Luo Zi dragged Yifei to the small bridge where he had fed fish before, and then signaled the maid in white to imprison the disciples of the Silver Sect. In this way, after everyone left, only Yifei and Luo Zi were left on the small bridge.

Luo Zi looked at Yi Fei, and saw that he was bloodless and was in a state of dismay, and couldn't help but giggle: "What are you afraid of? The wife and Yi Shu have already had a quarrel, and they will definitely use you in the future. You are the King of Cheng, just around the corner."

Yi Fei pursed his lips tightly and didn't talk to him.

Luo Zi rolled her eyes and said leisurely: "I understand, are you afraid that the Seven Lord will die? Yu Gong said that she is unsuccessful. This is good news for me. Although Mrs. Ruyi was selected from the Ji family, as far as I know, Ji Ying had a lot of trouble with his tribesmen during his lifetime. Now, the Ji family is all buried in their fiefdoms, and there are not a single girl under the age of ten in the younger generation. So, before the next girl is born, I will be one of the more than ten people in the Ruyi Sect."

Yi Fei finally glanced at her: "Are you so willing to be an ant?"

"What's wrong with being an ant? It's better than the one who wants to be a free eagle."

Yi Fei suddenly laughed.

"why are you laughing?"

Yi Fei looked around at the small building in front of him and said slowly: "The throne of birthday-style carved by six hundred years of red sandalwood, the four-piece cabinet of Jiulong passion fruit pattern, the two-meter-long red sandalwood screen wall, the fish, dragon, sea and beast pen holder on the table is worth a thousand gold... If you are an ant, you are also the most expensive and enjoyable ant."

Luo Ziyanran said: "The Third Prince is really good at knowing things..."

"However, the bamboo forest in front of this small building can be as long as 300 steps from east to west; the bamboo forest from south to north can be as high as 500 steps. Three hundred steps and five hundred steps have trapped you for a whole year. Are you willing to stay trapped here for the rest of your life?"

Luo Zi's smile disappeared.

"Mrs. Ruyi is cruel and unkind. She will turn against Hongyu and Zhu Xiaozhao when she says she will turn against each other. Can you make sure you are safe?"

"So the third prince is now provoking discord?"

"I just don't understand."

"Don't understand what?"

"Hongyu and Zhu Xiaozhao are too young when they entered the school, and it is understandable that they have lost their nature. And you should have been old when you entered the Ruyi Sect, why are you still loyal to Mrs. Ruyi? After witnessing their miserable ending, they are still infatuated?"

Luo Zi smiled slightly: "Don't you know the reason?"

"oh?"

Luo Zi pointed to the small building in front of her and said, "The throne of birthday-celebration patterns carved by six hundred years of red sandalwood, the four-piece cabinet of Jiulong passion fruit pattern, the two-meter-long red sandalwood screen wall, the fish, dragon, sea and beast pen holder, and everything in this building..."

Yifei's eyes turned from shallow to deep.

"I have been from a poor family since I was a child, with seven sisters and one younger brother. When my mother finally gave birth to a younger brother, the family was too poor to lose money. So they discussed it all night and sold me the next day."

Yi Fei frowned: "So you were sold to the Jiang family?"

Luo Zi smiled sarcastically: "The dealer thinks I am beautiful and wants to sell it at a high price. Although he will molest me every night, he never takes the last step. But I was eight years old at that time and already knows something. Whenever his hand stretched towards me, he felt so disgusting. Once I really vomited, he threw cold water on me. It was snowing outside. I lay on the ground, trembling all over... Although it was very cold and painful, there were no scars on my body..."

Yi Fei stopped talking immediately.

"Then I got sick, very sick, and was about to die. The dealer had no choice but to lose money, so he took me to the doctor... That day, it was snowing outside, but the sun was very bright. I lay in a daze on the flatbed cart and heard someone ask, 'What's wrong with her?'" Luo Zi's face changed very gently, "The dealer replied that I was sick, the man said, can I see it? The dealer said skeptically? The man said, yes, me. Then a warm little hand was placed on my forehead. I opened my eyes and saw a boy younger than me, only seven years old, with a serious face, lying on tiptoe by the car to look at me."

Yifei guessed who that person was.

"Later I found out that he was the only son of Doctor Jiang, nicknamed Yu Gong. He told the dealer that I could cure it, but it took a long time and a lot of medicinal materials. When the dealer heard that it would cost so much, he didn't plan to cure it. So in the end, Yu Gong bought me with ten dou of rice and brought me back to the Jiang family."

