Wei Changying was surprised and overjoyed. She hurried out without thinking too much, only to find that a group of people had gathered on the lighted porch. Across the courtyard, she couldn't figure out whether Shen Cangfeng was surrounded in the flickering shadows. After a moment, the crowd hadn't parted yet. She then ran down to the yard in anxiety and reached the opposite porch. People saw her coming and greeted her with great respect.

Wei Changying had no time to answer them. Looking at the crowd, she found no sign of Shen Cangfeng. She frowned and asked, "Where is third young master?"

Zhu Lan smiled apologetically and said, "Third young master hasn't returned yet. It was Shen Die who came back to report. I thought that third young master was behind him, so I shouted...."

Wei Changying just noticed that the manservant in black clothes who was standing by the round "moon-gate" was exactly Shen Die. She composed herself and asked him, "How come you came back alone? What about third young master?"

Shen Die made a salute to Wei Changying and said, "Young madam, third young master is now in the mansion of the Su Family. Old Madam Deng felt very dizzy after the noon today. Therefore, young master went to visit her after hearing the news and was delayed on account of consoling Madam. Madam cared for young master after his hard work, so she let young master live in the Su Family for one night and asked him to come back tomorrow after work. Thus, he sent me back to tell this to you."

It turned out that he was in the Su Family.

Wei Changying was relieved and said, "Then should we deliver the clothes to him tomorrow morning?"

Shen Die respectfully said, "Third young master had kept spare clothes in the rotating room of the palace, and he had taken them with him when he went to the Su Family, my young madam."

"How is grandmother now? Should we send some more people to serve her?" Mrs. Huang had said before when she came back. The imperial doctor Ji Congyuan couldn't cure Old Madam Deng, so Madam Su asked Mrs. Duanmu, her second sister-in-law, to fetch Eighth Miss of the Duanmu Family to treat Old Madam Deng— Although Ji Congyuan's medical skills were not as good as Ji Qubing's, the former, as the descendant of the century-old Ji Family like the latter, should be much more outstanding than ordinary doctors since he had become an imperial doctor.

Ji Congyuan couldn't cure Old Madam Deng, which obviously showed that her condition was very intractable.

It happened that Ji Qubing's disciples, whether they were admitted or not, were not compassionate at all. Mrs. Huang was such a person and so was Duanmu Xinmiao. It seemed that Eighth Miss of the Duanmu Family didn't care about Old Madam Deng's health. Mrs. Huang said that Eighth Miss had made her master Ji Qubing very happy today. Maybe she just casually looked at Old Madam Deng's condition and found a pretext for visiting her master...Then she went to her master's house and had a pleasant talk, leaving Old Madam Deng behind.

As a result, the poor Old Madam Deng became worse in the afternoon...

Although Wei Changying was married to Shen Cangfeng, she had not seen Old Madam Deng so far, so naturally she would not really feel sad for her. It was just that her marriage was less than a month. If she wore mourning recently, it would be ominous after all. Therefore, Wei Changying felt a little uneasy when she asked Shen Die about Old Madam Deng's illness.

Shen Die shook his head and said, "When I was about to leave, Madam told me to deliver a message to you. She said that you should take good care of the Jintong Courtyard, and help first young madam and second young madam if you were available."

This meant that Mrs. Duanmu should stay in the mansion for now and avoid going there?

Wei Changying thought for a while. Was it because Duanmu Xinmiao's behavior made Madam Su unhappy, so she vented her anger on Mrs. Duanmu? Or did Madam Su know that Shen Lianshi had scolded and hit his wife for Lvqiao's miscarriage, therefore, she simply allowed Mrs. Duanmu to stay at home to deal with the matter of the second branch for fear that the situation might be aggravated?

Wei Changying was absent-minded for a moment. She was gently pulled by Mrs. Huang who followed behind before she started to talk, "I see. Is there anything else?"

"That was all Madam had said."

Wei Changying heard that Shen Cangfeng didn't mention anything about her. She was disappointed in her heart and said, "You must be tired, too. Go back and rest yourself. Are you going to the mansion of the Su Family tomorrow?"

Shen Die answered, "Young master had Shen Le with him, so he ordered me to wait for him at the palace when he would be off duty."

"OK, you could go." Wei Changying nodded.

