Chapter 11: False Comfort

"Second Miss, we are almost at the farm."

Seeing that she didn't say a word, but the power she exuded was very scary, the two women were trembling in their hearts. Finally, the woman in blue had to bite the bullet and explain to her: "The family temple is far away, so we have to stay at the farm for one night."

"Yes, yes, although the farm is a bit simple, don't worry, Miss, the cleanliness is guaranteed. It's just right for you to take a nice hot bath in the evening." But when you get to the ancestral temple and want to take a bath, it won't be such a beautiful thing.

The old woman in green did not dare to fall behind, and she smiled and flattered Mu Qingyin, who looked scary.

As they explained, they both secretly muttered in their hearts: This second young lady is too sleepy, isn't she? She was sent to the family temple, just like being exiled. But she didn't feel worried at all along the way, and she slept soundly.

How could she be so bold? Is this the so-called style of a great general?

The two of them looked at each other secretly again, and their evaluation of the unpredictable Second Young Lady in their hearts increased a few points. They both felt that she must have something to rely on to be able to remain so calm.

Since she has something to rely on, I think the day for her to turn things around won't be far away, right?

Thinking of this, the two of them wanted to be more flattering to Mu Qingyin. They secretly said that they did not ask for anything else, but only hoped that she could forget the disrespect they had shown her before, and they would be thankful if they could really get over it.

At this point, the two maids couldn't help but serve Mu Qingyin more attentively. When they arrived at the farm, they not only prepared delicious meals, but also paid out of their own pockets to send bath water to Mu Qingyin, who had brought nothing out of Yuejiang Marquis's mansion except the clothes she was wearing and the jewelry she was wearing, and also carefully sent a set of brand new, clean and soft cotton silk underwear.

Mu Qingyin naturally brought some clean underwear in her mustard seed space.

However, she did not reject their kindness. Of course, she would not actually wear the undergarment they brought her. Instead, she put it into the space without telling them.

As for her changed underwear, they were taken away by two maids, who washed them diligently by hand, dried them over charcoal fire, and then packed them in a package and sent them back.

In addition to the undergarments, the package that was sent back also included a new cotton jacket and trousers made of fine cotton.

Holding the package, the two maids knelt in front of Mu Qingyin and said cautiously with a smile: "Second Miss, although this cotton jacket and cotton pants are a bit crude, we came here in a hurry.

I'm afraid it will take some time for your luggage to be delivered. It will be inconvenient for you to go to the mountains without a change of clothes, right? So we, the servants, have gathered some money and bought you a set of clothes to use as a makeshift change, please don't despise it."

"The two mothers are very thoughtful. It is said that it is easy to add flowers to a beautiful woman, but difficult to send charcoal in the snow. A friend in need is a friend indeed. I am a person who clearly distinguishes between gratitude and resentment. I remember who treats me well and who treats me badly."

Although she didn't like the two women and hated their opportunism, Mu Qingyin didn't show it on her face. Instead, she accepted the package with satisfaction and pretended to comfort the two women.

The two old women felt relieved upon seeing this, and they vied with each other to help Mu Qingyin dry her hair and put her to bed.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 12 The Worst Situation

The woman was served and lay comfortably in the quilt that had been warmed in advance with a hot water bottle.

Thinking that it was just a change in her mentality that led to such a different result, Mu Qingyin was in a trance for a while, and her heart was touched.

She suddenly believed that if she could continue to maintain this rationality, she would be able to reach the ancestral temple smoothly according to the trajectory of her previous life.

This time, the two women would definitely not talk nonsense in front of the abbot of the ancestral temple. Without their misleading guidance, it should not be difficult to deceive the abbot if they wanted to.

Then, in this life, her life in the ancestral temple would not be as miserable as in her previous life. According to the host's snobbishness, if she could make good use of it, she might be able to live more comfortably. Shaking her head, Mu Qingyin suddenly laughed at herself.

What am I thinking about?

What's the point of living comfortably at the ancestral temple?

