Unforgettable Emperor's Favor Chapter 20.1

Published at 3rd of May 2023 06:38:26 AM

20. Grievance (1)

Yu Qingjia held the door with one hand and put her head over Murong Yan's side to look at the back of the covered room. Murong Yan moved but in the end he still stood firmly in place, and did not dodge.

Since she was standing close, Yu Qingjia's sleeves brushed against the back of Murong Yan's hands. She was looking carefully inside the room, and really did not find anything unusual, she looked up at Murong Yan in surprise and said, “You really want to live here?”

Yu Qingjia's head was at his shoulder, and Murong Yan could see Yu Qingjia's eyes looking at him intently and curiously if he just lowered his head a little. Her eyelashes were long and curved, fluttering gently like butterfly wings. Murong Yan looked down at her, and finally turned away without saying a word. Although he didn't say anything, his attitude was already clear enough.

Yu Qingjia was helpless, 'Well, the vixen's mind is always so unpredictable, since this is what she wants, then let her be.'

Yu Wenjun and Yu Qingjia had stayed in Qingzhou for the past two years, and Yu Ermao also moved away from the residence for nearly ten years. The heavy courtyard had not been inhabited for two years, and even with three servant girls taking care of it, a lot of places were inevitably dusty and damp. Yu Qingjia ordered the maids to boil water and scrub, and they were busy until nightfall before they could finally settle down.

Because they had cleaned the whole courtyard all day, Yu Qingjia couldn't sleep well and kept tossing and turning around in her bed. But not far from them to another courtyard belonging to the first household, there are also people who can not sleep for a long time.

Madam Li picked up the wick in the copper lamp with scissors, but after cutting for a long time she could not twist the scorched thread off. So her heart became even more irritated. She threw the scissors on t nohe table with a bang, “I heard that the daughter of the second household is back?”

Yu Qingya nodded casually, Madam Li bit her lip, paused for a moment, and couldn't help but lean over and ask, “What about your father?”

'My father?' Yu Qingya was disdainful. She wished she didn't have such a white-eyed wolf of a biological father. But Madam Li had been alone for several years and had long been looking forward to Yu Wenjun's return. After seeing Madam Li's expectant expression, Yu Qingya could only casually say, “He was injured and is still in Pingchang County.”

Madam Li let out a soft “Ah”, and quickly asked, “He was injured? How did it happen? Was it serious?”

Yu Qingya remembered that in her previous life, Yu Wenjun had also encountered bandits on the road when he came back, and she had not expected that he could not escape this calamity even though she had advanced his return date. It seems that this is his fate. She doesn't really care, she knows what will happen later, of course she understands that Yu Wenjun's injury is nothing, he will be able to come back after a few more months of recovery. She was about to say it, when a voice suddenly sounded in her head, 「Host, do not divulge the future process.」

Yu Qingya's words almost rolled off her tongue but she quickly swallowed them back, and she asked in her mind, “Not even to my own mother?”

「According to the female-matching agreement, the host is not allowed to reveal the existence of the system and events that had not occurred yet to any third party.」 

Yu Qingya regretted that she was overjoyed to get the system at that time and signed a contract with it directly by dropping her blood without reading the agreement. And now she finally realized that the system's rules and regulations were really extreme. She can not reveal Yu Wenjun's whereabouts to her mother, so she can only casually comfort her, “Mother you do not have to worry, father said in the letter that he happened to meet with the governor of Pingchang County after he was attacked that day. He and the governor of Pingchang County have been friends for a long time. When the governor learned about this matter he was immediately furious, and took him back to the city to recuperate. He also sent people to chase after the mountain bandits. The governor's mansion has all kinds of servants and slaves, so I think he should be fine.”

Li answered with a sigh of relief, she patted her chest, her tone somehow suddenly became a bit sour, “Your father really knows a lot of people.”

Yu Wenjun is broad-minded and loves to travel a lot. He's especially talented in music and landscape painting. He makes a ton of unconventional friendships without any concern for his status. His character was highly respected by the literati, but in Madam Li's opinion, it was a bit out of his identity. Madam Li was betrothed to the eldest son of the Yu family, and ever since her childhood she had also been educated well by her family about how to manage the clan matters. She had always advocated for Yu Wenjun to make friends with the nobles and strive for the top position in the officialdom. What is the use of him hanging out with a bunch of ordinary people every day?

Madam Li said, “I always persuaded him to make more friends with the scholars and go out with my brothers, but he would always refuse to listen. If he had listened to me earlier, he would have been the governor of Yanzhou by now, and would not have spent his time in a desolate place like Qingzhou. It is really a barbaric place, and there are still a lot of uneducated bandits.” At this point, Madam Li snorted coldly, showing a hint of displeasure, and said contemptuously, “It's true that all good medicine tastes bitter, and truthful words are often harsh. I said a lot of things for his own good, but he never wanted to listen. On the contrary, another young woman spoke according to his wishes, and even accompanied him to play the Qin, paint, and travel around the rivers and mountains. She would even ask him to do whatever he pleases. I as his wife was simply doing my best for his own good but instead I have become the villain.”

No one else can make Madam Li so angry except Madam Yu. When she was first married Into the Yu Family, she was also disdainful of Madam Yu, and she did not feel that she had interfered in anyone else's marriages. Even if Madam Yu was betrothed ahead of her, she is still the first Madam of the first household, and basically she was superior in order of seniority. Madam Li should rightfully feel that she should be ahead of her in every way. However, a lot of things can not be done easily just because people are giving decency to the elders. Yu Wenjun really has no other intentions towards his former sister-in-law, and after their marriage, although they were a married couple in name, he would still often choose to sleep alone by himself. Madam Li's attitude as the eldest daughter-in-law, also refused to bend in front of Yu Wenjun. So three months later, when Madam Yu finally entered the door, Madam Li saw that Yu Wenjun was uncharacteristically sleeping in the second household everyday, and only then did she start to panic.

Yu Laojun is biased to Madam Li, and the elders of the first household were also in favor of her. The second household's second old madam had long lived as a Buddhist monk, and only the two juniors, Yu Wenjun and Madam Yu were left for themselves. So how can they argue back with the elders? Yu Laojun, after using the excuse of filial piety, didn't allow for Madam Yu to speak up. So on the pretext of letting Madam Yu take care of her illness, Yu Laojun had Madam Yu keep watch beside her during the night. She was coughing and decocting medicine almost the entire night. Yu Laojun had to pick on her for everything, and within a few days, Yu Laojun had a rosy complexion, but Madam Yu had fallen down first.

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