nucmednet Chapter 419 Undercurrents!
Chapter 419 Undercurrents!
Shen Qingdai was stunned. She raised her head and looked steadily at Ye Qing'an, her eyes immediately filled with tears: "Thank you, Miss, thank you, Miss."
Shen Qingdai gritted her teeth: "Please tell me, Miss, what is your life? After I have properly buried my father, I will go to find you. From now on, I will serve you like a slave."
Ye Qing'an glanced at Shen Qingdai's clothes, and after a moment of silence, said, "Prime Minister's Residence, Ye Qing'an."
"Prime Minister's Residence, Ye Qing'an." Shen Qingdai repeated, then quickly kowtowed to Ye Qing'an: "This servant has remembered, this servant has remembered."
Ye Qing'an nodded, turned around, and saw Ye Zirui standing behind her with a deep gaze.
"I wonder if this so-called 'selling oneself to bury one's father' is true or not. Is it really true that you're so generous, eldest sister?"
Ye Qing'an smiled and said, "Seeing her reminded me of when I was on the estate. Life was tough back then, sometimes we were hungry and sometimes we were full. In those really difficult times, I would think, 'If only someone could help me.'"
"To me now, it's just a pair of earrings, something I don't need, and I don't lack anything. But to her, it could be the only piece of driftwood that could save her from the mire."
Ye Zirui paused, narrowed his eyes and glanced at Ye Qing'an: "I can understand that you pity her, but you gave her the earring, so why did you have to give her your name?"
Ye Qing'an smiled and said, "I gave her the earring, but I didn't send anyone to follow her. If she were a fake and just wanted to swindle money, she wouldn't have come looking for me."
"But if she is truly desperate and has nowhere else to go, she can come to us for help."
“My earrings can help her bury her father properly, but they can’t guarantee her a comfortable life in the future. Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda, and now that her father is in trouble, it’s always good to do good deeds to accumulate blessings for him.”
Ye Zirui curled the corners of his lips, a hint of mockery flashing in his eyes: "Big sister is truly a kind person."
Ye Qing'an smiled and said, "There's no such thing as being kind or unkind. It's just that I've experienced hardship, so I thought I'd help as many people as I could. Maybe what I give is just a little silver, but it might save a life."
After Ye Qing'an finished speaking, she didn't say anything more to Ye Zirui and went straight to the carriage.
As the matter was settled, the crowd gradually dispersed, with only a few people still talking in hushed tones.
The carriage passed quickly, and soon they arrived at the Ye residence.
After getting off the carriage, they saw the steward standing at the door waiting. When he saw Ye Qing'an and Ye Zirui come out together, he breathed a long sigh of relief and went to greet them: "Miss, Young Master."
Ye Qing'an nodded gently: "Brother Zirui is back. Mother has been missing him a lot while he was in the palace. Let him go see Mother first, and then we can discuss matters in the manor."
"Of course, of course," the butler nodded repeatedly.
"Oh, right." Ye Qing'an added, "When I came back with my brother Zirui just now, I saw an orphan girl on the street selling herself to bury her father. I gave her my earring and told her that I was at the Prime Minister's residence. If anyone comes looking for me, please ask the steward to have someone take them to me."
The butler was taken aback, not expecting this turn of events, and quickly nodded, "Okay, I understand."
Ye Qing'an nodded gently: "I'll go back to the courtyard to change my clothes first. These clothes and jewelry are beautiful, but they are really too heavy and are giving me a headache."
"Yes."
Ye Qing'an returned to the courtyard and quickly dismissed the servants.
No sooner had the servant left than a summoning circle suddenly appeared beside him in the dead of night.
Ye Qing'an stepped into the summoning circle, and when she came out, all she could see was darkness.
After Ye Qing'an regained her senses, she realized that she was in a cabinet. Jiu Xiao had returned to her original form and become smaller. She was wrapped around a hollowed-out carving inside the cabinet and staring at Ye Qing'an.
"..."
"..."
They looked at each other in silence. Jiu Xiao coughed lightly and said, "I had no choice. Liu Xueying's room is only so big, and there isn't a suitable place to hide. I've done my best."
Ye Qing'an took a deep breath: "Shut up."
"Oh."
A moment later, Li Mama's joyful exclamation rang out from outside: "Young Master, Young Master is back!"
"Yes, Granny, I'm back."
Granny Li's voice choked with emotion: "Young Master, you're finally back! You have no idea how much has happened in the manor while you were away. Madam... Madam..."
Sobbing, Li Mama said, "I don't know what happened to Madam before, she was suddenly poisoned and then became delirious and didn't recognize anyone. At that time, the doctor in the manor was examined, the famous doctors in the city were invited, and even the eldest young lady went to invite the imperial physician from the palace, but they were all helpless."
"That Doctor Xu, who has an ambiguous relationship with the young lady, also came to see her. He said that there is no cure for the madam's poison. He doesn't know when she will recover. She may recover at any time, or she may never recover."
"Later, the second young lady came to take care of the madam. I thought that since the second young lady was the madam's biological daughter, it was a good thing that she was so filial. Who would have thought that on the second night, the second young lady probably felt that if the madam continued to go crazy like this, she would not get better and would become a burden to her. So she took advantage of the quiet of the night and when no one else was around to attack the madam."
Granny Li bit her lip: "No one expected that the moment Madam opened her eyes and saw the Second Miss like that, she would immediately come to her senses. She hurriedly called for help and was rescued by the servants."
Ye Zirui frowned deeply: "When Second Sister attacked Mother, was she mentally sound?"
“It’s normal.” Granny Li bit her lip. “I also thought that the Second Miss might have been poisoned by some strange poison like the Madam and lost her mind, but at that time the Second Miss was clear-headed and her thinking was clear, and there was nothing unusual about her.”
"After being discovered, they immediately tore off the mask, saying that since she was already the Fifth Prince's consort bestowed by His Majesty, the Madam could no longer scheme for anything for her. If the Madam could only hold her back and cause people to gossip that she was the daughter of a madman, it would be better to just kill the Madam."
Ye Zirui pursed his lips: "Ye Qing'an..."
"I don't know if the poisoning of the madam is related to the eldest young lady, but the second young lady's attempt to kill the madam has nothing to do with the eldest young lady."
"I understand." Ye Zirui nodded. "I'll go and pay my respects to my mother and see her first."
As Ye Zirui spoke, he stepped into the house.