Chapter 1191 If Mother Is Really Alive
E’niang had been waiting in the living room for a while. It had been almost two hours, but Great Elder Princess had not sent anyone to say anything. She couldn’t help feeling confused and even a little hesitant.
It was very quiet in the room. She was alone, and there was no one outside the window. But she knew that there were two servant girls standing at the door. She might not be able to leave now.
In fact, she was indeed too reckless to come over today. At this time, Great Elder Princess did not see her, which made her relieved.
The door was suddenly pushed open. Seeing Shao Wanru’s delicate face behind the door, E’niang inexplicably panicked and took two steps back subconsciously. She would rather see Rui’an Great Elder Princess than see Princess Chen.
Compared with Rui’an Great Elder Princess, Princess Chen was more difficult to deal with. Although she was at such a young age, no one could tell what she was thinking about. Her beautiful eyes looked very clear, but they were always elusive.
Seeing Shao Wanru coming over, E’niang hurriedly collected herself, stepped forward, and said respectfully, “Greetings, Princess Chen!”
“No need to stand on ceremony!” Shao Wanru said lightly. She sat down in the seat above and looked at E’niang with her watery eyes. She frowned slightly, and the seemingly subtle scrutiny made E’niang feel more and more uneasy.
“Do you know Miss Gu?” Shao Wanru asked after a long while.
Only then did E’niang feel relaxed, and the feeling of being examined immediately decreased.
“My carriage collided with Miss Gu’s. She didn’t blame me. She was kind and talked with me for a while and talk about something in the past,” E’niang said. She remembered this matter very smoothly. No matter who asked about it in the future, she would say so.
“Something in the past?” Shao Wanru raised her eyebrows.
E’niang lowered her head and didn’t dare to look at her beautiful eyes. “Miss Gu said that… her family has connections with the imperial censor’s family…”
Because of their interactions, they had a common topic, which confirmed her identity.
Of course, it was Rui’an Great Elder Princess who had helped E’niang obtain this fake identity. In order to confirm this identity, E’niang put on more airs as the daughter of the previous imperial censor in front of others, but this kind of air would not work in front of Shao Wanru.
She knew the inside story.
The more E’niang thought about it, the more uneasy she felt.
“I heard that you gave Hao’er a bracelet that Mother wore. Where did you get it?” Shao Wanru didn’t ask any further questions and changed the topic.
E’niang breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said with a smile, “Infanta Qinghua gave it to me, and I have been keeping it. That day, I originally wanted to send it to the Great Elder Princess’s Mansion, but I was afraid of disturbing the Great Elder Princess, so I specially went to the young inheritor and asked him to help send it in!”
It was a reasonable reason and action. Everything was right. What she intended to do was to get familiar with Shao Yuanhao and his surrounding environment.
This was one of the tasks that the marquis had instructed her.
She also had selfish motives, so she sent some old clothes of Infanta Qinghua this time. It was not the marquis’s idea to send the old clothes. She was even afraid that the marquis would know it, so she secretly came over.
Shao Wanru’s eyes fell on a blue parcel on the side. There was a strange look on her face as she asked, “Is this Mother’s old stuff you brought over?”
“It’s some of the old clothes that Infanta Qinghua used to wear. I kept them as a souvenir. When I saw that the young inheritor missed her so much that day, I specially packed some up and delivered them here,” E’niang said with a laugh. She felt somehow embarrassed.
Shao Wanru reached out her hand. Yujie stepped forward, took the parcel to the table in front of her, and untied the several strong knots on it.
There were not many things inside, only two sets of old clothes. They looked a little old, and the material was still good. It was obvious that ordinary people could not afford them. There was a pair of small earrings placed together with the clothes. They were not very big ruby earrings, and there were three round pearls hanging under them.
This was Shao Wanru’s mother’s relic, which she had seen in the album. It was one of the things that had been lost in the Marquis Xing’s Mansion. At that time, Old Madam had repeatedly said that it had been lost.
“Just like the bracelets before, these were given to me by Infanta Qinghua. I was reluctant to wear them, so I put them away carefully.” E’niang looked at Shao Wanru’s expression carefully. Seeing that her expression was gentle and only the corners of her eyes were slightly red, she breathed a sigh of relief inwardly. “No matter how shrewd she is, she is still Infanta Qinghua’s daughter.
“It goes the same for the young inheritor and Great Elder Princess.
“I have to make good use of the resources of Great Elder Princess’s Mansion and let Great Elder Princess protect me sincerely. Even if Marquis doesn’t want me to be his legal wife, with Great Elder Princess’s support, I’ll still be a secondary legal wife.
“Marquis has his way, but so do I.
“When necessary, I may have an unexpected surprise with Rui’an Great Elder Princess’s help.”
“Are these Mother’s clothes from the capital city or Jiangzhou?” Shao Wanru asked, gently stroking the corner of the clothes with soft eyes.
