Minglan is reborn, this time with no regrets!

Ayan stood at the door, trembling slightly, and did not dare to come in.

These days she has discovered that this aunt's fierceness is completely different from her mother's. Even after her mother was yelling at her, she would still hold her and feed her, but this aunt would not only be yelling but also throw things at her.

Little Ayan held onto the door frame and said nothing.

Molan continued to scold: "I'm asking you a question. Are you dumb or deaf? You act so timid all day long. Who do you think you can bewitch? You are indeed a bastard born by a whore."

Lin Qinshuang touched Molan's face and comforted her, "Alright, alright, how could she understand these things? She is just a child who has not grown up yet and can't even speak clearly. Mother knows that you are angry, but you should vent it on the person who caused it, right? Why are you getting angry with a child?"

Molan: "Mother, you don't know, when I see her I think of the dirty things my brother did, it's so embarrassing! Fortunately, Dad didn't let her have the last name Sheng, otherwise I really don't want to live!"

Lin Qinshuang: "Pah, pah, pah, why are you always asking for death? You have to live well and live beautifully. Didn't you just promise your mother?"

Only then did Molan stop scolding.

Lin Qinshuang brought A Yanbo back to Sheng Hong's heart last time. Later, she focused on winning over Sheng Hong and gradually stopped caring about this granddaughter she got for free. Now she keeps her purely for An Changfeng's heart, and she is almost raised as a maid in daily life.

"Is there something wrong?" Lin Qinshuang said to Ayan at the door.

"Madam, Ayan is hungry." She was no longer allowed to call her grandmother or other presumptuous titles.

"If you're hungry, just go to the kitchen and eat. Why are you running here?" Molan couldn't help but scold again.

Ayan looked straight at the small table beside Molan's bed, on which were two plates of snacks.

Molan followed Ayan's gaze and picked up the snacks on the plate: "Why? You want to eat this?"

Ayan swallowed and nodded.

Molan sneered and suddenly threw the snacks on the ground: "Don't you want to eat them? Pick them up yourself!"

Ah Yan didn't pick it up, because Chang Feng had taught her not to eat things that fell on the ground. She looked at the broken cakes on the ground with a distressed look and burst into tears.

"Hey! You little bastard, you're crying even though I'm giving you food to eat!" Molan cursed viciously.

Lin Qinshuang comforted him, "Hey, I've already said it, she's just a child, why are you angry with her? Don't get yourself hurt by being angry, or your foot injury will only get worse." She turned to Ayan and said, "Where are Yunzai and Luzhong? Why is there no one guarding the door?"

Ayan: "They went to boil water and asked me to watch over them."

Lin Qinshuang: "I let you, a yellow-haired girl, guard the gate, but they just shirk their responsibilities. Humph, I think it's because I give them too much monthly salary, so they've become spoiled. You don't have to guard the gate anymore, go to the kitchen and find something to eat for yourself."

Ayan shook her head: "I can't find it." She had already searched the kitchen, but everything edible had been taken away by others. Where could there be any food?

Lin Qinshuang frowned: "Where is Changfeng? Why doesn't he care about you?"

Ah Yan: "He was beating someone in the house."

Lin Qinshuang frowned: "Beat someone? Beat who?"

Ah Yan: "An older sister, I don't know who she is."

Molan burst out laughing.

Lin Qinshuang also understood and said in a hateful voice: "It was these little devils who made him fail the imperial examination, which is why our Linqi Pavilion is at a disadvantage. I must go and beat these bitches away!"

As she stood up, Molan stopped her: "Mother, it's too late for you to go now."

Lin Qinshuang: "But if we let him go on like this, how can he be better than Changbai? He is now married to the Hai family! I heard that it is a noble family with five Hanlin scholars!"

Molan: "Didn't mother say before that my brother is a hopeless person and that he should be married to a woman who is easy to control? If my brother also finds a wife like the Hai family, I'm afraid that mother will have a harder time in the future."

