Xiao Jinse frowned imperceptibly at Zishu Sui’s intimacy. “You, how did you know I was going to—”
Her voice suddenly stopped. Xiao Jinse almost admitted that she wanted to bring Xiao Bi’an along.
It was just a pity that her cousin didn’t have time to pay attention to her at all!
Therefore, Xiao Jinse came by herself.
The centurion immediately recognized Xiao Jinse. “So it’s the Second Miss. This subordinate is disturbing you.”
Now that Zishu Sui’s identity had been confirmed, the centurion didn’t know whether the young lady in front of him was close to the commander or not. He didn’t dare to offend her, so he said, “I’ve disturbed the young lady’s elegant interest in dining. This subordinate will take his leave.”
A group of people followed the centurion and left. Xiao Jinse didn’t know what had happened until now.
“Qi Sui, weren’t they here to arrest you?” Xiao Jinse asked.
Zishu Sui no longer stood in front of the cabinet, but walked to the dining table and sat down. “Cousin’s words are funny. I’m just eating a meal, and it’s not like I’m not paying. Even if it’s a free meal, there’s no need to arrest me with such a big fanfare, right?”
Xiao Jinse was speechless.
“Miss, that pendant was pawned for twenty taels of silver.” Yinxing placed the silver on the table.
Over there, the waiter entered the private room with the dishes.
Seeing that Xiao Jinse was still standing there, hating her, Zishu Sui gently asked, “Cousin, would you like to have dinner together?”
“Who cares! Just you wait and see!”
Xiao Jinse stomped downstairs with her nose in the air.
Inside the private room, only Zishu Sui and Yinxing were left.
“Young—” Feng Ruxin returned, and seeing that there were still outsiders in the private room, she suddenly changed her words. “This young lady, did we disturb you just now?”
Zishu Sui tilted her head and glanced again. “This cabinet is exquisitely made, so the things inside must be extremely valuable. Fortunately, no one damaged it. Manager, you have to take good care of it.”
With two sentences, she handed Xie Yan over to Feng Ruxin.
“Yes, Miss is right,” Feng Ruxin smiled skillfully. “This is indeed an antique. I’ll move it to another courtyard later.”
Feng Ruxin didn’t know what was in the cabinet yet. She thought that Zishu Sui had placed some important items inside that needed her to transfer.
She would wait until Zishu Sui left to see what was going on.
After the dishes were served, Zishu Sui didn’t plan to eat here. She was afraid that Xie Yan in the cabinet would suffocate, so she got up and instructed the waiter to pack the dishes.
Although Yinxing was surprised, she didn’t ask much.
The sky gradually darkened.
When the two returned to the courtyard with the delicious food, they saw a three-layer food box placed on the stone table in the courtyard.
Yinxing took the lead and walked over. “The kitchen actually took the initiative to deliver dinner today. It’s really rare.”
Zishu Sui opened the food box lid, and all three layers were filled with dishes.
This time it wasn’t vegetables.
But three meat dishes and one vegetable dish.
Yinxing’s eyes widened when she saw it. “Miss, good days are coming!”
Zishu Sui: …
Remembering the meal she had at the study during the day, Zishu Sui had a guess in her heart.
She just didn’t expect Xiao Bi’an to be so kind so early.
She thought that she would have to eat vegetables for many days.
…
Late at night, the Wuning Marquis’s mansion fell into silence.
On the other side, in a small courtyard in Xixiang.
Inside the bedroom, there were occasional gritted teeth and low groans from a man. His hands were handcuffed to the head of the bed, his hair was disheveled, and the skin on his neck under his brocade clothes was slightly red, as if he was trying his best to endure something.
“Heir, this poppy is addictive. You must quit it. Fortunately, the amount this time is not large. It will be fine after three days!”
Feng Ruxin didn’t dare to get too close to him, because the effect of Mafeisan had passed, and she was afraid that Xie Yan, who was affected by poppy, would do something crazy.
Logically speaking, the first few hours after eating poppy were very “happy”, but Xie Yan had no happy expression at all.
“Get out! Get out!” Xie Yan clenched his hands into fists. When he moved, the iron chains on his wrists made bursts of friction.
Feng Ruxin left immediately, not staying for a moment longer.
The night was very quiet.
But the candlestick didn’t know when it had burned to the end, and Xie Yan fell into darkness.
The cool autumn wind rustled through the leaves outside, but the room was extremely stuffy.
Just when Xie Yan’s heart calmed down for a while, he heard movement outside the door.
“Who is it?”
He looked towards the source of the sound, and it happened that the door was pushed open from the outside.
Moonlight spilled into the room, and Xie Yan seemed to catch a glimpse of a ray of moonlight, but it seemed a little dazzling, and his eyes flickered.
The girl was dressed in night clothes, like flowing ink, and walked into the room, wrapped in moonlight, and closed the door again.
Xie Yan didn’t see her appearance clearly, but he didn’t speak.
He probably knew who it was.
The candlestick in the room was relit, and Zishu Sui held the candlestick and placed it beside Xie Yan’s bed.
The light gradually brightened, illuminating the two of them.
Zishu Sui’s gaze first fell on Xie Yan’s wrist that was being grilled, and there were clear and obvious tooth marks left on that hand.
She was slightly stunned, and then took out a small porcelain bottle from her arms.
“Is the Wuning Marquis’s mansion so free to come and go?” As soon as Xie Yan opened his mouth, he had a teasing and sarcastic tone.
Zishu Sui squatted in front of the bed, and poured the medicine from the porcelain bottle on his hand, neither gently nor carefully.
But she didn’t hear Xie Yan hum.
She turned her head and looked at his face, only to see that not only were his lower eyelids red, but the eye sockets of his phoenix eyes were also red.
Looking at it, there was a kind of inexplicable, strange feeling.
Zishu Sui couldn’t tell where it was strange.
She saw that his eyes suddenly became blurred, as if he was looking at others through her, and those eyes had more respect than usual.
He seemed to be going to have an attack.
So this was intermittent.
After Zishu Sui realized this, she prepared to stay away from him.
Just as she was about to get up, a strong hand suddenly covered her wrist and pulled her back to her original place.
At this time, Zishu Sui couldn’t help but think, why did Feng Ruxin only handcuff one of his hands?
Before she could think, she saw that the expression of the person in front of her became more and more wrong, and then she only heard him call out a nostalgic voice—
“Grandmother.”
Zishu Sui was slightly stunned when she heard this unfamiliar title.
In the next moment, this man, who was taller than her, threw himself into her arms and hugged her tightly.
“Grandmother, Grandmother, Sisi misses you so much.”