Qi Zi looked back at Master Liu, who nodded and said, "That's it for today's class. You should go back quickly."

"Yes." Qi Zi quickly ran out of the academy, followed closely by Yuan Yiqiu. When she ran to the door of her home, there were many people surrounding her, all looking curiously. There were two exquisite official sedans in front of the door.

Four bearers stood there upright, and some maids and servants were also standing at the door. "What the hell is going on?" Qi Zi thought to himself.

Suddenly she looked up and saw Liang Chun, the housekeeper of Ronghou Mansion, walking out from the sedan chair. Obviously, he also saw Qi Zi. He stepped forward and looked at Qi Zi and said, "Second Miss."

"Second Miss." The maid and servant behind him also called out. The onlookers around him couldn't believe it and whispered in low voices. Yuan Yiqiu also looked at Qi Zi with a questioning expression.

"Who is your second young lady? Don't scream here." Qi Zi said angrily.

"The second lady is joking. You are the second lady of the Ronghou Mansion and the second daughter of the current Rongguo Marquis. This is an ironclad fact. How could this old slave bark so randomly?" Liang Chun said respectfully.

"What?"

"No way."

"Qi Zi is the second young lady of Ronghou Mansion, how come we never knew about it."

The curious people around him started talking again, most of them were people he knew, so it was not surprising that they were so surprised.

"Why did you come to see me?" Qi Zi said coldly.

"Second Miss, the Marquis ordered the old slave to take you and the Second Lady back to your home." Liang Chun said unhurriedly.

"Go back home?" Qi Zi said in surprise: "Take my mother and I back home?"

"Yes."

"Is his conscience aware of it? Isn't it too late to show courtesy now?"

"Second Miss, this old servant doesn't know about these things. I'm just running errands for the Lord Marquis and responsible for taking you and the second lady back." Liang Chun said respectfully.

"You go, I won't go back." Qi Zi turned around and stopped looking at him, his heart full of anger.

"Second Miss, please don't embarrass me."

"Stop talking about it. I have severed ties with him. There is no second lady from the Ronghou Mansion here. And you should go back and tell him not to come to us again in the future." After saying that, Qi Zi returned to the yard and closed the door heavily.

, when she wanted to turn around and go back to the house, she saw Ms. Yang standing at the door of the hall with tears in her eyes. She must have heard the conversation just now.

"Mom, why are you up?" Qi Zi asked worriedly.

"Qi Zi, is Liang Chun here?" Yang asked quietly, a tear falling from her eyes.

"Mom, let's just leave him alone. I'll help you go back to your room and rest."

Yang stopped talking. She was blind but not deaf. She heard the conversation just now. Seeing Qi Zi hating her father so much, Yang felt unspeakably uncomfortable. Back then, she thought she was a concubine and married into the Marquis.

, maybe because she was more beautiful than the eldest lady, so she was very favored. For this reason, the eldest lady often slandered her and made her cry. She and the eldest lady were pregnant at the same time, but they gave birth to both

Daughter, the Marquis gradually alienated her. She had no income due to poor health, but the eldest lady gave birth to a son three years later. The mother is more valuable than the son. The mother and daughter had no status in the palace.

The two of them had no status, and were finally kicked out of the house. Previously, the Marquis had ignored them, but now he sent someone to pick up the mother and daughter. Is it true that his conscience discovered it as Qi Zi said?

Qi Zi thought that the matter was over and she just thought it was a discovery made by her conscience. However, she did not expect that when she went out to get some embroidery cloth and came back the next evening, Yang disappeared. She searched everywhere like crazy. Finally, she went out to get some embroidery cloth and came back.

When she found Yuan Yiqiu, she saw her coming up from the river carrying clothes. She hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Yiqiu, have you seen my mother?"

"Are you missing?" Yuan Yiqiu also asked worriedly.

Qi Zi nodded with tears in his eyes. At this time, an aunt who was washing clothes by the river said: "Qi Zi, when I came to wash clothes just now, I saw that the man from yesterday was here again. Could it be that your mother is

Got picked up."

Upon hearing the news, Qi Zi turned around and ran towards Rong Guo Mansion. Yuan Yiqiu called behind her: "Qi Zi, be careful."

She was in a mood to reply with words of concern, and she only wanted to find the Yang family. Of course, when she came to Ronghou Mansion with sweat on her face, she saw Tang Ma. She hurriedly stepped forward and asked: "Tang Ma, is my mother coming back?"

