Chapter 55 Courteous (2)
Chen Hui slept without much burden. When she woke up in the afternoon, Xiao Wu came again with an expression that he was in a difficult situation.
“Lady Chen, that woman is still waiting outside,” Xiao Wu said.
Chen Hui thought for a moment and said to Xiao Wu, “Let her wait at the gatehouse. I will go see her.”
“Yes, Lady Chen!” Xiao Wu went away happily.
If it wasn’t because Chen Hui knew that Xiao Wu was too kind, she would most likely think that he had taken the other party’s money…However, the two things didn’t seem to conflict.
Chen Hui asked Xiao Tiao to find her the simplest clothes. She dressed up in front of the mirror. After looking left and right in front of the mirror, she was very satisfied. She deliberately didn’t bring Xiao Tiao and went to the gatehouse.
Chen Hui was originally walking gracefully and with light steps. When she approached the gatehouse, she slowed down abruptly and crooked her back. She rubbed her eyes very hard. When she arrived at the gatehouse, she was already a pitiful person with very plain and simple clothes, an incessantly haggard face, pale lips and red eyes.
The woman in the gatehouse was accompanied by a maid. Xiao Wu was the first one to notice Chen Hui. Happiness appeared on his face. Then, he became surprised again. He only didn’t see her for a short moment, why did Lady Chen become like this?
That woman also noticed Chen Hui’s arrival. At the moment, the sky was a bit cloudy. Under the not-so-bright light, Chen Hui’s haggard appearance became three-dimensional and vivid. The eyes of the woman immediately reddened, “My poor little Hui!”
Chen Hui said politely to Xiao Wu, “Xiao Wu, you don’t have to wait for me. Go back first…this Lady Chen doesn’t dare to run around.”
Xiao Wu was overwhelmed with joy. No, it could be called sincerity and fright. He hurriedly said, “No, no…”
When Chen Hui looked up, Xiao Wu was startled and hurriedly said, “Then, this little one will go back first…” After saying that, he hurriedly went back to Chrysanthemum Yard.
Chen Hui looked at the woman and smiled reluctantly, “Mother.”
“Little Hui!” The woman wanted to come over and hug Chen Hui, but she dodged the hug.
Facing the woman’s stunned look, Chen Hui smiled bitterly, “This is Lord Li’s residence after all. So, don’t be presumptuous.”
The woman lowered her hands. The astonishment on her face disappeared gradually, leaving only pity.
Chen Hui said, “Don’t know why mother is looking for this Lady Chen?” She opened the door to see the mountain and didn’t intend to reminisce with the other party. She didn’t accept the memories of the original after all and reminiscing would bring trouble.
- Opened the door to see the mountain: get right to the point.
Madam Fang was dumbstruck for a moment. She wiped her tears with a handkerchief and was a bit ashamed to speak for a moment.
Chen Hui didn’t urge her. She just lowered her head and looked melancholic.
In fact, when madam Fang saw that her daughter wasn’t living well in Li residence, she was also reluctant to mention the reason she came. However, when she thought of her husband and the current state of Chen household, she could only speak, “Little Hui, mother came today to ask you to beg Lord Li for mercy…”
Chen Hui looked at madam Fang without saying anything.
Madam Fang was a bit embarrassed being looked at by her daughter. She sighed and said in a low voice, “Little Hui, mother knows that you blame your father, but you also shouldn’t have betrayed your father that day at the lobby of the Ministry of Justice! Now, your father just got better from the injuries and you look like this…if you testified that day, all of us wouldn’t have fallen to this state today!”
Chen Hui lowered her head and said quietly, “Mother, do you know that father gave me to Lord Li?”
Madam Fang was dumbstruck for a moment, “Mother…mother only found out the next day. I scolded and have a fight with him, but…”
Chen Hui said, “But you have never come to see me once.” Her red eyes became redder. “It has been more than two months now. I am a weak woman. Staying here without status, did you think about how painful it is for me?”
“Little Hui…,” Madam Fang also choked.
Chen Hui looked away, “Mother, it was obviously father who made me unconscious and sent me here, but he falsely accused Lord Li. No matter how generous Lord Li is, he cannot forgive Chen household. That you are alive now is the kindness of Lord Li.”
Chen Hui was indeed surprised that Li Youde didn’t kill Chen household.
“But now, if you continue like this, the whole Chen household won’t be able to survive!” Madam Fang cried.
Chen Hui said, “Mother, look at me.”
Madam Fang raised her head and looked at Chen Hui.
Chen Hui got two steps closer and leaned into madam Fang’s eyes. She said, “Mother, do you really think that what I speak counts here? Don’t you know what identity Lord Li has and what his temperament is? My days may be worse than yours.”
It was unknow what madam Fang guessed from Chen Hui’s words, her face paled and she stared in a daze at Chen Hui.
Chen Hui stepped back and said sadly, “Mother, don’t come looking for this daughter anymore in the future. Just pretend that you haven’t given birth to me. I am not sure when I will anger Lord Li and become a piece of loess in the wilderness.”
Madam Fang opened and closed her mouth but she couldn’t say anything.
Chen Hui wiped her eyes and said, “Mother, it was hard to beg that person to let me come out. Did he say before that I didn’t want to see you? Actually, that is not…Ay, mother, let’s take today as us bidding each other farewell. If I am lucky enough in the next life to become your daughter again, let me repay your kindness then.”
Having said that, Chen Hui covered her face and ran out. Madam Fang wanted to chase, but the porter not far away wouldn’t let her in. She could only return without success with the maid.
After Chen Hui bypassed the spirit wall and made sure that the other party couldn’t see her, she wiped her face and strode forward with her head high in the direction of Chrysanthemum Yard. It seemed that the haggard make-up she did was quite effective. Since Chen household had such a thick face to come to seek for help at Li residence after failing to frame Lord Li, of course, she could also refuse with a thick face.
- Spirit wall: screen wall used to shield an entrance in Chinese traditional houses.
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