Aunt Bei frowned in confusion: "Oh? What rumor is it? But since it's just a rumor, it's probably just idle gossip among the servants. Why should Seventh Princess care?"
He Yue gritted her teeth inwardly, "Hmph, she really is a fox," but on the surface she smiled innocently: "Some rumors are useless, but I am very curious about the person behind the trouble."
Seeing the stiffness on Aunt Bei's face, He Yue pouted, thinking that she was so fearless, but it turns out she can be afraid too.
"Does Aunt Bei know who spread these rumors? I'm sure it's not just me who wants to know, but Mother also wants to know. Oh, no, perhaps Mother already knows who it is, but is just too lazy to bother with it for now. There are so many people in the manor, we can always find out who spread them, don't you think? That person isn't stupid, so why would they do this? Do they really think Mother won't punish them? Or do they have some other leverage?" Heyue smiled, leisurely watching Aunt Bei's increasingly unpleasant expression.
"Seventh Princess is joking. How would I know what that person is thinking? Seventh Princess should ask the person who spread the rumors why they did it." As she said this, Aunt Bei gritted her teeth secretly, but smiled faintly on the surface.
"Hmph, why bother with the pretense, Aunt Bei? Now that it's just the two of us, let's speak frankly." Heyue was too lazy to play along anymore and went straight to the point: "It was you who spread rumors that I had close ties with the Fourth Prince's household and was suspected of currying favor with him. You were resentful that I used Aunt Sun to frame you last time, so you deliberately smeared my reputation and even told Mother about it. Who gave you such audacity? Aren't you afraid of Mother's punishment?"
He Yue questioned her sharply, her young age belying her imposing manner, and it was undeniable that Aunt Bei was taken aback.
Although he knew the little girl in front of him was somewhat cunning, he did not expect her to have such an imposing presence, which was not like that of a little girl who was only nine years old.
Aunt Bei was momentarily dazed, as if she saw the lady of the house in her younger days, which made her instinctively tremble with fear. However, she quickly regained her senses and secretly regretted it. How strange! She was just a little girl. What was there to be afraid of?
So she stopped feigning innocence and scoffed, "So what if it's me? What can Seventh Princess do to me? After all, I am Liangyue's biological mother. Even if Madam finds out, aside from the hardship I endured giving birth to Master's daughter, she should also consider the risk of Liangyue turning against you and your daughter. Can you bear to lose Liangyue's sisterly bond? Is Madam willing to abandon her mother-daughter relationship with Liangyue?" As she spoke, Aunt Bei's smugness became even more apparent.
He Yue's gaze grew cold. "Hmph, this woman is indeed taking advantage of her mother-daughter relationship with Fourth Sister. That's right, Mother has always treated Fourth Sister like her own daughter, and Fourth Sister has always loved her. If we deal with Aunt Bei, we will hurt Fourth Sister's feelings, which is something that Mother and I would never want to see."
Even though the fourth sister remembered the kindness of her mother and did not hate her, there was still a rift in her heart, and things could never be the same as before.
But how could I be so easily manipulated? Nor was my mother.
Aunt Bei misjudged Fourth Sister, misjudged Mother, and misjudged herself.
"Aunt Bei, how could you bear to take advantage of Fourth Sister's feelings? It's truly a tragedy for Fourth Sister to have a mother like you. Tell me, what would Fourth Sister do if she knew what you've done? Fourth Sister was living a good life in her husband's family. If her future life is affected because of you, her mother, who do you think Fourth Sister would blame? After all, Mother is Fourth Sister's legal mother. Fourth Sister's husband's family values Mother more than you, a mere concubine. How could Fourth Sister not know this? How could she blame Mother for your unreliable birth mother?"
Fourth Sister is kind-hearted and values the kindness of giving birth to children, but she values her mother's nurturing kindness even more. Moreover, if it weren't for her mother, how could Fourth Sister have lived so smoothly in her husband's family?
In ancient times, once a woman married, her husband's family was her everything.
Having said this, Heyue had no desire to continue the conversation. She could tell from the other woman's increasingly pale and angry face that she had taken it to heart.
Heyue shook her head inwardly. Aunt Sun was much smarter than Aunt Bei. Even though Aunt Sun had a son raised by her mother, she was still so well-behaved and dared not make a single mistake. This was simply because her life and her son's future were in her mother's hands.
Aunt Bei knew this all too well, yet she kept jumping up and down, simply because she was unwilling to accept it.
Why is it that Sun Yu has both a son and a daughter and is favored by the madam, so even without the master's favor, she still has someone to rely on for the rest of her life, while she is just a daughter and will only be able to rely on that old hag's kindness to make a living in the future? They are both concubines, but their circumstances are so different.
And now, even this young Seventh Princess is bullying me. It's just that I have no favor, no children, no one to rely on, and I can only be bullied by others.
Even children know how to treat people differently based on their status and how to bully others, let alone the cunning servants and maids below them.
Aunt Bei bit her lower lip so hard it almost bled, but suddenly collapsed into a chair as if deflated, clutching her chest and breathing heavily.
She was nothing but mud on the ground, at the mercy of the noble people in the clouds, with no room to struggle.
Someone could crush me with a single finger.
Heyue had already left, so she neither saw nor wanted to know what Aunt Bei looked like.
In the end, she's just a clown, incapable of causing any real trouble. If it weren't for her dislike of being schemed against and her mother's warning against getting close to the Fourth Prince's residence, leaving her with a lot of pent-up anger, she wouldn't have bothered to come and warn her.
Hailan hurriedly followed, but carefully kept two steps away from her, glancing up at her every now and then.
From the moment she came out, Gege appeared relaxed and cheerful, even humming a song softly. It was hard to tell that she had just argued with Aunt Bei.
Moreover, she had overheard what the princess and Aunt Bei were saying, but when did the princess become capable of such words? She didn't seem like a princess at all; she seemed so unfamiliar.
Honestly, Princess's thoughts are getting harder and harder to guess. What am I going to do if my brain can't keep up? Hailan's eyebrows furrowed in frustration as she sighed in anguish, but she unexpectedly bumped into a small, soft body.
Hailan snapped back to reality and saw her princess tilting her head slightly, her bright eyes staring at her intently, as if trying to see into her heart. The two were so close that Hailan was startled and took a step back, clutching her chest and complaining, "Princess, why are you scaring me?"
He Yue snorted and rolled her eyes: "What are you doing, so distracted? You're not even looking where you're going, and you look so conflicted. You're becoming more and more careless. What are you thinking about?"
A hint of panic flashed across Hailan's face, her eyes darting around as she waved her hands repeatedly, "No, no, how could this servant dare to think anything?" She then slapped her forehead, looking annoyed, and said with a smile, "Ah, this servant was thinking that the Princess is becoming more and more formidable. Even someone as arrogant as Aunt Bei suffered a loss in front of the Princess. The Princess is truly becoming more and more formidable."
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