Marriage of the Di Daughter Chapter 2.2 - Jiang Lî

Chapter 2.2: Jiang Lî

The quilt was originally thin. However, due to the damp weather, it beca cold and heavy, making those covered under it to feel extrely suffocated. She lifted the quilt and, feeling her stomach beca more comfortable, she slowly sat up.

The sobbing noise by her side ca to a halt imdiately. Through the soft candlelight coming from the top of the table, a pleasantly surprised face ca into view as it said: “Young miss is awake!”

Young miss?

Xue Fang Fei stared blankly and looked up and down at the person in front of her. The appearance of the girl seed to be about 15-16 years old. Her eyes were swollen like the stone of a peach, looking adorable. Her dark-blue, plain cotton clothing was not suited for her body. From head to toe, there wasn’t a single jewelry. Looking at her foolish appearance, Xue Fang Fei burst out laughing.

Calling her young miss, could she be a servant girl? Even during the ti she was at Tongxiang before she married, the servant girl at her side would not wear such an ugly-looking attire.

Xue Fang Fei thought back, that wasn’t right, the important point was, she didn’t rember having this servant girl before. From her maiden ho until she got married, she had four personal servant girls. Afterwards, two of them got married. The morning after that shaful event at the feast, Shen Yurong’s mother wanted to beat the remaining two servant girls to death. Xue Fang Fei prevented that by pretending to be angry, and chased them out of the house before she could get hold of them. Later on, those who waited on her could be assud to be Princess Yong Ning’s inforrs.

Princess Yong Ning! Images suddenly flashed quickly before her eyes. Xue Fang Fei rembered that Princess Yong Ning clearly ca to provoke her. Then Princess Yong Ning’s people strangled her. Could it be... She had not died yet? How was that possible? Princess Yong Ning was the type of person who would completely eliminate everything down to the root1. It was impossible to spare her life.

Could it be... That she was rescued? Was it Shen Yurong? Or soone else?

Xue Fang Fei could see that the young servant girl wasn’t lying. The servant girl stopped her giggling, sowhat afraid, and she called in a small voice: “Young miss? Young miss?”

“Who are you?” asked Xue Fang Fei. Once she had spoken, she stopped, feeling that sothing wasn’t right. However, she couldn’t put her finger on what was wrong.

The young servant girl was even more anxious, she replied: “Young miss, this servant is Tong’er2 ah!”

Tong’er? Xue Fang Fei couldn’t rember if there had ever been a person called like this around her.

“Young miss,” Tong’er looked like she was about to cry, then said: “Young miss, this servant is aware that your heart is not happy. How could they just snatch your marriage? Madam had set down young miss’s marriage when she was still around. Marquis3 Ningyuan’s family, how could they break their promises in such a way4? Furthermore... master.... young miss, this servant knows you5 are blaming master. However, you cannot think about giving everything up ah! Even if it’s not for yourself, please think of madam, after all madam’s spirit6 is watching over you from heaven, she would feel extrely sad ah!”

Xue Fang Fei stared blankly at the small servant girl7 bawling her eyes out, while she was thinking in her heart, what she’s got to do with Marquis Ningyuan? Xue Fang Fei knew the heir of Marquis Ningyuan. Her sister-in- law, Shen Yurong’s younger sister Shen Ruyun, admired the young heir of Marquis Ningyuan very much. In the capital city of Yanjing, he was famous for being a beautiful man. What has that got to do with her?

The servant girl was still lost in her weeping when a sudden clap of thunder sounded abruptly outside, illuminating the room: a cold and shabby room, an ice-cold quilt; and at the sa ti, also illuminating Xue Fang Fei.

Suddenly, Xue Fang Fei realized what was wrong.

This voice..... tender and crisp, although exhausted, yet it was suffused with the characteristics of a young girl’s softness and stickiness.

This was not her voice.

“Who am I?” asked Xue Fang Fei.

Tong’er stared blankly.

“Who am I?” Xue Fang Fei repeated her question.

“What do you an?” Tong’er replied indignantly, then promptly continued: “You are the current governnt cabinet Chief Assistant Lord8 Jiang’s first wife’s official daughter, Jiang family’s second miss, Jiang Lî.” Then, she added another sentence for emphasis, “An honorable golden branch9, the Chief Assistant’s daughter!”

Jiang family, chief assistant’s daughter, the second Jiang young miss, Jiang Lî.

Xue Fang Fei closed her eyes.

She would be Jiang Lî.

A small comnt as the editor. We would have originally left it as Jiang Li, but rember that Fang Fei’s baby na was ‘Ah Li’ (阿狸)? In this case, calling Jiang Li in an endearing way would also be ‘Ah Li’ (阿梨), but the pronounciation of these kanjis is slightly different, so we thought it would be best in order not to get confused later on if we started writting it differently from the beginning (tho maybe I should have chosen Lî for XFF’s na, it appears less often and is a bit of a pain to write the ‘î’ with hat every ti >.