She shook her head: "How could that be? Fathers have their own difficulties. It's already quite an achievement that he can let his daughter do it on her own."
“Sigh~” Sun Lurong sighed softly, “Your father always felt that he owed Wei Ping and her daughter something. There are some things he could let you do, but he couldn’t take the lead himself. But your mother is there to help you handle these things, and besides, you have the young prince with you.”
Originally feeling somewhat heavy-hearted, Wei Shuwan blushed and turned her face away upon hearing her mother mention Li Qingchen. "Mother~"
She wasn't uncomfortable because she had feelings for Li Qingchen, but because her mother felt uncomfortable that she did.
Sun Lurong, however, took it as her daughter being shy and continued to tease her, "What, isn't what your mother said true? Didn't the young prince protect you in front of everyone just now?"
“Mother has just woken up and is still a little confused, talking nonsense. I think you should sleep a little longer.” With that, Wei Shuwan covered Sun Lurong with the quilt and got up to leave the room.
*
The north wind was fierce and biting on the winter night. All the lights in the windows had long been extinguished, and the entire city of Shengjing was plunged into darkness.
At that moment, Cai Die came out of the house carrying a small lantern. The palm-sized lantern could only illuminate a small path in front of her. She tiptoed to the artificial rockery in front of her grandmother's house, where flower pots were placed. She placed the lantern on a stone, weighed down the handle with a flower pot, and then bent down, took the small hoe that the gardener usually used to turn over the soil, and dug along the edge of the rockery.
She had buried the sachet here, and only in this spot would disturbing the soil go unnoticed. But Wei Shuwan would be using her hunting dogs to search for it early tomorrow morning, and they would surely find it. Therefore, she planned to dig it up tonight and throw it out of the manor.
Yes, just throw it out.
Every day at dawn, the officials in blue robes from the Street Office would pass by. They would sweep along the alley behind the courtyard wall. She was throwing her things over the wall now, and they would collect them in no time. This was her only chance to get her things out of the mansion.
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