The old lady is reborn

Jiang Muwan's uncle Ye Xun set out from Jiangnan at this time. He had grown his hair long and tied it inside a crown, and he no longer looked like a monk, but he was traveling with a monk and a Taoist priest.

The monk was big and strong, like an iron tower, while the Taoist was as thin as a bamboo pole and as fierce as a breeze. If he walked behind the big monk, he would not be able to see that there was another person.

Nine and a half years ago, he received a letter from his sister Ye Xuan. This thick letter, written in an urgent and detailed tone, instructed him on many things.

The first one was that he must not save the brother and sister. Ye Xuan wrote repeatedly: Don't save them, don't save them!

In the end, perhaps because she was afraid that her brother Ye Xun would not listen to her, she added that if he really couldn't bear it, he could just give him ten taels of silver.

Perhaps she was afraid that her brother might have mistaken her for someone else, or that she thought what she wrote was unbelievable and would just laugh it off. In her letter, the sister described in detail how the siblings dressed and what they said when they first met him.

Judging from the signature on the letter, this letter written by his sister took about two months and went through many twists and turns before it reached him.

Ye Xun was so unsure whether he had missed the brother and sister until he followed his father's arrangement and went to his own restaurant to accommodate the new manager.

Not far from his restaurant, a brother and sister were beaten up by several servants for stealing jewelry and other valuables from their host's house.

The brother and sister, who were beaten so hard that they kept begging for mercy, cried to the crowd onlookers that their father was disabled and their mother was mentally ill, and both were in poor health and needed to take medicine all year round.

Their father passed away two days ago, and the family had no money to bury him, so the brother and sister had no choice but to take the host's property.

The elder sister scolded her younger brother for being stupid. He was the only male in the family. It was agreed that she would steal things and take care of the burial arrangements, and if anything went wrong, the elder sister would be the only one to bear the consequences.

But the younger brother asked his sister to do the job well and he would do the job himself. As a result, both of them were caught and neither of them could escape.

The younger brother hugged his sister and cried, saying that he could not do such a thing. No matter what, the two siblings had to stay together.

Someone nearby asked how much had been stolen and why the siblings were beaten like this.

The servants didn't say anything, but continued to beat people with sticks and whips.

The younger brother struggled to answer: "Ten taels of silver."

The elder sister also said: "A golden hairpin."

The gold hairpin has been returned, but the money was spent on buying a coffin, shrouds, erecting a tombstone, and hiring people to handle the funeral.

The brother and sister were slaves themselves. They were sold into death indentures by their father, and now even if they were beaten to death by their master, it seemed that no one else could do anything about it.

Ye Xun remembered the instructions in Ye Xuan's letter, and endured it without paying attention. He finished the task assigned by his father, looked at the restaurant bill, tasted the new dishes, and got in the carriage to leave.

The brother and sister were beaten until their clothes were soaked in blood. More and more people gathered around, and the carriage could no longer pass, so it had to go around two streets.

Ye Xun felt that this was too long a detour, so he asked the carriage to take a detour while he walked through the crowded crowd.

You can also take a look at your own tea shop at the street corner in front.

Not sure if it was because of the crowd, but Ye Xun somehow stood at the edge of the "circle", and was suddenly hugged by the beaten sister: "Please, save my brother, don't worry about me, save my brother. Please buy him, he will be beaten to death."

Ye Xun looked down at her. Although she was a servant, she was not wearing a maid's attire. She was wearing a light blue dress, emerald earrings, and a silver hairpin in the shape of a magnolia flower.

What she said and what she wore were the same as what Ye Xuan wrote in the letter, except that there were shocking bloodstains on the light-colored dress.

Ye Xun slowly pulled out his legs, said nothing, and walked forward in silence.

"If you really can't bear it, just give me ten taels of silver." So he stopped and glanced back, and saw the woman looking around with a desperate look in her eyes.

He walked back.

Someone pleaded with the head servant: "Let's all gather ten taels of silver and use the money to pay back your master. Then you can stop beating this man. He has been beaten to such an extent."

The servant waved his hand: "It's not about ten taels of silver."

It’s not about money? Ye Xun stopped.

The servant then asked the brother and sister, "Are you still running?"

He waved his hand and had someone tie him up and take him back.

One of the younger brother's legs seemed to be broken. He was pulled up by the servant, but he couldn't stand steadily and fell down again.

The servants cursed: "What bad luck! Do we have to carry him back?"

"Run, I told you to run, you deserve to have your legs broken!"

The woman over there suddenly got up from the ground and ran towards the shops on the roadside. The crowd moved aside to make way for her. I don't know whether they sincerely wanted to help her survive or were afraid of bumping into this scarred woman.

Ye Xun watched as the woman knelt down and kowtowed in front of the first shop. The people inside probably didn't know what she meant, so they took out food and tea, and seemed to be shouting for a doctor to come.

When they noticed a few servants rushing over with ferocious looks, the people in the shop stopped and went back to their shops, leaving the woman alone outside the shop.

So the woman stood up and kowtowed to the second shop for help, which was the Wei family's calligraphy and painting studio.

It seemed that several people came out, surrounding one person. The servants were talking to these people.

In the end, it seemed that the Wei family rescued the siblings. The next day, Ye Xun heard people talking about how the siblings were not destined to die. The eldest son of the Wei family was in the painting and calligraphy studio at the time, so the siblings' host family had to give the Wei family some face, not to mention that the Wei family paid double the indenture silver.

Others were discussing that of the Ye and Wei families in Jiangnan, everyone had seen the head of the Ye family, Ye Zhengcheng, but the young master of the Ye family, Ye Xun, was so secretive that no one knew his true identity.

Others said that the Ye family only had one son, so they naturally kept a close eye on him, unlike the Wei family who had three sons...

After my elder sister got married, my mother passed away, and I had to depend on my father for everything. Although the Ye family was extremely wealthy, the family was indeed small.

And now that his father has passed away, he has returned to secular life and gone to Kyoto...where his sister's only blood relative, Jiang Muwan, lives.

It's been almost ten years, and I can finally... The hard days are finally over.

In Kyoto, after Shen Jingzhu gave birth to Xu Changfeng, Su Lan gave birth to another son, Xu Changxiao.

Song Ying said happily: "The crane roared beyond the nine heavens. Good, good. The Xu family's ancestors are still alive. Mother and child are safe."

With the heavy stone lifted from their hearts, Cao Yu, or rather Xu Kui and Peng Huan, wondered whether they could smile.