"Tell your aunt what you mean by thanking her. Come, sit down, and eat. Eat." She picked up several pieces of food for Pei Ji with her chopsticks.
Seeing Xue Huan standing there calmly, as if watching a play, he couldn't help but pat her, "Did you know this a long time ago?"
Xue Huan glanced at Pei Ji and said, "Mom, I only knew it one day earlier than you."
Pei Ji lowered his head and picked up a piece of steamed pork with rice flour that she liked to show his favor.
Xue's mother now spoke up for Pei Ji. "Akang's identity is not ordinary, so it can't be revealed casually. Now that you tell us, it won't cause any trouble, right?"
Pei Ji shook his head. "No problem. My being here is no longer a secret."
After chatting for a while, Xue's mother realized that it was Pei Ji who rescued her daughter and brought her back today.
After washing up, Xue Huan came to Xue's mother's room, "Mom——"
Xue's mother was sitting at the table looking at the account book. When she saw her coming, she waved to her and asked her to sit next to her.
She closed the account book, took Xue Huan's hand, and sighed softly.
"Mom, why are you sighing?"
"I remember that the news of the Crown Prince's death spread everywhere last year. But in fact, the Crown Prince Akang is still alive, but he was seriously injured and lost his memory. Now that he has recovered his memory, I believe he will return to the capital soon.
"Although my mother is a woman of modesty, she also knows that the affairs of the royal family are not something that ordinary people like us can afford to interfere in. Our family is lucky to have a relationship with him, but from now on, I am afraid that this relationship will end."
Mother Xue looked at Xue Huan and said, "Huan'er, I can see that Akang seems to have developed a different kind of affection for you. What about you? Have you developed romantic feelings for him?"
Xue Huan admitted it generously, "Mom, he and I are in love with each other."
Xue's mother murmured: "They love each other..."
There are many infatuated men and women in this world, where you love him, he loves her, and she loves him too. It is so difficult and so lucky to be in love with each other.
However, just because two people love each other doesn’t mean they can be together.
Especially since Huan'er and Akang have such a huge difference in status.
Xue's mother couldn't help but feel worried.
Xue Huan also knew her worries and concerns, and she put her arm around her shoulders to comfort her, "Mother, I know what you're worried about. You're afraid that the gap between my daughter's status and his is too big, and that he'll end up betraying me, right? Actually, you don't have to worry at all. Because I, your daughter, may not be a princess or a princess, but in terms of status, I'm definitely not inferior to him.
"Didn't I say before that I wanted to confess something to you? Last year, Daddy disappeared, and I took Dahei out to look for him. I accidentally fell down a steep slope and hit my head."
"What? Why didn't you tell mother? Where did you bump into something? Let me see it quickly." Xue's mother hurriedly touched her head.
"Mom, my wound has healed a long time ago, and there's not even a scar left. What I wanted to say is that after I fainted that day, I had an adventure!"
Xue Huan used the brushwork of the Spring and Autumn Period to blur the story of the Five Elements Beads and time travel, saying that it was the awakening of innate wisdom, and "restored" a truth that was not far from the facts.
This conversation between mother and daughter lasted until midnight. Except for some things that were inconvenient to say, Xue Huan told her mother everything about her several aliases.
When Xue's mother listened to this, her mood was like riding a roller coaster, sometimes high, sometimes low, and never calmed down.
She looked at her daughter with an extremely complicated expression, but it eventually turned into relief. "Mother knew that you were different after all."
Xue Huan: "??? Mom, why do you say that?"
Xue's mother: "Now that things have come to this, I can no longer hide it from you. Actually, Huan'er, you are not your father's and my biological child."
Xue Huan: “???!!!”
Xue's mother slowly opened her mouth and recounted the events of sixteen years ago.
Sixteen years ago, Xue's mother, oh no, at that time she had not yet married Xue's father, and didn't even know him. She was still a young lady waiting to be married.
Her name was Yang Hui, the daughter of the governor of Luzhou. She lost her mother at a young age, and after her father married a second wife, she lived under the care of her kind but heartbroken stepmother. Fortunately, her mother had arranged a marriage for her before her death. As long as she could wait until she got married, her life would be better.
That's what she thought naively at that time.
However, she never lived to see the day when Anran got married.
On the anniversary of her mother's death, she took her maid out of the city to burn incense for her mother. Unexpectedly, they encountered bandits on the way. Her personal maid fought to protect her and gave her a chance to escape.
But she was chased by bandits all the way, and in a panic, she ran to the edge of a cliff. To avoid being defiled, she resolutely jumped off the cliff. However, she did not die, but was seriously injured and fainted. When she woke up, she found herself lying in an unfamiliar house.
It was obvious that she was rescued by someone, and the person who rescued her was Xue's father.
At that time, Xue's father had been separated from the Xue family and lived alone in a small hut left to him by the old hunter who taught him hunting. He saw Yang Hui lying at the bottom of the cliff while hunting.
Xue's father's name was Xue Lang. He was a tall, long-legged and handsome young man. More importantly, he had a good character. He was silent but considerate, and very well-behaved. He never took advantage of her, which made Yang Hui, who was full of anxiety and confusion at the time, gradually calm down.
During the recovery process, the two inevitably had some intimate contact and secretly developed feelings for each other, but neither of them revealed it.
Xue Lang guessed from Yang Hui's behavior and conversation that she was most likely a lady from a wealthy family, and he was just a small hunter and felt that he was not worthy of her.
Yang Hui, on the other hand, was still engaged and could not do anything that went against moral ethics. Although she could not say that she had any feelings for her fiancé, after all, they had only met no more than a few times over the years, so how could there be any feelings for him?
But the education she received all along prevented her from discussing feelings with another man while she was already engaged.
So even though both of them were interested in each other, they never broke the window paper, but instead abided by the rules and did not cross the line.
After recovering from his injuries, Xue Lang escorted Yang Hui home.
Unexpectedly, after returning to the Yang family, Yang Hui discovered that her stepsister had married her fiancé in her place. This was not a big deal. What made her collapse and despair was that her father thought that she was "innocent after being missing for several months" and, at the instigation of her stepmother, wanted to send her to the family temple to prevent her from bringing shame to the reputation of other girls in the clan.
Yang Hui protested and argued, but it was no use; she was still sent to the family temple. The most ironic thing was that her stepsister came over, ostensibly to visit her, but in reality to show off. She also told her the truth: the bandits she had encountered before were actually arranged by someone she bribed!
She just wanted to destroy her and then snatch her marriage away!
After saying this, the stepsister left triumphantly and sent someone to watch her to prevent her from running out and saying anything naughty.
If she really succeeded, Yang Hui's life would be ruined. Fortunately, Xue Lang had not left yet. He wanted to see her again before leaving, so he found a way to see her.
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