She knew that in order to prevent the women sent to the ancestral temple from escaping or having affairs with outsiders, it would only damage the reputation of the Yuejiang Marquisate. In the ancestral temple, there were spies from the Yuejiang Marquisate.

There is also a team of dozens of guards from the Yuejiang Marquis Mansion who take turns on duty nearby.

There were guards who didn't directly meet or contact the people in the ancestral temple, but could monitor them through those people in the dark, and they could be regarded as guards protecting the female members inside. Once she entered the ancestral temple, it would be very difficult for her to get out early.

If she couldn't come out earlier and really waited for three years, wouldn't she lose the opportunity and waste these three years? If so, how could she guarantee that things would not continue according to the trajectory of her previous life, and that she, her mother, and her grandparents would not fall into a passive situation again?

If that was the case, what was the point of her having been blessed by God in this life and having such a chance to change her fate? If she had to start over again, no matter what the cost, she would never let herself continue to live like in her last life, and spend the rest of her life in regret? After thinking about it for a while, Mu Qingyin gradually fell asleep.

The next day.

After being woken up early and having breakfast, Mu Qingyin continued to quietly get on the carriage. After getting on the carriage, she "fell into a deep sleep" again. When the carriage reached the foot of the mountain where the ancestral temple was located and changed to a mule carriage, she remained the same.

Although the two maids were secretly surprised by her "sleepiness", as long as she didn't cause any trouble, they were satisfied that the two of them could finish their work smoothly.

Mu Qingyin was "awakened" by several exclamations and screams.

Her consciousness withdrew from the mustard seed space, and she felt her body falling and being thrown out heavily along with the mule cart. She immediately realized that the mule cart rollover accident that she had encountered in her previous life had come as expected.

It's finally here.

Mu Qingyin's mouth curled up slightly, because she knew that she would be fine, so even if she was thrown out she was not too nervous, but had the leisure to look around.

Seeing that something had happened and everyone was panicking to protect themselves, with no time to pay attention to other things, Mu Qingyin seized the opportunity, moved her mind, silently said "go in", and tried to get her body into the mustard seed space.

No, can't get in?

He tried a few more times without giving up, and after finding that his body really could not enter the mustard seed space, Mu Qingyin frowned in distress.

The inability of her body to enter the mustard seed space was the worst situation she had anticipated.

We can only do our best and leave the rest to fate.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 13 A glimmer of hope

Just as she was sighing and thinking this, Mu Qingyin felt a pain in her body and fell to the ground.

After a burst of pain, she was somewhat glad that although her hands and feet were not tied in this life, she still rolled to the edge of the cliff in her memory like in her previous life.

As she remembered, this place was only a hair's breadth away from the cliff, and she would fall down if she turned over.

Glancing sideways behind him, the bottomless abyss made Mu Qingyin think of how she was so frightened in her current position in her previous life that she broke out in a cold sweat.

After that, she would calm down and let the two maids and the host manipulate her. In fact, she was also frightened and still couldn't react. She looked at the cliff behind her again. Mu Qingyin thought that she couldn't enter the mustard seed space, and the time she was reborn was too short to allow her to make more preparations. Once she rolled down the cliff, there would be a great possibility that her fake death would turn into real death. She couldn't help but pause slightly.

She knew she didn't have much time to hesitate, because soon, in less than an incense stick's time, others would come to find her and take her to a safe place, just like they did in their previous life.

After all, no matter how unpopular she was, or how she was "exiled" to the family temple, she was still a master after all. If something happened to her, it would always be disadvantageous to them.

Thinking of this, Mu Qingyin did not dare to delay any longer. She gritted her teeth, closed her eyes and rolled over. Just as the whistling sound of the wind exploded in her ears, Mu Qingyin vaguely heard someone exclaiming, "The second young lady fell down."

When she heard that, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl up again.

This life was different after all. Those people came earlier than expected. Should she be thankful that she made up her mind without hesitation? After all, she was gambling with her life. The panic of falling rapidly made Mu Qingyin dare not close her eyes, and she dared not distract herself too much and think about other things.

