"Hibiscus Tent" 71

Fragrant garden.

There was no maid holding a lamp in the corridor, and the candles in the room were not lit. The fragrant garden that used to be bright was now completely dark.

The maids gathered in the garden one after another, talking about today's strange events in a volume they thought was extremely low:

"This is so ridiculous, even a playbook would not dare to write it like this!"

"Who says it's not the case? The daughter I have raised for sixteen years is actually a fake. It would be fine if this happened by mistake, but it was her own mother who personally exchanged the two girls..."

"Who says it's not the case? We all see how much Madam loves the third girl. Who wouldn't feel uncomfortable if she replaced her?"

"Then in this situation, the real girl has returned to the house, what should we do inside?"

Everyone sighed and glanced at the closed door of the main room.

In the small room, He Min's tears had dried up. Her eyes were red and she was sitting blankly in front of the bronze mirror.

Every word spoken outside the window fell on her heart like needles, pricking her with pain.

She has always relied on the love of her parents and brothers to be coquettish and indulgent, but she also knows that this love is precisely because she has the blood of the He family. She is the only legitimate daughter of the He family. She is the root of the disease that her mother-in-law risked her life for.

Girl.

But now she is no longer, she is no longer.

Ever since Auntie hugged Shen Shitai and cried bitterly, she had not looked at her again. After she woke up, she also stayed with Shen Shitai, and she never even sent Aunt Bai to ask her.

No one in the entire He family cared about her.

She seemed to have gone from being the apple of her eyes to a transparent person in one day...

Will father and mother send her away?

He Min's face turned pale, no, she couldn't leave.

Thinking of this, she immediately stood up, pushed open the door and went straight to Tangyuan.

At this time, under the Tangyuan Pavilion.

Aunt Bai glanced at the dazed girl on the bench holding the lotus root bracelet in her hand, stepped forward and gave her a fruit plate and hot tea, and said: "Old slave, let Tao Yin take care of the girl."

Shen Shiting paused for a moment, stood up quickly and said, "No, I'll just sit down and go back."

"Girl, sit down quickly. Don't be so polite to this old slave."

Shen Shiting held the rope in her hand and sat down. It wasn't until she saw Aunt Bai walking away that she let out a long sigh of relief.

Everyone in the He family looked at her with inquiring and loving eyes, which was really hard to get used to.

Aunt Bai walked through the corridor and was about to go to the hall. She turned around and saw He Min walking quickly.

Aunt Bai was startled and said, "It's late at night, why is the girl here?"

Hearing the name of Aunt Bai, He Min clenched her palms. In the past, everyone called the third girl taller and the third girl shorter. After half a day, they stopped calling her third girl...

He Min took a deep breath and said, "I'm looking for grandma, mama, where is grandma?"

"Madam and Master are both in the hall."

He Min nodded and looked at the figure under the pavilion in the distance. She exercised great restraint so as not to lose her composure and said, "Then I'll go right now."

After saying that, she turned around and walked back to the path.

Aunt Bai glanced at her and then stepped forward.

Maybe He Min was walking fast, but no one was seen in the two paths.

At this time, He Min bypassed a rock and bush and went back to the original route.

Shen Shiting was putting the bracelet on her wrist, and just after pressing the buckle, she heard footsteps behind her. She thought it was Aunt Bai coming back again, so she quickly turned around and said, "Mommy, you don't have to--"

She stopped talking and saw He Min looking at her with red eyes.

He Min's eyes fell on the lotus root pink bracelet in her hand. In the past, her eldest brother would bring small gadgets to her every time he went on an expedition, but five years ago he didn't.

She thought her eldest brother didn't have a chance to give it to her, but it turned out not to be the case. It turned out it was just for her...

She was trembling all over, even her teeth were trembling, and she sobbed slightly: "Do you think you will win like this?"

Shen Shiting looked at her intently for a moment. It was said that she and He Min had only met twice, once in Xiyuan and once in Songyuan. Neither of them was a pleasant meeting.

But she didn't take it to heart. All in all, she had no grudges.

Thinking this, Shen Shitai withdrew his gaze and stood up to leave.

However, in He Min's eyes, this silent attitude was the attitude of a winner.

She's mocking her! She's looking down on her!

"Don't leave!" He Min grabbed her wrist, "You didn't grow up in the He family since you were a child. I was the one who accompanied my father and mother. Do you think they will love you more and send me away?"

