Tang Xiuning quickly got ashore and looked back at the pond with lingering fear. She didn't see any long fish or snakes swimming around. Instead, the water lilies in the pond fluttered and withered on the water surface.
There was something she didn't understand.
People saw through her intentions and did it on purpose.
Wan Jinyu was stunned. Wan Jinlan said to Chuntao, "Take her to the guest room and clean up the girl."
Then she looked at Tang Xiuning again: "I wonder where you come from? You've been out for a while. I'll go inform your elders so they don't have to worry."
Tang Xiuning felt scared at this moment. Her eyes were red and she knelt down in front of Wan Jinlan and Wan Jinyu.
"Please don't tell anyone about this, I have no other choice. My stepmother wants to marry me off to a warrior with a leg disease and a widow. I really can't think of any other way."
Wan Jinlan gave Chuntao a look, and Chuntao immediately stepped forward to help Tang Xiuning up.
Although this place is some distance away from the front yard, there is no guarantee that no one else will pass by. If Tang Xiuning cries here, it will definitely attract others.
Wan Jinyu waved her hand and asked her maid to go find her mother.
Today's birthday banquet was organized by her second aunt and her mother. If anything happens, her mother will inevitably have to eat at her grandmother's house.
In the past, the eldest aunt was also in charge of the household affairs of the mansion. Since the eldest aunt went to the southwest, the household affairs of the mansion have been taken turns by the second aunt and her mother. This time when the eldest aunt came back, the second aunt and her mother did not want to give up power, and the eldest aunt happened to be unwell recently, so the eldest aunt did not interfere in this birthday banquet.
Tang Xiuning kept crying in the guest room, and Wan Jinlan was annoyed.
It's someone else's happy day, but she keeps crying. Isn't she trying to bring bad luck?
"Young lady, if you cry again, I will definitely call the elders from your house with great fanfare!"
What kind of person is this? He failed to scheme against others and ended up crying non-stop afterwards, as if he had suffered a great injustice.
Tang Xiuning cried until she hiccupped, and she was filled with grief from the bottom of her heart.
She is really miserable. Ever since her father got a second wife, she has never had a comfortable life. Her marriage is also controlled by her stepmother. She has been doing her duty for many years, but she still cannot escape the clutches of her stepmother.
Her stepmother was so cruel that she dragged her to the age of 18 and then found her a lame warrior who had lost his wife. The man was 30 years old now and was a low-ranking general and a rough warrior!
If he wasn't a warrior, hadn't been lame, hadn't lost his wife, or had never married, she might have accepted her fate! But, he had all the qualities of a warrior!
He also heard that the warrior was a womanizer.
"Woo woo woo, my life is so miserable"
Wan Jinlan listened to her intermittent sobbing and probably understood why she took the risk today.
"Have you arranged a marriage with that military commander?"
Tang Xiuning cried even louder, "Yes."
Wan Jinlan's face turned dark.
If Tang Xiuning's wishful thinking today really succeeds, then her brother will also be charged with the crime of stealing someone else's wife? A fiancée is still a wife!
"Miss, do you think your behavior is appropriate?"
Tang Xiuning sobbed, her eyes misty with tears as she spoke, "I know I was wrong. I only ask you to pretend nothing happened today. I accept my fate. I won't dare to do it again, never again!"
If her stepmother knew what happened today, she would definitely punish her when she returned home. As for her father, if he cared about her at all, he would not agree to the marriage arranged by her stepmother.
Gu came very quickly, and Wan Jinyu's maid had already explained the matter clearly on the way.
Gu's face was gloomy. If this matter got to the old lady's ears, what good would happen to her and Lin?
They were careless today and did not have the maids from each sect guarding the entrances to the inner courtyard.
Of course, this matter cannot be made a big deal, and the Gu family wants to resolve it quietly.
So, after entering the guest room, she gave Tang Xiuning a good scolding with words, warning her not to try to make any trouble by using the incident of falling into the water.
Tang Xiuning sobbed and her head shrank like a quail, but the meaning of Gu's words was exactly what she wanted.
After Gu left, Tang Xiuning washed herself, re-combed her hair, and put on clothes that didn't fit her well.
She apologized again, and her attitude was somewhat sincere.
Wan Jinlan was dissatisfied with her, but he didn't want his brother's name to be linked with hers and become a hot topic, causing more trouble.
But when it comes to Miss Tang's marriage, she can't help but feel a little sympathetic.
Miss Tang was only eighteen years old, but she was going to marry a thirty-year-old man whose wife had died and who also had a leg disease.
She couldn't help but think of Princess Kangping. As a daughter of the royal family, she married Wu Shouren, whose family had only a little property, and ended up being deceived for twenty years.
A few days ago, Prince Linjiang reported Wu Shouren to the court, and Princess Kangping also went to the palace to accuse Wu Shouren, saying that he hired someone to kill someone.
After a marriage of twenty years, their divorce ended in a turbulent situation.
From a young age, they learned the Three Obediences and Four Virtues. When they reached adulthood, they were engaged and married. From then on, their husband's family was their home. Even if they divorced and returned to their parents' home, their parents would often choose to remarry them. Very few would live there for a long time and then remarry. Even establishing a household for their daughters came with stringent requirements. For someone like the Princess Kangping, who had a royal family background, life after a divorce was not that difficult, but for ordinary people, it was far from easy.
Wan Jinlan felt that being a woman really had a hard life.
Even her mother and father seemed to be in love, but in fact, she had seen her mother crying alone with sadness when she was young.
No matter how considerate my father was to my mother, she would still be sad if he went to the concubine's room.
When she was young, she didn't understand how her grandmother treated her mother, and how her second and third aunts openly and secretly bullied her mother. She only knew that her mother was sometimes very sad, and she could only hold her mother and accompany her quietly.
Now that she has grown up and recalled the past, she realized that her mother's life was really not easy.
Being a woman has never been easy; there are always various difficulties.
Wan Jinlan sighed with melancholy at such a young age.
Princess Anyang stuffed her with a mouthful of cloud cake and said, "What are you thinking about? You didn't tell me what happened before, but after two years of not seeing you, Jinlan, you've become boring."
Princess Anyang was born to Concubine Wan. She also had a pair of phoenix eyes. When she sat with Wan Jinlan, they looked like a pair of real sisters.
Wan Jinlan swallowed the cloud cake politely and whispered in Anyang's ear, "I'm wondering who you will marry in the future."
Anyang's eyes widened and his face turned red.
"You, you, you, did you eat something wrong? Why are you talking about this princess's marriage for no reason?"
Then Anyang said proudly: "I don't know who I will marry in the future, but I know you."
She lowered her voice even more, "I heard mother and grandmother mention your marriage with third brother."
Wan Jinlan: Very good, just as I expected!
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