When returning to Prince Yi's Manor, Ning Xueyan even happened to meet the carriage of Commandery Princess Xianyun, but the carriage of Ao Chenyi was not there.
With the help of her maid's hand, she got off the carriage and looked at the other side, finding that Commandery Princess Xianyun had just come down from her carriage. Since the two had met each other, she, the consort, had to wait for the princess, of course.
"You've also just returned, Sister Ning? How is your health? Do you feel unwell?" Commandery Princess Xianyun, who seemed to be in a good mood, walked smilingly to her and said affectionately.
Did she really only want to show their "seamless closeness" by saying that in front of so many people at the gate of the house?
"I'm fine. Thank you, Princess," Ning Xueyan said gently after she happened to avoid Commandery Princess Xianyun's hand by taking a step back and then bowed low in a woman's manner.
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Since being proclaimed as the commandery princess, Commandery Princess Xianyun had never been so rebutted by a person who was much inferior to her."What do you mean, Consort Ning?" she said word by word as she stared at Ning Xueyan with some sharpness in her eyes.Ning Xueyan raised her head to look at Commandery Princess Xianyun, with unseen light running in her eyes, had a small smile, and said, "Princess, my grandma has already made the rule about the marriage of my eldest brother. I'm afraid that she will take an official wife's daughter as his wife.""He...the son of a concubine who is nothing even has a delusion of marrying an official wife's daughter. The Lord Protector's Manor daydreams so wildly!" Commandery Princess Xianyun pursed her lips and had apparent ridicule in her eyes."My grandma thinks like that. As her granddaughter, I can't do anything about it!" Ning Xueyan said smilingly with her peaceful watery eyes.
After hearing that Ao Chenyi would be building a greenhouse and planting flowers in the manor, Ning Xueyan put aside her embarrassment and looked up. "Your Highness, you're picking a garden to build a greenhouse in the manor?" she asked in surprise. That meant that she wouldn't have trouble making her face powder anymore. She could procure the flowers necessary to make powders to match every season."Yes, just do whatever you want in my manor. Even if you want to demolish the neighboring few gardens to expand your Pear Flower Garden because it's too small for you, I won't say a word about it," Ao Chenyi nodded and said earnestly."No thanks." Ning Xueyan's beautiful eyes flickered as an idea came to her. "I only want a person from you.""Who is it?""A man!""Me?" Ao Chenyi's half-squinted eyes were filled with mirth and his voice sounded more playful than usual. "If it's me that you want, all you have to do is tell me
This topic fanned Mother Wang's anger. The children's birth charts had been proven to be a match, yet the Hua family turned back on their word and sent someone to rescind the engagement. To think that a fine young woman like her lady would have her engagement rescinded! Thinking about it now still made Mother Wang furious."The person that the Hua family sent was a domineering one who insisted on breaking the engagement. My Lord was still around then. He got so angry that he agreed to break the engagement immediately, even sending back the bridal gifts. Young Master Hua also left with the person and never appeared again. So, Young Master Hua was never my lady's fiance. Their engagement was broken some eight to ten years ago."To think that there was an incident like this! Ning Xueyan had no memory of this. All she knew was Hua Yunheng's inexplicable departure. He never showed up in her life again, so what was he doing, appearing right now?"Did
There was a loud knock on the door, prompting the maid to look at Ning Ziyan timidly. Then, under her cold gaze, the maid walked to the door and opened it."Oh my, Eldest Concubine, what's up with you? Now that you're no longer the Young Mistress, you're slow in opening the door as well. What's wrong? Your delicate and spoiled temper isn't fixed yet?" Standing in front of the door and leaning languidly against the frame was the Eldest Young Master Xia's third concubine, Chen Hexiang.Xia Yuhang had three concubines. Of the three, Ning Ziyan had the highest authority, Ning Yuling was the second, and Chen Hexiang the third."What's the matter?" Ning Ziyan replied coldly. Her face was so thin that it was almost misshapen. Her eyes were filled with hatred. Judging from her complexion, she looked at least thirty years old. Who would have thought that she was a young woman in her twenties?"Oh, I heard your younger sister went out to pla
"Mistress, Liu Feng says that the eldest concubine of the Xia Manor basically doesn't leave her room. On the whole, she is in the room all day long. Only a maid waiting on her stays with her. As for her trousseau, Liu Feng looked around but did not seem to find it in her place," Xinmei entered the room and reported.Liu Feng visited Minster Xia's Manor last night and came back today.Later, Ning Xueyan thought of the fact that the trousseau was not in Ning Ziyan's place. Ning Ziyan was now the concubine of Xia Yuhang, so she had to move to another courtyard. But no matter where she moved, she was still Xia Yuan's woman, so the trousseau sent to the Xia Manor was unlikely to be moved to another place.Based on this way of thinking, the trousseau should still be in its original place. Most likely, it was in the courtyard where Ning Ziyan lived previously. Although Xia Yuhang had lowered Ning Ziyan to a concubine's status, now he did not have a wi
When Chen Qing's situation was mentioned, Mother Chen followed Xinmei down the mountain as expected. She just had such a younger family member, and she planned to ask him to nourish her in her old age and bury her dead body. If something bad happened to Chen Qing, she would die of sadness, so without wasting any time, she simply abandoned the more-dead-than-alive Madam Ling lying on the bed and went down the mountain.It was not suitable for Ning Xueyan to meet people in Prince Yi's Manor, so she informed Ao Chenyi of her tour very early and then went to meet Mother Chen in Yuyan Shop.In the shopkeeper's room of Yuyan Shop, Mother Chen met Ning Xueyan. Although she found that Ning Xueyan was still plain and neat, she looked proud and refreshed. Mother Chen had bitterness in her heart. No one could expect that Fifth Young Lady Ning, who could not even save her life at that time, would trample on Madam Ling someday.And now the quite noble Eldes
"Madam Ming's matter, Madam Ming... is the daughter of the minister of the previous dynasty… was married to… to the marquis and gave birth to Fifth Young Lady…" Mother Chen stuttered."Mother Chen, if you just know such things, then you'd better go back!" Ning Xueyan said with a cold smile. The black jade-like eyes were so deep that they could seem to swallow humans up. Seeing that, Mother Chen trembled and did not dare to hide anything anymore. Now she found that Fifth Young Lady was the most scaring one. "How could the people of the mansion of the past think Fifth Young Lady was the timidest one?" "Fifth Young Lady, Madam Ling has some ornaments, which were Madam Ming's in the past. It is said that they are from the palace of the previous dynasty." She gritted her teeth and knew that she had no choice but to disclose important information because Fifth Young Lady seemed not a soft-hearted person. "If I don't tell her anything useful today, it is possible
Ning Xueyan did not return right away but went to the teahouse of the Ming Manor. But Ming Yuanhua was not there and she was free, so she simply asked for a box and sat in it, drinking tea quietly and pondering things.Mother Chen had told her lots of things, but she could not think them through in a short time. She had been feeling that she seemed to have neglected something important in them.Sitting at the window with her thin, curved brows knitted, she was carefully thinking as she fiddled with the teacup at her hand."The reason why Ning Zu'an was so merciless toward Madam Ming is that he suspected that I was not his child. Of course, this is also because Madam Ming had lost the value she once had. If Madam Ming's father had still been Minister Ming, Ning Zu'an would have never treated her so mercilessly. "Surely, Ning Zu'an was not a good man in the past. In fact, he had raised Madam Ling as his woman outside the family, and