As night falls, a field of red lanterns is hung in the inner courtyard of Liu Mansion.

The candlelight was brightly lit in the west wing room. Liu Zhitang was wearing soft casual clothes, his face was rosy, and his expression was pleasant and intoxicated. He held Xue Muyan in his arms, and the two of them were rubbing their ears together.

"Axue, how do you feel now? Does your head still hurt?" The man rubbed Xue Muyan's delicate body with his big hands, feeling as if his hands were boneless, soft and smooth, and very ecstatic.

He squinted his eyes slightly, and while stroking it, he savored the feeling.

It's the same woman, but the feelings she brings to him are completely different.

Mrs. Liu is a fierce and stupid tigress, and Ashue...is his heart and soul.

He wished he could crush her body, melt into his heart, and pamper her with all his strength.

Xue Muyan's face showed a charming look, and a look of disgust flashed in her eyes. She said Jiao Didi: "Master, the eldest lady was driven back to her parents' home less than three days after she got married. I gave her a few words of kindness, but...

Being rudely contradicted by her, not only do I have a headache now, but my heart also hurts."

She deliberately did not mention Uncle Lei's beating, knowing that sooner or later the news would reach Liu Zhitang's ears.

"Now the eldest lady is Princess Jing. She puts on airs and makes people panic." She pretended to be very worried, but she had other plans in her heart.

When Liu Ruoyuan got married, her family prepared a lot of dowry for her, including gold, silver, silk and satin, worth tens of thousands of taels.

This time she returned to her parents' home and brought back all the dowry, which was not a small sum of money.

Mrs. Liu is usually careless and doesn't care about Liu Ruoyuan's affairs. She definitely has no intention of taking care of her dowry...

Xue Muyan secretly thought that this was a great opportunity.

If Liu Ruoyan's dowry could fall into her hands, would she still have to watch Mrs. Liu's face carefully?

"The eldest lady has always been careless and doesn't know how to manage money. The dowry she brought back was left unattended, and her slaves might be ruined." Xue Muyan frowned and said worriedly.

That's right, she just felt distressed.

"That unfilial daughter is stupid and brainless, and will bring trouble to the house!"

"Sir, the eldest lady has just been driven back to her parents' home, so she must be in a bad mood. She is a legitimate daughter and has always been uninterested in trivial matters... The eldest lady has many people around her, and most of them are disobedient. Why don't you let me help her organize the entire dowry?

See what's missing and what's short." Xue Muyan said softly.

As long as the dowry is in her hands, she can take it and swallow it if she can.

If the matter is revealed one day, it will be all on Prince Jing. All I can say is that the eldest lady’s dowry was withheld by Prince Jing’s palace.

Liu Zhitang valued face more than his life, so he could only endure it silently when his daughter's dowry was swallowed up, and he would definitely not go to King Jing to settle the score.

"Well, Ashue, you are so kind. Thank you for your hard work."

Xue Muyan lay in the man's arms, coquettishly coquettishly, but a cold, mocking smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

…

The inner courtyard of Liu Mansion.

Beside the waterside pond, in the study room.

Lin Boshu tugged on his tight collar, exhaled a breath of irritability, and sat down on the sandalwood chair.

There was a dark look in his eyes, and he glanced at the woman in front of him: "It's so late, what are you doing here?"

Lu Luo, who was dressed in a floral gauze dress, pursed her thin lips and made a weak and aggrieved expression. She glanced at the man with a pair of red phoenix eyes, "Mrs. Feng asked me to tell Mr. Lin that now that the eldest lady has returned to the house to stay, Mr. Lin will stay there for a long time."

If you read alone in the study at night, be careful and guard against her."

The implication is that Liu Ruoyan will most likely come to harass Lin Boshu.

Luluo fell into a pond that night and contracted a cold and was bedridden. Today she felt better and couldn't wait to see Lin Boshu.

At this time, she covered her mouth with a handkerchief, coughed softly, and raised her eyes to look at the man in front of her who lowered his head and said nothing.

The study room was smoked with sandalwood, and green smoke curled up from the incense burner and spread in all directions.

Lin Boshu wore a homely plain cloth, and his hair was tied up with a hairband. He looked like a weak and gentle scholar.

A thin wisp of smoke enveloped his elegant face, with slender eyebrows and eyes, thin lips, indifferent and calm eyes, and a quiet and bookish temperament that was intoxicating and endlessly memorable.

Luluo couldn't help but swallow her saliva, her eyes were glued to him and couldn't move away.

Lin Boshu gave a slight "hmm" and clasped his hands with a gloomy expression.

He obviously had no interest in this maid, but when he heard the word eldest lady, the light in his eyes became even colder.

"Young master Lin doesn't know, but in the past two days, the eldest lady..."

Lin Boshu raised his hand to interrupt her, and his tone was extremely cold: "Don't say anything about her, I don't want to hear it."

Luluo was startled for a moment, suddenly turned pale, and couldn't help but feel a little happy.

