Wei An had previously specifically instructed Lan He, Yu Qing and Nanny Wang to pay more attention to Nanny Li's movements. When she heard that Nanny Li had gone out, she was stunned for a moment before nodding.
Nanny Li was Princess Changning's confidant. If she did anything, it must be at Princess Changning's instruction. She frowned slightly and felt annoyed.
She was still too weak, too young and had no one strong enough to walk around outside. She was like a deaf and blind person and could not get involved in anything going on outside.
I have to change my situation quickly...
She knew very well that Nanny Li went out this time probably because of the blood test last time. She should have passed the news back to Yuzhang to let Princess Changning know. What would Princess Changning say
Putting aside her thoughts, she stepped into the old lady's He'an Courtyard and met the eldest lady coming out with red eyes.
When the eldest lady saw her, she was stunned for a moment, then she took a few steps forward and held her hand. After a long while, she finally squeezed out a word of thanks from her throat: "An An, thanks to you... Thanks to you..."
If Wei An hadn't discovered it in time and handled it properly, Wei Yumin would be ruined now! As long as she thought of this, the eldest lady's heart felt like being stabbed by a knife.
Wei An chuckled and shook his head. When he saw Qingyu coming out from behind the curtain, he gently comforted the eldest lady: "Don't worry, auntie. Everything will be fine."
The eldest lady knew that the old lady wanted to talk to the sisters Wei Yumin and Wei An. She pursed her lips and smiled bitterly, but she didn't say out loud the worry in her heart. She patted the back of Wei An's hand, watched her go in, and then walked out.
After sending the Third Master away, Old Madam Wei thought about it all night and decided to ask Wei Yumin what she thought first. When she saw Wei An coming, she waved and asked Wei An to sit down, then turned around and asked Wei Yumin: "Have you made up your mind?"
Wei Yumin lowered her head, her eyes looked red and swollen because she had been crying all day. She leaned on the gooseneck chair, her hands tightly grasping the handles, and whispered to Old Lady Wei: "At that time, Madam Kong Er brought me here. She said... she said that Ah Fang got drunk outside and wanted to bring a singing girl back to the mansion to be her concubine. She asked me if I wanted to go and take a look."
"I thought that this singer was from the outer courtyard, not from the Duke of Yansheng's family, and it would be very rude to open my mouth to her, so I asked my mother-in-law what she thought. My mother-in-law said that Ah Fang must be drunk, and asked me and Madam Kong to go out and take a look. I vaguely felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't figure out what was wrong... so I followed her out..."
She took a deep breath, but finally couldn't hold back her tears, which still flowed from her eyes: "Who knew that when I went out, the person I saw was not Ah Fang, but Uncle Cheng En..."
Old Mrs. Wei raised her hand to stop her, called her over and wiped her tears.
"A husband and wife are bound by love for a hundred days. I have been married to him for five years and have given birth to a son and a daughter. I respect my parents-in-law and my sisters-in-law. I believe I have done everything I can to be considerate. The Zhu family..." Wei Yumin buried her face in her hands, feeling extremely confused and aggrieved: "Why on earth is this happening?!"
Old Madam Wei said sarcastically, "It's not your fault." She touched Wei Yumin's hair meaningfully and said, "It's the fault of an old woman like me."
Wei An did not speak. After Mrs. Wei had understood Wei Yumin's intention and asked Wei Yumin to go down and rest, she looked at Mrs. Wei and said calmly, "Madam, maybe it's not your fault."
Old Madam Wei raised her eyebrows slightly, and heard Wei An say, "Have you ever thought that if it was really because of you, the Zhu family would have come to cancel the engagement when the Ming family got into trouble? But they didn't cancel the engagement. Even if something happened to my uncle later, and my elder sister became the eldest daughter of a fatherless woman, and the only one she could rely on was you, their family still firmly demanded to marry my elder sister..."
Old Mrs. Wei seemed to be deep in thought, with a serious expression.
Wei An knew that she had listened to him, and he analyzed everything for her: "If they are such a loyal and righteous family, why did they change so much in just a few years? Especially my brother-in-law, he seems to be a different person now and then. This is really strange."
"As a man, shouldn't he hate Earl Cheng En, who once had a dispute with my elder sister?" Wei An finally got to the point, his eyes suddenly sharp. "But why did he agree to the proposal of Marquis Pingyang's wife to send my elder sister to Earl Cheng En? Not to mention that he didn't know about this, no matter how bold Marquis Pingyang is, I'm afraid she couldn't come up with this idea, let alone instruct Earl Cheng En. After all, there is a difference between inside and outside... And if he is really my elder sister's husband, then I dare not even think about his motives for marrying my elder sister."
Before she finished her last sentence, Mrs. Wei didn't reply to Wei An first. Instead, she looked at her and said, "You don't look like a child."
"I am indeed not a child." Wei An admitted it very readily, and stood up and knelt in front of Mrs. Wei: "Grandma, you believe in Buddhism, then do you believe that there is karma and reincarnation in this world? There is great enlightenment..."
Old Madam Wei stared at her closely and said, "I believe there are people who can achieve enlightenment in this world, but no matter how enlightened a person is, he or she should not be transformed to the extent of you. You are just a ten-year-old child who has no one to teach you. Even if you achieve enlightenment, you should just become obedient and docile."
Wei An needs the protection and trust of Old Madam Wei. If she is really not Princess Changning's biological daughter, but the child of Wei Yangqing and someone else, then Old Madam Wei will be her life-saving straw.
She knelt quietly on the ground, neither struggling nor arguing: "Grandma, Buddha has the past, present and future. Just think of me in front of you as my future self..." She raised her head and looked directly at Old Lady Wei, honestly and naturally: "I won't hurt you..."
Old Madam Wei stared at her solemnly. The little girl in front of her had a firm and clear look in her eyes. If these words were not from her heart, then her character was really scary.
Just as the stalemate was going on, Nanny Hua came in to report through the curtain that the wife of Marquis Pingyang had arrived.
Over the past few days, although the Pingyang Marquis's Mansion has sent people and asked the children to come over, the Pingyang Marquis's wife and the Pingyang Marquis's son have never shown up.
Perhaps now, seeing that the Wei family is too tight-lipped and their attitude is too difficult to guess, they finally come to test their strength.
Old Madam Wei wanted to cut the wife of Marquis Pingyang into pieces, but after hearing what Wei An said, she suddenly felt that even if she was cut into pieces, it would be too good for this hypocritical woman.
If the Zhu family had really been planning this for a long time, what was it all for? Did the Zhu family have a grudge against the Ming family? Did they have a grudge against the Wei family? What kind of grudge was worth them paving the way for so long