Chapter 11: A Gift from Grandfather

The two men were at a loss for words for a moment.

Wei Ruo continued to help the two analyze the situation, his expression serious as he advised them to relax:

“Think on the bright side of everything, think differently, mother said that the two of us are as important in your heart, since it is the same, it is the same who is long and who is young and who suffers, and Qingwan has realized what you asked for that day. So there is no need for either of you to be sad.”

Yun and Wei Qingwan were both choked, the words were their own, Wei Ruo just repeated them.

Wei Ruo said to Wei Qingwan again, “Actually, you called me sister the first time you saw me, I think you recognize me as your sister in your heart, so I think you must be very much looking forward to me being your sister in your heart.”

“Yes …… yes …… sister is right ……” Wei Qingwan responded somewhat reluctantly.

Wei Ruo all put the words to this, Wei Qingwan’s tears are even to the inside of the eye sockets, also can not fall down.

Then Wei Ruo passed a handkerchief to Wei Qingwan, “Wipe your tears.”

Wei Qingwan took the handkerchief Wei Ruo handed over and held it in her hand, not daring to use it.

Clean is clean, but the material is a bit rough, and also washed white, look do not know how long used.

After being spoken to so much by Wei Ruo, both Yun’s and Wei Qingwan’s tears collected, then Yun spoke to the two for a while longer and let them go back to rest.

After Wei Ruo and Wei Qingwan left, the eldest maid Cui Ping presented a gift list to Yun.

Along with Wei Ruo’s grandfather’s reply arrived some gifts from his grandfather to Wei Ruo.

The letter said that it was to compensate Wei Ruo for the suffering she had endured outside over the years.

Getting the list of items, thinking of Wei Qingwan who just cried hard, Yun thought for a moment and then made the decision to divide the things into two, one to send to Wei Ruo’s Listening Pine Court, and one to send to Wei Qingwan’s Wangmei Court.

And specially accounted for the Cui Ping, the two only said grandfather sent, do not mention what is the reason.

Cui Ping did as she was told, and within a short time, Wei Ruo’s Listening Pine Court and Wei Qingwan’s Wang Mei Court both received two large boxes of gifts.

Cui Ping followed Yun’s intention and only said that it was given to her granddaughter by her grandfather, without saying much else.

It didn’t take long for Wei Ruo’s side to receive several large wooden boxes sent over by Yun.

The box was quite large and heavy, but when I opened it, it was mostly copper, taking up space and weight, but not that valuable.

Xiu Mei put the things that were sent over one by one into Wei Ruo’s room as Wei Ruo had instructed her to do, as a sign of how much she valued her grandfather.

When arranging the things, Xiu Mei was curious: “Miss, didn’t you say that our family is a great family, a meritorious family, a very powerful kind, how come these things don’t look as good as your own, Miss?”

“Because everything can not only look at the surface, the Wei family in the eyes of the He family is unattainable, but in fact in the end how rich only in which to know, the so-called meritorious family, but also can not be always rich and prominent, the family base is thick also have failed to end of the time.”

“Uh-huh.” Xiumei nodded.

“So let’s look long term, can’t think about the limited resources wealth in the house, there is a broader world outside, there is more wealth waiting for me.” Wei Ruo said.

“Uh-huh! Miss is right!” Xiu Mei had been under Wei Ruo’s tutelage for so many years, and had long since fully accepted Wei Ruo’s idea of self-improvement and self-reliance.

Speaking of which Xiu Mei muttered, “I don’t know when mom Xu will arrive.”

Xu mother is Wei Ruo’s nanny, Wei Ruo extremely good, the original is the only protection Wei Ruo to the end of the people, and finally also for the original owner lost his life.

In this life, Wei Ruo had let her out of her employment relationship with the He family early on, and let her go out into business with her husband, with Wei Ruo advising her behind the scenes.

Wei Ruo’s initial thought was that she wanted to repay her nanny and make a good life for the couple.

But the couple insisted on leaving all these properties to Wei Ruo, insisting that they were only temporarily holding them for Wei Ruo.

The couple gave all the money they earned to Wei Ruo and only took some salary themselves.

When leaving from Mojiajie, Wei Ruo left a letter at the old Li’s house at the entrance of the village, counting the time, the nanny if she saw the letter should already be on the way to Taizhou House.

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Like Wei Ruo’s side, Wei Qingwan also received several large wooden boxes.

After opening it up and seeing that it wasn’t a very valuable bronze inside, Wei Qingwan couldn’t help but feel disappointed.

Sister Li, who was by Wei Qingwan’s side, frowned after she helped Wei Qingwan count the things Yun sent over:

“Miss, the things sent from the capital seem to be a lot worse than the ones sent in the past yearly festivals, in the past years, they were all silk and satin kind of good things, but this year, it was a piece of material that I didn’t see.”

Wei Qingwan lowered her head, look forlorn, murmured: “I in the end is not the Wei family full-blooded granddaughter, grandfather is willing to leave me in the genealogy is already grace, those damask, silk, pearls and jade since it is necessary to send to the Wei family full-blooded young lady, which has me an outsider what things.”

“Miss, what are you talking about! Master, Madam, Young Master, Young Master, who in this house doesn’t recognize you as Miss? You are not an outsider!”

“What’s the use of that, grandfather’s meaning is very clear, I am the one who is not worthy of being the Wei family’s daughter ……”

Wei Qingwan’s eyes were full of red, and the tears that she hadn’t finished crying inside Yun’s house couldn’t stop flowing at this moment.

Sister Li looked around and saw that no one was around, so she approached Wei Qingwan and whispered in her ear:

“Miss, don’t be discouraged, look at the three masters nowadays, only our master has a good future, and among the several young masters, it’s our eldest young master who has the most good prospects, he got a scholar at the age of twelve, and in two years he’ll get a candidate for the Imperial Examination, and then his future will be unlimited!”

“Miss, you have the favor of the old master and the youngest master, and you will be able to live a life in the future that is not comparable to that of ordinary people! Old Uncle’s approval is not that important to you!”

Sister Li analyzed the head of the road, Wei Qingwan also listened to some, but ultimately the heart is uneasy, she hung her head and murmured to describe their own uncertainty and helplessness in the past few days:

“But father mother and elder brother’s love now want to share a share out to elder sister …… I would not want elder sister to share away father mother and elder brother’s love for me, just I now this identity, in the school lieutenant’s house, can rely on is only my parents and elder brother’s love for me… …”

“These days, I keep telling myself that I should not resent God for being unjust and letting such things happen to me, and that I should not resent others for letting me fall from the clouds into the quagmire. I also went to see Wei Qingruo from time to time after she entered the residence to express my goodwill, hoping to be friendly in the future.”

“But when I learned of my grandfather’s arrangements, thinking of that originally treated me kindly grandfather said change, my heart can not help but be terrified up. If this is the eldest daughter position is Wei Qingruo to make trouble to beg, I’m not so difficult. But this is Wei Qingruo did not make no request, grandfather will give, visible grandfather to her importance.”