“I don’t know much. If you want to know anything, you can ask your father.”
"Father?" Chen Siyuan had given up on expecting anything because her father disliked her. Now that she knew her true identity, she seemed to understand why her father disliked her.
Suddenly, she felt guilty.
“Yuan’er, you’ve misunderstood your father. Actually, your father cares about you. He’s deliberately ignoring you because he doesn’t want anyone to succeed.”
"Grandmother, what did you say?" Someone wants to harm me?
Besides Aunt Zhao and her two children, who else would want to harm me?
"You should ask your father!" Old Madam Chen refused to mention the matter again.
Seeing this, Chen Siyuan felt that it was already a good thing that her grandmother hadn't been lost, and she shouldn't want too much.
Later, while having dinner with her grandmother, the two talked for a while afterward. With the encouragement of Madam Chen, Chen Siyuan stopped caring about the matter.
What she didn't expect was that her father's dislike for her was actually a form of protection.
She had witnessed many things that happened in the capital in her previous life, and she understood them well.
Back in the warm house, I thought that my father would be back in a few days, so it wouldn't hurt to wait.
Chen Siyuan now feels happy.
She wasn't their child, yet they protected her better than their own.
At this moment, Chen Siyuan felt grateful that her parents had abandoned her, which made her so lucky to meet such a wonderful family.
When Chunlan and Chunping saw how much the young lady had changed after visiting Xiaju, they gave Old Madam Chen a thumbs up.
After Chen Siyuan returned, she began fiddling with the nanmu box. Chunlan couldn't help but ask, "Does Miss want to open this box?"
"Nonsense!" Chen Siyuan wasn't curious.
She considered these two girls her confidantes, yet they kept it a secret from her.
I was very unhappy.
“Miss can open it with her own blood.” Chunlan felt bad about being rejected, but thinking about it, she realized that they were indeed wrong, and she could accept it.
"What are you talking about? I don't have the guts to hurt myself."
Chunping helped explain, "What she said is true. This box was left to the young lady by her mother. It was custom-made by a famous fire-making master."
"How is that possible?" Even if it's custom-made, it shouldn't require blood.
Chunping didn't spend much money; she simply took the young lady's hand, pricked her with a silver needle, and squeezed out a drop of blood onto the nanmu box.
"Miss, I'm sorry to offend you." Chunping had no choice; Old Master Wen really had said that.
Chen Siyuan pouted. "You've already done it, what else could you have offended? That's such a fake statement."
bite--
Suddenly a strange sound rang out.
Chen Siyuan and her two maids watched the box open automatically.
I was extremely surprised.
This is actually true.
Chen Siyuan glanced at the box; inside was a child's bib.
Upon picking it up, I noticed it was very small, seemingly something a newborn baby would wear. After a closer look, I realized the bib was rather odd.
The patterns on it weren't embroidered on.
"Look at this, what is it?"
Another maid came over and looked at it again and again, and shook her head, "Strange, it doesn't look like it's embroidered."
"If it wasn't embroidered, how was it put on?"
The two maids fell silent.
Chen Siyuan had thought that opening the box would resolve her doubts, but now her mind was even more confused.
Fortunately, she calmed down a lot after picking up a bracelet from inside.
It's just that something is inlaid inside the bracelet.
The bracelet didn't look like jade; even she couldn't tell what it was made of.
"Miss, there's a letter inside," Chunlan reminded her from the side.
Chen Siyuan took out the last item from the box, opened it, and found it was indeed a letter.
Upon seeing it for the first time, Chen Siyuan burst into tears.
"Siyuan, by the time you read this letter, your mother will be gone. This is the only thing your mother can leave you. I hope..."
Chen Siyuan watched while tears streamed down her face.
Her mother died, and unable to protect herself, she entrusted herself to Madam Chen.
After reading the letter, Chen Siyuan looked at the bracelet in front of her again. It was completely yellow and transparent, and the pattern inside was very small. Upon closer inspection, it seemed to be a tiny phoenix.
Phoenixes are not rare; many pieces of jewelry are in the shape of phoenixes, but no one dares to wear them openly.
They would only take them out if they were noble ladies from the imperial palace or wealthy women from the capital.
That's all within certain contexts.
It's strange to put a phoenix pattern on a bracelet, and even stranger is what amber actually is.
The bracelet her mother left her was neither jade nor silver, but amber.
That's so strange!
Looking at the undergarment next to it, it was even stranger.
Even though there was a ball on top, she couldn't figure out how it was put there.
"Young Miss, this bracelet of yours looks strange."
"Yes, jade is usually green, so why is this yellow?"
"It's not gold; gold is opaque."
"Really?"
The two maids were incredibly curious but couldn't explain it. Chen Siyuan was wondering what amber really was.
To find out what it was, she spent two days searching through all the books in the Chen family, but found no record of using beeswax.
If her mother hadn't told her, she wouldn't have known such a strange thing existed.
Chen Siyuan has spent the last two days searching for the origin of the things her mother left her, unaware that the world outside is about to change drastically.
News of the old emperor's serious illness has already spread.
The news also reached the southern part of the city, far from the capital.
Ordinary people didn't feel anything, but it was a different story for the officials in the southern part of the city.
At this time, many people were focused on the old emperor's whereabouts and therefore did not notice any action from the Tao family.
Madam Liu was critically ill, and Li Ma stayed by her side all day with the child. The child fainted several times from crying. In the end, Madam Liu lay on her bed with only her last breath.
Tao Yifan couldn't stand it anymore and went to see Madam Liu. Madam Liu took the opportunity to say that she wanted to see Chen Siyuan one last time.
Li Ma seemed frightened. Upon hearing this, she had no reaction and followed Madam Liu's last instructions, beginning to arrange her funeral.
Because she was not in the capital and had not returned to her parents' home, dying on the way was considered dying far from home.
Now, because Madam Liu has left the capital, she can only be buried hastily.
Those who don't know her identity may not feel anything, but those who do can't help but feel a chill. It's such a pity that a woman who was once favored by the Third Prince ended up like this.
It's also because Madam Liu had a short life.
If he had died in the capital, he could have been buried in the royal cemetery out of respect for the Third Prince. Now... the fact that his body isn't left to rot in the wilderness is also due to Tao Yifan's influence.
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