Chapter 1238: Chapter 1244: Leaving the Mansion (1)
With Old Mada’s decision, Xiang Yun finally got her wish and left that very night.
The transportation to the manor consisted of three ordinary blue canopy carriages; one carried Xiang Yun and four girls, another was filled with Xiang Yun’s luggage and personal belongings, and the last one bore the corpse of Nanny Xie.
Old Mada originally wanted to send Nanny Xie to the charitable burial ground, but Xiang Yun refused. She wanted to observe mourning for Nanny Xie, to mourn for her like her own biological daughter for three days before giving her a decent send-off. Nanny Xie had loved her all her life and even died a tragic death for her in the end. She had to observe mourning to fulfill her daughterly duty and ease her conscience.
When Xiang Yun left, Duke Li Guo’s Mansion sent a team of housekeepers to escort her, a precaution arranged by Mo Zili to avoid any mishaps on the road. She wasn’t allowed to ride in a carriage from Duke Li Guo’s Mansion so that her identity would not be revealed, and to keep outsiders from knowing she had gone to the manor. They would only say that Xiang Yun was ill and not fit to receive guests.
Mo Zili himself had wanted to escort Xiang Yun but his body was not suitable for the jostling of the horse carriage, and Xiang Yun did not wish for him to co. Until her departure, Xiang Yun didn’t even glance at him, let alone speak a single word to him.
After Xiang Yun’s departure, Lady Bai anxiously said, “Grandmother, I think Miss Yun is truly furious this ti. Aren’t you afraid that if you let her go, she might never return?”
Old Mada, feeling helpless, said, “Miss Yun has always had a fiery temper. If we kept her here against her will, she would likely harbor resentnt against us. It’s better to let her leave and have her Dad and Mom persuade her to return. By then, her anger will have subsided, and she won’t hold any grudges against us elders.”
“Furthermore,” she continued, “Miss Yun has an impartial temperant and will surely mourn her nanny. If we kept her, the news of a Young Madam in our mansion mourning a nanny would not sound good, and if we denied her the chance to mourn, she would be even more displeased. It’s better to let her go to the manor and let her be… however she pleases.”
Hearing this, Lady Bai comnted, “Grandmother really has thought of everything. It’s fortunate you’re here to decide. If it were up to , I definitely wouldn’t have let her go. Otherwise, things might have turned out just as you said, with Yun’er bearing a grudge against us!”
After saying this, she stared at her son and added, “It’s all because of you, for the sake of that seductive fox, you’ve driven away a perfectly good daughter-in-law. If you’re my son, you’d better get rid of that troublemaker quickly. Otherwise, stop calling Mother; I will pretend I never had you as a son!”
With that, she helped Old Mada up and left in a huff.
Old Lady Zhang had been stealthily eavesdropping in the room on the conversations outside. She heard about Mo Zili’s plans for Du Wanqing, and Lady Bai’s instructions to him. Startled, she hurriedly rushed to the side of the couch to relay everything she had heard to Du Wanqing.
Du Wanqing wasn’t particularly surprised upon hearing this. She let out a cold laugh and said nacingly, “Good, very good indeed. So it’s a case of discarding the millstone once the donkey is done grinding. They couldn’t wait for this piece of at in my stomach to be gone before they are ready to kick while I’m down!”
Old Lady Zhang, panicked, said, “Girl, what should we do now? Surely we can’t just leave like this. If we do leave, others may say nothing, but the Mansion of Marquis Jian’an will be the first to take your life!”
“What’s there to be afraid of?” Du Wanqing gave her a cold look, clearly fed up with her flustered deanor.
“You’ve lived to such an old age and yet you’re frightened by a trifle like this. There will be many more life-and-death situations in this mansion. If you act so useless every ti sothing arises, might as well find soone else to wait upon !”
Upon hearing she might be sent away, Old Lady Zhang imdiately pleaded, “Girl, please don’t send this servant away, I won’t dare do it again. If you don’t want this servant, I would have to go back to working nial jobs in the backyard. I’ve been a lowly servant in this mansion all my life, and only now have I finally been able to eat fine food and wear silk clothes. If I were to be sent back, what face would I have left to live on?”
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