When Mo Wan Qin heard gatekeeper report the sixth Highnessâs cefei came to pay a visit, she was quite surprised . Did just this lady Mu with sixth months pregnant belly drop in on them? Could it be she came to seek justice for her younger sister?Â
âLittle sister-in-law, qie must have caused you many inconveniences for turning up uninvited . â Mu Xi Yao smiled up brightly . One couldnât tell she came to pick a quarrel with them .
âNot at all . Weâre sister-in-law, after all . You neednât be polite with me . â Mo Wan Qing courteously led her to Mu Xi Tingâs courtyard, âShufei has miscarriage yesterday . Sheâs grieved for the whole night, not even willing to eat something . Little sister better persuade her a bit . Her body has already suffered damage, yet she wonât recuperate . What is she going to do in the future?âÂ
Mu Xi Ting miscarried . However, Mo Wan Qing wasnât even a bit elated . On the contrary, she was very unhappy . Sheâs just taken over the authority over the governance of the residence for a few days, yet this kind of thing happened . They were clearly slapping her face . As soon as his Highness learned of this news yesterday, he immediately went to shufeiâs place and appeased her for a long while . When he came out, he began to give her a cold shoulder . As a result, she was actually relieved that Mu Xi Yao came at this time to help console shufei . Â
âYou sisters have a nice talk . I wonât stay . If you need something, just call the servant girl outside . âÂ
Mu Xi Yao nodded and thanked her . Only then did she had time to carefully look at the person lying on the bed . Â
Needless to say, her complexion was unsightly . The dark circles under her eye told Mu Xi Yao she didnât have enough sleep . The bed and beddings were clean and neat . She was being taken good care of . Â
âDo you want to die, donât you?â Since there was no outsider inside the room, Mu Xi Yaoâs face turned grim . When she saw Mu Xi Tingâs more dead than alive appearance, an anger overcome her . Â
A reaction flickered in Mu Xi Tingâs empty eyes . As she looked at Mu Xi Yao, her tears could not stop falling . Â She had listened to the second sisterâs words and requested his Highness to move her into cefeiâs courtyard . Yet, she still fell prey to the other personâs scheme and lost child . Yesterday, his Highnessâs patiently consoled her . However, it still couldnât pacify her inner pain . She had endured silently . Why could she not avoid this from happening?Â
âSecond sister, Iâve contently stayed in the courtyard . I only ask to have a child at my side, whom I can personally bring up . Thatâs all I need . I do not strive for favor nor do I get into conflicts with others . Why thereâs still no room for me in this residence?â Mu Xi Ting had a soft-hearted personality . She was used to rely on other people . Since even his Highness couldnât protect her child, what kind of hope could she have?Â
âIf you donât want to be schemed by others, you have to learn to scheme against others . Is it your first time entering the inner yard that you donât know even these kinds of principles? Itâs not that someone has no room for you . Itâs having no room for all the women . If youâre not even able to deal with the vile affairs in the inner yard, how can you have the capability to give birth to a child? Even if you gave birth to a child by a stroke of luck, how are you going to raise the child safely to adulthood?âÂ
âDonât you forget . While youâre despairing here, the culprit is rejoicing greatly in your misery right now . Donât get groundlessly hurt by others and not know how to retaliate . Although we, Mu House, are not a prominent nor noble family, thereâs no reason for us to get bullied by everyone . âÂ
Mu Xi Yao was infuriated by her resignation . She was practically a replica of Mu Xi Yao from the previous life . That silly woman did mistakes her whole life . Mu Xi Ting, however, was still young . She should not share the fate of her predecessor . Â
âWhat happened yesterday?âÂ
Mu Xi Yaoâs lecturing did not wake Mu Xi Tingâs will to survive . On the contrary, hatred began to surge into her heart . Â
âYesterday, Jiang shufei visited with the young master . Everything was alright at first . Later on, the young master suddenly horsed around about wanting to fly a kit . As a result, cefei called people to take him to the garden to play . At the time, I was chilling in the water pavilion . Seeing so many people, I wanted to return to the house to avoid them, yet unexpectedlyâŚâÂ
Mu Xi Yaoâs eyebrows frowned deeply upon hearing her words . Jiang shufei? Could it be the woman who used to push around Di Wu Yi Zhaoâs wife and daughter in the previous life?Â
âDoes that woman has one shu daughter?âÂ
âYes . His Highness got only two sons and one daughter, and she gave birth to his one son and one daughter . Usually, she acts arrogantly in the residence and is very favored by his Highness . â Mu Xi Yaoâs eyes darkened . This matter became difficult . That woman was Zhong Zheng Mingâs favored concubine . However, she wasnât a bright one . This time, not only did she shoulder the accusations she has also sew somebody elseâs trousseau1 . Even if they caught the clue and investigated further, they would, she was afraid, only catch the other partyâs discarded pawn . Â
