Chapter 18

"Childe -"

The door of the study was knocked. The boy who stayed alone in the room opened the door from the inside. He saw Liu Yi standing outside the door in addition to his close friend ah Jiu.

Xu Ming frowned slightly.

Why did Liu Yi come to him in the middle of the night?

"I have something very important to say to the childe alone!" although Liu Yi tried his best to suppress his anxious look at this time, his hands holding the burden tightly still showed extreme tension.

"Say anything directly."

Liu Yi glanced at ah Jiu in embarrassment.

Ah Jiu glanced at her impolitely -- don't try to keep him away. What if he was trying to be unfaithful to his childe? Although the young master is only ten years old, his status is valuable. Several servant girls in the house have begun to gather up with him restlessly.

"Ah Jiu is the one I trust." Xu Mingshi pressed down his impatience, looked at Liu Yihuai's burden, frowned and asked, "are you going away?"

"Yes, I was going to find my mother..." Liu Yi couldn't care much at once. He had to stand in the same place and say to him: "I'm afraid you don't know. The girl is really abnormal these days. Maybe she has been ill for a long time and is a little confused..."

There was not much expression change on Xu Ming's face.

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

"I don't know who I believed, but I suspected that I was responsible for her illness!" Liu Yi's voice was wronged and her eyes were full of tears: "how could there be such a thing?... I grew up with her and knew her temper. Since she suspected me this time, she must make a big fuss..."

Xu Ming was a little surprised.

Xu Mingyi suspects that her illness is related to Liu Yi?

"If she just makes trouble with me, I'll just suffer... But today coincides with the old man's return and her birthday. The family has always been unable to beat her. I just heard some movement in the front yard and asked people to inquire. Only then did I know that Aunt Ruan, who is closer to me on weekdays, was also involved!"

Liu Yi looked at the boy who had just turned ten in front of him, noticed the change in his expression, and said in time: "You are the grandson of the mansion. Last year, you were wronged by the girl and said that you deliberately cut off her bow string, so you were severely punished by your wife... You are the eldest grandson of the mansion, and you will be punished for the girl's slander without evidence, not to mention me... Especially this time, you are involved in the girl's disease. I think I can't escape easily."

He almost broke into tears.

"I know you've always been kind-hearted. I really have no choice but to find you here -"

With tears on her face, she grabbed Xu Mingshi's arm and said, "... Just ask me to avoid tonight and leave the town government tomorrow! When the truth comes out, I'll go back to the government to repay you for your kindness today!"

repay?

That's not uncommon.

Xu Ming looked at the arm she was holding and said thoughtfully, "frankly, you just look at my bad relationship with my sister and know how dissatisfied I am with her. Even from the old accounts she wronged me in the past, you will promise to help you this time."

Liu Yi looked slightly sluggish, but he recovered quickly.

She knows that Xu Ming is smarter than ordinary children.

But what about intelligence? Xu Mingyi offends too many people on weekdays, even his brother is embarrassed in every way——

She thinks she knows better than anyone how tit for tat Xu Mingshi and Xu Mingyi are, and how a child the size of Xu Mingshi is.

Over the years, she was able to live a prosperous life in the town government by guessing people's hearts and looking at people's eyes.

"You say she suspects you are going to hurt her now, and I really have a lot of disagreements with her..." Xu Mingshi whispered, still thinking at the bottom of his eyes.

Liu Yi's eyes lit up slightly and his heart raised hope. He was about to say something more. Suddenly, he saw that the hesitation on on the boy's face was replaced by firmness, and murmured to himself: "in this case, I might as well take you to her... Or give her a step."

“……？”

——Did she hear wrong?!

Liu Yi didn't have time to respond, so he listened to Xu Mingshi turn around and told the boy: "ah Jiu, take people to the front yard!"

He is not a narrow-minded man. On the contrary, he has never really hated Xu Mingyi.

Even if he was really angry with her sometimes, he couldn't help being nice to her after a few days... He knew it was very disappointing, but he couldn't help it!

Besides

He did indeed cut the bow string, not Xu Mingyi wronged and slandered.

At that time, he had a quarrel with Xu Mingyi. He was angry, so he took her favorite bow to vent his anger.

Later, he heard that she cried bitterly and learned that it was left to her by her biological mother. He also regretted and felt very guilty.

In a word, the contradiction between him and Xu Mingyi can never blame only one person. It's just that they have been competing for a long time and are getting older. Neither of them is willing to be soft first.

Xu Mingyi's attitude has changed in recent days. He sees it in his eyes and vaguely feels that she is mostly pretending to be confused to show kindness to him while she is ill——

She has done this. As a brother, he has to respond a little!

Originally, he prepared her birthday gift. Today, when he came to her, he couldn't send it out. He was afraid that in case she didn't like it, or he misunderstood her so-called "kindness", he would get down again later - after all, everyone is a person who wants face.

At present, it's better to take Liu Yiban as her birthday gift to explore her real attitude.

Unexpectedly, Liu Yi was taken to the front yard.

Facing the Xu family, she refused to admit her conspiracy with Ruan.

He only said that he had sent Ruan's sleeping medicine out of a kind heart. I didn't know that Ruan had harmed Xu Mingyi with this medicine.

Even if Xu Mingyi picked out the loopholes and contradictory behaviors in his words, he still didn't recognize them.

In the end, or seeing that there was no hope of sophistry, he cried and moved out of his dead father and kowtowed to the Duke of the town.

Cui sneered: "over the years, the town government has treated you with utmost benevolence and righteousness. If your father is really reasonable and learns of your act of vengeance, I'm afraid he won't have the face to intercede for you -"

The Duke of the town raised his hand and stopped his daughter-in-law from talking.

"Although your father was just an ordinary soldier in the army before his death, he was both my Xu family army and died on the battlefield. That's a hero! I should spare his descendants' lives alone!"