Chapter 263: jade bracelet
Chapter 263 Jade Bracelet Disturbance
The black clouds gradually thickened, and the dark sky seemed to be sinking.
Ruan Youqing caressed his forehead with the back of his hand, and suddenly there was an indescribable sadness in his eyes:
"Master Gu, it looks like it's going to rain, let's go back first."
Gu Changan nodded, stood up and reached out to pull Ruan Youqing up.
「Kugli assassinated us...」
"Don't report to the emperor yet, I want to get in touch with him in a few days and find out what he thinks."
Gu Changan nodded clearly, and then asked casually: "By the way, why didn't you see Fan accompany you?"
"Fan'er?" Ruan Youqing remembered that Fan'er hadn't come back yet.
"She said that she was going to bring me a coat and come back... now... she should be back..." Ruan Youqing couldn't help but feel a little worried.
Gu Chang'an's eyebrows and eyes were as usual, and he calmly took her hand and walked towards the small courtyard prepared for her.
「Perhaps that girl is looking for the wrong way, let's see if we can meet her.
Ruan Youqing hummed softly, then looked down at the clasped hands.
His hands are not as delicate as his appearance.
Then Ruan Youqing smiled silently to himself, how could a martial arts practitioner's hands be delicate if they didn't take care of them deliberately.
The two held hands, but Ruan Youqing was always one step behind him.
Although neither of them spoke, the smile on the corners of their mouths never faded away.
Until they passed a small wood, they suddenly heard the sound of arguing in the woods.
「Don’t come here! Come again...I’m not welcome!」
Ruan Youqing immediately sank his face, turned to Gu Changan and said, "It's the sound of a fan."
Presumably Gu Changan also heard the voice of the fan. Just after Ruan Youqing finished speaking, he led Ruan Youqing into the woods.
In order to avoid alarming the enemy, both of them unanimously took their steps lightly.
After walking a few steps, I saw Fan'er and several other people.
「You said you didn’t take it, so why is my jade bracelet on you!」
It was Chang Zhen who reprimanded him.
At this time, Chang Zhen was leading a few maidservants to surround Fan'er, his aggressive appearance made Fan'er angry and ashamed.
"Yes... that person touched me just now!" Fan'er pointed to a little girl in pink next to Chang Zhen, and then continued: "I went to get clothes for my master, and when I came here, I heard the sound of the forest. There was a voice calling for help. Then when I came over with good intentions to see what was going on, she rushed out in a panic and bumped into me! After the collision, she even left without saying a word! Who knows, Did she take the opportunity to put the jade bracelet on me at that time!"
Chang Zhen sneered: "This maid is Ning'er next to me, and she was the one who told me that the jade bracelet was lost. If she moved her hand, how could she tell me that the bracelet was lost!"
Fan'er snorted not to be outdone, "Maybe she's the thief calling for a thief!"
"Don't slander the people around me like that! Even if Ning'er really did it, how could she plant it on you again! The two of you are just meeting for the first time today, and we have no grudges in the past and no enmity in the present, so we Ning'er will not I wronged you!"
"You...you guys!" Fan'er blushed aggrievedly.
She originally wanted to refute that it might be their master and servant colluding, but her good upbringing did not allow her to say such a thing.
Seeing that Fan'er was unable to answer, Chang Zhen's face became even more gloomy: "Our Quanling Villa cannot tolerate a maid like you here! Even if your master is Ruan Youqing! I will bring you to the old lady and the queen mother today and talk about it!"
Hearing this, Ruan Youqing roughly understood what was going on.
Said her fan was stealing?
After sneering, Ruan Youqing walked out.
"What's wrong with Sister Zhen'er? She lost her temper so much?"
Xu Shi did not expect that Ruan Youqing and Gu Changan would come here. After a flash of panic flashed in Chang Zhen's eyes, she straightened her back again, and said with a gloomy expression: "Sister Youqing, should you discipline your maid more? I don’t care what happened to her when she was in the Ruan Mansion, but she dared to steal things when she came to Quanling Mountain Villa, I think she has eaten a bear’s heart and leopard courage.”
Gu Changan frowned slightly and was about to speak when she felt Ruan Youqing gently squeeze his hand, and then she slowly let go and walked forward: "Stealing things? Sister Zhen'er needs evidence when she speaks."
"Evidence? Everyone got all the stolen goods! Isn't this evidence?!" Chang Zhen continued to open his palm, revealing a jade bracelet, and continued: "This is what I found out of your maid! In order to find this jade bracelet, I specially called a few servant girls from the villa to come over with me. They are all witnesses!"
The little maids who were said to be witnesses immediately stood up straight after seeing Gu Changan, and lowered their heads.
Only one older man spoke after deliberation: "Master, the servants did see that Miss Chang Zhen found this jade bracelet on this younger sister. It's just that the other...servants don't know much about it."
After telling the truth about what they saw, these people did not add fuel to the fire.
Chang Zhen couldn't help but twitched the corners of his lips, these words were enough. She doesn't need these people to help her say more, she just needs to say what she sees.
At this time, Ruan Youqing still looked indifferent. When he glanced at the jade bracelet in Chang Zhen's hand, he smiled and said, "Sister Zhen'er, would you mind letting me have a look at this jade bracelet?"
Chang Zhen was taken aback for a moment, then his eyes dodged and he took his hand back: "This... what's so good about this jade bracelet..."
Seeing her withdrawing her hand, Ruan Youqing couldn't help covering her lips and smiling: "Sister Zhen'er, don't be so flustered, I... won't **** your bracelet away..."
"Zhen'er, take out the bracelet and have a look."
After Chang Zhen heard Gu Changan's voice, he wept and reluctantly handed the jade bracelet to Ruan Youqing.
After Ruan Youqing took it with both hands, he raised his eyebrows slightly.
Just because...this bracelet...is actually much lighter than she imagined...
And the fineness of this jade bracelet...
Not so good...
Although Chang Zhen is not a serious lady here, when Ning Guogong was alive, he still left her a lot of good jewelry and silver taels.
It stands to reason... She shouldn't take this ordinary-looking jade bracelet as a treasure.
Especially this kind of people looking for it with great fanfare after losing it...
Unless, she did it on purpose, but she was not willing to use a good jade bracelet.
So... Then I took an ordinary jade bracelet out to save the trouble of knocking.
This is a way that is often used to frame people.
Thinking of this, Ruan Youqing's expression suddenly changed, and his tone was extremely gentle:
"Sister Zhen'er, this jade bracelet...is it left by your father, Lingtang and the others?"
Chang Zhen, who was already guilty, couldn't react for a while, and said in a daze: "No, what my parents left me... I have taken good care of it!"
"Sister Zhen'er likes this jade bracelet very much?"
Although he couldn't figure out Ruan Youqing's thoughts, Chang Zhen subconsciously replied: "It's... not bad. But even if it's not my favorite, it's not an excuse for your maid to steal it, right?"
"Then..." Ruan Youqing continued with a complicated expression:
"Sister Zhen'er, my fan is the same as me. She has some research on jade. To put it bluntly... if it's not very pleasant, I'm afraid that sister Zhen'er's jade bracelet... won't catch my fan's eyes."
(end of this chapter)