Chapter 785 Extra: Min Pan'er 2
Aunt Hao hesitated.
Min Yun'er raised her chin triumphantly and looked at Min Pan'er with disdain, "Still saying you're not a thief?"
Then, with an excited expression, she ordered, "Aunt Liu, quickly catch this little bastard, no, catch this little thief and send him to Auntie."
She wanted to go back and tell her mother this great news in person, and then take her mother to see her aunt's good show.
Her mother hated her eldest aunt the most, and now that a thief has appeared among the eldest son's concubine's daughters, her eldest aunt is bound to lose face!
Just then, Aunt Hao finally spoke.
"etc."
Everyone was stunned, and all eyes turned to her.
Min Pan'er looked at her with a pleading expression.
The steward tugged at Aunt Hao again, advising, "Don't do anything foolish!"
This time, however, Aunt Hao did not remain silent. She stepped forward and said firmly, "Ninth Miss, it was indeed I who gave this little girl the pastries."
"Those pastries were made for the old lady, but she didn't finish them, so they were returned to the main kitchen."
"I figured it would be a waste to throw it away, so I gave one to this little girl."
"You're talking nonsense!"
Min Yun'er said angrily, "Even if the old lady can't finish her pastries, she'll share them with the people who serve her. How can she send them back to the main kitchen?"
"It's obvious you're talking nonsense!"
"you say!"
"So, it was you who stole the master's things and gave them to this little bastard?"
"Or did this little brat steal things from the main kitchen himself?"
Min Yun'er is only eight years old, but she already has the air of a master.
She glanced at Aunt Hao sideways and said in a threatening tone, "Think carefully before you answer!"
The head housekeeper also wanted to persuade her again.
But this time, Aunt Hao seemed determined, insisting, "I did give her the things."
As for whether the old lady returned it or she stole it, she didn't argue anymore.
Because she did lie.
It's customary to make extra pastries for the master whenever I make them, so that the others in the main kitchen can have a taste.
But these kinds of things are best kept to family members only; it's not appropriate to tell outsiders.
The little girl's piece was saved the same way. She didn't eat her own piece; she saved it specifically for the little girl.
Min Pan'er breathed a huge sigh of relief, crying and laughing at Aunt Hao.
Aunt Hao is indeed a good person!
The person she loved most in the world was Aunt Hao!
I like her even more than I like her mother!
No, her mother doesn't like her, and she doesn't like her mother either!
Therefore, the person she liked the most and the only person she liked in this world was Aunt Hao!
At that time, Min Pan'er's heart was filled with joy and emotion, as well as an indescribable excitement and surging feeling.
She made up her mind that when she grew up, she would definitely repay Aunt Hao properly. No, repaying was not enough to describe her gratitude to Aunt Hao.
She made up her mind that when she grew up, she would take good care of Aunt Hao and take care of her in her old age!
However, half an hour later, she regretted it.
Seeing Aunt Hao beaten bloody and mangled by the board, seeing her unconscious and being carried out of the mansion...
She was heartbroken and wept bitterly.
She cried and shouted that she had stolen the pastries herself! She was hungry, she was craving them, and she had taken them when no one was looking. It had nothing to do with Aunt Hao!
She begged them to let Aunt Hao go, begged them to hit her if they wanted, to punish her if they wanted...
But no one paid any attention to her!
Even Min Yun'er, who stirred up trouble, was joining her mother and the third wife in belittling the head wife of the household.
They said that Min Pan'er was, after all, the daughter of the main wife. Even if she was born out of wedlock, she shouldn't be starving and have to sneak into the main kitchen to live off a lowly cook.
They said that the first wife shouldn't be too harsh, and that mistreating her illegitimate daughter would damage her reputation.
They talked a lot, back and forth, but no one cared about a small, insignificant Min Pan'er anymore.
From then on, Min Pan'er and her aunt no longer had to go hungry, but their lives became increasingly difficult.
More and more people are bullying them.
Meanwhile, Aunt Hao was kicked out of the Min family.
With Aunt Hao's pastry-making skills, she would never have lacked work.
However, when the Min family kicked people out of the mansion, they also spread the word that anyone who dared to hire Aunt Hao was going against the Min family.
In Huizhou, everyone shares a consensus.
That is, it's better to offend the Jiang family than to offend the Min family!
The Min family thus blocked Hao Da Niang's escape route.
When Aunt Hao was kicked out of the mansion, she was also beaten with thirty strokes of the cane. After being sent home, she was supposed to see a doctor and spend more money to buy medicine, both internal and external, so that she could slowly recover.
But the Min family made those remarks, and Hao Da Niang's husband and mother-in-law felt that if they spent a lot of money to cure the person, but the person would not be able to find work or earn money in the future, why waste the money?
And so, Aunt Hao was abandoned by her family.
A few days later, Aunt Hao's injuries worsened. After a few more days, she passed away.
Min Pan'er learned about this by chance from the kitchen manager more than a month later.
At that time, Aunt Hao had been dead for almost a month.
When she found out, Min Pan'er felt like her world had collapsed.
She cried for a very, very long time... She cried herself to sleep when she was exhausted, but when she woke up she started crying again...
During that time, she kept thinking, if she had bowed her head and apologized when she met Min Yun'er that day, would Min Yun'er have forgiven her?
If she hadn't argued back when Min Yun'er accused her of stealing, and hadn't dragged Aunt Hao into it, would Aunt Hao have avoided being punished, beaten, and kicked out of the mansion?
If she hadn't forced Aunt Hao to prove her innocence, she wouldn't have killed Aunt Hao...
The only person in this world who was good to me was killed by me!
After crying, she learned to be patient and to bow her head.
The young masters and ladies of the manor, the head maids, or even the nameless little maids...
No matter who the other party is, as long as they are there to cause her trouble or bully her, she will apologize and make amends immediately in an attempt to quell their anger.
Gradually, her voice grew softer and softer, and her back became more and more bent.
In the inner quarters of the Min family, she lived a life worse than even the lowest-ranking servant in the household.
She knew that everyone loathed her, despised her, looked down on her, and even wished her dead.
But she wanted to live!
The more they wanted her to die, the more she wanted to live!
She wanted to live and grow up, she wanted to live until she was strong enough to avenge Aunt Hao!
After Aunt Hao died, she thought that no one would ever be kind to her again in her life.
Until she met Jiang Hongling.
A young woman who was only three years older than her lived a life as fiery and dazzling as the midday sun.
Jiang Hongling was the eldest daughter of the Jiang family, the family of her stepmother, the prefect.
Born into a noble family, with a lively personality, she was greatly favored by her stepmother.
Even the old lady of the Min family liked her very much.
Therefore, all the young ladies in the manor especially liked playing with her.
However, the only ones she could truly play with were the legitimate daughters of the household.
Yet, Jiang Hongling, who was the center of attention, bent down and reached out her hand to her when her half-sister pushed her down.
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