Indoors, Mrs. Ruan picked out the wicks, her face looked a little ugly, and she wanted to sit down and rest for a while, but she couldn't sit still at all, so she stood up and paced back and forth in the room.
After a while, Garcinia and the two girls filled the bathtub with water and prepared to take Ruan's bath.
Ruan waved them off, "I'll just soak for a while. You all can go down and have a rest. We'll put these things away tomorrow morning."
"Yes, ma'am."
The next day.
Li Qingyi had eaten in the morning and copied two copybooks in his room. The originally clear sky suddenly turned gray, and it didn't take long for fine snow to fall, and the winter atmosphere became stronger.
"There's no movement at Wei Baozhu's place?"
Heng Wu shook his head, "No, she has been either in Heyan Hall or in her own yard recently. She doesn't go anywhere. She doesn't look out of the ordinary."
"Lin is dead, and she and we are in a fight to the death. It has reached this point, the more normal it is, the more abnormal it is."
Back then, Lin's every move had her intention. Even if Wei Baozhu didn't learn 100%, she still had half of it.
She has now become a parasite growing on Mrs. Wei's body. With the help of her master, how could she remain silent?
Li Qingyi brushed his sleeves and stood up, "I'm not worried, but I still want to go back and have a look."
Heng Wu heard this and quickly brought a big fur cloak, "It's cold outside, girl, be careful of catching a cold."
Qinghua Pavilion.
When Wei Baozhu heard that Li Qingyi had returned to Li Mansion, a sneer appeared on his lips.
She couldn't believe that Ruan would tell her niece who had not yet come out of the palace to have such a heart disease!
"Let's go and see grandma."
Wei Baozhu's back couldn't help but straighten a bit.
Ever since she made a deal with Mrs. Wei, she has been crawling at her feet like a slave.
It had been a long time since she walked with her head held high, and she had almost forgotten that she was the second daughter of the family! It's the master!
Now that things have taken shape, she finally sees the light of day!
*****
When Li Qingyi returned to Xuandehou Mansion, the snow had stopped, and she went straight to the main room to find Ruan.
After entering the door and calling "Second Aunt", she circled around Ruan and frowned: "Second Aunt didn't sleep well at night? Why do you look so low-spirited?"
Ruan subconsciously stroked the bruises under her eyes and said vaguely, "I didn't sleep well..."
"Have you ever seen the doctor?"
"I'm fine, but you, why did you come back suddenly?"
"I have nothing to do. I'm just thinking about my second aunt. That Wei Baozhu is hiding so secretly. I don't know what his intentions are. If there is anything unusual around my second aunt, you must tell me. Don't take it seriously! "
Ruan frowned slightly after hearing this. Garcinia beside her stopped talking, her mouth was watering, and she immediately said, "Madam, I haven't been able to sleep well for several days!"
"Liu Zi, shut up!" Ruan looked at her angrily, "Who wants you to talk more?"
Liu Zi was anxious and couldn't help but look at Li Qingyi.
Li Qingyi asked suspiciously: "Second aunt, what is going on?"
"It's nothing. These two girls are so suspicious. If something happened to me, why wouldn't I tell you."
Li Qingyi looked at her expression carefully, frowned and shook his head: "No, the second aunt must be hiding something from me!"
Seeing her pressing the question, Mrs. Ruan couldn't help but feel at a loss.
Upon seeing this, Li Qingyi paused and ordered Garcinia and others, "You guys go down first."
The girls are all gone, and Ruan's condition has not relaxed at all.
Li Qingyi saw her depressed and restless look and said slowly: "Second Aunt, we have enemies outside who are watching us. We must not take it lightly. No matter what abnormality is around us, it may be someone else's female trap."
Ruan Shi glanced at her nervously, but still did not open her mouth.
When she didn't say anything, Li Qingyi started to guess.
"The family's property is in deficit?"
Ruan frowned and shook his head.
"Did something happen to the Ruan family?"
Ruan still shook his head.
"There must be another woman outside my second uncle, right?"
Ruan opened her mouth, but not even a word came out, and shook her head again.
Li Qingyi seemed to have grasped the key point.
"Second Aunt, tell me, is there something going on with Second Uncle?"
Ruan took a deep breath and sighed, still finding it difficult to speak.
Li Qingyi was anxious, "If the second aunt doesn't tell me, I'll ask the second uncle!"
Seeing that she was about to leave, Mrs. Ruan grabbed her sleeve and said, "Oh! Come back!"
Li Qingyi stopped and turned around to look at her: "Aunt 2, are you willing to say it?"
Ruan sighed for a long time and opened her mouth several times but felt unable to speak.
In the end, she could only choose the most euphemistic way to say it, "Your second uncle, have you been in contact with any unclean women recently?"
Li Qingyi was stunned, "My second uncle... He has been busy competing with the prince recently. He probably won't have any chance to contact women, let alone unclean women. How can my second uncle be such a person..."
After hearing this, Ruan's expression not only did not improve, but turned a bit paler, "Can you confirm his whereabouts? Could he have been framed or something like last time..."