He Min was right, Mrs. Cen had loved her so much, even if Shen Shiqi was her heart and soul, she might not be able to let go of He Min.

Thinking of this, He Min straightened his back and said confidently: "So what if Mrs. Sun gave birth to me? I was raised by the He family. I have been in Kyoto for sixteen years. How can you fit into this circle of aristocratic families?"

Shen Shiting lowered his head to grab her hand, but He Min held it so tightly.

"And Brother Huaizhou, do you think that if you become the daughter of the He family, Brother Huaizhou will protect you like he protects me? I have grown up with him since childhood. How can we be friends with each other for so many years? Just because I bear the surname He? You, you don’t even know that in order to save me, he took two arrows and almost died, and there is still a scar on his chest. Do you know all this!"

Hearing this, Shen Shitai, who was trying to break away from her, paused.

Admittedly, she didn't know whether the Cen family she mentioned earlier would send her away or not, even in the Kyoto aristocratic family circle, but she knew about the scar on Lu Jiuxiao's chest.

How could she not know that every time they had sex, the man's chest would be leaning in front of her, and such a conspicuous scar could be seen clearly under the moonlight.

She had also been curious about what the pampered prince had done to leave scars in such a dangerous place.

It didn't happen because of He Min.

But it doesn’t seem too strange.

In this moment of silence, He Min looked at her expression carefully, as if he had finally regained the upper hand, and slightly raised the corners of his lips: "There is something else you don't know. Five years ago, he -"

"What does it have to do with me?"

Shen Shiting raised his eyes to look at her, and opened the five fingers on her wrist one by one, "If you like him, just go to him. What's the use of talking to me? You tell me here, he Will I marry you?"

"you--"

"It's not me who asked your mother to switch us. It's not that I can't help you. What do you want from me?"

As she spoke, the little girl's eyes also felt faintly hot.

Are you aggrieved? Of course you are very aggrieved.

He Min was also aggrieved, but what did He Min's grievance have to do with her?

He Min seemed stunned by her two words and was stunned for a moment. Shen Shiting took the opportunity to break away from her and go up the path.

He Min came back to her senses and hurriedly chased after her, grabbing her forearm and saying: "Don't go, Shen Shiting! You, you are no longer perfect. Even if you return to the He family, you will still be laughed at by thousands of people. People laugh?!”

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A quarter of an hour ago, Aunt Bai entered the hall.

Cen was discussing with He Luming and He Lin about Sun. When he saw her coming, he stood up and asked, "What's the matter? Has she fallen asleep?"

Aunt Bai responded: "No, I'm sitting in the yard. I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep tonight."

Mrs. Cen sat down worriedly.

She slowed down and then said: "I must bring Ah Ting into the ancestral hall. There is no reason why the He family's bloodline should be left outside. What's more, this child has suffered too much. When I think about it, my heart goes...

—”

"Okay, okay." He Luming hurriedly stroked her back, "I'm sure I'm going to come in."

He Lin put down the tea cup and said slowly: "I checked and found out that when Mrs. Sun sold A Ting to the madam, she was worried about neighbors poking her back and lied about sending her to the countryside to recuperate. Mrs. Lu agreed to recognize A Ting.

As an adopted daughter, why not put two things together and say that Mrs. Lu fell in love with her and brought her back to the mansion from Jinzhou."

Mr. Cen and Mr. He Luming looked at each other, thought for a moment, and nodded again and again, "I think it's great, but if Mr. Sun tells this matter, then——"

"Auntie." He Lin interrupted her: "I will send Mrs. Sun to prison."

Although the laws of the Li Kingdom do not have regulations against such ridiculous things, even if the He family does not have real power now, He Luming's title of general protecting the country is not in vain.

It is not difficult to imprison one person.

He looked at Mrs. Cen and continued: "Amin will also be sent back to Jinzhou, traveling with her brother and sister-in-law."

After the words fell, Cen was slightly startled, unable to speak for a moment.

Naturally, she hated Sun's civet cat for the prince's dirty trick, and she also knew that it was best to send He Min away. If she were to keep her, wouldn't it be to stab her biological daughter in the heart? How could she bear it...

But after all, she had loved He Min for sixteen years. She had loved He Min sincerely for sixteen years, and suddenly wanted to send her away. If she said she was willing, it would be a lie.

