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"En," Qu Qing Ju nodded and handed a gold hairpin to her fro ye well"

Yun Qing knelt and took the gold hairpin with two hands She koed to Qu Qing Ju again before walking to Pin Zi Jin and perfor ce fei"

"I' fei and I heard before that you distain gold for being too vulgar and silver too blinding You are h this book "Fan Hua Ji" for your a and smiled, "I think you would like this book"

"Fan Hua Ji" was a story that spoke of a rich young man who fell for the schemes of a huakui and al lady In the end, the rich younglady married but the huakui, due to her many despicable actions, was detained in jail and sentenced

Qu Qing Ju looked at that book that rinkled as Yun Qing held it and silently drank tea It was only when Yun Qing finished greeting the other two shiqie before she opened: "Now the fu has three tong fang Ban Xia was fro were sent in from outside the fu I don't have many rules and I don't need you to co ye doesn't call for you to serve, you should stay in your roo this, the other four sitting felt a spurt of joy Everybody in this fu knew that wang ye didn't like yahuan to serve hie with two of theed to others in the fu Now that these three tong fang couldn't appear daily in front of wang ye, they had no place to enact their wiles

"Wang feiis kind to treat the the teapot or the drapes?" Jiang Yong Xu s, shouldn't you thank wang fei?"

Yun Qing knelt again: "Nubi thanks wang fei"

Qu Qing Ju looked at her and waved a hand, "Stand up, I feel tired just walking you kneel here and kneel there If there isn't anything else, you can all leave" She was too lazy to bother atching the dra Ju saw the sun coardens A ould help her digest and get soardens would be withered Even in this twelfthflowers Many of those flowering shouldn't bloom in this season Most likely, it was the servants who ca

"Go aorthless scu, I think you should return it Otherwise, if others knew that a thief ca past a flourishing wall of flowers, the place was dark and out of the way Qu Qing Ju saw a young wo an embroidered dress surrounded by a few yahuan and pozi Her hair was down and tangled, alh a physical altercation had occurred

"You're the thief I' went , why aren't you suspicious of others and only accusereally believes she's a zhuzi?" A slightly chubby , still a servant You really believe you are one of those on top? Look at yourself in the mirror Only you went into the room that it was placed in, other than you, who else would have taken it?"

"Pah!" Ban Xia spat, "It's just all of you saw that wang fei is favored now so you cos difficult to put yourselves in her favor Do you think that wang fei would pay attention to you Just a worthless servant pretending to be a detective! When wang fei falls out of favor, see who else you can curry favor with!"

Mu Jin, as following behind Qu Qing Ju heard this and called out icily: "What act is playing here today? Such a beautiful garden, look at what you've done!"

The woht They quickly knelt doith a bang, leaving only the wo Ju expressionlessly exaoing on?"

The road one picked, even if they had to kneel they still had to carry on to the end That was true for Yun Qing The same was true for Ban Xia When Ban Xia betrayed her , she had to think that this day would co fei, was favoured, there would be others that would seek favor with her through harassing a tong fang that wasn't a true mistress

So Ju looked at the still standing Ban Xia Was she regretful now?

[1] There are twoFestival (Chinese New Year, first month of the lunar year) and the Mid-Autuht month of the lunar year)