The lady smiled in understanding, then looked at Jiujiu and said, "Hurry and leave. Otherwise, your family will worry about you."
Having lost the opportunity to enlighten the lady, Jiujiu sighed rather helplessly. "Alright then. Will I be able to see you again next time?"
Jiujiu had clearly seen her most embarrassing state. Logically speaking, she should stay far away from Jiujiu, but for some reason, her heart softened when she thought of Jiujiu's dazzling smile.
The lady said softly, "If Miss wants to see me, you don't need to climb the wall. You only need to look for me next door."
"That's a promise. I'll come find you tomorrow." Jiujiu flashed a dazzling smile at the lady, then turned and stepped onto the rockery to descend.
When she saw Jiujiu descend unscathed, Qingyan's heart, which had almost jumped out of her mouth, finally returned to her chest.
Qingyan looked resentfully at Jiujiu. "Miss, how could you climb the wall? What if the person next door is a lecher? Miss, your reputation will be ruined. "
Her miss was born with the countenance of a flower and the face of the moon. What if a lecher saw her and got aroused at the sight of her and threatened her miss?
She was clearly fine when she was in Jiangnan. How did she start acting so recklessly in the capital? She even learned how to climb walls!
Qingyan was determined not to believe that her miss was in a bad state. It must be the capital that caused her miss to suddenly become like this.
Jiujiu had no idea what her maidservant was thinking. She smiled obsequiously at Qingyan and said, "No, I just heard that it was an older sister. That's why I climbed the wall."
"Older sister?" Qingyan frowned. The person next door was Li Xiucai. How could there be an older sister?
When she mentioned 'Li Xiucai', Qingyan's face revealed obvious disdain.
Jiujiu didn't know, but as servants, they had been outside for a day and were well aware of all the strange happenings in Li Xiucai's family.
In particular, Li Xiucai had relied on his wife to make a fortune, but he looked down on his wife's identity as a merchant. His actions of suppressing her in every way were even more laughable to Qingyan.
If he looked down on her, then he shouldn't have married her. Since he had married her, then he should have taken out his heart and treated her well. He despised those who ate the things that others had bought, wore the clothes that others had bought, and looked down on others in the end.
Jiujiu said that she heard someone crying just now. Thinking about it, the one crying must be that family's wife, or his wife.
Thinking that her stepmother was also a pitiful girl, Qingyan instantly lost all thoughts of reprimanding her. She sighed and said, "Miss, if you truly love that older sister, then don't ask."
Jiujiu's mother must have made things difficult for Li Xiucai's mother since she was still crying in the backyard in the middle of the night. If Jiujiu were to ask her about it, wouldn't she be stabbing her in the heart?
Jiujiu nodded obediently. "Mm, I understand. Qingyan, don't tell Steward Li about what happened today. Otherwise, he'll lecture me again."
Qingyan poked Jiujiu's head irritably when she heard the lingering fear on Jiujiu's face. "Miss, you also know how to be afraid. Since you're afraid, why did you climb the wall? You don't know how this servant's heart nearly jumped out of my throat when I saw you sitting on the wall just now."
Jiujiu hugged Qingyan's arm and swayed it back and forth. She said tenderly, "Alright, Older Sister Qingyan. Just help me this time. In the future, I'll listen to everything you say, alright?"
Qingyan only relented when she saw Jiujiu's obedient appearance. "Alright, I'll help you this time. If you do this again in the future, I'll tell Steward Li and see how he'll deal with you."
Jiujiu wasn't afraid of anything in the estate. The only person she was afraid of was Steward Li, who was as close as a brother to Lin Datu.
When Steward Li was young, he was also a hero of the underworld. He was defeated in a gang fight and was injured and thrown to the foot of a mountain.
Lin Datu happened to pass by and had someone help him to the carriage and send him to the medical center to save his life.
Steward Li was grateful to Lin Datu for saving his life and was at his beck and call ever since.
When Lin Datu passed away, Steward Li happened to be away from his hometown. When he came back and learned of Lin Datu's death, he blamed himself greatly and directly cut off contact with his hometown. He wholeheartedly raised Jiujiu.
Steward Li was affectionate and righteous. Jiujiu naturally respected Steward Li very much.
The only thing she didn't like was that Steward Li treasured Jiujiu, Lin Datu's only child, very much because of Lin Datu's death. He wanted nothing more than to raise Jiujiu like a flower bud in a greenhouse.
Even though Jiujiu had taken charge of numerous big business deals alone, in the hearts of Steward Li and Li Family's servants, Jiujiu was still that little girl who cried until she was out of breath because of her parents' death and needed careful protection.
Jiujiu felt very helpless about this. However, she could only allow them to do as they wished.
Seeing that Jiujiu obediently promised not to climb over the wall, Qingyan told Jiujiu to wait for a while. She watched Jiujiu eat the bird's nest in the bowl and stopped nagging.
Jiujiu was tired after eating and went back to her room to rest.
The next day, Jiujiu told Steward Li that she wanted to go next door to visit her neighbor.
Sure enough, Steward Li's brows furrowed tightly when he heard that Jiujiu wanted to visit her neighbor. His face was full of disapproval, but when he saw Jiujiu blinking her big, sparkling eyes and looking at him with longing, he had no choice but to admit defeat.
Steward Li reminded Qingyan, "If that family says anything unpleasant, just rebuke them back. I'll take care of everything."
What was there to be arrogant about a poor and pedantic scholar who relied on his in-laws to make a living?
Qingyan didn't like Li Xiucai and his family to begin with. If Jiujiu hadn't forced her to go, she would never have stepped into Li Xiucai's house.
She nodded and said, "Don't worry, Steward Li. Qingyan won't let that family say anything like that."
Even if they did, she would give them a tight slap.
Did she really think that everyone was her daughter-in-law who could be bullied by her?
Their young miss was much more precious than the Emperor's princess.
When Qingyan said that they were neighbors who had just moved in, she wanted to visit them.
Li Xiucai's mother, Jin Xiulian, looked at Qingyan warily.
When they saw the gift box in Qingyan's hand, they could tell at a glance that it wasn't cheap. They instantly beamed with joy and said with a fawning expression, "How could we dare to trouble you to pay us a visit first? We should be the ones paying you a visit first.
Jin Xiulian's change in attitude attracted a disdainful look from Qingyan.
Qingyan said in a neither servile nor overbearing tone, "Our young miss wants to visit your young madam. Is it convenient for you?"
Jin Xiulian thought that they were here to visit her and didn't expect that they were here to visit her stepmother.
Her expression stiffened, but when she saw the expensive gift in Qingyan's hand, she gritted her teeth and suppressed her anger. "It's convenient, it's convenient for her whenever."
Jin Xiulian led Jiujiu to the front hall and had the servant girls serve Jiujiu tea before going to the rear courtyard to call her stepmother.
After Jiujiu left yesterday, her stepmother still didn't go back to rest. She spent the entire night washing clothes in the rear courtyard.
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