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Qin Shi held Mother Du's hand as they walked out of the meeting room of the National Guardian Temple, letting out a long sigh of relief.

She smiled at Mother Du and said, "After completing the matters entrusted to me by the Empress, my anxious heart has finally been let down."

Mother Du said yes with a face full of smiles, and reminded the Qin family to be careful of the stone steps.

"Have you kept that talisman properly?" née Qin looked down at her feet, then looked up at Mother Du.

Mother Du patted the front of her dress and smiled, "Madam, please rest assured that you won't lose it here."

Née Qin silently nodded her head and looked at the crowd of people in the backyard. She frowned and asked, "Where are sister Wan and Shu'er?"

"Didn't the madame tell the two misses to wait in the mountain room?" Mother Du politely answered and led née Qin to the mountain room where the temple was for guests.

"Excuse me, is this Mrs. Jiang from Zhenjiang?" A woman with a bun and a blue bun suddenly asked as she stood on the side of the road. She looked very capable.

Née Qin was inwardly baffled. She sized up the woman and saw that she was humble, but also had a kind expression on her face. She could not help but have a favorable impression of her.

"Exactly." The Qin family slightly nodded to the woman.

"I am the mother in charge of the House of the Marquis of Yongsheng, my surname is Zhu. "My wife happened to be in the temple at the same time, and wanted to invite Mrs. Jiang to have a chat with her." After saying that, the woman turned her body slightly and made a gesture to invite him in.

When née Qin heard that it was the Madam Cao from the Marquis' Mansion, her spirits were immediately lifted. She smiled and said, "So it's mother Zhu. I didn't expect to meet someone familiar in the past incense stick."

Today, Madame Cao, wearing a golden crown with a pine cone and a large sleeves shirt with a honeycombed dress, was sitting in a mountain room with her eyes lowered. She wore two pure gold rings on her left hand, while her painted right hand was gently holding a white porcelain tea bowl.

Next to her was a handsome man with a graceful bearing. Liu Qingmei's young brother hopped up and down in annoyance, unable to calm down even for a second. "Mother, why did you have to hold me captive here? "I already said that I will meet my friends today."

"I didn't say I wouldn't let you meet a friend." Madam Cao raised her head and looked at the handsome young master in front of her. Although there was dissatisfaction in her eyes, her heart was filled with doting as she continued, "I just want you to meet someone with me here."

"Meet someone?" The handsome young master looked at her with disdain, "You can't be looking at another girl again, right?"

Unexpectedly, his words caused Madam Cao's face to darken. She slammed the lid bowl down on the table, and shouted sternly, "Cao Jin! Regardless of whether you are willing or not, you will have to happily settle this matter for me. After you marry your wife and children, I will no longer bother to meddle in your affairs. "

"Are you serious?" When Cao Jin heard this, his interest was piqued.

"Seriously!" Madam Cao also looked at her son with a resolute expression. She raised her right hand and said, "We can clap our hands and swear it!"

"Good!" "It's a deal!" Cao Jin raised his right hand and clapped with Madam Cao. The two of them sat down again. The mountain room was quiet as if the previous scene didn't happen at all.

At this moment, Mother Zhu's voice was heard from outside. Madam Cao quickly leered at Cao Jin, who was beside her, indicating for him to cooperate. Then, she switched to a smiling face.

Mrs. Qin was led into the mountain room by Mrs. Zhu's mother. As soon as she raised her head, she saw Mrs. Cao standing up to welcome her. She quickly said, "Mrs. Cao, I was planning to pay you a visit after we parted ways at your second uncle's house. Are you feeling better? "However, it's always like the mundane affairs of the body, you can't get rid of it …"

Madam Cao held onto née Qin's hand with a smile, patted her hand affectionately and said, "Why don't you say that our two families are fated to be together? I was thinking about you too, Mrs. Ginger, and I just happened to meet you here. "

With that, the two of them walked up to Cao Jin. Madam Cao gave Cao Jin a furtive glance. Cao Jin held his hands together, slightly bowed to née Qin, and said, "Cao Jin greets Third Madam Jiang."

Madam Qin followed the voice and saw a handsome young man with a golden crown on his head and an embroidered robe standing in front of her. She could not help but sigh in her heart. What a handsome brother!

She pretended to be puzzled as she looked at Madame Cao. "This is …"

"This is my disappointing little son." Madam Cao said with a smile.

Cao Jin rolled his eyes, bowed and said, "Mother, I've also asked a friend to stay at the back mountain to look at the stone monument. If we wait too long, I'm afraid it will be inappropriate …"

"Go …" Madam Cao gave Cao Jin an indifferent look as she said this.

Cao Jin also apologized to the Qin family and ran away.

née Qin smiled and said: "Young Master Cao is really spirited."

"Him ~! It's just a monkey. " Lady Cao covered her mouth as she smiled, and then started to chat with Lady Qin as usual.

Jiang Wan looked at the stone tablet attentively, but unfortunately, the words written on it were so old that half of the characters could not be deciphered. She tried to take another step forward, but she forgot that she was standing at the edge of the cistern, one foot in the air.

Jiang Wan shouted "Crap" in her heart, closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and waited for the instant she fell into the water.

However, she suddenly felt as if the sky and earth were spinning around her head. It was as if she had flipped in the air, and her feet firmly stepped on the ground.

She closed her eyes and used her feet to probe the ground with a frown. After confirming that she was not mistaken, she slightly opened her eyes.

At this moment, a hearty laugh came from above his head.

With alertness, Jiang Wan turned her head over, and only then did she discover that she was even half-leaning into the embrace of a colorfully robed man.

She was so frightened that she stood up straight and straightened her dress, forgetting the cloth she had lifted.

"You … "Who are you!" Jiang Wan stared at the person in front of her, and only now could see that he was wearing a green silk gown, his expression was handsome, but it unconsciously gave people a kind of oppressive feeling of not getting angry.

"Obviously, I'm your savior." The corner of the colorful-robed man's mouth curled up slightly as he looked at Jiang Wan, but there was disdain in his eyes.

Jiang Wan was speechless in her heart. It seemed that she was in the wrong, how could she question the other person after being saved?

Thus, she took a step back and thanked the man, "Thank you for saving my life."

Unexpectedly, the man raised an eyebrow and said: "That's all? Shouldn't you add another sentence about being a horse or working as a cow? "

Hearing that man speak so frivolously, Jiang Wan slightly frowned. She was just about to curse him for being a "lecher", but she discovered that this man seemed somewhat familiar.

In this life, he could count all the men he had met with one hand, which meant that he had probably seen this person in his previous life.

However, the number of men he had seen in his previous life was even fewer. Besides those from the royal family, he had never seen anyone else.

When the words "royal family" flashed through Jiang Wan's mind, in a split-second, she remembered that the man in front of her seemed to be the younger brother of the crown prince Xiao Rui, the seventh prince Xiao Rui.