Lin Boshu's eyes were gloomy. He didn't know what he was thinking. He closed his eyes and said, "Nothing else, you can go back."

"Young master, please rest early." Luluo said softly, turned around and exited, carefully closing the study door.

At the last moment when the door was closed, she looked at the elegant and relaxed man in the room, and a sense of expectation arose in her heart.

Mr. Lin is indeed a noble person, even the eldest lady looks down upon him and is filled with disgust.

This actually gave her a glimmer of hope.

I don't want to marry Mr. Lin, I just want to be his concubine. I will be satisfied in this life and have no regrets.

…

The next morning, Liu Ruoyuan went out alone and went straight to the largest bank in the capital, Wancai Jubao Bank.

When Jingge carried out the mission to assassinate King Jing, he had already expected that no matter whether he succeeded or failed, he would not return to the capital of Dingyun Kingdom in the short term.

So she arranged everything in advance and put all the gold, silver and other valuables she had saved over the years into the bank for safekeeping.

After rebirth, she had to get back the good things she had accumulated in her previous life.

However, she still had to keep a low profile about depositing gold and silver in the bank and didn't want others to know.

She went out alone to avoid surprising the people around her. Why did the eldest lady suddenly deposit gold and silver in the bank?

If someone from the Liu Mansion were to target her, with the shameless behavior of those people, they would have to pretend that her money belonged to the Liu Mansion.

By then she will have a hundred mouths and she won’t be able to tell.

So this time she came to the bank not to take away gold and silver, but to pick up an important valuable thing.

Liu Ruoyuan entered the bank and came to the counter. There was only a middle-aged clerk adjusting the abacus.

"This is my seal. I need to pick up something." She handed over a white handkerchief with an auspicious cloud pattern drawn on it with cinnabar and her handwriting.

The middle-aged waiter looked up and saw the girl in front of him, her almond-shaped eyes blinking slightly, her eyes bright and her porcelain white skin shining brightly in the sun. She was so stunningly beautiful that it was beyond words.

The waiter's face turned red and he hurriedly took the white handkerchief. He immediately stuttered and said, "Please, please, miss, please wait a moment."

He turned around and entered the back room. After a while, he came out with a small wooden box in his hand.

"This is what you want to pick up, miss. The storage fee is two taels of silver." The clerk carefully pushed the small wooden box in front of Liu Ruoyuan.

The small wooden box is only half a foot in size and is made of solid ebony wood. The lid of the box is carved with exquisite patterns, showing a pair of mandarin ducks playing in the water.

Liu Ruoyuan did not open the wooden box, but stretched out her hand to touch the patterns on it.

This pattern was carved by Jingge herself. At that time, she was filled with joy and there was only one person in her eyes and heart.

I only envy mandarin ducks but not immortals...

…

Opposite the bank is a shop selling the Four Treasures of the Study, antiques and incense.

The plaque on the door reads "Zhangtai Pavilion".

The chief shopkeeper is not in the shop, only the shopkeeper's daughter Zhu Qiong'er and two assistants are looking after the shop.

Zhu Qiong'er is seventeen years old, has a round face and big eyes, and is very smart and delicate.

A beautiful young woman in gorgeous clothes is sitting on a chair, holding a string of fragrant beads and admiring them carefully.

The most favored concubine in the Prince Regent's palace, Ru Hua, was very charming and graceful.

She was celebrating her 20th birthday in a few days and begged the regent to give her a gift from the Zhangtai Pavilion. Mei Zhongting doted on her and asked her to go to the Zhangtai Pavilion to pick out a personal accessory.

Zhangtai Pavilion is the largest antique jewelry store in Beijing. It not only has valuable antiques and furniture, but also various jewelry and magic weapons used by practitioners. Each piece is hard to find and priceless.

"Mrs. Ru, these are newly arrived fine fragrant beads. Wear them on your hands to calm your nerves and prolong your life. They are just from Yuexian Island..." Zhu Qiong'er introduced with a smile.

Yuexian Island is a place where cultivators stay. It is very mysterious and it is impossible for ordinary people to get close to it.

It is said that the cultivators of Yuexian Island know magic, can make elixirs, fly into the sky and escape from the earth, and are omnipotent.

Ordinary people can get something used by cultivators, which can be regarded as a rare treasure and passed down from generation to generation.

Ru Hua's eyes lit up, she nodded with satisfaction, got up and came to the window.

She faced the sunshine and carefully looked at the textures in the fragrant beads. At this moment, her eyes were attracted by a slim figure walking into the bank opposite.

"Isn't that...Liu Ruo'an?" Ru Hua raised his brows with a look of disdain on his face, "She is a stupid woman who was demoted back to her parents' family. Why does she go to the bank? She can't live her life and she wants to get money?"

She had met Liu Ruoyuan several times before and was deeply impressed by the beautiful but stupid woman, so she recognized her at a glance.
To be continued...