But who isn’t?

Who in this hall right now doesn't really want her to feel better? Who is pretending to be so?

He Lin narrowed her eyes and said, "Aniang, if Sun hadn't been Amin's biological mother, she would have died long ago based on what she did."

The implication is that no amount of money can be given to He Min.

At this time, Aunt Bai frequently turned her head and looked out the window.

She couldn't help but frown. He Min was walking in front of her. It was supposed to be time to arrive, but why couldn't he even see a figure?

Somehow, her eyelids suddenly twitched.

Mrs. Cen sighed, "Let me think about it..."

"Madam, sir!"

In the corridor, Tao Yin came in a hurry and opened the door curtain. He was still breathing, and said with a little cry: "Master and Madam, go to Tangyuan and have a look. The girl broke her head and fainted. I asked the doctor.

, still looking at it.”

The three of them stood up together, and Cen immediately raised his feet to rush towards Tangyuan. His movements were so fast that he almost tripped over the threshold.

Along the way, Taoyin explained the reason, "I don't know why, but when I arrived, the girl had already passed out. The third girl was frightened at the side. Maybe she accidentally pushed someone during an argument."

While we were talking, we had arrived at Tangyuan.

The third girl Taoyin mentioned was leaning outside the house with tears on her face. When she saw Mrs. Cen coming, she rushed to greet her, "Aniang, I'm not——"

Before she finished speaking, Mrs. Cen raised her hand high and made a "pop" sound, which stunned all the maids and women in the courtyard.

Since childhood, not to mention taking action, my wife has rarely spoken harsh words to the third girl...

He Min was also stunned.

Cen's fingertips trembled, "I haven't treated you enough! She hasn't been as comfortable as you since she was a child, why do you bother to make things difficult for her!"

After saying that, she rolled her sleeves and entered the inner room.

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A basin of blood and water was brought out, and the doctor, with sweat on his forehead, finally managed to properly treat the horrible wound.

If he had just hit his head, it wouldn't be a big deal, but what he hit was the huge rock beside the trail. The edge of the rock was sharp and twisted. This hit was not light.

The doctor sighed and said, "Madam, don't worry, it will be fine when the girl wakes up."

Mrs. Cen was worried, "When will I wake up?"

"Maybe I'll wake up in two or three hours."

After knowing the exact time, Ms. Cen felt relieved. She moved the teapot, as if she wanted to stay here all night, but was persuaded to go back by He Luming and He Lin.

He Lin said: "I will keep watch here. As soon as she wakes up, I will send someone to inform you."

Mrs. Cen then turned around and left in a few steps. She kicked out the door and said without looking back: "Amin's whereabouts are up to you."

Hearing this, He Lin nodded and responded.

At Yin hour, the night is silent, and the bright moon moves with the clouds, flickering brightly and dimly.

He Lin leaned half of his body against the window, looking sideways at the person on the couch. Seeing her frowning for a moment, he couldn't help but get up and step forward.

At this time, there was a "thump" sound behind him, and he immediately stopped, bent his elbow, and took the long sword on the table.

The moment the window was lifted, the long sword was unsheathed and pointed directly at the window.

The person who came turned sideways to avoid it and firmly caught the hilt of the sword.

Looking at each other, Lu Jiuxiao handed the sword to him very naturally.

He Lin took the sword and narrowed his eyes, "Who asked you to come?"

"Just take a look, and you won't lose a piece of meat."

His eyes fell on the petite figure on the bed, he pursed his lips and said, "It's better to be at my place."

He Lin put a hand on his shoulder and said, "Get out of here."

After the words fell, a very low hum came from the bed, and the two people who were in a stalemate paused and looked sideways.

While He Lin was distracted, Lu Jiuxiao stepped forward and placed his palms on the top of her hair out of habit, "Does your head hurt?"

As soon as Shen Shiting opened his eyes, he saw an enlarged handsome face in front of him.

She was stunned for a moment, her eyes widened, and she hurriedly held the pillow to sit up straight. At that moment, a series of lights and shadows flashed in her mind, and she felt a pain in her forehead, and she closed her eyes again.

When she opened her eyes again, the little girl moved back to avoid Lu Jiuxiao's hand, and said with a trembling voice: "Who are you?"

The timidity in those eyes doesn't seem fake
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