There was a knock on the door of the study room, and the boy who was alone in the room opened the door from the inside. He saw standing outside the door, in addition to his personal servant Ah Jiu, there was also Liu Yi.
Xu Mingshi frowned slightly.
Why did Liu Yi come to his place in the middle of the night?
"If I have something very important, I want to talk to the young master alone!" Although Liu Yi tried his best to suppress his anxiety at this time, his hands holding the bundle tightly could still be seen as extremely nervous.
"If you have anything to say, just say it."
Liu Yi glanced at Ah Jiu in embarrassment.
Ah Jiu glanced at her rudely - don't even think about pushing him away. What if he intends to do something wrong with his young master? Although the young master is only ten years old, he has a high status and there are already several little maids in the house who are starting to become restless.
He moved closer to the young master.
"Ajiu is someone I trust." Xu Mingshi suppressed the impatience in his heart, glanced at the baggage in Liu Yi's arms, frowned and asked, "Are you going to travel far away?"
"Yes, I was planning to go find my mother..." Liu Yi didn't care much at that moment and could only stand where he was and talk to him: "Young master, I'm afraid you don't know yet, but the girl has been really abnormal these days.
Maybe I have been ill for a long time and am a little confused..."
Xu Mingshi's expression didn't change much.
He also felt that Xu Mingyi was very abnormal these days.
"I don't know if I listened to the words of someone with ulterior motives and actually suspected that I was responsible for her illness!" Liu Yi said in an aggrieved tone, with tears in his eyes: "How could such a thing happen?...
I grew up with her and know her temper. Since she is suspicious of me this time, she will definitely make a big fuss..."
Xu Mingshi was a little shocked.
Xu Mingyi suspects that her illness is related to Liu Yi?
"If she had just made trouble with me, I would have tolerated it... But today happened to be the time when the old lady came home, and it was her birthday, and the family had never been able to dissuade her. I just heard some movement in the front yard.
After asking someone to inquire, I found out that Aunt Ruan, who is usually close to me, was also implicated!"
Liu Yi looked at the boy who had just turned ten years old in front of him, paying attention to the changes in his expression, and said at the right time: "Young Master is the grandson of the family. Last year, he was wronged by the girl and said that you deliberately cut off her bowstring. From then on, he
Being weighed down by the lady
I've been punished... The young master is the eldest grandson of the palace, but he still has to be punished for the girl's slanderous remarks without evidence, let alone me... Especially this time it involves the girl's illness, I think it will be easier for me.
There is no escape.”
As he spoke, he almost burst into tears.
"I know that the young master has always been kind-hearted, but this time I really had no other choice, so I found the young master here——"
With tears streaming down her face, she grabbed one of Xu Mingshi's arms and said, "...I just hope that the young master can let me escape here tonight. I can wait until I find a chance to leave the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion tomorrow! When the truth comes out in the future, I will
Go back to your home and repay the favor of protecting me today!"
repay?
That's not surprising.
Xu Mingshi looked at the arm she was holding and said thoughtfully: "To put it bluntly, you just see that I have a bad relationship with my sister. You know how dissatisfied I am with her. You just see that she has been wronged in the past."
On my old account, I will definitely agree to help you this time."
Liu Yi's expression was slightly stagnant, but he quickly recovered.
She knew that Xu Mingshi was smarter than ordinary children.
But so what if he is smart? Xu Mingyi offends too many people on weekdays, even his own brother is embarrassed in every possible way——
She thought she knew better than anyone else how Xu Mingshi and Xu Mingyi were tit-for-tat, and what kind of temperament a child of Xu Mingshi's size had.
Over the years, she has been able to live a prosperous life in the Zhenguo Palace just by reading people's hearts and looking at people's eyes.
"You said that she now suspects that you want to harm her, and I do have a lot of quarrels with her..." Xu Mingshi whispered, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.
Liu Yi's eyes brightened when he heard this, and hope rose in his heart. He was about to say something more when he suddenly saw the hesitation on the boy's face replaced by determination. He murmured to himself: "In that case, I might as well take you with me."
Go in front of her...so that you can give her a way out."
"...?"
——Did she hear it wrong?!
Before Liu Yi had time to react, Xu Mingshi turned around and ordered the boy: "Ah Jiu, take this person to the front yard!"
He is not a narrow-minded person. On the contrary, he has never really hated Xu Mingyi.
Even if he is really angry with her sometimes, after a few days, he can't help but want to be nice to her... He knows that this is very disappointing, but he can't control it!
Besides...
It was indeed him who cut the bowstring, and it was not Xu Mingyi's unjust accusation.
He had a quarrel with Xu Mingyi and was so angry that he took out her favorite bow to vent his anger.
Later, he heard that she cried in distress, and then learned that it was left to her by her biological mother, and he felt extremely regretful and guilty.
All in all, the conflict between him and Xu Mingyi could never be blamed on just one person. It was just that they had been fighting for a long time and as they got older, neither of them was willing to give in first.
And he saw the change in Xu Mingyi's attitude in the past few days, and he vaguely felt that she was probably taking advantage of her illness to show her kindness to him by pretending to be confused——
She has made it this far, and as a younger brother, he has to respond in a decent way!
He originally prepared a birthday gift for her, but he couldn't give it to her today because he was afraid that if she didn't like it or he misunderstood her so-called "show of goodwill", he would never be able to step down again——
After all, everyone cares about face.
Now it's better to treat Liu Yiban as a birthday gift and find out her true attitude.
Liu Yi, who never expected it to end like this, was escorted to the front yard.
Facing everyone in the Xu family, she was completely unwilling to admit her complicity with the Ruan family.
He only said that he had given Ruan the sleep-aid medicine out of good intentions, and he had no idea that Ruan had used the medicine to harm Xu Mingyi.
Even though Xu Mingyi pointed out the flaws in his words and contradictory behavior, he still refused to admit it.
At the end of the day, or seeing that there was no hope of sophistry, he cried and moved out his father who died in the battle, and kowtowed to the Duke of Zhen.
Mrs. Cui sneered again and again: "Over the years, the Zhenguo Government has treated you with utmost benevolence. If your father was really a sensible person, he would not have the face to plead for you if he learned of your act of repaying kindness with hatred."
—”
However, the Duke of Zhen raised his hand to stop his daughter-in-law from continuing.
"Although your father was just an ordinary soldier in the army during his lifetime, since he was our Xu family's army and died on the battlefield, he is a hero! Based on this alone, I should spare the lives of his descendants!"