Soon she tried hard to open her eyes and stared at the cliff wall intently, trying to find a glimmer of hope.

"Crack."

Mu Qingyin had just climbed up a not-so-thick sapling that grew diagonally on the cliff with great difficulty, and reached a cave entrance that was just big enough for her to lean over, when she heard a noise.

Turning her head, she saw that the small tree she had climbed before had been completely broken from the roots and fell to the bottom of the cliff.

Mu Qingyin immediately lay still on the spot. It was not until she heard another muffled sound that she patted her chest with a look of palpitation and sighed to comfort herself: "Fortunately."

Squinting her eyes and thinking for a while, she raised her body with difficulty and took off the tattered satin cotton jacket with flowers and butterflies showing. She then threw down the undergarments and cotton jacket that the two maids had prepared for her, along with the package.

Before she could breathe a sigh of relief after doing all this, she suddenly felt like someone was staring at her. She couldn't help but tense up all over and her scalp went numb.

Looking carefully in the direction of the source, Mu Qingyin saw a giant snake as thick as a tree trunk coiled at her feet, occasionally sticking out its forked tongue.

Seeing the snake slowly and gradually entangled with her body, Mu Qingyin took a breath of cold air: This big snake, is it treating her as food? Unexpectedly, she remembered that a nanny around her when she was a child once said that if a big snake sees you and does not bite or attack you, but instead appears to be docile and slowly entangles with you, it is not a good thing.

Because it is very likely that it regards you as food, so it will not scare you, for fear of scaring you away.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 14: Snake's Nest?

Thinking that she might be eaten by such a big snake, Mu Qingyin's mind went blank for a moment. Then she made a quick decision, closed her eyes and shouted in a trembling voice: "Retract".

When he opened his eyes again, he saw that the big snake in front of him had disappeared as expected. Mu Qingyin's consciousness immediately probed into the mustard seed space and saw that the snake had no signs of life in his space.

She suddenly collapsed, with a splitting headache and sweat all over her body. At the same time, she was extremely grateful that her mustard seed space was not always useless at the critical moment.

At least, her mustard seed space can turn living things that enter the space into dead things, instead of directly being unable to collect living things. Otherwise, she would be in real trouble today.

Although the price of directly collecting living creatures is that she will have a splitting headache for at least six hours, as she is now. But this is better than letting the big snake eat her alive, right? Lying on the ground for a long time, Mu Qingyin forced herself to support her already exhausted body, ignoring the rotten branches and leaves, dust and dirt on the ground, and crawled into the cave with difficulty.

She had already looked inside through the cave entrance. Although the entrance was low and narrow, and could not allow people to walk straight in, it was only a short distance from the entrance. Going deeper into the cave, the space inside would become larger and more spacious.

Worried that the traces she left at the entrance of the cave would be noticed by the guards of Yuejianghou Mansion who might come down to check on her life or death, Mu Qingyin climbed into the cave while enduring the headache and collecting some dead branches and leaves from a distance, carefully covering the traces she left behind.

When she finally reached a place in the cave where she could stand up, she sat up, not caring about the dust and dirt all over her body, and her messy appearance. She quickly took out a brocade cloak with fox fur from the space and wrapped herself tightly.

"What a mistake! Why didn't you think of sneaking some cakes and tea in?"

Finally feeling a little warmer, Mu Qingyin breathed a sigh of relief. She looked around the space and found that there was nothing edible in it except the big snake she had just collected.

She licked her dry lips helplessly, touched her rumbling stomach and muttered something quietly, then suddenly remembered that she needed fire to eat snake meat, she slapped her forehead again and whispered in annoyance: "This is bad, without flint, are you asking me to eat it raw?"

Without flint, Mu Qingyin believed that she did not have the ability to make fire out of thin air.

She stared at the huge pile of snake meat that had no life in it but still looked a little scary. She suddenly thought that even if she had a flint, she didn't know how to skin a snake, and she didn't have a knife or dagger to skin a snake. Isn't this another big problem? She covered her face, feeling frustrated that she had lived two lives but was still useless.