âXi Ting, nurse your body to health first . This matter isnât simple . Lady Jiang has probably also fallen prey to otherâs schemes . The culprit behind the scene is someone else . âÂ
Mu Xi Tingâs hatred was originally directed toward lady Jiang . However, once she heard Mu Xi Yaoâs words, she instantly became a loss for what to do . Â
âThe most important thing right now is to take care of your body and ask his Highness to put few capable people at your side . There are quite a lot of careless missions regarding the matter of miscarriage . Think about it carefully . Why would young master horse around about wanting to fly a kite during such a hot day? Moreover, little girls like to play with kite more . Why would the young master inexplicably take fancy to this girly toy?âÂ
Mu Xi Yao was calm and composed, her words were clear and logical . Â
âEven if we followed the vine to get to the melon2, the other party has already thought up of a way to get away from the felony . You mustnât act on your impulses . Be careful . Next month, concubine Wu will arrive in Shengjing . At that time, I will come to pick you up to have a little get-together . âÂ
Sheâs said already everything . Mu Xi Yao got up to say goodbye: âRemember, there are daddy and concubine Wu who hope you well . Donât do anything foolish . âÂ
Mu Xi Tingâs eyes teared up . She nodded, complying . Â
Mu Xi Yao took Zhao momo to bid farewell to Mo Wan Qing . While turning over the archway, she happened to bump into an acquaintance . Â
âIsnât this the immensely favored Mu cefei of his sixth Highnessâs residence? Are qieâs eyes deceiving qie? How come she came to visit with a big belly? Could it be to call on shufei? Yeah, youâre sisters of the same household . You ought to visit one another . This shufeiâs fortune is a bit scanty . She has miscarried a child, after all . Just unbeknownst, whether cefei will catch the ill luck . Itâs better to be careful . Cefeiâs pregnant, after all . Right?â Mu Xi Yao glanced at the gorgeously dressed woman in front of her who had her head pinned with gold and jade hairpins . She made a step backward to distance from her a bit . Â
âWho is it?â Mu Xi Yao asked the servant girl left by Mo Wan Qing . Â
âReplying to cefei, this is the newly taken Lin shufei by his Highness . âÂ
Recently, this mistress became favored by his Highness . She repeatedly talked back to Mo cefei, yet his Highness always only chastised her with few words, exercising no discipline on her . As Mo cefeiâs servant girl, she naturally disliked her . Â
It was her again . She was unfortunate enough to bump into her, Mu Xi Yao . The gaze filled with hatred in the Imperial Garden, Mu Xi Yao still remembered clearly . Â
âSlap her face . â
Zhao momo and Hui Lan were stupified . Slap face? They subsequently looked at the mistressâs expression . Sure enough, she was calling them . How did they dare to treat Mu Xi Yao with slight? They quickly called the servant girls and labor momos who were following behind them to hold that shufei and make her kneel . Pulling away the servant girls behind her, it looked like she was going to be hit . Â
The servant girl left by Mo Wan Qing looked at the scene before her with a silly expression . Her mind was thrown into a mess . Â
âYou dare! This is the fifth princeâs residence . If you dare to touch me, his Highness wonât let you off!â The woman who was firmly restrained by people screamed madly . How could she know that lady Mu would be as arrogant as to hit people without the slightest scruple in someone elseâs residence? Since entering the residenceresidence, sheâs been pampered greatly . She did not even put cefei into her eyes . When has she suffered such a grievance?Â
âLady Mu, donât you forget . This is not your sixth princeâs residence . You have no say in beating people!âÂ
Mu Xi Yao looked at the woman, who despite being subdued, still acted arrogantly and rude . She entered the pavilion aside and steadily sat down to have a rest . Â
âHui Lan, refreshments . âÂ
Hui Lanâs face twitched . Mistress, did you have to go out of the palace to put on airs? Hui Lan bowed her head and took the food box from a servant girl who always carried it with herself and successively served all kinds of pastries on the table . She passed Mu Xi Yao bamboo chopsticks and carefully attended to her . Â
âSuch a shady place . Shufei must not be fond of it . Move her to the place with sunlight . â
Seeing that woman being drag away and get down on knees outside the pavilion, struggling with all her might, Mu Xi Yao turned her head to gaze at the other side . The charming landscape of sunlight sparkling on the lakeâs surface greeted her . Â
âYou also know that Iâm used to being rampant in the residence? In that case, have you heard that Iâm rampant only in the residence?âÂ
The womanâs voice was gentle . She uttered only one word, âSlap . âÂ
Translation notes:Â
[1]Sew somebody elseâs trousseau is a Chinese idiom meaning to paved way for other/behind someone elseâs success
[2] Follow the vine to get to the melon is a Chinese idiom meaning to track sth following cluesÂ