Chapter 304: Chapter 304: Cui Yun Has Been Tolerating Him for a Long Time Too
It’s already the fourth watch of the night.
Above the sky, the moonlight is bright and clear. The twilight sinks deeply, leaving only tranquility behind.
Unaware of when, the wind outside the tent had come to a stop.
Shen Hua admonished Xie Xun, "Don’t get hurt again, remember to dodge."
Then, she turned to look at Cui Yun.
"A man should bear some scars, right?"
Xie Xun really didn’t want to watch Shen Hua talk to Cui Yun: "Marquis Cui, please proceed."
He rubbed his wrist bone: "It’s my lack of discernment that led me to overestimate you. I’ll let you have three moves."
Cui Yun had also been enduring him for a long time.
In a brief instant, his train of thought was incredibly clear.
He unscrupulously plotted and schemed.
How to utterly ruin Duke Fu’s Mansion?
Duke Fu has been clean over the years, but he also exploited his high position to operate opportunities for the Xie family’s younger generation. This wasn’t actually much, as there are many who do the same. But with just a flick of his finger, using his status as the Minister of Ministry of Justice, he could charge him with corruption and bribery at any time. Who asked Duke Fu to have such an abhorrent son like Xie Xun?
As for Xie Xun. That’s even simpler.
Reveal Ji Teng, no need for him to plan anything, Emperor He, being such a man, would determine him to be conspiring to usurp the throne.
Since Xie Xun provoked Shen Hua, he should pay the price.
Cui Yun slightly lifted his eyelids. He softly said to Shen Hua, "You should sleep."
"Go to the mountains and forests."
The latter sentence was spoken to Xie Xun.
"Fine."
Shen Hua was startled: "Really going?"
The answer, of course, was without a doubt.
One always stable and composed, forever handling matters with an air of nonchalance, the other gentle and magnanimous, rarely petty in his actions.
In this moment, they were actually arranging a fight.
If spoken about, probably no one would believe it.
Just as the two were about to leave the tent.
"Wait a moment."
She suddenly spoke out.
The girl bit her lip, her hands hidden beneath her sleeves tightened and then loosened, loosened and then tightened, she blinked tremulously, displaying much hesitation.
In this world, other than Xie Xun, the person she trusted the most was Cui Yun.
That dependency, was genuine. Trust, even more impossible to extinguish.
She finally made up her mind.
"He’s my brother."
The girl stared at Cui Yun’s back.
She said each word very clearly.
"My true-born brother."
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The next day.
Everyone was packing up their belongings, ready to start the return journey.
Cui Rong was running up and down, with the hair decorations on her head swinging as she moved.
"Are you speaking of the character of Princess Rui’an?"
Cui Rong heard someone calling her and immediately stuck her head out, taking small steps to move closer.
"Her, she has a rather unruly temperament."
Nanzhi was saying to the little girl she had just met: "In the future, if you see her, it’s better to walk around her. After all, it’s not good to offend Marquis Yangling Mansion."
"Is that so?"
"Of course, why would I lie to you?"
Nanzhi was about to say more when someone bumped into them.
Quickly, she was shoved to the ground, with Cui Rong sitting on top of her, teeth clattering fiercely.
"I’ve really been tolerating you for too long!"
Cui Rong fiercely pulled her hair.
She ripped off various hair accessories from her hair.
"To let you show off every day dressed to the nines! And boasting to me about your jewelry!"
After thinking for a moment, Cui Rong finally found the words to describe: "Indecent!"
Nanzhi felt so much pain that tears sprang to her eyes.
She obviously didn’t expect to be overheard by Cui Rong; after all, she was still a little girl, incapable of keeping her composure before her elders.
She trembled with fear on the spot.
"Quick, pull her away."
The little girl who was just with him was about to step forward.
Cui Rong glared fiercely, with an overwhelming aura: "Who dares touch I, the Commandery Princess! I! Will! Make! Her! Die!"