No matter how frustrated she was, Mu Qingyin knew she shouldn't stay here any longer. She looked deep into the cave and saw a faint light coming out, which clearly meant there might be an entrance or exit at the other end.

She felt a little more encouraged, quickly composed herself, and walked in with a sense of relief.

As they walked, Mu Qingyin discovered that the road in the cave went all the way downwards.

Along the way, she encountered many snakes of different sizes. The big ones were slightly smaller than the big snakes she had stored in the space, but still looked strong and intimidating; the small snakes, some as thick as a bowl and some as thick as a chopstick, were either clustered together or coiled individually.

"Is this a snake den?"

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 15: It's Better to Be Cautious

The more she looked, the more frightened she became. Mu Qingyin muttered something in a low voice that only she could hear, and walked even more carefully.

However, as she walked, she saw that most of the snakes were just coiled in the same place without moving, as if they were sleeping soundly, and she felt a little relieved.

It took them nearly two hours to walk along the way, and there were many snakes that were accidentally awakened by her or were already awake.

In order to avoid a small number of snakes waking up the majority, Mu Qingyin could only endure the exploding headache and collect them one by one into her mustard seed space.

So along the way, when she finally reached the exit of the cave, there were dozens of snakes of all sizes in her mustard seed space.

Fortunately, Mu Qingyin's mustard seed space was not small, and those scary-looking snakes only occupied a small corner of the space, so it was not difficult for Mu Qingyin to ignore them.

And there is no need to worry about the snakes rotting after being stored in the space for a long time.

When Mu Qingyin obtained this mustard seed space in her previous life, she discovered that even if she put boiling water in it, no matter how long she waited, when she took it out, the tea would still be boiling hot as it was at the beginning.

The exit of the cave was not on the flat ground. Mu Qingyin leaned forward and looked, and found that it was at least two or three feet higher than the flat ground. According to the height of a person being about ten feet, this two or three feet was about the height of two or three people.

Although this was still a bit high for Mu Qingyin, she looked carefully and found that there were many places on the mountain wall where she could climb, so it didn't seem too difficult for her to climb down.

However, she was used to being cautious and did not rush to start climbing immediately. Instead, she looked up and down the cave entrance again.

After taking a look around, Mu Qingyin soon discovered that besides going down, she could also choose to go up. And it was obviously easier to go up, because there was a slightly protruding platform less than half a meter above.

Looking up, I saw the sun hanging brightly above my head, obviously it was noon.

Seeing that it was still early, Mu Qingyin thought for a moment and decided that she could go downstairs to take a look. After all, her stomach was still growling. There was no way to make a fire and grill meat. If she went downstairs, she would at least have a greater chance of finding wild fruits to fill her stomach.

But it was a bit dangerous to go down, and she was so hungry that she felt weak all over and had a splitting headache. Mu Qingyin was afraid that she would make a mistake and regret it for the rest of her life.

Don't let yourself fall from a high and bottomless cliff and not get hurt, but end up falling on this two or three meters, which is just the height of the courtyard wall of an ordinary person's house.

After thinking about it, she determined to be more cautious and not care about wasting things. She took out a piece of silk that she had stored in the space before, tore one end and tied it to a big tree at the entrance of the cave, and tied the other end around her waist.

This allowed her to move freely without having to constantly hold onto her brocade and fox fur cloak to prevent it from unravelling.

After getting ready, Mu Qingyin still did not dare to be careless and climbed down the mountain wall carefully. However, when she was halfway down, she suddenly heard a sound of water. She looked down and saw a rather wide river under her feet.

She was stunned for a moment, and looked up and down, left and right, and then she saw not only the small tree that broke and fell because it saved her;

I also saw the tattered cotton jacket with colorful flowers and flying butterflies that I had been wearing. Most of it was in the water, spinning around in circles due to the splashes.

He also saw the parcel of underwear and a cotton-padded jacket given to him by the two maids, hanging open on a tree branch in the air above the river.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 16: Naishu Hot Springs Flintstone

Mu Qingyin: "."

