Tang Ning's expression was startled for a moment, then softened.
She could feel that the man in front of her was angry, and his face was so cold that ice would fall from his face. However, even though he was extremely angry, he still remembered to be considerate for her, so that her efforts would not be in vain.
The fear that Tang Ning had just raised suddenly disappeared, and she just spoke obediently towards Madam Qin.
"Sister Qin, listen to brother first. You keep the medicine. I will ask Hua Wu to give the medicine after I see the imperial doctor later." She said softly, "Didn't you just say that you still have something to do? ?”
"ah?"
Madam Qin was at a loss for a moment, but she quickly came to her senses when Tang Ning winked at her.
"Oh yes, I made an appointment with someone else to see a doctor today. I will keep this medicine for you first. Remember to ask this girl to apply it on you later. The dosage and usage are the same as what I said before. I'm leaving."
She finished speaking very quickly and took the bottles and jars on the table into her arms.
"What about that, Lord Governor, I'm leaving first."
Madam Qin waved her hand and ran out with the things in her arms before Xiao Yan could say anything, "Tang Ning, I'll come see you tomorrow!!"
"Hua Wu, you go out too."
"Girl..."
"It's okay, let's go out."
Hua Wu glanced at Xiao Yan uneasily. She was quite afraid of the governor, but the girl asked her to go out, so she could only leave slowly.
She walked out of the room and did not move far away. She stood quietly not far from the door, her ears pricked up for fear that her girl would suffer a loss.
There were no outsiders in the room, and it was extremely quiet for a while. Xiao Yan didn't know what Tang Ning wanted to do, so he just looked at her quietly.
Tang Ning stood up from the couch and moved step by step to Xiao Yan's side. He folded his hands in front of him and pulled gently. He lowered his head and whispered, "Brother, don't be angry."
Xiao Yan's legs were slender and he put his hands on his knees without saying a word.
Tang Ning summoned up the courage to whisper softly: "I didn't mean to scare Brother. I didn't know Brother would come. And if I didn't faint first, my grandmother would have fallen on my house."
"They have taken advantage of the right time and place, and they are my grandmother and aunt. If I don't use some means, I will only be suppressed by them and unable to move."
She knew very well what Mrs. Song was like. When she fainted in the last life, her aunt became notorious. When she vomited blood, even if she was the one who was obviously wronged, she was the one who ended up being blamed.
A word of respect for elders and a word of filial piety can easily clear away all the things the Song family has done before, and put all the bad reputation on her and her aunt.
Tang Ning could only retaliate and use Mrs. Song's methods to deal with them.
She squatted in front of Xiao Yan and carefully wiped the "blood stains" on his sleeves:
"I know that my method is not glorious, and it is also a bit underhanded, but I have no other choice. I don't want to go back to the Song family, and I don't want to be blackmailed by them using my status as an elder..."
His face was lifted up, Xiao Yan's eyes were cold: "Song Tangning, do you know how I climbed to my current position?"
Tang Ning raised her head and looked up at the man close at hand.
"On the first day I entered the palace, I used some means to kill the eunuch Kusi who was trying to blame me. For two years after I served as a supervisor, countless people died at my hands. I stepped on the bones of countless people before I could do it. I have reached this day with my eyes before attaining the Holy Spirit.”
"Countless people in the palace want to climb up. There are many people who do whatever it takes to gain power and status. If they want to save their lives, if they want to get what they want, I have done all the dirty tricks. What you did today is nothing. What?"
"Brother..." Tang Ning winced.
Xiao Yan let go of his hand and tightened his jaw as he lowered his eyes: "I'm not blaming you for not using these methods, it's just that the Song family doesn't deserve you to hurt yourself."
If the old woman from the Song family had been more cruel, if her slap had really ruined Tang Ning's face, remembering that he had heard that the Song family was coming, and when he rushed over, he had just stepped into the hall door and saw the girl's face covered with blood and limp. The appearance on the ground and the panic at that moment made him still unable to help but feel anger filling his eyes when he thought about it.
"There are many ways to deal with the Song family, so why harm yourself..."
"I know, but I can't wait."
Xiao Yan frowned and saw the girl's hand wrapped in white cloth placed on the back of his hand through the sleeve, her dark almond-shaped eyes full of silence.
"I know that if I want to deal with them, I have many ways to deal with them, and I can be more thorough and proper in taking them out without any harm, but I don't want to wait any longer."
"I don't want to keep arguing with the Song family. I don't want to go back to that place again. I don't want them to come to your door again and again and focus all the eyes of the capital on Jiuyun Lane. I don't want them to use my name to slander you. "
During this period, the servants in the mansion rarely mentioned external affairs. When they did, they only talked about how the Song family was doing and how Song Jinxiu was being reviled.
But after all, Tang Ning had lived her whole life and was not deaf or blind. How could she not know that after the Qian family's incident, Xiao Yan was also affected and was criticized by everyone.
He was already notorious and despised by others, and now he was even more notorious for using his power to "rob" the Song family's girls.
He interfered in the affairs of the Song family's back house. How could the courtiers and families who were at odds with him miss such a good opportunity to criticize.
"I know Brother will protect me, but I can't hide under Brother's wings all my life. The Song family doesn't deserve me, but Brother does."
The little girl raised her head and whispered,
"I also want to protect my brother."
She didn't want anyone to slander such a good brother.
Xiao Yan met her dark eyes, watched her red lips open and close, and said some innocent words that made people laugh.
He should have laughed at her for overestimating her abilities and why he needed a little girl to protect him, but there was no trace of falsehood in these clear and clean eyes, which were full of seriousness and sincerity.
His hands on his knees stiffened and then slowly relaxed, and when the corners of his mouth pursed slightly, his heart sank a little bit.
When the killings swept across the sky, Aunt Xue pushed him and told him to run away in the sky. After Aunt Xue protected him and escaped, she hid him and said she would let him live.
The people around him died one by one, leaving only him who desperately endured and begged for survival day by day until today.
For how many years, no one said they wanted to protect him.
After a long silence, Xiao Yancai put his hand on her forehead.
"Who taught you sweet words?"
Even more coaxing than when I was little.
Tang Ning's forehead hair was ruffled. Hearing his tone soften, she tilted her head and rubbed his palm lightly, revealing two pear dimples at the corners of her mouth.
"Brother Zhuyu is ahead of me. Of course I will also be self-taught."
"I can't compare with my brother in planning the city, so I'll be sweeter to make him happy."
Xiao Yan's voice was low and slow, as if he was smiling: "Nothing big or small."
Tang Ning pouted.
She heard him smile again, and put his hand on her forehead again: "Call me brother, I promise you that you are not big or small."
"Brother!"
Tang Ning's smiling eyes are intoxicating.
Xiao Yan's throat burst into laughter, like the warm sun rising, the cold snow melting, the cold jade in the mountains stained with rays of light, low but gentle and warm.
"good."
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