Jingshe

  "So, Qianer's leg is injured and can't exert force?" Qingjiang Junzhu rubbed the golden bangle on her wrist, furrowing her brow. "Hàn Tàiyī, what's going on here? I set up this banquet today to make the girls happy, but now it seems that a perfectly fine person has come, only to be carried back to the Cui residence?! How am I supposed to explain this to the Cui family and the Imperial Consort?!"

  Cui Jianlian's face was pale, and she forced a smile: "The young lady is being too serious, this matter can't be blamed on the young lady? It's just that I didn't manage my own people well, which led to this situation."

  Jiang Muxun glared at her: "You'd better tell me clearly! If you're so ambiguous, others will think I pushed you down!"

  "What's going on, Miss Jiang? You know it all!" Cui Jianliu's maid said tearfully and indignantly. "In broad daylight! Even if Miss Jiang has forgotten what happened back then, once she steps out of this door, there are plenty of people who can tell her!"

  He knelt down in front of Qingjiang County Master again and cried out, "Please, County Master, help my family's young lady!"

  Qingjiang Junzhu didn't lose face this time, warning with a glance at Jiang Muxiu: "The most important thing now is to see the condition of Zhen's body, whatever you have to say wait until I ask the imperial physician!"

  "Yes!" Jiang Muxun was pinched by Bao Jing and could only hold back her breath and lower her head.

  "Doctor Han, is this wound serious or not?" The young mistress of Qingjiang turned to the old doctor with white hair and a worried expression on her face. "Why can't he get up?"

  Han Taizhong stroked his long beard, pondered for a moment, and then said: "The princess asked, I dare not answer. It's just that this old man is good at adjusting the air and supplementing the origin, but knows little about treating injuries. Now looking at Miss Cui's pulse, there is no major problem. As for why Miss Cui can't get up, this... please forgive this old man's incompetence!"

  Having caught the implication of Taiyi's words, Qingjiang Junzhu's face fell for a moment before she turned to Zhenli and instructed: "Send someone back to the capital immediately to fetch a skilled physician who excels at treating injuries!"

  Zhen Li responded with a "yes" and went out to spread the word.

  "Is she frightened?" The room was quiet due to Qingjiang County's mistress's unhappy silence. Song Yi Xiao suddenly lifted her head and carefully asked, "Perhaps it's nothing serious, and she'll be fine after a rest?"

  "Miss Song, you're really standing there talking without any pain in your waist!" Cui Jianliang's body trembled upon hearing this, and she turned her head towards the bed, as if unable to bear such casual words - a maid should take the place of her master, indignantly saying, "Even if it wasn't you who fell, your words are still too heartless! What's with the tens of stone steps?! Why don't you go try falling down yourself!"

  Jin Xun refused to show weakness: "The imperial physician has already said that Miss Cui's pulse is fine. Since that's the case, my young lady said that your young lady might not have anything serious going on, what's wrong with that? Could it be that you hope something happens to your young lady?"

  "Never mind!" Cui Jianlian turned back, choking with sobs, and stopped her maid, "Xiao Man, don't say anything more. After all, this matter was started by us. Although I'm injured now, if it can make Jiang sister calm down a bit, it's not in vain..."

  "Miss Cui's words seem to imply that my young lady deliberately pushed you down the mountain path because your maid broke the jade pendant left by the old madam. Baoying said indifferently, "In that case, I'd like to ask for your guidance. When your servant did something wrong, why didn't you keep her in the house and wait for my young lady to arrive, so as to discuss how to deal with it? Instead, both of you went to the mountain path to pick flowers leisurely, as if nothing had happened. Is this because you're afraid that my young lady won't get angry?"

  She smiled coldly and said, "Who doesn't know that the young lady of our house is kind-hearted and filial to her elders, especially with a deep grandmother-granddaughter relationship with the old madam? When she heard that the things left by the old madam were damaged, how could she not be anxious?"

  Jiang Muxun sneered: "If it were on flat ground, I'd really push her down. How could she have a reason to get hurt and not be able to get up?"

  "Because I knew that the jade step was not only a treasured item of Jiang's sister, but also something left behind by Old Lady Jiang." Cui Jianlian wiped away her tears with a beautiful gesture, and smiled wryly before continuing, "So when I received the news today, I racked my brains thinking about how to apologize to Jiang's sister. Before she arrived at the temple, I saw the flowers blooming below and thought of picking some for her as a token of apology. Who knew that not only did it have no effect, but also led to Jiang's sister misunderstanding me!"

  "Actually, if it weren't for being forced into a desperate situation, who would be willing to hurt themselves on the zygomatic bone, especially when it's hard to get out of bed?"

  Jiang Muxun and Bao Jing looked at each other silently after hearing this, then glanced at Song Yixiao - He's here!

  This is the most difficult point to break through in the whole frame-up: although many servants in Jing She witnessed Jiang Muyun stretching out his hand and Cui Jianli falling, Cui Jianli also explained why they would wait on the mountain path instead of in the house.

  However!

  Chiang Mu-chen is also a person of status!

  Even if it were the servants of Qingjiang County, unless Qingjiang County explicitly expressed her stance and stood on Cui Jianli's side, their words would definitely be similar to those of Ji Su: "We saw Miss Cui talking to Miss Jiang over there, but later we don't know whether Miss Cui didn't stand firmly or Miss Jiang lost her grip, Miss Cui fell down... We servants were far away and couldn't hear what the two ladies said, nor did we see clearly, really don't know what happened!"