Already?"

"Second Miss, Second Madam is back and is now staying in the west courtyard."

Qi Zi ran towards the west courtyard and bumped into Liang Sizhong at the door. She glared at him and looked at Yang who was lying on the bed. Liang Sizhong went out, leaving his mother and daughter in the room.

With an expressionless face, Qi Zi rushed over and shouted: "Mom, what's wrong with you? Are you talking?"

Yang suddenly hugged Qi Zi tightly in her arms and shouted loudly: "Daughter, daughter, my daughter."

Qi Zi asked with some confusion: "Mom, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling uncomfortable there?"

Ms. Yang just shed tears and shook her head, her expression too painful to speak.

"Did he say something to you just now?" Qi Zi asked anxiously, some bad feelings making her voice tremble.

Yang stopped shaking her head. She groped for Qi Zi's hand, looked straight ahead and cried, "Your father just told me that he wants you to enter the palace."

"What? Enter the palace?" Qi Zi sat slumped on the edge of the bed, feeling that he had heard wrongly, "How could that be? There must be a mistake there."

"You heard it right, your father said he wanted you to enter the palace, cough, cough, cough." Yang coughed excitedly, and the sound was heartbreakingly painful.

"Mom, you are not in good health, please don't get excited." Qi Zi said soothingly.

"Qi Zi, let's go. Mom knows your personality and you won't agree to enter the palace."

"Mom, you are here, where can I go?" Qi Zi cried.

"But your dad..."

"Don't worry, mother, I'll go talk to him." Qi Zi stood up and said, "You have a good rest first, I'll be back when I go."

She left the west courtyard and walked a few steps before meeting the housekeeper Liang Chun. She asked: "Butler, where is Mr. Hou?"

"Second Miss, the master and his wife are in the main hall." After hearing this, Qi Zi immediately walked towards the main hall. On the way there, he happened to meet Tang's mother bringing lotus seed tea to his wife.

"Second Miss,..." Tang's mother called.

Seeing that Tang Ma was about to speak, Qi Zi simply stopped and asked, "What's wrong with Tang Ma? Do you have anything to say to me?"

Tang Ma looked around and found no one, so she took Qi Zi to a remote corner of the yard and stood there. Seeing Tang Ma being so cautious, Qi Zi concluded that something must have happened and said, "Tang Ma, tell me, here."

No one."

"Hey, Miss Second, I told you, don't say it out loud and say it was me."

Qi Zi nodded affirmatively.

Tang's mother said: "The chief steward of the palace, Defu, handed over an imperial edict the day before yesterday. I don't know what the imperial edict said. I only know that the emperor wanted to make the young lady of the Ronghou Mansion his concubine and give her the title of Butterfly. The eldest lady cried when she found out.

Even if you fight to the death and refuse to enter the palace no matter what, you also

I know that three queens died in the palace, and there is no guarantee when a concubine will die. Madam had no choice, so she took advantage of a loophole. Anyway, the imperial edict did not indicate that it was the young lady in the palace, so she thought of looking for you and the second lady.

Come back and ask you to enter the palace for the eldest lady."

"What? Humph, I didn't expect that after so many years, she is still a snake-hearted person, always so selfish." Qi Zi said angrily: "What about the Marquis, does he agree?"

"Well, it's not like you don't know the master, how can he disagree? Otherwise, he wouldn't have taken the second lady back today while you were not at home. They are holding onto your weak points. As long as the second lady is in the house, you will definitely

I'll be back." Tang's mother said a little unfairly.

After listening to Tang's mother's narration, Qi Zi's heart felt numb. Suddenly her nose felt sour. She immediately took a deep breath and said, "Tang's mother, thank you for telling me this."

"Second Miss, don't say that. If you hadn't taken pity on me and took me in, maybe I would be dead now." She said with gratitude. One year there was a severe drought and no crops were harvested. Tang's mother went to Beijing to beg.

, she fainted from hunger at the gate of Rongguo Mansion. It was Qi Zi and Yang who kindly rescued her and gave her a job in the manor. She has always kept this kindness in mind.

"Okay, let's go." Qi Zi turned around and walked in front. She didn't know what kind of mentality the people in the main hall would have to face them. She just thought that she couldn't admit defeat. Her destiny was hers and she couldn't let them do it.
Chapter completed!