The reborn daughter of the Marquis Mansion takes over the world

Chapter 330 Previous Life (3)

Su Yanqi stood in the rain in a daze, unable to move.

He looked anxiously in the direction where Ning Ziqing disappeared, feeling filled with regret.

After a long time, he shook his mind and finally woke up from his trance.

It turned out that the past life Ning Ziqing talked about actually happened.

In my previous life, I really cruelly abandoned her.

A sharp pain spread from the chest and quickly swept through the whole body. Pain and self-blame once again swallowed Su Yanqi.

His face was wet, and he could no longer tell whether it was tears or rain.

I don’t know how long it took, but the rain gradually stopped.

The invisible force that bound Su Yanqi also dissipated.

He was eager to find Ning Ziqing. The moment he took a step, a white light flashed and he was brought to a busy street in the East City of Kyoto.

From a distance, Su Yanqi saw two men chasing a little beggar.

"Stop, you little thief! How dare you steal our master's purse? I will teach you a lesson!"

Su Yanqi looked carefully and found that they were Qingxu and Qiangze.

They were chasing a skinny, ragged little boy, who was about seven or eight years old. He tightly grasped his purse and turned into a side alley in panic.

Seeing the two guards chasing him, the little boy hurriedly tried to hide in a pharmacy on the left, but unexpectedly he ran into the arms of a man.

The little boy looked up and his face suddenly became filled with joy.

"Sister, you are finally back. Please save me. There are two bad guys who want to catch me."

A gentle voice then sounded.

"Don't be afraid, little darling. I will protect you."

Su Yanqi stared at the extremely familiar woman in front of him, but was shocked by her sudden indifference.

Qingxu and Qiangze quickly caught up and scolded the little boy harshly.

"Little thief, hand over your purse quickly, otherwise..."

"What else are you going to do?"

A beautiful woman in front of him, wearing a dark purple dress and exuding a cold aura, protected the little boy and looked at Qingxu with contempt.

Qingxu was stunned and raised his eyebrows, "He stole our young master's purse. He is so young, but he is not a good person and he actually learned to steal. How did you, as parents, teach him?"

The woman glanced at him coldly, lowered her eyes and asked the little boy: "Xiaobaoer, did you steal someone else's purse?"

Xiao Baoer nodded guiltily and admitted it.

"Grandma is very ill. We haven't eaten for several days and we have no money to hire a doctor for her, so I..." As he said this, Xiao Baoer burst into tears.

Qingxu scratched his head and said impatiently: "You little kid, don't act pitiful here, I think you are just lying."

The woman shouted coldly, "He didn't lie! He stole your purse, which was wrong. I will make him admit his mistake and apologize to your master in person. I will also return double the amount of money he stole."

Qingxu was about to open his mouth to refute when a carriage came galloping over. A young man in blue clothes inside the carriage lifted the curtain and stopped Qingxu.

"Now that the purse has been found, don't make things difficult for a child."

The woman looked up when she heard the familiar voice.

The two men's eyes met, and they were both stunned.

"Third sister?"

Su Yanqi in the car was quite surprised, and his eyes involuntarily fell on the little boy that Ning Ziqing was hugging.

Is this her husband's child?

Su Yanqi looked puzzled.

Before this, after he broke off his engagement with Ning Houfu, he was in a depressed mood, so, under the persuasion of Yan Si and others, he returned to Beiluo Kingdom to relax, and he was away for several months.

Today, when I just returned to Nan Yao Country to inspect the business, my purse was accidentally stolen.

He never expected to meet Ning Ziqing here by chance.

Isn't she having a good life?

Su Yanqi got off the carriage and looked at Ning Ziqing with worry in his eyes.

Ning Ziqing avoided Su Yanqi's inquiring eyes, signaled Xiao Baoer to take out the purse and hand it to Qingxu, and took out a few silver ingots and threw them over.

She taught Xiao Baoer seriously: "If you do something wrong, you must apologize to others. Only after you apologize can I take you away."