Yifei finally spoke again: "You are lucky."

"Yes, my luck is really good..." Luo Zi's expression became even gentler because of the happy things. "I became the little maid of Yu Gong in the Jiang family. My illness gradually recovered. I learned a lot from Yu Gong. He is really a very good person. I think if one day he needs it, I am willing to die for him."

"But you didn't die for him. On the contrary, he came to Cheng as an envoy of the State of Bi last year. After you met him again, you cooperated with Yi Shu mercilessly to frame him."

Luo Zi's face suddenly sank, and her gentle color faded, like the melted snow, flawless white turned into sewage: "Because he is a fool! He was so improper that the young master of the Imperial Hospital would like to experience the sufferings of the people!"

Yi Fei sighed in his heart.

"He was raised like a man who had never washed clothes and had iced winters, had never done farm work in the dog days, had never been worried about not having money to buy rice tomorrow, and never knew how expensive a silk clothes were... And I knew, because I knew, I swear that I would never want to live such a hard life again! I can't forgive those who were born lucky to have all this at birth, and gave up such a good life so easily!"

"He saved you."

"He saves anyone!"

Yi Fei was stunned and then understood: I'm afraid this is the knot in Luo Zi's heart. She thought she was the special person, the person who changed her life after meeting Jiang Wanyi. But later she found that she was not special at all. In the heart of her young master who regarded her as a god, there were only two types of people in the world: patients and those who were not sick. So because of love, they turned to hate?

"I begged him not to leave, and even in the end, I asked him to take me with me. If he insisted on enduring hardship, then I would be willing to accompany him to endure hardship... But he did not. He abandoned me! I am no longer the personal maid of the young master of the Jiang family. I became an ordinary maid. Then, the lady wanted to betroth me to the groom..." Luo Zi looked at the pond under the bridge. The water of the pond reflected her shadow. She seemed to be born to wear such gorgeous clothes. Only such clothes deserved to be worthy of her gorgeous and charming face. "A man with sweat and horse feces on her body is worthy of marrying me?"

Yi Fei seemed to sigh in his eyes, but he didn't know whether it was Jiang Wanyi or Luo Zi's sigh.

"So I was unwilling to give up, but I had no choice. At that time, when I went out to buy things, I saw the dealer. He still remembered me, recognized me, and I recognized him. He used to be alone, but now he has several followers, put on silk clothes, and looks like he has some status. I heard his followers say that he was going to send a group of girls to the Holy Realm. I asked him what the Holy Realm is. He looked at my face obsessedly, stretched out his hand to touch but didn't dare to touch it in the end. He said--that was the place you should go five years ago." Luo Zi smiled coldly, "I don't want to marry that groom, I don't want to be a slave, I want to be a servant. So, I came to Ruyi Gate."

Yi Fei raised his eyebrows and said, "So, it's not that Ruyi Sect came to you, but that you took the initiative to come to Ruyi Sect."

"Yes! Ruyi Sect does not accept disciples over ten years old, I am the only one."

Yi Fei thought for a while and said, "You are really a lucky person. You fall into the hands of a human trafficker and you can meet Jiang Wanyi. When you don't want to marry a groom, you can meet a human trafficker again. If you want to be rich and prosperous, Mrs. Ruyi will let you serve the lord of a country. After you become a concubine, you don't want to serve that tyrant anymore, and that tyrant will be finished. When you want to go back to Ruyi Gate, you will find Mrs. Ruyi, and her arms are broken... Everything you think of seems to have been done."

Luo Zi nodded and smiled: "So, it's useless to provoke discord, I won't betray my wife."

Yifei looked at her and was silent again.

Luo Zi said: "Now, what else do you have to say?"

"Yes. I want to know, you have betrayed Jiang Wanyi so much and framed Jiang Wanyi. Why is he willing to treat Mrs. Ruyi for you?"

Luo Zi's smile froze again.

The two stared at each other face to face.

After a while, Luo Zi's smile on the corner of her lips raised a little bit again: "What did you find?"

"You're smiling so well."

"You are half my son, I smiled at you well, what's the point of being kind?"

"Mrs. Ruyi doesn't understand why she is aging, and she looks so beautiful. But she tried her best but she just made a fake face, and her beauty was still gone."

"Why?"

"Because - appearance comes from the heart." Yi Fei looked at Luo Zi, who was over thirty years old but still had a little naive girl, and smiled, "Same, your smile is so beautiful, it means that you have no malice in your heart."

