Chapter 501 Who Is Outside?
Two days later.
Mrs. Shu sent invitations to each family, explaining that she was holding a banquet to clarify the matter and asked her adopted daughter Su Zhirou to apologize to Vice General Zhang and his wife.
For a time, there was a lot of discussion in Beijing.
Jiang Zhi was uneasy, feeling that she had brought everyone down and made the matter bigger.
She specially waited for Shen Ningning on her way to school.
After getting into the girl's carriage, Jiang Zhicai asked: "Sister Ningning, do you want me to apologize to Mrs. Shu? I should explain to her that maybe it was me that Su Zhirou saw that day..."
Before she could finish her words, Shen Ningning interrupted her.
"Sister Jiang, what does this have to do with you? It's clear that Su Zhirou wanted to harm others. She suffered the consequences and should apologize."
"But...she saw me."
"So what? What she saw was you who she thought was in cahoots with others. Su Zhirou herself has no good intentions, so what else are you doing to come forward?"
While he was talking, the carriage had already arrived at the entrance of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Jiang Zhi was enlightened by Shen Ningning and figured it out.
She scratched the tip of her nose sheepishly.
"Vice General Zhang has been in the military camp for the past two days, and his expression has not been good. I saw him several times and wanted to explain, but I think about it, what does it have to do with me?"
Shen Ningning smiled and nodded: "You are right to think so. I have promised Mrs. Shu that I will go to her banquet with my brother. As long as my brother is in charge, nothing too extreme will happen."
"How about you come with me then and see how Su Zhirou suffers the consequences."
Jiang Zhi thought for a moment: "If I want to practice martial arts that day, I won't be able to go. We'll see what happens."
Shen Ningning hurriedly agreed. She was in a hurry to go to class, so she quickly asked Wanchun to drag her small cart.
At this moment, Qi Xiuwei's soft laughter came from outside the car curtain.
"Ning Ning, I've been waiting for you for a long time, why don't you get off the carriage?"
Saying that, Qi Xiuwei subconsciously lifted the curtain, only to see Jiang Zhi and Shen Ningning together.
She was stunned for a moment before reacting: "I'm sorry Ning Ning, I didn't know you were visiting guests."
Qi Xiuwei quickly lowered the curtain.
Shen Ningning got off the carriage the next second and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, you have met Xiaowei too, she is my friend."
Jiang Zhi lifted the curtain from the car window and looked out. Qi Xiuwei happened to raise her head and met her eyes.
Both of them nodded.
Shen Ningning asked the driver to take Jiang Zhi back to the military camp.
On the way into the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qi Xiuwei asked in a low voice: "Ning Ning, this good friend of yours is a woman, right?"
Shen Ningning was surprised: "How did you figure it out?"
Qi Xiuwei smiled sheepishly.
"When I first lifted the curtain, I saw a pair of small feet first. Men's feet are not that small..."
Shen Ningning suddenly realized.
She lowered her voice: "Xiaowei, you have to keep it a secret for me."
Qi Xiuwei nodded repeatedly: "Of course, I won't mention it to anyone."
The two also mentioned the banquet that the Su family was going to host, and agreed that on that day, they would call Ye Changyi and Lu Shaoyuan to go to the Su family together.
Shen Ningning was about to go to her classroom, but was blocked by Liang Yici.
Seeing her serious face, Qi Xiuwei guarded Shen Ningning a little nervously.
"You, what do you want to do?" Liang Yici is good at martial arts.
Liang Yici stared at Shen Ningning and took two steps forward.
Then he said: "As a princess of the Cangyun Kingdom, how can you follow those people from the Changliu Kingdom?"
Shen Ningning asked, "What did I do?"
Liang Yici said angrily: "You are still asking questions knowingly that Xiumu and his group took a few pieces of silver in the inn just to buy the girl's blood. This is simply shocking. Not only did you not stop it, I heard that you also followed them!"
Qi Xiuwei explained for Shen Ningning in a weak voice.
"It's not what you think."
As soon as she spoke, Shen Ningning held the back of her hand.
The girl raised her pretty eyebrows and looked at Liang Yici, her eyes filled with a clear conscience.
"Liang Yici, I think you shouldn't think too badly of people. You should go find out more about it. This matter has been stopped a long time ago."
"Besides, do you think the people are all fools? They all do it voluntarily, just for the money. I don't know who is really suffering."
"Instead of questioning me, you might as well go and inquire more."
After saying that, Shen Ningning took Qi Xiuwei's wrist: "I'm going to class, you should go too."
Seeing her leaving calmly, Liang Yici frowned secretly.
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The day when the Su Mansion held a banquet.
Shen Ningning and Mo Lingwei came first, and after a while, Ye Changyi and Qi Xiuwei also came.
Mo Lingwei took Shen Ningning to see Mrs. Shu.
"Why hold this banquet? Since Su Zhirou did something wrong, you should let her face it by herself. Why bother to come forward in person?"
Mrs. Shu smiled: "Since I am her adoptive mother, there is no reason to sit back and do nothing when she gets into such trouble."
With that said, she asked the maid to take out a brocade box and handed it to Shen Ningning.
"This is the precious jade I brought back from Shuzhou. I knew that Ning Ning likes to collect jade, so I brought it back. Ning Ning, do you like it?"
Shen Ningning opened it and saw that the jade was completely pink, more like ice glaze.
The girl smiled and said, "Madam, you always love me and bring me gifts every time you come back from outside."
Mrs. Shu took her hand, smiled and patted it twice: "How can I not love you."
She glanced at Mo Lingwei meaningfully: "Maybe we will become a closer family in the future."
Shen Ningning didn't understand, but Mo Lingwei pursed his lips and suppressed the light joy in his eyes.
"We are already a family." Shen Ningning's eyebrows were curved, and her majestic and beautiful appearance was quite popular.
Mo Lingwei stood up and pulled her wrist.
"Shen Ningning and I will go to the front yard first. There are many guests coming today. If there are any who laugh at the joke, I will teach him a lesson for you."
Mrs. Shu waved her hand: "There shouldn't be anyone who is so ignorant, don't worry."
At the same time.
Chen Shaobei also came, and he saw Jiang Zhi looking around in the front yard of the Su Mansion.
His eyes turned cold, and he stepped forward to grab Jiang Zhi's wrist and took her to a flower-viewing house behind the rockery.
The doors and windows were closed, and the sun shone through the windows, with only two warm lights.
"Why are you here? Didn't I give you a vacation?" Chen Shaobei frowned.
He just didn't want Jiang Zhi to appear again because of this matter.
Jiang Zhi didn't understand his worry.
She just said: "Ningning asked me to come."
Chen Shaobei's eyes were deep. Although he didn't know what Shen Ningning was thinking, he felt that Su Zhirou had already set her sights on Jiang Zhi, and it was inappropriate for her to appear here again.
So he said: "Let's go first. Today is Su Zhirou's apology banquet to Deputy General Zhang. If she sees you, I'm afraid she won't let you go easily."
Besides, there are so many people coming to the Su Mansion today. If everyone really knows that Jiang Zhi is a woman, she will not be able to stay in the barracks of the Chen family army.
Jiang Zhi was about to speak, but Chen Shaobei keenly felt a figure outside the window.
He suddenly raised his voice: "Who is outside?"
Only a crisp female voice was heard: "Miss Qi, why are you running? Wait for me."
Chen Shaobei quickly opened the door, but didn't see who passed by. He only saw the back of a person in a goose yellow dress, going around the corner of the hanging flower door not far away.
He frowned, having a bad feeling.
Could the Miss Qi that person just mentioned be Qi Xiuwei?