The mysterious milk group, hands on hips, is being fought over by five dads who are going crazy over

Hearing Ah Ning's words, "bad luck," Yingxia's heart pounded. She instantly gripped the bag of salt in her hand and cautiously looked around.

I only had time to see the two masters walking away hand in hand...

Yingxia couldn't take it anymore. She quickly poured the remaining half bag of salt along the base of the wall and turned to run back to the yard.

There are many people in the courtyard, so there shouldn't be anything to be afraid of.

But after running only two steps, she turned back anxiously, picked up the remaining half of the brown sugar from the basket, poured the last bit of salt from the bag into her palm, pursed her lips, and left the courtyard without looking back!

What if the two masters encounter danger while traveling alone?

She has to keep up!

We must protect our masters' safety no matter what!

Here, Ah Ning was led by her mother to Aunt Su's courtyard.

At that moment, the two little girls stood at the gate of the courtyard, crying their hearts out at the tightly closed gate...

Qiaoqiao wiped away her tears and choked out, "Sister, why won't Mother talk to us? I want to see Mother so much..."

Beside her, Yao Yao's face was also streaked with tears. Her arrogant personality, which had been the center of attention, seemed to have vanished. She squatted softly on the ground, patting her sister's shoulder to help her catch her breath, her voice choked with sobs.

"I don't know either......"

"These days, my father doesn't seem to care about me. Usually, he would check my calligraphy practice every day and listen to me recite articles, but these past few days, every time I take my calligraphy practice to his study, he says he's busy and refuses to see me or listen to me recite articles..."

"Qiaoqiao, did we do something wrong? Otherwise, why won't Father see us anymore?"

As she spoke, she seemed to remember something, and said anxiously and helplessly, "Do you still remember that little jinx? Ever since she came, Grandmother likes her, everyone likes her, and she's even become a princess!"

"Now, does Father like her more than us? Did we do something wrong? Why doesn't Father say anything? I can correct my mistakes."

Qiaoqiao wiped away her tears. "Sister, Aning is fine. It's not Aning's fault; the adults are the ones at fault!"

"Before, Father only liked Sister and not Qiaoqiao; later, Aning came, and Father liked Sister and Qiaoqiao, but not Aning; now, Father doesn't like Sister and Qiaoqiao anymore, and on New Year's Eve he even went to have New Year's Eve dinner with Aning..."

"Can't Daddy like all three children?"

At this point, the two children seemed to have accepted that their father disliked and abandoned them, and they cried louder and louder, sobbing uncontrollably.

Qiao Wan felt a pang of heartache seeing this, so she knelt down and gently patted the two little ones' backs, saying softly:

"You did nothing wrong."

"Qiaoqiao is right. None of you are wrong. The adults are the ones who are wrong."

Qiaoqiao and Yaoyao looked up at her at the same time, their faces covered in tears.

Qiao Wan smiled and took out a handkerchief to wipe their tears. "Stop crying, you're all all grime from crying."

"That's right, don't cry." Ah Ning frowned slightly. "Bad auntie... your mother might not be paying attention to you because it's too late and she's already asleep and didn't hear you."

"Go back and get some rest for the night, then come back tomorrow during the day."

Qiaoqiao shook her head with red eyes: "No, the wet nurse has been watching us all day and won't let us come. My sister and I only managed to come over when the wet nurse was asleep."

Upon hearing this, Qiao Wan frowned slightly.

It's only 9 PM now, yet the wet nurse hasn't even noticed that the two children have secretly slipped out.

If something goes wrong...

Qiao Wan helped the two children up from the ground and said gently, "It's too late now. Come back to Biyou Courtyard with me to rest for the night. We can talk about other things tomorrow, okay?"

The two children exchanged a glance, and Qiaoqiao mustered her courage to speak: "But we want to see our mother..."

Qiao Wan wanted to say that your mother was locked up and ordered not to see you.

But looking at the little guy's wrinkled face, she finally softened and told a white lie.

"Do you remember when your mother was sick a while ago and we had to call in quite a few doctors?"

Yao Yao wiped away her tears and nodded emphatically: "That day, I had just finished practicing calligraphy and came to find my mother. I happened to see the doctor taking my mother's pulse. My mother told me to go back and study hard, so I left."

"Later..." she choked up again, "and then I never saw my mother again..."

Qiao Wan smiled faintly: "That's right. Your mother called the doctor because she was sick. She had an infectious disease and didn't want to pass it on to you and make you suffer, so she locked herself in the courtyard and refused to come out."

"She's worried about you, so you can't let your mother worry. It's easy to catch a cold out in the cold wind. Come back with your auntie, okay?"

Qiaoqiao sniffed: "Okay."

After much effort, Qiao Wan finally persuaded the two little ones and breathed a sigh of relief.

On their way back, the four of them encountered Yingxia, whom they had found.

Seeing that her master was alright, Yingxia finally felt relieved and gave the brown sugar in her hand to Yaoyao and Qiaoqiao to fill their stomachs.

But when she reached the courtyard gate and saw the six incense sticks stuck in the soil, Yao Yao stopped moving.

She stared at the incense sticks for a while, then asked Qiaoqiao:

"I remember there were only three incense sticks in the burner. Did you put the other three in there?"

Qiaoqiao shook her head, bewildered: "I didn't."

Qiao Wan reacted quickly: "Wait, those three incense sticks, did you put them there?"

Are Qiaoqiao and Yaoyao the culprits behind the scenes trying to harm their mother?

But Qiaoqiao is so good and well-behaved, how could this happen?

Ah Ning looked at Qiao Qiao with a blank expression, her mind a jumble of guesses.

Yao Yao pointed to the incense sticks that had burned down to just sticks and said truthfully, "Just as it was getting dark, Qiao Qiao and I had finished dinner when a person dressed in black appeared in the house."

"He gave us these three incense sticks and told us to light them at night and bow three times towards the courtyard."

Qiaoqiao nodded: "He also gave us a small jar of incense ash, and told us to mix the ash into the wet mud behind this haystack, and then stick the lit incense sticks in it."

Aning frowned and pressed, "And then?"

Qiaoqiao and Yaoyao both shook their heads in confusion: "No, and then he disappeared."

Qiao Wan: "Do you remember what that person looked like?"

Qiaoqiao: "I can't see him, he's wearing a hat and a veil."

Yao Yao: "I saw it! He has a scar on his wrist!"

Qiao Wan frowned: "A scar? What kind of scar?"

If you can find someone with the same scar on their wrist, you can basically pinpoint who is behind this!