In this party, besides the Grand Elder Princess, there were also quite a few other members of the imperial family. But apart from this, there was also Luo Jing Ying’s grandfather and grandmother, the Ding Duke couple, as well as Sun Yi Lin. Did something happen?
“Ru Yu, what were you planning on presenting to imperial mother? What are you doing in imperial mother’s name again?” Li Hong Yi asked unimpressed.
Li Ru Yu stammered, unable to open her mouth. Not that she didn’t want to open her mouth, but rather she was so frightened that she didn’t dare to.
Li Hong Yuan had purposefully ‘released’ her out, so naturally he won’t have her ‘confined’ back to the Cheng Junwang Manor again. He didn’t speak. Moreover, his mood right now was ‘not good’, so naturally he had ‘no interest’ in putting up with insignificant people.
Jing Wan was rather restless inside, only wanting to quickly settle this matter. Thus, she stood out, first bowing to each one by one. “It’s like this, Ru Yu Junzhu, seeing that this subject’s skin is rather good, inquired whether or not this subject had some secret recipe. She wants to present it to her highness, the Empress. However, this subject figured, since her highness is of esteemed and noble status, she naturally has her own skincare methods, how can the things from the outside be casually used. And this subject didn’t say that one won’t give, but just as one was about to explain a few words, junzhu started getting worked up.”
When Jing Wan said this, the crowd’s line of sight naturally landed on her face. If one didn’t look, one wouldn’t know, but looking at it now, how was it just ‘rather good’? It was practically outrageously good, even an infant’s wouldn’t be any better than this. However, it didn’t have the fragile tenderness of an infant’s skin, but rather the kind that very much had a tactile quality, like a beautiful piece of jade. The princesses and junzhus all envied in unison.
As for Li Ru Yu, seeing Jing Wan lie without changing her face, she directly trembled in anger. And to dare lie in front of this many noble personages, such brazenness, this time, she sure wanted to see, how she was going to die. “She…….”
“If you have a secret recipe it, then bring it out, this prince will let someone have a look. If it really is good, then this prince will also present it to consort mother. You won’t get any less benefits.” Li Hong Yuan impatiently spoke.
Li Ru Yu’s words naturally were all shoved back.
From the start, Jing Wan had noticed, this wangye seemingly was in a very bad mood. “This one will comply with wangye’s instructions.”
“Enough, this matter can be dealt with later once Sun Yi Jia’s matter is taken care of.”
Jing Wan felt, the Li Hong Yuan right now was practically just like a gun powder barrel, ready to explode at anytime. However, right now wasn’t the time to care about this, “Big sister Jia? What’s wrong with big sister Jia?” But everyone all held a heavy look, no one gave her an answer.
Perhaps really having been irritated to the extreme, Li Hong Yuan strode away first. The others could only follow after.
Jing Wan quickly walked to Luo Old Madam’s side, holding onto her arm and whispering, “Grandmother…..”
“How are your hands?” Luo Old Madam looked to her hands, not daring to touch her fingers.
“Grandmother, don’t worry, the medicine has been applied. It doesn’t hurt that much anymore. Just what exactly happened?”
Luo Old Madam only sighed and patted her hand, “Don’t talk, you’ll know in a moment.”
Jing Wan pursed her lips. Since this matter concerned big sister Jia, then there was no reason for her own family to be mixed in. The only explanation was that this matter, her family also had a part in.
The place where Jing Wan treated her injuries and cleaned herself up at earlier was precisely the small courtyard by the lake. This while, they were also headed in that direction, but when they were still a distance away, they made a turn, heading towards the direction of the inner courtyard.
From the looks of it, they actually didn’t enter the inner courtyard. There was also a small courtyard here, very similar in structure to the small courtyard by the lake. Moreover, there was a pond inside directly connected to the lake outside, and a small building built facing the water.
At the moment, there were a few people outside the small building, seems to be the servants of the Grand Elder Princess Manor.
The party directly entered the small building.
Afterwards, Jing Wan saw her own older brother, with his head lowered, silently sitting there. He’d changed his clothes, and his hair was still wet.
Jing Wan’s heart shook, could it be………….
Seeing them, Luo Jing Bo actually got up, lifted aside the hem of his clothes, and directly knelt down, without a second word.
With him like this, it was rather hard for one to get angry.
This was the Grand Elder Princess’s residence after all, so it wasn’t too appropriate for the others to question. “Good child, speak, what happened?” Because of her favorable impression towards Jing Wan, and prior to coming, she’d learned that this was her older brother, the Grand Elder Princess was rather friendly towards him.
