Marry

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Wen Ning thought of the two dead maids and frowned and asked, "Has anything strange happened to her recently?"

"How did you know that, young lady?" Lin Han said, "We wanted to find a reason to punish her, but we heard that she was so scared that she stayed indoors for the past two days."

"Later, I learned that the two maids who bullied you were actually dead, and they died in the palace. One was covered in bruises, and the other was bleeding from all seven orifices. The way she died was extremely miserable and weird." Uncle Lin frowned and said, "Zhou Mingyan was a girl after all. She was so scared that she couldn't eat or drink at home. The guards in the courtyard were not enough to protect her."

"But it is also said that evil will be punished by evil. Those two maids are used to doing such immoral things. They have killed more than one life. It is not a pity that they die." Lin Han said.

Wen Ning lowered her eyes and did not mention that the deaths of these two maids were also caused by Xiao Yunci. She just nodded slightly, "That's enough."

Uncle Lin said something about Qi Weiming again, saying that the poor little guy was almost beaten to death and now he is unconscious with a high fever at home.

He talked for a while, and seeing that Wen Ning remained silent, he did not say anything more, for fear of making her even more sad.

"We will take good care of the kid from the Qi family in the future, don't worry, young lady." After saying that, Lin Han took out something from his arms and looked at her mysteriously, "Look what I brought you."

Wen Ning took the oil paper package and opened it gently, only to see a piece of almost crushed mung bean cake inside... This was her favorite mung bean cake, sweet but not greasy, with a light fragrance.

"Oh, how come it got crushed? Never mind..." Lin Han stretched out his hand to take it with some embarrassment.

Wen Ning picked it up and put it in her mouth, tears in her eyes, trying hard not to cry, "It's delicious."

…

After Uncle Lin left, Wen Ning lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.

She took out the exquisite nine-ring chain from under the pillow, opened the window, looked at the high palace walls outside, and her mind was full of Qi Weiming's miserable appearance today.

She didn't know why, but she always felt that Qi Weiming today seemed different from before.

Perhaps it was because he was beaten too hard with the stick, which hurt his self-esteem, or perhaps it was because he had experienced too many sad things in recent days and suffered too great a blow, Wen Ning could feel that the way he looked at her seemed to have changed - no longer as persistent and determined as before, nor as pure and comfortable as before.

But no matter whether he was contradicting the emperor in person or submitting a petition in public, it was all for her, and this is an indisputable fact.

Wen Ning turned the nine-ring chain between her delicate fingers, untied it effortlessly, and then slowly put it back. She shook the nine-ring chain towards the moonlight, and the delicate little gadget made a pleasant sound.

Maybe it was her illusion...

What should she do? Should she believe Xiao Yunci?

The next day.

When she finished dressing, the guard at the gate of Yongning Palace came to report that Eunuch Xu had come to deliver the emperor's oral instructions.

Wen Ning immediately went to the door to greet them, and Qingyue followed behind Wen Ning cautiously. As soon as she saw Eunuch Xu, she knelt down with a plop, not daring to raise her head.