“These are her clothes in the capital city. When she was in Jiangzhou, she wasn’t particular about dressing,” E’niang said.
Shao Wanru raised her head and glanced at E’niang. There seemed to be waves in her eyes that E’niang could not understand, but in the end, she suppressed them to be calm to the extreme.
“E’niang, I will remember your loyalty to my mother.”
“Thank you, Your Highness. This is what I should do. I would always do whatever I can for Infanta Qinghua,” E’niang said gratefully. She looked as if she was so moved that she was about to cry.
She was really excited. If she could make Princess Chen lower her guard against her and treat her with sincerity, Princess Chen would be much more useful than Rui’an Great Elder Princess to her.
Shao Wanru took the tea from Qu Le, took a sip, and asked slowly, “How… is it going with you?”
“Old Madam doesn’t want me to marry into her family. Marquis is trying to wear her down. As for Madam Jiang…” E’niang paused for a moment and looked at Shao Wanru, seeming unwilling to say anything more.
“Is there a problem?”
“No problem, Your Highness. Don’t worry. I’m fine.” E’niang shook her head hurriedly.
“Is there really no problem?” Shao Wanru didn’t believe it.
“Your Highness… I just want to avenge Infanta Qinghua as soon as possible. Madam Jiang… Madam Jiang treated Infanta Qinghua so badly that I can’t wait to find her immediately.” E’niang wiped away her tears and felt sad and angry for her former master.
Shao Wanru immediately found the key point and asked, “Madam Jiang won’t let you in?”
“How could Madam Jiang let me in? She… she might have noticed something… She killed Infanta Qinghua back then, and I wanted to take revenge on her…” E’niang said resentfully, gnashing her teeth.
“Do you need my help?” Shao Wanru said lightly.
E’niang looked at Shao Wanru timidly with expectation in her eyes, but she stammered, “It would be best if… if you could tell go to her… but… but you may not be able to see Madam Jiang. Besides, I’m afraid that you and Madam Jiang will be at odds with each other… Forget it!”
Her expectant and hesitant expression perfectly interpreted her meaning.
Shao Wanru waved her hand and said, “Alright, that’s enough. When I have the chance, I will say the words for you!”
“Thank you, Your Highness. Thank you, Your Highness!” E’niang was overjoyed. It was really a surprise that Princess Chen agreed to intercede for her. As expected, Infanta Qinghua’s former clothes worked.
“You can leave now. If you find some of my mother’s old objects again, take them here with you, and I will give you a generous reward!” Shao Wanru said lightly.
“Yes, Your Highness. I’ll look for more. Maybe I can find something.” E’niang nodded repeatedly.
“You may leave now!”
“Yes, Your Highness. I’ll take my leave first.” E’niang stopped at the right time and left.
When she arrived at the door and looked at the sky outside, she couldn’t help smiling and then left slowly.
In contrast, Shao Wanru, who was in the room, looked serious. She reached out to pick up the pair of earrings on one side and looked at them carefully. They were indeed her mother’s earrings. Such earrings were custom-made and had been recorded.
“Were they embezzled by Madam Jiang, fell into Shao Jing’s hands, and finally became E’niang’s?
“That’s impossible. Madam Jiang must have kept a close eye on such things. She would never let Shao Jing take them away, and Shao Jing would never give such things to his mistress.
“He would rather buy her some new ones than give her such things with drawings.
“Keeping a mistress doesn’t require such good jewelry, or it could easily expose her identity and arouse Madam Jiang’s anger.
“So is that really that Mother gave E’niang these earrings?
“E’niang is just an ordinary servant girl, and she didn’t serve Mother when Mother married into Marquis Xing’s Mansion. Therefore, she doesn’t know that Mother would not give her this kind of jewelry with pictures on it. She would only give it to her own children. How could Mother really give it to her?
“Since none of those assumptions makes sense, it means that E’niang took these earrings from Mother’s ears.
“If that’s the case, does it mean…”
The speculation in her heart became clearer. Shao Wanru’s heart beat wildly, and she had a feeling that it was about to jump out of her chest. She held the thick corner of the package and tried hard to suppress the shock in her heart. She hoped that her guess was true, but she felt that it was impossible.
“Let’s go to see Grandma!”
Only her grandmother could answer her questions. Of course, she would not tell her grandmother the inside story for the time being, so as not to make her guess turned out to be a damp squib in the end.
“If… if Mother is really alive…
“If… if those candles truly worked and have been effective for a long time, it will mean that some things are not destined.
“However, this is too absurd. How… how could this be possible?” She went out in a panic and almost hit the door frame on one side. If Yujie hadn’t pulled her quickly, she would have passed out directly.
Even if she hadn’t been hit in the head now, she still felt dizzy.
She was going to find her grandmother, as if only in this way could she be sure of this guess.
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