She was peeking from the doorway, and when she pulled back, she was terrified. Her heart was pounding. It was so scary, so incredibly scary!
Grandmother was terrifying. How could she be so terrifying? She began to feel afraid, afraid that she too would die so inexplicably.
She was not sad.
All that remained was fear, a deep, profound fear.
What to do, what to do?
Will her grandmother kill her too?
Her heart was beating very fast, as if it were about to jump out of her chest.
"Girl, dinner's ready."
Grandma Lin brought over the food, and Xiao Yufei trembled in fright.
She looked at Granny Lin in fear, "Granny, do you think Grandma will kill me!"
Is it too late for me to admit my mistake now? I was wrong, I really know I was wrong.
I will never do it again. I will definitely learn the rules properly.
Grandma Lin looked at the second young lady, and this time she was truly frightened.
"Girl, this old woman doesn't know what you're talking about. You should eat your food."
The old lady said, "From now on, you will embroider handkerchiefs here. You can leave when the amount of handkerchiefs you embroider is enough to pay off your debts, and the money from selling them is enough to repay the fifty taels of silver you stole."
Xiao Yufei was overjoyed upon hearing this. "Really? If I do it, I can go back, right? Is that true?"
She thought that once she achieved that, she could go back to the way things were before, and become the second young lady she used to be.
"Yes, as long as you can earn that much money, you can leave here. The world is vast, and you can go anywhere."
Xiao Yufei was so happy that she didn't understand what he meant at all and thought it was true.
After witnessing the young prince's tragic end, she dared not cause any trouble and obediently followed orders. She was afraid; she didn't want to die.
"Okay, okay, I understand. I'll learn, I'm willing to learn, as long as I can leave this place. I'm willing to earn money through embroidery, I'm willing! I really am willing!"
Afraid that Grandma Lin wouldn't believe her, she repeated herself twice: "It's come to this point, I can't refuse now, I really do."
"Let's start today. Oh, and you'll have to pay for the handkerchiefs you ruined at the beginning."
Xiao Yufei: "..." Fine, fine, whatever.
"Grandma Lin, may I ask you something? Do you know my aunt? No, do you know where Aunt Lin is now?"
So much time has passed, and only now does she remember that she has a concubine.
“Miss, we don’t have any concubines in our household anymore. We do have a child, Master Lin Ling, who is now in prison. It’s uncertain whether she will be able to get out.”
"If you have connections, you can visit him in prison after you've made some money."
Xiao Yufei quickly shook her head, "No, no, absolutely not, I can't go."
She can't let anyone know she has such a concubine.
"I'll go see her when I'm able to get out."
Of course, fearing that Granny Lin would see through her selfishness, she chose to put it another way, since she still needed Granny Lin's help.
Xiao Yufei started embroidering that very day. She used to be a rich young lady and never thought about learning embroidery. Her aunt said that as long as she could please her husband, it didn't really matter.
If your husband likes it, he will naturally arrange everything for you. Those things are handled by maids and servants, so they don't need to do it themselves.
Xiao Yufei always felt that her aunt was right, otherwise how could she and her mother have lived so well?
"This is the young lady's own business. There's another matter. We haven't had any meat for the past few days because our second young lady has passed away."
Xiao Yufei: "!!!"
Xiao Yufei's eyes widened, and she suddenly collapsed to the ground. "What do you mean by that? What do you mean the Second Miss has passed away? I'm right here, aren't I?"
“Girl, look at you, you’re talking nonsense again. Don’t go crazy again. If you talk nonsense outside, you’ll be arrested and thrown in jail. Haven’t I already told you? Our second young lady was seriously ill before and has now passed away.”
Because the old lady is still alive, the younger generation cannot hold a grand funeral, which is why not everyone was allowed to attend the funeral procession…
That's right, the second young lady really has passed away, and a funeral was held for her. Now everyone knows that the second young lady is gone.
Everyone said they never expected the Second Miss to die so young. In the past, when they saw her, she was very arrogant. Now, it's really heartbreaking.
"impossible……"
Xiao Yufei couldn't believe it, and she couldn't accept it.
She desperately tried to get out, but those people chased her back. Now they didn't care much about her anymore; the second young lady was gone, and she was no longer an important person.
Grandma Lin sighed as she watched her go crazy. "Girl, you'd better not go crazy anymore, or you won't only be unable to get out, but you might also be sent to a very far place and never be able to come back here in this lifetime."
Xiao Yufei was then scared.
She sat in the room in a daze, unable to believe what she had just experienced.
A few days later, Xiao Yufei finally accepted reality.
Everyone knows she is dead.
She is no longer the second young lady; she can never go back.
She could only obediently continue embroidering.
Two years later, she heard that Xiao Yudie was engaged, and the other party seemed to be the son of her grandmother's friend.
By this time, Xiao Yufei had calmed down and was able to face her current situation calmly. She had thought she would be locked up by her grandmother for the rest of her life.
She was released at the end of that year, during the joyous Chinese New Year celebrations.
Looking at Xiao Yufei in front of her, Granny Lin could no longer see the arrogant and domineering person she once was; she was just an ordinary woman.
"This is your household registration; you can leave now."
She was still called Xiao Yufei, but she no longer had any family, and even her hometown was hundreds of miles away.
"I see."
Grandma Lin watched Xiao Yufei leave and then stopped paying attention to her.
After Xiao Yufei came out, she only had two taels of silver in her hand. She found a place, ate a bowl of noodles, and then went to the Xiao residence.
She stood in front of the gate, hesitant to go over. When Xiao Minghui returned, she rushed over, grabbed his hand, and said, "Father, it's me, Yufei."
Xiao Minghui recognized his daughter, but he had promised his mother that if he wanted Yufei to live, they could not acknowledge each other in this life. The second young lady, Xiao Yufei, was already gone.
He prepared her household registration so she could have a house back in that place; this was the last thing Xiao Minghui could do for his daughter. That was all he could do; he had even promised his mother he would never offer any more help.
Because Mother once said, "She never cared about the Xiao family at all; everything she did was aimed at dragging the Xiao family down with her!"
He ruthlessly pushed Xiao Yufei away and coldly said, "Little girl, you've mistaken me for someone else. Leave here right now, or I'll have someone drag you away."
Xiao Yufei couldn't believe it; her hopes, which she had held for two years, had been shattered just like that. "Father, it's me, Yufei! It's me, Yufei! Father, I beg you, please look at me, please look at me!"
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