Imperial Capital 9. My Aunt Comes to Visit

Qing Yi Xuan

Ye Li sat in the room leisurely, looking at the banknotes just sent from Prince Li's mansion, with a sneer flashing across her beautiful face. It turned out that Prince Li and Ye Ying had hooked up a year ago. In the past year, Prince Li had taken antiques worth more than 17,000 taels from Shen Dexuan several times, but he had never given her a single tael of silver.

"Miss, this Prince Li is so shameless!" Qingshuang said angrily standing behind Ye Li. Prince Li was originally a handsome man famous throughout the capital, and Qingshuang was quite looking forward to this future aunt, but she didn't expect that the blind guy would actually cancel the engagement and ruin her reputation. That would have been fine, but he actually dared to take her young lady's things for free, how shameless!

Ye Li turned around and handed the banknote to Qingshuang, saying with a smile: "You are the one who can say that? Be careful, I can't save you if someone hears." Qingshuang stuck out her tongue in shame, hunched her shoulders and said: "I know the young lady won't ignore Qingshuang. Besides... how can anyone hear it in our courtyard?" Qingyixuan is the smallest and most remote courtyard in the entire Ye Mansion, and there are not even a few servants. Except for a few maids, the young lady is alone. Compared with Ye Ying's group of servants, her own young lady is so shabby that she is not even as good as the daughter of the aunt.

"Miss, how could you let Madam Wang go so easily today?" Thinking of Madam Wang's pale face and the staggering look on the verge of falling, Qingshuang felt both refreshed and unwilling in her heart.

Ye Li smiled and said, "Wang is the biological mother of the palace's Zhaoyi, and my fourth sister is the future Princess Li. How do you think my grandmother and father will treat her for me?"

After thinking carefully, Qingshuang lowered her head in dismay, muttering, "The old lady and the old master are too partial." That's right, even if Wang Shi gave out tens of thousands of taels of silver, her daughter wouldn't get a penny. Ye Li patted her and smiled, "Don't worry, with Wang Shi's tens of thousands of taels, at least I can take away all the remaining dowry of mother. Compared with mother's dowry, those tens of thousands of taels are nothing."

Qingshuang nodded, and she felt even less favorable towards the Ye family. The Ye family originally had a weak foundation. If it weren't for the dowry of the lady over the years, how could it have been so prosperous today? But look at how her young lady has been living over the years. It's not an exaggeration to say that she is really ruthless.

Worried that her words might make the young lady sad, Qingshuang quickly changed the subject and said, "Oh, by the way, young lady, this morning Madam Ye mentioned that there are too few people around you. Should we add a few more people to avoid embarrassing situations when you go to Prince Dingguo's Mansion in the future?"

Ye Li frowned. It was not that she didn't know that there were few people around her. But in the past, Ye Li liked quietness and didn't want people around her to follow her around, so she didn't care much. But if she wanted to get married, it would be a problem. She could ignore Wang Shi, because she was sure that Wang Shi couldn't do anything to her, and she couldn't live in the Ye Mansion for the rest of her life. But if she married into the Dingguo Palace in the future, she couldn't be so casual. She rubbed her eyebrows and thought for a while, "Go tell the steward later that I want to pick a few maids from my yard." Qingshuang nodded in response, "Then the maids serving beside me..."

"Don't worry about that. A few days ago, my aunt said that she would send Nanny Lin and Nanny Wei, who were originally with my mother, over in two days." When my mother died, Ye Li had just recalled a serious illness. During this period, Wang took the opportunity to stir up trouble and beat up my mother's wet nurse Nanny Su and drove her out of the mansion. When Ye Li's body got a little better and knew this, the only elderly people who were originally with my mother were Nanny Lin and Nanny Wei, Ye Li's wet nurse. Ye Li naturally knew what Wang was thinking, and knew that she couldn't protect these people at the time, so she used the excuse that her mother's death would make her grandmother sad, and sent Nanny Lin and Nanny Wei back to the Gu family. In recent years, most of the people in this mansion have been Wang's people, and Ye Li was too lazy to care about them, so the fewer people around him, the better.

Qingshuang's eyes lit up and she smiled, "My aunt is really thoughtful." She came later, and although she had never met Nanny Lin and Nanny Wei, she had occasionally heard the young lady mention them. They were all the confidants of the lady, so they naturally sided with the young lady.

After solving the problems of the maid and the nanny, Qingshuang happily started to make plans for Ye Li, "The wedding will be in two months. The dowry that Madam and the old lady sent may not be half as rich as the fourth young lady's. I'll ask the shop to send some of the good ones over, and buy some from various places. Ah... and the young lady's wedding dress and dowry fabrics..."

Ye Li sat aside, smiling as she watched Qing Shuang's sudden calculations, her mind had already flown to a very far place. In her previous life, she had never dreamed that she would one day sit in the concubine's room like a lady from a noble family waiting to be married. Although she had long known that Prince Ding had this or that flaw, Ye Li did not care too much. Marriage in this era was not something a woman could decide on her own, and Ye Li had never had any expectations for love. As long as they could live a peaceful and happy life with mutual respect, it would not be a kind of happiness. But... Prince Ding's Mansion... Thinking of the extraordinary status of Prince Ding's Mansion in Da Chu, she could not help but frown.

"Miss Third, Aunt Zhao wants to see you." The little girl outside the door reported respectfully.

Ye Li was a little surprised by Aunt Zhao's sudden visit. She nodded and said, "Please ask her to come in."

A moment later, Aunt Zhao came in swaying her willow waist. She bowed slightly to Ye Li and said, "This servant greets the Third Miss."

Ye Li put the bracelet she was playing with back into the box, and said with a gentle smile: "Madam Zhao, please don't be polite. What is the matter with you coming to me at this time?" She looked at the charming woman in front of her casually. This madam Zhao has been in the mansion for less than a year, but she is deeply favored by Minister Ye. Otherwise, she would not dare to speak like that in front of the old lady today. Ye Li saw that she was wearing a pink dress, a plain silk ribbon around her waist, a simple bun, and a tassel red hairpin swaying gently on her face. Every move was full of charm. No wonder she was able to get the exclusive favor of Minister Ye not long after she came. Not to mention Wang, who had already given birth to two daughters and a son and was gradually aging, even Ye Ying, who was known as the most beautiful woman, was less charming than her. It was just a pity that she came too late, Wang's position in the mansion was already deeply rooted, and what was even more regrettable was that her family background was too low.

Aunt Zhao was a very smart woman, so she never dared to look down on the unknown Third Miss in the mansion. However, everyone had to be cautious of the Gu family behind the Third Miss. In just a few days, the Third Miss not only took back all the dowry left by the Madam, but also made Wang spit blood today. Thinking of Wang's expression of hatred that made her want to spit blood but dared not to act, Aunt Zhao felt happy.

"I beg Miss Third to show me a way to survive." Aunt Zhao knelt on the ground and begged in a low voice.