The road trip in a horse-drawn carriage was very bumpy. It was okay at first and everyone was still in good spirits. But later on, everyone started to have backaches and some even got carsick. Shi Yu vomited all over the ground.

If it were the Yao Niang of the past, she would think that she had just returned and of course she would be friendly to her brothers and sisters, but now she doesn't think so much.

"Mother, I want to ride in the same carriage with you."

Yu touched her daughter's face and felt that she seemed to have become a little paler. She was puzzled and asked, "What's wrong?"

Yao Niang said, "Sixth sister's vomiting has filled up the spittoon, and the carriage is filled with a sour smell. My daughter wants to be with her mother."

Huh? So that's what happened. Yu was a doughy person, but surprisingly she agreed with her daughter: "Okay, then, come over here."

Yu originally hoped that the sisters could get along well with each other, just like herself, with harmonious relationships among the upper and lower levels in the family, but her daughter did not seem to have such a personality.

Yao Niang got on the carriage from the post house. She was so happy to be with Yu Shi and Jing Hao this time. She always felt that she had a mother, but Jing Rou didn't, so she shouldn't be close to her mother, otherwise it would hurt Luo Jing Rou's feelings, or she shouldn't highlight that she was a legitimate daughter in front of Shi Yu. But the facts proved that if she got into trouble, her sisters would not help her because of her self-restraint.

People should really be good to themselves without harming the interests of others. Only when the flowers are fragrant will butterflies come. Otherwise, if you are nice to others every day but you yourself are not outstanding, no one will respect you.

As for Jingrou, she was still unaware of this. After getting on the carriage, she did not see Yao Niang, so she asked Fan, "Sister-in-law, why didn't you see the fifth sister?"

Mrs. Fan answered flawlessly: "After all, the fifth sister has been ill before, so it will be easier for her to be taken care of by Madam."

Luo Jingrou sniffed and felt that although the carriage had been cleaned, it still had a sour and rancid smell. She felt uncomfortable because she lost her mother when she was young. Although her grandmother, Lady Yanping Marquis, doted on her, she was not the granddaughter of the Wang family after all, so there was a difference between living as a guest and living in their own home.

What's more, her grandmother intended to marry her to her cousin, but her cousin was only the youngest son in the family. He had no title to inherit and was not good at studying, so Luo Jingrou was naturally unwilling.

Her brother and she had been separated since childhood and had a cold relationship. Fortunately, her grandmother, Old Lady Shan, passed away, allowing her to follow her family back to her hometown to observe mourning and avoid the marriage with the Marquis of Yanping.

After returning home, she originally thought that Yu was useless and like a clay figure, and her father would not like her. But she was wrong in the end. Instead, her father valued Yu very much.

She had known for a long time that if there was a stepmother, there would be a stepfather. She had even seen it a lot at her maternal grandparents' house. Her third aunt was a stepmother who only loved her own daughter. She arbitrarily betrothed her cousin, who was born to the original wife. The cousin died a year after her marriage. It was said that her husband was an alcoholic and a beater, and the cousin was forced to death. She went back to her parents' home several times but no one came to rescue her.

Since ancient times, a woman's marriage is like a second reincarnation, but her father is a man after all, and she cannot do anything about it by randomly finding a man who looks good on the outside but is actually bad on the inside.

During this period of mourning, she tried to build a good relationship with Yu and the fake daughter. The more they interacted, the more she knew how much her father loved Yu and her daughter. Her father taught the fake daughter herself and often held her on his knees to write. Her father was just a little harsh in his words, but he actually treated them better. Even when his classmate came to visit and joked about the two families getting married, his first thought was Yu's daughter.

Fortunately, at this moment, the fact that the girl was a fake daughter was exposed.

She was extremely happy that day, hiding under the quilt and laughing happily.

She knew that because her mother died early, others thought she was the eldest daughter of a widow who had not been brought up well. The more prominent and high-ranking the family was, the more they cared about these things. With Yu as her stepmother around, she could show a better relationship with her, which would be beneficial to her marriage and social life.

But Yu alone has her own daughter. Everyone is selfish. If there is something good, how could she give it to herself and not to her daughter?

In this case, she should also learn the trick from her aunt. Her uncle had a concubine who was so doted on that she would never go to her aunt's room. He valued her son more than her aunt's legitimate children. When he was only three years old, he asked for grace and was promoted to the third-rank commander.

The aunt used the tactic of flattery and suppression. When she left the Marquis of Yanping's Mansion, she heard that the child had committed adultery with her uncle's concubine and was caught in bed. The aunt even helped to speak well of the child.

No one would think that it was the aunt who did it, and even the concubine thanked the aunt profusely.

She had to use the same trick on herself. She had heard the old lady of the Yu family say that people in their family were prone to gaining weight. She had lived a hard life when she was young, and was extremely poor, with no money or oil. Later, after Lord Yu became an official, she began to like snacks, and gained weight in a year or two.

Old Madam Yu was indeed very fat and she had to pant after walking a few steps.

Stepmother Yu also said: "Brother is just like you, he also has a strong appetite. He eats snacks all the time while studying."

They were all laughing, and Jingrou kept the words in her heart.

This time, she also planned to do so, but unfortunately the little girl didn't fall for it. It seemed that she had to think of other ways.

Yao Niang certainly didn't know what she was thinking. During the ten days on the road, she tried hard to avoid the sun, rested every day, and slept non-stop with her little brother Jinghao.

Anyway, the most important thing now is to take good care of her body. What happened in her past life told her that as long as a person is alive, there will always be a chance to turn things around.

They changed from land to water, and Yu arranged for Fan to take care of Jingrou, while Qin took Shiyu, and she took Yaoniang and Jinghao. Qin felt sorry for her daughter, especially when she saw her little face was skinny, but she still thanked Yu and said, "Thank you, Madam, for letting me take care of her."

Yu nodded: "Let Shiyu sleep more at her place, and let her smell the dried plums more. If she feels cramped, let Shiyu come over to my place to rest."

Of course Aunt Qin was worried about her daughter following Yu, so she just agreed.

When the mother and daughter returned to the cabin, Aunt Qin couldn't help but grumble, "Look at this lady, she always does things for the public, but she put you and the third girl in the same carriage, and she keeps her own daughter by her side to take care of her. It seems like she doesn't love her daughter because she's not her own."

Shi Yu said, "My wife heard that I was carsick and sent me some medicine. My eldest sister-in-law also took good care of me. Moreover, my fifth sister also gave me a grass butterfly. Take a look."

She held up the grass butterfly in her hand, very happy.

Aunt Qin looked at the butterfly but didn't think much of it. When she was young, she had been a child bride, but unfortunately her husband didn't want her anymore after he got rich. Later, she was bought home by the old lady because she wanted to give birth to a good bed sheet.

When the man she followed as a child brought a wild flower, she was happy, but later facts taught her that gold, silver, wealth, power and status are real.