The old lady is reborn

He Yuan looked at all the servants, including Lu Yiyi in her dream.

Although she is nearly forty years old, Lu Yiyi's appearance is still outstanding among people of the same age, but the smug and provocative expression in her dreams is no longer there.

Lu Yiyi now looked at He Yuan with a calm gaze, less hostility, and a respectful attitude.

He Yuan was a little confused. The Lu Yiyi in front of her looked like an ordinary head of a mansion.

Even if I asked her to do anything, she would agree to it.

In the dream, I couldn't control her, and she would directly reject all my requests with various reasons, as if I was a newcomer and didn't know the local rules.

He Yuan asked all the servants to leave, leaving only the one who was in charge of the flowers and plants.

"I ask again, were there two osmanthus trees in the backyard?"

The steward said hurriedly, "I misremembered this. There were originally two trees, but they were infested with insects and the other tree is no longer in good condition."

He Yuan did not ask any more questions. She stood up and went back to her own yard and called over the two maids who were discussing Jingui's death in the garden.

"There are two golden osmanthus trees in the backyard?"

"Yes, ma'am."

“From what you guys are saying, these are two twenty-year-old golden osmanthus trees. How would ordinary people know how old a tree is?

You two are young and have only been in the palace for one or two years.

Who told you that?"

The two maids looked at each other and said, "Madam, we heard people talking about it when the tree was cut down and dragged away. We dare not say anything more."

He Yuan thought: Not only did they say that the golden osmanthus tree that they had been talking about for twenty years should be chopped down, but they also said that this was instructed by Lord Hou in a letter. Not everyone can know the second half of this sentence.

"Did the Marquis order this? How did you know it was the Marquis' order?"

The two knelt down and said, "Madam, we have forgotten where we got the news from. We dare not speak nonsense anymore."

He Yuan asked her personal maid to take the people away and question them until they remembered.

The matter was soon traced back to Yao Yiming, who was also Lu Yiyi's son. He was now learning bookkeeping from the accountant in the mansion.

He Yuan found that this was different from what she had in her dream. In her dream, the man took her mother's surname and was called Lu Yiming.

In the dream, he suspected that Lu Yiming and Lu Yifeng were the children of Marquis Han Zhang and Lu Yiyi, but Han Zhang flatly denied it.

Now this person is called Yao Yiming, his surname is Yao, and he has a father now?

He Yuan called the old housekeeper to ask, and he said that Lu Yiyi had been married to the head of the farm outside for nearly 20 years. At that time, the young man surnamed Yao was not even the head of the farm.

Just when He Yuan was feeling relieved and thinking that the reality might be very different from her dream and that she was probably overthinking it, her personal maid came hurriedly.

"Madam, the incense in the carriage we came from the Marquis' Mansion was tampered with. I don't know when it was replaced with that wild calming incense.

The embers were not completely removed, and there was still a lot of stain on the car mats."

He Yuan was stunned. If we talk about the convenience of making changes, then Han Zhang, the Marquis of Dongyang, is really convenient.

No wonder I slept so deeply that day.

But why let yourself fall asleep?

Not allowed to see Lu Yiyi? But allowed to see her that night?

Another of the four older girls also came back: "Madam, there has never been a love knot hanging on the osmanthus tree that was cut down half a year ago.

After asking around, everyone advised me that this is not a wishing tree and I should not hang anything on it. If the owner finds out, I will be punished.

The only thing that had been hung was a Kongming lantern that someone had released that had fallen and got stuck on the tree, but luckily the light was turned off.”