Chapter 90

After Jiang Li left, in the Wangxian building, Jin Mantang's hall meeting was not finished. In the eerie play, Ji Hu sat down lazily and asked, "how about it?"

"Miss Jiang Er is very clever." Lu Ji smiled: "after asking for so long, the answer is watertight. She is a very sharp girl."

"What did you ask?" Kong Liu looked at him suspiciously.

"After all, it's Jiang Yuanbai's daughter." Ji Xuan didn't care much.

At the other end, the bodyguard who came to repay also said, "it's clear that ye Shijie and Miss Jiang Er didn't make an appointment in advance. They should have met by chance in the street. However, ye Mingxuan, the second young master of the Ye family, arrived in Yanjing yesterday."

"Here comes Ye Mingxuan?" Kong Liu frowned, "their Ye family's business is not in Yanjing. Why do you come to Yanjing? Congratulate his nephew on his promotion? It's really not tiring to come in person."

"There is something wrong with the Ye family's business," Lu Ji said. "Ye Mingxuan is about to come to Yanjing to find a way to see if he can help."

Ji Heng laughed, "it's impossible for someone to help when tea is cold."

"Then why didn't he ask Ye Shijie for help? Now ye Shijie is an official. Many people want to please Ye Shijie. It's easy to find a breakthrough here!" What Kong Liu said is natural.

Lu Ji shook his head: "Ye family has been a merchant for generations. Ye Shijie is the first person in the Ye family to become an official. It's easy to get better now. Taking Ye Shijie's career as a bargaining chip to help with business matters, the Ye family is not brave enough to do such a thing."

Kong Liu glanced at Ji Xuan, who was playing with the fan, and muttered, "they are all the same people. Why is there such a big difference?" He thought of something again and said, "then why doesn't he go to the Jiang family? At least these two were in laws. Although grandma Ye is dead, there is also the connection between Miss Jiang er. Ye Mingxuan went to the Jiang family. Jiang Yuanbai was so good-looking that he was naturally embarrassed to see death."

Lu Ji sighed, "you also listen to new things in the capital on weekdays. Miss Jiang ER and the Jiang family had no contact with the Ye family ten years ago. How can ye Mingxuan go to the Jiang family?"

Several people were silent for a moment.

Ji Xuan said, "Ye Mingxuan may also go to Jiang's house."

"Your Excellency?" Lu Ji was puzzled.

"Because Miss Jiang er." Ji Tao.

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After meeting with Jiang Jingrui, Jiang Li and his party soon found Lu's party. Lu's party was also hearty. After walking for so long, they watched their son and niece disappear, but they were not in a hurry. Asked about Lu Shi, Lu Shi said, "rui'er is wandering in the street all day. Where can I get lost? Li'er follows rui'er and is very relieved."

Jiang Li listened, and her face was expressionless. I really don't know where Jiang Jingrui is reassuring.

She couldn't help shaking her head when she thought of YeShiJie before. If Ji Heng's bodyguard hadn't suddenly appeared and taken her to the laoshizi hall meeting, she should have had a word or two with Ye Shijie. Because of the relationship between you Xiang's youngest son Li Lian, Jiang Li always felt that ye Shijie's official career should not be too smooth, and even Li Lian's idea was unknown, but it seemed that she had smelled the signs of conspiracy.

In any case, ye Shijie should be careful and careful again.

The time has been delayed for a long time. I will go back to the house soon after shopping with the people in the second room. Back in the mansion, old lady Jiang went to bed. Of course, Jiang Li would not take the initiative to say hello to Ji shuran's mother and daughter, and also went back to her yard.

I wanted to go to bed early, but I was so upset tonight that I couldn't close my eyes. Ji Heng's beautiful eyes always floated in his mind. He murmured in his ear, "eyes are love seedlings. Your eyes have betrayed your heart."

Even Ji Heng saw that there was hatred in her heart.

Jiang Li shook her head, as if she wanted to get rid of all the messy things in her heart. She wanted to be faster, faster, and immediately uncover the ugly truth of Princess Yongning and Shen Yurong, and vindicate the unjust case of Xue family. But now there is not enough evidence and chips, so we have to plot slowly.