Xiao Baoer quickly bowed to Su Yanqi and apologized: "Sir, I'm sorry, I was wrong, please forgive me. I will never dare to steal anything again."

Su Yanqi smiled gently and reached out to touch his head.

Ning Ziqing pulled the little boy back and said coldly, "The money has been paid back and the apology has been made. Please make way, sir!"

Qingxu was furious: "What's your attitude? Your child stole our Master's money, shouldn't you also apologize to our Master?"

Ning Ziqing sneered: "You took my double compensation and still want to humiliate me? How can there be someone as shameless as you?"

"You are making excuses!" Qingxu became angry and took a step forward to argue with Ning Ziqing.

"Shut up, and get out of here!"

Su Yanqi frowned, and in a deep voice, he rebuked Qingxu to retreat, and hurriedly explained to Ning Ziqing: "Third sister, don't misunderstand. He didn't mean that. It's just that I see that this child is too thin, have you... encountered any difficulties? Do you need my help?"

Su Yanqi mistakenly thought that Ning Ziqing was not living a happy life in her husband's family. When she saw that she was dressed in plain clothes and looked tired, she was worried that the scholar had bullied her.

Ning Ziqing saw that Su Yanqi looked very concerned about her and just smiled coldly.

"What does my business have to do with you? Take care of your dog, we won't see each other again!"

After saying that, he took Xiao Baoer's hand and left.

Su Yanqi stood there in a daze, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes. He didn't understand why Ning Ziqing was so hostile to him?

Didn't she fall in love with the scholar and leave him resolutely at the beginning?

Qingxu on the side was so angry that he gritted his teeth.

"Sir, this woman really doesn't know what's good for her. Should we report her to the police and punish her?"

Su Yanqi frowned, and Qingxu was so scared that he shut up immediately.

Su Yanqi was full of doubts, so he turned around and got on the carriage, urging Qiang Ze to drive far behind Ning Ziqing. He had to find out what was going on.

Qingxu sat on the shaft of the carriage and whispered, "What happened to the master? Is he familiar with that woman?"

Yan Si scolded him angrily: "You want to die and I won't stop you. I have clearly hinted to you several times just now. Are you blind?"

Qingxu blinked, looking confused.

Yan Si rolled her eyes and continued, "You have never been out with the master, so you don't know her. She is the third lady of the Ninghou Mansion who was betrothed to the master."

Qingxu opened his mouth in astonishment, and Qiangze, who was driving, was also shocked.

Qingxu looked sad.

"It turned out to be her! Does she have poor eyesight? Our master is so kind, but she actually fell in love with that poor scholar. She didn't know that our master would..."

"Shut up!" Yan Si interrupted him hastily.

The carriage followed Ning Ziqing all the way to a place where refugees gathered at the north gate of Kyoto.

Seeing Ning Ziqing being taken into a shabby house by the little boy, Yan Si quickly stopped the carriage and reported the situation to Su Yanqi.

After hearing this, Su Yanqi quickly lifted the curtain and jumped off the carriage. He told Qingxu and Qiangze to stay where they were, and led Yansi hurriedly towards the dilapidated house.

Due to the devastating floods this summer, many areas of Nan Yao Kingdom were severely affected, and the imperial court was slow to provide relief, resulting in a large number of refugees pouring into Kyoto.

However, the Tzu Chi Center had limited staff and was unable to accommodate all the refugees. All the refugees who were not resettled were driven to this temporary refugee resettlement center in the north of the city.

When Su Yanqi approached the door of the dilapidated house, he saw Ning Ziqing squatting beside a straw mat, busy wringing out a cold towel to reduce the fever of an elderly woman.

He glanced around the room and found several seriously ill patients lying in the corner, their conditions were very miserable.

On the other side of the straw mat, the girl holding a clay basin asked Ning Ziqing while crying.

"Sister, how is grandma? Will she die?"

These refugees fled to Kyoto after a long journey, but they were not properly accommodated. They were hungry, sick and had no money to treat, so people unfortunately died every day.

