Chapter 786 Extra: Min Pan'er 3
Seeing her half-sister, whom she had just been bullying, turn pale with fright, and noticing the disdainful looks from the group of legitimate sisters following Jiang Hongling, Min Pan'er lowered her head and suppressed the tiny thought that had just surfaced in her mind to reach out and take action.
She got up from the ground herself and said to Jiang Hongling in a harsh tone, "This is a matter between our own sisters, it's none of your business."
After saying that, ignoring the astonished expression on Jiang Hongling's face, she turned around and curtsied to her half-sister who had been bullied, and apologized, "I'm sorry, Seventh Sister, it was all my fault just now. I apologize to you. Please don't be angry with me."
The seventh-ranking concubine's daughter was terrified when she saw Jiang Hongling scolding her and reaching out to pull Min Pan'er.
Seeing Min Pan'er apologize and offer her a way out, she hurriedly shook her head and nodded, her voice trembling as she said, "No, it's okay. I, I forgive you."
"Thank you for your magnanimity, Seventh Sister. Then I won't disturb your enjoyment any longer."
With that, Min Pan'er bowed to everyone and quickly turned to leave. However, her small, hunched figure looked pitiful and disheveled.
"Something that can't be presented in public!"
"Sister Jiang, why are you paying attention to her? Her mother was a prostitute, and she herself was born into a brothel—a lowly wretch!"
"That's right, a bastard is a bastard. You helped her, and she's ungrateful. She's a heartless ingrate! Don't talk to her anymore!"
"Exactly, just seeing her makes me feel like my eyes are being tainted!"
"..."
Min Pan'er is small with short legs, and she injured her leg when she was pushed down, so she can't walk very fast.
Her sisters' words reached her ears clearly.
But she wasn't there at all.
However, when she turned around and glanced at Jiang Hongling subconsciously, she saw Jiang Hongling's furrowed brows, her wrinkled face, and the puzzled yet angry look in Jiang Hongling's eyes.
She could tell that Jiang Hongling didn't look down on her like the others.
On the contrary, she saw kindness in Jiang Hongling's eyes.
Jiang Hongling was genuinely standing up for her and truly wanted to help her.
This is the second person to extend kindness to me.
It would be a lie to say I wasn't moved.
But she couldn't accept it!
She can't let Jiang Hongling become another Aunt Hao!
Jiang Hongling is currently surrounded by stars and is dazzling, but who knows if she will fall into the dust and suffer a tragic fate after getting involved with him?
She can't let her get hurt!
Therefore, the best way is to stay away from her!
After that, Min Pan'er went out even less, and would stay in the small courtyard where she and her aunt lived, never leaving the house.
When she heard that the eldest daughter of the Jiang family had come to the Min residence, she shut herself in her room and refused to go out even for a moment.
So several months passed and she didn't see Jiang Hongling again.
It wasn't until one winter afternoon, after her mother had been unconscious for two whole days, that she finally went to the steward and begged him to find a doctor for her aunt.
However, the servants in the deep mansion were all sycophants who fawned on the powerful and looked down on the weak, so no one paid any attention to her.
But she couldn't leave her aunt unsaid!
Even if she and her aunt disliked each other terribly, they were each other's only family and only support.
Therefore, she couldn't let her aunt die!
Seeing the steward turn to leave, she knelt down with a thud.
"Manager Liao, please! Please get a doctor to take a look at my aunt."
I'm kowtowing to you!
As he spoke, he began to kowtow repeatedly to Manager Liao.
"Hey, you think you can force me to agree by kowtowing a few times?"
"That's impossible!"
"I told you, I would never call a doctor for you without the First Madam's order!"
"Besides, with the changing seasons, plenty of people in the manor catch colds. Aren't they all fine just by keeping warm?"
"Yesterday, Dongqing, the girl in the old lady's room, fell ill, but she only drank a bowl of brown sugar ginger soup."
"Why is your aunt so delicate? She insists on having a doctor called?"
"Don't you even know your place? Are you even qualified to call a doctor?"
The manager's words were all evasive and hurtful, but Min Pan'er could only listen.
Only after the other person finished speaking did she explain in a low voice, "My aunt has been sick for several days. She's been in a coma since yesterday. If we don't find a doctor soon, she won't make it!"
"Manager Liao, please be lenient and let me have a doctor!"
I'm begging you!
As he spoke, he kowtowed several more times to Manager Liao.
Jiang Hongling, who happened to be passing by, witnessed this scene.
She recognized the little girl kowtowing as the poor wretch who had made her feel suffocated for half a month last time.
She originally didn't want to get involved.
But when she saw Min Pan'er kneeling and kowtowing to the steward, her chivalrous and righteous heart suddenly surged up again.
Even if Min Pan'er is not the best, she is still a daughter of the Min family who is listed in the family genealogy. How can she kneel and kowtow to a servant?
Is there no law left?
If this gets out, who knows what outsiders will say about her aunt!
They said her aunt hadn't disciplined her properly, allowing a servant to bully his master.
Yes, she wasn't helping Min Pan'er, but rather her aunt!
Jiang Hongling thus convinced herself.
So, just as Min Pan'er's head was red from kowtowing and she was feeling dizzy, that familiar yet unfamiliar voice appeared again.
What are you doing?
"Aren't you my aunt's illegitimate daughter? Why are you kowtowing to someone?"
"Are you the steward of the manor?"
"How dare you make your mistress kowtow to you?"
"You scoundrel! Are you deliberately trying to ruin my aunt's reputation so that someone else can take away her control of the household?"
"Hmph! I'll tell my aunt right now!"
"Miss Jiang, please spare me! I didn't ask her to kowtow to me! She insisted on doing it herself! I couldn't stop her!"
Why would a perfectly good person kowtow to you?
"Tell me, did you deliberately make things difficult for her?"
"Hmph, you won't tell me, huh? I'm going to find my aunt!"
The manager looked at Jiang Hongling with difficulty, but finally told her what had happened.
Jiang Hongling looked at the steward strangely, puzzled, and said, "She just asked you to fetch a doctor to examine her aunt, right? You can just go and fetch one, can't you? What's so difficult about that?"
"..." The manager's expression became even more conflicted.
Seeing that Jiang Hongling was about to turn around and complain again, he lowered his voice and said, "This was ordered by the First Madam."
Jiang Hongling hadn't reacted yet when the little maid beside her whispered in her ear, "What the steward means is that our young mistress doesn't want him to call a doctor for that young lady's aunt."
"How could this be?!" Jiang Hongling exclaimed in shock, "How could my aunt possibly give such an order?"
"It's not a big deal to call a doctor. My aunt is so busy every day, how could she possibly give special instructions for something like this?"
"I don't believe it! I'm going to ask my aunt!"
The steward and the maid were terrified and quickly grabbed the person.
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