After rebirth, she became the favorite of the powerful minister.

Lord Song completely failed to understand Xu Chengjin's extremely complicated inner world at the moment, which even he himself had not yet sorted out, so he just had Ling'er, who was imprisoned in the woodshed, brought over.

The teenage girl was not good-looking to begin with, and she was also timid and shy. She had no sense of existence in the yard. She was kneeling on the ground, looking more and more like a drowned chicken, and a young and helpless chicken. She looked at Yuan Ge slowly, opened her mouth several times before asking, "How is he...?"

Yuan Ge lowered his head to sip his tea, without even lifting his eyelids, let alone speaking. He was cold and indifferent, and more distant and aloof than usual. Song Wenyuan, who was standing beside him, asked calmly, "Are you asking about Si Ping or Nanny Sun?"

She lowered her head, bit her lip and said nothing, as if she found it difficult to speak - obviously it was the former.

Even at this time, she was still thinking about the man who used her, hurt her, and finally pushed all the blame on her. Xu Chengjin, who was not involved in the matter, sneered, "This young master hates stupid women the most, because when this woman is stupid, she is really stupid and evil. She was sold and still counted the money for others. She helped to harm people and was particularly self-righteous and stubborn."

After he finished speaking, he saw Yuan Ge gave him a look that was like a favor, and added fearlessly, "Miss Wen's behavior before was no less than that. Fortunately, she came to her senses in time."

Song Wenyuan frowned and glanced at him. He said nothing. He only lowered his eyes to look at Yuan Ge who was eating lotus cakes on a plate. Then he said coldly, "As the deputy director of the Maritime Customs, he used his power to smuggle spices. He was afraid that the matter would be exposed, so he took a risk and hired someone to assassinate an official of the court... Not only that, he has been involved in several murder cases over the years. What else do you think he can do?"

Song Wenyuan walked up the steps with his hands behind his back, looking down at Ling'er kneeling in the courtyard, his eyes becoming increasingly cold and deep, "You can blame fate for being unfair, you can blame your parents for being unkind, you can even hate the Song family for being unkind, but the young lady has never treated you harshly. When you felt you were innocent, did you ever think about her innocence? Master Xu has seen countless women, and I think what he said just now makes sense, stupid and bad!"

Mr. Xu, who had "seen countless women", had just grabbed a lotus cake from Yuan Ge's plate. He rolled his eyes again when he heard this: This petty-minded guy just said "the previous Wen Qian was no less than him"! The previous Wen Qian was indeed stupid and foolish, unlike the current "Wen Qian", who is always thinking about hundreds of things!

Ling'er knelt on the cold bluestone bricks, with big raindrops hitting her face. She couldn't tell which hurt more, the raindrops or the words. The coldness of the bluestone bricks passed through her wet clothes to her knees. Her whole body was so cold that she was almost numb. Her teeth were trembling when she spoke, "Mother... my foster mother is addicted to alcohol and gambling. She beats me every time she loses money. When she gets angry, she hangs me up and beats me, calling me a money-loser... Brother Siping is my fellow villager. He is the only one who is willing to bring me medicine and talk to me to make me happy. It was also Brother Siping who found out that I am not my biological child and that my biological parents were killed by the Song family..."

"It's just that now it seems like this is just a scam..."

At the entrance of the Moon Cave, an old woman was standing there hunched over, holding an ink-colored oil-paper umbrella. In the wind and rain, she seemed to be much older than before. She hesitated for a long time, but did not come in. She leaned against the wall with one hand and sighed. Even the movement of turning around seemed particularly slow.

The lotus crisps had been eaten, with some broken crisps left on the plate. Yuan Ge looked through the rain at the old man at the door, and then at the girl kneeling on the ground, calling him Brother Si Ping. He couldn't bear it, so he said, "I don't know about the grudges of the previous generation, but I asked my husband. The Song family would send some money and valuables to your adoptive mother every month. Nanny Sun's monthly allowance is not much, and she usually saves money, and the money she saves is also sent to your adoptive mother. To be fair, neither the Song family nor Nanny Sun has ever treated you badly. On the contrary, your brother Si Ping may have protected you when they were young, but he deceived you later, which was entirely due to selfish desires. I always think that although you don't like to talk, you are smart in your heart, and you should be able to figure it out yourself."

"Money, jewelry, monthly allowance?" Ling'er knelt on the ground and laughed foolishly, "She is just a wolf that can never be fed! No matter how much money I give her, she will just use it to drink, gamble, and lose to others! Since she still remembers me, why didn't she come to see me for all these years? Money? What's the use of money!"

The rain flowed into the corners of her mouth, cold and bitter. Who could tell whether it was rain or tears all over her face?

The old woman with her back to the moon cave door was more and more hunched over. Her oil-paper umbrella was knocked aside. She covered her face with her hands and was trembling all over. The child born after ten months of pregnancy was a piece of flesh that fell from her body! But this child had a face exactly like that of that person. Every time she saw him, she felt as if her heart was torn apart. She couldn't sleep day and night because of the pain. How could she dare to see her? She only heard about his alcoholism and gambling later. She quickly asked her wife to give the woman a sum of money to take the child back. But even so, she didn't dare to recognize him and only arranged for him to do some rough work in the backyard.

Firstly, my heart ached whenever I saw that face, and secondly, I was afraid that her identity would be exposed and lead to criticism.

Unexpectedly, this child would have such a secret and commit such a huge mistake. After hearing this, she hurried over, but when she reached the door, she hesitated and hesitated... As an elder of the Song family, it would be a dilemma for her to go in and plead for the young master. Nanny Sun picked up the oil-paper umbrella on the ground, folded it up and held it in her arms, then staggered away in the rain with her back bent.

Ling'er's question may never be answered in this lifetime...

Yuan Ge retracted his gaze and looked at the bits of crispy pastry on the porcelain plate. After a while, he looked at Xu Chengjin and said softly, "I want to drink peach blossom wine."

The voice was very low, covered by the sound of rain. Only Xu Chengjin, who was closest to her, heard it clearly. He lowered his eyebrows and smiled, silently mouthing "Okay." After he responded, he remembered the wound on her shoulder, shook his head, and pointed to the injured location.

At the entrance of the Moon Cave, a man in a bright robe came in at a very fast speed, and his voice seemed to fall behind. "What's wrong? I heard you were injured?! How dare you bully my little sister-in-law?! Are you tired of living?!"

Jin Yunian arrived, holding an oil-paper umbrella of the same color, and floated all the way to the corridor as if floating in. He first examined Yuan Ge from head to toe, and found that there were some discrepancies between him and the rumors. Then he noticed the person kneeling in the yard, "That was the dead girl who did it, right?!"