She spoke softly, but Wei Jiaoniang still heard it.
Wei Jiaoniang frowned and suggested, "Yan Fei, come with me."
A special carriage must be used on this snowy day, otherwise the road will be slippery. Wei Jiaoniang is worried about Gu Yanfei taking an ordinary carriage from the manor back to Beijing.
"No." Gu Yanfei refused outright, looking towards the east wing, and said quietly, "I don't know how my mother's wet nurse got injured. I'm a little worried..."
She stopped there.
Although Wei Jiaoniang was careless, she was able to see things clearly. Most likely, Aunt Pang's injury was related to some shameful secrets.
Thinking that this was the Gu family's farm, Wei Jiaoniang didn't force it anymore and stood up and said, "Yan Fei, I'll leave first."
Not long after Wei Jiaoniang left, the snow began to fall heavily again.
Snowflakes were like catkins, falling in large flakes with the cold wind. The few red plum trees in the courtyard were blooming proudly, unafraid of the wind and snow.
After washing up, Gu Yanfei sat by the window, watching the snow leisurely with one hand on her chin. Her black hair was casually tied with a ribbon, half loose and half undone, looking very relaxed.
"Second Miss, this is the longan and red date soup that the kitchen just cooked." The daughter-in-law brought a bowl of steaming hot soup with a smile, "It also has candied dates in it. The lady also liked to drink it in the past."
As Xie's companion, the people in the manor naturally felt close to the young master Gu Yanfei. After spending nearly an hour together, seeing that the young lady had a good temper, the daughter-in-law completely relaxed.
Gu Yanfei drank the sugar water slowly. After drinking half a bowl, her wife, who had just left, came back and reported respectfully, "Miss, Aunt Pang is awake."
Juanbi looked at the leaking pot next to her and smiled. The girl said before that Aunt Pang would wake up at 15:00, and she really woke up at this time. The girl is really amazing! Gu Yanfei wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and stood up.
Juanbi was afraid that she would catch a cold, so she quickly put a cloak on her.
It was still snowing outside, and Gu Yanfei went from the veranda to the east wing.
There was a yellow oil lamp in the east wing, the light was dim, and the daughter-in-law cautiously reminded: "Girl, watch your step."
Nanny Pang was sitting on the couch, with a large pillow stuffed behind her waist and her head wrapped with several white cloth strips. She looked haggard and weak.
She had just woken up and looked a little dazed. She looked in the direction of Gu Yanfei when she heard the voice.
Her eyes suddenly opened wide, as if struck by lightning, and she was completely stunned. She stared at Gu Yanfei intently, as if he was missing someone through her, and murmured, "Resemblance, so similar..."
There is nostalgia, sadness, grief and sighing in a pair of turbid old eyes.
Tears quickly welled up in Aunt Pang's eyes as she asked cautiously, "You...you are the girl that Madam gave birth to?"
Her voice was weak and trembling slightly.
In fact, she knew without asking, she could tell at a glance that the girl in front of her looked very much like the late lady.
She subconsciously raised her right hand, wanting to touch Gu Yanfei's face, but was afraid of acting rashly, so she quickly put her hand down.
Gu Yanfei sat down on a chair beside the couch and nodded with a smile.
"Young lady..." Nanny Pang tried to get up and kowtow, but Gu Yanfei pushed her back onto the couch.
"Don't move." Gu Yanfei's voice was neither light nor heavy, but it left no room for doubt.
Madam Pang continued to stare at Gu Yanfei with a burning gaze, her eyes reddened, she clutched the thin blanket tightly, and cursed angrily: "How dare Su Niang?!"
"Madam has never treated Su Niang badly...How dare Su Niang use her slavery to offend her master and do such a heartless thing! She is such a heartless person!"
When she got angry, the wound on the back of her head began to ache slightly. She frowned and took several deep breaths before she recovered.
After scolding Su Niang, Madam Pang began to blame herself again, her voice becoming increasingly hoarse and hollow: "It's all my fault for being careless!"
"Back then, Yangzhou was in chaos and war. When Su Niang brought the child back to the capital, Gu Yunyan was only a few months old and looked pale and thin. At that time, the Marquis' Mansion had two funerals in just a few months. The mansion was in a state of gloom and sorrow. Everyone was overjoyed that she could return to the capital alive. No one suspected anything and thought that Su Niang had made great contributions."
"Moreover, Gu Yunyan has been close to Su Niang since she was a baby. She would cry and make a fuss if she was away from her. Therefore, the Madam kept Su Niang to continue to serve Gu Yunyan."
“Who would have thought!!”
When she got excited, Madam Pang grabbed Gu Yanfei's hand and said angrily, "When I see Su Niang, I will tear her face off... No, I will cut her into pieces."
She was so angry that she was shaking, her face flushed, and the back of her head hurt even more. Then she heard a light voice enter her ears: "Su Niang has been sent to the government."
Ah?! Aunt Pang was startled, the tears that had been welling up in her eyes stopped, and she didn't react for a moment.
Gu Yanfei patted the back of Aunt Pang's old, thick hand soothingly, and said to her in return: "As far as I know, she has been exiled to the frontier."
