Chapter 483: Chapter 484, Two-faced and Treacherous
Mrs. He’s voice was not loud, Yun Jinnian couldn’t hear it, but Hemei could hear it clearly.
"Miss..."
"She scolded me, didn’t she?" Yun Jinnian asked.
Hemei nodded.
"Let her scold!"
Hemei said nothing, yet thought about teaching Mrs. He a lesson for daring to scold her young mistress like that, as if she had grown tired of living.
Although Hemei had become livelier since going out, her instinct to protect her master had never changed; it had only become more rooted.
"Hmph!" Hemei snorted coldly, her lips curling in displeasure.
Yun Jinnian heard this and looked at Hemei, a smile tugging at her mouth.
Mrs. He was duplicitous, sweet in appearance but bitter in heart, playing a different hand when out of sight. Sooner or later, someone would take care of her.
"Let’s talk when we get back!"
Upon returning to Niannian Garden, Yun Jinnian had Hemei and Henuan take Shi Jiayu to deliver the gifts—Beautifying Pills for the old lady, her sisters, and her aunts, and Detoxification Pills for her three elder cousins, three younger half-brothers, Yun Qi, and Yun Chen.
Yicai Garden
Xu Xinmo, seeing that Yun Jinnian had only sent a single elixir, couldn’t help but disdain, "How stingy!"
"Miss, you are wrong to say that!"
Nanny Mrs. Hu said, sniffing the elixir, "This one is mixed with Snow Lotus. If sold on the market, it would fetch thousands, even tens of thousands!"
Xu Xinmo was astonished, "That expensive?"
"Uh-huh!" Mrs. Hu nodded.
She couldn’t help but worry about the bowl of medicine from before—had Yun Jinnian actually taken it? But at that time, Yun Jinnian probably had no medical skills, so it seemed she did take it. If only she could check Yun Jinnian’s pulse, that would be helpful.
"Then nanny, put it away quickly, I’m going to ask my maternal grandmother for hers too. I’ll give it to my mother-in-law later!"
Mrs. Hu started laughing, "If your mother-in-law knew you were thinking of her like this, she would be extremely happy!"
"Hehe, my mother-in-law is so kind to me, of course I think about her!"
In the little garden cottage where Aunt Kang was praying to Buddha, she closed her eyes and wore a grim face.
Her hand holding the Buddha Beads trembled slightly.
The person she thought would remain in obscurity for a lifetime was rising once more, yet she didn’t know where her Yun Tai was or whether she was still alive.
Back then, back then...
Don’t think about it, Aunt Kang kept telling herself not to think, not to think...
But she couldn’t help it. If Yun Tai were here, she would also be fifteen years old, coming of age in September.
But where in this vast world could she find her daughter?
She couldn’t leave the Yun Residence, and even if she left, she might not survive.
Aunt Kang’s thoughts were known to five people in the Yun Residence.
Aunt Su and Aunt Hua were taken aback when they received the elixir, it took them a long time to come back to their senses.
They quietly sent out messages asking their daughters to spend more time around Yun Jinnian. Having Yun Jinnian, their legitimate sister, could make their future paths a bit easier.
But they had forgotten that without them, Yun Jinnian wouldn’t have suffered those years of hardship, nor would she only have a shattered family. Not to mention whether Yun Jinnian would care about Yun Zuomo, Yun Qingzhi, or Yun Qingqing, even Mrs. Han would never allow these three illegitimate siblings to come close to Yun Jinnian.
They even had the signboard of Qiyue Academy taken down and burned.
Yun Qi sat for a while at Aunt Lian’s place before returning to his outer study, where he sat the entire afternoon.
"Second Master, the Fourth Young Miss has sent a gift over!"
Yun Qi remained silent.
He was well aware that Yun Jinnian didn’t specifically prepare the gift for him; she just didn’t want people to talk.
"Consider it a reward!"
The young servant, about to be pleased, heard Yun Qi say, "Bring it in!"