After the meal, Chu Jingyue planned to leave first. The affairs in the Earl’s Mansion were intricate and complicated, and it was very likely to involve multiple lives. She planned to stand still to avoid alarming the enemy.
However, as they were about to leave, the old lady sent someone to say that she wanted to see Chu Jingyue.
The two went to the old lady’s courtyard in the backyard. Chu Jingyue looked around, and everything here was normal.
“Huh?”
As soon as Chu Jingyue entered the main room, she smelled an unusual stench.
“Does your grandmother have any chronic illnesses?” Chu Jingyue asked in a low voice, this smell was a bit abnormal.
Wenren Si frowned and said, “I haven’t heard of it.”
“This old woman is very healthy, thank you for your concern, granddaughter-in-law.”
An old lady who was not tall but looked energetic came out of the inner room, her eyebrows and eyes were serious and she couldn’t see her joy or anger.
“She does look healthy.” Chu Jingyue’s calm eyes hid coldness.
The healthier the old lady was, the more abnormal the smell in the house was.
However, the smell in the house was faint, and it shouldn’t be the source.
Could it be that there was something abnormal about the people around the old lady?
“Girl, come over and let me take a look.” The old lady sat in the main seat and showed a kind smile to Chu Jingyue.
Chu Jingyue got up and walked over, and the other party familiarly took her hand, and said with a smile, “Good, she looks beautiful and easy to bear children, I like her no matter how I look at her.”
“Is that so?” Chu Jingyue asked back with an ambiguous meaning, and everyone in the room was shocked.
When an elder praises, one should thank them. What does “is that so” mean?
Chu Jingyue held the old lady’s hand back, and her fingers slid inadvertently, already figuring out the wrinkles in her palm.
Touching bones to see the face, knowing fate when seeing people.
No matter from which angle, the old lady should be a widow, but she vaguely remembered Wenren Si saying that his grandfather was still alive.
“Although the King and I came back today to pay respects to the late Concubine, we should also come to greet the elders. The King should not have seen his grandfather for a long time, right?”
Chu Jingyue turned to look at Wenren Si, signaling him to answer.
“Grandmother, I wonder if grandfather is doing well recently?” Wenren Si reluctantly cooperated, what was she going to do again?
The old lady patted Chu Jingyue’s hand, her eyes full of love, and said, “He is doing well, but he has recently become obsessed with worshiping Buddha. He went to the Buddhist temple some time ago, and it was the same one that your old lady went to.”
Chu Jingyue already understood, she smiled and said, “I see.”
“Good girl, this is your first time coming to the Earl’s Mansion, wear this bracelet, Rujun liked to clamor for it before she got married, but I was reluctant to give it, so I will give it to you today.”
The nanny carefully handed over a jade bracelet, which was round and smooth and was indeed a good product.
Chu Jingyue put on the bracelet, shook her hand and said, “It is indeed a good bracelet.”
“It’s good that you like it, it’s not early today, you should go back to the Royal Mansion as soon as possible, so as not to worry your Grand Madam.”
The old lady issued an order to evict the guests, and Wenren Si took Chu Jingyue away.
However, after they left, the old lady’s face immediately turned cold.
“A thing without rules, I originally thought that if she was a good one, this matter would be fine, since she is not sensible, she deserves this calamity.”
The old lady’s face suddenly changed, and she stared at the door gloomily. She didn’t have half a thank you for her reward, Chu Jingyue really didn’t know what was good for her.
“Old lady, please calm down, she seems to have a longer life than the young ladies in the mansion, isn’t that what you and the old master want?”
The old lady smiled strangely again when she heard the words, “Yes, looking at her unpromising appearance, knowing that the bracelet was liked by Ah Si’s mother, she will definitely wear it day and night to please him. It’s good to wear it, it’s good to wear it.”
Pa!
As soon as Chu Jingyue got into the carriage, she took off the bracelet from her wrist and broke it in half.
“You—” Wenren Si pursed his lips and said, “What does this mean?”
