Madam Yun looked at her daughter holding the girl's hand, and hesitated to speak: "Yue'er, whose child is this? Why is she so affectionate with you..."
"Mother, her nickname is Huniu, and I adopted her..." Mingyue paused, smiled at Huniu, and continued, "Sister, from now on her full name will be Yunzhao. Zhao means sunny and bright. Yunzhao, Huniu, do you like this new name?"
Hu Niu looked at her sister's bright eyes and nodded subconsciously: "Yes, Hu Niu likes my sister the most."
Mingyue tapped her nose and said, "If you like it, then you have to say Zhao Zhao likes her sister the most. Remember, from now on you will be called Yun Zhao."
Huniu, Yun Zhao opened his eyes wide and said very obediently: "Okay, Zhao Zhao likes sister the most."
"Wait a minute," Madam Yun stroked her forehead with a headache, "Yue'er, it's really not polite for you to keep such a young girl by your side before you get married. If this gets out, it will be bad for your reputation. You listen to mother. I will send this girl out to find a good family. You can visit her when you have time in the future."
When Yun Zhao heard this, she immediately thought of her aunt. Her aunt had said something similar before, and then handed her over to the uncle who knew how to beat people. The uncle always drank smelly water, and then he would beat her after drinking it, and it hurt a lot.
Thinking of this, Yun Zhao held Mingyue's hand so tightly that Mingyue's hand felt a little painful.
Mingyue blinked at Yun Zhao soothingly, then looked at Madam Yun.
"Mom, I've already promised Zhao Zhao's grandfather that I will take good care of her. You can't ask me to break my promise, can you?" At this point, Ming Yue pouted and said coquettishly, "Also, I've already promised that I won't get married, why are you still thinking about getting me married?"
Mrs. Yun's eyelids twitched. Although her daughter had said many times that she would not get married, how could a woman not get married
She never took her daughter's words seriously, and she just followed her daughter's words to make her happy and wanted to keep her for a few more years.
Madam Yun said helplessly, "There are many kinds of care. If you can't even take care of yourself, how can you take care of others? Yue'er, just listen to your mother. This child is really not suitable to stay with you. If it gets out, others will misunderstand."
Mingyue knew that if she brought a child with her before getting married, there would naturally be a lot of gossip and criticism from others. Some people might suspect that the child was hers, or that the child belonged to her lover, or that she was a burden or something like that.
But so what? Anyway, she had never thought about getting married in her life, and sooner or later it would attract other people's gossip, but what did those outsiders' gossip have to do with her
Just thinking of the original owner's wish, Mingyue sighed in her heart. Although she was already a county lady appointed by the emperor himself, it still seemed far from enough.
Those people still tied her up like an ordinary woman, trying to make her a bird in a cage like other women, and make her indistinguishable from the crowd among women.
Even Madam Yun and other ladies were the same. They all thought that women should follow the three obediences and four virtues and should depend on men for their lives. Anyone who wants to escape from this has wrong thoughts and incorrect practices.
As for this matter, Mingyue's ideas and theirs were contradictory from the very beginning.
Perhaps only when movable type printing begins to spread among the people, when Mingyue's reputation becomes famous among literati, and when she is appreciated and respected by the beneficiaries and is deified, will she truly have the right to speak.
Before that, Mingyue pulled the corners of her mouth, stepped forward and shook Madam Yun's arm, and said coquettishly: "Mom, I have been unhappy these days, and I am happy to see this child. Just think of her as someone who came to play with me, and don't worry about it~"
Mrs. Yun has always been unable to resist her daughter's nagging. Who asked her to have such a delicate daughter when she has three sons who are like little adults
So after Mingyue shook it a few times, Madam Yun surrendered: "Forget it, stop shaking, I really can't do anything to you, just think of it as having a new little maid in the house." Mingyue smiled widely and applied what she learned: "I know that mother is the best, I love mother the most."
Madam Yun rolled her eyes rather rudely and hurriedly chased them away: "Go away, go away. My eyes hurt just looking at you now."
"Then my daughter will no longer be a bother to me. I will go back and reflect on the past." Mingyue was not angry. She even took Yun Zhao's hand and bowed to say goodbye.
Mrs. Yun was angry and amused when she saw this, and said helplessly: "Go quickly, go quickly."
Mingyue then took Yun Zhao and left Madam Yun's yard.
Now Yun Zhao has a clear path forward in the Prime Minister's Mansion.
When the prime minister found out about this, he did not take it seriously. He thought it was just raising an extra little girl, and the prime minister's mansion could afford to raise her.
After hearing this, Mingyue's three brothers reacted differently.
The eldest brother has a gentle personality and does things to perfection. He even asked his servant to send a gift to Yun Zhao. However, the gift was not very thoughtful. It was a complete set of pens, ink, paper and inkstone, which was totally unsuitable for Yun Zhao who could not read a single word.
The second elder brother was a cool and aloof guy, and he cared a lot about Mingyue, his only sister. So for his sister's sake, he gave Yun Zhao a gift. The gift was a complete set of head ornaments bought from a jewelry shop, and the price was quite high. For Yun Zhao, who was only six years old, it would probably take more than ten years before he would have the chance to wear this set of head ornaments.
The third brother's whole mind is now on Huo Yuzhu. In order to please his sister, he even asked Yun Zhao what he liked. In the end, he gave Yun Zhao five boxes of Fu Ji snacks, which Yun Zhao liked the most.
After Feng Lingling ran to Mingyue twice, she didn't come here for a long time.
When she came over again, Mingyue heard her boasting proudly that she had secretly gone to the small counties down there some days ago and finally found seven or eight children in need of help, and it was time to set up the charity shop.
However, Feng Lingling did not have much money to spend, so she remembered that Mingyue had said that she could support her, so she came here today specifically to ask for money.
Originally Mingyue wanted to find some time to go out with Feng Lingling again, but she never expected that she managed to do it secretly, saving herself the effort.
As for silver, thanks to the popularity of the papers in Mingli Bookstore, Mingyue had a lot of silver in her hands, like a treasure pot, which came in continuously.
So Feng Lingling felt embarrassed to ask for it, but Mingyue gave it to her without hesitation.
However, because neither of them knew much about Huaijing's shop, Mingyue finally chose to ask Huo Sanlang.
(End of this chapter)