Yi Qing felt better after saying this. She didn't want to have conflicts with Xiao Jinghan originally, but he was usually quite smart. Why was he so muddled about this matter?
This was also the reason why Yi Qing was extremely cautious about this matter.
"What evidence do you have?" Xiao Jinghan looked at Yi Qing.
"Evidence? You actually don't trust me and ask me for evidence." Yi Qing was angry.
"She is the daughter of my sworn brother, and she has never overstepped. Why do you have to target her like this?"
"Fine, I'm just jealous." Yi Qing was too lazy to explain to such a man.
"Okay." The little bit of uneasiness in Xiao Jinghan's heart instantly vanished. He pulled Yi Qing into his arms.
"What are you doing?" Yi Qing tried to push him away. "I'm not jealous because of you."
"Then because of whom?" Xiao Jinghan hugged Yi Qing tightly in anger.
"Your sworn sister." Yi Qing said directly. "I'm her real daughter, but she has never cared about me. She cares so much about a woman of unknown origin."
Xiao Jinghan was in a dilemma. "I know you're aggrieved. Back then, when my sworn sister knew that Duo'er was my orphan, she was willing to compromise on anything."
"But she still made things difficult for me."
"You have the nerve to say that."
Yi Qing thought about it and really felt embarrassed to say so. "Alright, alright. Let's see if she's gone."
She lifted the curtain of the carriage and saw that Bai Yutang had already led the students away. There were quite a few people looking for something. "Let's go."
The two got out of the carriage. Xiao Jinghan confirmed that Bai Yutang had left.
"Found it, found it!" A man excitedly held a pearl in his hand.
Yi Qing and Xiao Jinghan walked over.
"How about selling this pearl to me?" Only then did Yi Qing realize that those people were looking for pearls.
"Such a good pearl..." That man seemed to want to raise the price on the spot.
"Five taels." Xiao Jinghan said directly when he saw that Yi Qing wanted it.
"Okay." That man didn't even think about it, as if he was afraid they would go back on their word.
Yi Qing turned to look at Xiao Jinghan. "You don't know how hard it is to run a household."
Xiao Jinghan had already paid the silver and taken the pearl. "My lady likes it. Don't worry about the money."
"Like your head." Yi Qing murmured softly. Her brain was spinning rapidly. Bai Yutang's appearance at the Di family seemed to be targeting the Yuan family.
She inquired about the stall where Bai Yutang had been before. The stalls here were basically fixed, but that one was a temporary one selling some rouge and powder. No one else knew the owner.
"My lady." Xiao Jinghan stuffed a pearl into Yi Qing's hand.
"Keep it for your niece Yutang." Seeing Xiao Jinghan spend so much money on the pearl, Yi Qing looked listless. She glanced at it and saw that it was a pink pearl, round and smooth, obviously a top - grade one.
"I remembered. This was specially found by the former Duke Di for the Di family. " Xiao Jinghan looked at it carefully. At that time, his sworn sister had also said that if he had a woman he liked in the future, he would surely want to present the best things in the world to her.
At that time, he thought there would be no such future. All the women in the world were the same. It wasn't until he met Yi Qing that he knew what it meant to be non - you not good enough.
Yi Qing rolled her eyes. "Such a precious thing, and Bai Yutang just left it behind?"
"Maybe she didn't know how precious it was. There were eighteen pearls on this bracelet. Only one fell off. She might have overlooked it."
There were knots between the beads of the pearl bracelet. Even if it broke, only one or two beads would fall off. There were so many people at that time, so it was normal for Bai Yutang not to notice.
Yi Qing felt uncomfortable hearing Xiao Jinghan call her Yutang one after another. Although Bai Yutang was considered Xiao Jinghan's niece, that niece was too old.
"I inquired. That stall just now was here for the first time. After Bai Yutang had an accident, it disappeared. Don't you think it's strange?" Yi Qing felt that when a man was stuck in his blind spot, no matter how she hinted, it wouldn't work.
"Maybe there was an urgent matter at home and they left." Only then did Xiao Jinghan notice that the stall had disappeared.
"Xiao, Jing, Han!" Yi Qing squeezed out these three words in a low voice, one by one. "Go with your Yutang." She turned around and left.
A person's patience was limited, especially when it came to enduring a fool.
Xiao Jinghan sighed helplessly. He just didn't want his wife and Bai Yutang to have a too - stiff relationship. Otherwise, he wouldn't know how to explain it to his sworn brother.
As soon as Yi Qing walked to the side of the carriage, she was picked up horizontally by Xiao Jinghan and carried into the carriage. She was angry and didn't want to talk to Xiao Jinghan.
"Still angry?" Xiao Jinghan saw that Yi Qing ignored him.
"What am I angry about? What reason do I have to be angry? Someone wants to harm me. At most, they just want to snatch you away. I'll just give you to them..."
Xiao Jinghan directly covered Yi Qing's mouth. She always said such things to provoke him. "Be good. We're still on the street."
"I tell you..." Yi Qing started to resist again after being released.
"Drive the carriage!" Xiao Jinghan ordered, and then started to deal with Yi Qing again.
Yi Qing was really angry this time. She wondered why Xiao Jinghan was trying to smooth things over. This was the second time Xiao Jinghan hadn't been decisive. The first time was when the emperor was poisoned.
She was carried out of the carriage wrapped in Xiao Jinghan's arms. The people in the general's mansion immediately avoided them. The two quickly returned to their room.
As soon as Yi Qing was thrown onto the bed, she rolled over and raised her eyebrows at Xiao Jinghan. "I tell you, there's definitely something wrong with Bai Yutang."
"Then tell me what's wrong with her." Seeing Yi Qing's strong reaction, Xiao Jinghan couldn't just brush it off anymore.
"Didn't I tell you that she would go to find the Yuan brothers?"
"Yes. It's normal for a woman to have a man she fancies." Xiao Jinghan didn't think this was a problem.
Yi Qing was really mad at him. "Fine! Such a precious pink pearl, and she just left it behind."
"She comes from a small place. She doesn't know how precious that pearl is."
"You said she comes from a small place. Even if she doesn't know how precious the pink pearl is, she should know that pearls are precious. Moreover, it was given to her by the Di family. She didn't even care. Is this normal?"
Seeing Yi Qing's excited look, this was the first time she had been so excited. Xiao Jinghan tried to hold Yi Qing's hand, but she shook him off. He simply pressed her down directly and looked into her eyes intently. "Don't worry. I will never have any thoughts about other women."
Yi Qing was almost mad. "Xiao Jinghan, you still don't trust me."
"You have no evidence. You're just... guessing."
Yi Qing felt blocked. Before, Xiao Jinghan had clearly told her that Bai Yutang was different, and she had understood. But Xiao Jinghan's disbelief still made her very angry.
"What if my guess is true?" Yi Qing didn't expect this matter to be so troublesome. "If whatever I guess Bai Yutang will do, she will actually do it, doesn't that prove that my guess is true?"
Xiao Jinghan frowned. He had too many things to deal with recently and didn't have much patience for these things. He didn't know why Yi Qing was so persistent about this matter.