After Li Qingqian and Shen Changyun left, Nanny Liu turned around and went back into the house.

The old lady was sitting by the window, trimming the excess branches and leaves of a potted plant.

Aunt Liu stepped forward and teased with a smile: "The old lady said that she wanted to teach the girl a lesson, but in fact she still loves her in her heart."

The old lady looked back at her and couldn't help laughing: "I'm an old woman half buried in the ground, why would I bother with a little girl? Besides, it was Zhengkang's own plan to expel Shu Yue from the house. It's just that I gave her the Tanyi Secret Guards, not because I felt sorry for her."

Madam Liu was puzzled: "But the Tanyi Secret Guards are the hard work of the old lady for half her life. If they were given to the young lady, wouldn't they be used for self-defense?"

The old lady shook her head. "In the early years, the Tanyi secret guards had already begun to wither. I am also old, and I am gradually unable to manage them. In fact, only Yunyan and Yunwu are considered to be excellent. The others are not good enough at all."

"Why is the old lady still..."

The old lady sighed softly, "I want to give her a good experience. This time I am going to Yunzhou. The mountains are high and the emperor is far away. No one can protect her. People say that once bitten by a snake, one will be afraid of ropes for ten years. I fell into trouble in my early years, so I am not very confident about her marriage."

This time, giving the Tan Yi Secret Guard to Li Qingqian was, on the one hand, to help her train her abilities, and on the other hand, to test the sincerity of Master Shen for her.

Li Shuyue placed a voodoo doll in the room that cursed Li Qingqian. The old lady was extremely angry about Li Shuyue's bullying of Li Qingqian for so many years.

So that day, what really made the old lady uneasy was not that Li Shuyue was expelled from the Li Mansion, but the imperial edict bestowed by the emperor.

Once upon a time, there was a spirited young man who promised her that he would only love her in this life and would never take a concubine to cause her trouble.

But what did that person do later?

If he just wanted to take a concubine, she would have been fine with it, but he chose to humiliate her in that way, so that the only affection between them was gradually consumed.

When she was taken back to the capital by her son, she even applauded the man's death in her heart.

Someone told her that the reason she hated that man so much was because she truly loved him when he was alive.

Because there is love, there is hate.

The old lady had also thought about this question when she was young.

Is it because I love so deeply that I feel so resentful after being disappointed?

That shouldn't be the case. To her, hatred is hatred and has nothing to do with love. If she still loves that person after something like that happens, wouldn't that be too spineless?

But the old lady was not at ease with Li Qingqian.

Because Ah Qian had not had an easy time in the mansion these years, I only taught her some survival skills. If she had not been sent to the countryside for three years, I could have taught her how to manage a marriage at that time, and it wouldn't have been so troublesome.

Aunt Liu: "So, the old lady is worried that the third girl will become overly dependent on Master Shen because she lacked love from her family since she was a child?"

The old lady pulled the corners of her mouth slightly, "Since she got engaged, I can sense that she has a special feeling for Master Shen. When she was a child, whenever she went out to attend banquets, big or small, as long as she met Master Shen, her mouth would grin from ear to ear when she talked about these things."

But it is precisely this kind of emotion that often becomes a sharp sword pointing at oneself after marriage.

She saw that Master Shen seemed to really love Ah Qian, but what if this love suddenly disappeared one day? She had to think more about Li Qingqian.

Madam Liu smiled helplessly, "The old lady was frightened by what happened that year. Seeing that the prince took out the imperial edict only after Liu tried to insert someone into their relationship, she was worried whether the prince had originally intended to keep the imperial edict secret. But we have to think about the bright side. Who knows, the prince might have already told our girl about it in private?"

The old lady took the cup of tea beside her, took a sip, and chuckled, "Perhaps. That's why I don't want to see her. If she finds out the flaws and creates a rift between me and the prince, then it will be my fault."

She had also thought about whether A Qian would be upset by her sudden estrangement, but this was also a good time for A Qian to think about what to do in the future.

*

The old lady has already paved the way. Li Qingqian grew up with her. After thinking about it for the past few days, how could he not understand what she meant?

Li Qingqian understood the old lady's intentions towards her. The old lady raised her and she would not be dissatisfied with her because of such a small matter.

But she felt a little lost.

Because she had been sent away from the capital for three years, her grandmother thought that she had not had enough time to teach her properly. She seemed to be eager to pass on her experience to her, but she was too hasty and was bound to make mistakes.

For example, the old lady might have inadvertently overlooked that Li Qingqian, who had grown up observing people's expressions and was extremely sensitive and suspicious, would also be worried about this sudden change in attitude.

What did Ah Ning call this last time? It seemed to be "internal friction".

However, Li Qingqian turned her head and cast a curious look at Shen Changyun standing beside her. Her grandmother compared him to her grandfather back then, which made her laugh.

She had a sad face just now, but now she suddenly laughed. Shen Changyun stretched out his finger and scratched her nose with some helplessness and amusement, "My wife, you are laughing so weirdly, are you planning how to set a trap for me and make me laugh?"

Li Qingqian rolled her eyes at him and took his hand away. "Why would I have to set a trap for you? In my grandmother's eyes, that person is going to be a heartless man in the future."

Shen Changyun frowned slightly in confusion, "Grandma, why do you look at me like this? Is there something I didn't do well enough?"

Li Qingqian smiled and shook her head, gently leaning against his chest, "You are right, and my grandmother is also right. She just thought of a bad guy she met when she was young, so she is more worried about me now."

Shen Changyun raised his hand solemnly and swore, "I, Shen Changyun, swear here that I will only love Li Qingqian in this life. If I break this promise, I will live a life worse than death."

Li Qingqian felt a little embarrassed. Why was it so similar to the oath his grandfather made to his grandmother?

"Alright, alright," she took his hand away, "You don't need to swear. If you really let me down in the future, I have ten thousand ways to make you suffer so much that you will cry out to the heavens and the earth for nothing."

Her expression was calm, but Shen Changyun knew she was not lying.

Then he hugged the person in his arms tighter.

But he felt that this kind of feeling was the most sincere. Li Qingqian's words gave his sensitive and suspicious heart a reassurance.

We should have loved each other so madly, entangled with each other on the principle of either love or death, until death.

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