Li Qingyi shook his head, "No, since something happened last time, Uncle Er has been followed by people on the road back and forth, so nothing like that will happen."
"Since the problem didn't appear to her... then how could I..."
Li Qingyi's eyes changed when he heard this.
If she were an unexperienced girl, she would naturally not be able to understand what Ruan said, but she had experienced affairs between men and women.
Ruan just mentioned "unclean" women, and now she says so, is it possible...
"Second Aunt, are you feeling unwell in any way?"
Ruan's face looked ugly and he nodded with difficulty.
Li Qingyi took a deep breath, "Have you seen a doctor?"...
"No, if people know that I have that kind of disease, what kind of face will I have in the future? I can just hang myself with a rope, and the reputation of our Li family will be completely ruined! The marriages of your siblings have changed. what to do?"
Li Qingyi's blood surged up and his whole body felt warm. "It seems that this is what Wei Baozhu wants to achieve!"
They took every precaution to prevent Wei Baozhu from being poisoned and framed, and made all kinds of assumptions, but they didn't expect that the precautions were in the wrong place. Wei Baozhu could even think of such a sinister trick!
It's so vicious!
"Wei Baozhu? How could she..."
"Why not? Second Aunt, don't forget those dirty things that Lin did! There are so many dirty people in the Lin family, so it's not surprising that she knows about this!"
Ruan clenched her fists involuntarily and felt a chill in her heart.
Although she was born in a businessman, she was also a wealthy lady. She was clean and self-respecting and behaved well. Even though she was very affectionate with Li Yong, she always followed the true feelings and never did anything inappropriate.
"Like mother, like daughter, she actually used such dirty methods to deal with me!"
"I'm afraid it's more than just dealing with it."
Ruan looked up at her.
"If I didn't ask Second Aunt today, what would Second Aunt plan to do?"
Li Qingyi was filled with fear. If she was a girl who didn't understand anything, she wouldn't be able to see what the second aunt was hiding. When the time came, Wei Baozhu would be able to force the second aunt to death without even using a single soldier!
"If the second aunt consults a doctor, things will definitely go as Wei Baozhu wishes, and the news will be known all over the world. If the second aunt does not consult a doctor, her condition will get worse day by day, and she will no longer be able to hide it. 2 The uncle will also have a grudge with the second aunt because of this. After all, the second aunt has been hiding such a big thing from the second uncle. Is there something ulterior in her heart? No matter which of these two possibilities it is, it will make the second aunt go again. Forced by the dead end!"
Ruan's breath was stagnant.
Li Qingyi took a deep breath, "I really have to admire Wei Baozhu. I thought she was in the Wei family and it would be difficult to get there no matter how long her hands were.
Our family is tampering with things, who knew she could think of such a method! "
"More than that, she was sure that I wouldn't tell you. If you hadn't pressed me hard today, how could I have said it?" Ruan's heart felt tight, "But how did I catch this disease?" ?」
Li Qingyi's eyes swept around Mrs. Ruan, "The problem is not with Second Aunt herself, it must be with the things she handles daily. But this kind of hidden disease can only be contracted by close contact. It is most likely caused by clothing. Something went wrong..."
"Clothing?"
Ruan's face turned pale, goosebumps appeared all over her body, and she subconsciously grabbed the hem of her skirt.
"Second aunt, don't worry. There is a female doctor with medical skills in Master Qin's house. I will ask Chang Lan to invite her to diagnose and treat second aunt. There will be no news about it."
Ruan nodded in despair.
Li Qingyi sat down and asked carefully: "When did the second aunt realize that something was wrong?"
"In the past few days, that... that place has been very uncomfortable, itchy and painful. After bathing in hot water, it can be relieved a little, but it can't last long, and it becomes unbearably itchy again. Because of the discomfort in my body , I didn’t let your second uncle go back to the main courtyard to sleep in the past few days. I thought about it and didn’t know why, so I didn’t sleep well for several days.”
Li Qingyi probably had an idea in his mind, so he stopped asking any more questions. Instead, he asked Garcinia and Liu Zi to come in and ask about the clothes Ruan had worn during this period and who handled them.
Garcinia and Liuzi were a little puzzled, but they still tried their best to remember: "The lady wore the lavender outfit yesterday, and the lake blue outfit the day before yesterday...the day before yesterday..."
Both girls have good memories, and they thought about everything in a moment.
"Besides these, may I remember my second aunt's underwear?"
The two girls were even more confused.
Liu Zi said: "Actually, it's not hard to imagine. Madam's undergarments are almost always made to match the outer garments. They are made of silk or cotton and have different colors. Each set is different. You know what to wear with the outer garments." , the inner garment can also be distinguished."
Li Qingyi nodded: "Who has touched these clothes? Did they take them out of the house?"
Garcinia was extremely puzzled and said: "In addition to the slaves and Liu Zi, Madam's clothes are washed by the maids in the laundry room, and there are also dedicated housekeepers to watch over them. No one dares to disturb them. But a few days ago, Madam had Some of the clothes are newly made and brought back from our own shop!"
When Li Qingyi heard this, he looked at Ruan Shi, and both of them looked unhappy.
