After asking this question, even Xie Fengran looked over. The young page slapped his chest and said, "We display it in the most prominent place in Guanlin Bookstore. How could it not sell well? Miss, why don't you buy a copy and have a look?"
"Nonsense. How could our miss read such a book?"
Liu Yi quickly scolded him back and pulled Xie Fengran out.
Xie Fengran had no choice but to follow Liu Yi out. Liu Yi walked in a hurry. When she stepped over the threshold, she accidentally bumped into a young girl.
She quickly lowered her head and apologized, "Sorry, sorry..."
"Slap!"
Before she could finish her apology, she felt a pain on her face and got slapped.
Then a somewhat shrill female voice said, "Don't you have eyes when you walk? How dare you bump into this young lady!"
All this happened so suddenly that even Xie Fengran didn't expect someone to just come up and hit someone.
The slap landed firmly, and Liu Yi's face immediately swelled up.
Anger welled up in Xie Fengran's heart. She pulled Liu Yi over and said, "Miss, my maid has already apologized to you. But you still hit her. Aren't you being too domineering?"
"Domineering?" The young girl sneered sarcastically. "This young lady is just domineering. I hit her, so what? She's just a servant, a lowly life. Even if this young lady were to kill her, what can you do?"
"Is a servant's life not a life?" A look of disgust flashed in Xie Fengran's eyes. "I thought this young lady was just domineering, but I didn't expect you to be so vicious. Saying you're domineering is really flattering you."
"You..." The young girl stammered for a long time but couldn't say a word. Then she just stiffened her neck and shouted, "Do you know who this young lady is? How dare you oppose me!"
"I don't care who you are. I'm not your parents, so I don't need to indulge your bad temper."
"You... I tell you, my father is the prime minister."
Hearing this, Xie Fengran was stunned. She sized up the young girl in front of her and sighed silently in her heart -
Sure enough, she has been growing up willfully!
Miss Zhang, the only daughter of the prime minister, seeing that Xie Fengran didn't say a word, a look of triumph flashed in her eyes. She threatened, "Scared, aren't you! Since you're scared, why don't you come here quickly and kowtow to apologize to this young lady."
A sharp look flashed in Xie Fengran's eyes. She looked at Miss Zhang and said, "Miss Zhang, if your father, the prime minister, allows his daughter to show off her power like this, then I'm really worried for our Great Zhou!"
Miss Zhang was stunned. She didn't understand. She pointed at Xie Fengran and shouted, "Explain it to me clearly. What do you mean by that?"
Xie Fengran's eyes turned cold. With a gloomy face, she looked at Miss Zhang and said, "Is this how your family teaches you? Is this the upbringing of your Zhang family, to point your finger at others?"
Miss Zhang met Xie Fengran's cold expression and was immediately intimidated by her aura. She subconsciously withdrew her hand.
Only then did Xie Fengran withdraw her gaze. She looked at Liu Yi, a sharp look flashing in her eyes. She said in a deep voice, "Miss Zhang, you hit my maid. This matter is not over."
"Liu Yi, let's go."
But Miss Zhang came to her senses. She spread out her arms and blocked in front of Xie Fengran. "Who allowed you to go? It was your maid who bumped into this young lady first. You, Miss Xie, have quite a nerve. Your maid bumped into someone and wants to leave without a word? It seems the family upbringing of the Marquis Mansion is nothing special either."
"It seems Miss Zhang still knows how to distinguish right from wrong. Just now, although my maid was walking with her head down, I saw clearly from behind that it was you, Miss Zhang, who deliberately blocked in front of my maid. I'd like to ask, what's your intention, Miss Zhang?"
One was the young lady of the Marquis Mansion, and the other was the young lady from the prime minister's family. Soon a crowd gathered at the entrance of Guanlin Bookstore. The young page, seeing that the situation was not good, quickly ran to find the person in charge.
At this moment, the person in charge hadn't come yet, but the crowd had already surrounded them.
Those who didn't know the inside story were soon told what had happened. Some people also swore that it was indeed Miss Zhang who deliberately bumped into Miss Xie's maid.
Although Miss Zhang was willful and reckless, she felt a bit uncomfortable with so many people watching. She frowned, took two steps forward, and looked straight at Xie Fengran. She said in a voice that only the two of them could hear -
"Xie Fengran, be sensible and stay away from him. Don't think that just because he said in front of the emperor that he wants to marry you, he will really do it. Do you think you're worthy?"
After saying that, she straightened her back, gave Xie Fengran a provocative look, and walked straight into the bookstore.
Xie Fengran frowned and whispered angrily, "Crazy!"
Then she turned around and walked towards the carriage.
Seeing that there was no more fun to watch, the crowd dispersed in a short while. Uncle Feng just drove the Xie family's carriage over.
"Miss Xie, please wait."
Before Xie Fengran could get on the carriage, she heard someone shouting from behind. She looked back and saw a middle - aged man in a gray long gown walking quickly towards her.
"Miss Xie, please forgive us. Our shop failed to take good care of you, and someone offended you. Please forgive us."
Xie Fengran shook her head and said, "It's not your bookstore's fault. There's no need for you, the boss, to apologize."
"It's our mistake. There's an ancient book in this box. I'm sure you, miss, must be a book lover. This little gift is just our shop's way of apologizing to you."
Xie Fengran pushed it back. The one who hit someone was Miss Zhang from the Zhang family. Even if the shopkeeper had been here, he couldn't have stopped the young lady from the prime minister's family. She wasn't so unreasonable as to take out her anger on the shop because of this.
"This has nothing to do with your shop. Please take it back, boss."
The man shook his head like a rattle. "Please, miss, accept it." After saying that, he put the box on the carriage shaft, bowed his hands, and left.
"Hey..."
Xie Fengran wanted to call him back, but as soon as she opened her mouth, the man walked even faster, as if someone was chasing him from behind.
Xie Fengran had no choice. Moreover, she was worried about Liu Yi's face, so she had to put away the box and told Uncle Feng to drive the carriage to the medical clinic.
After getting on the carriage, Liu Yi glanced at Xie Fengran's uncertain expression and said uneasily, "Miss, did this servant cause trouble for you?"
"It's not you who caused trouble for me. It's just that I've been targeted."
What Miss Zhang said about staying away from "him", that "him" must be Qin Junxing. There couldn't be anyone else.
For a moment, Xie Fengran couldn't understand this young lady's logic. If she liked Qin Junxing, she should go find him!
But instead, she blocked her at the bookstore and picked a fight. She was really brainless!
And this Qin Junxing, what on earth was he up to?
Why did he keep targeting her?
What was there about the Marquis Mansion that made them keep their eyes on it? First the crown prince, then the prince. Why did they all target the Marquis Mansion?
Xie Fengran knocked on the food box. Suddenly, she turned to look at Liu Yi and said, "Do you think I'm just incompatible with Qin Junxing? Why is there never anything good when I meet him?"
"..."
"No. Tomorrow I'm going to the Huguo Temple to offer incense and listen to the Buddhist master's scriptures to get rid of the bad luck on me. I hope I can stay away from Qin Junxing in the future."