The Princess Wei Yang

65.3.A Plan Within A Plan

1鹬蚌相争, 渔翁得利: watching a snipe and a clam fight while the fisherman wins; twoparties are fighting and a third steps in to reap the benefits

2顺藤摸瓜: follow the vine to find the melon;following the trail of something to find something else

That night, Si Yiniang came and knocked openthe doors to Li Wei Yang’s residence.

Bai Zhi opened the doors and saw Si Yiniang who was wearing aplain moon white dress. Wearing a pair of red mandarin embroidered shoes, shewalked in a flirtatious style that didn’t belong to women of her age. Sheapproached Li Wei Yang and then gently paid her respects: “Blessings to Xianzhu.”

From that one phrase, Li Wei Yang smiled. Si Yiniang, she wasone of very few rational people in the family. She calmly spoke: “I wonder whatis going on with Yiniang? You have to see me this urgent?”

Si Yiniang’s complexion changed a few times, it was unusuallyvariable; her eyes were moving swiftly and soon her eyes fell onto Li Wei Yang,she decided to confront her: “Xianzhu, I have no choice but to come now at thistime of the night.”

Li Wei Yang was instantly silent and then she said: “The wordsyou want to say, Yiniang might as well say it directly.”

Si Yiniang nodded and ordered her trusted maid: “Bring that yatouin here.”

A yatou was pushed inside as she stumbled along and fell ontothe ground. Her face was smudged with dirt; her hair was disheveled. Kneeling,the entire body was violently shaking, it was, no doubt, Rong Er.

Li Wei Yang coldly stared at her and said: “How is it you?”

Rong Er lowered her head and she continued to tremble.

“Si Yiniang, what is your meaning?” Li Wei Yang raised herbrows.

Si Yiniang smiled and said: “Xianzhu, this yatou, do yourecognize her? She is Rong Er, the one that serves by Qi Niang’s side.

Li Wei Yang calmly gave Si Yiniang a glimpse and forced a smile:“At this time of the night, what does Si Yiniang mean?”

Si Yiniang’s face enshrouded a layer of frost, she said: “Thisyatou came to my residence in the middle of the night and buried something.Unfortunately, she was discovered by my yatou, guess what was the thing sheburied?”

Li Wei Yang blinked her eyes and said: “Rong Er, rather thansleeping in the middle of night, what were you doing at Si Yiniang’s residence?”

Rong Er continued to lower her head and secretly criticized SanXiaojie’s acting was really good, wasn’t it her who asked her to do this?

Si Yiniang was suddenly tired of this testing the water game,she curled her lips upward: “This yatou buried this.” As she spoke, she threw awooden doll towards Li Wei Yang’s feet and on it was a string of numbers. LiWei Yang picked it up to look at it and it was Li Xiao Ran’s date of birth.

Li Wei Yang coldly glanced at it and then her eyes lookedtowards Rong Er: “How dare you!”

Rong Er was trembling so hard she couldn’t speak a word. SiYiniang coldly laughed and said: “Xianzhu, you don’t have to pretend, isn’tthis your mother’s doing? She wants to use voodoo magic to frame me!”

Li Wei Yang seemed as if she was stunned and then she smiled:“Qi Yiniang’s personality, I’m afraid no one in the Li family wouldn’t knowabout. If she had the means to scheme, she wouldn’t have let me wander outsideall these years and she herself wouldn’t banished to Nan Yuan. Even more, shewasn’t favor from the start, so if she wanted to harm others because ofjealousy, she should have chosen to Da Furen or Liu Yiniang’s residence, don’tyou agree? The words you’ve just spoken, Si Yiniang, you probably can’t believethem either.”