Now that's a big deal. If the guards of Yuejianghou Mansion came down to check, they would most likely think that I fell into the river and was washed away.

Mu Qingyin couldn't help laughing as she thought about it. This was actually pretty good.

After I contacted my mother and my grandparents and told them the truth to gain their trust, if I still needed to restore my identity, I could deliberately get discovered near Yuejianghou Mansion, and then make the excuse that I had an accident and suffered from amnesia.

I think this excuse will be easily accepted by everyone by then.

After taking a few more glances at the "evidence" of herself falling into the river, Mu Qingyin began to climb up again in a good mood with the help of the silk tied around her waist.

After finally climbing back to the cave entrance, she untied the silk, put it back into the space, and quickly climbed up again.

When they got up there, Mu Qingyin looked around and found that in addition to a protruding platform there was also a cave, and at the entrance of the cave there was a thick nata tree.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that the branches of the paeonia tree were filled with a large number of small, bright red, pleasing-looking danai.

Without caring about anything else, Mu Qingyin stepped forward to the nai tree and picked a danai. Then she took out the handkerchief in the space to wipe it clean, and couldn't wait to put it in her mouth and take a bite. The sweet and sour taste of the danai almost made her eyes full of tears.

He ate five or six danai the size of a baby's fist in one breath, and then put the remaining danai into the space.

Looking at the pile of dannai as high as a small mountain in the space, and thinking that she would not be afraid of starving to death even if she could not leave here for ten days or half a month, Mu Qingyin looked into the cave with great satisfaction.

After taking a look, Mu Qingyin quickly discovered that the cave was not big and could only accommodate about three or five people at the same time.

However, inside this small cave there is a very shallow pool, which contains a small stream of hot spring water flowing down from the mountain wall. No wonder there is such a pine tree full of fruits at the entrance of the cave in winter.

I scooped up a handful of warm hot spring water directly from the mountain wall. Even though the hot spring water here had a small flow, the small pool in the cave was not enough for me to take a bath.

But at this moment, having hot spring water, which allows her to even simply wipe her body, is enough to make Mu Qingyin excited.

Taking a handkerchief and dipping it in hot spring water, Mu Qingyin quickly cleaned herself up and changed into the cotton-padded jacket and skirt that she had put into the space in her previous life. Both the fabric and workmanship were obviously rougher than the clothes in Yuejianghou's mansion.

After doing all this, Mu Qingyin did not stay in the cave for long.

Firstly, the cave was small and damp because of the hot spring, so it was not suitable for overnight stay. She needed to find another suitable cave before it got dark. Secondly, she was worried that if she didn't leave here quickly, she might run into the guards from Yuejianghou's mansion who might come down to check. Wouldn't her previous life-threatening escape be in vain?

After leaving the cave, Mu Qingyin climbed up the protruding platform outside the cave for several times, and finally found a cave with traces of fire before it got completely dark, which was suitable for spending the night.

Mu Qingyin found the flint near a few sparse dead branches and hay left in the cave by an unknown person, and she felt like she had found a treasure.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 17 A Rich Harvest

Although it was completely dark, with such a convenient tool as space, it was still quite easy for Mu Qingyin to find some branches and hay near the cave entrance.

After collecting enough firewood to last the whole night, he used the space to move a huge rock to block the entrance of the cave. After confirming that the gap left by the rock would not allow ferocious beasts to get in, Mu Qingyin started to build a fire.

Human potential is unlimited.

In her previous life, she was extremely destitute. In the end, the Kuang family who had protected her were too busy to take care of her. In order to survive, Mu Qingyin learned a lot of things.

With the flint, it was just a matter of making a fire by herself. This was certainly not a problem for Mu Qingyin. Soon, she made the fire in front of her burn brightly.

Looking at the burning flames and absorbing the heat from the fire, Mu Qingyin, who was extremely tired and hungry, took out a Dannai and ate it in a few bites. When she took out another one, the hand holding the Dannai seemed to have self-awareness and stopped, and was reluctant to put it into her mouth.