Since Shen Cangfeng didn't come back tonight, Wei Changying no longer waited for him. She asked the servants to serve the meal and had it hastily. Then, she let the servants prepare the water for her to bath. After bathing, she returned to the inner room. When she stepped into the door, she was instinctively alert— Then she realized that Shen Cangfeng really stayed in the Su Family tonight.

Wei Changying smiled inside and sat down on the couch. Then, she wiped her long hair a few times with her handkerchief. When she concentrated her thoughts, she said to Qin'ge, "Go and see if Granny Huang is available. If she is, please ask her to come over."

After a while, Mrs. Huang came in. There was still a touch of damp in her hair that was tied up casually. Wei Changying then complained to Qin'ge, "Didn't I tell you to invite Granny when she was free?"

"It doesn't matter. Now in summer, it will be dry in a while." Mrs. Huang smiled, "I also planned to come over and discuss something with you, young madam!"

Wang Changying glanced at Qin'ge and Yan'ge. The two went out knowingly to guard the door.

Mrs. Huang then said, "Although they got the prescriptions, first young madam still worried that Tenth Miss of the Liu Family would be poisoned again after returning home, so she intended to invite Eleventh Miss of the Liu Family to live in our house for some time."

Wei Changying said, "Eleventh Miss of the Liu Family? Is that the lineal younger half-sister of Tenth Miss?"

"That's exactly Liu Ruoye." Mrs. Huang was about to ridicule, and said, "First young madam intended to serve Eleventh Miss of the Liu Family with the same sauce— No one could detoxify You Lai He except for Miracle Doctor Ji. Tenth Miss of the Liu Family was plotted secretly this time. Although she could still be saved, if she was harmed again, it was difficult to predict…. First young madam planned to get Eleventh Miss detoxified until Tenth Miss got married safely."

"Taking Liu Ruoye as a hostage..." Wei Changying murmured, "This would be a matter of the Liu Family, and it was not a bright and good thing to hear. Why did first sister-in-law tell us this?"

Mrs. Huang said, "Firstly, it meant that we were not regarded as outsiders; Secondly, there were no outsiders here, then Liu Ruoye—Hadn't you heard of her before, my young madam?"

Wei Changying pursed her lips and said, "I still hold that sentence. No matter how much she covets Shen Cangfeng, What can she do? Now I am the hostess of the Jintong Courtyard. She can only take a peek at us."

Mrs. Huang smiled, "What you said was extremely true. Idle dreams are always just idle dreams." She then got down to the business, "First young madam had always protected Tenth Miss of the Liu Family. At that moment, was it that easy for first young madam to invite Eleventh Miss of the Liu Family to come over all of a sudden? Therefore, what first young madam meant in her words was that she wanted to ask for our young master's help."

Wei Changying suddenly said unpleasantly, "Did first sister-in-law want me to invite Eleventh Miss of her family in person?"

"How can it be possible? We are glad to see the Liu family's fighting among themselves. However, for the sake of Tenth Miss of the Liu Family, it is acceptable if we lend them a hand, but it is impossible for us to intervene directly. This time, we had helped first young madam a lot by detoxifying Tenth Miss. She wanted to protect her younger sister till the end, how could she get us into the troubles?" Mrs. Huang continued, "Here is the thing. First young madam planned to send an invitation on the next day off to invite Eleventh Miss of the Liu Family to come over. The reason would be that First Granddaughter Miss was studying the style of Zanhua(a kind of character style) recently. Eleventh Miss of the Liu Family did best in writing this typeface, so first young madam wanted her to pay a visit to the house and give First Granddaughter Miss some advice."

Wei Changying pondered and said, "How can we lend her a hand?"

"First young madam said that she had disturbed you a lot by asking Miracle Doctor Ji to prescribe personally. She would be embarrassed to ask us to do something else. The only thing you need to do would be keeping young master in the mansion that day." Mrs. Huang smiled, "I used to hear people whispering before, saying that Liu Ruoye had thought a lot since she once met our young master by accident. I had believed that she was, after all, a daughter of an eminent family, knowing that our young master and you had been engaged since childhood, how come she continued to covet our young master？Now first young madam had said so personally, it seems that it is true."

Wei Changying naturally got bored, "Granny Qu had said something similar about Liu Ruoyu before— I didn't know these people until now, or was it that only the Liu Family did so? Why did they both ignore the young talents across the capital and deliberately stare at a married man?"

