Chapter 99 The Gift in Return

Yang Zijin nodded after listening. "What are you doing lately?" Pei Moning changed the subject. Yang Zijin shrugged, "What else can I do? Do business!" "If your business got larger in the future, you couldn't forget me." Pei Moning said with a smile. Following Pei Moning's words, Yang Zijin said, "I would be in charge of your life then!" They walked towards the backyard while they talked and laughed. At this time, Runyu was practicing swordsmanship in the backyard. Seeing this, Yang Zijin couldn't help but stop walking. She looked at the man in white in surprise. She only saw that he used the sword freely, as fast as lightning. Yang Zijin couldn't help but be dumbfounded. At this time, looking at Yang Zijin's stupefied appearance, Pei Moning couldn't help joking, "Well, did you fall in love with him?" "Brother, what are you talking about?" Yang Zijin pushed Pei Moning and said, but she still saw Runyu, who was practicing swordsmanship. Hearing the movements here, Runyu quickly stopped. The fallen leaves on the trees nearby were shot down by the sword one after another. Seeing Pei Moning and Yang Zijin, Runyu politely nodded to Yang Zijin slightly. Then he turned away. "Don't mind. That's what he is!" Pei Moning said to Yang Zijin. Yang Zijin smiled and went to the stone bench in the yard to sit down. They laughed for a while. Yang Zijin said, "Brother, since you are busy competing, I won't bother you." "Okay. Come here when you are free in the future. Don't forget me." Pei Moning nodded. Then they got up and walked to the front yard. As soon as Yang Zijin returned to the mansion, Lan said in a hurry, "Your Highness, the princess has come to the mansion to look for you." "Look for me?" Yang Zijin thought for a while and then realized that the princess must be Chushi Yingying. So, she asked, "Where is the princess now?" "Now the princess is in the hall, accompanied by Madame and Miss Yunong." Lan said quickly. Yang Zijin nodded and walked towards the hall. In the hall. Li Mingzi was talking with Chushi Yingying. Chushi Yingying was talking inattentively, looking out from time to time. Seeing the figure of Yang Zijin from a distance, Chushi Yingying stopped paying attention to Li Mingzi and stood up to say to Yang Zijin, "Sister Qingcheng, sister Qingcheng, I'm here." Li Mingzi and Mu Yunong couldn't help but glance at each other. When Yang Zijin walked into the hall, Chushi Yingying pulled Yang Zijin to sit next to her. "Your Highness and Qingcheng are really good friends." Seeing this, Li Mingzi said. Ignoring her words, Chushi Yingying said, "Sister Qingcheng, where have you been? I've been waiting for you for a long time." "There were some things in the shop, so I went to solve them!" Yang Zijin said with a smile. Hearing Yang Zijin talk about the shop, Chushi Yingying suddenly remembered something and yelled out, "Bring the thing in, Cuizhu." They all looked out and saw that the maid named Cuizhu walked in front of ChuShi Yingying with a box in her hand. "Give it to me and leave." Chushi Yingying took the box and said. At this time, she turned around and gave the box to Yang Zijin. "Here you are, sister Qingcheng. This is what my mother gives you." "From Empress?" Taking it, Yang Zijin couldn't help but ask. Chushi Yingying blinked and said, "Yes, she used the things you gave her. The effect is very good. She asked people to prepare a return gift. She let me give it to you. Open it and have a look!" At this time, Li Mingzi and Mu Yunong both focused their eyes on the box. Yang Zijin slowly opened, only to see an exquisite night-luminescent pearl inside. "So beautiful, it was specially selected by my mother. She said sister Qingcheng was like the night-luminescent pearl, showing a mysterious light." Chushi Yingying said with a smile. Yang Zijin couldn't help but be surprised. She didn't expect the Empress would give her such a precious gift. Sitting aside, Li Mingzi couldn't help but open her eyes wide. "Not only did Yang Zijin get along well with Chu Yingying, but even she was highly praised by the Empress. What did she do?" Li Mingzi thought. And Mu Yunong was very envied. Why did Yang Zijin get the favor of the Empress so quickly? Why couldn't she get? If the people were her, she could be closer to Crown Prince. Thinking of this, Mu Yunong couldn't help thinking a lot. Could it be that Yang Zijin also fell in love with Crown Prince? Li Mingzi and Mu Yunong had been sitting there and listening to Chushi Yingying and Yang Zijin talking and laughing with each other. They couldn't put in a word. They didn't know what to do. After a long time, Chushi Yingying said to Yang Zijin, "Sister Qingcheng, it's too late. I should be home quickly. If father knew I had gone out, he would punish me by copying books." "Well, okay." Yang Zijin nodded with a smile after listening. At this time, Chushi Yingying said to Yang Zijin again, "Sister Qingcheng, remember to come to play with me when you are free." "I see." After saying, Yang Zijin gave Chushi Yingying a little pinch on her nose. Then she said, "Let's go. I'll give something to you." After saying, they went out, ignoring Li Mingzi and Mu Yunong. Seeing