Aunt Chen really did not disappoint Wan Xueying. After hearing about her story, Aunt Chen hurried over with Nanny Wu, who had served her for many years.
Seeing someone, she stepped forward and hugged Wan Xueying in her arms, asking with concern, "Second Miss, did I hear correctly? Are you really leaving? Back to the icy and snowy northern border where no birds even shit?"
Wan Xueying wasn't used to such a warm hug. She pulled out of Aunt Chen's arms, smiled and nodded, "Aunt Chen, you heard me right. I do want to go back to Northern Xinjiang."
"No! I can't let you go back there and suffer again! I'll go and ask the uncle and the mistress to let you stay. If that doesn't work, you can find a nearby farm to stay at first. After this is over, I'll ask them to take you back."
"No need, Auntie," Wan Xueying stopped Auntie Chen from asking for help, "I want to leave on my own. I miss my adoptive parents in Northern Xinjiang."
"Do you really want to leave on your own?" Aunt Chen was still a little unconvinced.
"Of course. Auntie, you also heard that I'm not the real daughter of the Earl's family, right?" She really didn't expect her parents to announce the news so quickly, without even waiting for a moment.
Even if she wanted to pretend she didn't know, she couldn't. The few remaining servants in her yard were dissatisfied with her for not stopping the sale of the three people. When they learned that she was not the real daughter of the Bo family, they were talking about it in private, and they almost wanted to shout at the top of their lungs for fear that she couldn't hear.
"It's absolute nonsense! You are the real daughter of the Earl's Mansion, and the eldest lady is..." Aunt Chen knew better than anyone else that Wan Xueying was the only real daughter of the Earl's Mansion, and it was thanks to her that Wan Xueying was found.
"Auntie! Don't mention others." Not many people knew that Wan Qingling was not the real daughter of the Bo family. Wan Xueying stopped Auntie Chen from saying the rest of her words in time to prevent others from hearing and causing trouble.
"Then tell your aunt what's going on?"
"This story has to start from the time when Shen Yu and I were getting married..." Having long regarded the other party as a relative, Wan Xueying had no intention of hiding anything. She asked Nanny Wu to guard the door and told Aunt Chen everything that had happened before in a low voice.
"This is not the marriage you want, so what does it have to do with you if you provoke Princess Mingxia? How could they treat you like this?" As she spoke, Aunt Chen's tears began to flow.
Wan Xueying smiled bitterly, "Isn't this something I should have gotten used to long ago?"
"But I can't bear to see you go." Aunt Chen had no children and had long regarded Wan Xueying as her own child. Not to mention that she was going back to Northern Xinjiang this time, even when she heard that she was getting married to Shen Yu, she cried several times behind her back.
"If you are not afraid of suffering in the northern border, why not come with me?" Wan Xueying looked at her sincerely and took the opportunity to put forward her own ideas.
"Go to Northern Frontier with you?" Aunt Chen was very excited when she heard Wan Xueying's suggestion, but after thinking about it, she shook her head and said, "No, Master and Madam won't agree."
"What if father and mother agree?"
"But I come from a humble background..."
"It doesn't matter if Aunt Chen doesn't want to go." Wan Xueying didn't intend to force anyone. After all, Aunt Chen wouldn't have to worry about food and clothing if she stayed in the Earl's Mansion, and there were servants to serve her.
"No, no, no," Aunt Chen waved her hands repeatedly, "I'm not afraid of suffering, I'm just afraid of becoming a burden to you."
"What if I can't bear to leave my aunt and want her to stay with me all my life, and I will take care of her in her old age and see her to the end of her life?" It's not that what she said is unlucky, but because people in this world care more about what happens after death.
This promise was too heavy. Aunt Chen's eyes were sore after hearing it. She asked with a sob, "Second Miss, do you really think so?"
Wan Xueying said sincerely: "Rather than saying that you are my aunt, it is better to say that you are my master. It is only natural for a disciple to take care of a master in his old age and see him to the end of his life." This was the first time she used the honorific "you" to address an aunt.
"You kid," Aunt Chen burst into laughter, "you make it seem like I'd be ungrateful if I didn't go with you." She was obviously moved by Wan Xueying's sincerity.
"So you agree to go to the Northern Frontier with me?"
"This is a wonderful thing for me, and of course I am willing. I'm just afraid that Master and Madam won't agree."
"Don't worry about this, Aunt. I have already told my mother. She said that as long as you agree to go with me, she will find a new identity for you, and there will no longer be an Aunt Chen who came from a brothel in this world." She knew that Aunt Chen had always been brooding over the fact that she was looked down upon for coming from a brothel, so she asked Xu to use the servants of the Bo's Mansion to redeem her indentureship and help Aunt Chen change her appearance.
"Are you serious?" The surprise came too suddenly, and Aunt Chen's eyes widened.
"Of course it's true, otherwise why would I ask these questions to my aunt?"
"That's great! Second Miss." Aunt Chen was so excited that she almost danced with joy.
"Don't call me the Second Miss anymore. After we leave the Uncle's Mansion, you will be my aunt, and I will call you Aunt Lian." Aunt Chen's real name is Chen Xiaolian. This is the biggest guarantee Wan Xueying gave to Aunt Chen.
"Then I will call you Xueying from now on." Aunt Chen was not pretentious.
