Chapter 334 Daiyu's New Friend
The brother and sister reminisced inside the tent.
Liu Qianrou kept saying, "Quickly call a doctor to treat my brother's injured leg!" and "I want my father to come to the grasslands to seek justice for my brother. The people of the Liguo Duke's family are not to be bullied so easily!"
Seeing Liu Zhentao dressed in tattered clothes, even the servants in their household were better dressed than her brother, she felt both sad and heartbroken, and repeatedly urged someone to quickly make new clothes for her brother...
When Liu Zhentao saw his younger sister, although her orders were still disorganized, she was no longer the lawless girl she used to be. Her temperament and personality had changed a lot.
He felt even more strongly that even his younger sister, who had caused the whole family so much trouble, had changed, but he was still stubbornly refusing to wake up.
"Brother, I'm not participating in the academy's activities. Let's go home first."
Liu Qianrou was giving instructions to the people around her, but when she saw her brother just staring at her blankly with tears in his eyes, she panicked.
Is this still the same older brother who was whipped more than a dozen times by his grandfather, yet still stubbornly refused to accept it?
This was the first time in her life she had ever seen her brother cry!
“Little sister, after the study tour is over, I’ll go back with you.” Liu Zhentao said firmly.
At this moment, Liu Zhentao's mind suddenly cleared. He was not afraid of losing face when he returned to the capital, nor was he afraid of being criticized by his family after returning.
In the past few years, on the grasslands, besides the Nineteenth Girl, who else has shown him any concern?
However, he never truly cared for the Nineteenth Girl; his mind was solely focused on the venomous and wicked Wu Zhu.
Once Liu Zhentao regained his senses, he realized what foolish things he had done over the past few years. Now that he had decided to return to the capital, he was determined to avenge the years he had been tricked!
I'll go back with my sister then, and apologize to my family openly and honestly. Even if we're ridiculed by the whole capital, it won't matter!
The brother and sister were reminiscing about their parting when Yuan Hongqu had already quietly left and returned to her yurt.
There's still one more thing to deal with, and it's quite a tricky one.
Inside the yurt, Granny Shi was holding a baby.
The baby was sucking its fingers, its big eyes looking curiously at the person in front of it.
“Mr. Yuan, I’ve examined her. It’s a baby girl, and there are no external injuries. The clothes she’s wearing underneath are not ordinary; she seems to be from a noble family,” Granny Shi said hurriedly as she saw Yuan Hongqu enter.
Yuan Hongqu suddenly remembered the child with a mole on his back that the Nineteenth Girl had mentioned, and asked,
Does this child have a red birthmark on his back?
“It’s not a red mole, it’s a hematoma. It’s nothing to worry about.” Granny Shi was very knowledgeable and could tell at a glance that the red mole was just a hematoma. Apart from being unsightly, it didn’t have any other problems.
"The Nineteenth Miss said that the Sixth Miss's child has a red spot like this on his back. Sister Shi, could this child be the Sixth Miss's child?" Yuan Hongqu frowned.
According to Lan Su's description, those people scrambled and ran away before they could even grab the child, so she had no choice but to hand the child over to the guards who followed behind.
Since this child is very likely the child of the Sixth Miss, how could a child from a noble family be used as bait to lure Daiyu into a trap?
Could they be stolen children?
Are children from noble families so easy to steal?
Just then, Daiyu and the Nineteenth Miss were brought in. The family members chatted and laughed as they walked, appearing very familiar with each other.
Daiyu was just arranging that large bunch of cosmos flowers, wondering if she should find a pretty vase to put them in.
Nineteen-year-old girl, who had been idly waiting for the Liu siblings to finish their reminiscing, casually picked up some grass from the ground and, in no time, wove a unique grass-woven flower basket.
“Princess Lin, Gesang flowers look better in a flower basket.”
Daiyu looked at the wild and charming flower basket, and then at the colorful cosmos flowers, and suddenly felt that the combination of the two would surely please the nanny!
So Daiyu invited the Nineteenth Sister to help decorate the flower basket with Gesang flowers.
After everything was ready, Daiyu carried the flower basket in one hand and pulled the Nineteenth Sister along with the other as they entered the yurt.
When the two entered, they overheard Yuan Hongqu and Granny Shi speculating about whose child it was.
As soon as the nineteenth girl saw the baby, she recognized it as her sixth sister's child. However, she had just heard that the baby's wet nurse had taken the baby out last night and had not returned.
Although she didn't know what the intricacies were, Yuan Hongqu didn't want to get involved in such trouble.
"Would it be convenient for you to take this child back?"
The nineteenth girl shook her head, but still went and took the child.
"My sixth sister and I have always been at odds, so I can only take her to the people in the mansion and let my father decide."
"In that case, Granny Shi, take a few people to accompany her. While you're at it, ask the Second Prince, I'd like to bring Nineteen..." At this point, Yuan Hongqu remembered the name of the Nineteenth Miss, which she didn't even know.
"Nineteenth Miss, is your name Nineteen?"
The nineteen-year-old girl smiled and said, "Mr. Yuan, my name is Yin Duo."
"Hmm, a nice name. Granny Shi, I'd like to take Yinduo back to the capital to study at the academy. I'd like to ask him if he has any opinions."
Yin Duo's expression changed slightly, but then she heard Yuan Hongqu say,
“I asked those people, and they said your mother is Han Chinese, and you look like her, not like someone from the grasslands, so you’ve always been ostracized here. You want to go with Liu Zhentao, but he’s about to return to the capital. Why don’t you go with him too?”
Yuan Hongqu felt like she was abducting a little girl, but as far as she knew, Yin Duo's life on the grassland was far more complicated than just being ostracized.
The Second Prince had more than thirty daughters and a large number of sons.
His daughters were all tools for him to win people's hearts. Apart from the ones who were particularly useful and could get the Second Prince's attention, he probably couldn't even remember the names of the other daughters.
Yinduo was one of the daughters he couldn't remember.
The time Liu Zhentao saved Yin Duo was when she was being bullied by the other older sisters and was almost thrown off a cliff.
Although Yinduo is now older and more clever, and is not easily bullied, this threat has not disappeared.
Even as she grew older and her appearance matured, new dangers would arise, so for the past two years she would always use a kind of herb to make her face black and yellow, looking slovenly.
Yuan Hongqu saw it at a glance.
One reason she admired the girl was that she genuinely wanted to help Yin Duo.
Daiyu, who was standing nearby, suddenly pulled Yinduo back.
"Sister Yinduo, we hit it off immediately, and I shouldn't have made such an unreasonable request, forcing you to leave your home. But is this life on the grassland what you like?"
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