Chapter 24 - Fight Back When Things Were Unbearable (2/2)

No matter how good her maternal grandparents’ family was, there was no reason for them to keep her when the family of Marquis Hua Yang wanted to take her back!

As for certain things, she could take time for the moment. She believed that she could make some people more fidgeted than they were now…

After a few more ceremonial talk, the Madam Dowager and Lady Tu understood that they had reached a tacit agreement. Wei Yuewu courtesied to the Madam Dowager and then took Lady Tu to Lotus Courtyard that was prepared for her in the mansion.

Looking in the direction in which Wei Yuewu and Lady Tu were leaving, Wei Yan held Lady Li’s hand with hatred and asked anxiously in a low voice, “Mother, are you really going to let her live in Lotus Courtyard?”

Lotus Courtyard was the best residence in the whole mansion except the Madam Dowager’s courtyard. Wei Yan had already set her eyes on it but had been refused by her mother. Lady Li said that ceremonies must be observed at least on the surface. Therefore, she ordered servants to clean up the place for Wei Yuewu when she was on the way to the capital. Wei Yan had agreed, thinking it impossible for Wei Yuewu to move in and they did so only for the sake of ceremonies.

However, she had never expected that Wei Yuewu actually came to the capital alive.

“Shut up!”

Lady Li quickly scolded Wei Yan in a low voice when she noticed that the Madam Dowager turned her eyes toward them. She winked at Wei Yan and turned to the Madam Dowager with a forced smile. It was obviously unwise to make the Madam Dowager angry again because of a yard at this point.

Wei Yuewu was nothing but a little girl who had just came to the capital. She didn’t believe that she couldn’t beat a naïve little girl who did not yet have her hair fully grown. Lady Tu seemed to be tough, but no matter how tough she was, it was impossible for her to live in the mansion all the time. There were plenty of opportunities to deal with this little girl in future.

Besides, that yard was not so easy for Wei Yan to live in…

“Yan’er, kneel down with your mother.”

The Madam Dowager retorted sharply when she saw Lady Tu and Wei Yuewu were away. Slamming her palm heavily on the table, she looked at them with a sullen face.

Wei Yan hated being scolded in front of the servants. She had no choice but to kneel down with Lady Li, though she was extremely unwilling to do so…

Greater resentment toward Wei Yuewu filled her heart. She grew up under the care of the Madam Dowager and was most loved by her grandmother. Her wishes and orders were always fulfilled in the mansion, and she had never been so humiliated. She had never thought that she would lose face like this in front of so many people because of a cheap girl from the countryside.

She would by no means allow that cheap girl to live peacefully in her Lotus Courtyard. Just wait until the cheap girl found it impossible to live there any longer and asked to move out.

In the Lotus Courtyard.

The residence was very clean and everything was placed in an orderly manner. Several maids and old maidservants looked at each other when they saw the legendary Sixth Young Lady walking in. Although they didn’t say anything, the surprise in their eyes was obvious.

The courtyard was originally prepared by the Second Lady for the Second Young Lady. However, it turned out that the Sixth Young Lady, who had just entered the mansion a short while ago, moved in. This was indeed surprising.

Wei Yuewu seemed to overlook the shocked eyes of the maids and old maidservants in the yard. She led Lady Tu directly into the house and Jin Ling had already ordered a little girl outside to send tea.

Lady Tu received the tea and had a sip. She then looked closely at Wei Yuewu’s delicate eyebrows and eyes. She was speechless for a moment.

Eyebrows and eyes as beautiful as such were almost matchless. Even girls from the Tu family, which was known for producing beauties, could hardly compete with this niece. Could such beauty be hidden for a lifetime? For a while, Lady Tu couldn’t help but feel a mixture of emotions crowding into her heart!

No wonder Wei Yuewu’s deceased mother, her sister-in-law, could win Marquis Hua Yang over from that person. However, she wasn’t sure whether that victory was a blessing or a curse if she thought thoroughly about it. After all, her sister-in-law also died in the marriage. Somehow, Lady Tu sighed in her heart and looked at Wei Yuewu more gently.

“Eldest Aunt, granny said that it was a blessing to live an ordinary life in peace. But when it’s useless to do that, just fight back.”

Wei Yuewu said softly with a smile as she inferred what Lady Tu was thinking about.

Now that she had chosen this path, she would not hide it from Lady Tu. And judging from the fact that Lady Tu had come to her rescue this time, she knew she had the support of her granny.

“Your granny was doing these out of concern for you.”

Lady Tu nodded. It was not hard to guess her mother-in-law’s mind. If her sister-in-law had not been so beautiful, she would never have been involved in so much trouble. For this reason, her sister-in-law lost her life at a young age, leaving Wei Yuewu, an unloved girl, who had to be sent to her granny’s home and raised up there.

Lady Tu reached out to take a package from an old maidservant standing behind her and pushed the package to Wei Yuewu.” Yuewu, your granny prepared this for you. You came to the capital because you had no alternative, but you almost died on the way. She was really painful. She thought for a long time and asked me to give this to you. It might help you.”

Lady Tu sighed at the thought of her sister-in-law who died so young. Although this gentle and tender sister-in-law married Marquis Hua Yang no more than two years after she was married, in her memory, this sister-in-law had always been a lovely woman with a sincere heart. Unfortunately, such a good woman died so young.

When she was married with Marquis Hua Yang, a young man highly valued by the emperor, she was the object of envy for all other girls. But who would have expected…

Wei Yuewu slowly opened the package. She saw a dark gold box.

“Eldest Aunt, what is…” Shocked, Wei Yue looked up in amazement.

Though this kind of dark gold was not really golden, the color was absolutely not accessible to ordinary families. In fact, only big families that had connections with the royal family might be able to use it. Although her maternal grandparents’ family was a local noble family, it was really only moderately wealthy and powerful compared with those well-known families in the capital that had a history of hundreds of years.

How could her maternal grandparents own such a box?