It's really painful.

This night, I really slept uneasily. In the middle of the night, it began to rain heavily again. The thunder combined with the rain made it more difficult for Jiang Li, who could not sleep, to sleep until the chicken crowed three times and the East knew that the rain would rest, before he fell asleep.

When I woke up, it was already three achievements in the morning.

After a night of rain, the air is particularly fresh. Tong'er and Bai Xue are watering and weeding the flowers near the flower bed at the gate of the yard. Seeing Jiang Li coming out, tong'er straightened up and said with a smile, "it's rare for a girl to be tired and lazy. The maid let Bai Xue not wake you up." Seeing Jiang Li coming over, he laughed and said, "it rained so hard last night that even the Begonia flowers were broken."

Speaking of Begonia, Jiang Li suddenly thought of her maid Begonia. She wondered whether Bai Xue's family had heard about Begonia in Zaohua village. Jiang Li asked, "snow white, has your family come to repair letters recently?"

Snow White wiped the sweat on his forehead and said, "no, girl, it's the time of harvest recently. The farm work at home is busy. The maidservant thought they probably didn't have time to write a letter. After a while, the letter should arrive."

Jiang Li nodded.

Several people were chatting casually when suddenly they saw the servant girl feicui beside the old lady. Feicui didn't enter the yard, but stopped at the gate of Fangfei garden, smiled at Jiang Li and said, "second miss, the old lady, please go to Wanfeng hall."

Bai Xue and tong'er looked at each other, and old lady Jiang would not find Jiang Li if she had nothing to do. Jiang Li is not Jiang Bingji. If you have nothing to do, go to Wanfeng hall to ask the old lady for dessert. Even if Jiang Li gave up this face, old lady Jiang, who had been estranged from Jiang Li for eight years, was afraid that she would also feel very uncomfortable.

Tong'er asked crisply, "sister feicui, what is the old lady doing when she asks our girl to go to Wanfeng hall? Is there anything in the house?"

"No." Feicui said with a smile, "even if there are guests in the house, let the second young lady also sit down."

When tong'er saw that jade answered so, he was relieved. Looking at the expression and tone of feicui, the old lady should not be looking for Jiang Li to ask for a teacher's punishment, and Jiang Li didn't make any mistakes.

Jiang Li saw at a glance what tong'er was worried about, and couldn't help laughing and crying. It's nothing if the real old lady Jiang asks her to punish her. She can protect her whole body and retreat, that is, the other party is really unreasonable, nothing more than foot ban and so on.

That's really not a big deal.

She said to feicui, "sister feicui, wait for me a moment. I'll change my clothes and go now." Jiang Li went back to the house and put on a dress, so she went to Wanfeng hall with tong'er and feicui.

There is still a distance between fangfeiyuan and Wanfeng hall. When I want to go this way on weekdays, I always meet other people. But now Jiang yu'e is recovering from injury in Chuang Tzu, and Jiang Youyao is grounded again. Jiang Yuyan is a coward who can't get out of the yard, so she didn't meet anyone on the way, and went too far smoothly.

Jiang Li was very satisfied.

The passing feicui thought in her heart that the second young lady who had stayed in the temple for eight years returned to Yanjing city in less than half a year, and the young ladies in the house jumped like chickens and dogs, and everything was bad. Only Miss Jiang Er left the whole body alone, and did not touch water. Not only that, but also she was well-known and received holy rewards.

It's really a turn of fortune. I thought the second young lady would never come back after she was expelled to the temple.

Therefore, jadeite dare not underestimate this seemingly gentle second miss. In terms of words and deeds, she is also invisible and respectful.

Jiang Li felt the change of feicui's attitude, smiled and said nothing. It's human nature to step low and hold high. As a big official, the Jiang family, even the servant girls inside, are also infected with the habits of officialdom and are used to steering the wheel.

It's not a good thing, but it's not a bad thing.

At least this has created many opportunities for her.

When she arrived at the evening Phoenix hall, feicui entered the door and smiled at the humanitarian inside, "old lady, the second miss is here."

