"Master, please allow me to say something. This concerns the young lady. Please listen to me." Yunniang lifted the curtain of the carriage and said to Huo Jincheng.
Huo Jincheng narrowed his eyes slightly, his face showing impatience, "Speak!"
Yunniang was delighted and bowed quickly, "Master, I dare not hide anything, nor dare I say anything nonsense. I heard that Madam Jian's family is not a good family. Especially Madam Jian, she is very cruel..."
"Get out!" Huo Jincheng shouted angrily before she could finish her words.
"Master, don't be fooled by her. This will hurt the young lady!"
Yunniang refused to give up. After Huo Jincheng got off the car, she rushed over and hugged his right leg. "I am really doing this for the young lady's own good. After all, I have watched the young lady grow up with my own eyes. Please think twice!"
Huo Jincheng was furious. Although his house didn't face the street, there were families living on both sides, all of them wealthy or noble. If word got out, it would be shameful. He was about to kick her away when servants heard the commotion and ran out. Several servants dragged the screaming Yunniang away.
Because Huo Jincheng stepped into the mansion, several people beat Yunniang violently again.
Although Yunniang was Huo Jincheng's first woman, in ancient times, women as concubines had no status at all, and were only divided into those with face or without face. Even if they had face, if they angered the master, being sold was the least they could do.
In the eyes of wealthy and powerful men in ancient times, concubines were just objects. Moreover, when Yunniang first followed Huo Jincheng, she was just a maidservant, even worse than a concubine.
Huo Jincheng would naturally not take her to heart, but to Yunniang, Huo Jincheng was her heaven and her everything.
She had nowhere to go after leaving the Huo Mansion. Her mother's family had been living quite well over the years with her secret support, but her mother only cared about money and not people, and she was driven out. There was no place for her to stay if she went back!
Her brother-in-law was an alcoholic. When he was drunk, he would beat her sister and two children for no reason. A few years ago, he was executed for accidentally killing someone while drunk. The family's house was auctioned by the government to compensate the victim's family. Her sister had no choice but to take her two daughters back to her parents' home.
She knew better than anyone what her sister, her mother, and her daughter had been living like in her mother's home for the past few years. Not only did they have to do all the heavy work, but they were also often beaten by her mother. Even when Yunniang returned occasionally, she acted arrogantly in front of her sister. Now that she had fallen on hard times, she would inevitably have to endure her sister's bullying when she returned.
After much thought, she realized that returning to the Huo Mansion was her only way out.
I don't know what Yunniang was thinking. She actually went to the Taifu's house to beg for mercy. The Taifu and Old Madam Huo would not see her. When the maids and servants around Old Madam Huo found out about her begging, she humiliated her and was very embarrassed.
With nowhere to go, Yunniang returned to the gate of the Huo Mansion and waited until it was almost dark. She caught up with Huo Jincheng, Jian Ning, and Ding Youtian returning from the farm on the outskirts of the city, and they had brought back A'man and the others from the Taifu Mansion.
Seeing Huo Jincheng, Yunniang rushed out without hesitation and knelt before him, crying out in tears: "Master! I really have nowhere to go. I beg you to keep me, even if it means being a servant!"
"If you really have nowhere to go, I'll take you to a good place, okay?"
Yunniang was delighted at first, but when she met Huo Jincheng's cold, emotionless black eyes, her heart was shocked again, "No, no! Master, you can't treat me like this, you can't treat me like this!"
"Then why don't you get out of here quickly! Get away from here!"
The servants in the mansion ran out again, and Yunniang turned around and ran away in a hurry.
Ah Man turned around and glanced in the direction she ran. Before she went to Dingxian Village, the person who treated her best, apart from her wet nurse, was Yunniang. She really wanted to ask Yunniang why she wanted to kill her mother.
"Dad, I want to rest with my two sisters today, is that okay?" After entering the mansion, Ah Man turned around and asked Huo Jincheng.
"Okay." Huo Jincheng looked at Jian Ning, "Let your two children rest in Man'er's room. With her maids and servants watching over you, you can rest a little easier. It won't disturb Brother Ding from studying."
"Uncle Huo, can I take Yuanbao to Sister A'man's room?" Sanniu asked, looking up.
"And my Jinbao." Erniu also said.
Huo Jincheng nodded: "Okay, as long as you are happy."
"Oh, let's go see Brother Qiu first. You two come with me." Ah Man pulled Erniu and Sanniu and ran away.
Ding Youtian bowed to Huo Jincheng and was about to leave with Jian Ning, but Huo Jincheng suddenly remembered that he hadn't told them about the house, so he stopped them and said, "I have something else to tell you two. Let's go over there and talk."
The three of them passed through the moon-shaped gate and arrived at the other courtyard. Huo Jincheng glanced at the courtyard, looked at the two of them and asked, "What do you think of this house?"
Jian Ning quickly exchanged a glance with Ding Youtian, who smiled and said, "Why, are you planning to give this house to us?"
"No merit, no reward." Huo Jincheng said: "Even if I am willing to give it to you, do you have the nerve to accept it?"
Ding Youtian grinned and said, "I don't steal or rob, so how can I not tolerate it?"
Jian Ning glared at him, "You're so embarrassed to ask for it for free, I'm sorry, at least you have to give him a few cents."
Huo Jincheng narrowed his eyes slightly and thought to himself, no wonder these two can become husband and wife, they say people from the same family tend to be alike, a house, even if it is only one entrance, how many cents can it buy?
"I don't care how much you want. After all, Man'er calls you father and mother. Two hundred and eighty taels, half sold and half given away. It's up to you whether you want it or not. There are many people vying for it at this price."
"If you think it's okay, just hand it over. Tomorrow, go to the government office and get the paperwork done, and this house will belong to the Ding family."
Jian Ning wasn't sure about the price of houses in the capital. When she bought Old Qin's house, a two-story building used for both commercial and residential purposes, she paid a hundred taels, which was a significant discount. She estimated that a house in the capital would be around the same price at two hundred and eighty taels, not quite half-sold, half-given.
However, she hadn't intended to take advantage of Huo Jincheng, so she exchanged glances with Ding Youtian and agreed, "Okay, we're both planning to buy a small house in the capital so we can send Dabao here to study in the future. It doesn't matter whose house we buy, it's better to buy yours than someone else's."
The house matter was settled. After Huo Jincheng collected the banknotes and left, Jian Ning thought of Yunniang and looked at Ding Youtian who was unpacking the box to get the books. He said, "Tell me, what killed A Manniang?"
"It's not me anyway." Ding Youtian took the book and sat down at the table.
"No nonsense!" Jane Ning snatched the book from his hand. "Answer me honestly, what is it?"
"Just be nice, don't make trouble for no reason." Ding Youtian deliberately frowned, "Give me back the book."
"I'm just looking for trouble!" Jian Ning slapped the book in his hand towards his head, "Hurry up and tell me, or you can't read it."
Ding Youtian raised his eyebrows. "Aren't you just trying to say that polygamy killed her? You don't let me read because you're afraid that after I get high school and become an official, I'll marry a few concubines and my life will be in danger, right?"
"Don't worry, you can even kill a tiger, who can harm you?"
"Ding Youtian!" Jian Ning slapped him on the head with the book in her hand. "Okay, you're not even in high school yet and you're already thinking about marrying multiple people. They say men become bad when they have money. Tell me the truth, ever since our family got rich, you've been obsessed with fame and fortune. Have you been planning this all along?"
Ding Youtian felt like a disaster had come unexpectedly. Was that what he meant?
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