The commotion here quickly disturbed the nearby people. Nan Tai Madam, alarmed and hastening over, had received the message.
"Zhi, my dear!"
Nanzhi’s hair was scratched into a mess.
"My darling, what suffering have you endured!"
Nan Tai Madam grabbed Cui Rong’s arm: "Come! Today, I must seek an audience with Marquis Cui to have this matter addressed!"
Cui Rong stood upright with a small stature. She threw the pulled hair from her hand onto the ground.
"Let go of me, I, the Commandery Princess, can walk by myself!"
At that time.
Yingwu was being reprimanded by Ying Yi.
"It seems you haven’t learned your lesson at all. Poisoned three times, and yet entirely unaware?"
"Fortunately, there was no mishap, but if something really did happen this time—"
Upon hearing this, Yingwu responded, "I did have some awareness, those few nights I slept particularly well."
It had been a long time since she had such a good sleep.
The conversation between the two, Shen Hua heard it all. The girl was yawning lazily from time to time.
She was so sleepy she couldn’t stand it, her delicate nose wrinkled, she raised her hand to tuck a stray hair behind her ear. Then suddenly noise erupted from outside.
"Marquis Cui, you must give me an explanation for this matter!"
Cui Yun was courteous and polite, his voice calm: "Nan Tai Madam, please be patient; if my sister Rong has done wrong, I will certainly bring her to apologize at your door."
"What do you mean ’if’? Anyone with eyes can see that my granddaughter Zhi has suffered."
Nan Tai Madam had only that one granddaughter, whom she had personally raised. She was now quite enraged.
"Marquis, after all, I had a friendship with your grandmother. When you were born, I have held you myself. After your father and brother passed away, I paid my respects."
"Nan Tai Madam." Suddenly, a female voice came.
Shen Hua walked over in a few steps.
The girl scanned her from head to toe: "Is it something worth talking about, to rub salt into others’ wounds? Do I need to pay respects to all eighteen generations of the Nan Family’s ancestors lying in the tombs?"
Nan Tai Madam felt a chill seeing Shen Hua.
"But my granddaughter was hit. In past years, wasn’t the Princess Rui’an able to make her cry several times with just words? Now she has moved to using her hands, how will it end in the future?"
Cui Rong: "I didn’t hit her!"
She asserted righteously: "I just pulled her hair."
Shen Hua: "Did you hear that? No hitting."
"At your age, how can you casually accuse a six-year-old little girl."
Nan Tai Madam was choked up.
"This..."
"But you can’t just pull her hair! Can’t things be discussed calmly?"
Cui Rong: "No."
"She spoke ill of me!"
"I, the Commandery Princess, naturally cannot let her off."
Nan Tai Madam, seeing Cui Rong still daring to speak like this, was trembling with anger.
"If Miss Cui isn’t properly disciplined, I’m afraid she might become lawless. Disagreements among young girls are inevitable, but why resort to this? If any harm was done..."
"Little ghost, what you did was indeed wrong, apologize."
Cui Rong was very reluctant.
Then she heard Shen Hua continue: "The Princess will admit her error, Marquis Yangling Mansion maintains good discipline, unlike Nan Tai Madam who doesn’t distinguish right from wrong. One must know there’s a cause before there’s an effect; your little girl is not innocent."
Shen Hua complained: "You also, speaking of ’harming’ and ’touching’, you can’t help but curse your own granddaughter in fine health."
"What if something really did happen?"
"Why does it sound as though Nan Tai Madam is quite regretful?"
Cui Yun let Shen Hua block Nan Tai Madam, leaving her speechless.
Then, a familiar figure appeared in his peripheral vision.
Cui Yun’s brows twitched. He rubbed his furrowed brow and quickly calmed himself, stepping forward.
"Heir Xie."
Cui Yun unhurriedly said: "Since we’re together, why not share a carriage ride, it would also make for pleasant company on the way."