Most of the servants in Tang Mansion were left behind by Xiao Yan, and those who were later purchased by Tang Ning alone also had death deeds.
The master is honored and the slave is honored, the master is humiliated and the slave is killed.
Almost everyone in the Tang Mansion knew what happened to the Song family, and their attitude toward Song Jinxiu was not good.
After Song Jinxiu was led into the front hall, Tang Ning put tea next to him, but he stood there withered. Tang Ning neither told him to sit down nor asked him what he wanted to do. She just turned around and told Hua Wu to read the imperial edict. She took it down and put it away, and asked the small kitchen to prepare some roasted mutton. She suddenly wanted to eat it.
After Hua Wu left with the imperial edict in his arms and his head shaking, Tang Ning seemed to remember that there was someone standing in front of him, so he raised his eyes and asked.
"Master Song came here specifically to see me. Is there something wrong?"
Song Jinxiu looked at the girl with a leisurely expression: "Did you plan the second prince's matter?"
Tang Ning propped her chin and tilted her head to look at him: "What's the matter?"
"You know what I'm talking about!"
Song Jinxiu lowered his voice.
"On the night of Chinese Valentine's Day, you deliberately told me Princess Leyang's plan, and you deliberately told me that the fourth prince had coveted you. You led me to investigate the fourth prince and their concubines, and even Lingyun Temple last night. Everything was done on purpose.”
"You used yourself as bait to lure Princess Leyang and the fourth prince to attack. The fourth prince was unconscious and his innocence was insulted. Even the second prince was framed by you."
Tang Ning looked at Song Jinxiu, who still had slap marks on his face, but looked excited and shouted at him and laughed.
"Master Song, you are baseless, please don't frame me. The eldest princess and the others are the ones to blame for what happened last night. Wasn't it the second prince who harmed the fourth prince and concubine?"
Song Jinxiu said angrily: "The second prince has never done anything at all, and the second lady Bai and Mrs. Pei have not harmed the fourth prince's concubine. They are clearly being plotted against!"
Tang Ning: "Oh? How come Mr. Song knows so well?"
Song Jinxiu's face turned angry.
Tang Ning smiled half-heartedly: "Master Song sent his own sister to the bed of the fourth prince's subordinates, but he knew a lot about the second prince's affairs, and you have always been clean and self-sufficient. I didn't expect you to be so close to the female relatives of the Bai and Pei families. So familiar, you even know what they do when they go to Lingyun Temple?"
Song Jinxiu had an ugly face and looked at her: "You used me, you used me to plot against the second prince and the others!"
Tang Ning tilted her head and looked at Song Jinxiu, whose eyes were full of anger and disbelief. Seeing the pain on his face as if he had been betrayed, and the anger and accusation when he looked at her, she suddenly felt funny: "Could it be that Didn't you take advantage of me first?"
Song Jinxiu: "I didn't!!"
"No?" Tang Ning raised her head slightly: "If you didn't, why did the second prince send someone to Lingyun Temple yesterday?"
Song Jinxiu was furious: "I told the second prince that the fourth prince coveted you, but that was only because I was worried that you would be in danger. Without anyone around me in the Song family, I could only use the second prince's people to stop him. I am looking after the fourth prince so that I can protect you, I just want to protect you!"
Tang Ning laughed: "What you call protection is that you knew that the fourth prince and his concubines wanted to take action in Bon Bon but didn't let anyone tell me, or that you knew that the second prince wanted to kill the fourth prince. , will never miss the opportunity to pull him down, but find someone who doesn't care about my life or death to protect me?"
"Since you know who the second prince sent to Lingyun Temple, haven't you ever thought that the female relatives of the Bai and Pei families alone can't stop the fourth prince? What the second prince wants is for the fourth prince's palace to be ruined. Are the queen, mother and son completely at odds with Xiao Yan?"
"Master Song is so smart and good at maneuvering. He has been able to gain the trust of the second prince in a short period of time. Don't tell me that you don't know the second prince's character."
"Or did you know the outcome early on, but pretended not to know, and allowed the second prince to reap the benefits after the filthy mess in the Buddhist hall was broken into?"
Song Jinxiu said anxiously: "I didn't! I have never thought about it this way. Tang Ning, I am your brother. I really just want to use the second prince's hand to protect you..."
"Then why didn't you go to Lingyun Temple in person? Why didn't you inform me in advance?"
"I……"
"You what?"
Tang Ning was really impatient to hear him repeat those useless words over and over again. It was clear that his thoughts were not pure, but he still looked like he had been betrayed.
"On the night of Chinese Valentine's Day, when you knew that the Fourth Prince coveted me, what was the first thought in your mind?"
"When you told the Second Prince about this, and even became aware of Princess Leyang's arrangements, what were you thinking?"
Tang Ning was obviously sitting there, and he was much shorter than Song Jinxiu who was standing, but his aura when he spoke made Song Jinxiu embarrassed.
"You said you wanted to protect me, but you never thought about the danger if I stepped into it without knowing anything about it. You also never thought that since the second prince wants to kill the fourth prince, he must have conclusive evidence. He can't tell the difference, how can I let the second prince get his wish without losing my innocence."
