novelraw Chapter 251: Shui Family’s Reply
Chapter 251: Shui Family’s Reply
Yin Family, the matron finally received the letter from the Shui Family before the Mid-Autumn Festival.
With tears in her eyes, she glanced at the moon, which had not yet fully rounded, and pressed the letter to her chest as she hurried back to her small and shabby servant’s room.
Originally, she was highly valued by the madam and also the wet nurse of the eldest lady, so she shouldn’t have been assigned to such a place. But ever since the madam left, she has been almost like an invisible person.
Still, this place is not bad. Although it’s small and shabby, with a bed board given, it’s hard to turn around. Yet, it is a single room, unlike the dormitory for young maids, offering some privacy.
Thanks to the connections the madam once established, she still has some servants in the Yin Family willing to assist her due to old favors, which she deeply appreciates.
Soon, she could take Miss Xiaohua back to Miaojiang, back to the Shui Family. From then on, she would watch over Miss Xiaohua, who can live carefree until she grows old and passes away... asking for nothing more in this life!
The matron reached into the straw on the bed board, rummaging for a long time before she found an almost worn-out candle and carefully pulled out a fire starter from her bosom.
Lighting the remaining candle, in this dim candlelight, she squinted her slightly blurred eyes and devoutly opened the envelope, reading each character meticulously.
Halfway through, her hands began to tremble uncontrollably, and tears once again streamed down.
As if unwilling to give up, she hastily wiped her tears with her trembling hands so as not to interfere with reading the letter. Though she was just in her early thirties, ever since the madam fell ill, her worries and sorrow had consumed her life, permanently blurring her vision with uncontrolled tears.
As she shakily finished reading the letter, it was as if all strength was drained from her, her hands softened, letting the candle flame graze the letter paper. She hurriedly extinguished it, after a bout of struggling, the letter was left in tatters.
From those broken words, relying on the memory from just now, she could piece together the content of the letter. After the sadness, the matron’s heart suddenly filled with rage, gritting her teeth, this time, she intended the letter towards the candle flame herself.
However, the burning of the letter didn’t extinguish any bit of her inner anger and sorrow. Instead, it spurred a sense of impotent rage, with various negative emotions intertwined, tears welled up once more.
She desperately covered her mouth, trying not to make any sound, but the sobbing was so intense that between breaths, the cry sneaked out a few times.
Why?! Why so heartless?!
The Shui Family in madam’s memory was always warm and beautiful, those memories of the hometown were the only solace for madam in her illness besides Miss Xiaohua!
She spent a fortune to have a cultivator send the letter, day and night she hoped, only to receive the heartless rejection from the Shui Family!
The reply from the Shui Family said that the madam once used Absolute Spirit Powder on Miss Xiaohua. Thus, Miss Xiaohua was now a cripple with no spirit root or cultivation, such a cripple meant nothing to the Shui Family, and they refused to support a worthless person named Yin!
Miss Xiaohua has never borne the surname Yin! Madam never gave Miss Xiaohua a full name, partly because she didn’t want her to bear that man’s surname!
The madam was once the most beloved eldest lady by the master and mistress of the house, the Shui Family’s most prominent Saintess, her daughter should have been a cherished lady of heaven, but instead, she’s fallen to such a state!
Furthermore...