  After all, the Jiang family's power and status are there, who would be idle enough to make an enemy of themselves?

  As for saying that we should take advantage of the situation, I mentioned earlier that the Jiang family's doorframe is slightly higher than the Cui family's. Sending people to spread rumors and throwing dirty water at each other are tactics that both you and I can use, so who's afraid of whom?

  Cui Jianlian's trick was not particularly clever, what was truly clever was her timing.

  All the kings choose their consorts, and the nobles select their wives, all in today's banquet. In such an extraordinary period, even those who are really uncomfortable will grit their teeth and hold on, who would pretend to be injured?

  Especially since she is also the designated Princess of Liang in Fengyue!

  So now she just needs to say "This is the bone of the eye", enough to suppress all the doubts on Jiang Muqin's side - since the Cui and Jiang families have no grudges, why would Cui Xianlian risk her own future to frame Jiang Muqin?

  It must have been Jiang Muxun who pushed her down!

  The room was quiet for a long time, and Jiang Muxun seemed to have been completely speechless, with everyone looking gloomy and silent.

  The atmosphere gradually became heavy, and it was Cui Jianliang who finally broke the deadlock: "Miss Song's words just now were also correct. I was really scared at that time! So I don't remember what happened either - but I believe Sister Jiang is a good person and would never hurt me!"

  "She let out a sigh, 'Let's just say it was my fault to outsiders, okay? I apologize to the young mistress, today's incident was caused by me, which not only delayed your time but also disturbed your mood!'"

  Qingjiang Jun Zhu raised an eyebrow and looked at Jiang Muqin: "What do you think?"

  Jiang Muxun's eyes flickered, and he glanced at Bao Jing, then at Song Yixiao - the fleeting glimpse of guilt in his eyes was clear to Cui Jianlian, who was leaning against the couch, and she couldn't help but narrow her eyes, before quickly lowering her eyelids to conceal her pleased expression.

  "We just reached out, actually wanted to save Miss Cui!" Jiang Muxin calmed down and said in a slightly trembling voice, "Because she fell down, actually... actually..."

  It's clear that when it comes down to it, she can't bring herself to do it, and so she hesitates and can't say the words "Song Yi Xiao" for a long time.

  Chui Jianlian was enduring her temper. Suddenly, there was a commotion outside the door!

  The county lord's daughter frowned, just about to order someone to go out and stop them, but the footsteps outside came first: "It's bad! Someone has disturbed a snake's nest, please ask the county lord's daughter to move quickly, we can't stay here any longer!"

  "What?!"

  Few girls are not afraid of snakes, and those who have been pampered for a long time are even more fearful. Just hearing the two words "snake nest", without seeing a single snake, everyone in this house, master and servant alike, is already trembling with fear!

  As the door was pulled open with force, a maid in Qinchun Building's servant attire hastily appeared at the entrance and urgently reported: "Young Mistress, a servant found a hole behind the house, thinking it was a wild rabbit burrow. But after digging it up, they discovered it was a snake den! Now the snakes are startled and slithering everywhere...

  Before she finished speaking, she suddenly let out a shrill cry and jumped backward. The people in the house were left staring with their eyes wide open as they saw that where she had been standing was now occupied by a huge red snake!

  "This snake is highly venomous!" The maid retreated and only then reacted, crying with a sad face, "We must drive it away, we absolutely cannot hurt the young lady!"

  You didn't say this until you had already jumped out of the door yourself...

  Everyone in the house except Qingjiang County Master spat a mouthful of blood collectively, looked at each other, and finally Bao Jing stood up, took a strip of cloth, and carefully drove forward: "Get out! Get out!"

  As a result, she approached the red snake, and a terrifying scene appeared - the red snake spat out its snake letter, suddenly popped up, and actually wrapped itself around her!

  "My mother!" Bao Jing shouted in a crying voice, and in her panic, she didn't care about anything else. She threw off the cloak directly and fell to the ground, trembling with fear!

  It's unclear whether it was intentional or unintentional, but the silk cloth wrapped around the snake was flung onto Cui Jianliang's bed!

  Then everyone saw Choi Jianlian, who had just claimed to be "unable to get up", with a speed that was too fast to cover his ears, lifted the quilt and dodged behind Xiao Man's back. The action was so swift, the posture was so beautiful, and the pace was so light, let alone someone who was injured, even normal people couldn't compare!

  "Miss Cui, you're really something else!" Song Yi smiled until now before putting down her heart, instantly gathering up the fear on her face, seeming to smile but not quite smiling. "I told you, you were just scared earlier, how could you be uncomfortable? Right?"

  Cui Jianlian's soul had just settled when she heard these words, which didn't seem right. She suddenly turned her head and saw that not only Song Yilao and his servant were smiling, but also Jiang Muxian was calm. Baoying, who had been limp with fear a moment before, had also scrambled to her feet. The four of them exchanged a smile, ignoring Cui Jianlian. Along with the maid who had come from outside to report the news, they walked up to Qingjiang Junzhu and knelt down to apologize: "We falsely claimed it was a snake's nest and disturbed the young lady's residence. Please, young lady, punish us!"

  Qingjiang Jun Zhu fiddled with the golden cuff on her wrist, not looking at them, but gazing calmly at Cui Jianliang: "Jianliang, is it that you don't like my banquet or you don't like me as a person? On this annual Shangsi Festival, why must you dampen the mood?"