Su Yao was not at home. After Doctor Shen got angry, she rested at home for half a month. When she was almost well, she went out and went straight to Baoding Tower.
Now she could come and go more freely in the Su family, and no one cared about her schedule anymore. When she arrived at Baoding Tower, she went to the private room at the top of the second floor with the help of Ruan Xiaojiu.
As soon as he entered the room, Su Yao frowned and looked at the girl sitting by the window with a somewhat inquiring look.
After a while, she coughed, causing the man to turn around. He raised his eyebrows and said calmly, "I remember you said that after leaving the capital, you would never come back."
The smile on Die Wu's face froze suddenly. She bit her lip in embarrassment, then suddenly turned around, knelt down towards Su Yao, and kowtowed three times.
The door had been closed long ago. Ruan Xiaojiu was guarding the door outside. She paused, asked Diewu to get up, and sat by the window. She asked in a deep voice, "What's going on?"
Boss Duan gained Boss Ma's trust by taking Diewu to tell him about Shen Yaoniang. Su Yao asked Liu Jie to rush to Hunan in order to completely control Boss Duan and negotiate with him so that he would work for her from now on.
Liujie wrote to me before saying that the matter was going smoothly and Boss Duan had already agreed.
Since everything has been agreed, why did Diewu return to the capital
She had already told Boss Duan to take Die Wu to where she wanted to go and give her a new identity so she could start over.
Diewu knelt on the ground without getting up. After a long while, a tear fell on the floor tiles.
The room was silent. Die Wu pursed her lips and looked up at Su Yao: "I... I want to go back to find my parents. I thought that if I go back, even if they are unhappy, they will show some guilt. After all, they watched Xiu Niang die..."
Unlike Shen Yaoniang, Diewu had a hard life since childhood. When she was very young, she started to go up the mountain with her mother to chop firewood, learn to make fire, cook, and wash clothes. In spring, she went out with others to pick mulberry leaves and raise silkworms. In summer, she helped her family harvest rice. She also knew that she was sold by her parents, but she always had a thought in her heart.
She is rich now.
She did Su Yao a favor, and Su Yao promised to let her live the life she wanted from then on and also gave her a large sum of money.
She wanted to go back and see where the embroiderer was buried.
Over the years, the two sisters grew up and depended on each other. The ten taels of silver she got from selling her body, plus the one tael of silver she saved, were all given to her parents. When she begged her parents not to sell the embroiderer anymore and to take good care of her, they clearly agreed.
Diewu cried over and over, unable to utter a complete sentence.
She didn't know why she came to Su Yao to cry.
But she will always remember the thin silk cloak that Su Yao's clean and slender hands handed to her on that rainy night.
She sobbed, unable to breathe due to the pain: "Girl, I don't know where I should go... They have no shame at all. They sold me and killed the embroiderer, but they are still living happily. My brother even found a wife..."
It seemed that in her parents' lives, their daughter was not considered a person at all. Even if she died, it would not make them as sad as if a chicken or a dog died. After all, chickens and dogs could be killed and eaten.
This made Diewu very upset.
She didn't understand and couldn't figure it out, so she spent a lot of money and returned to the capital.
Su Yao was silent for a moment.
For a moment, Su Yao saw the shadow of his past life in Die Wu.
At that time, she was probably in the same mood, seeing through the true faces of the so-called relatives around her, and suddenly she didn't know what hope there was in life.
She sighed, suppressed her thoughts, stood up, bent down and helped Diewu up, and said seriously: "You live for yourself, not for others, and it has nothing to do with others."
Diewu was confused. She understood a little, but not quite.
Su Yao thought about it, and then said directly: "I have always felt that it is unnecessary and laborious to have expectations of others and hope that they will do something for you. I have never liked to waste effort on such things, so later I figured it out and decided to take the initiative in my own hands. I will like whoever likes me, and I will not like whoever does not like me. This way, things will be much simpler."
Why do you have to please those people? Just because they are your relatives
Su Yao sneered: "Why don't you think about it this way, who is more important, Xiu Niang or them?"
Die Wu blurted out without hesitation: "Of course, the embroiderer is more important!"
"That's it." Su Yao looked into her eyes: "Since you also know that Xiu Niang is more important than them, why do you still care about them? If Xiu Niang were alive, do you think she would treat you like this?"
No, Diewu shook her head and suddenly understood.
Yes, why should she covet something that she doesn't have
What are parents
What else did they give her besides a life
Why does she still have illusions about them
Her throat, which was so painful that she had difficulty swallowing, suddenly seemed to get better. She sat on the ground in a daze for a while, and suddenly laughed until tears came out.
Su Yao took a sip of tea and no longer cared about her coming back. He just asked her, "What are your plans for the future?"
Die Wu was at a loss for a moment, then shook her head honestly: "I didn't think that far ahead. I just saw that they were living such a comfortable life, and I felt really unconvinced. I didn't know where to go, so I held my breath and returned to the capital..."
She was able to find Su Yao because of what Boss Duan had revealed to her at the beginning. She also knew where Ruan Xiaojiu often went in and out, so she came back and waited for a long time before finally finding Ruan Xiaojiu.
Su Yao thought about her life experience and what she had experienced in Juhai Manor, and knew that giving her money to let her change her identity was not the best way out for her, so he asked her seriously: "Then are you willing to work in my manor?"
Diewu looked up at Su Yao.
"I have a farm, and I plan to buy some tools there and hire some people to do embroidery. If you are willing, you can go there and help me manage the embroidery and weaving." Su Yao looked at her and said, "Anyone can survive on their own. Even ants try to survive, not to mention humans. You are healthy, young and light now, and you still have a long way to go. You can look forward to everything."
Although the road is long, if you keep going, the day will always come.
Die Wu's eyes suddenly lit up, she nodded heavily and smiled: "Thank you Miss Su for taking me in!"
Su Yao shook his head and asked Yan Cao to come in and take her to change clothes.