Shen Qingyin waited in Fangcao Garden for half an hour before he saw Faner coming back.

Looking at Fan'er's red eyes and frustrated face, her heart, which had been hanging in the air, gradually sank.

Maybe this is fate.

No matter in the past life or this life, Shen Rongyue finally caught the eye of Madam Mu...

"It's okay. The General's Mansion is a very wealthy family. It's normal for them to look down on me..." Shen Qingyin used a self-deprecating remark to comfort Faner.

But when Fan'er heard this, she burst into tears.

"Who said that the General's Mansion doesn't like the Second Miss? The General's Mansion likes the Second Miss! But, but the Master and the Madam want to marry the First Miss..."

Shen Qing was shocked and asked in detail.

"I hid outside the window at the back wall and heard the matchmaker ask if the young lady in our house had been betrothed. The eldest lady only said that the eldest lady had not been betrothed yet, and she kept talking about how beautiful, gentle, virtuous, and well-educated she was... She didn't even mention the second young lady..."

"Later, the matchmaker said that she wanted to ask about the lady wearing a string of grass beads on her wrist... Then it must be you, the second lady. But the eldest lady laughed it off and said, "Yes, yes, it must be the eldest lady..."

Shen Qingyin was completely stunned.

I didn't expect that Mrs. Mu fell in love with me wearing the grass bead bracelet!

Thinking about it carefully, since the three of them were of low status, no one asked their names yesterday, so it's no wonder that there was such a saying...

In an instant, many things from my past life also emerged in my mind...

"What happened next?" Shen Qingyin calmed himself down and continued to ask.

"After the matchmaker left, the master asked the eldest lady about the bracelet. The eldest lady insisted that it belonged to the eldest daughter. The master did not ask any more questions. He praised the eldest daughter for her hard work and went to work happily..."

"Oh, by the way, the master also said that before the general's mansion officially came to propose marriage, the news should not be spread, so as to avoid failure and become a laughing stock..."

As the master and servant were talking, they suddenly heard footsteps outside the yard.

"Yin'er, come and see, mother has something good for you!"

As Mrs. Du spoke, she walked into the yard.

The cheerful look on his face was completely different from the awkwardness he showed in the Plum Garden yesterday.

"let it go."

Mrs. Du waved her hand and told Mother Zhang, who was following behind her, to put an exquisite little box on the table.

When the box was opened, a emerald green and transparent jade bracelet was revealed.

"For so many years, your father's career has not been smooth, and the family expenses are high, so he has never been able to buy you a decent piece of jewelry, causing you to be laughed at by others... Mother feels guilty..." Mrs. Du was suddenly filled with emotion.

Shen Qingyin lowered his eyes.

These words were originally moving, but they also inadvertently revealed that when she was embarrassed by Qin Jinshu yesterday, her mother was actually right next to her, but she never showed up to protect her at all...

Instead, after returning home, she immediately told her father about her offense against the princess, causing her father to punish her by confining her room to reflect on her mistakes...

"This bracelet was originally my dowry, but I have never been willing to wear it. I will give it to you today..."

"Come, let me put it on for you." Mrs. Du picked up the jade bracelet and went to hold Shen Qingyin's hand.

When he saw the grass bead bracelet in Shen Qingyin's hand, his eyes flashed.

He took off the bracelet and handed it to Zhang's mother:

"It's better not to wear such things, or you'll be laughed at again. Mother Zhang, take it out and throw it away!"

"Okay, I'll go right away!" Mother Zhang agreed and walked out.

Fan'er understood Du's intention clearly.

She stopped Madam Zhang and forced a smile: "It's a pity to throw it away. Madam, why don't you give it to me as a reward? I like this pearl very much!"

Mrs. Du frowned and said generously for the first time:

"This junky thing is not worth much, and it almost caused trouble yesterday. What good is it? Go to the bank tomorrow to get three taels of silver and buy a better one."

"But my lady, I like this one. It's worthless anyway, so why not..." As Fen'er spoke, she was about to take it from Mother Zhang.

Mother Zhang clenched her bracelet tightly and dodged in a hurry.

Seeing that Fan'er was about to step forward, Shen Qingyin scolded her:

"You are becoming more and more unruly, my mother has promised to give you three taels of silver, why don't you know what is good for you?"

Fan'er looked back at Shen Qingyin and had to let go.

Wait until Mrs. Du and Mother Zhang left the yard.

She said angrily, "Second Miss, the eldest lady obviously took your bracelet and gave it to the eldest lady. How could you let her take it away?"

Shen Qingyin looked at the crystal clear jade bracelet on her wrist and said calmly, "That bracelet is not a rare item. Even if we don't give it to them, they can easily get it from somewhere else."

"It would be better to exchange it for this bracelet and three taels of silver. Besides, maybe in two days, the bracelet can be returned..."

Although he said it easily, Shen Qingyin's eyes were still red.

I still remember that in my previous life, my mother also used this bracelet to exchange for her bracelet.

Although she didn't know when Mrs. Mu in her previous life had noticed her worthless string of beads.

But obviously, the matchmaker who came to propose marriage in the previous life must have said the same thing.

However, in her previous life, when she received the jade bracelet, she mistakenly thought that her mother finally remembered to love her and was deeply moved.

Even later, after marrying into the royal palace as the Crown Prince's Consort and then entering the palace as the Queen, she had all kinds of priceless bracelets, but she still wore the one her mother gave her until her death...

As a daughter, from childhood to adulthood, there is only Shen Rongyue in her mother's eyes.

No matter how well-behaved and sensible she was, her mother never took her seriously.

She once suspected that she was not her mother's biological daughter, and secretly asked the elders in the mansion. The answer she got was that she was born after her mother's ten months of pregnancy.

Even her grandmother, who had always loved her, confirmed in person that she was indeed her mother's biological daughter...

"Second Miss, how about we wait for the master to come back from duty and tell him the truth? Let the master make the decision for you!" Fen'er frowned and bit her lip.

Shen Qingyin shook his head: "No need, someone will tell them."

……

The General's Mansion.

"This is really great!"

After hearing the matchmaker's reply that the girl from the Shen family had not yet been betrothed, Mrs. Mu happily stood up from her chair, rubbing her hands back and forth excitedly.

An old maid beside her saw her like this and couldn't help asking, "I don't understand. If you like that girl so much, why didn't you say a few words for Princess Jinshu when she was being difficult with her yesterday?"

Madam Mu rolled her eyes at the nanny.

"You still don't understand this? You know what Princess Jinshu is thinking about Yan'er. If I had spoken up for that girl, she would have only earned the Princess's hatred even more."

The nanny was still a little confused: "But, if she marries our young master in the future, won't she be hated by the princess?"

Madam Mu snorted angrily and rolled her eyes at the old nanny: "You said you are not old yet, but your brain is so useless?"

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