The Reborn Noble Daughter

Chapter 3 3. The Wen family

Feng Jinyao shook her head, "I doubt everyone in this courtyard except Mama Bai."

Mrs. Feng was silent for a while, carefully recalling the recent events, and found nothing suspicious.

He took out three red porcelain bottles from the scalp oil box, which contained pills. He first took out one pill and asked his mother to mix it with water and drink it, while the rest were hidden close to her body.

Strangely enough, after taking this medicine, my throat, which had always been burning and itchy, felt cool and felt much better.

"This medicine is good. It's not bitter when you take it, but it feels a bit refreshing."

"It's so good. I heard that the Ren family's medicine is good after one dose, and it will cut off the root after three doses. Mother will definitely get better."

"Um."

It's going to be okay, everything is going to be okay.

"What are you going to do?"

"The mother just needs to take good care of her health, and leave the rest to her daughter."

Looking at her daughter's firm eyes, Mrs. Feng felt for the first time that she had grown up and was no longer the coquettish little daughter she used to be. She could also protect her family from the wind and rain.

So he nodded happily.

"Mother Bai, go and make arrangements. She has a poisonous eye. If you pay more attention, you will definitely find something fishy."

"Well, don't worry, mother."

After finishing speaking, Amber also fetched hot water. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Mrs. Feng raising her head to drink medicine and wiping her mouth with a handkerchief.

"Bring over some of the candied fruits from last time. It will be bitter for my mother to take the medicine, so she will be fine if she has some sweet ones."

"yes."

The mother and daughter pretended that nothing happened and actually combed their hair. Amber took the empty bowl and left.

Feng Jinyao stared at her leaving figure, her eyes a little more probing.

Amber is the first-class maid in her mother's room, and she is also in charge of the decoction. It would be true if she really had some hand in it.

However, I have never heard of any quarrel between her mother and her. If it is not about her own affairs, then it is possible that she was bribed or threatened by someone.

It seems that if you check it from here, you may be able to follow the clues.

After chatting with my mother for a while, I helped her lie down. Maybe there was a calming ingredient in the medicine, but after a while, I fell asleep peacefully.

Standing in front of her mother's bed, Feng Jinyao turned her head and looked outside the house. The winter sun was shining brightly, but she felt no warmth at all.

The storm was about to come, and she had to brace herself up, so she turned and left the main room.

Not long after walking out of her mother's yard, she bumped into the girl Xiangqiu.

"Bless you, Miss. Someone came from the front yard to report that Miss Wen wants to see you."

"Why is she here?"

"I heard that I'm here to return the jade pendant that the lady lost."

"It's still the same excuse."

Miss Wen's name was Yuwei. She was the daughter of the younger brother of Wen Jingsong, the Minister of Civil Affairs. She had been sent to the Eastern Capital with her brother a few years ago. It was obvious that she wanted to get married.

In her previous life, she was a smiling tiger. When she was still useful, she would call her cousins ​​​​very affectionately, but after the Feng family lost power, her expression became vicious.

Now that she had just entered the house, everyone was already shouting that she had come to return the jade pendant. Wasn't it just to force her to accept this kindness?

Later, he would take this opportunity to keep getting close to her, and after becoming a "sister", he would pave the way for his cousin Wen Mengsheng.

When she thought of the words "Wen Mengsheng", the hatred in Feng Jinyao's eyes became more intense, and her whole body became violent.

Xiangqiu has never seen her young lady look so ferocious, or is she possessed by an evil spirit?

Looking at her in the blink of an eye, I saw that she had calmed down again, just like the noble lady she had been in the past, gentle and generous, and courteous in her advances and retreats.

He frowned and shook a few times. Could it be that he had seen it wrong?

Before he could resolve his doubts, Feng Jinyao gave instructions in a low voice.

"Miss Wen, please go sit down in the Moon Pavilion. I will be here immediately."

Stepping on the Moon Pavilion?

Xiangqiu thought she heard wrongly, but after the young lady finished her instructions, she headed towards Ning'an Courtyard in the opposite direction.

"Ms. Wen must have offended my young lady, right? It's such a cold day to lure people to the Moon Pavilion... Zizi, you can bear it."

He turned around and went to the front yard, doing as he was told.

Wen Yuwei, who was in the front yard, was standing tall on the corridor at the second door. Her eyes were not squinting, her posture was upright, her face was delicate and graceful, with a hint of the gentle charm of a Jiangnan woman, and even her smile was exceptionally decent and generous.

When people outside see her, they all praise her for looking like a lady.

After coming to Dongdu a few years ago, she begged her uncle to find a nun in the palace who had retired and returned home to teach her the rules.

Otherwise, how could she not be criticized for her inappropriate behavior when she came to this place where dignitaries gathered at the age of more than ten years old?

Every frown, every smile, every step and every word is done according to the rules.

She practiced hard at home for more than a year before she achieved this result. Then she caught the eye of Miss Wei at the banquet, and after following her for these years, she was integrated into this circle of noble people.

Nowadays, no one mentions her past. To the outside world, she always regards herself as the legitimate daughter of the Wen family.

It was as if the current Minister of Civil Affairs was her biological father.

It's a pity that these things are acceptable to deceive people outside, but it is a bit unsatisfactory to deceive Xiangqiu, who has been serving in the circle of powerful people since he was a child.

Before Mrs. Feng fell ill, banquets were often held at her home, and the people she came and went with were either rich or noble, including princes and princesses, whom she met several times.

Looking at Miss Wen's pretentious posture at this moment, she really complied with the allusion: imitate the trick in the east.

With this thought in his mind, he still looked honest on his face. After bowing to Wen Yuwei and saluting, he spoke slowly.

"Miss Wen has been waiting for a long time. My young lady is serving the soup for Madam. She has no time to spare at the moment. I asked my servant to send Miss Wen to the Moon Pavilion to rest first. When the lady is finished serving, she will pass by naturally."

"We are all our sisters, why should we be so polite? Just tell Sister Feng to serve me well."

The conversation was full of intimacy. If Xiangqiu hadn't seen the young lady's attitude towards her, she would have thought that she had a good relationship with the young lady.

The Feng family's Moon Pavilion is built on a lotus pond, with wind coming from all sides. When the summer heat comes, this is the coolest place.

But now that it's cold today, the surface of the pond has long been covered with thin ice, and the water lilies inside have fallen silent.

In the coldest month of winter, unless they want to do winter fishing, the servants of the Feng family will not come here easily.

As soon as she entered the Moon Pavilion, Wen Yuwei frowned a little, feeling secretly annoyed that the Feng family really didn't know how to entertain guests, and the servants didn't have the eyesight to see either.

If she hadn't had a one-sided relationship with this Miss Feng before, and knew that she had a Bodhisattva personality and always smiled no matter who she met, she would have doubted whether this arrangement was intentional.

Xiangqiu arranged for someone to bring a charcoal brazier. The silver charcoal in the basin burned just right, and the temperature of the Moon Pavilion also rose a bit.

Xia Lu, the girl next to Wen Yuwei, is dissatisfied. Is this really intentional?

So he said rudely.

"Miss, what do the Feng family mean? Do you want to show our Wen family's expression? I want to ask, who in the entire Dongdu would come to this lotus pond to entertain guests in winter?"