"She came this way just now, and she even called out to Young Master Song. I don't believe you didn't see her!"
"Perhaps your sister turned into a butterfly and flew away?"
"Young Master Song, you haven't seen my sister either?" Meng Junyu felt that Song Ze was easier to talk to and, hearing the sarcastic remarks from the person surnamed Xie, he could barely control his fists.
Song Ze shook his head and said calmly, "I didn't see anything."
Although Song Ze had always kept his distance from his sister,
Song Ze's words were much more credible than that scoundrel surnamed Xie.
After carefully searching around them, Meng Junyu hurried forward. Before leaving, he took two steps back and looked at Wen Feng and Shan Bai, who stood tall and straight like pine and cypress trees in front of the private room door.
"Did you see my sister pass this way?"
Shan Bai's expression was blank, "No."
Meng Junyu became even more confused.
Young Master Yi's people wouldn't deceive him.
But where was his Le'an?
Shan Bai and Wen Feng certainly wouldn't lie to him.
County Princess Le'an had indeed not passed by them.
Shan Bai couldn't help but glance at Xie Jiang.
County Princess Le'an had, unfortunately, run into Miss Xie again.
Wasn't her leg broken last time enough?
Seeing the Demon King Xie turn and run, it was already too late. Why was the County Princess Le'an so forgetful?
Could the radiance of Young Master Song make people lose their minds?
Did the County Princess Le'an only have eyes for Young Master Song and completely fail to notice the Demon King Xie beside him?
Meng Junyu would likely not find County Princess Le'an so easily tonight.
Wen Feng and Shan Bai exchanged a look, sensing that something was about to happen in the capital.
Song Ze hesitated before speaking, "You..."
Xie Jiang knew what he was going to say, "I didn't do anything, and I don't know anything?"
Li Chi stated he could testify that the second young lady did nothing, she just took a look.
Song Ze nodded, believing she could handle it.
The clamor of the pleasure house was shut out. Where they stood on the third-floor promenade, it seemed to form a world of its own.
For a moment, Song Ze had something he wanted to say but hesitated, but after thinking, he couldn't help but ask.
"I heard that Young Master Xie was ill before. I wonder if you are feeling better now?"
It was said that when Young Master Xu brought her out of the Dali Temple prison, she was already burning with fever and unconscious. Song Ze had been so worried that he couldn't sleep for several nights.
It had been so long, and she was standing beside him now. Her illness should have long since healed, but he still couldn't help but ask.
"Thank you for your concern, Young Master Song. It wasn't a serious illness, and I recovered in a couple of days."
Xie Jiang felt a warmth in her heart, and the smile in her eyes deepened.
Some overly fragmented and disjointed images suddenly reappeared in her mind.
Xie Jiang stared at Song Ze's face again and again. When she was most seriously ill in the Dali Temple prison, all sorts of chaotic dreams paraded through her mind.
She seemed to see the scene of the Duke of Dingguo's mansion being attacked by rioters many years ago, and she also seemed to see Song Ze.
But how could she have the memories of Song Er?
Perhaps she was stimulated by the riot that day, and that's why she had such messy nightmares.
After all, she had also been a good youth who grew up under the red flag.
Seeing many innocent civilians suffer, she would also be a little touched.
Regardless of whether her Xie family was an ancient family hidden in the city, she had at least received many awards as a model student.
Even after arriving in this world and encountering societal hardships before understanding the situation, her values hadn't completely collapsed.
She said they hadn't collapsed, and they hadn't!
She didn't know who sent that Dali Temple Assistant Minister, who actually tried to reform her? He dragged her prison cart to see the tragic aftermath of the rioters' attack, and she was indeed deeply moved.
Song Ze only felt a weight lift from his heart when he heard her say it herself.
Clearly, her body should have been fine when she went to Xihua Mountain to play before.
Xie Jiang banished the chaotic thoughts from her mind, "Young Master Song, do you have any items you're interested in bidding on tonight?"
Song Ze said, "I want to bid on a calming medicine. Speaking of which, this calming medicine is precisely from the hands of the Poison Doctor."
"Oh, I see. It's okay if you don't get it. I still have some calming medicine. Since we are fated to meet, Young Master Song, I'll give you some."
"Then thank you, Young Master."
The ladies had already fully heated up the atmosphere. While they were chatting, medicines from the Poison Doctor were also successively presented.
Song Ze planned to return to his private room to bid.
It was nothing for two unrelated people to meet by chance and exchange a few pleasantries.
However, if they conversed for too long, it might attract the attention of those with ulterior motives.
Although he didn't quite understand what she wanted to do, he didn't want to add unnecessary obstacles to her path because of him.
He didn't know how much hardship she had endured to reach this point and to return to the capital.
Xie Jiang also knew that Song Ze was about to leave and asked abruptly, "Are there any grudges you've made recently? I'll finish them off for you."
Song Ze was stunned for a moment.
Li Chi looked at the second young lady in shock. He knew the second young lady was a fierce one, but could she be so direct!
Although you have proven your strength, now that you have returned to the capital under a hidden identity, don't you need to be low-key and cause trouble quietly?
"Oh, it's nothing."
She didn't say anything.
She could handle such matters herself.
Song Ze's steps as he returned to his private room were somewhat hesitant.
Xie Jiang didn't look back, so she didn't see.
She leaned lightly against the railing, her gaze sweeping over the wealthy merchants filling the first-floor hall, eventually looking nowhere in particular.
"Xie Jiang!"
An excited voice accompanied two youthful figures.
Xie Jiang remained motionless as if she hadn't heard.
"Xie Jiang, Xie Jiang, Xie Jiang!"
Xu Hengyi came to Xie Jiang's side and waved his hand vigorously in front of her eyes.
Xie Jiang lazily said, "Do you not want your dog's paws anymore?"
Xu Hengyi abruptly withdrew his hand, and after a moment of realization, gritted his teeth, "You're the dog's paws!"
Then, indignantly, "You haven't seen us for so long and you have no reaction at all! You were clearly chatting happily with Young Master Song just now. Was that Young Master Song?"
"Do you find Young Master Song pleasing to the eye?"
"You're so judgmental!"
"What else do you have?"
Xu Hengyi was so angry that he turned to leave, but after only a few steps, he turned back.
Xie Jiang was still the same Xie Jiang, completely unchanged!
He knew this, so why was he getting angry with her!
But he really wanted to punch her to death, what should he do!
Yet he dared not!
Xia Ze Shi didn't care about these trivial matters, "Young Master Xie, how long do you plan to stay in the capital this time? Will you go to Ninghe after the auction ends?"
"Yes, I will. Yan Yan and Qian Qian are both waving at me," Xie Jiang said.
Xu Hengyi wanted to cut out her tongue. How could she address his second brother like that? "And who is Qian Qian?" Which unlucky person has she entangled herself with, to the point of being named alongside his second brother?!