novelaction Chapter 183 Old Good Sisters
Chapter 183 Old Good Sisters
"Please rest for a while, my lady. I have prepared a lunch. Would you please enjoy the meal before returning to the palace?"
The recognition of relatives was completed, the names of the relatives removed, and everyone left the ancestral hall. Yu Zhong bowed and made a request again.
"Thank you, Lord Yu."
Fei Wan smiled and nodded in agreement.
In fact, this had all been decided long ago. The Yu Mansion would welcome the emperor, recognize the relatives, serve meals, and see him off today. Tomorrow, all the imperial belongings would be returned, and the welcoming ceremony would be considered complete.
Yu Zhong's question was just a formality.
But the process had to be carried out to show respect to the royal family.
Fei Wan was surrounded and taken to a resting place.
That was Yu Tingjin's former boudoir. Now, all of Yu Tingjin's old belongings had been removed, replaced with newly purchased furniture from the Yu Mansion and exquisite tributes sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Even the floor tiles had been replaced with the gold-dyed imperial kiln blue bricks used exclusively in the palace halls.
The three main rooms are decorated with gently drawn Xiang curtains and low gauze screens. Beyond the half-open screen windows, a newly transplanted osmanthus tree symbolizes the welcoming of new nobles. Paired with lush green banana leaves and vibrantly blooming roses, hollyhocks, and other summer flowers, the scene is simply refreshing and delightful.
"My lord, you've been tired for most of the day. Let's take a break."
Xiangyi stepped forward, spread the soft pillow and brocade cushion she brought with her on the couch, and asked Feiwan to have a rest.
"This room is far inferior to our Chunxi Palace. My dear, please take a nap for now and have a good sleep when you return to the palace. You are frail and your old injuries haven't fully healed yet. You are exhausted today."
As he spoke, he took out his usual copper incense burner with a handle and put some calming incense in it.
Fei Wan changed into her casual soft skirt, leaned on the couch, and watched the smoke rising from the stove.
The smile was faint, almost nonexistent.
"This was Yu Gengyi's house. Now, except for the walls and beams, there is no trace of her. I occupied her boudoir and her Chunxi Palace, but she was expelled from the family and is now bedridden in a remote palace.
When she attacked me, she certainly didn't expect this day to come."
Xiang Yi snorted: "God will always punish you for your bad deeds. She deserves it!"
Fei Wan lowered her eyes.
There was no joy of victory in my heart.
There is only peace.
She is someone who has died once.
No matter how proud you are in this life, it cannot compare to the misery of your previous life.
Now, rather than revenge, it is more like trying another possibility of life.
Step by step, crush all evil and fight for everything you want.
"Wake me up in two quarters of an hour and call Lan'er over."
She whispered the order, closed her eyes, and fell asleep peacefully on the couch.
Outside the window, banana leaves rustle gently in the late summer breeze, rustling...
Splash, splash, the barefoot little girl carries a small pot and wades in the paddy field. She bends down to touch the snails and collects them carefully one by one, looking forward to having a delicious dinner.
"Second daughter of the Zhou family, come back quickly! Come back quickly! Your father is gone!"
The villagers' anxious cries shattered all hopes. Panic and disillusionment filled the chaotic scene, with paper money flying everywhere. The girl remained stunned, unable to shed a single tear, having seen off her father, who had died of illness, and her mother, who had died in an accidental fall.
"Er Ya, I'll sell myself first to buy you some rice. You stay home well, and when I go to the city and save enough money, I'll take you home to enjoy a good life."
Sister Daya left, and soon she too was gone. Relatives seized the house and land and sold her. As a slave, she was beaten and scolded. Every day was a gloomy day, a gloom that seemed to have no end.
"Erya, sister is here to pick you up!"
She suddenly saw her grown-up sister, who was wearing beautiful clothes like a fairy and took her to a magnificent house.
"Arya will live here from now on and enjoy life with her sister..."