Jiang Li followed feicui into the room. As soon as she entered, she saw a familiar teenager sitting under Mrs. Jiang's head, slightly raising his head, as if he was a little uncomfortable and quite proud.

Jiang Li's footsteps were a meal, and she wondered in her heart, YeShiJie, why did he come?

Jiang Li didn't dare to say that she knew this cousin very well, but she also knew Ye Shijie's temperament. Ye Shijie was angry about what Jiang Li had said before, and naturally he didn't have a good face for the Jiang family. Seeing ye Shijie coming to the Imperial College, he knew it without visiting the yuan family once. But today, ye Shijie unexpectedly came in a dignified manner, and still sat under the head of old lady Jiang. Looking at her expression, she seemed to get along well.

Jiang Li didn't know what was going on in her heart, but she heard old lady Jiang's kind way: "second girl, come and meet your uncle Mingxuan."

Jiang Li was stunned, uncle Mingxuan?

She saw clearly that there was a middle-aged man sitting beside Ye Shijie. The middle-aged man was dressed in silver and white, with a silver crown and a gold robe belt around his waist. He is like a scholar, but he is richer than ordinary scholars. He has a white face, a thin figure and smart eyes.

He stood up, looked at Jiang Li, and said with a smile, "ah Li is so tall that I can't recognize it."

Jiang Li was in a trance for a moment. This uncle Mingxuan called her "a Li". In a trance, she thought Xue Huaiyuan was calling herself "a Li"

Ye Mingxuan looked at Jiang Li, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Ye Shijie learned many things from his mouth, such as making a bet with Meng Hongjin in Mingyi hall, startling four people in the verification field, forcing Ye Shijie to make rational countermeasures with a knife on the way to the Palace Banquet, which made Ye Mingxuan hard to imagine that this was something that the little girl who was a little willful and hurtful in her memory could do.

For ten years, ye Mingxuan has not seen Jiang Li for ten years. After ye Zhenzhen's death, the Ye family was afraid of Jiang Yuanbai's sequel, and their stepmother treated Jiang Li severely, so they began to think about taking Jiang Li back to Tongxiang. Although the Ye family is not as official as the Jiang family, at least the Ye family will sincerely protect Jiang Li, so that Jiang Li can live a happy life.

Unexpectedly, the reality was that Jiang Li, who was nearly five years old, looked contemptuous. In front of Mrs. ye, she hated that the Ye family was a merchant and said such hurtful words that all merchants were cheap. Mrs. Ye was seriously ill, and the people of the Ye family didn't have resentment against Jiang Li.

How can such a small child talk so hurtful? At that time, she seemed to be infected with the cool thin in the bones of the yuan family, the secretive philistine in officialdom. They are better at analyzing the pros and cons than their merchants.

It's really hard to let go.

Now the girl standing in front of Ye Mingxuan is wearing a light green blouse and a light blue skirt. She is tall, slim and beautiful. Her lips were smiling, and her expression was warm and pure. She never saw the original sharpness and hostility again, which made people extremely pressed.

She is really different from before.

Ye Mingxuan vaguely saw his sister Ye Zhenzhen. With a closer look, Jiang Li and ye Zhenzhen are different. Ye Zhenzhen is bright and simple, like the furry animals raised in the sun. Just play and be cute. Jiang Li is like a pear blossom growing alone by the river. No one can see the wind, frost, rain and snow she has experienced alone, and white and beautiful flowers come out of her tenacity.

Ye Mingxuan's previous complaints about the little girl were unconsciously dissipated in Jiang Li Mingche's eyes.

He didn't know it was the result of blood relationship, which made it difficult for him to treat Jiang Li coldly. It's still that Jiang Li looks too kind and pure, so that he has completely separated this Jiang Li from the five-year-old Jiang Li.

He showed a sincere and generous smile to Jiang Li.

Old lady Jiang saw Ye Mingxuan's appreciation in her eyes, and her heart was also slightly relieved. Now ye Shijie is a member of the Ministry of household, and it is not easy to reach this position at this age. It's also good to have a past marriage relationship and become the help of the Jiang family and Fannie and Freddie in their official career in the future. Therefore, when ye Shijie and ye Mingxuan took the initiative to visit, Mrs. Jiang's first reaction was to make up with the Ye family.

