It was July and the heat had not yet dissipated. After nearly half a month of continuous rain, Zhaohua City finally ushered in a long-lost sunny weather.

Under the warm sunlight, the city is filled with clothes and bedding, and the Yin family mansion in the east of the city is no exception.

In a secluded courtyard in Yin's mansion, Yin Qi struggled to throw a quilt onto the clothesline. She was thirteen years old this year, with fair skin and weak figure, so this process made people feel a little distressed. The maid who was cooking medicine beside her said, "Girl, take a rest! I'll be on the sun later."

Yin Qi smiled and said, "Don't worry, sister, just drying a quilt, I can't get tired of me."

After hearing this, Yunxiang felt a little sad. The mother of the fifth girl Yin Qi, Gu Jingyi, is the concubine of Yin Zhengchuan, the third uncle of the Yin family, and was also very favored at that time. However, she was delicate and weak. After a serious illness two years ago, she became in a trance. Because she could not be cured for a long time, the mother and daughter were placed in a remote courtyard, saying that she was resting, but in fact she wanted to be clean.

Yunxiang was often indignant and lamented that the world was cold and cold, but Yin Qi never complained. She also comforted Yunxiang and took care of her mother with her all the best.

Yin Qi dryed her bedding and said to Yunxiang: "The weather is good today, I'll go to the small garden to pick some flowers."

Yunxiang smiled and said, "Okay, Madam must be very happy to see it!"

Before leaving the house, Yin Qi went to the house as usual to check on her mother's condition. As usual, her mother was still sleeping and her pale face was peaceful. Yin Qi felt a little relieved and told Yunxiang to take good care of her mother, but she walked out of the hospital.

The small garden is right next to it, just a small alley from the small courtyard where Yin Qi lives, surrounded by ancient earthen walls.

Yin Qi headed north along the alley, and at the end was a row of yards where the maids lived. They were separated by several courtyard walls in the middle into several courtyards, in charge of different affairs, and the maids were also fed and lived here.

Yin Qi entered a yard on the west side. In the yard, seven or eight servants were washing clothes hard around a well. The clothes piled beside them were all the same black clothes. Under the eaves, a woman sat on a low stool, observing the progress of her laundry while basking in the sun. It was obvious that she was the manager here.

The sky is warm and the sun is so peaceful and peaceful, but...

There was a slight smell of blood in the air in the courtyard, and Yin Qi hated this smell very much. She frowned and went to see the drainage canal by the wall. The water gathered there was already bright red.

"Aunt Feng!" Yin Qi smiled and greeted the woman under the corridor, "Is this a competition in Shenhu Hall?"

"It was last night! Many people were injured and several others died." Aunt Feng pointed to the clothes piled up in the yard. "The clothes of more than a hundred people are still covered with blood, which made us suffer!"

Shenhu Hall is the place where the Yin family trains warriors. It is in charge of Yin Qi's father Yin Zhengchuan. Although Yin Zhengchuan is very skilled in martial arts, he is also cruel and vicious, and his training methods are particularly fierce. Every group of slaves who enter Shenhu Hall can survive and do things in the end.

Thinking of her father, Yin Qi felt cold in her heart. She covered her emotions and asked Aunt Feng: "Are Ali here?"

Aunt Feng pointed to the house, "It's inside!" She saw Yin Qi not wanting to enter the house, and said, "I'm going to the small garden again?"

Yin Qi smiled and said, "Yes, I want to pick some flowers while the weather is good." Aunt Feng was a little worried and told me, "Far away from the east gate, there is a heavy yin energy there." After saying that, she was about to open her mouth to call someone, but Ali ran out of the room, holding a small basket in her hand. Seeing Yin Qi, her beautiful face was filled with smiles.

Ali is thirteen years old this year and is Aunt Feng's granddaughter. She has been in Yin Mansion since she was a child. Shortly after Yin Qi and her daughter moved here, the two became friends and there was no distinction between master and servant.

The two of them came out of the courtyard and went straight to the small garden. Although the small garden was several times smaller than Fangyuan in the southwest corner of the inner courtyard, it was the oldest courtyard in the Yin Mansion and had never been renovated. The flowers and trees inside were very lush, and many branches stretched across the courtyard wall to cover most of the aisles. As soon as they entered the garden, the amazingly growing plants and trees were everywhere, and many of the trails were blurred and difficult to distinguish.

Most people in the mansion thought it was gloomy and terrifying, but Yin Qi liked it very much. When she first moved here, the pressure of survival made Yin Qi very worried. Because she was afraid of affecting the timid and weak Yunxiang, she did not dare to show it, and could only go to the small garden to relax. When she was in the garden, there was no one around, and the environment surrounded by green trees made her heart particularly quiet. As she came too much, she gradually became familiar with the garden.

