Today, even the eldest granddaughter, who had always been at loggerheads with her, had learned to be obedient. Yet, she still wanted to refute him!
is in confinement, you are not allowed to leave your room without my permission! If Second Master went to see her! Then put Second Master and Concubine Qiao in confinement together! " Looking at the dumbstruck Concubine Qiao, the old mistress frowned. "Since we've let Mubai handle Yujiao's marriage, you should properly learn the rules of a rich person in your room. Don't come into contact with Yujiao again! To prevent Yujiao from being like you, the mother of the Ye's Mansion, and being full of pettiness! "
Concubine Qiao regained her senses and stood at her original position, her body slightly trembling. This was not the first time she had withstood the madame's wrath, but this was the first time she had felt the old lady's murderous intent.
A chill ran down Concubine Qiao's spine, and she did not dare act rashly again.
The old lady ignored her and sat back on her chair. She then patted on Ye Yuchu's right shoulder.
… ….
"Ye Yuning!"
When she followed Lady Wen back to the Fragrant Garden, Ye Yuning was preparing to say something to her mother.
Ye Yuning stopped and turned around, but was pulled behind by Lady Wen, who smiled merrily at Concubine Qiao: "Concubine Qiao is looking for Yu Ning?"
Concubine Qiao did not look at her, and stared at Ye Yuning angrily: "You saw that Li Changle is not willing to marry when he's old, so you pushed us Yujiao to be your scapegoats! To be able to scheme like this at such a young age, and to be able to harm even his own sisters, Ye Yuning! What a cruel heart you have! "
"If you say that Yu Ning schemed against Yujiao, then let me ask you this: why did you enter the flower room for the first time? And why is it that after Li Changle saw Yujiao clearly, he pointed at him and said that she was Yu Ning? " Lady Wen pulled Ye Yuning behind him as she faced each and every question and asked, "That Li Changle left with the blue cloth, and all the gold present today, other than Yu Ning, are either pink or sky jade blue, there is no pure blue color, and only the four of us present here today know about the pure blue cloth!"
"But I'm Yu Ning's birth mother. The two maids are both maidservants raised by my foster father, Li Yanqing. I don't know how long I've been following Yu Ning …" With a cold laugh, Lady Wen flung his sleeve, "Although I'm not someone that my mother would love, I'm still a wife!"
Lady Wen ruthlessly tried to deduce what had happened today, causing her heart to freeze.
Lady Wen coldly glared at her, then pulled Ye Yuning along to return to the Fragrant Garden.
"Mother …" Lady Wen sent her back to the Fragrant Garden, and didn't speak any further along the way. Ye Yuning thought about it, then called out to Lady Wen, "Mother, YuNing …"
Hearing that, Lady Wen was slightly startled, she stopped at the foot of the stairs, and turned around with uncertainty.
"After seven days, I'll be free from my restrictions. I'll be at the middle of the world. Mother, can you make me a lamp with Yu Ning?" In the past, Yi Zu would always accompany Yu Ning in the Cloud Region. "
Ye Yuning stood in front of the door. The sky was already dark, and there were no lanterns hanging by the door, only the small four horned lanterns in Fei Xiu's and Fei Qing's hands illuminated her figure.
Lady Wen was a little angry, feeling that the Fragrant Garden's servants were not considerate towards her, but she suddenly remembered that when Ye Yuning was just a year old, she came to the Fragrant Garden at night and saw a similar scene. The Fragrant Garden was silent, with only a few lanterns hung.
At that time, she had thought that Ye Yuning was being ill-treated and was very angry, but later on Fei Xiu told her that from the moment they returned to the Ye's Mansion, Ye Yuning had forbade them to hang lanterns in the garden, and there was only a single candle flame in the room.
Ye Yuning had never said a single word to sher. In the ten years that Ye Yuning had raised her in the Cloud Region, she was afraid that if she sent a letter, she would also be able to date a mother and daughter. And when Ye Yuning arrived at the Ye Family, he would always avoid her. She did not know how to be a mother, nor did she know how to treat her own daughter.
Right now, Ye Yuning asking her to stay, and even to become the river lamp with him made her feel inexplicably happy. But seeing her daughter grow so slim and graceful so quickly, she couldn't help but feel guilty and pained.
Lady Wen hurriedly nodded. "When you come out, Mother will come to be the river lantern with you."
Seeing that Lady Wen agreed, Ye Yuning beamed, "That Yu Ning is waiting for mother."
Lady Wen nodded, then turned and quickly left.
Ye Yuning stood in front of the door as she watched the flickering lights fade into the darkness.
"Miss, let's go inside. It's hot outside and there are lots of mosquitoes." Fei Xiu said as she carried the lantern cloth.
Ye Yuning gazed into the distance at the darkness and took a deep breath, "In the past, I always resented that my mother would never come into contact with me, so I left me here in the Cloud Region for ten years. But today, after everything that has happened, she has always been protecting me, and she even had a falling out with Concubine Qiao … "
As he turned around and entered the room, Ye Yuning said, "Go back, get everyone to hang up the lanterns. From today onwards, the number of lanterns and candles Fragrant Garden should have at night could not possibly be lacking."
Ye Yuning sat by the window and looked at the Fragrance Tree in her hands.
"Fei Qing, go to the ice cellar and bring back some ice cubes." Flipping the pages of the book, the cool and refreshing feeling from outside the window was replaced with the steam rising from the ground as noon arrived. Ye Yuning could no longer calm herself down and continued to read the , she could only stick her head out and shout.
But after waiting for a long while, Fei Qing still did not respond, and even Fei Xiu's voice did not come out.
"Fei Xiu?" Ye Yuning called out again, but there was no reply. She wondered if they had not come back yet, then put down the Fragrance, stood up, and walked out the door.
He searched left and right but didn't find Fei Qing and Fei Xiu. Ye Yuning then decided to turn around and enter the house. It was stuffy and hot outside, it was almost like being thrown into a furnace for her.
Just as they arrived at the door, a group of people, together with Fourth Branch Sixth Sister Ye Yuhuan, grabbed Fei Qing and two others as they walked majestically towards her direction.
She wiped the sweat from her forehead and stood in front of the door, waiting for the group to arrive.
She stood on the stairs and watched as Ye Yuhuan pushed Fei Qing and Fei Xiu to the front of her. Her eyes immediately darkened: "Sixth Sister, what are you planning to do by kidnapping my servant girl and bringing so many people to my garden?"
"I would like to ask big sister, is it that all the servants of Fragrant Garden can contradict master?" Ye Yuhuan did not answer but asked, "Today's weather is hot and stuffy, so I asked my servants to bring the ice cubes over, but my sister's servants interrupted me and wanted to take them away, and a few of them started arguing, and I just happened to be nearby, and went up to your servants and told them that it was my servants who came first, but they said that you wanted ice, and even said that there was no reason to come first, and said that it was only later, and relied on my status as a servant to take away from me, and did not call herself a servant at all!"