The sweet and sour taste of Dannai is good, but it is only okay to eat one or two for emergency use. Eating this as a meal - thinking that she will have to eat this Dannai as a meal for countless meals in the future, Mu Qingyin shuddered and felt a chill.

Now that she had a flint, maybe she could try roasting some snake meat? Once this idea came to her mind, she could no longer suppress it. Finally, Mu Qingyin gritted her teeth, picked out the smallest snake from the pile of snakes in the space, and used a sharp stone she picked up to smash and grind off the snake's head.

Mu Qingyin selected a longer branch, removed the attached bark and sharpened it. Then he used it to pierce the snake's body and roasted the whole snake over the fire.

When the tempting aroma of meat came with a "sizzling" sound, Mu Qingyin looked at the snake meat that began to drip oil. She turned the branch and swallowed her saliva, and then suddenly doubted why she thought this snake was scary before?

With the flint and after finally mustering up the courage to roast snake meat for the first time, Mu Qingyin gradually began to get used to life in the mountains.

Although the mountain was dangerous for her, with wild animals appearing from time to time, she had no worries about safety as she had the mustard seed space that could collect living things.

After collecting several living creatures and suffering several splitting headaches, Mu Qingyin learned to put huge stones in the space without any instruction. When she encountered a beast that she couldn't handle, she would just smash it with the huge stones.

After learning how to use the "weapon" and being able to reuse it, it can be said that it is an invincible boulder weapon. Mu Qingyin inevitably had the illusion that she could walk sideways in the mountains and forests.

Not to mention, the feeling of having everything under her control gave Mu Qingyin a completely new and different feeling, and made her even more grateful for her previous decision.

After experiencing the pain of shortages and not having everything she needed, Mu Qingyin unconsciously began to like hoarding things.

Even though she already had enough food in her space, when she was looking for a way out in the mountains, she would also look for traces of wild animals and collect them into her space without hesitation.

So she gained a lot in a short period of time.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 18 The Benefits of Cultivation

Although Mu Qingyin didn't catch many small prey like pheasants and hares, which were smart and fast in fleeing, she caught a lot of medium and large prey like wild boars, which were ferocious but large enough for her to aim at them easily.

Unfortunately, she collected the wild boars, but she didn't have the right tools to eat them. On the contrary, she could barely use sharp stones to deal with pheasants and rabbits.

Of course, because she was not very strong, she didn't bother to deal with them most of the time. Instead, she used the method she learned in her previous life to cook beggar's chicken, simply covering them with mud, burying them in the ground and cooking them before eating.

The food problem was solved. Although there was no salt, and it was cold and everything was withered in winter, and there was no other seasoning, so the food could only be cooked simply. This made Mu Qingyin's food tasteless and unaccustomed. But after all, she no longer had to worry about starving to death in the mountains.

There was no one living in the mountains, and it was winter, so it was cold and snowy from time to time. There was knee-high snow everywhere, and it became increasingly difficult to walk outside.

I think about what I need to do and I still have no idea what to do. If it can't be done right away, I can still wait.

So, when Mu Qingyin happened to come across a cave that had a hot spring pool and was large enough and dry enough for her to live in. This cave was a great place to stay that was not far from the water source. She decided to stay there and wait until the next spring when the flowers bloomed before thinking of a way to leave.

No need to rush out every day to find a way out and a place to stay. With the space, he could just roast meat once and have several meals without having to prepare food every day. Mu Qingyin suddenly had a lot more free time, and the time his consciousness could enter the space was also extended a lot.

After entering the space, Mu Qingyin spent almost all her time repeatedly reading the only page of "Medicine Heart Sutra" that she could open.

Maybe because she read it too much, she gradually gained some insights and found that it was actually a method of internal energy. Slowly, she was able to practice according to this method.

After practicing for a period of time, Mu Qingyin soon discovered that her appetite had increased unknowingly, and the food that originally lasted her a whole day was now only enough for her to have one meal.

