Ever since Lu Yao got married, Feng Yuheng rarely went to the Yao family. If there was something, she would ask Yao Xian to come out and discuss it alone. After all, no matter how good the Yao family was, they had only met a few times and there was no real family affection to support them. In addition, Lu Yao's incident made it a bit awkward for both parties to meet, so it was better not to meet.
But today, Xu stood there and looked at her. It would be too unreasonable to pretend not to see her. Feng Yuheng had no choice but to walk a few steps towards Yao's house. As soon as she made a move, Xu also rushed towards her, followed by a little girl with a bunch of things in her hands.
Feng Yuheng let Xu into the mansion and went directly to the main hall of the courtyard. After they sat down and had tea, Xu said, "I wanted to come here early this morning, but I heard from the guards that Wuyang Company and several young ladies were having guests in the mansion. I thought it would be inconvenient to disturb them, so I went back and waited for a while." She still looked at Feng Yuheng lovingly, and in addition to the same eagerness and closeness as before, there was also a hint of shame in her eyes.
Feng Yuheng sighed when he saw her like this, and took the initiative to persuade her: "Aunt, if it's because of what happened on the day of my cousin's wedding, there's no need to be like this. I didn't take it to heart, but we can't become estranged from each other just because of Lu Yao."
"Ah! Ah Heng is right." Madam Xu turned her head away, wiped her eyes, and then sighed, "Speaking of which, you haven't come here since Lu Yao entered the mansion, and I feel bad. Your other two aunts always persuaded me to visit you more often, but I always felt that I owed you, so I just couldn't bring myself to do it. Ah Heng, if your aunt had known that the Lu family would be so unreasonable, I would have stopped this marriage even if I had to quarrel with Shu'er."
She was talking about the Lu family's collective accusation that Feng Yuheng had committed murder, but Feng Yuheng didn't want to mention it again. She only said, "Anyway, Ah Heng is a junior, and it's always my fault for not visiting. How can I trouble my aunt to come and see me on her own initiative? What happened that day is over, and no one of us should mention it again. As long as my cousin can live a good life, it will not be in vain." She paused, and finally asked something she had always been concerned about: "What about Lu Yao, has there been any more trouble in the mansion?"
Mrs. Xu thought for a moment and said, "Nothing serious has happened. She is quite honest and pays respects on time every day. If your grandfather is in the mansion, she will go there to greet him in the morning and then come back to me. If your grandfather is not in the mansion, she will sometimes come to have breakfast with me. Just a few days ago, she heard that a jade bracelet was missing, and she made a fuss that a servant had taken it, and beat the servants in the yard, but later she found it in her own box and said that she remembered it wrong. It's just a pity for the servants in that yard, who were all beaten so badly that they couldn't get up. Ah Heng, you don't know that the Yao family has never had the habit of beating servants. Even if there are servants who are the most unbearable, they are at most driven out of the mansion. Father has always said in recent years that everyone is equal, and even if people break the law, they should be punished by the government, not by the so-called master. I didn't expect that Lu Yao, who looks so delicate and weak at such a young age, would be so cruel when he hits."
Feng Yuheng saw that Xu was both dissatisfied and helpless with Lu Yao, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, "It takes more than a day or two to integrate from one family to another. No family in the world educates their children in the same way as the Yao family. Auntie should be more open-minded and give her more time. Maybe after a year or two, she will be able to adapt to the Yao family."
Mrs. Xu was a little surprised. "Ah Heng, are you speaking for Lu Yao? You... don't hate her?" She had heard about all the conflicts between Lu Yao and Feng Yuheng before. She thought Feng Yuheng would hate Lu Yao very much, but she didn't expect to hear such words today.
Feng Yuheng smiled bitterly, "It depends on the angle you answer from, aunt. If you leave out the Yao family, I definitely don't like Lu Yao. But if you bring the Yao family into the mix, Ah Heng can only say that it was the person chosen by my cousin himself. Whether he is good or bad is not for me, a cousin from another family, to say. How they can live depends on their own luck."
Xu understood, "I understand what Ah Heng said, but I still can't get over it. I always feel that I didn't keep a good check on Shu'er as a daughter-in-law. I also thought that maybe I didn't care enough about my sons, so I didn't know when Shu'er met Lu Yao. If I had found out earlier, maybe things wouldn't have developed to this point. Ah Heng, you don't know, there's something... I..." Xu was a little embarrassed. After a long pause, she gritted her teeth and said, "On the wedding day, the maid in the palace came to check Lu Yao's body. I was relieved to find out that she was virgin. But Ah Heng, do you know that on the morning of the second day of the wedding, they came to pay their respects, and the white belt that the servant brought over was not Lu Yao's virgin blood."
Feng Yuheng was not surprised by this, and just asked Xu: "How does aunt identify it?"
"Alas." Xu sighed and said, "I was able to marry into the Yao family because of some connections. My father from my mother's family was also an imperial physician in the palace, working under your grandfather. Your uncle and I have known each other since childhood, and that's why we got engaged. My father knows medicine, and although I didn't inherit his legacy, I know some medical principles. That blood... obviously not."
