Marriage of the Di Daughter

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Marriage of the Di Daughter Chapter 131 Part 3: Aunt

Her voice was soft, almost inaudible unless you listened carefully. Jiang Li observed her, this woman was by no means a person with hysteria, and she did not hide her clear-headedness in front of her. The person she wanted to conceal this from was not her, but the target she wanted to confess this to was her.

For what?

Jiang Li smiled, “I heard when mother had just given birth to me, Aunt Hu often hugged me. So many years have passed, and there are many things that I cannot recall clearly. Seeing Aunt Hu feels very unfamiliar, but there is also a feeling of being very dear.”

Of course this was nonsense, she was not the real second miss of the Jiang family. However, even if she was the real Jiang second miss, she would probably not remember these things. After all, Jiang Li was really very young at that time.

But this sentence seemed to evoke Aunt Hu’s distant memories. Her gaze seemed far away and she slowly said, “Yes, back then…..”

She did not continue.

Jiang Li said, “That time, the eldest sister fell from the rockery, what actually happened?”

The sudden question stunned all the people in the room.

Bai Xue and Tong’er were so shocked they were rendered speechless. Although Aunt Hu seemed well, mentioning the past pain in front of a mother, in case Aunt Hu crumbled and triggered her hysteria, how could this be good?

Aunt Hu’s servant girl seemed to have received terrible news and her body shuddered slightly.

Aunt Hu looked at Jiang Li, something seemed to flashed in her eyes. She asked, “Say, what do you mean?”

“I’m just asking, is there a secret behind eldest sister’s death? For instance, she was harmed by someone?”

She spoke boldly and without restraint, one blow after another, the servant girls did not know what kind of expression would be fitting. However, Jiang Li looked calm, as if what she was asking was just an ordinary matter.

But Aunt Hu’s serene expression was broken.

She said, “Second miss, speak cautiously. Some words cannot be spoken in this residence.”

“That’s why, aunt, you have to feign hysteria, pretending not to know the hidden secret, playing deaf and mute, only then can you stay alive by luck. But suffering from a hammering heartache day after day, you cannot walk out from your daughter’s death.” She swept her gaze at the things on the table in the room.

The eldest young miss of the Jiang family died young and could not enter the Jiang family’s ancestral hall. So Aunt Hu arranged the eldest young miss’s memorial tablet in her room. She worshiped her everyday and the scent of incense remained in her room all year round. There were still some children’s toys on the table like rattle drums and other things. It could be seen that Aunt Hu was still unable to let go until now.

It had been many years, she should have been able to let go. Brooding like this, unable to let go, feeling sad, incapable of getting over it, wasn’t it because there was something behind her daughter’s death? It was actually an injustice and she was not reconciled. However, she had no other way and could only hold her resentment and hatred, living with forbearance.

However, she did not dare to forget it for even a moment.

Jiang Li looked at her and started to talk gently, “Aunt Hu, if eldest sister were still alive, she should be getting married this year. She was older than me and must be very beautiful.”

Aunt Hu closed her eyes slightly. Jiang Li saw her hands slowly clenched and relaxed on the table. She looked at Jiang Li and said, “Second miss, this concubine does not know anything.”

Jiang Li looked quietly at her for a while before speaking, “Is that so? Then it’s a pity,” she got up and patted her clothes carelessly and said, “I originally thought that perhaps I could help if there was truly something hidden inside. I’m not helping Aunt Hu, I just pity my eldest sister.”

Aunt Hu moved her lips but did not speak. Jiang Li called Bai Xue and Tong’er to leave, while walking, she said, “I still have something to do today and am not going to stay here longer. Aunt Hu does not have charcoal here and it’s really too cold. If Aunt has something to say to me, Aunt can look for me in Fang Fei Garden. There is enough charcoal in Fang Fei Garden and it’s not cold. I think Aunt should sit in Fang Fei Garden more often, after all….. My mother and you had previously had a good relationship.”

After saying this, she no longer turned her head and immediately stepped out of the door without any other greeting.

Aunt Hu did not look at her anymore, but just focusing on the tea in her cup. The tea leaves was rough and of poor quality and it was still carefully stored by the servant girl, only taken out when there was a guest. However, there was no guest in this courtyard all year round, and the tea had been kept for a long time. The room was damp and the quality had changed.

The servant girl called, “Aunt…..”

Aunt Hu sighed softly and said, “Second miss has grown up.”

The servant girl did not speak.

“If my daughter was still here…..” She murmured, “she should have grown up too.”

“Aunt, what should we do now?” The servant girl asked in a low voice, “It’s hard to avoid madam knowing that the second miss has come over.”

“The second lady and the madam would not end unless one of them died.” Aunt Hu lowered her eyes serenely and said, “Now is the time.”

Bai Xue and Tong’er seemed to have just come out of their senses after walking out of Aunt Hu’s courtyard.

“Unexpectedly, Aunt Hu seems to be fine, there was no hysteria at all.”Tong’er said, “The first slave heard the people in the residence say that Aunt Hu did not recognize anyone. Meeting her today, it was obvious that she is very sober.”

“Slave also thinks it’s strange.” Bai Xue chimed in, “This Aunt Hu and the Aunt Hu in this slave’s mind are completely different.”

“How is it different?” Jiang Li asked.

“Slave can’t point it out, but always thinks that the Aunt Hu in other people’s mouths and this Aunt Hu is not the same.” Bai Xue look around and saw that there was no one before leaning close to Jiang Li and asked quietly, “Just now Miss said that there is something concealed in eldest miss’s death, what does it mean? It couldn’t be that the eldest miss was harmed by others, right?”

Tong’er also looked at Jiang Li nervously.

They had also heard about such things happening in big families. However, the Jiang family could relatively be said to be simpler in comparison. No one would have thought of this. But just now, the meaning revealed when Jiang Li and Aunt Hu were talking caused their hairs to stand on end when they recalled it.

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