Lin Qinshuang: "Yes... I originally thought it would be easier to find a wife from a small family, but you don't know, these two days when the master invited the engagement letter of the girl from the Hai family home, I heard that the dowry prepared by the Hai family would be piled up like a mountain, with corals from the sea and agates from the mountains, which are extremely priceless! If Changfeng can also marry such a daughter-in-law, then our life in Linqi Pavilion will be better!"

Molan: "Oh, I don't think my third brother will have this fate. Mother, you should marry him off to a daughter of a wealthy merchant. Then he'll have a dowry and she'll be easier to control. Isn't that the best of both worlds?"

Lin Qinshuang's eyes lit up: "My son is indeed more talented than Xie Daoyun!"

The mother and daughter were chatting excitedly, while Ah Yan was staring at the cakes on the ground in a daze. Lin Qinshuang suddenly had an idea and said, "Ah Yan, are you hungry?"

Ah Yan nodded hopefully.

"I'm telling you, there's food at the ancestral hall. There's a happy event at home today, and there's a lot of food at the ancestral hall. Go get some."

Ayan didn't hesitate any longer and ran away.

Molan's eyes turned, and she understood Lin Qinshuang's plan, and praised: "Aniang is truly a female Zhuge Liang."

Today is the day when the Sheng and Hai families accept betrothal gifts. In order to let the Hai family see his sincerity, Lord Sheng specially placed the engagement letters of Hai Chaoyun and Changbai in front of the ancestral tablets for worship, saying that he would cast the holy grail to ask for the ancestors' instructions in two days.

If Ayan went to the ancestral hall to steal food and accidentally soiled the engagement letter or knocked over the tablet, then even if Sheng Hong threw out eight hundred Yun cups two days later, others could still bring up the matter and there would be all kinds of opinions on what was auspicious or unlucky.

If the truth comes out, Ayan will be punished. Lin Qinshuang thinks that the Sheng family will never kill a child, but Molan hopes that her father can beat the child to death so that she can get rid of the worry.

Little Ayan didn't understand the adults' complicated thoughts. She was just hungry and wanted to find something to eat. Lin Qinshuang had taken her to the ancestral hall before. The little girl memorized the way after walking there once. After twists and turns, she arrived at the place. When she looked up, she saw that the lights were bright and the atmosphere was red. However, there were two servants guarding the door with sticks. She didn't dare to go directly, so she went around to the back of the ancestral hall and climbed through the window.

Halfway up, a pair of hands reached out from behind and picked her up.

Ah Yan was so scared that she burst into tears: "Ah Yan, I won't dare to do that again. Ah Yan, I won't dare to do that again!"

The two servants guarding the door heard the noise and ran over with sticks in hand. The voice behind them said calmly, "This child has taken the wrong road. I will take her back."

The two servants glared at Ayan fiercely before leaving.

The man wiped Ah Yan's tears and asked, "Why are you here?"

"Ayan is hungry! Ayan is hungry!"

The man sighed and said, "Come with me."

She didn't hug Ayan, but just let her follow her. The two of them, one big and one small, walked slowly. After a few steps, they came to a small house. The person stepped into the house.

Ayan had never been here before and was a little scared, so she didn't dare to go in.

After a while, the man came out of the room again, holding a basket, handed it to Ayan, and said, "Eat."

Ayan lifted the lid and saw a basket of cakes.

Her eyes suddenly lit up and she took out the food and started to eat it.

The cakes were without oil or salt, but Ah Yan ate them with relish, one after another. The man watched for a while, then went back into the house, took out a cup, handed it to Ah Yan, and said, "Drink some water."

Ayan was reluctant to put the basket on the ground, so she simply sat on the ground, put the basket in her arms, held the cake in one hand and the water in the other, and ate until she burped repeatedly.

Finally getting rid of hunger, Ayan remembered what Changfeng had taught her - to be grateful for the kindness others offer her.

She put the cup and basket on the ground, bowed to the person in front of her and said, "Ayan, thank you, madam."

"I'm not a lady," the man said calmly, "You can call me Jing'an Jushi."

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