In the early morning, there are various food stalls on the street, and diners are eating breakfast in groups of three or four.

Chuntao smelled the mixed aroma of meat buns and fried pancakes and kept swallowing her saliva.

Lin Yushu looked at Chuntao's greedy look and felt like laughing but also sad.

As far as she could remember, during the years she lived in the villa, she lived even worse than the maids in the general's mansion.

Although we rarely went hungry, we only ate vegetable porridge.

Mrs. Wang said that she was taking care of Lin Yushu's illness and that a light diet would help her recover as soon as possible.

This made her, who was already thin, look much more dim due to the lack of nutrition.

Lin Yushu looks bright and beautiful now, but she knows in her heart that only after she has experienced the nourishment of a rich and affluent life will her beauty become famous in the capital.

Lin Yushu didn't want Chuntao and herself to live a hard life anymore, so even though she had little money, she still took out two cents and bought three meat buns.

Chuntao took the meat bun from the stall owner with trembling hands, almost reverently, saliva dripping from the corners of her mouth, and her voice was excited.

"Miss, you are not feeling well. Eat something quickly."

Lin Yushu took a hot meat bun.

"I am weak and cannot eat too much. One is enough."

Chuntao looked at the two big meat buns in her hands in disbelief, her eyes reddened. She didn't care about the heat and finished one in just a few bites.

Looking at Chuntao wolfing down the food, Lin Yushu felt both distressed and amused.

"Eat slowly, or you'll get blisters on your mouth and you'll cry."

Just as Chuntao and I were laughing and joking, a voice exclaimed from behind, "Is that Miss Lin?"

Hearing this, Lin Yushu understood what was going on. The corners of her mouth curled up slightly without being noticed, and she turned her head to pretend to be surprised.

"Mrs. Cao?"

The woman in front of her was Mrs. Cao, whom Lin Yushu had treated in the pharmacy.

Not long after that day, Mrs. Cao woke up and realized that Lin Yushu was her savior, so she ordered someone to send a thank-you gift to Lin Yushu.

Two days ago, Mrs. Cao was finally able to walk, so she sent a note to Lin Yushu, saying that she would be going to the capital in a few days, and wanted to come to her house in person to thank Lin Yushu for saving her life before leaving.

However, after the letter was sent to the Lin Mansion, Mrs. Cao did not receive a reply from Lin Yushu.

Mrs. Cao certainly didn't know that the note she sent to Lin Yushu, as well as the thank-you gift she gave her earlier, were intercepted by Mrs. Wang, and Lin Yushu didn't even see them.

Lin Yushu, who had the memories of her past life, knew that Madam Cao would be grateful and repay her kindness, and that Mrs. Wang would certainly be greedy for Madam Cao's thank-you gift.

In order to prevent her greed for the thank-you gift from being exposed, Wang Po would naturally not give the invitation sent by Mrs. Cao to Lin Yushu.

Although Lin Yushu had not seen the thank-you gift or the invitation, she had already expected that Mrs. Cao was waiting for her reply.

So, Lin Yushu calculated the day when Madam Cao would recover, and showed up near the inn where Madam Cao was staying temporarily today, waiting for her.

Lin Yushu looked concerned, "Is Madam Cao recovering well? The yellow-striped green snake is extremely poisonous, and you must take good care of yourself after detoxification. You must not be careless. You need to lie down for a few more days to avoid leaving a root of the disease."

Listening to Lin Yushu's caring words, Mrs. Cao was touched at first, but then she realized something was wrong.

"Didn't Miss Lin receive the post I sent?"

Lin Yushu looked genuinely puzzled, "Post? What post?"

Madam Cao looked slightly angry and asked the maid beside her, "Did you personally deliver the thank-you gift and invitation to the Lin Mansion's villa?"

This little maid was one of the ones who had accompanied Madam Cao in the pharmacy, and she answered with fear and trepidation.

"I handed the thank-you gift and the invitation to a maid named Wang in the Lin Mansion's courtyard. The maid said that she was serving Miss Lin and would definitely give it to Miss Lin..."

