The Daily Life of a Down-on-Hard-Life Medicine Girl Supporting Her Family

Chapter 59 Isolated

When it's spring and I'm making pastries, it's not that I'm not good at it, it's that I'm not focused.

She now desperately wants to know the background and consequences of her elder sister's stand against the Wu family in the capital, and how she managed to withstand it.

At that time, in a village on the outskirts of Beijing, Granny Chen applied medicine to Chunyu while shedding tears.

“It’s been a month, and these scars are still there.”

"Granny, don't cry. At least we're still alive, aren't we?"

As long as she doesn't die, she's not afraid of death. When Chunyu decided to take this step, she was ready to go all out.

If Wu Yunping hadn't gone to such extremes, she would still be the gentle and weak Xiao Chunyu.

Since he's not even giving himself a way out, then let's drag his whole family down to hell. Trading one for dozens of others is definitely worth it!

Fortunately, she made the right bet. Although the current emperor is sometimes easily swayed, he is undeniably a diligent and benevolent ruler. After all, it was the man surnamed Wu who was building his empire: Wu, as the Vice Minister of Works, accepted bribes and made a fortune in silence. Xiao Chunyu not only wrote a complaint but also brought irrefutable evidence.

Lord Wu was thrown into the imperial prison, and the entire Wu family was imprisoned as well. Of course, several other families were also implicated. For a time, everyone in the capital turned pale at the mention of Xiao Chunyu, saying that this woman was a wolf in sheep's clothing and not someone to be trifled with.

Even the Xiao family's in-laws were afraid, wishing they had no connection with the Xiao family for eight lifetimes. Xiao Chunyu had been isolated in the capital.

Even after settling down at the Empress's estate, he never had a peaceful life.

They were either robbed or maliciously set on fire.

If it weren't for the help of the servants from the Xia family, the great general of Huaihua, in the neighboring village, they wouldn't be alive today.

"Granny, have the thank-you gifts sent to the Xia family been delivered?"

"Reporting to Miss, it has been delivered." Granny Zhou sighed inwardly, "General Huaihua is not here, and the old lady did not accept it, saying it was a trivial matter not worth mentioning."

In fact, it's not that it's not worth mentioning, but that I don't want to get involved with my young lady.

When Granny Zhou delivered the thank-you gift to the Xia residence, they wouldn't even let her in. They just sent a random old woman to send her away.

"We should naturally remember their life-saving grace." Xiao Chunyu understood this perfectly: "It's our fault for not giving a thank-you gift, and it's their business if they don't accept it."

Granny Zhou nodded. Her young mistress was truly unable to leave the house now and was being ostracized by everyone in the capital.

Only Madam Qiu and Miss Qiu secretly sent people to contact them.

Yes, it was all done quietly, after all, the Qiu family still had to live in the capital.

"Miss, what are your plans for the future?"

"..."

Xiao Chunyu fell silent for a moment.

"Granny, do you think Grandmother and the others are doing well in Shu?" Xiao Chunyu said, "I have a feeling they are not doing well. So, I can't go to Shu to seek refuge with them. On the contrary, I need to establish myself in the capital and wait until I have enough ability so that our family can be reunited."

It's easier said than done!
Previously, even though the Xiao family had an old imperial physician who was the head of the Imperial Medical Academy, he was only a fifth-rank official. In the capital, where imperial relatives and nobles were everywhere, the Xiao family was just an ordinary family.

For a young lady to establish herself, she either needs power or money.

Power is something that can't be coveted at all. For three generations, no one in the Xiao family has been able to enter officialdom through the imperial examinations. The shortcut is to kill enemies and make meritorious contributions on the frontier, but the men of the Xiao family are all weak and bookish. They don't even have the ability to protect themselves, let alone kill enemies.

Therefore, three generations couldn't produce a single military general!
Money: Wu Yunping, that heartless man, divorced the young lady and kicked her and her daughter out penniless. All the dowry went to the Wu family. The Wu family was raided, and the dowry was confiscated.

The Empress Dowager and the Empress bestowed their gifts upon her, one because of her great-grandfather and the other because of her grandfather, to support her.

If the Empress hadn't sent people to escort her back to the estate, she might not have been able to escape unscathed.

All their possessions combined amounted to only one estate worth a thousand taels of silver. How easy was it to establish themselves?

"Granny, has there been any news from Granny Yun?" Granny Yun was also her dowry nanny. The family originally lived in the manor. When Xiao Chunyu went through a life-or-death ordeal during childbirth, she began to make plans. She issued Granny Yun's family a contract of indenture, allowing them to move out of the manor and into the city, where they took over a small shop selling snacks.

As it turns out, she made the right decision to leave herself an escape route.

"not yet."

Granny Zhou was a little worried that Granny Yun's family probably couldn't accomplish much, after all, this old woman was a bit timid. Her husband was also an honest and simple man, and her two sons naturally weren't very capable either.

"Okay, then let's wait a little longer."

Xiao Chunyu sent a message to Granny Yun, asking her to find a larger shop to start a business. Since there had been no news for so long, she guessed that things were not going well.

As the master and servant were talking, they heard someone speaking loudly outside.

"Mo Lan, what's going on? Who's making such a racket outside?"

“Miss, it’s an old beggar.” Mo Lan was puzzled when she heard this: “She said she was hungry and wanted to eat. Granny Tian gave her food but she wouldn’t leave. She wanted to drink water, and after drinking the water, she said she needed to urinate and kept rushing in.”

"Everyone has to go to the bathroom sometimes," Xiao Chunyu said. "Take her with you, don't make things difficult for her."

"Miss, you are always so kind-hearted. What if you were a bad person?"

"With so many of you, are you afraid that an old woman will harm me?" Xiao Chunyu said, "The only ones who can harm me are those who look glamorous, not an old woman begging for food and water."

"But what if it's an act?"

"You're letting her go to pee, keeping an eye on her, and she won't see me anyway, so how could she possibly harm me?"

"Yes, ma'am."

Mo Lan walked out of the inner courtyard and instructed Granny Tian and Granny Wan to take the old woman to relieve herself.

"Grandma, you're not familiar with this courtyard, just follow Granny Tian and Granny Wan."

"Young lady, please have mercy and take me there."

Mo Lan... You want me to take you to the toilet?

Seeing the anger on the faces of Granny Tian and Granny Wan, Mo Lan finally felt a pang of pity: she was afraid that these two nannies would scold her.

"Come, follow me."

Mo Lan led her to the servants' quarters, and just after turning two corners, the old woman suddenly spoke.

"Miss Mo Lan, Miss Mo Lan, do you still recognize me?"

Mo Lan turned to look at the old woman.

"Who are you? How do you recognize me?"

The voice sounds familiar, but I can't quite place it.

"You are……?"

"Miss Mo Lan, look who I am?" She lifted her disheveled hair, revealing a weathered face that looked very familiar.

"You are... Granny Ma?"

Mo Lan was astonished.

"It's me, it's me." Granny Ma craned her neck to look outside, and when she saw that no one had followed her in, she breathed a long sigh of relief: "I've finally found you, I've finally come in."

"Granny Ma, didn't you and your whole family go back to your hometown on some business? What are you doing here?"

(End of this chapter)