But Ontario doesn't want to get involved!
The Ontario mothers did not speak. They were silent for a while. Ye Jinsu looked at the kneeling man with a twinkling gaze. Her eyes reflected the flickering candle flame on the table. It was hard to tell what she was thinking.
"Manager, since you understand, you must have something that you need to tell me by coming here today. You might as well tell me first."
The Ontario mother slightly raised her head, not daring to look directly at Ye Jintu, but clasped her folded hands together and kowtowed bravely. "Please let us both go home, Eldest Miss."
His voice was not loud, but it was firm.
There was silence.
Ye Jinsu supported herself with her elbows on the table and rubbed between her eyebrows. Suddenly, she felt her head ache. What she was most afraid of was that Ontario would tell her so.
With another sigh, Ye Jinsu opened her mouth and asked, "Then let me ask, which village does the steward want to return to?"
"Go back home, or what?"
This time it was the Ontario woman who fell silent and said only one thing: "To go home, of course."
Ye Jinsu's eyes turned to the girl beside her. Her gaze was a little gloomy as she slowly spoke out some old memories, "I heard that you had a big belly when you came to the Ye Clan. The Ye Clan took in you after seeing you, a pregnant woman, pitiful on the streets."
"She must have gotten pregnant before marriage and was chased out of the village."
The Ontario woman shuddered, as if someone stepped on her tail. She looked up in shock at Ye Jinsu. It was as if he couldn't believe how Ye Jinsu knew about this. Even little girl An herself didn't know about this. This was truly a shameful matter. If it wasn't for the fact that she still had little girl An, she would have died a long time ago.
Looking at her expression, there was a bit of pain in her eyes. It was probably not a good memory. "I've checked. Every year, the servants in the mansion have to go back to their hometowns for the holidays. All you said was that everyone in the family is dead, so you never came back."
"But every year, you will bring your own silver taels out."
After saying this, Ye Jinsu stopped. Some words were enough. Another poke and it would be inhumane.
No one would let a woman who was unmarried and pregnant stay in their home. To be exact, Ontario was driven out by her own family.
This was more cruel than being chased out of the same village. Ye Jinsu lowered her eyes.
Little girl An's eyes widened, and those round eyes became even rounder. She looked at Ontario in disbelief. Ontario's eyes were already red, and her whole body was trembling from crying. This was undoubtedly the best proof of Ye Jinsu's words.
"Is that true?" As if she no longer cared that Ye Jinsu was still there, An girl asked Ontario with a shaky voice.
What her mother had always told her was that her father had died before she was even born. She had never doubted her own background, and now …
Was she really born without a name?
When she looked into her eyes, Ontario felt as if she had come across a piece of red-hot iron. She was flustered, like a frightened bird. The reason she didn't say it out loud all these years was because she was afraid that young girl An would be affected by her and wouldn't be able to get married in the future.
She would be ruined for the rest of her life.
"No …" "No, just listen to mother's explanation …" Ontario's flustered explanation seemed to cover the past.
Ye Jinsu looked at the flustered mother and daughter and sighed lightly. She said, "You don't have to try to lie to her."
"If it weren't for the fact that you risked your life to give her birth and pulled her up by yourself, she would have died a long time ago." Ye Jinsu said as she looked at little girl An. For whatever reason, Ontario always remembered that the child was innocent, that she had kept it a secret for so many years, that she had brought her daughter so much.
One day she would know.
It was time for her to accept her birth.
As soon as Ye Jinsu spoke, the Ontario lady seemed to have no use for any kind of explanation. She began to cry from anxiety. She looked at Ye Jinsu with both anger and anger, as if she was complaining about why she had brought this matter up. Now that everything had been destroyed, how was she going to face her daughter?
Ye Jinsu looked at him with such a gaze and rubbed her temples, "Some things can be kept secret for a while, but it can't be hidden for a lifetime."
She had been trying her best to hide it from him for so long, but wasn't there still so much gossip in the mansion? It was better to hear it from his own mother than from an outsider.
After a long time, Ontario seemed to have figured it out. She covered her face and kneeled on the ground, as if she no longer had the face to see her daughter again.
"Sorry …" Mother has let you down. " The voice of the Ontario woman, muffled and thin in her hand, sounded sad.
An girl was still kneeling on the ground, as if she had not yet recovered from the shock of the incident. When she saw Ontario's painful appearance, she only shed two streams of tears. She didn't know how to face her mother, how to face her past.
Ye Jinsu looked at the two of them lose control of their emotions and didn't say anything. It was as if she was giving the two of them enough time to digest everything.
After a long while, little girl An finally had some movement. She reached out her hand to hug the Ontario mother beside her, supporting her trembling shoulders with all her might. "Mother …"
"It's not your fault," she said, her voice choked with sobs, "it's that man's fault, not Mother's."
The Ontario woman finally raised her head and looked at Ann with tearful eyes. All the problems in their eyes were easily solved.
After all, they were a mother and daughter. Blood was thicker than water, so nothing in this world could stand up to them.
Ye Jinsu was lost in thought for a moment and suddenly understood something. The little girl An was about the same age as her, and for a moment, she didn't know whether to feel sympathy for the little girl An, or envy her.
At least she had her family.
As for her …
Ye Jinxiu took a deep breath. Forget it, there was no point in bringing it up.
After quietly waiting for the mother and daughter to finish crying, Ye Jinxiu's face returned to normal. She tapped the edge of her teacup with her fingertips, seemingly lost in thought, "It looks like I haven't guessed wrong. How can I return to my hometown in a situation like this?"
The Ontario mother was stunned for a moment. She had said that she was only fooling Ye Jinsu when she returned to her hometown, so where would she be able to go?
She had brought all her silver taels home with her. She didn't have any savings, so what would she do if she were to leave? She did not know, but she had to find an excuse due to helplessness.
Who would have thought that it would be seen through by Ye Jinsu.
Ye Jinsu looked at the unreadable expression on Ontario's face. After a moment of silence, she slowly said, "The things I said to little girl An, I'm sure that even the manager knows about them." "I can punish the butler, but I can only cause the housekeeper to never be able to face Miss An's wrath for the rest of his life."
"Not only that, I can also find a good family for her and suppress her for the rest of her life."
With that, Ye Jinsu saw Ontario's enlarged pupils, which contained some incredulous joy and some fear.
After another moment of silence, as if giving Ontario time to think, Ye Jinsu said, "The supervisor is a man who knows what's best for him or your daughter."