Chapter 380 Fairy

"Madam, do you know this family? They're quite a lively place."

A woman watching nearby overheard this and looked on with a gossipy expression.

The carriage Ye Wan and her companions were traveling in today was rather low-key, suggesting they were from an ordinary wealthy family, which is why this woman dared to come up and gossip.

In the capital city, which family doesn't have a couple of wealthy relatives?

"What's all the commotion about?" Er Ya poked her head out curiously.

She was busy with her business and didn't recognize Ke Xinrui for a moment.

After all, she looks quite different now compared to before. Her once fair and tender skin is now weathered and aged, making her look more than ten years older. If she hadn't called out "Tao Zhe," Ye Wan wouldn't have recognized her.

"At first, the woman thought her husband had died, so her parents found her another husband. But then her original husband came looking for her, and the other man kicked her out. But she wasn't going to stay put, so she got involved with an old bachelor. The old bachelor would come over often, always when she wasn't home. This kind of drama would happen every few days, and there was never enough time to watch it all."

The woman finished speaking in one breath, and she was exhausted.

"That was quite a lively scene."

Just as Ye Wan was about to have someone go around, she heard Ke Xinrui roar.

"Tao Zhe, you beast, if you have the guts, kill me! Go ahead and kill me, do you dare? You're just a spineless coward!"

"You shameless woman!"

Ke Xinrui was kicked to the ground.

"Is there a fight going on up ahead? Why have we stopped?" Aunt Cai lifted the carriage curtain.

When Ke Xinrui, who had fallen to the ground, saw Aunt Cai, her previously cloudy eyes suddenly lit up.

"Mother, mother!"

Aunt Cai was stunned for a moment, and in that short time, Ke Xinrui had already crawled over.

"Mother, please save me! I know I was wrong, I really know I was wrong! I can't go on living."

She used to think it was unfair to make her kneel down and admit her mistakes, but now that so much time has passed, all her arrogance has been worn away. She'd rather kneel than kneel down, as long as she can be recognized by her, she'd do anything.

Even if it means pretending to be a dog, I'd be willing to do it. It's so unfair that living is worse than being a dog.

"You've mistaken me for someone else. I'm not your mother." Aunt Cai glanced at Ke Xinrui indifferently and lowered the carriage curtain.

Ke Xinrui broke down in tears, “Mother, even if you’re not my biological mother, you’ve watched me grow up since I was a child. How could you be so cruel? You raised me from childhood and now you don’t want me anymore. How am I supposed to live?”

She was really dying. She had suffered so much these past few years, even selling her body for food. She was wrong, she really knew she was wrong.

"Mother-in-law, your son-in-law greets you."

The middle-aged man next to him straightened his clothes, smiled, and came over to bow.

"Master Tao, weren't you in the south? Why have you come to the capital?"

Aunt Cai looked at the man. If Ke Xinrui was stupid, then this man was wicked.

With one stupid and one wicked person together, if she and the old man had any less luck and hadn't met Wanwan, they wouldn't be alive today.

Tao Zhe looked uneasy, but forced a smile. "Well, it's a long story. Mother-in-law, did you come to the estate for a visit today?"

The Tao family was large and powerful, but who could have imagined that Prince Jing would rebel? The two great families of Jiangnan disappeared just like that, and he had already been expelled from the Tao family.

All the way to the capital, Ke Xinrui, that idiot, was completely unreliable, and now he's been reduced to a farmer carrying the burden.

"Let's go, don't let them block our way." Aunt Cai didn't want to say anything more.

"Mother, are you really going to abandon me? Believe me or not, I'll kill myself!"

Ke Xinrui tried frantically to climb onto the carriage, but the driver stopped her.

Aunt Cai's words rang out from inside the carriage, "If you want to die, then go ahead and die. No one can stop you."

"I'll say it again, I'm not your mother. Don't mistake me for someone else next time."