At the beginning, Jiang Li said something harsh to the Ye family, and old lady Jiang knew it. Saying that there was no estrangement in the hearts of the Ye family, Mrs. Jiang didn't believe it herself. However, today's Jiang Li is not what she used to be. Old lady Jiang also hopes that Jiang Li can talk about many things after meeting them.

At present, ye Mingxuan's attitude towards Jiang Li is mild. Old lady Jiang sees it in her eyes. Ye Mingxuan has a good impression of Jiang Li now, which is very good. At least the Ye family won't say outside that the Jiang family mistreated Ye Zhenzhen's daughter, or deliberately taught her wrongly.

Ye Mingxuan said with a smile, "you probably don't know me. Last time I saw you, you were still a little girl." He reached out and motioned to his knee: "it's so high." He said, "I'm your mother's second brother. Just call me uncle Mingxuan."

"Uncle Mingxuan." Jiang Li shouted softly.

She felt good about ye Mingxuan, but she didn't know whether it was because ye Mingxuan just called her "a Li", which made her think of Xue Huaiyuan.

"Your uncle Mingxuan came to Yanjing to do something and specially came to see you." Mrs. Jiang said with a smile, "I brought you a gift. I'll let someone move to your yard later."

Jiang Li smiled and knew it clearly in her heart. Why did ye Mingxuan bring her a gift? It was bought in Yanjing city nearby. After all, ye Mingxuan and the Jiang family had no contact with him before. This time, he suddenly came to the Jiang family. It must be YeShiJie who told him about himself.

Jiang Li glanced at Ye Shijie. Ye Shijie saw her looking over, turned his head and avoided her eyes, as if he was a little guilty.

Guilty of what? Jiang Li was stunned.

However, Mrs. Jiang's attitude towards the Ye family seems to indicate that ye Shijie's becoming a member of the Ministry of household has loosened the Jiang family's attitude. As long as ye Shijie keeps going up and the Ye family continues to prosper because of Ye Shijie's relationship, it is sooner or later to mend fences with the Ye family. At that time, Jiang Li was a girl protected by her maternal grandparents. At least if Ji shuran wanted to touch her again, she would not be as confident as before.

Ji shuran must be regretful now. Jiang Li thought that it was Ji shuran who wanted to maintain her reputation as a virtuous mother because she had been slow to do it before, or she had been vague about it. Who knows but let Jiang Li exploit the loophole, once the opportunity is missed, it will not come back.

Taking back her thoughts, Jiang Li chatted with uncle and nephew Ye Mingxuan and old lady Jiang. It's all gossip. Old lady Jiang asked about the recent situation of the rest of the Ye family in Xiangyang. Ye Mingxuan answered politely. At least on the surface, the relationship between the Jiang family and the Ye family has eased a lot.

Jiang Li also noticed that other people were not here this time, and Jiang Yuanbai was not there either. Mrs. Jiang probably felt that it would be a little embarrassing to suddenly let all the members of the Jiang family come forward. She simply reduced the number of people and slowly tried to do it.

Unconsciously, a cup of tea was finished. Ye Mingxuan also got up and said goodbye, saying that he was still busy, and he would visit again another day. He smiled at Jiang Li and said, "the gift for a Li, I now have someone move to a Li's yard."

"OK," said Jiang Laofu humanely, "ah Li, you also take your uncle Mingxuan to see your yard."

This is to give their uncles and nephews time to speak alone.

All are old foxes, and ye Mingxuan agreed to the old lady's arrangement. Jiang Li took Ye Mingxuan and ye Shijie back to Fangfei garden.

Tong'er walked in front, her small body straight. This is the first time she has met Ye Zhenzhen's family. For fear that the Ye family have any thoughts about Jiang Li's past of killing her mother and brother, they must behave neither humble nor overbearing. However, seeing ye Mingxuan's appearance seems to be very good. He should not be a mean person.