"The royal family is ruthless, who cares about me, a girl who has been used as a raft?"
"You only thought about your prosperous official career and the road to success, and how you could use this matter to win the trust of the second prince so that he could benefit from it, but you never considered putting me out of danger. Instead, you regarded me as your substitute for the second prince. As part of the plan, if you can remember me even half a moment and send someone to tell me in advance so that I can be prepared, the Second Prince will never be able to get into this situation."
Tang Ning's aggressiveness seemed to tear off all the pretense of his face and reveal the hidden selfishness inside him.
Seeing that his face was pale and his eyes were red and shocked, he looked like he couldn't accept it.
Tang Ning said coldly: "Song Jinxiu, you have to admit that people are selfish and hypocritical."
"It's natural that you want to gain a foothold in the government and want to calculate power. I also have what I want, and I can do whatever it takes to get it. But you insist on hiding your own unkindness, indifference and selfishness under your so-called Under the friendship between a gentleman and a brother and sister, he disgusted me again and again."
"I took advantage of you, but what about you?"
Tang Ning looked at him expressionlessly, her eyes filled with coldness.
"You came to question me today because the second prince was convicted. If it were me who had been insulted, you would have been celebrating the defeat of the queen and her son with the second prince, and you would have said something to me lightly in your spare time. Tang Ning, don't be afraid, my brother will protect you,' or do you mean, 'Those who are clean will themselves be cleansed, my brother will protect you for the rest of their lives'?"
"I'm almost sick of hearing these words of yours! And Song Jinxiu, what gives you the confidence to put me in danger, but you are hiding behind the dust of the capital, and you still have the nerve to ask me why I want to use you. ?”
"Have you been wearing the skin of a gentleman for so long that you have forgotten your selfish and hypocritical nature?"
Song Jinxiu staggered back half a step and opened his mouth to say something, but Song Tangning, who was sitting not far away, had too sharp eyes, and the frost in his black eyes made him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.
He looked embarrassed, his lips moved, and after a while he just said "Tang Ning..."
Tang Ning was too lazy to pay attention to Song Jinxiu, and she didn't understand why he always put on this appearance to trouble everyone after so long.
Even if his methods were more sinister and vicious, and he planned and retaliated with open swords and guns, she could still look up to him.
But he clung to the past, clinging to the "brother-sister relationship" that he had abandoned long ago, constantly disgusting her, and brainwashing him so much that he seemed to believe that he was really a glorious person. A brother who loves his sister.
But who cares about his sister and brother, and would use his sister's innocence to plot against others?
Tang Ning held the tea: "Sir, if you just come here to ask about what happened last night, I am also the victim. After the Privy Council finds out, both the second and fourth princes will be punished by your majesty."
"If it's anything else..."
"No comment."
She said to her side: "Yue Jian, send Mr. Song out."
Song Jinxiu was confused, and everything he wanted to ask and say was blocked by her indifference. When he was forcibly "pushed" out by Yue Jian, he could still hear Tang Ning's cold voice behind him.
"From now on, let all cats and dogs come into the house. If you encounter anyone who yells at the door and shows no courtesy, you will be kicked out directly."
Song Jinxiu was kicked out and stood in front of the Tang Mansion, his face turned pale.
…
Tang Ning always felt that there was something wrong with Song Jinxiu's brain. At first, she had firmly chosen others to abandon her, but now she eagerly came after her. She knew that it was impossible to go back to the past, but she kept pestering her over and over again, and yet she did all the disgusting things. Just open your mouth to regret.
It's really what Sister A Yue said, a bitch.
Tangning wanted to have the flower hall cleaned again.
unlucky!
Somewhat unhappy, he went to the Crane Hall next door and huddled on Xiao Yan's recliner, which was more than twice the size beside the carp platform.
The cool lake breeze blew over, and Tang Ning's anger dissipated a little. Looking at the sun setting on the sparkling water, she suddenly remembered what happened when she came back from Lingyun Temple today.
At that time, Qian Qiyue was making a fuss with her, and when she and she were chattering and making a fuss, Mrs. Fu said with emotion that they didn't feel like they were friends who had just met, but rather like people who had known each other for many years. At that time, Fu Laiqing blurted out this sentence.
"Who said they just met."
At that time, Qian Qiyue raised her foot and kicked Fu Laiqing in the leg for some unknown reason. Mrs. Qian also said that they had hit it off.
But she always felt that Qian Qiyue's expression was a little strange.
Tang Ning rubbed the letter in her hand, remembering the inexplicable thoughts that came to her mind after Qian Qiyue fell into the water on Chinese Valentine's Day, as if a voice told her that Qian Qiyue didn't know how to swim, but she had never asked Qian Qiyue, Qian Qiyue, Her family's ancestral home is also in Lingnan, a place with lots of water. Why did she know that Qian Qiyue didn't know how to swim?
Tang Ning rubbed the center of his eyebrows, thinking about going back to ask Sister Ayue, but then his mind fell on the letter in his hand, and his eyes softened instantly.
He fumbled to open the letter, and a bracelet fell out from inside.
The bracelet is hollow and has a white jade base. It looks extremely delicate. There are two beautiful little bells hanging around the gold wire.
Shake it and the bell rings.
