nothing, but walked to the bedside and took Feng Ruoying's pulse, then wrote a prescription and handed it to her maid, saying, "Prepare the medicine according to the prescription, one dose a day, take it on time, otherwise you will easily develop a cough."

The little maid was very considerate. She kept calling Shen Qiyin a miracle doctor and thanked him profusely.

Feng Ruoying turned her face away and said proudly: "Don't think that I don't hate you just because you saved me."

After saying this, she regretted it.

Wouldn't this be criticized?

Unexpectedly, Shen Qiyin remained silent this time.

She suddenly stretched out her hand towards Feng Ruoying, scaring the latter so much that she shivered. She wondered why he didn't scold her this time but just hit her directly?

"I'm sorry." Shen Qiyin spread out his palm, revealing a white jade hairpin that was broken into two pieces.

"Ah!" She sat up suddenly, but when she saw other people around, she quickly controlled her emotions and pretended to be puzzled, saying, "Ah... How did the hairpin break? What a pity."

When the others heard this, they were immediately surprised and asked, "Ruoying, did you really give this hairpin to Miss Shen?"

Shen Qiyin: "She borrowed it..."

Feng Ruoying: “No!”

As she spoke, she winked at Shen Qiyin: "Your own things are broken, why are you saying 'sorry' to me? This is not mine."

Shen Qiyin couldn't tell what he felt for a moment.

She just said, "Sorry, and...thank you."

"I will find a skilled craftsman to reattach the broken hairpin, but it cannot be restored to its original state."

"I know this hairpin means a lot to you, and it cannot be valued with money, but since I broke something of yours, I must compensate you. Just tell me the price, and if it's reasonable, I won't bargain."

"Or, if you need me to do something, that's fine too."

Feng Ruoying wanted to stop Shen Qiyin when she said the first sentence, but her eyes were almost cramped and the latter kept talking, wasting her efforts.

As for the compensation she mentioned...

Feng Ruoying shook her head: "Didn't you save me?"

If it weren't for Shen Qiyin, she might have drowned.

Even if she didn't die, if Song Huai saved her, she would be better off dead.

Taking the hairpin from Shen Qiyin, Feng Ruoying suddenly changed the subject: "But if you really feel sorry for me, there is one thing you can do for me."

"what?"

"That's it..." She was about to speak, but she caught a glimpse of her little sisters still there, so she hooked her finger at Shen Qiyin, motioning her to come closer.

Shen Qiyin stepped forward.

Feng Ruoying frowned: "Oh, closer!"

Shen Qiyin was surprised: "Are you going to kiss me?" Otherwise, why are you getting so close?

Feng Ruoying: “…”

Maybe it was because they had just experienced life and death together that they were invisibly brought closer to each other, but Feng Ruoying simply grabbed her wrist and pulled her towards her.

She put her hand on Shen Qiyin's ear and said in a low voice, "Just tell me what you wanted to say to me that day when you went to my house to ask my brother to break off the engagement, but didn't say it in the end?"

This time it was Shen Qiyin's turn to remain silent.

Should she say she was determined or stubborn?

"actually……"

"Ying'er!"

Shen Qiyin had just said two words when he was interrupted by Xie Qing who stumbled into the room.

She hadn't changed her wet clothes yet, and her hair was dripping with water. She fell to Feng Ruoying's bed in a wet state.

Ren Dong followed Shen Qiyin all day long. It was really "easy to learn good things, but easy to learn bad things". With a cry, she hid behind Shen Qiyin, pointed at Xie Qing in red and yelled, "Ghost! Water ghost!"

"Miss, look! It's a water ghost in red! I'm so scared!"

Shen Qiyin suppressed his laughter and said as seriously as possible: "What a ghost, that is clearly Miss Xie."

"Miss Xie?" Ren Dong grabbed her shoulders, trembling with fear and revealing a pair of eyes, wondering: "Why did Miss Xie become like this?"

Xie Qing: “…”

Xie Qing thought to herself, why did I become like this? Don’t you, master and servant, have any idea?

But there was no point in worrying about those things right now. She had to stabilize Feng Ruoying.

So she burst into tears before she could say anything, "Ying'er, luckily you're okay, otherwise how would I explain to my uncle and aunt?"

"I wanted to jump into the water to save you just now, but the maid stopped me. Fortunately, you are not seriously injured, otherwise I would not let her go!"

Xie Qing claimed that the maid had not served her since she was a child, so she did not know that she could swim, and that was why she tried her best to stop her.

In short, she just wanted Feng Ruoying to believe that she did not want to go into the water to save her.

Shen Qiyin did not expose her, but quietly left the house.

Upright officials can hardly break housework.

What's more, Xie Qing's flaws were so obvious that Feng Ruoying's group of sisters could all see them clearly. If Feng Ruoying could still be deceived by Xie Qing, then no matter what she said, the other party would not believe it.

When I came outside, the sun was shining brightly, but it was autumn after all, so it was a little chilly.

"Ah-"

Shen Qiyin rubbed his itchy nose.

Honeysuckle looked worried: "Miss, let's go back home quickly. We just got better from the rain. What if we catch a cold again?"

"Yeah." Shen Qiyin responded softly, already feeling a stuffy nose.

The autumn wind blew suddenly and made her shiver.

The next moment, a black cloak fell on her body, carrying a hint of warmth, wrapping her whole body in it.

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