Mrs. Huang comforted her immediately, "It was their fault, but it also showed that our young master was excellent. If you let me say a word of conscience, young master had treated you with great thoughtfulness, and it was inevitable that many people would be jealous of you. There were thousands of husbands in the world, but few of them could be compared with our young master in the aspect of carefulness and consideration!"

Mrs. Huang continued with a smile, "No matter how many people covet our young master, the person he has cherished and cared for is you, my young madam!"

Wei Changying was annoyed and smiled, "Granny! We're talking about something serious!"

"Am I not serious?" Mrs. Huang smiled, knowing that Wei Changying was stubborn with her words, so Mrs. Huang didn't argue with her. Then Mrs. Huang got down to the business in a gradually low voice, "In order to let you agree, first young madam had also said that although twenty third young master of the Liu Family from Mrs. Zhang was young, he was talented and was much loved by his fifth uncle. It was also because of this young master, the status of Tenth Miss at home became increasingly lower, and Mrs. Zhang got the chance of hoodwinking the public...However, the Liu Family now placed great expectations on sixteenth young master Liu Xixun. Last year, it seemed that people of the Liu Family stopped Wei Qi's sedan for filing a suit on account of Liu Xixun, yet in fact, it was Mrs. Zhang who urged her husband to take action. She wanted to frame Liu Xixun, so she imposed the misdeed of slandering the unmarried woman for being defeated by our young master on him—It was said that Liu Xixun used to be very popular among the Three Guards. Because of this matter, he didn’t even enter the top ten in the practicing of traditional martial arts before the emperor on the New Year's Eve of last year. After all, Liu Xixun was originally only below our young master!"

Wei Changying couldn't help but change her face, "This thing... was it really Mrs. Zhang?"

... This incident deprived Wei Changying of food and water for two days. If it had not been for a piece of white silk in the clothes sent from the mansion of Duke Jingping, making her so furious that she determined to live a good life and not to let those who laughed at her became pleased with themselves, she shouldn't have known what would happen later!

At that time, she only cared about her own sadness. When she turned back and thought it over, she was so uncomfortable that she wasn't able to eat or drink. It was imaginable that how her grandmother, who had always put Wei Changying on the tip of her heart, would feel. Wei Changying's mother, Madam Song, was still in charge of the funeral arrangements for the mansion of Duke Jingping then— Wei Changying's father was in extremely poor health. If she was forced to harm herself by the rumors, even if Changfeng was still there, her grandmother was advanced in years and his father had been sick all the time, how could they afford to hear bad news!

Thinking a little further, if something went wrong with the grandmother, what would happen to the eldest branch without her protection? What about the future of Changfeng... How could Madam Song survive without her husband and daughter?

This machination almost ruined her family. No, for Wei Changying's family including four members, it was actually a catastrophe which might be the end of her family!

How could she forget the thing which was engraved on her heart?

In that conspiracy, the royal heir of Duke Jingping was assassinated, and Wei Qi retired in his old age. After all, they had revenged themselves on others. Only the Liu Family stayed the same as if nothing had happened—Wei Changying was not those people who didn't bear grudges if they had led a decent life. It was just that she got married recently and she hadn't finished taking care of her yard. At this moment, she just had no time to investigate the causes, let alone taking vengeance on someone.

Now she heard it clearly that who was her enemy, how could she control herself? She almost jumped up!

Mrs. Huang reminded her immediately, "Although first young madam said so, you shouldn't completely trust her! After all, first young madam now has exerted all her energies to help Tenth Miss of the Liu Family! Who knows if she intentionally took this matter to boast, so that you might stand on their side? For those unfounded things, you'd better just remember it and don't take it seriously!"

Wei Changying's face kept changing for a while. Then she sat back with her teeth gritted, and sneeringly said. "I know— I know your meaning, my granny. Anyway, the Liu Family was involved in the plot of hurting me. No matter who did those things, it would be a good thing to watch them fighting among themselves! As for who was the culprit that had hurt me, let's find it out slowly. After all, I have been living in the capital now and I have plenty of time... Isn't it just to stay in the third branch for a day? You can go and tell first sister-in-law that I promise her. I don’t believe it. I am right here. How could Liu Ruoye step into the Jintong Courtyard to seduce my husband!"