It was getting late, it was still raining outside, and the weather was so cold, so Li Lijun left Lin Jiulang to stay one night in the villa.

Lin Jiulang hesitated: "Isn't this good? I can ride a horse to Qiaoling to find my fourth brother. In fact, it's not that far."

It takes more than a hundred miles to walk from Sanyuan County to Fengxian County! Isn’t that far? If Lin Jiulang was riding a horse on a good day, Li Lijun would never stop him. But now it’s windy and rainy outside

Yes, let a 13 or 14-year-old minor run so far alone? She can't do it!

So Li Lijun showed a sad expression: "Why? Do you hate me? Are you unwilling to stay in my villa for one night?"

Lin Jiulang said hurriedly: "No, no, no, that's not what I meant! Fourth wife, you live here alone without any elders around you. I am a foreigner and it is not easy for me to stay overnight. Outsiders will gossip about you if they find out."

Li Lijun was stunned: "What gossip will outsiders say about me? How old am I? Besides, I don't live here alone. Although there are no other relatives around me, there are so many guards and servants around me, and

The people from Prince Zou’s Mansion are here. Even if you spend the night in a separate house, you’re not living in the same room with me, right? What’s the point of gossiping? Saga Mountain is so far away from Chang’an City, no one would be so bored, right?”

Lin Jiulang thought for a moment: "Or... should I go to a nearby forest farm? I heard that the fourth lady bought it. My grandma is the daughter of the Dou family, so I can stay there for one night, which is fine."

Li Lijun waved her hand: "No need. It's a long way to go from Wutai to Sitai. It's not like this villa doesn't have an empty yard, so why bother? You and I have always been generous in our dealings. You

When he came to find me, he didn't even think about gossiping, so why did he suddenly mention this matter? Is it possible that there are still people in Chang'an City who are staring at me and trying to arrange gossip about me all day long? "

She stared at Lin Jiulang, seemingly determined to get the answer from him.

Lin Jiulang hesitated for a moment and sighed helplessly: "Okay, actually... I just heard Mr. Shen Erlang mentioned some rumors. He has already thought of ways to deal with this matter, and he didn't let it go because he was afraid that you would be upset.

I'm telling you, there are people in the capital recently gossiping about you, Fourth Lady, and it's nothing more than leaving home without authorization and blaming your biological father for injustice. They say that you moved to Saga Mountain to observe filial piety, and you are suspected of being unfilial to your father. In fact, I believe it.

Not many people said this, and there were many people in the clan who defended you, including Princess Sui. She said in front of others, "Fourth Lady, you are already having a hard time. You moved out of the palace specifically so as not to hinder your father's continued marriage. There are still people who say that you

No, that would be too much. Let others stop criticizing the matter between you and your daughter."

Li Lijun raised her eyebrows: "I am a direct descendant of the Sui King and the daughter of the clan. Who among the rest dares to gossip about me? Apart from the clan, the only people who would criticize me are the nobles in the palace. I ask myself that I have never offended the palace.

As a middle-class nobleman, I am not qualified to attract the attention of a saint. As for the imperial concubine, she gave me an order not long ago to comfort me because of my mother's death. She should not do anything contrary to her promise. The rest, such as the East Palace,

Kings and noble lords, where do you have time to care about a child like me? From this inference, the only people who have leisure time to criticize me are the clan? But most people in the clan know how my mother died, and they also know me.

What is your attitude towards me? Everyone knows about the scandal that Aye had with Mrs. Guo Guo! My grandma said clearly that I moved out just now so as not to hinder Aye's re-engagement. Who will go there again?

I've got something wrong with me?!"

Lin Jiulang said: "I heard from Mr. Shen Erlang that this matter may have something to do with the Yang family, but I don't know which room it came from."

"Yang family?" Li Lijun pondered: "Is it Xiao Yang's family, or is it the side of Mrs. Guo Guo's sisters?"

If it is Mrs. Guo Guo and her sisters, their friendship with Xiao Yang is not that great, right? Li Lijun has never dealt with these sisters at all. Besides, Mrs. Guo Guo should be tired of Li Dai, so what's the point?

Reason to suppress his daughter?

On the other hand, Xiao Yang's family may be dissatisfied with her. It's not just that she exposed Xiao Yang's crimes, which caused their family's disgrace, but also the fact that she made advances in front of her father Li Dai not long ago.

Slander. Li Lijun is very sure that Li Dai will no longer regard Yang Sixiniang as a candidate for his first wife, and is more likely to take her as a concubine. This is not in the interests of the Yang family, and they must find a way to change Li Dai's mind.

Yes, wouldn't it be simple and trouble-free to step on Li Lijun and try to please the latter?

As for Yang Sixiniang herself, even if she kept saying that she was willing to be a concubine in front of Li Jianrang and Li Chujun, if she had the chance to become a wife, she would definitely resent the person who revealed the news to Li Dai.

But Li Lijun doesn't feel regretful. Since Yang Sixiniang was determined to use this kind of bitter trick to impress Li Jianrang and Li Chujun, don't be upset when Li Dai learns about it. She brought it on herself, and Li Lijun just told the truth.

That's all. She clamored to be a concubine, so what's wrong with asking for mercy and getting mercy?

Li Lijun was silent in thought, while Lin Jiulang had his own speculation: "Maybe the root cause is on me...because the fourth lady saved me, but one of the children of the Pei family was ruined, and even Pei Hui had to come forward to apologize to me. Guo Guo

Madam, maybe she has taken her anger out on the Fourth Lady?"

If this was really the culprit, Li Lijun also didn't feel that she was unjust. Because it was really her who "burned" the Qiaoling Avenue before the Pei family... But Li Lijun was very sure that no one would have discovered that she set the fire that night.

.If Mrs. Guo Guo wants to take revenge just because she saved Lin Jiulang and lost Pei Hui's face, then it can only be said that the other party is too idle.

Li Lijun said to Lin Jiulang: "If it was really because of that incident in Qiaoling, Mrs. Guo Guo should have hated you and the Pei family son who caused you injury first, instead of venting her anger on me and Uncle Shen. Besides, now, now

It's just that some people are gossiping about me. It hasn't been said about Uncle Shen yet, right? It's not like we suffered a disaster because of saving you." She thought for a while, "I think it should be Xiao Yang.

My family members did it. Maybe it was because Xiao Yang’s crimes were exposed and they lost their face, so they resented me.”

Li Lijun doesn't care about these things. There are many people in the clan who know who is right and wrong between the Yang family and her. Princess Dou will also speak for her, and the daughter of the Yang family killed her mother, so there is no way to occupy the moral position.

Highland, at most, they are just whispering and spreading gossip. But what crime can they accuse her of? Because she left home to observe filial piety for her mother, so she is unfilial to her father? How many people would agree with this reason?!

A little gossip will not affect Li Lijun at all. Maybe the Yang family will think that this kind of gossip will affect Li Lijun's marriage, but Li Lijun doesn't plan to get married, so why should he care about this?

She said to Lin Jiulang: "Don't take these gossips to heart. Not everyone in the world is stupid, they only know what others say. The murder of my mother-in-law once aroused heated discussion in Chang'an City, and the Jingzhao Yamen trial was involved in the case.

The appearance of the Yang siblings caused a sensation! How long has it been now? People still remember this incident. Everyone in the world can criticize me, but the Yang family cannot. This is what they owe me!

"You don't have to worry about the words of those caring people, don't take your own body at heart, and insist on running out in this weather. You are not helping me, but causing me trouble! If you get caught in the rain

Anyway, if your family complains about me later, do I have to return Liujiazhuang to make up for my mistakes?!"
Chapter completed!