Chapter 94 Take Xiangling with You

"Sister Yuan, what about me? I'll go with you!"

Wang Xifeng was terrified; just as she feared, her worst fears had come true.

“Daiyu and I are going back to the Lin family. What kind of behavior would you have if you came along?” Yuan Hongqu chuckled.

“Sister Yuan, I’m not joking. If it weren’t for you, I really wouldn’t be able to stay in Rongguo Mansion. In the past six months, you’ve helped me avoid so many pitfalls. I’m afraid I’ll fall into one as soon as you leave. You can’t abandon me…” Wang Xifeng said, tears welling up in her eyes.

"It's not that exaggerated. Now that you've won Jia Lian over, there are far fewer people in the mansion trying to trip you up. Plus, you've fully recovered. What's there to be afraid of!"

Wang Xifeng shook her head.

"Sister, with you here, I have a pillar of support, and I have nothing to fear... If you leave, I'll become a rootless duckweed..."

"Please stop talking, are you trying to make me sick with your words?" Yuan Hongqu said with a laugh.

“I’m not going far. Daiyu and I will go back to the Lin family’s old residence. What happened today was my carelessness.” Yuan Hongqu pondered for a moment.

“Even if we give the Jia family a lot of money, all expenses are paid with our own money. But living in someone else's house will always make us feel uncomfortable and will not give us a sense of belonging or security.”

"Even though we're staying in someone else's house, we should be prepared to be talked about. But it's not like we can't go home, so why should we put up with this?"

“Sister Yuan, please reconsider… Lord Lin isn’t in the capital, and it’s not safe for you to stay at the Lin family’s old residence with Daiyu. The world isn’t like it was back then, where even petty thieves were rare. Even here in the capital, there are plenty of thieves, thieves who ambush people, and kidnappers. Wasn’t Xiangling from the Xue family kidnapped by kidnappers when she was little…” Wang Xifeng said, hoping Yuan Hongqu would give up the idea of ​​going to the Lin family’s old residence.

"You don't need to say anything more, I have my own plans. We definitely need to go back in the next few days. Speaking of Xiangling, did you ask about what I asked you to ask last time?"

Yuan Hongqu had already made up her mind about returning to the Lin family and didn't want to say anything more.

Hearing Wang Xifeng mention Xiangling reminded him of something else.

Seeing that Yuan Hongqu had changed the subject, Wang Xifeng knew that returning to the Lin family was probably a done deal and could not be changed, so she could not force it.

Fortunately, the Lin family is still in the capital, which isn't far away. I can just go to the Lin family every day.

Wang Xifeng comforted herself and cheered up again.

"Aunt Xue naturally had nothing to say, but Xue Baochai said she wanted Xiangling to keep her company and refused to let her go. This morning I told Second Master Lian to go directly to Xue the Fool to ask for her, but I didn't expect that Xue the Fool would actually believe it and say that Xiangling was bad luck for him. He said that he would sell her by the feet tomorrow, and no one could persuade him otherwise."

"Tomorrow, take the hairpin from the set of jewelry the Xue family gave us last time. Tell them that Xiangtao thinks this child looks like her sister and has been begging me for a long time to take Xiangling with her. As for Xiangling's ransom, it's that hairpin."

“Sister, the Xue family’s headdress is worth ten thousand taels of silver. That hairpin is one of the bigger pieces, worth at least a thousand taels of silver.”

"There's hardly anything left inside, except for a necklace, a pair of hairpins, and a phoenix crown. If you don't mind, the phoenix crown is yours. No one else looks as good wearing a phoenix as you do."

The Xue family initially sent it to her as an apology, and she didn't want it at first. But Wang Xifeng said, "Why not take it? The Xue family is so rich, why would they care about such a small thing?"

Yuan Hongqu simply accepted it, but she never used old things given to her by others.

Even with jewelry, she always buys the newest pieces.

Even if something is not as exquisite or detailed as something given to you by someone else, it is still yours!

Therefore, she broke up this set of jewelry and more than a dozen pieces, giving one piece here and one piece there as a reward.

She planned to take off the perfectly round purple beads on the necklace and have the sewing room make them into buttons for Daiyu.

As for that hairpin, we'll return it to the Xue family as a keepsake.

Wang Xifeng was delighted to hear Yuan Hongqu's praise, and then said...

"Forget it, even if you gave it to me, I wouldn't be able to take it out. I don't even want to think about the look on Aunt Xue's face if she saw it."

“Since I said I’d give it to you, take it. If you don’t like it, I’ll take it apart and give it to your eldest sister to use as beads,” Yuan Hongqu said, taking a box from a drawer and handing it to Wang Xifeng. “Both of those things are in here.”

These two people weren't really interested in pearls. They're only valuable now; in their time, they weren't anything special.

At that time, Yuan Hongqu herself went to the pearl producing areas and bought a lot of pearls.

Now she has a whole drawer full of pearls of all colors in her space! There's even a whole box of pearls of better quality than these purple ones.

"Sister Yuan, why are you suddenly concerned about Xiangling?" Wang Xifeng asked curiously.

Yuan Hongqu stared blankly for a moment before speaking.

"Do you believe me when I say I dreamt that she cried to me, saying she wanted to see her parents?"

"Of course I believe it! It's her good fortune that my sister saved her. I wish my sister could pull me out of this hellhole too!" Wang Xifeng was actually a little envious of Xiangling.

"If something unexpected happens tomorrow and the Xue family still refuses to release them, do you have any good ideas?" Yuan Hongqu thought for a moment; this possibility was not out of the question.

"Sister, don't worry. If the Xue family refuses to release him, I'll have Jia Lian really make sure Xue Pan gets into some kind of accident. Such a dissolute son, even if he dies outside, it'll only dirty the place, and it won't be a disgrace!" Wang Xifeng said with a smile, her words carrying a hint of malice.

"But you don't need to dirty your hands. You just need to let Aunt Xue know that if her son doesn't behave himself, someone will put his name on the Shuntian Prefecture register." The person Yuan Hongqu hated most in the entire book was not the inactive Baoyu, nor the two-faced Lady Wang, but this foolish tyrant Xue Pan!

That thing would be shot a thousand times over in modern times!

He killed Feng Yuan and escaped, but later killed a young apprentice and was sentenced to death, yet he still escaped death once more.

“Sister Yuan, I think Xiangling seems to have developed feelings for Baochai. What if she doesn’t want it?” Wang Xifeng thought of Xiangling’s expression of half fear and half reluctance when she talked to Aunt Xue about this.

Yuan Hongqu thought for a moment and said,

"I'm afraid she's been sold back and forth, and this time she's finally settled down..."

“You brought Xiangtao with you. Xiangtao is a few years older than her, and they have the same face shape. Just say they are sisters, like they were made from the same mold. Who can really tell the difference?” Yuan Hongqu laughed.

"Hmm, sister, I hadn't noticed until you pointed it out. Xiangling really does look quite similar to Xiangtao!" Wang Xifeng thought carefully about their appearances and felt more and more that they looked alike.

Yuan Hongqu smiled.

"That's true. To make others believe, you have to believe it yourself first. They do look alike."