A cold light flashed across Gu Yanfei's eyes.
She didn't want Su Niang to die on the way to exile, so Gu Yuan asked his friends to send her to the exile alive. Only by living can the person who made the mistake know what it means to live a life worse than death!
"You deserve it!" Aunt Pang scolded indignantly, "Su Niang should have suffered this retribution long ago!"
Her chest was rising and falling violently, her face was pale as paper due to excessive blood loss, and the tears in her eyes finally rolled down the corners.
The pulse is floating, large and hollow, like pressing a scallion tube; the liver is depressed and qi is stagnant, and the circulation of qi and blood is disordered.
The problem is not serious, just excessive blood loss and excessive emotions.
Gu Yanfei quickly drew a meditation talisman on the back of Nanny Pang's hand. Her fingertips moved so quickly that she had withdrawn her hand before the other party realized what was happening.
Nanny Pang only felt a cool feeling flowing rapidly from the back of her right hand throughout her body, and the heat in her body seemed to be extinguished in an instant.
Gu Yanfei asked Juanbi to pour a cup of warm tea for Madam Pang and handed it to her, while asking, "Madam, do you still remember how you fell on the road?"
Aunt Pang slowly drank two sips of warm tea. After calming down, memories came flooding back.
She sorted out her thoughts and started from the beginning, her voice still a little weak: "At the beginning of the month, I received a letter from the eldest young master in my hometown in Qingzhou. In the letter, the eldest young master told me that the young lady was switched with Su Niang fourteen years ago. He also said that the young lady had just arrived in the capital and was worried that she would not get used to it, so he wanted me to come and help her."
When Aunt Pang received the letter, she was almost stunned and so angry that her brain almost became congested.
When she thought about how the girl had suffered since childhood and was now isolated and helpless in the Marquis' Mansion, she was afraid that she would be bullied by Gu Yunmeng, so Nanny Pang became anxious and rushed on the road.
She finally saw the girl! Madam Pang stared at Gu Yanfei, who was less than two feet away from her, with a pain in her heart.
Their daughter is the biological daughter of the Madam and the former Marquis. She should have grown up in luxury all her life, but she has been treated like this for more than ten years. God is so unfair!
“Squeak!”
A window next to it was blown open by the strong wind. The wind and snow outside were getting stronger, and a few scattered snowflakes floated in through the window.
Aunt Pang came back to her senses, wiped the tears from her eyes with a handkerchief, and continued in a hoarse voice:
"I just arrived in the capital today. I went to the Marquis' Mansion early in the morning, but was sent away by Tong Erlang's family."
"She told me that the second young lady said in person that she didn't need me."
When Aunt Pang heard these words, she felt very sad, as if someone had poured a bucket of cold water over her head.
Even so, Nanny Pang did not leave the capital.
Even though the girl doesn't need her, she still wants to stay with the girl.
"I have decided that I must meet the young lady and pay my respects to you, so I plan to rent a house in the capital and stay there. As long as I wait at the Marquis' Mansion every day, I may have a chance to wait for the young lady to leave the house."
"When I went to look for a house in the afternoon, a strange woman approached me and said that there was an empty house that could be rented to me. I saw that she looked kind, so I went to see it, but I didn't expect..."
Aunt Pang touched the back of her head which was wrapped in a thick white cloth and said hesitantly, "I didn't expect to be knocked unconscious."
When she touched the wound, the back of her head began to hurt again and she gasped.
She shuddered suddenly, and only then did she react. She looked around blankly and asked, "Miss, why is this old slave here?"
"I picked you up from the roadside." Gu Yanfei answered the other party's doubts first, and then explained, "I went to Shanglinyuan Hunting Ground early this morning. I set out at dawn and have not returned to the Marquis' Mansion today."
"Tong Erlang's family, now serving in Cihetang."
Gu Yanfei's last sentence made Aunt Pang's body tremble violently, and her eyes were filled with surprise and doubt.
Tong Erlang's family also came as a dowry from the late lady, so Aunt Pang believed what she said, that the girl no longer needed her.
Unexpectedly, after just a few years, Tong Erlang's family actually went to Cihetang, which made Aunt Pang feel that things and people have changed.
Gu Yanfei fixed his gaze on Madam Pang's haggard face and said sternly, "I didn't know Madam was here."
Whether in the last life or now.
When she found out in her previous life, Nanny Pang had already passed away.
No, maybe Aunt Pang is not gone, but dead!
In the previous life, Aunt Pang might have fallen on the roadside like today, and passed away silently...
Gu Yanfei's big black eyes were as deep as the night sky, but without a single star shining.
At this time, Aunt Pang also reacted and once again grasped the thin blanket on her body with her hands, blurting out in shock: "Madam!"
"But why?!"
The last three words were uttered by Aunt Pang in a low voice, whispering something that was both a question to herself and an expression of confusion.
"Yes, why?" Gu Yanfei's voice was like a cold wind blowing across the water, clear and cold, almost sarcastic.
There was an oil lamp lit in the room, and the dim light was occasionally swaying in the wind from the window.
(End of this chapter)
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