Ning Ziqing held back his heavy heart, wiped away the girl's tears, and comforted her softly, "Girl, don't worry. I've asked your grandfather to get a doctor. The doctor will come to see your grandmother soon, and she will be well again soon."

The girl called Yatou burst into laughter after hearing what Ning Ziqing said. She put down the pottery basin and hugged Ning Ziqing excitedly: "Luckily, sister came back in time, otherwise grandma would not have survived."

Ning Ziqing looked guilty: "It's my fault, I was away for too long this time and forgot to leave some extra money for you."

After that, she took out a bag of money from her bosom and handed it to the girl, and earnestly reminded her: "Sister has a lot of things to do recently, and can't come to visit you at any time. Girl, you have to take good care of everyone."

The girl held the bag of money and nodded obediently.

Ning Ziqing smiled with relief: "You are such a sensible girl, go and share the steamed buns with everyone. I will help you look after grandma first."

The girl responded, got up to get the steamed buns that Ning Ziqing had bought, and distributed them to everyone in the room.

Su Yanqi, who was standing outside the house, was very surprised to see this scene.

Why did Ning Ziqing come here alone to help the refugees without telling her husband's family?

Just as he was about to go in and find Ning Ziqing to ask for clarification.

An old man ran over in a hurry and accidentally bumped into Su Yanqi.

"You don't have eyes!"

Yan Si let out a low cry.

The old man stood firm on his feet and saw the handsome and noble Su Yanqi. He was so frightened that his face turned pale and he hurriedly bowed his head to apologize.

"Sir, I'm sorry, I didn't notice you. Please forgive me."

Su Yanqi lifted his hand and said with a smile: "I'm fine, old man, don't blame yourself."

The old man bowed to him again in gratitude, turned around and walked into the house. He walked up to Ning Ziqing and blamed himself, "Third Miss, I am useless and didn't invite a doctor."

Ning Ziqing was slightly startled, frowned and asked: "Uncle Zhou, what's going on? Why doesn't the doctor want to come?"

Old Man Zhou was so anxious that his eyes turned red. "I went to several clinics to invite doctors to diagnose us, but they drove us away. They didn't believe we had the money to hire a doctor, and they said that we refugees were infected with the disease, and they didn't want to take the risk."

Ning Ziqing heard this and anger welled up in his eyes: "These bastards, as doctors, actually watched someone die without saving him. I'm going to meet them now. If they insist on not coming, I'll smash their clinic."

After saying that, he was about to rush out to settle the accounts with those doctors, but was stopped by Su Yanqi who was standing at the door.

"Third sister, why don't you let me diagnose them?"

Ning Ziqing looked at Su Yanqi who suddenly appeared here in astonishment, with a hint of vigilance in his eyes.

"You were following me?" she demanded.

Su Yanqi shook his head first, then nodded, and explained to her awkwardly: "I don't have any other intentions, I just want to know if you are doing well?"

Ning Ziqing's eyes flashed with coldness, and he directly refused: "You don't need to be hypocritical here. How I am doing is none of your business!"

She brushed Su Yanqi's hand away and said sarcastically: "A good dog doesn't block the road, get out of the way!"

Yan Si couldn't bear to watch it any longer, so she stood up for Su Yanqi and said, "Miss San, how did our young master offend you? Why do you want to humiliate him like this?"

"Yan Si, you must not be rude to the Third Miss. Get out of here!"

Su Yanqi's face turned serious and he angrily ordered Yan Si to step back.

Yan Si had no choice but to retreat behind him in silence.

Su Yanqi apologized to Ning Ziqing, "Third sister, I'm sorry. I didn't manage my servants well and offended you. Please don't take it to heart."

Ning Ziqing didn't appreciate it. She stared at Su Yanqi indifferently and said self-deprecatingly: "Now that Master Su sees me in such a miserable state, he should be very satisfied, right? Then please stop interfering in my business!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she pushed Su Yanqi away and left angrily.

Su Yanqi's expression froze, and he stood there in a daze for a moment. He felt more and more puzzled as to why Ning Ziqing had such a great grudge against him.

