Zishu Sui’s efforts were all seen by Feng Ruxin, but Feng Ruxin could also see that the girl had no talent in martial arts, perhaps because she didn’t have a naturally gifted father.
Xie Yan, on the other hand, was exceptionally talented and worked hard every day to gain the approval of Prince Dingyang. Therefore, Zishu Sui could never catch up with Xie Yan in leading troops to battle.
Feng Ruxin was much older than them. Even she couldn’t stand Xie Yan treating a girl like this, so she stepped forward to persuade him not to bully his sister, not to bully a little girl.
How did Xie Yan respond at the time?
Feng Ruxin still remembered it vividly.
He looked at the girl lying on the ground without any emotion and coldly asked:
“If you want to be a little girl who needs others to yield to win, then go back as soon as possible.”
“So, do you want to be my opponent, or a pampered young lady of the Dingyang Prince’s Mansion?”
In his eyes, as long as you were an opponent, gender didn’t matter.
After he finished speaking, Feng Ruxin watched as the girl struggled to get up from the ground, with no resentment on her face from being bullied, only determination.
“But we are not opponents.”
“We are allies.”
Feng Ruxin watched the girl pick up her sword and wipe the blood from the back of her hand.
She was covered in dust, but she gave off an incredibly holy feeling.
Xie Yan twitched the corner of his mouth, “You’re not qualified yet.”
At the time, Feng Ruxin didn’t know what Zishu Sui was thinking, Feng Ruxin only knew that she was about to be driven mad.
But a later battlefield experience completely changed Feng Ruxin’s perspective.
The girl was trapped in the enemy’s encirclement and was besieged by the Yan army. When her life was on the line, Xie Yan rushed into the enemy’s formation alone and rescued the girl. Both of them were seriously injured that time.
But Xie Yan didn’t abandon her.
In the years that followed, no matter how much Xie Yan and Zishu Sui disagreed or argued, Feng Ruxin no longer intervened.
Because Feng Ruxin realized that these non-blood-related siblings were in the same boat.
While Feng Ruxin was reminiscing, the siblings in front of her actually started eating.
The sudden silence made Xie Yan feel a little uncomfortable. He frowned slightly, “What exactly do you want to do in the Marquis’s Mansion?”
Xie Yan really didn’t think she was trying to steal the sword.
Zishu Sui held the bowl in her hands, and when she looked up, she met his dark pupils, “Have someone send me a keepsake from the Qi family.”
“What for?” he asked.
Zishu Sui felt that he was asking the obvious, “Make sure the Qi family members are locked up tight. Before I finish what I want to do, don’t let anyone escape.”
In the eyes of outsiders, after Pingting fell, the Qi family suffered, and only “Qi Sui” escaped.
But the truth was not so. The Dingyang Prince’s army was not a brutal and bloodthirsty gang, but rather had strict military discipline and was full of righteousness. After entering the city, they did not burn, kill, or loot, but instead settled the people.
The Qi family surrendered, and since they didn’t rush to die, they all survived.
It was just that because Zishu Sui needed the identity of Qi Sui, she placed the entire Qi family under house arrest, so that not even a mosquito could fly out, let alone letters and messages between collateral relatives and confidants.
And the rumors circulating outside, such as “Magistrate Qi and his wife died for their country,” were all false, just for the sake of putting on a show.
Xie Yan heard this and responded softly. His left hand subconsciously went to touch the jade pendant on his waist, but he didn’t feel anything.
His face changed drastically, and he remembered the most important thing.
He put down his chopsticks and suddenly lost his appetite.
At this moment, Zishu Sui noticed his abnormality and said calmly, “If you can’t find this jade pendant, adoptive father will definitely be angry.”
Xie Yan “whooshed” and stood up, walking out the door.
Feng Ruxin was a little confused about what had happened. Zishu Sui said indifferently, “He’s been here for three days. It’s time for him to go back.”
