She Became A Downfall Noble Lady
Chapter 689 - 687: One Side Suddenly Stopped

Chapter 689: Chapter 687: One Side Suddenly Stopped

Jiang Yifan looked at Ye Xinyan and Guan He with a wry smile and lowered his voice to say, "the granddaughter of the Cabinet Grand Secretary, Prime Minister Han."

Ye Xinyan innocently blinked her eyes, what was wrong with being Prime Minister Han’s granddaughter? If the young miss of Duke’s Mansion couldn’t even provoke the Prime Minister’s granddaughter, wouldn’t that be too stifling? She hadn’t hit the wrong person at all.

Guan He pricked up his ears, but after hearing such a reason from Jiang Yifan, he scoffed disdainfully.

Back then, after Jiang Yifan married the young miss of Duke’s Mansion, he had come to the capital and personally seen how arrogant this young miss could be. She was just the granddaughter of a Grand Secretary, and that was supposed to impress him?

Jiang Yifan looked at their expressions and felt an overwhelming sense of powerlessness. He lowered his voice even more, "After the fifteenth, the Emperor will issue an edict, arranging a marriage between the Sixth Master and Miss Han."

Jinrong? One of our own? Ye Xinyan and Guan He turned their heads back to look at Jiang Yifan together.

Jiang Yifan responded with a wry smile, "Yes, you are picking a quarrel with the future Principal Wife of the Sixth Master."

"Qi Sanshun, you three, come back!"

"Qi Jia, come back with your brothers!"

Guan He and Ye Xinyan shouted at the same time. The guards of Duke An’s Mansion breathed a sigh of relief, hurried forward, and ushered the three disheveled youngsters back.

A commotion stirred among the onlookers not far away, as they all speculated what was happening. Why had one side suddenly stopped fighting?

Ye Xinyan pulled Qi Jiaer closer and murmured lowly, "It’s not our fault, she provoked me first."

Jiang Yifan looked at her. "Don’t you know why she targeted you? Any woman with such suspicions in her heart would feel uncomfortable." Then, he turned to Guan He and said, "All she did was throw an unkind remark, but you and your senior brother actually cursed at her."

Cursing Jinrong’s wife as a dog... Ye Xinyan glanced at Guan He. How would they face Jinrong after this?

Han Yufang was indeed not an easy target.

She turned to look at the three Qi children. She had just now clearly seen the three youngsters engaging in a fight. These youngsters, having trained with Guan He for three years and backed by Ye Xinyan and Guan He, fought with no reservations.

But the two from Han Mansion were different; being adults, they had more concerns and fears, and so they held back in the fight.

Thus, Qi Jiaer and the other two didn’t really suffer much. Even though their clothes were torn and their faces bruised, compared to the fight with the children from the Official Family two years ago, their injuries were much lighter.

Ye Xinyan, seeing that the children were alright, felt much more at ease. After all, with Guan He watching over them, if they still managed to sustain serious injuries, then Guan He might as well give up his pretentious demeanor and stop being an irritation every day.

Opposite them, Han Yuefang saw her own guards returning limping, clearly at a disadvantage, and couldn’t help but angrily shout, "Ye Xinyan, you just wait, let your grandfather brace for impeachments!"

Ye Xinyan turned around and lifted her chin, "I am going to the Yamen right now to file a complaint that your hired guards, two hulking martial practitioners, attacked my brother who is not yet ten years old."

Facing the open reprimands, not even Jinrong’s wife could let her be. Even if she did not engage in a physical altercation, she could not lose her momentum.

Han Yufang was immediately a bit dumbfounded. This shameless woman was just too much. Was her so-called brother not a martial practitioner? Was she planning to turn the tables on them?

"You just insulted me," Han Yufang said.

"I did not, we were talking about something else, it’s you who insisted on taking it upon yourself," Ye Xinyan said.

Han Yufang: "..."

"Alright, alright, everyone is grown up, don’t you find this childish? Let’s go back," Guan He said disdainfully, posing as if he had nothing to do with the matter at hand.

Ye Xinyan gave him a disdainful two-second stare. Guan He really was unreliable; as soon as Jiang Yifan mentioned that the emperor might decree Jinrong to marry Han Yufang, this guy’s face was full of discomfort.

Speaking of which, it was truly humiliating to not only bully Jinrong’s wife but also to quarrel and exchange insults with her.

Forget it, since she was Jinrong’s wife, she’d give Jinrong some face and not stoop to her level.

Seeing that Jiang Yifan had already summoned everyone to leave, she took Qi Jiaer by the hand and turned to go.

But Han Yufang was not about to let it go and angrily shouted at Ye Xinyan’s retreating figure, "You are just... you just can’t change your nature, just like a dog can’t stop eating crap. The way you behaved before was just to fool those who didn’t know you, pretending to have changed, but in fact, you are still that brainless, stupid woman without any sense."

Ye Xinyan immediately became furious. We’re all educated people, shouldn’t we stick to the issue when arguing? Why bring up old resentments and personal attacks?

Jiang Yifan also turned around abruptly, looking coldly at Han Yufang, "Miss Han, watch your words. Both sides have faults in today’s matter, but it was Miss Han who started it. Miss Han should think about her future status; your actions represent not only yourself and the Han Family, please be prudent!"

At this point, Ye Xinyan no longer wanted to leave. She looked at the three kids with bruised noses and faces and then at Han Family’s two guards, and raised an eyebrow to Han Yufang, "What I am saying is, you are indulging your servants in assaulting the masters from another family, and it’s children who they have beaten."

Although Jiang Yifan’s words startled Han Yufang, she was disdainful of what Ye Xinyan said. She slightly lifted her face, in front of Han Mansion, these three kids dare to call themselves masters?

Ye Xinyan, facing Han Yufang’s challenging stance, said, "My children are not rootless and cannot be bullied at will. When I get back, I’ll send someone to your mansion. The clothes on my children were made of the finest materials by top embroiderers, not something you can buy with just a handful of silver, yet they were torn by your servants. You will have to compensate."

For Han Yufang, who was a lady from a prominent family, it was normal to be unable to grasp the concept of suddenly being confronted with a scammer.

She was stunned, and before she could think of a retort, she heard Ye Xinyan continue, "Also, the jade pendants and necklaces they wore, look at them, the necklaces are damaged, and the jade pendants are gone, probably lost somewhere during the fight. These three jade pendants are all fine Hetian jade, have you heard that ’gentlemen are like jade’? They can’t be measured with silver, you’ll need to compensate me with three jade pendants of the same quality.

Also, have you seen the pearls that were fixed to the hair buns of my youngest brother? They used to circle the hair buns, and now only these two are left, the rest lost during the fight; you also have to compensate me for those. When I get back, I’ll send a list to Han Mansion, and I would like to see if your grandfather, Prime Minister Han, is also going to refuse to pay debts owed to children."

The bystanders whispered among themselves,

"What’s going on here, whose children are these, to be so precious?"

"Did anyone notice just now if that child indeed had two circles of pearls on their head?"

"Are you dumb? How old is that child, wearing two circles of pearls? All you would be able to see then is the pearls, right?"

"Are you saying, this certain Miss is swindling..." A person next to the speaker poked the one talking, who then looked up, immediately meeting Guan He’s emotionless eyes, felt a chill run down his spine, and promptly stopped talking.