"Okay, you can call me Xueying from now on."
Aunt Chen then asked Aunt Wu if she wanted to go with them. Aunt Wu said without hesitation, "Second Miss and Aunt are both good people. I am willing to go with you two masters."
Wan Xueying laughed heartily after hearing this. "Madame Wu's cooking and pastries are the most delicious. I will be in for a treat in the future."
Nanny Wu was also very happy. "As long as the Second Miss likes it, this old servant will make delicious food for her every day."
"Then let's make it a deal."
She had felt a little sad before, thinking that she was leaving alone, but now with Aunt Chen and Nanny Wu accompanying her, Wan Xueying felt much more at ease.
Later, Aunt Chen and Aunt Wu wanted to stay with Wan Xueying because they were worried that her servants would treat them badly. However, Wan Xueying told them to go back and pack their things, saying that she had her own way of making those servants behave themselves.
Sure enough, when she said to the servants calmly, "If you don't want to be sold like Chunmei and the other two, you'd better stop talking nonsense and do your own job well." After hearing this, the servants became very obedient and had to find something to do when they had nothing to do. The scene made Aunt Chen and Madam Wu want to laugh.
Whether sincere or not, in addition to the two hundred taels Wan Chengji had given her, Xu secretly gave her another three hundred taels, saying it would be her dowry for her future marriage and that she would have time to write to her later. However, this reminded Wan Xueying of something. After sending someone to inform Xu that she would be leaving with Concubine Chen and Nanny Wu, she headed alone towards her third brother Wan Huqing's courtyard.
"Why are you coming to me instead of packing your things in your own yard?" Wan Huqing, who was about to sneak out, was displeased when he saw her coming to the study to find him.
"Before I leave, I have something to ask you." Wan Xueying didn't intend to greet this person, so she went straight to the point and stated her purpose.
"What do you want to ask?" Wan Huqing glanced at her impatiently.
"Have you received the letters and money I wrote to my adoptive parents over the years?"
"I got it! Why are you asking?"
If it weren't for his wandering eyes, Wan Xueying would really believe his lies as before.
"What about the reply?" This is the biggest doubt. In all these years, she has not received a single reply.
"Reply? What reply?" Wan Huqing's eyes became even more confused.
"My adoptive parents wrote me a reply."
Wan Huqing snorted, "Tsk!" and said disdainfully, "They can't read, how could they possibly write back to you?"
"My eldest brother once learned calligraphy from someone."
"Then they may not be able to afford paper and pen, so they can't write back to you." Wan Huqing made up another excuse.
"You're not telling the truth, are you?" Wan Xueying, losing her patience, darted forward, grasping Wan Huqing's collar with her left hand, forcing him forward. With her right hand, she plucked the hairpin from his head and pressed it directly against the carotid artery in his neck. She preferred force to verbal attacks.
"You...what are you going to do?" Wan Huqing suddenly became panicked. "Are you going to kill me? I'm your brother."
"Brother?" Wan Xueying sneered, "Don't forget that we just broke off our relationship!"
"I am your brother too, so don't do anything stupid!" Wan Huqing tried to break free from Wan Xueying's restraints, but found that everything was in vain.
"You say you are my biological brother now, but what were you doing before? Tell me! Where did you put those letters and money?" Wan Xueying questioned while exerting force with her right hand, embedding the hairpin into Wan Huqing's flesh, and drops of blood instantly appeared.
After a scream, Wan Huqingfang stammered, "I, I really asked someone to take you to your adoptive parents." He was afraid that telling the truth would make things worse.
"You're still trying to be stubborn, aren't you?" Wan Xueying then raised the hairpin in her right hand high up, as if to stab it hard into his neck.
This time, before the hairpin fell, Wan Huqing raised his hands and begged for mercy, "I'll tell you, isn't that enough?"
He knew he couldn't beat Wan Xueying. He had been beaten badly before for teasing her when she first arrived, which also confirmed Wan Xueying's reputation as a vulgar person. But he didn't expect her to be even more ruthless this time. The look in her eyes alone was chilling.
After a long while, Wan Xueying slowly uttered a word, "Speak!" The hairpin in her hand was not to be trifled with either, and it pierced into his flesh again.
As expected, Wan Huqing screamed again, and this time he chose to tell the truth: "I, I lost the bet." Then he said nonchalantly, "That's just a small amount of money. Why did you have to be so harsh and shout about killing me?"
Wan Xueying was so angry that she laughed, "It's just a small amount of money for you, but it's the life-saving money for my adoptive parents, and it's also the money for my eldest brother to go to school." Back then, if her family wasn't so poor, and the people from the Bo's Mansion found her and promised to give her a large sum of money, she wouldn't have been so willing to follow those people to the capital.
But after arriving in the capital, she discovered that the fifty taels of silver that the Bo family had given to her adoptive parents had been sewn into the new clothes that her adoptive mother had made for her overnight. If she hadn't wanted to keep them as a souvenir, Chunmei would have almost thrown the clothes away as rags.
You have to know that my adoptive mother was injured after giving birth to my younger brother and urgently needed medicine to recuperate. This man actually used the money to gamble! How despicable! Hateful!
Knowing that what she had lost could not be undone, she took a few deep breaths and calmed herself down. After releasing the man, she reached out to Wan Huqing and said two words, "Pay me back!"
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