FSC [QT] Chapter 117.1

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“Seventh Young Lady Ling?”

At night, Yu Yan dismissed his servants and came to the plum forest alone.

At this time, Ah Wu was already guarding the Zhufang Pavilion in the plum forest.

He paused for a long time in the distance. His hands under his sleeves sometimes clenched and sometimes loosened. Then, he mustered up the courage and slowly walked toward the pavilion.

“Deputy Eunuch Yan.”

Ah Wu turned toward the direction where the voice came from and saw Yu Yan standing there. Her face immediately showed joy. She thought that he would not show up.

Because she knew clearly that her brother was unwilling to recognize her.

The power of the Marquis of Changping Mansion should not be underestimated. Although her father found out about the death of ‘Yu Yan’ partly because he was still angry with Yu Yan because of the Yu family couple, so he did not really spend time investigating, but the more important reason was definitely because the person in front of her deliberately concealed the truth.

Yu Yan must have spent a lot of effort to fool the spies of the Marquis of Changping Mansion.

Ah Wu was smart. She calculated the timeline and guessed that perhaps her brother had noticed her identity as early as the eye contact in the Marquis of Chengyi mansion, so he made arrangements in advance to conceal his existence.

Even after entering the palace, he had so many opportunities to recognize her, but her brother did nothing. He just asked someone to take care of her privately.

If she hadn’t observed carefully, she would probably ignore these details and not realize the existence of the person behind her.

Ah Wu was a little confused at first. They had been separated for eight years, so shouldn’t they cherish every minute and every second they spent together after meeting again?

But later, she gradually figured it out.

First of all, it was the restriction of identity.

Ah Wu didn’t know how much courage her brother mustered to sacrifice himself for her, but she could imagine the physical and psychological pressure a normal man might feel after being castrated and becoming a eunuch.

Her brother felt inferior, so he didn’t dare to appear in front of her in such an identity.

Secondly, there was a difference in their status between the siblings.

One was the daughter of a marquis, while the other was the adopted son of a powerful eunuch.

One was the descendant of a loyal and brave hero, while the other was a lackey of the eunuch party.

Once their past identities were spread, Yu Yan might not be affected, but Ah Wu would definitely be criticized. With such a brother, Ah Wu’s reputation and marriage would be affected.

If you truly care about someone and truly love someone, you will always want to show your best side to that person and will always consider that person without reservation.

Ah Wu really wanted to tell him that she didn’t mind the outside world’s gaze and didn’t mind what kind of person he had become, but her brother did mind.

He was full of inferiority and disapproval of his current identity, so Ah Wu endured it and let him think that she didn’t know. They could live in peace with each other in their current identities.

“It’s dark and windy at night, and curfew is coming soon. Why doesn’t Seventh Young Lady Ling go back to the Palace of Peace and Harmony?”

Yu Yan walked slowly toward the pavilion, as if he had long forgotten that it was he who tricked people here by using Xiang Tan’s mouth.

“The moonlight is beautiful today. Is Deputy Eunuch Yan here to enjoy the moon as well?”

Ah Wu’s mind was not on enjoying the moon at all.

Yu Yan looked at the crescent moon in the sky. The thick dark clouds had blocked most of the moon, so there was no moon to appreciate.

Yu Yan paused for a moment and then nodded, “The moonlight tonight is indeed beautiful.”

After not seeing each other for a few years, his sister was still as stupid as she was when she was a child. She couldn’t even lie.

“I also have to thank Deputy Eunuch Yan for picking up my purse. I was thinking of giving you a thank-you gift when I met you one day, but I didn’t expect that you and I were so destined to meet tonight.”

Ah Wu blinked her eyes and looked at her brother’s face greedily in the moonlight.

The thank-you gift was just an excuse. The real reason was to give her brother a gift.

“These are the warm gloves I developed when I was free. Now that the weather is getting colder, wearing a pair of these warm gloves will not hinder your work and will also keep your fingers warm.”

There were also gloves in this era, but the material was mostly leather. Because the technology of tanning leather was not advanced and the animal skin was thick, the five fingers could not be separated. Most of them had an independent thumb and the other four fingers were placed together.

There were also those who were clever and stuffed cotton between two layers of fine cotton cloth and then sewed the cloth tightly to make gloves with five fingers separated.

 

 

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