Seeing that Han Yiyi was about to refuse, the old nanny beside her quickly chimed in.
"Please don't refuse, young lady. This is a token of our Madam's goodwill..."
Seeing that the old lady's attitude was so firm, Han Yiyi stopped refusing.
However, Han Yiyi did not intend to actually accept it. She thought she would return it to Nangong Yuan when she left, since she had no shortage of points. She still had 25 million points in the system.
Seeing that Han Yiyi had accepted the bracelet, Old Madam Nangong finally breathed a sigh of relief.
However, a hint of hesitation flashed in her eyes when she thought about speaking. After all, she and Nangong Ling were childhood sweethearts, and she naturally hoped that Nangong Yuan could grow old with the person she loved. But thinking of Han Yiyi's abandoned status, she still spoke up.
“Young lady, I have something I'd like to discuss with you…”
Looking at Madam Nangong's expression, Han Yi guessed that she might want to talk to her about the two children. Thinking of the dream she had just had, her eyes darkened, but she still managed a smile and spoke.
"Please speak, Madam..."
Madam Nangong glanced at the nanny beside her, who understood and quickly led the servants out of the inner room.
Seeing that everyone had left, Old Madam Nangong spoke softly.
“Young lady, Ye Yi has told me everything about you. You have taken care of two children all these years. It must have been hard for you. You should have given birth to the eldest grandson of the Nangong family, so you should have been the eldest daughter-in-law of the Nangong family. But you were divorced…”
"Madam, I..."
"Young lady, don't be in a hurry, let me finish speaking first..."
Han Yiyi thought that Old Madam Nangong wanted to talk to her about the two children, but she didn't expect that it was about her. She had decided to leave and wanted to explain to the old lady, but she was interrupted by Old Madam Nangong as soon as she opened her mouth.
"Of course, I don't mean to look down on you, Miss. On the contrary, I feel very sorry for you. But you know that Yuan'er is, after all, a general of Beichen. If word gets out that the wife of the dignified War God of Beichen is a second-marriage woman who was divorced by a scholar, his reputation will be ruined..."
In fact, Madam Nangong could accept that Nangong Yuan's wife was a commoner, but she could not accept that she was a divorced woman who had been remarried. After all, in her view, this was a matter of her grandson's reputation.
Madam Nangong, Han Yiyi, lowered her eyes slightly, thinking that she had taken her words to heart, and continued to speak with some relief.
"Of course, our Nangong family will not mistreat you, young lady. Although we cannot give you the status of a principal wife, you can marry into our Nangong family as a secondary wife. This way, Yuan'er's reputation will not be affected. What do you think, young lady...?"
Hearing what Old Madam Nangong said, Han Yiyi thought to herself, "So what? Of course not. A concubine is still a secondary wife, to put it bluntly."
However, Han Yiyi could completely understand Madam Nangong's actions. If it were her, she would probably have considered abandoning her mother and keeping her son in order not to damage the Nangong family's reputation. In this respect, the old lady was much kinder than herself.
She could understand, but she could never accept it. Even if he were made his legal wife, she would not accept that her husband had other women by his side, let alone being made his concubine.
Han Yi thought this way, but she didn't show it on her face. After all, she was going to leave, and no matter what she said at this time, it would only make the other party think that she wanted the position of the main wife. So she nodded slightly and said.
“I understand what the old lady means, and I also understand her good intentions…”
Originally, she thought it would be difficult to persuade Han Yiyi, but she didn't expect her to be so sensible. Hearing Han Yiyi say this, Old Madam Nangong was even more delighted. She quickly raised her hand, took off a jade hairpin from her hair, and put it into Han Yiyi's hand.
Looking at the jade bracelet on her wrist and the jade hairpin in her hand, Han Yi felt a mix of emotions. She thought that if it were the original owner of this body, she would probably have stayed in the General's Mansion, but she herself...
However, the thought of being separated from her two children made Han Yiyi feel a tightness in her chest.
After that day, Zhi Rou was only locked in the woodshed for two days before she confessed everything. After all, she had chosen these people herself, and they were all daughters of officials. Therefore, Old Madam Nangong did not punish her further, but instead took the opportunity to send everyone back.
Han Yiyi frowned so much that she could kill a fly when she saw the bitter medicine soup brought in by the servant. In fact, there were Western medicines for relieving colds in the system, but Han Yiyi also knew that Chinese medicine was definitely more effective at treating the root cause than Western medicine. For the sake of her small body, she could only hold her nose and swallow it.
These past few days, she has been staying in Nangong Yuan's courtyard. Her two children have started attending classes with their teacher and come to see her whenever they have time.
Hearing the two children excitedly recount how interesting the teacher's lessons were, not only teaching them the Four Books and Five Classics but also chess and music, a bitter smile flashed across Han Yi's eyes.
As the two children were assigned more and more classes, they had less and less time to visit Han Yiyi. Seeing how excited they were each time they came, telling her what they had learned, Han Yiyi knew that they were enjoying themselves. So she thought it was time for her to start training them.
However, thinking of the thousand taels of silver she had spent in Yanlang City, Han Yiyi couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache. Really, she had lost her child, and now she had no money left…
Because Han Yiyi had previously bought grain under the pretext of it being from bandits, the imperial court naturally wouldn't report it to her. Therefore, Nangong Yuan planned to return the silver from the General's Mansion to Han Yiyi after returning to the capital.
However, due to the two preparations for military provisions, the general's mansion sold off almost all of its possessions, leaving it with no money to repay Han Yiyi.
So now, every day Nangong Yuan would go to the palace to plead poverty with Emperor Beichen and ask for money, saying that the General's Mansion was so poor that it couldn't even afford to eat...
Every time Emperor Beichen saw the several empty treasure pavilions, his heart would ache. Now that he saw this guy coming to plead poverty, he didn't even see him and directly ordered his men to throw Nangong Yuan out.
But Nangong Yuan was driven away, so he left, only to return the next day. He was driven away again the next day, and then he returned again the third day...
Emperor Beichen was at his wits' end, and of course he knew that without the General's Mansion, Yanlang City might have truly fallen...
The reason he repeatedly chased people away was because he genuinely felt sorry for his "treasures".
However, in the end, he ordered people to redeem all the items that had been pawned from the General's Mansion and return them to the General's Mansion. Not only that, but he also gave an additional 10,000 taels of silver as a reward. Naturally, the share that Han Yiyi gave him for saving him was also given as a reward of 10,000 taels.
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