Chapter 2 Who said her grandmother didn't love her?
It is spring now, and there is warmth everywhere. The sunlight from outside shines in through the latticed windows, casting mottled shadows on the ground.
When Lu Mingzhu walked out of Qixia Courtyard, the maid Huamei showed an angry look: "What does Fourth Miss mean? You went to see her with such good intentions that you even cut your own flesh to save her, but she actually ordered you to leave."
A vicious look flashed across Lu Mingzhu's autumn-water eyes, and she was burning with anger.
Damn Lu Xiang, who always talked about the deep sisterly love, but gave her the cold shoulder today. It was in vain that she had tried to please her in every way during the two months since she entered the mansion. Was the previous friendship all fake?
Suddenly, Lu Mingzhu caught a glimpse of a green shadow from the corner of his eye. He quickly put away the anger on his face and said to Huamei, "Don't talk too much. Let's go."
Huamei followed Lu Mingzhu's gaze and saw Wu Yue walking towards her from the corner with a tray.
Yangning City is located in the south of Wei, and is the richest town in the Nanjiang area. Although Lu Youping is the prefect, he did not extort money from the people. Therefore, although the Lu family is the hegemon of Yangning, there are no maids or servants in the mansion. Except for the old lady, each master in the mansion has only two servants, and the rest of the chores are shared by the mansion.
Wu Yue naturally also saw Lu Mingzhu and his servant, and his face immediately turned cold and he walked into the yard with a snort.
"Wu Yue, where have you been?" Yun Zha was decocting medicine for Lu Xiang again and asked Wu Yue when he saw him.
Wu Yue: "I saw that the young lady was awake, so I went to the kitchen to prepare food for her."
Yunzha's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard that, and he ran to Wuyue holding up a fan that was fanning the fire, "Wuyue, you are really considerate. If Miss Mingzhu hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have thought of preparing some food for Miss. But I have to make medicine for Miss now and can't leave... Hurry and bring it to Miss. It's just right for her to eat something before taking the medicine."
"Isn't the young lady's medicine already boiled? Why do you need to boil it again?"
Yun Zhe ran back to the stove and squatted down again: "Miss said the medicine just now was a bit disgusting, so she asked me to pour it out and boil it again."
Wu Yue looked confused, and soon looked at Yun Zhe with a serious face: "Don't call her Miss Mingzhu so affectionately. Who knows what her purpose is in approaching our young lady."
Yun Zhe: "...Uh, do you have any misunderstandings about Miss Mingzhu? She's new here, so it's normal for her to try to please you. You're the daughter of the prefect, who dares to have any bad intentions towards her? Just tell me this, but don't make up stories about Miss Mingzhu in front of her."
Wu Yue rolled her eyes speechlessly. She was so angry that she didn't want to waste any more words with Yun Zha, so she turned and went into the house.
You should be more careful, girl!
However, even though he had a lot of complaints in his heart, Wu Yue still suppressed his emotions before entering the house, and then walked in with a smile.
"Miss, you must be hungry. The kitchen has cooked some porridge. I brought you a bowl. The doctor said that you should eat lighter these days. However, the kitchen has just pickled some crispy cucumbers, which are good. Miss, you can have a little."
Lu Xiang looked at Wu Yue who walked in with a smile on her face, and felt as if needles were pricking his heart.
In her previous life, Wu Yue had been full of hostility towards Lu Mingzhu ever since she entered the mansion. She had reminded herself more than once that Lu Mingzhu had bad intentions, so she didn't like this maid very much and had never been close to her. It was ridiculous that she claimed to be smart but couldn't see things as clearly as a maid.
After she was imprisoned, Wu Yue was sold to the lowest brothel by Lu Mingzhu...
Lu Xiang felt his throat tighten, dry and astringent: "Okay..."
After eating the porridge and drinking the medicine, Lu Xiang fell into a deep sleep again.
In his dream, Xiao Muheng's cold and ruthless face and Lu Mingzhu's arrogant and complacent look kept interweaving. The heart-wrenching pain when the boiling oil was poured into his throat once again tortured Lu Xiang.
“Don’t…don’t…”
"Miss, wake up, Miss..."
"Ah..." Lu Xiang suddenly woke up, and the fear and terror in her black and white eyes had not yet faded. The painful experience before death was like a demon piercing her heart, reminding her of everything she had suffered.
"Miss, did you have a nightmare?" Yun Zha squatted beside her bed and asked worriedly.
Lu Xiang took a deep breath, clenched her hands into fists under the quilt, and her whole body was tense. After a long time, she slowly loosened her fists, as if she had gone through a fierce struggle. Her palms were full of cold sweat: "Well, I had a nightmare, it's okay."
This was her nightmare in her previous life, and in this life, it will be someone else’s nightmare.
Yun Zhai poured a cup of tea and handed it to Lu Xiang, staring at her without blinking, frowning slightly.
The lady doesn't look like she's okay.
Lu Xiang felt Yun Zha's concerned gaze, and his heart was slightly warmed. Without explaining, he took a sip of tea and said, "When I was asleep, I heard you talking to someone outside. Who came?"
"Miss, it's Mother Wen. But you were asleep at that time, so she didn't wake you up. The old lady asked her to send a ginseng to nourish your body." Yun Zha said as he took the brocade box on the table and opened it to show Lu Xiang.
When Lu Xiang heard this, he felt a little sad.
In her previous life, she made the Xiao family the largest imperial merchant in Da Chu and helped Xiao Muheng rise to the top of the government step by step. She had eaten all kinds of delicacies from land and sea and seen precious medicinal herbs, but none of them was as heartwarming as the small ginseng in front of her.
Ginseng is not a hundred years old, but at this moment Lu Xiang truly felt the love the old lady had for her.
She didn't understand before, she thought the old lady was cold and too strict, so she was afraid of her grandmother from the bottom of her heart, so she didn't get close to her. Now that she thinks about it, she can feel her grandmother's kindness to her in many details, without having to show it on her face.
Even Lu Mingzhu said that her grandmother loved her the most, otherwise Lu Mingzhu would not have to pretend to be well-behaved and try to get close to her, just to make her grandmother recognize them as mother and daughter.
But in the end, even my grandmother was killed by them.
…
The next morning, Lu Xiang dressed up with Yun Zha's help.
She sat quietly in front of the bronze mirror, with Yunzha's chattering voice in her ears: "Miss, your illness is not fully recovered yet. The old lady won't blame you if you don't go to pay your respects." On the day she fell into the water and fainted, the doctor said that her young lady had a cold invading her body and it was hard to say whether she could survive. She finally woke up yesterday. If she doesn't rest well, what if she develops a chronic illness?
Lu Xiang: "I know what's going on, don't worry."
In the past, she had never been filial to her grandmother. In her previous life, she was afraid of her grandmother, so she was reluctant every time she went to pay her respects. In the end, her grandmother simply told her that she didn't have to pay her respects every day. When her grandmother said this, she must have been heartbroken by her behavior.
She had missed the opportunity to be with a loving father in her previous life and didn't want to have any regrets.
Lu Xiang was wearing a cherry-colored jade hairpin dress, which matched her snow-white face and made her look particularly charming. She simply wore a purple jade hairpin on her head. It was not an expensive piece of jewelry, but it made her eyebrows look more charming.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