Hadn't I already helped her marry the man she loved? I even gave her a few boxes of dowry.

But why did she act as if she had a deep hatred for him as soon as she saw him?

Su Yanqi came to his senses, turned around and wanted to chase Ning Ziqing.

Just at this moment, a girl's scream was heard from inside the house.

"Grandma...what's wrong with you? Someone come and save Grandma!"

Su Yanqi immediately turned back and rushed in.

An hour later, Ning Ziqing grabbed a doctor and returned to the shabby house, only to find that Su Yanqi was concentrating on treating the patients there.

His men brought a large number of medicinal herbs and medicine jars. Su Yanqi wrote out a prescription and personally prepared the herbs, then told his men to boil the medicine.

"Sister, look at this big brother, he's really good. He gave grandma a few injections and her high fever went down quickly."

As soon as the girl saw Ning Ziqing, she rushed over happily.

Seeing this, the captured doctor took the opportunity to break free from Ning Ziqing's hand and tried to escape.

"Miss, since you already have a doctor here to treat your illness, I will take my leave now."

Before Ning Ziqing could react, the doctor slipped away faster than a rabbit.

Ning Ziqing snorted coldly and did not chase after her. She walked to the straw mat, raised the back of her hand and touched Aunt Zhou's forehead. Sure enough, the fever had subsided.

Ning Ziqing breathed a sigh of relief, and when he raised his eyes, he happened to meet Su Yanqi's gaze.

She paused, looked away in embarrassment, feeling amused.

With Su Yanqi's involvement, it seemed that she had been a little petty before.

Although the house was busy, everything was arranged in an orderly manner under Su Yanqi's command.

Ning Ziqing felt that he was a little redundant and couldn't get involved in anything.

After a while, the maid brought the boiled medicine and prepared to feed it to Aunt Zhou.

Ning Ziqing took the medicine bowl from her and wanted to help.

Su Yanqi finished treating the last patient and walked over.

He watched Ning Ziqing carefully scoop up spoonfuls of medicine and feed them to Aunt Zhou, then he took out an embroidered handkerchief to help Aunt Zhou wipe the medicine stains from the corners of her mouth, and finally he took out a piece of candy from his sleeve and gently put it into Aunt Zhou's mouth.

The little Baoer beside him drooled with greed: "Sister, I want to eat candy too."

Ning Ziqing scratched his nose lovingly, then took out three pieces of candy and spread them in his palm.

"Girl, you eat one too."

The girl shyly picked up a piece of candy and put it in her mouth. Xiao Baoer took the second piece and picked up the last piece of candy and fed it to Ning Ziqing's mouth.

"Sister, you eat too."

Ning Ziqing smiled and gathered around the two siblings, happily chewing the sweet candy in their mouths.

Su Yanqi stood aside, lowered his eyes and quietly watched the warm scene in front of him, with a smile on his face.

At this time, Xiao Baoer asked Ning Ziqing cheerfully: "Sister, you are so old now, why do you still like to eat candy so much?"

Ning Ziqing's eyes dimmed slightly, and the smile on his face froze.

"Maybe this world is too bitter, and I want to make myself sweeter."

Su Yanqi noticed her sadness, and his heart ached. He seemed to be touched by her words, and an inexplicable bitterness arose in his heart.

Little Baoer noticed Su Yanqi next to him and shouted mischievously, "Big brother, you're late. I've already distributed all the candies."

Ning Ziqing looked up and saw Su Yanqi standing two steps away from her, staring at her eating candy with a tender look in his eyes.

Ning Ziqing's face stiffened slightly, he lowered his eyes, and thanked him stiffly.

"Thank you for today..."

Su Yanqi's eyes flickered slightly, and she hesitated for a moment. Just as she was about to ask about her husband's family, a guard's voice suddenly came from outside the door.

"Third Miss, please come back with me."

Ning Ziqing was extremely surprised. He immediately stood up and ran outside, past Su Yanqi.

"Is His Highness back?"