“Look inside.” Chu Jingyue faced the crack of the bracelet towards Wenren Si, and saw a faint white line inside the bracelet that was not obvious.
Wenren Si took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, “What’s the problem?”
“This is a kind of life-borrowing method, and your several cousins in the family have dark marks on their foreheads, probably because of the same thing.” Chu Jingyue played with the remaining half of the jade bracelet and sneered, “Borrowing the lives of several people, the ambition is not small.”
Wenren Si’s eyes sank, “Is there any basis?”
“No, it’s all based on my one-sided words.” Chu Jingyue continued to say indifferently, “Your grandmother’s house has a stench, and the elderly who have been bedridden for a long time will have that kind of smell.”
Wenren Si understood in an instant, “You suspect that the problem is with my grandfather?”
“It’s almost certain, your grandmother is destined to be a widow, but your grandfather is still alive, plus the life-borrowing bracelet, it’s hard for me not to suspect it.”
Chu Jingyue put away the two jade bracelets, and seeing that he hadn’t spoken for a long time, she looked up and saw that Wenren Si’s narrowed eyes were full of vigilance.
Pei Feng had secretly investigated, and Chu Jingyue was indeed foolish before, and even on the day of the posthumous marriage, she was still crazy and foolishly shouting nonsense.
How did her madness heal as soon as she arrived at the Royal Mansion, and now she has encountered strange things that she had never encountered before one after another.
Even the Ning’an Earl’s Mansion was pulled out by her. Wenren Si had to suspect whether everything was a conspiracy from the beginning.
“There is one thing I really want to ask the Second Miss Chu, why are you no longer foolish?” Wenren Si asked sharply.
Chu Jingyue sneered, “Is it necessary to ask? The King only needs to remember that I saved you, isn’t that good enough?”
“The seal-breaking formation is also your one-sided statement. I don’t believe in ghosts and gods, and not everything is seen as true. Now you are pointing the finger at the Ning’an Earl’s Mansion, what is your purpose?”
The more Wenren Si spoke, the colder his voice became, as if he was interrogating.
Chu Jingyue leaned back with her legs crossed, half-closed her eyes and raised her eyebrows lightly, “The King is really a fickle person, he just said he would protect me, and now he suspects me.”
“If you have no ghosts in your heart, why don’t you dare to answer directly?”
Wenren Si’s heart was full of suspicion, and he even wondered if the Chu Jingyue in front of him was Chu Jingyue.
If she was a spy from an enemy country, or someone sent by the enemies of the Wenren family, it would all make sense.
“Heh.” Chu Jingyue sneered, raised her leg and kicked Wenren Si out without saying a word.
Pei Feng, who was driving the horse, was startled, and before he could figure out what was going on, he heard the Princess’s clear voice from the carriage.
“If you don’t believe in my ability, get out of here.”
Wenren Si’s face sank slightly, and he forcefully lifted the curtain and re-entered the carriage to restrain his anger, and questioned with suppressed anger, “You dare to kick me?”
“I kicked you, why didn’t you say you suspected me of having ulterior motives when you asked me to save people? If you hadn’t come today, I would have had a more direct way to deal with these things. I cooperated with you, just to give you face. If the matter of borrowing life and raising Gu is exposed, even if the Ning’an Earl’s Mansion is not torn apart by me, it will probably be drowned in saliva, right?”
Chu Jingyue is not a good-tempered person, otherwise she would not have cultivated the ruthless way.
She was already racking her brains to find a way to take care of the face of the Ning’an Earl’s Mansion, but Wenren Si actually suspected her, of course she would not swallow her anger.
Wenren Si opened his mouth and found that he couldn’t argue with her, and sat coldly on the very edge of the carriage, “Then you can say something, you can’t just say it’s borrowing life and it’s borrowing life.”
He was slightly inclined to believe Chu Jingyue in his heart, but the person who did the insidious thing was likely to be his grandfather.
How could Wenren Si accept this?
Grandfather used to love him the most.