this, Li Mingzi and Mu Yunong got up quickly and said, "Good-bye, Your Highness." Until they couldn't see them, Mu Yunong said unhappily to Li Mingzi, "Look, Mom, she didn't pay attention to us at all." "It seems that it's time to make trouble for her." Li Mingzi was obviously dissatisfied. Anyway, she was also the wife of Duke of Mu. Unexpectedly, facing outsiders, Yang Zijin didn't respect her at all. She also walked out of the hall and Mu Yunong followed her, but she had an idea in her mind. Before, Qiao Shu gave her a plan, but she had been hesitating. Thinking of Chushi Yingying's appearance to Yang Zijin, and the thing that Empress gave to Yang Zijin, Mu Yunong felt that she could not wait. Yang Zijin deliberately got along well with Chushi Yingying and the Empress, surely in order to approach Crown Prince. Thinking of this, Mu Yunong couldn't help tearing the handkerchief in her hands. It seemed that she should look for an opportunity and the sooner the better. Chushi Yingying followed Yang Zijin to her room. Chushi Yingying was curious about everything in Yang Zijin's room. Touch them and have a look. At last, she stared at the charcoal pencil on the table and then took off the cap of pencil, making her hands covered with dust. The cap of pencil was made of cloth and was wrapping the charcoal pencil. Chushi Yingying asked curiously, "Sister Qingcheng, what is this?" "It's a charcoal pencil. It's much better to write than a Chinese brush." Turning her head to have a look, Yang Zijin explained to Chushi Yingying. After hearing this, Chushi Yingying quickly took the charcoal pencil and began to write on the rice paper. She nodded and said to Yang Zijin, "Sure enough, it's much faster than writing with a Chinese brush." "Sister Qingcheng, could I have this charcoal pencil?" Thinking for a while, Chushi Yingying said to Yang Zijin. At this time, Yang Zijin had wrapped the whitening mask and walked to Chushi Yingying, "Okay." "Thank you. If I accidentally made mistakes in the future, I would not be afraid to copy a book." Chushi Yingying said with a smile. Yang Zijin couldn't help but shook her head after listening, and then said, "This is for the Empress. Please tell her to keep using it. Now her symptom is only relieved. Even though the surface of her skin is getting better, the problem inside the skin has not been solved." "Okay, I will tell these to my mother." After listening, Chushi Yingying nodded again and again. "Let's go. I'll take you out!" Yang Zijin said. After Chushi Yingying left, Yang Zijin went back to the room and lay on the bed quietly. Thinking about what happened these days, and Shuo Ling's sudden love to her, she felt that everything was dramatic! Luckily, everything had been solved. Then she would begin to investigate the matter of her mother in the mansion. Her intuition told her that Li Mingzi had something to do with it! But after so many years, could she find any clue? Yang Zijin couldn't help sighing again. But after a while, she told herself, "As a person who didn’t belong here, since I had occupied your daughter's body and came here. God must have arranged something. Don't worry, Princess Nanyang. I would definitely find out what happened in that year!" Thinking of this, she got up and called Lan. "Your Highness." Lan hurried into the room. Yang Zijin asked, "Are there people who have been in the mansion for some years?" "There's a mammy working in madame's section. It seems that she came to the mansion when she was a girl." Lan replied. "Working in Li Mingzi's section?" Yang Zijin couldn't help frowning slightly, and then asked, "Is there anyone else besides this mammy?" "In addition to the mammy, the butler also has been in the mansion for a long time. Lan has just been in the mansion for a few years, so I don't know it clearly." Thinking for a while, Lan said. At this time, Yang Zijin still didn't give up, "When you came here, was there someone who was resigned or returned home?" Hearing Yang Zijin's words, Lan suddenly remembered, "When I came here, it seemed that there was a mammy who left the mansion. But I didn't know where she went." "Do you know who this mammy served?" Hearing this, Yang Zijin asked anxiously. Lan shook her head. "I see. You can leave first!" Bowing her head, Yang Zijin pondered for a moment. Did this mammy know something about that year? It had been so long. She could only find the servants who stayed in the mansion before, and got the information from them first! Then she called Jiang Wei, "Wei, you come to the butler at the right time to find a detailed list of people coming and going in the mansion in recent years." "Okay, Your Highness." Jiang Wei responded after listening. This thing was just a small matter for her. Doing it in this way, Yang Zijin just didn't want to act rashly and alerted the enemy, making Li Mingzi be on guard. At this time, Lan said at the door, "Your Highness, a maid working for madam just came here and said that the lady asked you to come to her for something!" Hearing this, Yang Zijin couldn't help but frown. What was Li Mingzi going to do? But she decided to go and have a look! Therefore, she got up and walked to Li Mingzi's courtyard.