Part 1: A Dream Within A Dream / Rebirth of Ill Fated Concubine

Chapter 034 Wet Nurse

"Miss, Lian Qiao has a bad temper. She started arguing with the people from Yanhua Garden. The people from Yanhua Garden are not easy to deal with. They are numerous and powerful. I think if this continues, Lian Qiao will suffer. So, I came back to find you. What can we do? The people from Yanhua Garden will not give up."

"Lu Zhu, go get my clothes." Jiang Ruan closed the book on the table and stood up.

"Miss, are you going to save Sister Lian Qiao?" Lu Zhu handed Jiang Ruan the outer clothes neatly and said, "Do you want to notify the master?"

"No need." Jiang Ruan said coldly, "When he arrives, I can't even save Lian Qiao."

Zi Su was shocked: "Miss, are you going to fight against the people from Yanhua Garden?"

"Others have bullied you to the door, are you going to be a coward?" Jiang Ruan glanced at her and said lightly, "Since she is here to provoke me, how can I not face her head?"

[Xia Yan, I am looking forward to my first confrontation with you more than you are].

The three of them packed up quickly and followed Zi Su to the garden at the entrance of Yanhua Garden. From a distance, they saw a group of maids surrounding the two people in the middle. One of them collapsed on the ground, and the other protected the person on the ground. There was a strange smell in the air. Two toilets were placed not far away, and one of them was tilted on the ground.

Seeing Jiang Ruan and the other two, the maids around them did not move until Lian Qiao called out, "Miss." 

The leading maid turned her head and said casually, "Why is the eldest lady here? Don't pollute your eyes with these low-class places. The eldest lady should leave quickly."

Jiang Ruan recognized this maid. It was Lin Lang, the eldest maid beside Xia Yan. In the last life, Jiang Ruan didn't understand why Xia Yan, who was so gentle and polite, had a mean and sarcastic personal maid. Now she understands that Lin Lang is actually Xia Yan's true appearance. What Xia Yan can't say, she says it all through Lin Lang's mouth. For example, now, the ridicule of Jiang Ruan.

Jiang Ruan smiled slightly: "You have a point, so leave quickly, don't pollute my eyes."

Lin Lang was stunned, and saw Jiang Ruan puzzled: "Why, aren't you an inferior person?"

Her tone was gentle, but her words were sharp, her expression was smiling, and her upturned eyes were like cold knives. Lin Lang took a step back unconsciously.

Jiang Ruan sighed: "It turns out that Lin Lang thinks that maids are superior people, so she beat and killed other slaves like this."

"I didn't," Lin Lang was a little panicked. Jiang Ruan's words meant that she was bullying the master. 

In the Jiang Mansion, although she was favoured by Xia Yan, she couldn't bear the words of a slave bullying the master: "Miss, I really didn't."

Jiang Ruan smiled lightly, ignored her, and turned to look at Lian Qiao.

Lian Qiao was surrounded by several maids, her clothes were a little messy, thinking that they had just had a fierce argument. There was a clear slap mark on her face, and Jiang Ruan's face sank. Looking at the slap mark on the face of one of the maids, Lian Qiao was not willing to suffer a loss.

The person lying on the ground beside Lian Qiao had not said a word since Jiang Ruan came, just hanging his head and motionless, like a lifeless puppet. Only a head full of grey hair and thin winter clothes as thin as paper could be seen.

Jiang Ruan stretched out her hand and put it on the shoulder of the person on the ground. The moment her hand just covered it, she sensitively felt the other person tremble violently.

Lian Qiao opened her mouth, but in the end she didn't say anything. Jiang Ruan looked at the woman with her head down, and said gently: "Nurse, don't be afraid, I am Ah Ruan, I'm back."

The moment Jiang Ruan spoke, the person on the ground trembled, and finally raised her head slowly. Jiang Ruan's breathing stagnated, and she slowly clenched her fists.

Nanny Zhou's weather-beaten face was full of wrinkles, and she was so thin that she was almost skin and bones. Her cheeks, which used to be slightly blessed, were now deeply sunken. The most terrifying thing was her eyes, which were left with dry eye sockets. It was clear that someone had gouged out her eyeballs.

Lu Zhu cried out "ah" and then covered her mouth, unable to bear to watch any further. 

This elderly woman had obviously experienced many painful experiences, and her whole body exuded a foul smell. She was blind, and she only looked up blankly, moving her lips, and said in a trembling voice: "Big girl."

"It's me." Jiang Ruan ignored the strange looks of the people around her, bent down and hugged Nanny Zhou in her arms. Her eyes were as cold as ice, but her voice had a strange magic, and she comforted her: "Nurse, A Ruan is back."

Time seemed to go back to a few years ago, when she and Jiang Xin Zhi were still young children who didn't know much. Whenever they made Zhao Mei angry, it was Nanny Zhou who helped to persuade them. When she and Jiang Xin Zhi got into trouble and were punished to kneel, it was Nanny Zhou who secretly went to the ancestral hall in the middle of the night to bring them food. 

Nanny Zhou had no children in her life, and treated them as her own children. Now, the pair of eyes that were always kind and smiling are only a pair of empty eye sockets. How can people remain indifferent!

Lin Lang frowned: "What are you doing, young lady? Don't get yourself dirty. This servant has made a big mistake. I have to punish her quickly and report to the master. If you have nothing else to do, please step aside."

Before Jiang Ruan spoke, Lian Qiao said: "Since the young lady is here, let the young lady decide on the servant's affairs. How can you, a servant, interfere in the master's affairs?"

Lin Lang smiled, and another maid said: "That's wrong. We are all following the master's orders. Sister Lin Lang's master is the lady. Although the young lady is also the master of the mansion, it is the lady who is in charge of the household affairs. No matter how old the young lady is, she can never surpass the lady. Young lady, please don't make things difficult for us servants."

"You..." Lian Qiao wanted to say something, but Jiang Ruan said, "You are right. It seems that you are all following the orders of the Madam to punish the servant who made the mistake." 

Nanny Zhou in her arms was still trembling slightly. Jiang Ruan patted her on the shoulder and said with a smile, "You are indeed following the orders of the master, and there is nothing wrong with that. But I am a little confused. The rule in the Jiang Mansion is that the servant who made the mistake must eat the night fragrance, but I don't know which house rule it is? Lin Lang, you are also an old person in the mansion, can you tell me which one it is?" 

Lin Lang was stunned. She didn't expect Jiang Ruan to play a game of catching words with her. It was just a casual perfunctory remark, so there was no house rule. For a moment, she couldn't think how to reply, so she simply said, "Miss, I don't remember it either. I just did what Madam said."

Lin Lang kicked the ball to Xia Yan, thinking simply that Jiang Ruan was not good at going against Xia Yan. 

Today, she stood up for Nanny Zhou, which might have violated Xia Yan's taboo. However, since it has been shown that pretending to be deaf and dumb is not feasible, how can she end it without making a big fuss? 

Xia Yan started the game, but she couldn't end it.

Jiang Ruan smiled slightly: "So, Lin Lang, what you mean is that Madam made a mistake, right?"

"That's not what I mean." Lin Lang was a little anxious: "Miss, why bother about a small servant."

(End of this chapter)

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