Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 339 Secret

Aunt Lian laughed as if she had heard a great joke, but her voice was filled with endless sadness and irony. "You call me Xiao Lian, and everyone in this mansion calls me Aunt Lian. It reminds me all the time what I've been through, and yet you tell me to live a good life?"

Song Ying took a few steps and stopped abruptly when she heard this. What did this mean? What had Aunt Lian experienced? What was wrong with calling her Xiaolian and Aunt Lian?

No, this is the most secret of the Shen family. If Shen Zhuangyuan knew that she was outside and heard all this, he would not kill her to silence her, right?

Song Ying held her breath unconsciously, her eyes fell on the lantern in her hand, and she blew it out quickly without thinking.

The surroundings became completely dark, and the thick darkness engulfed her, but she felt a lot more at ease.

Inside the courtyard, Shen Zhuangyuan's helpless voice sounded again, "I had no choice but to do this. You are mine..."

At this point, he paused. It was obvious that the relationship between them was very secretive. Even though it was just the two of them, he was very cautious and did not reveal it. After the pause, he continued helplessly, "How could I not wish you the best?"

"Go to hell with you for having no other choice," Aunt Lian was enraged, her voice became shrill, "You ruined me twice! Twice! Both times you had no other choice? You are kidding me!"

The more Song Ying listened, the more frightened he became. Although the most important thing was still unclear, he felt that he would be silenced if he was discovered.

She looked around in darkness, carefully moved towards the wall and hid in the bushes.

Aunt Lian seemed to be crying, her voice choked with sobs, "You ruined my life, and now you want me to live a good life? How can I live a good life?"

Shen Zhuangyuan did not speak. The only sound in the courtyard was Aunt Lian's crying. After a moment, she said angrily, "You want me to live in peace? Impossible. I am in hell. How can you live happily in the world? I just want to make trouble. I want to make this mansion restless..."

Facing such a concubine Lian, Shen Zhuangyuan was very distressed, "What do you want to do in order to forgive us?"

Aunt Lian sneered and did not answer.

The yard became quiet and you could hear a pin drop. Song Ying didn't dare to move and just squatted in the grass.

Her feet were numb from squatting, and then she heard Shen Zhuangyuan sigh, then walk outside, his footsteps getting closer and closer.

Song Ying held her breath and heard her own heartbeat, one stronger than the other. She reached out her hand and slowly covered her heart, but the heartbeat was so loud that she was almost scared to death.

Fortunately, Shen Zhuangyuan did not hear it and walked out of the door and walked further and further away.

Song Ying still didn't get up, so she squatted there for a long time. Only when Aunt Lian in the courtyard returned to the house did she stand up. Then, she ran back and only stopped when she reached the small garden, gasping for breath.

"Who is it? Who is there?" Suddenly, someone asked loudly.

Song Ying took a deep breath, trying to calm his disordered breathing, and replied: "It's me, Song Ying."

As she spoke, she quickly slashed the lantern across the rockery next to her, cutting a hole in the surface of the lantern.

The person who asked the question came over with a lantern. It was Chunrui, the maid who was tending to the flowers and plants in the garden. "It turns out to be Sister Song Ying. What are you doing here?"

Song Ying raised the lantern and shook it, saying in distress, "My master asked me to deliver medicine to Aunt Lian's cat. Just now I accidentally scratched the lantern with a branch, and the light went out. Sister Chunrui, can you lend me a light, please?"

As Dr. Lin's apprentice, Song Ying has always been very popular among the maids in the Shen Mansion. Chunrui agreed without hesitation. She lifted the lampshade, carefully protected the light with her hands, moved close to the lamp in Song Ying's hand, lit it, and then covered the lampshade again.

Under the warm yellow light, Chunrui immediately saw a big hole on Song Ying's lampshade and said, "Oh, such a big hole, it will be difficult to walk."

Song Ying frowned in distress, "I'll cover this area with my hand, so the wind won't get in."

"You're still holding the medicine, it's not convenient. Why don't you use my lamp?" As she said that, Chunrui enthusiastically wanted to exchange the lantern with Song Ying.

Song Ying declined, "Thank you, Sister Chunrui. No need. A pack of medicine is not heavy. It's not inconvenient. Sister, you still have work to do, so I won't delay you."

Unexpectedly, Chunrui was very enthusiastic and said after thinking for a while: "How about this, I'll take you there."

Song Ying was surprised at first, but then she agreed. With someone like this to testify for her, no one would suspect that she had been to Aunt Lian's yard before and heard those words.

"Then I'll have to trouble Sister Chunrui." As she said this, she loosened her hand that was covering the opening of the lantern, letting the light sway in the wind.

Chun Rui walked beside her holding a lantern and asked curiously, "Didn't you win Boss Zhang's Thousand-Eyed Lantern during the Lantern Festival? That lantern is very windproof and the lampshade is made of silk, so it won't be torn that easily. Why didn't you win that one?"

"I gave that lamp to my master. It's such a beautiful lamp. I'm afraid the light will blacken it..."

The two chatted all the way and soon arrived outside Aunt Lian's courtyard. Song Ying said, "Sister Chunrui, I'll just send you here. Thank you."

"It's just a small favor. Look how polite you are." Chun Rui waved her hand and added, "I don't have anything to do tonight anyway, so I'll wait for you here to save you the trouble when you go back later."

Song Ying originally wanted to borrow the lamp from Aunt Lian, but then he remembered that he had to return it and would have to come again. It would be better to come to Aunt Lian's place as little as possible, it was too dangerous!

"Okay, then please wait for me for a while."

After saying that, she started knocking on the door.

After knocking for a long time, no one answered. Chun Rui asked curiously, "It's late at night, he's not home, is he?"

Song Ying was even more puzzled, for she knew that Aunt Lian had just had a quarrel with Mr. Shen, so it was impossible for her to be away at this moment, nor could she have fallen asleep.

She knocked harder and louder, shouting as she knocked: "Aunt Lian! Aunt Lian..."

Finally, there was an answer from inside, "Why are you knocking so late at night? You are calling for the soul!"

Chun Rui curled her lips and whispered to Song Ying, "I have never seen a concubine with such a bad temper. No, I have never seen a lady with such a bad temper."

During the days of treating the cat, Song Ying felt that Aunt Lian was actually a very easy-going and polite person in private. She was unlike the other masters in the Shen Mansion, who were polite to you on the surface, but you could always feel their contempt and disdain for you in the details.

Combined with what she said to Shen Zhuangyuan tonight, Song Ying felt that maybe she was essentially a good person, and was forced to behave like this today.