Country Maiden: Fields and Fortune

Chapter 563: Chapter 563: Xīnrán (13 more updates)

We should also inform the relatives, and from now on, avoid the Lu Family and the Wang Family; befriending those two families would be tantamount to opposing the Chu Family.

Chu Yun’an had already prepared thank-you gifts, and now with these two pieces of raw jade material, they may not be exceedingly valuable, but they were presentable.

Compared to the life-saving medicine pill given by Miss Xie, they surely weren’t even one ten-millionth as significant.

“Mother, you go back to rest, I’ll keep vigil over Big Brother!”

“Go rest yourself, I’ll watch over your Big Brother. You still have to go to the county town tomorrow!”

Mother and son were both urging each other.

The old maidservant serving Lady Chu stepped forward, “Madam, Second Young Master, why don’t you both rest on the soft couch over there, I’ll have some people keep watch here!”

Chu Yun’an also immediately urged a few words.

Only then did Lady Chu agree to rest first.

She repeatedly instructed the servants to keep a close watch, looking back three times with every step she took.

That night, many couldn’t sleep.

Lu Yuyu and the young master from the Wang Family had been kicked out by their families, penniless. Fortunately, the young master from the Wang Family had previously acquired a mansion as a retreat for the couple’s clandestine rendezvous, and now they had no choice but to live there.

But when it was truly just the two of them, the dense passion and sweetness of the early days were long gone, replaced only with mutual loathing and complaints.

Even though Lu Yuyu held complaints in her heart, she still harbored a sliver of hope. However, the young master from the Wang Family was truly furious. His family had more than just one son; he also had a legitimate younger brother, as well as two brothers born to concubines. Now that he’d been expelled, returning would be anything but easy.

Seeing Lu Yuyu in that state irritated the Wang Family’s young master, and he told her to stay away from him.

“…” Lu Yuyu never imagined that the man who once sweet-talked her would now loathe her so; she whimpered and started crying softly.

“Stop crying, or else get out!” the young master from the Wang Family was also frightened inside, afraid that Lu Yuyu would poison him.

Just like what happened to Chu Yunping, slowly losing his life to it.

This woman was a venomous serpent.

Lu Yuyu was startled by the shouting, but after the initial shock, she felt a surge of immense anger.

If it wasn’t for this despicable man seducing her, how would she have poisoned Chu Yunping? How would she have become so infatuated with him that she didn’t cherish her life with Chu Yunping?

And now he despises her as well?

Overcome with fury, she lunged at him, and they began to fight.

Neither were easy opponents.

One was heartless, the other venomous, one shameless, the other vile. As they fought, each was hurt in his and her own way.

Finally, disheveled and exhausted, one was lying on the ground cursing profusely, devoid of any grace, while the other curled up in a corner, crying, the room filled with resentment.

No matter how much they regretted, life could not go back to the way it was; it was impossible to return to the past.

All they could do was grind their teeth and make do, trying to survive.

Without money, without food, in this place, they would be ridiculed, the subject of scorn and gossip.

Lu Yuyu had only one thought: she had to leave this place for somewhere else, otherwise, once the Chu Family recovered, after Chu Yunping died, they would never let her off.

She waited for the Wang Family’s young master to go inside to sleep, then tiptoed up, stole the Jade Pendant he wore, and left the mansion in the dead of night, stumbling as she made her escape.

Dawn broke

And a new day began.

The people of the Chu Family were very courteous, and the servants were attentive and polite. When Xie Zhinuan woke up, they brought her water for rinsing her mouth, and even the clothes she had changed out of the night before were washed clean, fragranced, and delivered to her.

“Miss, you’re awake. The kitchen has prepared breakfast. Would you like to try some wild vegetables picked fresh from the fields around here?”

Xie Zhinuan happily agreed.