Chapter 8.2: People Coming

The gentle madam who had spoken first to Jiang Lî asked, “This miss doesn’t appear to be a person from the nunnery.”

“My family’s young miss is Yanjing’s Jiang family’s second young miss,” Tong’er replied in a clear and loud voice.

“Jiang family?” upon hearing what Tong’er said, several young misses from the other side looked towards them and asked, “Is it Chief a.s.sistant, Lord Jiang Yuanbai’s Jiang family?”

“Precisely!” Tong’er gave an affirmative answer.

“How is it possible?” Those young ladies saw that Jiang Lî’s age wasn’t that big and said hesitantly: “We only know that Jiang family has a third young miss, Jiang You Yao, yet we had no idea that there is still a second young miss.”

“Jiang’s second young miss” when these words came out, the young ladies didn’t have any reaction. Nevertheless, each of the madams remembered, eight years ago, Jiang’s second young miss pushed Lord Jiang’s second wife causing her to miscarry. This matter, the entire Yanjing knew about. However, it had been too long. They had also heard that after the incident, the second Jiang miss was sent to the temple to learn the rules. All these years and she had never returned to the capital. Never meeting her, naturally they couldn’t remember.

They never expected that they would meet her here.

Yet the Jiang second miss before their eyes, Jiang Lî, did not appear like what the rumours said: a malicious person who plotted to kill her second mother. Kneeling in the Buddha’s main hall, with her docile and weak appearance, to possibly harm her second mother, when the words were out, n.o.body would believe it!

People were always more willing to believe the things they see with their own eyes.

Jiang Lî observed the first madam who had talked to her. She hesitated before asking: “Madam….. Are you Madam Liu from the Chengde Official, Master Liu’s household?”

The madam looked at her distractedly and asked: “Young lady remembers me?”

Jiang Lî lowered her head, seemingly embarra.s.sed and with a faint smile she replied: “A few years ago, madam once came to the residence during the Peony Festival and gifted a peony plant. This young girl still remembers.”

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After hearing what was said, Madam Liu pondered for a bit before saying: “Correct.” Her gaze when looking at Jiang Lî turned a bit softer, “It’s rare for you to still remember.”

Chengde Official, Liu Yuan Feng’s madam, Madam Liu, was once on good terms with Jiang Lî’s biological mother, Ye Zhen Zhen. When Ye Zhen Zhen just married and arrived in Yanjing City, she had a lot of contact with this person, Madam Liu. Afterwards, when Ye Zhen Zhen pa.s.sed away and left Jiang Lî behind, owing to the close relationship of the two before, Madam Liu still frequently visited Jiang Lî.

But when Ji Shuran entered the doors of the Jiang household, it was no longer convenient for Madam Liu to come and visit Jiang Lî. Gradually, their relationship waned. The Peony Festival that Jiang Lî mentioned before ought to be the very first time Madam Liu met Jiang Lî. Now that Jiang Lî mentioned it, before Madam Liu’s eyes appeared at once the untimely death of her close friend Ye Zhen Zhen.

Madam Liu carefully sized up Jiang Lî who was standing in front of her. Didn’t know whether inside her heart she felt guilty towards her good friend, but when Madam Liu looked at the girl in front of her, she increasingly felt close and familiar. She said: “So this is where Lord Jiang sent you to?”

Jiang Lî slightly nodded her head.

“You are Yanjing’s Jiang family’s young lady from the first wife, Lord Jiang’s own daughter. How could you be living in this kind of place? The early summer is damp, how could you kneel for a whole night, what would happen if you fall ill? Someone is clearly making it hard on you on purpose. Jiang second miss, why don’t you follow me and go back to Yanjing together.” Said Madam Liu suddenly.

Tong’er heard this as she was kneeling and her eyes brightened. The words spoken by Madam Liu had the exact meaning of giving Jiang Lî a way out of her predicament. Jiang Lî had been thrown to Mount Qingcheng for so many years and was tossed to the back of everyone’s head as she held no interest to anyone. In any case, at present Madam Liu was still an official’s Madam and with her issuing this word, there would be no problem. Wait until they return to Yanjing, look at how many gentlemen and ladies around would say a few sentences. No one could say that it would not pa.s.s to Jiang Yuan Bai’s ears. Jiang Yuan Bai naturally would right away remember this daughter that was thrown away in the nunnery.

However, Madam Liu was already done speaking yet she had not heard any reply from the girl in front of her. Jiang Lî lifted her head and looked at her in astonishment, happiness seemed to flit by her expression. Yet it immediately turned into hesitation, followed by a resolute shake of her head as she replied: “Many thanks for Madam’s good intentions. However, I’m afraid it won’t do.”