Wishful Things

"Sir—"

There was a knock on the door of the study room, the boy who was alone in the room opened the door from the inside, only to see Liu Yi standing outside the door besides his personal servant Ah Jiu.

Xu Mingshi frowned slightly.

What is Liu Yi doing here in the middle of the night?

"I have something very important, I have to speak to you alone!" Although Liu Yi tried his best to suppress his anxious expression at this time, his hands tightly holding the burden still showed extreme tension.

"Speak directly if you have anything to say."

Liu Yi glanced at Ah Jiu in embarrassment.

Ah Jiu squinted at her unceremoniously - don't even think about pushing him away, what if he intends to do something wrong to his young master? Although the young master is only ten years old, but his status is precious, there are already a few young maids in the mansion who have started to approach the young master restlessly.

"Ah Jiu is someone I trust." Xu Mingshi suppressed the impatience in his heart, glanced at the baggage in Liu Yi's arms, frowned and asked, "Are you going away?"

"That's right, I was going to look for my mother..." Liu Yi didn't care about it immediately, so she could only stand in the same place and talk to him: "Young master, I'm afraid you don't know, but the girl has been acting abnormally these few days. Maybe it's because I've been ill for a long time, and I'm a little confused..."

Xu Mingshi's face did not change much.

He also felt that Xu Mingyi was very abnormal these few days.

"I don't know who listened to the words of someone with ulterior motives and became suspicious of her illness, and it was my fault!" Liu Yi's tone was aggrieved, and tears welled up in her eyes: "How could such a thing happen?... I grew up with her since I was a child, so I know her temper, since she is suspicious of me this time, she will definitely make a big fuss..."

Xu Mingshi was a little surprised.

Xu Mingyi suspected that her illness was related to Liu Yi?

"If she just quarrels with me by herself, I'll be fine with it... But today coincides with the old man's return home, and it's her birthday, and the family has never been able to hold her back. I just heard some movement in the front yard. I asked someone to inquire and found out that Aunt Ruan, who is usually closer to me, was also involved!"

Liu Yi looked at the boy who had just turned ten years old in front of him, noticed the change in his expression, and said in a timely manner: "Young master is the grandson of the mansion. Last year, the girl wrongly said that you deliberately cut off her bowstring, so you are here. I was severely punished by my wife...Young master is the eldest grandson of the mansion, and he is going to be punished for one or two unsubstantiated slanderous remarks from the girl, let alone me...Especially this time it involves the girl's illness, I want to come here It’s even more impossible to escape.”

As he spoke, he almost burst into tears.

"I know that the young master has always been kind-hearted, but this time I really had no choice but to find the young master—"

She grabbed Xu Mingshi's arm with tears all over her face, "... I just hope that you can let me hide here tonight, and find a chance to leave the Zhen Guogong's mansion tomorrow! When the truth is revealed in the next day, I will come back again." Go back to the government to repay the young master for protecting you today!"

repay?

That's not unusual.

Xu Mingshi looked at the arm that was being held by her, and said thoughtfully: "To put it bluntly, you just see that my relationship with my sister is not good, and you know how dissatisfied I am with her in my heart. According to my old account, I will definitely promise to help you this time."

Liu Yi's expression stagnated slightly, but recovered quickly.

She knew that Xu Mingshi was smarter than ordinary children.

But so what about being smart, who told Xu Mingyi to offend too many people on weekdays, even his own younger brother was embarrassed in every possible way——

She thinks she knows better than anyone how Xu Mingshi and Xu Mingyi confront each other, and what kind of temperament a child of Xu Mingshi's size has.

Over the years, she was able to live a prosperous life in Zhen Guogong's mansion by trying to figure out people's hearts and watching people's eyes.

"You said she now suspects that you are going to kill her, and I do have a lot of quarrels with her..." Xu Mingshi whispered, his eyes still full of thought.

Hearing this, Liu Yi's eyes brightened slightly, hope rose in his heart, and he was about to say something more, when suddenly the hesitation on the boy's face was replaced by firmness, and he murmured to himself: "Since that's the case, why don't I take you with me?" Go in front of her...to give her a step down."

"...?"

——Did she hear it wrong? !

Liu Yi didn't have time to react, so Xu Mingshi turned his head and ordered the servant: "Ah Jiu, take him to the front yard!"

He is not a narrow-minded person, on the contrary, he has never really held grudges against Xu Mingyi.

Even if he was really angry with her sometimes, after a few days the anger subsided, and he still couldn't help but want to be nice to her... He knew it was very disappointing, but he couldn't control it!

Besides...

The matter of cutting the bowstring was indeed done by him, not Xu Mingyi's wrongful slander.

He had an argument with Xu Mingyi at the time, and he was so angry that he took her favorite bow to vent his anger.

Later, when he heard that she cried in distress, and learned that it was left to her by her biological mother, he also regretted it very much.

All in all, the conflict between him and Xu Mingyi can never be blamed on only one person, it's just that after a long time of rivalry and getting older, neither of them is willing to give in first.

And he has seen Xu Mingyi's change of attitude in the past few days, and he vaguely feels that she is probably taking advantage of her illness and pretending to be confused to show her favor to him——

She has already made it this far, as a younger brother, he must respond a little bit to be decent!

Originally, he had prepared a birthday present for her, but he couldn't deliver it when he came before him today, because he was afraid that if she didn't like it, or if he misunderstood her so-called "show of favor", he wouldn't be able to step down later—— After all, everyone is a person who cares about face.

Right now, it's better to use this Liu Yiban as a birthday gift, to find out her true attitude.

Liu Yi, who never expected it to end like this, was escorted to the front yard like this.

Facing everyone in the Xu family, she completely refused to admit that she had conspired with the Ruan family.

He only said that he sent Ruan Shi the sleep aid medicine out of kindness, and he didn't know that Ruan Shi used this medicine to harm Xu Mingyi.

Even if Xu Mingyi picked out the loopholes in the words and contradictory behavior, he still refused to admit it.

At the end, or seeing that there was no hope of sophistry, he cried out his father who died in battle and kowtowed to Duke Zhen.

Cui sneered again and again: "Duke Zhen's government has treated you with the utmost benevolence these years. If your father is really sensible, he would have no face to intercede for you if he learned of your act of avenging your kindness under Jiuquan. —”

Zhen Guogong raised his hand to stop his daughter-in-law from continuing.

"Although your father was just an ordinary soldier in the army, he is my Xu family's army and died on the battlefield. He is a hero! Based on this alone, I should spare the life of his descendants!"

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