Chapter 745 Don't Cut the Hair of the Man on the Roadside (10)

These things are far more precious than what Ning Yao obtained before.

It can also be seen that the old lady was holding back her kindness towards Ning Yao; well, she reserved it all for Ning Yan.

Ning Yan wouldn't let herself be at a disadvantage in this regard; she was determined to fight and snatch!

Soon, news that Ning Yan had taken all the good things from Lanxiang Courtyard, and that the old lady and the prince had let it go, reached Ning Yao's ears.

For a moment, Ning Yao felt as if the sky had fallen.

But that's not all.

The next day, Ning Yan went to the poetry gathering, but Ning Yao's good days were about to begin.

Even when she was punished, she still ate several dishes every day, all vegetarian, since this was an ancestral hall. But the cooks in the mansion were skilled, and the dishes were delicious, so Ning Yao ate them quite well.

However, after the Earl's visit, his attitude became so clear that his men became bolder.

After the food was served, the two old women took out all the good food and dishes, leaving only two steamed buns for the young lady.

The young lady was definitely not satisfied, and she threw things around and screamed inside, but who cared about her?

Even Chun'er was locked up, and Ning Yao didn't even have anyone to run errands or deliver messages, so she could only endure it.

After a few days of this, the young lady, having lost several pounds from hunger, finally took action.

That night, the ancestral hall caught fire.

The servants quickly grabbed buckets to put out the fire. That was an ancestral hall, where the ancestral tablets were enshrined. If the tablets were destroyed, it would be a huge problem.

Fortunately, the fire wasn't too big and was quickly extinguished.

But the young lady has disappeared!

The old lady immediately understood what was going on.

Not long after the fire was extinguished, she called her only son to her side.

"How do you plan to resolve the matter concerning your eldest daughter?"

"What does Mother mean?"

The old lady hesitated for a long time before finally speaking with difficulty, "Your wife is a good woman, and her three children are all promising. Yan'er is especially well-behaved. I, this old woman, don't want to see these three children affected by that unfilial daughter."

After all, she had been raised since childhood, so there was still some affection between them. The old lady was very sad when she said this.

The Earl of Kang'an was not stupid; his mother's meaning was very clear: she wanted to abandon this legitimate daughter.

But he didn't blame his own mother; it was all that wretched child's own fault!

Her reputation was already ruined, yet she still dared to set fire to the ancestral hall to escape.

You should know that ancestral halls not only house ancestral tablets, but also family genealogies.

If the family genealogy is burned, wouldn't the Ning family ancestors for dozens of generations jump out of the ground to settle accounts with him?

"The news spread that the ancestral hall caught fire, and the eldest daughter of the family perished in the flames while trying to put it out."

Hang up the white flags tomorrow. "

Hanging white banners is to let others know who in the family has died.

Funerals for unmarried women are very simple; some are not even buried in ancestral graves, but simply buried in a thin coffin.

The funeral arrangements for the eldest daughter of the Kang Anbo family could not be so simple, after all, Ning Yao also had a maternal grandfather who was a great Confucian scholar.

However, her maternal grandfather passed away a few years ago, and now her maternal uncle is in charge of the household.

This maternal uncle is now the Chancellor of the Imperial Academy, and he is somewhat pedantic.

He was shocked to hear that his young niece, who was in good health, had died. He did not believe it and thought that his second wife had tortured his niece to death. He angrily ran to the Kang Anbo mansion to question the Kang Anbo.

Kang Anbo had his brother-in-law led to the study.

Tang Zheming, dressed in a scholar's robe, stood in front of Kang Anbo's desk with a face full of anger. "Ning Xuanwei, if you don't give me a reasonable explanation for Ning Yao's matter, I will impeach you in court tomorrow."

Kang Anbo had tea served to Tang Zheming before asking, "Have you heard the rumors circulating in the capital, brother-in-law?"

Tang Zheming: "What rumor?"

"The matter of Ning Yao being kidnapped?"

Tang Zheming: "You were...kidnapped? When did that happen?"

Indeed, there are some things that the closest people to you don't know, because no one dares to tell them.

"Ten days ago, my wife took her to meet the son of the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. The next day, on their way back home, an accident happened. She was kidnapped by a masked man in black. I sent people to search for her, but two hours later, she suddenly reappeared in her bedroom. I asked her several times who her kidnapper was, but she would rather kneel in the ancestral hall as punishment than tell the truth..."

Tang Zheming was, after all, a fourth-rank official in the court. The meaning behind his words was all too clear: Ning Yao knew the man in black, or rather, she knew the person behind the man in black, otherwise she wouldn't have covered for him.

"Yesterday, she set fire to the ancestral hall again. After the fire was extinguished, she disappeared."

According to my brother-in-law, how should this matter be handled?

Tang Zheming: ...If it were him, he would have sent that girl to the temple to become a nun long ago. It's really foolish of Ning Xuanwei to keep her.

Tang Zheming left, and he looked rather unwell as he went.

He knew that his sister was dead, and the child she had given birth to was also "dead," so the relationship between the Tang family and the Kang Anbo family had come to an end.

Although Ning Yao is still living well somewhere unknown, it would be better to have no niece who has ruined her reputation.

Ning Yao's funeral was held very quickly. Before some people could even react, Ning Yao's coffin was buried in the mountains.

After that, the people of the Kang'an Marquis's mansion lived as they always had.

Ning Yao, who was being raised in the backyard by the Seventh Prince, had no idea that she was now a dead person.

At this moment, she was dreaming of becoming the Seventh Prince's consort.

The Kang'an Marquis's mansion acted too quickly; the Seventh Prince didn't even have time to react.

Of course, the moment the white banner was hung up, the Seventh Prince's schemes were rendered useless.

But he wouldn't give up!

It is no secret that the Earl of Kang'an personally raised his eldest daughter and continued to dote on her even after remarrying.

They said Ning Yao was dead before, maybe they were just angry. Maybe they'll calm down after this period, and when Ning Yao goes back, they'll be family again.

Therefore, he went to the backyard and told Ning Yao about the funeral arrangements made for her by the Kang'an Marquis's mansion.

Ning Yao was filled with hatred, hating herself for being too soft-hearted. She should have burned the entire Kang'an Marquis's mansion down with her.

The Seventh Prince advised, "Calm down, this isn't entirely Lord Ning's fault..."

"Yes, it must have been that vixen whispering in my father's ear, otherwise my father wouldn't have treated me like this."

The Seventh Prince thought to himself, "That makes sense. It must have been something that Lady Ning said that made Lord Ning give up his eldest daughter."

"Yao'er, don't worry, stay in the manor for now. In a while, I'll find an opportunity to host a banquet for Lord Ning and sound him out. With how much Lord Ning dotes on you, returning to the Kang'an Marquis's manor will be a piece of cake."

Ning Yao bowed to the Seventh Prince, deeply moved, her eyes filled with affection as she looked at him. "Then I'll leave it to the Seventh Prince. If it weren't for you taking me in, I would be homeless..."

"What are you saying, Yao'er? If it weren't for you, I might have died on the mountain behind the temple that day. Everything I'm doing now is what I should do."