Once the carriage started moving, Ke Xinrui couldn't get close at all.

After the carriage left, a dark-skinned, thin man came over and grabbed Ke Xinrui, saying, "Was that noble lady your mother? You have such a wealthy family? Aren't your family a bunch of bloodsuckers? Your daughter has been sold, so speak up!"

David Tao dusted himself off and sneered, "She's not even their biological daughter, she's useless!"

Ke Xinrui was pulled away by the gaunt old man.

"Honestly, we were just having a nice time, and we got disturbed by some irrelevant people."

Upon arriving at the village, Er Ya complained and then asked Ye Wan, "Mother, are you going to talk to Grandmother for a while?"

"We're on our way. You should settle in first."

It was the height of midday heat when Ye Wan took a plate of watermelon to find Aunt Cai.

Aunt Cai was lying on the straw mat when she saw Ye Wan come in and sat up.

"Mother, if you're feeling down, just say so. I'll go to Fanlou with you." Ye Wan handed her the watermelon.

Aunt Cai glanced at Ye Wan, "I think you just want to go, right?"

Ye Wan: ...

Is she that kind of person?

"I'm not taking you. Your jealous husband will give me a real dressing-down when he gets back, and he might even take your father to a brothel." Aunt Cai glanced at Ye Wan several times and muttered under her breath.

Ye Wan almost spat out her watermelon after taking a bite.

Her father is sixty years old, how could he still frequent brothels?

"I'm not upset," Aunt Cai sighed. "The past is like fleeting clouds. Life is long in some ways, but short in others. I don't want to think about it anymore. Why think so much?"

"You should go back and rest too, don't stay here with me."

It's been hot lately, and everyone's gotten into the habit of taking a nap.

"Mom, I'm staying with you, are you disgusted with me and don't want to sleep with me?" Ye Wan said coquettishly.

After all, it's not so easy to let go of someone you've raised.

Aunt Cai took a bite of watermelon. "No, I'm used to sleeping alone. Unlike you and your Lin Anyuan, I can't sleep with someone next to me."

Ye Wan: ...

After waking up from an afternoon nap, having a bowl of ice cream makes me feel refreshed.

Feeling the cool breeze blowing through the hall, Ye Wan couldn't help but say, "It's so cool here on the estate. I feel it's even cooler than at home, and I can even smell the grass."

"How about we go and bring Mingqian over as well?"

They went out to play, while their son is still in the military camp.

"I'll go pick them up myself," Huigu said immediately.

“Aunt, you should be enjoying your retirement now. You should rest more. Let others do it.” Ye Wan looked at Aunt Hui.

Huigu felt uneasy about having someone else pick her up, so she went herself.

"It doesn't seem so hot right now, I'll just take a stroll."

Ye Wan went out for a stroll alone. She originally wanted to call Er Ya, but Er Ya was still asleep.

The afternoon weather wasn't too hot anymore, and at this time of year, there were many unidentified wildflowers in the roadside grass.

Ye Wan felt that it had been a very, very long time since she had seen these.

"There is a beautiful woman in the north, living alone and aloof from the world."

Suddenly hearing someone speak, Ye Wan turned around and saw a man in a long robe not far away, holding a stack of books and staring at her intently.

Ye Wan glanced at him and then looked away. Just as the man was about to come forward, she suddenly felt playful and flashed into her spatial dimension.

"this……"

The man couldn't help but rub his eyes, and then rubbed them again.

Then he muttered to himself as he walked home.

"Scholar Wen, what have you seen? You look like you've lost your soul."

Greet acquaintances you encounter.

“There was a fairy standing there just now. I only recited one line of poetry, and then the fairy disappeared.”

"In broad daylight, are you dreaming? Where did this fairy come from?"

The scholar surnamed Wen did not respond, unaware that he would one day see the fairy again.

Ye Wan watched the person walk away from inside the space before coming out.

Then she couldn't help but laugh; she was acting like a thief.