Ye Shijie didn't speak all the way. He didn't know what was going on today. He was too silent. Ye Mingxuan asked Jiang Li how she was. Jiang Li also responded with a smile.

Seeing Jiang Li's calm appearance, ye Mingxuan was greatly surprised again. Many years ago, when Jiang Li was sent to Qingcheng Mountain, the Ye family also secretly sent someone to negotiate with the Jiang family, although Jiang Li insulted the Ye family. In the end, it was the descendants of the Ye family. However, at that time, Jiang Yuanbai was too tough to say where Jiang Li was sent, and finally had to give up.

Even though ye Shijie learned from his mouth that Jiang Li had done something important after returning to Yanjing city. But in Ye Mingxuan's eyes, people like the Jiang family who seek advantages and avoid disadvantages will not pay too much attention to Jiang Li's daughter who will discredit the Jiang family. But at present, looking at the attitude of old lady Jiang, Jiang Li's status in the Jiang family seems to be lower than he imagined. Jiang Li's behavior, words and deeds are well-educated and very elegant, which doesn't seem to be treated harshly.

This niece seems to hide many unknown secrets, ye Mingxuan thought secretly.

At the gate of Fangfei garden, the breeze and the moon are cleaning the yard. Bai Xue sees Jiang Li coming back and quickly offers tea. Seeing Jiang Li's side with Ye Mingxuan and ye Shijie, I couldn't help but be surprised.

"This is uncle Mingxuan and cousin Ye." Jiang Li said with a smile, "snow white, serve tea."

Ye Mingxuan was stunned at the moment he saw Fangfei garden.

Even in autumn, Fangfei garden is colorful, full of chrysanthemums and Osmanthus fragrans, with a fragrant smell, and does not look withered and lonely. Jiang Yuanbai likes to flaunt his loftiness. Most of the plants in the courtyard are blue. In autumn, he prefers black and white Xiao Su, which makes him clear. Therefore, I didn't see such a prosperous appearance all the way.

But the yard of Jiang Li is lively and incompatible with Shoufu. Ye Mingxuan thought of his younger sister Ye Zhenzhen who died early in an instant.

Ye Zhenzhen is a lively girl. Before she gets married, her yard is always full of birds and flowers. The brothers are naughty. They always practice swords in her yard and cut Ye Zhenzhen's flowers in pieces. Ye Zhenzhen is angry and complains like Mr. Ye and Mrs. Ye.

Now the scene in front of him immediately made Ye Mingxuan recall the past, and he only felt his eyes were sour. It's a sad thing that the scenery is still there and he is dead.

Jiang Li saw that ye Mingxuan looked different and said, "this is my mother's yard when she was recovering from illness. After I returned to Yanjing City, my wife gave me the yard. At that time, the flowers and plants in the yard withered, and tonger and Bai Xue took great efforts to make it look like it is now."

She called Ji shuran "madam".

Ye Mingxuan's eyes moved slightly and asked, "how does Mrs. Ji treat you?"

Jiang Li looked at Ye Mingxuan, smiled, didn't answer Ye Mingxuan's words, and said, "tea is ready, uncle Mingxuan, let's go in and talk."

She avoided Ye Mingxuan's question.

Ye Mingxuan and ye Shijie looked at each other, thought for a moment, shook their heads and followed Jiang Li.

Tong'er stood upright and poured tea for ye Mingxuan and ye Shijie in turn.

"I didn't expect uncle Mingxuan to suddenly return to Yanjing." Jiang Li said, "it's a little beyond my expectation. How did Uncle Mingxuan want to come to the Jiang family?"

Ye Shijie coughed softly and said, "I mentioned you to my second uncle."

Jiang Li was noncommittal. She had known that ye Shijie would sooner or later tell the Ye family what had happened. I just didn't expect the Ye family to come to Yanjing in person, but Jiang Li also believed that ye Mingxuan came to Yanjing city not for himself. Seeing himself should be just a convenient thing.

"Yes, Shijie mentioned you to me. I thought I hadn't seen you for a long time." Ye Mingxuan sighed, "it's been ten years. Ah Li, you look good now. I've heard what Shijie said about you. I've helped Shijie several times. I thank you for Shijie."