The maidservants spoke in lower and lower voices, and Mrs. Cao's face looked unpleasant. It was obvious that they were thinking about the recent rumors.

Ever since the lawsuit against Li Erma in court, rumors have been spreading that Lin Yushu was treated harshly by her own uncle and thrown into a separate courtyard to be bullied by evil slaves.

In addition, Lin Yushu had been going out wearing coarse cloth dresses these days, and her beautiful face made her clothes look particularly tattered and glaring.

As a result, rumors in Qingshan County became more and more intense.

As expected, Mrs. Cao thought of the evil slave bullying the master, and her face was full of anger, "Minister Lin is such a good family teacher!"

Lin Yushu pretended to be surprised and seemed a little scared.

"Mrs. Wang was personally chosen by Second Aunt to take care of me in the other courtyard. She has to take care of all matters in the other courtyard on a daily basis, so it is possible that she was careless for a while. Madam Cao, please don't misunderstand Second Uncle and Second Aunt."

Mrs. Cao looked at Lin Yushu's coarse cloth dress with pity, a cautious smile on her pretty face.

Mrs. Cao believed that Lin Yushu was a kind-hearted person, and her voice softened as she thought of Lin Yushu's life-saving grace.

"Don't worry, evil people will be punished by evil people. Your uncle and aunt can't control the unruly servants in the Lin Mansion's other courtyard. There will be people who can take care of them."

Lin Yushu seemed confused and didn't understand. Madam Cao reached out and stroked Lin Yushu's hair lovingly.

"She is so young and pretty, but she dresses more plainly than a woman like me who is nearly fifty years old."

After saying that, he took Lin Yushu back to the inn where she was staying temporarily.

Censor Cao was an honest official, and the inn where Mrs. Cao lived was also very simple.

Mrs. Cao entered the inner room. Lin Yushu waited for her while drinking tea, looking around the room inconspicuously.

Apart from the items arranged by the store, there was almost no sign that any guests were staying there.

Lin Yushu couldn't help but sigh in her heart that there was probably no other official wife as honest and humble as Madam Cao in the capital.

This time, Lin Yushu used the couple to deal with her second uncle. Although it was to deal with her second aunt, it was also to save the couple.

In the previous life, the second uncle had secretly supported Nan Huaishuo early on, but remained neutral on the surface to hide his true identity.

The second uncle secretly made friends with the emperor's close ministers such as Censor Cao, and inquired about the affairs of the court for Nan Huaishuo and controlled the movements of his political enemies.

Censor Cao was a noble man who did not participate in party struggles. There were very few people who were on good terms with him, and only my second uncle could talk to him.

Lin Yushu suspected that the person who leaked the news that Censor Cao was going to submit a memorial to impeach corrupt officials to Nan Huaishuo in the previous life was her second uncle!

If in this life, Lin Yushu could have made Censor Cao recognize the true character of his second uncle early on, perhaps the disaster of the previous life could have been avoided.

Just as he was thinking about it, Madam Cao came out from the inner room, holding a crimson purse with auspicious cloud patterns in her hand, with a smile on her face.

"You live alone in the courtyard. You are not in good health and have no family to take care of you. You should eat more tonic food. Don't let yourself suffer. If you develop a chronic disease, it will be difficult for you to survive when you are old."

As he said that, he stuffed the purse into Lin Yushu's hand. Lin Yushu squeezed it and found two silver ingots, weighing twenty taels!

These twenty taels should be the money Mrs. Cao saved on her journey.

Lin Yushu's nose felt a little sore and her eyes were red.

Mrs. Cao reminded her of her long-deceased mother, who had also given her such gentle advice when she was a child.

Lin Yushu lowered her head and held back her tears. "I appreciate Madam Cao's kindness, but I can't accept this money."

Madam Cao tried to comfort her, "Don't worry. This is not just to thank you for saving my life. My daughter is older than you and just got married last year. When I saw you, I thought of her. Just think of this as a way to ease my longing for my daughter."

Lin Yushu's heart was moved. Mrs. Cao's daughter... Could it be? !

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