Qian Qiyue looked at the Song family from afar and saw them disappear. She turned her head and pointed at the pale, thin and small Song Ru beside her.
"You are stupid, why are you giving money to Song Tan?!"
She poked Song Ru's forehead, and seeing that the little girl was almost unsteady and almost fell backward, she quickly withdrew her hand, but still glared at Tang Ning unhappily.
"You too, there is no good person in the Song family. A'ru has been treated harshly by Song Tan for many years. Look at her thin arms and legs. She is lucky to be alive."
"What the Song family gave to A-Ju is not worth four hundred taels of silver. You actually agreed to let her give the silver to Song Tan. Are you crazy?!"
Tang Ning said: "He is A-ru's father after all."
"Bah!" Qian Qiyue rolled her eyes: "What kind of father is he?"
Song Ru has thin arms and legs, and looks like she is malnourished from hunger. Even her own daughter is better taken care of than her. Whose father would look like this?
Her father can beat him to death!
Tang Ning laughed at her glare: "Okay, I know he is not a good person, but I don't have much money, so I will just consider it as buying the letter of severance and ending the relationship between Aju and him. In the future, no one else will be able to say anything bad about Aju."
After hearing this, Qian Qiyue still felt that giving the silver to the Song family was a bargain for them. The Song family were all unlucky and deserved to live a miserable life.
You can buy anything else with four hundred taels of silver. Even if you want to buy rouge, you can apply it on their faces a thousand times. Why give it to the Song family?
Qian Qiyue kept muttering to herself, and was about to grab Song Ru's ear to scold her.
Song Ru looked at Tang Ning with some embarrassment. Tang Ning chuckled and found a random topic to ask about the scriptures she had copied, thus diverting Qian Qiyue's attention.
"Sister Yue, have you finished copying the scriptures?"
"Can you please stop bringing up this nonsense?" Qian Qiyue said sadly, "If I hadn't pestered my mother for a long time and begged my father for mercy, I wouldn't be able to get out today."
She lay on the table with her head down, crying:
"I don't know where those monks have so much free time. They wrote so many words for this sutra and that sutra. My hands are almost broken from copying them."
Qian Qiyue pouted.
"And my second brother and his friends are so mean. I secretly asked someone to help me copy, but he actually told my mother about it, forcing me to copy it ten more times..."
Fifty times would kill her, ten more times...
Woo woo woo.
Let her die!
Qian Qiyue was not a deep-thinking person to begin with. After her mind was diverted, she began to complain about the copying of scriptures, and also complained about her three brothers in the mansion who were "adding insult to injury".
Tang Ning and Song Ru were at a loss whether to laugh or cry at what she said. When their eyes occasionally met, they both looked away tacitly and no one mentioned Song Qin again.
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Qian Qiyue's mission of copying scriptures was not yet over, and she returned home reluctantly after staying there for a short while. Before leaving, she repeatedly told Tang Ning to "save" her from the sea of suffering and to visit her when he had time.
After seeing Qian Qiyue off, Tang Ning's smile remained on his face for a long time.
Song Ru whispered, "Sister Yue has a really good temper."
She is unrestrained and flamboyant, like the warm sunshine in midsummer. Even if you just stay by her side, you will be enveloped by the fresh and warm sunshine, as if listening to her laughter and talking to her can dispel the haze around you, and make you feel better involuntarily.
Tang Ning smiled and said, "If you like her, then spend more time with her in the future. She would love to have someone to play with her every day."
No one likes the hustle and bustle more than Qian Qiyue.
After she finished speaking, she smiled and said to Song Ru, "You haven't recovered yet, so we should go back."
Song Ru said obediently: "Okay."
The two sisters were in a very good mood when they left the box. Tang Ning folded the engagement letter and handed it to Song Ru. Just as she was about to speak, she saw Song Ru's face suddenly froze as she held the thing in her hand.
She frowned and looked up, and saw Song Jinxiu standing not far away.
Song Tangning only glanced at him, then pulled Song Ru and said, "Let's go."
Song Ru hummed softly, lowered her head and followed Tang Ning out, but the two were blocked by Song Jinxiu.
Hua Wu immediately stood in front of the two of them: "What do you want to do?!"
She stared at Song Jinxiu with full vigilance, and Xichun also hurriedly stepped forward to block Tang Ning and the others behind her, her expression full of alertness.
It wasn't long since that bastard surnamed Lu hurt a girl last time, and this bastard surnamed Song won't come again? !
Song Jinxiu was stared at by the two men, so he had to stop attacking. He looked past Hua Wu and the others and said, "Tang Ning, I have something to tell you."
Tang Ning said calmly: "I have nothing to tell you."
Song Jinxiu pursed his lips tightly. Even though he knew that the little girl in front of him no longer regarded him as a brother, such a cold look still made his heart ache.
"I'm just saying a few words. I won't hurt you." He wanted to say so that she wouldn't be so defensive against him.
Tang Ning just looked at him coldly after hearing this: "Sir Song is used to not saying anything nice."
You can't spit out ivory from a dog's mouth.
Song Jinxiu's face turned pale when he heard her taunting him. "I just want to ask you, Third Uncle and the others have fallen into such a situation, and will never appear in front of you again, why do you still want to kill them all?"
Tang Ning looked indifferent: "I don't know what you are talking about. Lord Song sent people to send money, and I sent people to send money too. What do you mean by killing them all? Lord Song, please don't frame me up."
"Don't you really know? If you really just want to give silver, you can do it privately. Why do you put the silver in Third Uncle's hands so publicly? You are clearly making him a target and arousing those people's greed. The four hundred taels of silver will fall into the hands of others at best, or even cost Third Uncle's life..."
Yinquan seemed to have left, but in fact he saw Xichun giving out the silver with his own eyes. Song Jinxiu, who was mixed in the crowd, also heard Xichun's words with his own ears.
She was clearly hinting to those yamen runners that the Song family had no one to protect them. Under such circumstances, Song Qin, who had a "huge sum of money", became the target of public criticism.
Song Jinxiu knew that Song Tangning was now sharp and would never admit it, so he could only look at Song Ru who was standing beside him: "A Ru, Third Uncle is your father after all, why do you have to put him to death?"
Song Ru's lips were a little pale. The timidity accumulated over the years in Duke Song's Mansion was not so easy to fade away.
Song Tangning, who was standing next to her, felt that Song Ru's palm was very cold. Seeing that Song Jinxiu was picking on the weak, her face turned cold and she was about to speak with disgust, but she didn't expect that the originally frightened Song Ru suddenly spoke.
"Brother, do you know how old I am this year?"
Song Ru's face was pale, but she stood in front of Tang Ning and said, "Do you know what month I was born in and where I live in the mansion?"
She breathed lightly, and because she was weak, her voice was not loud when she spoke.
Seeing Song Jinxiu looking at her in silence, she said softly, "I have lived in the mansion for fourteen years, and the number of times I have spoken to my brother can be counted on one hand."
"My brother always said that you loved Song Shulan because you didn't know her identity and you pitied her background. You wanted to treat her equally and let the sisters in the mansion live in harmony. But if you can really treat her equally, why did you never ask me a single question in my fourteen years in the mansion?"
Song Ru has a small face, which makes her eyes look even bigger, and her thin figure does not look like a fourteen-year-old girl at all.
"I asked my sister to send the money, and I asked my sister Xichun to say those words. Since my brother has never cared about me, why do you have to control how I act now?"