Ruan Mianmian was too lazy to say more and signaled Jiu'er to tell him the causes and consequences of everything that happened when he and Lin Bingying encountered each other.
"What?" Lin Shilang was so angry that he was shaking all over, "Vicious woman, really a poisonous woman, she is going to destroy Bingying. I want to divorce her, I want to divorce her!"
It seems that Sister Lin's father is not bad, but he is blind. It has been seven or eight years since his stepmother entered the family. No matter how well he conceals it, it stands to reason that he can figure out some clues as long as he thinks carefully.
"Uncle Lin, Sister Lin is temporarily staying at the Ding'an Marquis Mansion. After you finish the errands in Yishouyuan, you can take care of the affairs in the mansion before you come to pick her up."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ruan Mianmian walked away without giving Lin Shilang a chance to say more. Jiuer followed closely behind the princess and left.
Looking at Ruan Mianmian's back, Minister Lin sighed: Princess Linglong is so powerful, she is putting pressure on herself.
Originally, Minister Lin was still hesitant to consider small punishments and big punishments when his stepmother gave birth to a son, but now it seems he has to make up his mind.
Sitting on the carriage on the way back, Ruan Mianmian was silent and thinking. She always protected her shortcomings. In her heart, even if Lin Bingying was not her future sister-in-law, she was still hers. She couldn't control others, but not those who bullied her.
Suddenly, Ruan Mianmian thought of Qin Ruolan. She had not forgotten the hatred of the original owner, but she was not a ruthless person. She really couldn't do anything to kill people.
God is watching what you do, and you must pay back what you owe. Falling from the clouds into the mud is the first step for Qin Ruolan. I heard that cutting flesh with a dull knife is the most painful.
After entering the city gate and saying goodbye to Cai Shangshu, the two carriages went their separate ways.
"Princess, where are we going?"
"Walking around Guining Embroidery Square, walking slowly, I want to see if there is a suitable store on the market."
"Why does it have to be nearby?"
"There is not only Guining Embroidery Studio nearby, Yijiangnan Embroidery Studio is on the street next door. If I remember correctly, there are several large and small embroidery shops nearby."
"The princess is really right, that is the place with the highest concentration of embroidery workshops in the capital."
"It would be best if we could find a suitable store nearby."
"Wouldn't it be difficult to do business if they are all crowded together?"
"Everyone does his or her own business, and competition is a good thing."
The master and servant were chatting casually, when the carriage turned around the alley, Ruan Mianmian accidentally glanced out of the carriage window.
"Pause."
"Princess, what's wrong?"
"Sister Jiu'er, look at it."
Gently lifting the curtain, Jiu'er looked outside and saw a familiar figure getting off the sedan.
Jiuer frowned: "Hey, isn't that Qin Ruolan?"
Qin Ruolan was wearing more exquisite clothes than the ones she wore at Ding'an Marquis Mansion before, and she walked into a jewelry store on the street with a little maid behind her.
"Are the Qin family small traders?" Ruan Mianmian's face darkened.
"Yes, I went to see you secretly. The Qin family doesn't even have any servants. Qin Ruolan's life was not easy. After three days apart, you should be very impressed."
"Qin Ruolan is very beautiful."
"It only took a few days to turn around?" Jiu'er's eyes were dark, "Don't worry, Princess, I will find out soon."
"Let's go." Ruan Mianmian was not interested in waiting any longer.
The carriage of the Marquis of Ding'an passed by a sedan, and the sedan stopped, right outside the jewelry store.
After a while, Qin Ruolan walked out of it, and the little maid behind her was holding several boxes in her hands.
Someone came out of the sedan, and it was Zhou Yun. He stepped forward to greet Qin Ruolan.
"Ruolan, have you bought anything you like?"
"Uncle Zhou, I bought it, but it cost a lot of money, a few thousand taels."
"A few thousand taels, not much." Zhou Yun signaled, "Let's go back and sort it out. I will take you to see my elder brother today."
Qin Ruolan raised her head and smiled a little shyly: "Uncle Zhou, there's no need to sort it out. Can I go see Uncle Zhou like this?"
"It's up to you, it doesn't matter." Zhou Yun motioned to the maid to help Qin Ruolan into the sedan.
Turning around and sighing leisurely, Zhou Yun also sat in his sedan chair.
The two sedan chairs swayed forward, one behind the other.
Zhou Yun in the sedan raised his hand and rubbed his temples with a sad expression. He didn't know if his elder brother could bear it after hearing the news. It took him several days to reluctantly accept the fact.
Qin Ruolan opened the jewelry box, selected the most beautiful hairpin and inserted it into her bun. Her eyes glanced at several boxes. Even when she was still the daughter of Ding'an Houfu, she would only buy one or two pieces of such expensive jewelry. She would buy it casually like this.
It feels so good.
Closing the lid of the box and placing it beside her, Qin Ruolan fell into deep thought.
A few days ago, Qin Ruolan ran into Zhou Yun outside the pawn shop. At that time, he was in a hurry and bumped into her accidentally.
Qin Ruolan fell down, and by chance the jewelry she had hidden in her arms, which she was going to pawn, a silver bracelet that was not considered valuable, rolled out.
After picking up the silver bracelet, Zhou Yun stopped Qin Ruolan angrily after looking at it and asked her where it came from.
The panicked Qin Ruolan quickly regained her composure because she recognized that the man in front of her was very similar to Zhou Yunning, the third wife of the Ding'an Marquis Mansion, and must be related to her.
Qin Ruolan made a random joke, saying that she had rescued a woman who came to Beijing to look for someone, and that the silver bracelet was a gift from her.
The valuable jewelry had been pawned a long time ago, because this silver bracelet was not valuable, so Qin Ruolan pawned it last.
The silver bracelet was accidentally dropped when Qin Ruolan pushed Ruan Mianmian into the water for the first time. Zhou Yunning rushed up to hug her daughter who was fished out of the lake. She picked it up casually when she saw it and kept it there. Later, she took Ruan out with other jewelry.
Home.
Qin Ruolan pretended to be naive and took advantage of her young age, and soon found out from Zhou Yun that the silver bracelet belonged to his sister. It was the first gift he gave her and she always wore it on her wrist.
After thinking through everything, Qin Ruolan made up a story to deceive Zhou Yun.
Zhou Yunning followed Ruan Qi to Beijing, but he was so unlucky that he placed her outside and refused to marry her, and finally abandoned her.
Qin Ruolan was an orphan. She met Zhou Yuning, who was homeless, and took her in. The two depended on each other, but she died of a serious illness with hatred.
Zhou Yun was extremely sad. The Zhou family spent five years searching, but what they never expected was the news of his sister's death.
Hearing that Qin Ruolan was lonely and thinking that she was his sister's benefactor, he immediately left her behind.
For a moment, Zhou Yun didn't know what to do. His eldest brother, Zhou Hong, couldn't walk well and heard the news about his sister. He rushed to the capital in a bumpy way, just hoping to see his sister as soon as possible.
After instructing his men to place Qin Ruolan in place, Zhou Yun casually gave her 50,000 taels of silver notes and told her to buy whatever she needed.
Zhou Yun shut himself up in the inn for three days on the pretext that something had happened before he reluctantly accepted the fact that his sister was no longer here.
Qin Ruolan was shocked by Zhou Yun's generosity. He booked the most luxurious inn in the capital to accommodate her, with only fifty thousand taels of pocket money. She had never seen so much money in her life.