A few days later, Wen Tingbai drove a carriage and brought Guan Surong to the Yin Mansion.
Wu Junrou asked Mother Shen beside her to go to the door to pick her up personally, and brought the beautifully dressed Guan Surong into the mansion.
Wu Junrou had finally made all the arrangements. Looking at Guan Surong's appearance, she burst out laughing and praised her. "I've long heard that Miss Guan is a unique figure, and now that I've seen her, I truly understand. People outside are right. Such a banished immortal is hard to find anywhere."
Seeing this, Guan Surong immediately bowed to Wu Junrou and said, "Thank you for the compliments, Madam. I am just a poor man, how can I bear such praise from you. If you can avenge me in the future, my life will not be lived in vain."
When Wu Junrou heard Guan Surong's words, she immediately showed a look of admiration. After all, she had originally planned to send Guan Surong to the Prime Minister's Mansion to let her think of a way to take revenge. Now that she saw Guan Surong was so understanding, it saved her the trouble.
Before Guan Surong came, Wen Tingbai had told her a lot about the Prime Minister's Mansion and Wu Junrou. Now she understood what Wu Junrou liked to hear, so she naturally picked out the nice things to say. "Madam is willing to act as a matchmaker for Surong. Surong is truly touched. Such a great favor is beyond my comprehension. I am only waiting to repay Madam's kindness by working like a slave."
Wu Junrou nodded with satisfaction when she heard Guan Surong say this. "Talking about repaying a favor is a matter for the future. Since we are all working towards the same goal, we can't go wrong by rushing forward towards it. Believe me, if we succeed in the future, the Yin family will treat you as their own daughter. I will find a way to compensate you for the unfair treatment you suffered in the past."
Guan Surong smiled faintly and looked at Wu Junrou before saying, "In that case, Su Rong would like to thank Madam in advance. If it weren't for Madam, Su Rong doesn't know when she would find an opportunity to avenge herself."
Guan Surong looked so aggrieved and weak, just the kind of look these officials would like. Wu Junrou looked at Guan Surong and said with a smile, "My dear, since you want to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion now, I understand. But there's no rush. If you go rashly, you might be turned away. Let's wait for a good opportunity in a few days, and then we can go to the Prime Minister's Mansion together."
Guan Surong naturally agreed to this and immediately moved into Yin's house.
The good opportunity that Wu Junrou mentioned was that the elders of the Yin family in the capital were gathering at the Prime Minister's Mansion to discuss what the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Yin Mansion should do now. Originally, they were one family but now they were divided into two. For so many years, Wu Junrou had been crying in front of the elders, and finally she persuaded them to go to the house to seek justice for her.
In public, Wu Junrou brought Guan Surong to the house. When Guan Surong cried in front of the elders, Song Wanning would probably find it difficult to refuse.
A few days later, a group of more than a dozen elders from the Yin family went to the Prime Minister's Mansion in a grand manner to discuss the matters of the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Yin Mansion with Yin Yichen.
Song Wanning had only received the news the day before, and knew that Wu Junrou had been planning this event for a long time, and that it would definitely be difficult to entertain. However, she hadn't expected that this battle would be even more difficult than she had imagined.
Yin Yichen and the elders of the Yin family were in the front hall of the Prime Minister's Mansion. More than ten elders sat in two rows of chairs. The maids of the Prime Minister's Mansion were serving on the side. Wu Junrou was forced by the elders to sit in the main seat of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Wu Junrou stood in front of the chair and tried to evade responsibility. She said to the elders, "My fellow elders, I'm not Yi Chen's biological mother. I'm afraid it's not in accordance with the rules for me to sit in this position."
The elder beside Wu Junrou immediately spoke up, looking at Wu Junrou and smiling, "Although you are not her biological mother, her aunt raised her for so many years. Even if she has no merits, she has worked hard. If it weren't for you, her aunt, how could he have passed the imperial examination and reached the position he has today? I think you can do it."
Yin Yichen, who was sitting over there, had a dark face and didn't say anything. Song Wanning, who was sitting next to Yin Yichen, was also quite worried.
Seeing this, Wu Junrou also sat down on the chair with an expression of not being able to shirk her responsibility. She smiled at the elders and said, "After all these years, if it weren't for the help of you elders, Yi Chen wouldn't be where he is today. I'll just sit on this chair for a while. I know Yi Chen's temper very well. If he gets upset, I'll get up immediately and won't sit for even a moment longer."
"Since my aunt has called so many elders of the Yin family to seek justice for you, isn't it just for you to sit in this position and let me support you? If that's the case, why is my aunt pretending here?" Yin Yichen glanced at Wu Junrou with a slightly cold look.
Wu Junrou stood up immediately after hearing this, looking at Yin Yichen with a wronged look, then looked at the surrounding elders and said with a smile, "This kid is still blaming me. I told you that this position is not something you can sit in lightly."
"Yi Chen, you're becoming more and more unruly as you get older." The elder sitting next to Wu Junrou spoke up immediately, saying coldly, "This is your aunt who raised you for over a decade. She treats you better than any other biological mother. It's fine if you're not grateful, but how can you be so sarcastic?"
Yin Yichen looked at the elder and sneered, "Aunt who raised me for over ten years? If it weren't for the current emperor ascending the throne and being grateful for my father's merits, he would have asked about my whereabouts in the court. My aunt and uncle were afraid of being punished by the emperor for what they did. I'm afraid I would have turned to ashes by now. When my aunt and uncle drove me out and left me wandering outside, did they ever send anyone to look for me? Now you're here talking about the kindness of raising me for over ten years. I'm afraid that's not the case."
After hearing this, Wu Junrou wiped her tears with a handkerchief and said, "I knew the child still misunderstood. Back then, he was just stubborn. He broke his uncle's favorite jade cup and scolded him a few times, so he ran away crying. In the heavy snow, he disappeared in the blink of an eye. We sent many people to look for him for several days before we finally found him and took good care of him. Who knew he would still hold a grudge against me?"
As Wu Junrou spoke, she fixed her gaze on Yin Yichen and spoke slowly, "Yichen, your aunt and uncle were the ones who wronged you when you were little. But now we are a family after all, and yet it has become like this, making the people of the capital laugh at us. This joke has lasted until today. If you still have any intention, just make peace with your aunt and uncle's family, and we can live a good life together in the future."
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