But as her appetite increased, the benefits became obvious: her strength increased and her memory improved significantly.

The reason why Mu Qingyin noticed that her strength had increased was that she found it was much easier to use sharp stones to deal with pheasants and rabbits.

She first tried to cut the wild boar meat with a stone, and was pleasantly surprised to find that she could easily cut the thick skin of the wild boar with a stone, which she had never dared to think of before.

But it was fortunate that this was the case. With her greatly increased appetite, she no longer had to worry about having to choose only to eat snake meat after the small animals such as pheasants and rabbits in the space were eaten up.

Afterwards, in order to verify how strong she was now, Mu Qingyin tried to move the huge rock blocking the cave with her bare hands, and was surprised that she could even lift the rock with her bare hands.

What made Mu Qingyin realize the abnormality in her memory was the medicine cabinet in the mustard seed space.

She did not deliberately look at the names of the herbs on the numerous medicine drawers, but she inadvertently discovered that she could call out the names of those herbs that were unfamiliar and profound to her with her eyes closed.

Even each corresponding position was as if engraved in her mind, allowing her to find any one of them instantly without thinking.

Mu Qingyin: "."

I didn't expect that practicing the "Medicine Heart Sutra" would have such benefits?

Having tasted the sweetness and experienced all kinds of sufferings of having to put up with herself because she was too weak, Mu Qingyin began to become fanatical about cultivation. Apart from the necessary washing and eating, she was busy with cultivation almost all the time and had no time to take care of other things.

Soon, Mu Qingyin was pleasantly surprised to find that she could already open the second volume of "Medicine Heart Sutra" -

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 19: The Oath

Yuejianghou Mansion, Shaohua Courtyard, and Jinxiu Hall.

I saw with my own eyes the half-wet and tattered cotton-padded jacket with colorful satin flowers and butterflies and a coarse cloth bag that was presented to me.

After knowing the reason why the coarse cloth bag appeared here, Yuejiang Hou Muheng frowned. There was not much sadness on his face, but he cursed in his heart: what a thing that is not presentable.

Although he has been doting on Song Yimei for more than ten years, Mu Heng himself can't tell how much he really loves Song Yimei. And he is not sure about Song Yimei, his only daughter, who has a rebellious nature.

Mu Heng didn't care much about this concubine's daughter from the very beginning.

She's just a concubine's daughter. If it was a concubine's son, he might have taken a second look at her.

If the concubine's daughter had behaved herself, perhaps he would still have some blood ties with her, but she had never known her status and had always wanted to compete with his legitimate daughter, which gradually made him dislike her more and more.

Besides, anyone who sees his "favored concubine" always crying and complaining about grievances in front of him because of the concubine's daughter, will eventually become like him, completely fed up with the concubine's daughter, and lose any good feelings towards her after losing the father-daughter relationship, right?

Even if that person is one's own flesh and blood, what does it matter? The resentment accumulated over a long period of time is also something that will linger even if the other person dies, and one is unwilling to mention it.

So when he saw Song Yimei sobbing and holding a handkerchief to her eyes with a look of grief, Mu Heng habitually exaggerated his heartache in front of Kuang Guya, and at the same time, his dislike for Mu Qingyin in his heart became even worse.

He even muttered secretly in his heart: My children are my debt, they won't give me peace of mind even after their death.

After two "coughs", Mu Heng suppressed his annoyance and comforted Song Yimei, "Don't be too sad for that unfilial daughter. She deserves it. If she had been a good person and not been jealous and harming her elder sister, would she have encountered such a disaster and lost her life?"

"My Lord, how can I not be sad? No matter how bad it is, it is still my flesh and blood after all."

Using the handkerchief as a cover, Song Yimei secretly glanced at Kuang Guya, who had no expression on her face and had no extra reaction to Mu Qingyin's death from beginning to end.

She sneered in her heart, and wiped her eyes hypocritically. She finally forced out a few tears and said to Mu Heng in a sad voice: "Although I hate her for not living up to her expectations and being short-sighted, but after all, I went through so much trouble to carry her for ten months and give birth to her. How could she be so cruel to just abandon me?"