Her sister handed her a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake, but before she could put it in her mouth, the cake transformed into a snow-white poisonous tongue, opened its bloody mouth, and bit her. Her sister grinned beside her, then turned into Yu Tingjin and stabbed her with a needle, "Bitch, you are not worthy of being my sister!"
Fei Wan sat up suddenly.
He was breathing heavily, his clothes soaked with cold sweat.
The old injury between the nails hurts slightly.
"My lady, what's wrong? It's been less than a quarter of an hour..." Xiang Yi hurried forward and supported the lady who had just woken up from falling asleep.
Is it a dream?
It's a dream!
Fei Wan looked at the golden sunlight reflected on the banana leaves outside the window. She was distracted for a while before gradually coming to her senses.
I actually dreamed about my childhood.
The past is gone forever. No matter how good our adoptive parents were, they are gone now. What’s the point of missing them?
In his previous life, he had never seen his sister, who had been sold into slavery before him. In this life, while helping his eunuch Dongbao to inquire about his family, he also sent someone to secretly search for his sister's whereabouts, but the news he received was that she was dead. While on an outing with the master's family in the mountains, she accidentally fell into a river and drowned.
She no longer has any relatives.
I just relive the past for a moment in my dream.
But Meng was also restless. The bitterness of being a slave and the persecution of Yu Tingjin were like the poisonous snake in her dream, entangling her.
"Get some water and wash up, and call Lan'er over."
Fei Wan quickly regained her clarity of vision and put aside everything in her dream.
The road ahead is long and difficult, and she has no time to reminisce about the past!
After washing and dressing in a moment, Fei Wan changed into her elegant and auspicious attire. She dismissed all the palace maids and told them to retreat to the courtyard outside the house and wait.
Only Xiangyi was left.
Lan'er, the maidservant of the Yu Mansion, and a servant girl wearing the same maid's clothes both came in to pay their respects.
At the door, he knelt down and kowtowed, saying in a loud voice, "Greetings to Empress Zhao! May the Empress be well!"
Fei Wan's smiling voice reached the yard.
"Hasn't there anyone in the Yu family who taught you etiquette? My status is not high enough to be called the Empress. Please call me the Young Master."
"Yes, my lady..."
"Lan'er, it's rare that you can speak up for justice today and expose Yu Gengyi's mistakes. I am very grateful to you. Come in, I will reward you well."
"Thank you, my lord."
Several people moved from the door into the inner room.
This is all done for others to see.
With no other palace maids around, Fei Wan immediately held Lan'er's hand and whispered, "I didn't expect to see you again. How are you doing?"
Lan'er nodded vigorously: "Well, I can do it. The masters here all like obedient servants who speak sweet words, so I am that kind of servant. Today, I suddenly betrayed my master in public, and they must be shocked. Fortunately, you are here, so they dare not beat me to death even if they want to. As for you, it must be very difficult for you in the palace, right?"
Fei Wan's smile was sincere, completely different from when she was facing the Yu family. "It's not difficult. The masters in the palace also like to obey sweet-talking servants."
Lan'er studied Fei Wan carefully and sighed after a while, "You're completely different from before. No wonder you're able to suppress the eldest young lady so completely... Bah! She's been expelled from the title, how can she still be called the eldest young lady? Now you're the eldest young lady of the Yu family!"
Xiangyi was slightly surprised.
Fei Wan smiled and introduced Lan Er to her: "This is my good sister who often helped me privately when I was suffering in the Yu family. She is very capable and smart. If I had been half as capable as her, I wouldn't have been bullied like that."
The other maid who came with Lan'er suddenly changed her expression, and her eyes were as sharp as a hunting hawk, aiming at the back window of the house.
"who!"
With a low growl, she flew over.
Like a puff of smoke, it came out of the window.
Jiang Xiangyi was shocked.
Who is this person!
Who is at the back window? Is someone peeping or eavesdropping?
Aren't there guards everywhere? How could someone break through the window?!