About a three-or-four-day walk away from Jing City, there was a little hill, behind which stood a mountain of medium height and in front of which flew a river less than ten Chinese feet. This little hill could be counted as a good place of blessing because of the mountain behind it and the river before it, though neither the mountain was high nor the river was deep."What a good place!" Qiu Yelan said with a half-smile holding the curtain in the carriage which had just arrived at the foot of the hill at sunset. Her eyes were fixed on a frightened hare, especially on its big beautiful back legs, for a long while and she finally decided to switch her eyes to the top of the hill.By the light of the sunset, she could see there were a bunch of people wearing plain clothes."Send someone over and ask them whether they belong to Prince's Mansion of Xihe," Qiu Yelan stared at them for a moment and smiled significantly. "Let the leading person come her

At Jiang's residence, Lian Chen was surprised when he saw Qiu Yelan. "I thought you are out of town," said he."I've been to the old Princess's and my mother's tombs for a while," said Qiu Yelan. Old Princess Lian's tomb was close to Princess Ruan's. Qiu Yelan wanted to say something privately to Princess Ruan. She commanded Su He and others to sweep the tomb. How could she not feel shame when she said so? "When I was coming back, I forgot to say goodbye to my uncle.""Sure. I should have been there too," said Lian Chen, stroking his long beard. He sighed and continued, "Now we all know how mean Qiu Mengmin is. Lu suicided for fearing the punishment. So, it sounded reasonable for you to mourn them...."Hearing what he said, Qiu Yelan was shocked and said, "Lu suicided because of fearing for the punishment?""This has been concluded by the judge," smiled Lian Jianhao.Qiu Yelan understood that this must be the conclusio

After they had finished talking business, Qiu Yelan asked to leave as she knew that Jiang Yashuang was timid.Jiang Yashuang tapped on the edge of the table and said while pointing at two silver notes, "Put them away. The reason I wanted the six thousand taels last time was that my eighth elder brother dropped by to present his respects to my grandmother. And he asked for the money when he knew about it. I don't lack money, so you don't need to do this."Qiu Yelan took a peep at his countenance and found that he wasn't standing on ceremony. After having pondered for a moment, she put them away and apologized with seeming embarrassment, "Please excuse my imprudence." She murmured in her heart, "The young General is a man of such upright character... Could it be said that he was making it up to me?"Alas, she hadn't encountered a man of such great moral integrity for a long, long time. This would make her coy, OK?She might as well t

Back to her own courtyard, Qiu Yelan unfolded the paper ball and scanned it, and showed an expression of "as expected", "It's just a show by Qiu Hongzhi and Qiu Yinzhi, probably under the guidance of Princess Yang.""How could they be so shameless!" Su He's face was red with anger. "Sixth Commandery Princess and Young Master Qiu Yinzhi put a damper on Empress's recent praise to Your Grace, and Your Grace told them that they were used as pawns. But they turned to work with Young Master Qiu Hongzhi to go against Your Grace!"Qiu Yelan touched her little head smilingly, "It's not the first time that they have been so shameless. You need to get used to it.""What should we do now?" Su He didn't want to refute and became upset. "Now that they are on the same side now, their servants will follow them. Especially the servants we just beat....""Then we can beat them again!" Qiu Yelan ordered slowly. "I remember there is a colored glass ha

"How did that happen? How did you encourage Qiu Hongzhi to teach Qiu Yinzhi to be bad?" asked Qiu Yelan curiously, eating pine nuts Chunran peeled for her.To protect others from discovering that they contacted privately, Kang Lizhang usually came here at midnight.This night was no different.Qiu Yelan had waned her patience to wait for her so long. She went to bed as usual. As Kang Lizhang arrived, Qiu Yelan leaped out of bed to meet her. The window toward the west opened in half. Outside, there was a pear tree in its full bloom, looking like snow and graupel under the moonlight. Against this droplet, Qiu Yelan looked like a fairy.Looking at this picturesque scene, Kang Lizhang was full of bitterness due to the scar on her face.Qiu Yelan had given her the Yulu Ointment, but the injury was so deep on the face caused by Qiu Jinzhu that it would take a long time to recover.And the key problem was that ev