Jiang Li laughed: "it's all a family, uncle Mingxuan, don't be polite."

Her words were sincere and gentle, and her eyes were as clear as a stream, which made people have to believe that what she said at the moment was from the bottom of her heart. Ye Mingxuan suddenly felt a little speechless. It was Jiang Li who disliked the Ye family as a merchant at the beginning. Now it is Jiang Li who naturally says "it's all a family". It's obviously very contradictory, but there's no way to doubt anything.

"Grandma, are they all right?" Jiang Li asked.

"I'm not in good health," Ye Mingxuan said. "I'm so old. I originally wanted to come to Yanjing city to see Shijie this time, but I really didn't allow my body."

Jiang Li frowned slightly, and old lady Ye was in bad health, which was not a good thing.

Ye Shijie felt a little uncomfortable. Old lady Ye was in bad health. Isn't it after the insult to the Ye family from Jiang Li? At that time, Mrs. Ye was seriously ill and was not as healthy as before. These years are getting worse and worse.

"Grandma can't come. Why didn't the other uncles come?" Jiang Li asked. She also inquired that Miss Jiang Er had three uncles in total. Ye Mingxuan ranks second. Ye Shijie's father is the eldest and has a little uncle.

"Xiangyang's business is a little tricky," Ye Mingxuan said with a smile, "they have been busy recently."

Although Ye Mingxuan was smiling, Jiang Li clearly saw a trace of hidden worry in his eyes. The so-called "small action" is certainly not as light as ye Mingxuan said.

If the Ye family has problems, this is not a good thing. On the one hand, Miss Jiang Er needs the help of the Ye family to make her position in the Jiang family more stable. On the other hand, the Ye family is in Xiangyang, and Xue Huaiyuan is in Tongxiang, Xiangyang. The affairs in Tongxiang still have to rely on the power of the Ye family to investigate.

Jiang Li thought for a while and asked, "how long is uncle Mingxuan going to stay in Yanjing city and when will he return to Xiangyang?"

"This time, I came here mainly to see Shijie and close the business of Yanjing city by the way. When things are over, I'll go back to Xiangyang." Ye Mingxuan thought for a moment and said, "it's estimated that it won't take long, up to ten days. Xiangyang can't be away from people, and it can't be delayed in Yanjing for a long time."

Even more than ten days is a delay. It seems that things at Xiangyang must be very urgent. Hearing Ye Mingxuan say so, it further confirmed Jiang Li's conjecture. She glanced at Ye Shijie and saw that ye Shijie was also worried.

Ye Mingxuan saw Jiang Li suddenly silent, smiled, and said, "although this time I came to Yanjing to see Shijie, I was surprised to see ah Li. I heard that you have also become the top of the Mingyi hall and received a gift from your majesty. If your grandmother knew about this, it would be very happy. Speaking of it, there is no precedent for a woman to directly award an official. You are on a par with Shijie. Shijie became an official, and you should also get an official position."

This uncle can really think, Jiang Li said with a smile, "it's a pity that he couldn't be born a man."

Ye Shijie raised his eyes and looked at Jiang Li. Although Jiang Li was not a man, he was afraid that some men would not do what he did. Who could bring a dagger to the court? If it was bad, he could be arrested in the name of assassination, implicating the whole family. She was not afraid, as if it was a trivial matter, but it was really good.

Fortunately, she is not a man. If she is a man, she can go to heaven.

"Speaking of it, I haven't seen my grandmother and uncles for a long time." Jiang Li said, "this time I saw Uncle Mingxuan, just as Uncle Mingxuan didn't recognize me, I almost didn't recognize uncle Mingxuan."

Ye Mingxuan laughed: "it's all right. When you have a chance, you and Shijie will go back to Xiangyang and meet your grandmother and your uncles during the introduction. They must be very happy."

Jiang Li waited for his words. His eyes bent and he said with a smile, "why wait? This time is an opportunity. After uncle Mingxuan finishes his work, let me go back to Xiangyang with my uncle."

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