C13 Rejected

Now, even her granddaughter, who had never been on good terms with her, had learned to be obedient. She knew how to obey, but she still wanted to refute her!

"Concubine Qiao is locked up. Before I agree, you are not allowed to leave the room! If Second Master wants to see her, then lock Second Master and Concubine Qiao up together!" Looking at the stunned Concubine Qiao, the old mistress frowned, "Mei Chen will take care of Yujiao's marriage, so you better learn the rules of a rich family properly. Don't ever come into contact with Yujiao again! In case Yujiao becomes the mistress of the Ye Residence in the future, she will be like you, with a little bit of childishness!"

Concubine Qiao came back to her senses and stood where she was. Her body trembled slightly. This was not the first time she had suffered from the old mistress' anger, but this was the first time she felt a killing intent from the old mistress.

A cold air shot up from her spine. Concubine Qiao did not dare to act rashly anymore. She said, "I will follow the old mistress's instructions."

The old mistress did not want to bother with her. She sat back in her chair and patted Ye Yuchu's right shoulder.

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"Ye Yuning!"

Just as Ye Yuning was about to say something to her mother, Concubine Qiao walked towards her aggressively.

Ye Yuning stopped and turned around, but was pulled behind by Lady Wen. She smiled at Concubine Qiao and said, "Concubine Qiao, are you looking for Yu Ning?"

Concubine Qiao glared at Ye Yuning without looking at her, "Look at Li Changle! He is old and doesn't want to marry, so he pushed us, Yujiao, to be your scapegoat! You are so ruthless to harm your own sister at such a young age!"

"Say that Yu Ning schemed against Yujiao, then let me ask you, why did you not see anything wrong with the Miss when you first entered the flower room? Why did you tell me about Yu Ning? And why did Li Changle point at Yujiao and say that she was Yu Ning after seeing her?" Lady Wen pulled Ye Yuning behind her and questioned Concubine Qiao one by one, "That Li Changle followed the blue cloth, and other than Yu Ning, all the other girls present today are either pink or sky blue. There is no pure blue color. And the only ones who knew about Yu Ning's pure blue cloth were the four of us and two girls!"

"But I am Yujing's birth mother, and the two maids are the maidservants that my foster father, Li Yinchang, raised. I don't know how long they have been following Yujing …"

With a cold laugh, Lady Wen flung her sleeves, "Although I am not loved by my mother, I am still the wife of the eldest branch!"

Lady Wen ruthlessly deduced what had happened today. Concubine Qiao's heart skipped a beat.

Lady Wen glared at her coldly and led Ye Yuning back to the Delicious Fragrance Garden.

"Mother …" Lady Wen sent her back to the Delicious Fragrance Garden and did not say anything along the way. Ye Yuning thought about it and stopped Lady Wen, "Mother, Yujing …"

When Lady Wen heard this, she was slightly startled and stopped at the stairs. She turned around with uncertainty.

"When I break the restriction in seven days, I will be in the middle of my puberty. Mother, can you make a river lantern with Yujing? In the past, Yi Zu even accompanied Yujing to make a river lantern."

Ye Yuning stood in front of the door. The sky was already dark, but there were no lanterns hanging by the door. The only light that illuminated her figure was the two small four-pointed lanterns in Fei Xiu and Fei Qing's hands.

Lady Wen was a little angry at first, but she suddenly remembered that Ye Yuning had just arrived at the Residence of Flowers and Fragrance a year ago. She had also seen the same scene. The Residence of Flowers and Fragrance was silent, with only a few lanterns hanging.

At that time, she felt that Ye Yuning was being treated unfairly, so she was angry. Later on, Fei Xiu told her that ever since she returned to the Residence of Ye, Ye Yuning had gradually stopped them from hanging lanterns in the garden. There was only one candle in the room, and they were not allowed to add more.

Ye Yuning had never spoken to her before. During the ten years that Ye Yuning had been living in the Cloud State, she was afraid that if she went to write to her mother, she would be married to her daughter. It would make Ye Yuning not live past the age of fifteen. When Ye Yuning arrived at the Ye Family, she always avoided her. She did not know how to be a mother, nor did she know how to treat her daughter.

Now that Ye Yuning had asked her to stay, she wanted her to make a river lantern with her. It made her inexplicably happy, but when she saw her daughter grow up so fast, she couldn't help but feel guilty and distressed.

With a choked throat, Lady Wen quickly nodded. "When you come out, mother will come and make a river lantern with you."

Seeing that Lady Wen had agreed, Ye Yuning beamed with joy. "Then Yuning will wait for mother."

Lady Wen nodded and turned around to leave.

Ye Yuning stood in front of the door and watched as the lights gradually disappeared into the darkness.

"Miss, let's go in. It's too hot outside." Fei Xiu carried the lanterns and said to Ye Yuning.

"There are a lot of insects." Fei Xiu carried the lantern and brought it up to Ye Yuning.

Ye Yuning looked at the darkness from afar and took a deep breath. "In the past, I always blamed Mother for not coming to see me and leaving me in the Cloud State for ten years. But after what happened today, she always protected me and even tore apart her face with Concubine Qiao …"

She turned around and walked into the house. Ye Yuning said, "Let's go back and let everyone hang the lanterns. From now on, no matter how many candles there are in the Fragrance Garden, we can't lose one."

Sitting by the window and looking at the incense scroll in her hand, Ye Yuning finally lost her temper.

"Fei Qing, go to the ice cellar and bring some ice back." After flipping through a few pages, the cool breeze that came from outside was replaced by the steaming hot air on the ground. Ye Yuning could no longer focus on the Fragrance Seeking and could only look outside.

However, after waiting for a long time, Fei Qing did not respond. Even Fei Xiu's voice did not respond.

"Fei Xiu?" Ye Yuning called out again, but there was no response. She wondered if they had not returned yet. She put down the incense scroll and stood up, walking out the door.

Ye Yuning searched left and right, but could not find Fei Qing and Fei Xiu. Ye Yuning turned around and walked towards the house. It was hot and stuffy outside, as if she had been thrown into a steamer. She felt uncomfortable no matter what she did.

Just as she reached the door, a group of people, including Ye Yuhuan, pushed Fei Qing and Fei Xiu towards her.

She wiped off the sweat on her forehead and stood in front of the door, waiting for the group of people to come over.

She stood on the stairs and watched Ye Yuhuan push Fei Qing and Fei Xiu in front of her. Her eyes darkened. "You kidnapped my personal maid and brought so many people to my garden. What do you want, Sixth Sister?"

"I also want to ask you, are the servants of the Delicious Fragrance Garden allowed to contradict the master?" Ye Yuhuan asked instead of answering. "It's hot and stuffy today, so I asked my servant to go and get some ice. However, your servant came in and wanted to take my ice away. A few servants had an argument at that time, and I happened to be nearby. I went up to you and said that my servant came first, but they said that you wanted the ice and said that you didn't come first. They argued with me several times because they thought that they were older than me, and they didn't treat me as a servant!"