Ali obviously didn't feel this way. She followed Yin Qi tightly and looked around uneasy.

"Are we going right? Why do I feel the scenery around me is different from when I came back?"

Yin Qi replied: "Don't worry, you didn't go wrong. The flowers and trees here grow faster than elsewhere, and the changes will be greater."

The two of them turned along the blurry path several times, and their eyes suddenly became wider. This is the northeast corner of the garden, with several flowers covering the ground. Under the bright sunlight, all kinds of flowers bloomed, sweeping away the gloomy atmosphere before.

Ali stood in front of Hua Cong and said, "You have a good memory and can remember such a difficult road. If I were alone, I wouldn't even get out even if I came in."

Yin Qi smiled slightly and handed the small basket to Ali, "You go pick flowers first, I'll go there to pick some medicine."

Ali took the basket, looked at a bamboo forest next to him, and said, "You must be careful! Don't go too far."

Yin Qi entered the bamboo forest and walked about forty feet south. In the gap between bamboo, she finally saw what she really wanted to pick today - Wolf Star Grass.

Wolf Star Grass is a rare local medicinal material. Its stems and leaves have the effect of nourishing the spirit. Because this medicine is expensive, since the mother and daughter moved to the small garden, the doctors in the outer courtyard often missed the medicines given by the doctors in the outer garden every month. Once, Yin Qi was wandering in the small garden, she accidentally discovered this Wolf Star Grass growing in the bamboo forest. She was overjoyed and was afraid that it would be noticed and would make others cheaper. So she often called Ali to pick flowers as a cover.

Yin Qi took out a few small cloth bags hidden around her waist and started picking them. Before one of the bags was filled, a few screams suddenly came from the other side of the flowers. Yin Qi's heart tightened, hid the bag on her body, got up and ran towards the other side of the flowers.

The distance of dozens of feet was not far, and Yin Qi quickly ran out of the bamboo forest. The situation in front of her was completely unexpected. In addition to A Li, there was also a heroic man in black. The man was about in his early twenties, tall and handsome, and the tiger patterns on the black clothes were particularly conspicuous in the sun. This was a specially made shirt by the Yin family. He was from the Shenhu Hall. The man used one hand to control A Li firmly in his arms, so that she could not speak, but the other hand slowly patted the grass leaves and petals on his body. A Li's face was full of fear and his hair was a little messy. It was obvious that he had struggled.

Yin Qi was anxious, but she didn't dare to show her face. She pretended to be calm and asked sternly: "Who are you? How dare you be rude to my maid? Let go of the person quickly!" The man heard the scolding, but did not move, but looked at Yin Qi with a cynical smile on his face. Seeing that Yin Qi was not showing weakness, he responded lazily: "Yang Cheng, the martial artist in the White Tiger Hall, I wonder which girl you are?"

Yin Qi's heart sank. She had heard of this person's name. Before entering the Yin Mansion, Yang Cheng was already a famous swordsman in the world. After entering the mansion, he was highly valued by his father and was also considered a person who called the wind and rain in the Shenhu Hall. However, he didn't expect that he was so arrogant.

"My father is the master of Shenhu Hall," she sneered, trying to put on the master's airs. "This is already in the inner courtyard. If you break in private, aren't you afraid that the third lady will blame you?"

The third wife of Yin's mansion, Tao Ying, was born into a wealthy family in Zhaohua City. The Tao family is another major force in Zhaohua City. The marriage between the two families caused a sensation and the wedding was unprecedented. After Tao Ying entered the Yin's mansion, she immediately replaced her second wife Zheng Wei as the hostess of the inner courtyard, in charge of all matters of big and small. She acted decisively, had a clear distinction between right and wrong, and was quite famous in the mansion. Even the head of the family Yin Zhengyuan respected her three points. If Yang Cheng bullied the maid in the inner courtyard in front of her, it would be equivalent to hurting Tao Ying's face.

When Yang Cheng heard Yin Qi move out the third wife, he smiled bitterly. He just took a break from his busy schedule and wanted to come here to take a nap. As a result, the little girl screamed when she saw him, and he had to stop her first. Unexpectedly, she had companions! Yang Cheng looked at the girl in front of him carefully. The girl in her teenage girl stood up straight in front of him and looked at him calmly, without any intention of retreating.

"It's interesting, I'm actually treated like a lust! It's really unlucky today!" Yang Cheng thought so in his heart, but he was too lazy to explain. He smiled and let go of the girl in his arms, bowed and said, "Girl, I'm reckless today, don't hold a grudge against me!"

Yin Qi hugged Ali who was running over and said to Yang Cheng: "Shi Wu of Yang was also a famous generation of rich men before entering the mansion. Don't taint your reputation for this kind of thing."
Chapter completed!