Chapter 55 Life Story
I feel guilty, and it's time to confess.
Master Ye San didn't know that Shen Wan's dream was fake, and burning paper on his behalf was useless. He was scared by the fact that Shen Ji would send Ye Caiwei back to Junzhou and burn paper himself.
Once Shen Ji takes the fake Ye Caiwei back to Junzhou, it is estimated that he has not entered the Ye family, and this matter can no longer be concealed.
It's too late to confess now. When Shen Ji arrives in Junzhou, he can't bear Shen Ji's anger.
When Old Madam Ye found out, she was so angry that she almost fainted on the spot. She hit Master Ye San several times with her cane and immediately asked Master Ye San to go to Beijing to apologize to Shen Ji.
The old lady asked, "Such a big thing, why didn't you tell my parents and grandmother?"
Are you kidding? She hasn’t even told her parents, so how can I tell her?
"I didn't tell anyone because I was afraid you'd worry. I sent someone to burn paper for my aunt and uncle, and at the same time, I loved my cousin as much as I could to share my father's worries."
Everyone suddenly realized that it was no wonder that Shen Wan was suddenly so nice to Ye Caiwei.
He only had a piece of floating brocade to make a skirt for Ye Caiwei, asked Li Fushi of the Imperial Music Bureau to teach her to dance, and bought her such expensive jewelry. It turned out that it was because he had a nightmare and felt that he was not good enough to his cousin, so he tried his best to treat her well.
The more Shen Wan thought about it, the angrier she became. "I said that my parents loved my cousin so much that they even gave her the title of county lady. Why did my aunt and uncle still think they were treating her badly? It turns out that she is not my cousin at all!"
"Give me back all those things!"
Ye Caiwei stood there, her face pale.
Chen Ji sat there, breathing in more than out. Yun Shi was much better off. After all, she had known it for a long time, and even knew more than Master Ye San.
Except for Chen Wan, no one in the room spoke until the second master came back.
As soon as he entered the room, Shen Ji couldn’t control his temper and beat up the second master, “If you don’t have time to pick someone up, you can just say it. I won’t insist on you going. Is this how you pick someone up?!”
Shen Ji beat people and no one dared to stop him.
The Second Master was beaten black and blue, and the old lady also scolded him, "You are more likely to cause trouble than to accomplish anything. You made a mistake and still refuse to repent. You welcomed an irrelevant person into the mansion and even gave her the title of County Lady that should have belonged to Wan'er."
The second master said, "I failed my eldest brother's trust. Third Master Ye begged me, and I was bewildered for a moment..."
Before he could finish his words, he was punched by Chen Ji again, and the pain made him unable to straighten his back.
The fight was almost over when Yun Shi stopped Chen Ji. "This matter cannot be blamed entirely on the Second Master alone. The Ye family is also at fault. But she is not a real cousin and has nothing to do with our Duke Dingguo Mansion. Send her back to where she came from."
Ye Caiwei knelt down and cried, "I don't want to be sent away..."
Shen Wan laughed, "You were taken into the mansion as my cousin and enjoyed the blessings that should have belonged to my cousin. Do you still want to occupy it and not leave?!"
"I want my status as a county lady back, along with Qingyi Garden and the things I gave you. You should take as many things away as you brought into the mansion!"
Feeling that Ye Caiwei was an eyesore, Shen Wan said, "Drag her out!"
The two old women immediately stepped forward and roughly pulled Ye Caiwei up from the ground.
The old lady felt distressed when she saw this and said to Shen Ji and Yun, "Although she is not the real Caiwei, she has lived in the mansion for four years after all. If we send her away like this, she will be bullied as an orphan. It would be better to adopt her as a goddaughter..."
Shen Ji’s face turned pale.
Yun asked, "Who wants to be adopted as a goddaughter? Will the Second Master accept her?"
Before the Second Master could say anything, the Second Mistress quickly said, "If anyone wants to collect it, it should be from the First House. My Second House will not collect it."
Chen Wan said, "There are some things I couldn't say before, but now I really can't help it. This 'cousin' is so good at getting into trouble. She destroyed the painting presented to the emperor by Prince Kang's Mansion, and accidentally bumped into the fourth daughter of the Duke of Wei's Mansion. My parents haven't even gone to apologize to her yet. If I really adopt her as my goddaughter, there will be endless messes to clean up in the future. Besides, isn't it enough for my parents to have me and my eldest sister?"
Yun looked at Shen Ji, "What does the Duke mean?"
"Send him away!"
The two old women continued to drag Ye Caiwei out.
Ye Caiwei looked at the old lady and the second master with pleading eyes, asking them to save her.
The old lady couldn't bear to see this and tried to stop him, saying, "Send Zhuangzi up first..."
Yun asked, "Why did the old lady send her to the manor?"
The old lady held the Buddhist beads in her hand and said, "Caiwei... She is good at playing the piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and songs. If she is brought in for marriage in the future, it will be of great benefit to our Dingguo Mansion."
He really spared no effort to keep people here.
It's a pity that the old lady didn't understand my father. He always relied on himself and what he disliked most was using his children to arrange marriages, let alone with unrelated people.
There might be a 30% chance of success if I played the victim, but once I said this, my father would definitely not agree.
As expected, as Shen Wan thought, Shen Ji's face became even darker, "Duke Dingguo's Mansion does not need a marriage alliance!"
"Send him out of the house immediately!"
The people who arrested Ye Caiwei were brought by Yun Shi. They only listened to Shen Ji's orders. They immediately dragged Ye Caiwei up and pulled her out roughly.
After taking a few steps, one of Ye Caiwei's embroidered shoes with millet beads fell off.
Just this pair of shoes costs ten taels of silver. The money earned by the maids in the house from selling their bodies is not enough to buy two pairs of such shoes. An orphan girl can enjoy a life of wealth and glory for four years as the cousin of Duke Dingguo's mansion. It is so enviable.
Ye Caiwei didn't dare to say that she was the second master's illegitimate daughter. She was beaten so badly by Chen Ji for finding someone to pretend to be his cousin. If she knew that it was his own daughter who was pretending to be his cousin, it would be an outrageous act.
But she believed that the old lady and the second master would definitely save her.
The second master didn't dare to say a word, and the old lady tried every possible way to keep Ye Caiwei, but she couldn't. After all, Shen Ji still had the final say in the Duke Dingguo's Mansion.
But it doesn’t matter, Shen Wan arranged for someone to rescue her.
Shen Wan wanted to take back Ye Caiwei's identity as her cousin, but she didn't really want to send her away. She was still waiting to see the excitement in the second house.
The second master and the old lady had many concerns and did not dare to openly try to keep Ye Caiwei. They also had ways to protect Ye Caiwei secretly, but Aunt Mei did not. Aunt Mei loved her daughter so much that she could not bear to see Ye Caiwei sent away and poisoned to death.
Well, knowing that someone from the Ye family was coming and that Ye Caiwei’s identity as cousin was in jeopardy, Aunt Mei couldn’t help but rush to Shou’an Hall to check out the situation.
On the way here, Shen Wan arranged two maids to scare Aunt Mei.
Aunt Mei believed it and rushed in with a pale face. She pushed away the two old women who were pulling Ye Caiwei and hugged Ye Caiwei in her arms.
"Caiwei is my daughter! You can't send her away!"
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