Luo Zi seemed to be stunned, for a moment, forgot to answer the conversation.

"Although Jiang Wanyi has no principles in practicing medicine, he is not a fool. On the contrary, he is extremely smart. He is not a very smart person, and he cannot become a miracle doctor. He will help you without grudges, just to show that... you deserve his help."

Luo Zi's eyes flashed and she whispered: "What else do you know?"

"I also know that Xue Xiang and Mr. Zhu left Luwan first. Before leaving, he assured me—"

"Don't worry. I will bring you back Mrs. Ruyi and Qiu Jiang." Xue Cai said so at that time.

When Yi Fei thought of this, he smiled happier: "Although Xue Cai is a little fox, he always keeps his word and has to admit that he is a very capable person. Such a capable person set off earlier than me, but has not appeared yet. Why?"

Luo Zi tilted her head: "Yes, why?"

"Of course it's because... Isn't you coming out yet?" Yi Fei looked towards the bamboo forest and said word by word.

The breeze blew across the bamboo forest, making a whimper like a flute. Amid the whimpering sound, a young man walked out slowly while stepping on the fallen leaves. The white and green bamboos made him look clear.

He is a child, but he doesn't look like a child.

He didn't come out alone, and Jiang Wanyi was still following behind him.

Luo Zi was stunned, "Why are you... back? Haven't you been seeing another patient...?"

Before Jiang Wanyi could answer, Xue Cai said, "He was worried that your hands were not fast enough and could not deceive Mrs. Ruyi. He insisted on waiting just in case."

Luo Zi's face changed drastically. She thought of the words she said to Yi Fei before, the admiration, resentment, and knots about her heart... all turned her face red at this moment.

Jiang Wanyi's face also turned red, and she felt a little embarrassed.

Yi Fei was not in the mood to take advantage of the situation and teased the two of them. He quickly stepped forward a few steps and walked to Xue Cai and said, "What the hell is going on?"

"Didn't you guessed it?"

"Qiu Jiang..."

Xue Cai nodded silently.

Yi Fei's heart thrust again. He looked back at Xiaolou, thinking about the person's experience in the building at this moment, both worried and distressed.

***

In the small building, Mrs. Ruyi first covered a blanket on Pincongmu's body, gently touched his face, and said, "I never thought that he would die so easily."

Qiu Jiang coughed aside, her face turned gray, her lips were chapped, and she had only one pair of eyes and a little energy.

So Mrs. Ruyi glanced at her again and said, "I never thought you would die so easily."

Qiu Jiang grinned and forced a smile: "Life is not satisfactory, eight out of ten."

"Yes. Although my name is Mrs. Ruyi, I have never lived a lot of life..." Mrs. Ruyi sat down next to her.

Qiu Jiang poured her body towards her, and Mrs. Ruyi sighed and had to hug her. Sometimes human limbs have strong hints, just like at this moment, when she hugged Qiu Jiang, she deeply realized that she was her niece, her junior, and her other child.

"I was sent to Ruyi Gate when I was nine years old. When I learned about my fate, I was very shocked. Before that, I was the legitimate daughter of the third wife of the Ji family. My parents loved me like a treasure. I never thought of becoming the leader of such a huge organization. At that time, I really liked a gentleman from the clan school. I thought that when I grew up, I could marry him as a wife and give birth to a bunch of cute children for him..."

Then, fate gave her a big blow and told her that your life is not like that.

"I have cried, made a fuss, and fought, but it was useless. When I was twelve years old, Mrs. Ruyi, my aunt, gave me a birthday gift. I opened the box and saw the husband's head. She killed him and wanted to cut off my thoughts." Mrs. Ruyi leaned against the wall, hugged the cold Qiujiang, and her eyes turned to a faraway place. That was her life and her most unbearable past. "I did not surrender, I was in pain and gave up on myself. So soon, I received another box, inside which was my mother's head. My aunt asked me, do you still want to have another box?"

Mrs. Ruyi looked at Qiu Jiang in her arms: "From my eyes, I'm strict with you, but I've never treated you like this."

A trace of tears rose in Qiu Jiang's eyes.

"I learned to bow my head and accept my fate when I was twelve. When I became an adult at the age of 18 and inherited the Ruyi Sect, the first thing I did was to kill my aunt and send her body back to the Ji family. I... hate the Ji family."
To be continued...