"Okay, okay, it's enough for you to be sad for a while, but don't be too sad, it will be bad if you hurt your body. I know what you are worried about. If you lose that unfilial daughter, I will allow you to have another one."

Although Song Yimei's tearful look was beautiful, Mu Heng was tired of seeing it so many times over the years and felt a little impatient.

But he did not show it in front of Kuang Guya. Instead, his tone became softer and his expression became more affectionate. He even made this promise deliberately.

"My Lord, are you telling the truth? Are you kidding me?"

The surprise came too quickly, and Song Yimei's sobbing stopped immediately. She looked at Mu Heng with a smile on her face, and there was no trace of sadness on her face.

"Of course it's true. When did I ever coax you?"

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 20 Provocation

Seeing Song Yimei so happy, Mu Heng's heart skipped a beat and he wanted to regret it. It was enough to raise one or two concubines, but raising so many would be enough to feed them? Wouldn't it just be a waste of his money?

However, just when he wanted to change the subject, he saw Kuang Guya's face slightly frowned. He immediately perked up, and the annoyance he had felt for his impulsive words disappeared without a trace.

"My Lord, have you forgotten the promise you made to me?"

Just when Song Yimei was pleasantly surprised by Mu Heng's promise, Kuang Guya, who had always been expressionless, glanced at her, sneered at Mu Heng with a mocking smile on his face, and said, "If the Marquis has forgotten, then I might as well remind him once.

When the Marquis insisted on giving her the position of noble concubine, he promised in front of her mother-in-law that he would not let her give birth to his children.

It has only been a few years, are you going to break your oath yourself and let the world laugh at you, the Marquis of Yuejiang, for being a dishonest villain?"

"It's unreasonable."

Kuang Guya's words successfully angered Mu Heng. He glared at Kuang Guya with a frown, but seeing that her expression remained unchanged and she looked at him without fear or any intention of backing down, he couldn't help but feel guilty and short of breath.

However, when he turned around and saw Song Yimei looking at him eagerly, Mu Heng's heart softened for some reason under her gaze that was full of admiration, love and expectation, and he couldn't say anything to regret it.

Since you don't want her to have another baby and care about her having another baby, then I will not do what you want and will let her have another baby.

Thinking of Kuang Guya's reluctance, Mu Heng made up his mind even faster and said to her speciously: "I promised her that I would only let her have one child. But now, isn't it that she died before I agreed to let her have another child?"

The more he spoke, the more he felt that he was right. Under Song Yimei's admiring gaze, Mu Heng became more and more confident: "So I didn't break my promise."

"Your Majesty is right. Now that I am gone, the Second Miss has no children under her name, right? So it is not a violation of the promise made to me by Your Majesty out of pity for me to let me raise another child."

After looking at Mu Heng with appreciation, Song Yimei adjusted her facial expression and said to Kuang Guya in a sad voice, "Madam, even if you are unwilling to pity me, please pity my Lord.

The Marquis has not had many children in these years. Apart from the second young lady, there are only two young masters in the Marquis' Mansion, the eldest young lady and the eldest young master under your name.

Now the second young lady is gone, and when the eldest young lady gets married in the future, the eldest young master won't even have a brother around him, so won't he be alone and unable to support himself?"

Wiping her eyes with a handkerchief, Song Yimei glanced at Mu Heng meaningfully, and then said to Kuang Guya more and more resentfully: "Madam, I am wholeheartedly thinking about the Marquis and the Marquis' Mansion.

After all, back then, the old lady also hoped that the Marquis would have many children. If she knew that the Marquis's children would be in such a situation now, she would definitely regret asking him to make such a vow. "

"That's right. Wasn't it because of your Kuang family that my mother forced me to take that oath?"

Song Yimei's words reminded Mu Heng of the past few years, because his family was weaker than the Kuang family, even his mother had to worry that she would cause dissatisfaction among the Kuang family because she wanted to give Mei'er a formal concubine status.

(End of this chapter)