After Xie Yan’s figure disappeared into the courtyard, Zishu Sui told Feng Ruxin about her other purpose,
“Sister Feng, I want to do something.”
“I heard from the servants of the Marquis’s Mansion that Xiao Bian always goes to Lingdao in the suburbs of Beijing for a few days in early November every year. According to the calculation, it should be these two days.”
“I want some manpower.”
As soon as Zishu Sui finished speaking, Feng Ruxin’s eyes flashed with interest, “Does the young master want to take the opportunity to kill him?”
For some reason, Feng Ruxin’s first reaction was always to kill someone. Zishu Sui was momentarily speechless, and then said,
“I want him to fall in love with me, the kind that can’t help himself. Sister Feng is knowledgeable and should know more than I do. In what kind of environment would a hard-hearted person like him be moved?”
Feng Ruxin’s lips parted slightly, obviously not expecting the girl’s purpose to be this. Thinking of Xie Yan who had just left, Feng Ruxin felt that Xie Yan had left early.
However, Zishu Sui did ask the right person.
These three years in Beijing were indeed more comfortable than in Dingyang. Feng Ruxin had also tasted a lot of romantic affairs. Even the moment before Zishu Sui found her at the restaurant a few days ago, she was still whispering sweet nothings with her lover in bed.
She could be considered quite experienced in this area.
It was just a pity that Feng Ruxin didn’t know Xiao Bian as a person and couldn’t make detailed plans for Zishu Sui.
But, there were only so many ways.
“The fastest way to capture a man is to start with desire, but it is said that the young master Xiao doesn’t get close to women. I don’t know if he is a paragon of virtue,” Feng Ruxin said seriously.
Zishu Sui was not a child anymore and naturally understood, “I don’t want to sacrifice myself.”
Feng Ruxin clicked her tongue, “Young master has not tasted love and doesn’t understand its wonders. If you really master the tricks, you wouldn’t say the word sacrifice.”
Zishu Sui felt that she had asked the wrong person. The next moment, she heard Feng Ruxin change her statement—
“If young master knows to grasp Xiao Erlang’s weakness to threaten him, then love is the same. No matter men or women, there are untouchable pains or nostalgic pasts in their hearts, maybe it’s family, friends, or lovers. As long as there is, you can use it to get close.”
“But, why does young master want him to fall in love with you? Does young master like him?”
Feng Ruxin couldn’t figure it out. After all, if Zishu Sui really fell in love, it would definitely not be a good thing.
The two were not in the same camp at all.
Now, even the identity that Zishu Sui used to approach Xiao Bian was fake.
She saw the girl shake her head. Her eyes were firm, just like when she grabbed her sword and climbed up from the sand.
Her voice was clear and ethereal, as pure as a bell, without a trace of lust or attachment,
“For him, absolutely impossible.”
Everything was just for the subsequent plan.
Zishu Sui never doubted her intentions. She didn’t tell Xie Yan about her plans because her hatred had nothing to do with Xie Yan.
But what she had to do, she had to do.
Making Xiao Bian fall in love with her was just the first step of the plan.
“In that case, that’s good,” Feng Ruxin said relievedly, “Young master wants manpower, what do you want us to do for you?”
The two discussed in the room, and the night grew deeper.
The tree in the courtyard rustled in the wind, but no one noticed that the man who had just left had returned without anyone knowing when.
He seemed to be integrated into the darkness, with a gloomy face, listening to the two women in the room discussing, discussing how to seduce a man.
How to make Xiao Bian fall in love with Zishu Sui.
At this moment, Xie Yan couldn’t explain the emotions in his heart, as if a strange fire was burning, perhaps because he was dissatisfied with being deceived by the girl.
He looked up at the sky and found that the originally bright moonlight had been blocked by thick clouds, just like his mood, shrouded in darkness, and his anger was difficult to suppress.
She clearly said that she went to the Wu Ning Marquis’s Mansion to steal the sword.
Now it seemed that she was simply, for Xiao Bian.
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