Feng Yuheng finally understood, and couldn't help but feel sad for Lu Yao in her heart. She married into a medical family like this, and it was thanks to her that she worked so hard in acting, but she didn't even know that she had been exposed long ago.
"It's also thanks to my aunt's kindness that she didn't expose her in person." Feng Yuheng said calmly, "In fact, after all, since my cousin can swallow this matter, we still can't say much."
Xu nodded, "That's right. I didn't argue with her for Shu'er's sake, but I felt upset when I thought about it. It's hard for Shu'er, such a good child, to suffer such injustice for nothing." She sighed again, raised her hand to wipe away the tears on her face, waved her hand, and didn't continue the topic. Instead, she asked the maid to hand the things she was holding to Feng Yuheng: "In two days, it will be the moon festival. Auntie knew that you were going to attend the palace banquet, so she hurriedly made you a set of gorgeous clothes and prepared two sets of jewelry. I know that the material of this dress is definitely not as good as the one in your house. Take a look. Wear it if you like it. If you don't like it, put it aside. It's okay. Auntie just... just wanted to talk to you through this."
Xu's eyes were red again, and Feng Yuheng could no longer remain indifferent. She quickly stood up and took the clothes and jewelry herself, handed them to Huang Quan beside her, then walked forward, took Xu's hand and said, "Aunt, please don't say such things again. You all know that Ah Heng has no feelings for the Feng family anymore, and still hopes to treat the Yao family as her own family. Aunt, if you talk like this, you will really alienate Ah Heng. I will also get married next year, so you must not let me have no place to return to my family after I get married."
After she said that, Xu's heart was completely relieved. She quickly patted her arm and agreed repeatedly. At the same time, she also remembered that Feng Yuheng's coming-of-age ceremony and wedding would be held next year, so she hurriedly prepared to leave: "You were born in April, and it's less than a year no matter how fast you rush. The day is so fast, and the family hasn't made any preparations yet. I have to go back and arrange this matter. Next year, our Ah Heng will have a coming-of-age ceremony and a wedding. The Yao family must make it grand. You can rest assured and wait for your marriage. Don't worry about anything. You have uncles and aunts, so don't worry!"
Finally, Xu was happily sent away. Feng Yuheng sighed and thought about it. When he returned to the courtyard, he said to Huang Quan: "Send someone to investigate how Yao Shu and Lu Yao knew each other. Is it possible that someone deliberately arranged this?"
Huang Quan nodded and asked, "Miss, do you suspect that this was done intentionally by the Lu family?"
"Humph!" She said angrily, "If that's the case, I will never reconcile with the Lu family!"
Two days passed quickly, and the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th finally arrived.
This palace banquet was different from previous years when only dinner was held. Guests were admitted into the palace at noon. Because there were so many people, male and female guests sat at separate seats in the afternoon. The male guests talked about state affairs with Emperor Tianwu first, while the female guests attended a feast of flowers hosted by the Empress in the Imperial Garden.
Feng Yuheng only had some snacks at noon, then changed his clothes and took Huang Quan to sit in the palace carriage. The clothes and jewelry he used were the ones sent by Yao Shi, which were also light green, with small flowers on the collar and cuffs, which were not ostentatious and looked pure and beautiful.
She was not very particular about clothes, and she wore this because she wanted to show it to the Yao family. After all, she still felt good about the Yao family, and it was also to fulfill Xu's motherly heart.
She didn't leave early, so she stopped at the gate of the Yao family and asked the gatekeeper if the Yao family had left. The gatekeeper told her that they had left half an hour ago, saying that there were many people today and it would take a while to line up at the palace gate. She didn't ask any more questions and urged the driver to go to Feng Mansion first, thinking that Rong had to pick him up. And the man surnamed Feng had sent someone to deliver a message early in the morning, saying that he must be taken with him.
Huang Quan said to Feng Yuheng, "We don't have to rush. Miss is now a princess, so she doesn't need to queue up with those people. Just like Princess Wuyang, she can enter whenever she wants with her badge."
Feng Yuheng nodded, "Yes, but I am not a real princess of the royal family after all. Whatever Tiange does is what she should do, and no one will think it is wrong. But if I act like her, I am afraid I will be criticized again."
The master and servant stopped talking, and the imperial carriage drove all the way to Feng Mansion. Today the streets were very busy, with carriages heading to the palace everywhere, and the roads were crowded and congested. But fortunately, her imperial carriage was quite impressive, and outsiders saw that it was a royal carriage, so they gave way, and it didn't delay much time.
When they arrived at the gate of Feng Mansion, they saw Xiangrong waiting there, but they didn't see Fendai. Seeing Feng Yuheng's carriage coming this way, Xiangrong finally smiled and walked forward a few steps.
But just as the imperial carriage had stopped and before Huang Quan could help the people up, they saw another imperial carriage coming towards them from the other end of the street. At the same time, a man who looked like an attendant in the carriage was shouting, "Wait! Miss San, please wait a moment!"
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