"Ming Yang, are you sure?" Ming Liu asked indifferently.
To plead for a not favored young lady and offend a favored one, she surely wasn’t foolish.
Ming Yang took a deep breath, "If you won’t go, I will!" After saying that, she entered the inner hall and knelt before the elderly lady, "Elderly Lady, it’s cold outside, please let the fourth young lady get up!"
Upon hearing this, the old lady’s eyes lit up.
She was prepared to take this opportunity to allow Yun Jinnian to return.
Xu Xinmo suddenly started to cry loudly, "Wuwu, I want to go back to the Xu Family, wuwu, Grandmother doesn’t love me anymore, wuwu, I want to go back to the Xu Family!"
Disturbed and vexed by Xu Xinmo’s crying yet feeling pity for her and blaming her for being senseless.
But after all, she was the precious darling, the apple of her eye, pampered and treasured.
"Ming Yang will become a second-class maid, go down!"
Ming Yang, deeply disappointed, bowed her head forcefully, then stood up and left the room. Seeing Ming Liu’s smug look and then looking at Yun Jinnian, who was looking up at the sky in the courtyard, Ming Yang felt a bitter pain in her heart.
Inside the room, Xu Xinmo was still fussing about going back to the Xu Family, with the old lady softly whispering to her.
"All right, all right, what do you have to do not to go back to the Xu Family?"
"I hate Ming Yang, she helped Yun Jinnian bully me. I don’t want her to stay at Cixin Academy anymore. Grandmother, kick her out, wuwu..."
"Alright, alright, kick her out, later on let the broker sell her off!"
"Selling her would be too lenient, let her go to the laundry room to wash clothes, no, first make her kneel in the courtyard too!"
"Alright, alright, Ming Yang, why aren’t you kneeling!"
Outside the small hall, Ming Yang’s heart grew colder.
Chilling to the bone, causing anguish to the heart.
The elderly lady she wholeheartedly served was pandering to a capricious granddaughter.
Looking toward Ming Liu, she only saw pity in her eyes. Step by step, Ming Yang walked to Yun Jinnian’s side and kneeled down.
Yun Jinnian glanced at Ming Yang but said nothing, continuing to look at the sky.
"It’s going to snow!" Yun Jinnian said indifferently.
This snow kept falling, kept falling, until mid-December. Although it is said that heavy snow promises a prosperous year, this snowfall led Great Chu Country to face a disaster the following year.
Too much snow, melting into water, was the same as a flood caused by excessive rain.
Ming Yang was astonished and looked up to see that it was indeed beginning to snow.
At first, it was light, but then it started to fall heavily.
The two of them were kneeling in the courtyard, soon covered with a thin layer of snow.
Inside the house, joy and laughter spilled out, with Yun Musi and Yun Mulan teasing the old lady and Xu Xinmo.
Watching Ming Yang kneeling in the courtyard, Ming Liu felt that in that instant, she had lost so much...
Upon seeing Ru Yang, the butler looked astounded, "You’re looking for whom?"
"Seeking the second master. The fourth young lady and the cousin had some dispute at the academy, and the cousin went to the old lady to tattle. The fourth young lady could face severe punishment by the old lady!"
The butler felt a bit nervous, taking a deep breath before speaking, "The second master hasn’t returned home for half a year!"
The second master, also Yun Jinnian’s birth father Yun Qi, was once a Third Place Scholar, highly esteemed by the emperor. But for some unknown reason, he suddenly resigned from his official post to become a merchant, and the second madam, Mrs. Han, was also sent away to the countryside.
The third master, Yun Bi, also a Third Place Scholar, requested a transfer after the second master resigned and the second madam was sent away and hasn’t returned home in these years, only occasionally sending back a letter—still unmarried to this day!
"Butler, I beg you, please send someone to ask the second master to come back, or even the master would do, otherwise the fourth young lady..."
The butler also knew the matter was urgent and could not be delayed, "You go back first, I’ll send someone to find him right away!"