The widowed sister-in-law is embarrassed, she criticizes the villain like he only wants to be a love

next day

Yan Shu left home early in the morning and walked to the gate of Jiang Mansion.

She looked at the two guards on duty at the gate of Jiang Mansion for a while. She had never seen them before and they looked like unfamiliar faces.

After looking at them for a while, Yan Shu walked up to them and said, "Please tell your master that a woman named Yan wants to see you."

The two guards on duty looked at Yan Shu coldly.

"Do you have an invitation?"

Yan Shu was slightly startled and laughed at herself in her heart. She had actually forgotten for a moment that Jiang Ci was now the most sought-after Jie Yuan Lang in Xinyang Prefecture. There were many people who wanted to get close to him every day. It was not easy to enter the Jiang Mansion.

"I don't have an invitation."

One of the guards had an "as expected" expression on his face, and looked Yan Shu up and down blatantly.

"I knew you didn't have an invitation, but this time the masters have good taste. The young lady sent today is much prettier than the ones sent before."

Another guard said, "Young lady, I'm telling you the truth. Recently, there are all kinds of women coming to the Jiang Mansion. The reasons are varied. They are all seductive women who want to blackmail my master."

Yan Shu:......

She could imagine that Jiang Ci Zhong would become famous after meeting Empress Yuan. With his handsome face and cool temperament like a banished immortal, he would soon become the ideal son-in-law for all the girls in Xinyang Prefecture. However, she didn't expect that women in ancient times could be so crazy to chase stars.

"Young lady, don't waste your time here. My master has a bad temper. The man who knelt at the door a few days ago to sell himself for his father's burial has been sent to the government. And the woman who fainted outside the door yesterday was tied up by the guards and thrown into the mass grave outside the city. I'm afraid she is still crying for help in the mountains."

Yan Shu suddenly felt a chill on her back. She decided to go to the academy to find Wen Yutang first. He and Jiang Ci were both students of Pei Daru, so he would have a way to contact Jiang Ci.

Thinking of this, Yan Shu decisively turned around and left Jiang Mansion, heading straight towards Bailu Academy.

Here, just as Yan Shu left, Jiang Ci hurried over here with a few shadow guards.

"Who was that person just now?"

The two guards felt a pang in their hearts. Could it be that the woman was discovered by her master when she left?

"Just now there was a girl who came to ask for directions. I showed her the way and left."

Jiang Ci looked at the two of them with a cold gaze.

"Butler, what punishment will a servant receive for deceiving his master?"

The housekeeper glared at the two men angrily and said respectfully, "Reporting to the master, at the very least, they will be punished with thirty strokes of the cane, and at the worst, they will be sold out."

The two of them were immediately frightened and knelt down in front of Jiang Ci.

"I know I was wrong and I beg for forgiveness, Master. Just now a woman said she wanted to see you, and we were afraid she would disturb your rest so we persuaded her to leave. But she was not like the other women who would stay and leave, so we persuaded her a few words and she left. I thought it was unnecessary to disturb you, Master, so I concealed it on purpose."

Jiang Ci's expression was cold. If he was not mistaken, the person just now was indeed her.

"What did she say?"

"That woman said her last name was Yan. She looked like she had something urgent to discuss with the master. I thought she was the woman that those officials wanted to seduce you with, so I didn't take her words seriously."

Jiang Ci glanced at the two of them coldly: "Go down and get twenty strokes of the cane."

"Yes!" The two of them quickly stood up and ran to the yard to receive their punishment.

Jiang Ci immediately ordered his subordinates to prepare the carriage, and then rode in the direction of Bailu Academy. He finally saw the person he had been thinking about outside the academy gate.

"Who are you waiting for, sister-in-law?"

Yan Shu had just arrived at the Bailu Academy at this moment. Seeing students coming in one after another, he was just about to find someone with a friendly face to help him pass the message to Wen Yutang, when suddenly a familiar voice came from behind him. He was startled and subconsciously turned around to look.

At this moment, Jiang Ci opened the car curtain with one hand and looked at her with a smile in his eyes.

Yan Shu walked straight to the carriage and said truthfully: "I came to see you."

"Come up and tell me."

Yan Shu nodded, lifted her skirt, stepped on the stool, bent down and got into the carriage, when the horse suddenly moved forward a few steps for some reason, causing Yan Shu to lose balance and fall forward. Her forehead was about to hit the frame of the carriage. Jiang Ci quickly reached out to hold her head and pulled her into his arms, then looked out of the carriage with an unhappy expression.

"what happened?"

The driver had already pulled the reins. "It was because I didn't pull the reins for a moment. I deserve to die."

"Park the carriage in the alley ahead."

"Yes!"

The coachman immediately drove the carriage towards an alley not far away.

Yan Shu saw himself sitting sideways in Jiang Ci's arms, with his waist tightly embraced by Jiang Ci's arm. The postures of the two were extremely ambiguous.

She quickly broke free from Jiang Ci's embrace, stood up and sat on the empty seat opposite, pretending to thank him in a relaxed tone: "Thank you, uncle, for your timely help, otherwise I would have fallen and had a bloody head just now."

Jiang Ci looked at her calmly with deep eyes: "Did sister-in-law go to Jiang's house just now?"

"Yes, I have been there. The two guards said that there have been women with ulterior motives wandering outside the Jiang Mansion recently. In order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, I thought of coming to the academy to ask Yu Tang for help to pass on a message to you."

"Is there something urgent?" If there was no emergency, she would not have taken the initiative to come to see him.

Yan Shu nodded and said, "You said before that you would take me to the Cui family in Qinghe. When can we leave?"

Jiang Ci said: "If Third Brother Yan's condition stabilizes, we can set off at any time."

"Can we pass by Nanyang Prefecture on our way to Qinghe?"

Jiang Ci glanced at Yan Shu and said, "If we take the official road, it will be faster to pass through Suizhou. If we go to Nanyang Prefecture, we will have to walk a mountain road and take a few days of water. Do you want to go to Nanyang Prefecture urgently?"

Yan Shu met Jiang Ci's inquiring gaze and said truthfully, "My third brother has not woken up yet. I heard that Master Hongyi of Mount Taihua is an accomplished Taoist master, so I want to pass by Mount Taihua to ask for an audience with Master Hongyi. Perhaps he has a way to wake my third brother up."

Jiang Ci understood Yan Shu's intention and nodded in agreement.

"Third Brother Yan's condition is serious. We can set off after a short rest in the next two days."

"Okay, I'll go back and prepare."