“Where’s Sun Yi Jia, call her out, have everything asked clearly all at once.” Li Hong Yuan’s face was cold and stern.
“Wangye………” The Ding Duchess was discontent. For something like this to have happened, how was a young lady going to face this many people.
“Shut up.”
Perhaps having heard the ruckus below, Sun Yi Jia rather didn’t have anyone invite her, as she directly came down from upstairs. She similarly had changed her clothes as well, and seeing her wet hair, certain guesses already became true.
“Who’s going to talk first?” Compared to the Grand Elder Princess’s gentleness, Li Hong Yuan wasn’t that good tempered.
“Wangye, this commoner[1] will speak first. Because previously when younger sister was playing the qin, this commoner noticed that she was somewhat off, thus found someone and asked. And in a moment of worry, after learning that she’d injured her hands, this commoner inquired her whereabouts, and then had the servant girl lead the way to the small courtyard by the lake. However, when one was still a distance away from the small courtyard, this one saw the heir of Zhong Qinwang Manor tailing behind a few young ladies and entering this little courtyard after them. This commoner asked the servant girl whether or not anyone resided here, and the servant girl said, the feng shui here wasn’t too good, and the humidity quite heavy, so other than during the daily cleaning time, no one would come here. And when there was a banquet, this place occasionally would be given to guests to change clothes, and when there’s no guests, there won’t be servants present either. This commoner worried that something might happen, so had that servant girl go call someone, while I hurriedly went to check. Just, as soon as this one stepped into the little courtyard, this one immediately heard someone shouting for help, and then the sound of someone falling into the water. Seeing the young lady struggling in the water about to sink, and being unable to find anything suitable in the surrounding to assist, in a moment of panic, this commoner just jumped into the water, having the young lady that had fallen into the water rescued. Soon after, this one finally noticed that it was Miss Sun.”
Afterwards, regardless whether it was the servant girl that led the way for Luo Jing Bo, or Sun Yi Jia’s servant girl, both verified that his words were true.
That’s why, in this entire matter, Luo Jing Bo didn’t have any fault. In fact, he can even be considered to be righteous. His only mistake was probably in the fact that the person he saved was Sun Yi Jia—————Jin Qinwang’s fiancee. If it was any other young lady, or even a servant girl, it would all be easy to deal with.
Have to say, the person with the darkest expression at the moment was still Zhong Qinwang. That bastard, that bastard………….
Li Hong Yuan looked to Sun Yi Jia, “Talk.”
“Wangye, can you let this servant explain, this servant was by our miss’s side the whole time, so this servant knows everything.”
As this matter’s greatest victim, Sun Yi Jia had her head lowered the entire time, silent without a word, and also somewhat dispirited, just like a destroyed lotus after a storm. Where did she still have the slightest bit of her graceful bearing in the past
Seeing Li Hong Yuan not say anything, the servant girl carefully opened her mouth, “When Miss Luo went to clean up, originally our miss wanted to follow, however Miss Luo joked that she worried miss would cry seeing her fingers, so she let miss stay at the female guest side. Just, many people were all casting glances at our miss, saying some slanderous gossip. Miss also felt bored, so she went to go find Miss Luo. When we were nearing the little courtyard by the lake, a little servant girl came out from inside the little courtyard, saying that little courtyard was currently occupied by a male guest, and that Miss Luo came to this little courtyard instead. Miss took it to be true, directly following the little servant girl here, and was led upstairs. However, after we entered the room, we discovered that it was completely empty inside. Miss immediately said ‘not good’, and just as we were about to head out, Zhong Qinwang’s heir charged in. His two servant boys grabbed this servant and the little servant girl, while Zhong Qinwang’s heir threw himself towards miss, desiring to do something bad to miss. Miss turned and ran, and when she saw the opened window, she directly jumped through it, landing in the pond below…………”
Thus, the core of the entire matter was all made clear. Now then, how should this matter be taken care of?
“Hong Yuan, how do you wish for this matter to be taken care of?” The Grand Elder Princess turned to Li Hong Yuan.
[1] Luo Jing Bo refers to himself as ‘cao min’ which literally translates to ‘grass citizen’, basically the humble self-address of commoners before authority. Because his family doesn’t have a nobility title, and he himself doesn’t have an official position, he is technically considered a commoner. Jing Wan addresses herself as ‘this subject’, which really is just me shortening the address ‘subject’s daughter’, because her father does have an official post. For females, their self-address is usually based on their husband or father.
