39, Seeing Through
It was because Xie Zhinuan had bought too many items, just for the things she wanted, others wouldn’t have had so much from four or five families combined.
She also demanded exquisite craftsmanship, which naturally drove up the price.
Xie Zhinuan had been making quilt covers these days, a variety of colored fine cotton fabrics, with beautiful flowers and leaves embroidered on the corners, and she made slight embellishments on the sheets and pillows. Old Lady Ni even joked that she was making her days too refined.
“In a few days, I’m going to the town to buy an iron pot and a hoe!” Xie Zhinuan said softly.
“Then have your grandpa take you!”
Xie Zhinuan nodded.
Her own residence had to be decorated according to her liking, she had already asked the villagers to buy several small fruit trees, not knowing if they would survive when the time came.
Capital City
Marquis Weiyuan’s Residence
The wife of the Marquis, upon learning that her biological daughter had been found and was returning home today, forced herself to wait at the entrance despite her frail health.
Although the wife of the Marquis did not manage household affairs, the Marquis Weiyuan’s residence was in fact governed by Xie Qian’s wife, the Lady Wan, with the wife of the Marquis as her support. Even the Dowager Marchioness and all the old and young Marchioness matrons had to avoid her sharpness.
Not to mention the power behind the wife of the Marquis, even Xie Qian himself deeply enjoyed the Emperor’s favor.
Thus, aside from the Dowager Marchioness and the Marquis Weiyuan who was out, everyone else was present today.
After a long wait, the body of the Marchioness’s wife trembled slightly.
“Mother!” Lady Wan called out gently.
Fearing that the wife of the Marquis wouldn’t be able to hold on.
“It’s nothing!” the wife of the Marquis said softly.
Glancing at her third son, Xie Rong, by her side, she reached out to him.
Xie Rong’s complexion was pale as if he had never seen the sun, and his eyes, usually grim, were bright with joy and anticipation.
He took hold of the Marquis’s wife’s hand, “Mother!”
“We’re almost there!” the wife of the Marquis nodded.
Not until she saw the man riding the horse did the Marchioness’s eyes redden, tears falling drop by drop.
She clutched Xie Rong’s hand tightly.
When the carriage stopped, Xie Qian dismounted and called into the carriage, “Shuyue, we’re home!”
Xie Shuyue took a deep breath inside the carriage before slowly getting down.
With just one glance, the joy in the eyes of the wife of the Marquis vanished completely.
Tears still hung on her face, and in her eyes as she looked at Xie Shuyue, there was scrutiny, an indescribable hatred and annoyance.
And despair.
This wasn’t her daughter, yet she came posing with her daughter’s Jade Pendant and clothes, so where was her daughter?
Alive or dead?
The wife of the Marquis thought about this and only felt a sweet bitterness in her throat. She let out a mouthful of blood and then fainted.
“Mother!”
Xie Qian exclaimed in shock.
Xie Rong was also scared stiff.
He stood there, dumbfounded, watching as his brother carried their mother swiftly into the Marquis’s residence.
The only thought in his mind, was his mother’s health really that poor?
Xie Shuyue felt awkward, but fortunately, Lady Wan came forward and gently took her hand, “It’s good that sister is back, let’s go inside first!”
Xie Shuyue nodded slightly, not daring to call out to anyone first or look around.
With just one glance, she knew that this Marquis’s residence couldn’t be compared to a hundred Liang Families.
With the wife of the Marquis unconscious, the three sons, two daughters-in-law, and several grandchildren and granddaughters were worried, and the adopted daughter Xie Hanhan personally took her pulse and prepared the medicine.
Lady Wan advised Xie Shuyue to rest, but Xie Shuyue insisted on waiting until the wife of the Marquis woke up, which made Lady Wan hold her in high regard.
When the wife of the Marquis awoke, she looked at Xie Qian and after a while said, “You three brothers stay, everyone else leave. Without my permission, do not let anyone come near!”
Xie Hanhan was puzzled but pursed her lips and said softly, “Mother, don’t be angry. Now that sister has been found…”
“Hanhan, you leave first, I will explain to you later!” the Marquis’s wife said sternly.
Xie Hanhan was startled and hurriedly curtsied before leaving the room.
When she saw Xie Shuyue sitting in the chair, Xie Hanhan stared at her.
She didn’t resemble any of her three brothers, nor her parents, nor any relatives from her mother’s family; in a word, she resembled no one at all.
“…”
Xie Hanhan’s eyes darkened.
Suddenly, she had an absurd thought in her mind.
The crow masquerading as the phoenix!
Chapter 41