Chapter 280: Great-Aunt Will Protect You
The grass was still green. The sunlight was bright. There was a breeze, and it was a bit cold.
Princess Huiyun recognized this person. She had only seen her yesterday, and the impression was incredibly deep. After all, there were very few people in this world who would call her “old lady” with every breath.
“Let me take you inside. If you stay in this wind, you will catch a cold. If you die from a cold, it is very miserable. You will cough and cough until, in the end, your internal organs are coughed up, stained with blood. It is a very ugly death.”
Qin Luoxia glanced at the old lady. Although she had graying hair, her appearance was exceptionally beautiful. There was only a scar on her right cheek. Although the scar was slightly large, about a finger wide, it did not diminish her beauty.
Others would be afraid upon seeing the scar, but Qin Luoxia felt a sense of familiarity. Her Feng-er also had one on his face.
Following the old lady’s directions, Qin Luoxia carried her into a room.
It was clean, spacious, and very warm. The floor was actually covered with a thick straw mat, and it was warm to the touch. The floor was actually heated.
Following the old lady’s request, she took off her shoes and entered the room.
Qin Luoxia had large feet, and surprisingly, this old lady also had large feet. It was warm underfoot. Bedding and such were spread on the floor. There was also a tea table.
This arrangement was very comfortable, and Qin Luoxia thought about setting up such a space in her husband’s study so that he would be warmer while reading.
Although the capital was warmer than Jingzhou, people in the capital did not use heated brick beds. When entering a room, it was colder inside than outside.
Although her husband had not had a persistent cough for several winters, she still needed to be careful. There were quite a few people coughing around the capital.
After entering the room, the old woman went to wash up and changed out of her tight-fitting, black clothing. Seeing that garment, which looked like a giant python, Qin Luoxia realized she had probably misunderstood. The old woman had been about to swim, and she had rolled her up.
The old woman washed up and changed into a white robe, her long hair draped over her shoulders, leaning enchantingly against the tea table.
Qin Luoxia looked up at the ceiling, feeling a bit uncomfortable. This woman was terrifying. Even though she was an old woman, sitting like this before her, she felt incredibly elegant and dazzling, impossible to look at directly, even with the scar on her face.
Princess Huiyun looked at the woman sitting upright before her and smiled.
“Why don’t you look at me?”
Qin Luoxia said, “Old lady, you are disheveled. It is improper to look.”
Princess Huiyun:…
“Why didn’t that little girl come yesterday?”
“She loves to sleep, so I didn’t make her get up early.”
“Look at me, don’t you find me familiar?”
Qin Luoxia lowered her head and glanced at the old lady opposite her, studying her carefully for a while, when suddenly her eyes widened.
This lazy manner of the old lady was exactly the same as her own little daughter’s; not only did they look alike, but their mannerisms were also identical.
If she hadn’t given birth to the child herself, she would have suspected that Mianmian wasn’t her own and that this old lady was Mianmian’s real mother. It was terrifying.
“You?”
Princess Huiyun pulled at her hair, twirling it in her hand, and said, “I should be your husband’s Great-Aunt. Doesn’t that little girl look like her Great-Aunt?”
Hearing the old lady’s words, Qin Luoxia became instantly excited.
“Really?” Lacking the care of proper elders had always been a sore point in her husband’s heart. Qin Luoxia could feel that although her husband often went to anger that old hag, it was actually because there was love in his heart that there was hate. If there were no love or hate, he wouldn’t even bother with them.
“Are you really my husband’s own aunt?”
Princess Huiyun nodded. Why would she lie? If she weren’t his own aunt, with the way she kept calling her “old lady” over and over, she would have thrown this woman down the mountain long ago.
The strong and sturdy “Iron Lady” Qin Luoxia instantly hugged the old woman and burst into loud sobs: “Aunt, we finally found you. We have had such a hard life. My husband has had such a hard life. Aunt, ah, Aunt, why did you only come now?”
Princess Huiyun was hugged by this strong woman and couldn’t break free at all. However, seeing this woman crying so bitterly, she realized how much grievance she must have suffered. Thinking about it, it made sense; her nephew had a tragic fate and died an untimely death, and this woman had raised several children all by herself, and raised them so well—she must have suffered a lot.
The woman held her and wailed, but she felt prickly everywhere on her body, and Princess Huiyun was having trouble breathing.
She pushed the woman away with effort and saw her somewhat embarrassingly remove hidden weapons, poison needles, several throwing knives, several daggers, several blades, several long needles, and one long whip from her chest, body, legs, and hair…
Watching this woman take off various weapons one by one, Princess Huiyun, who had always lived a carefree life, suddenly teared up. How bitter and terrifying must this life have been for a woman to carry so many lethal weapons on her?
She had never been good at saying nice things, nor did she like to, but at this moment, she couldn’t help but pat the head of the tall woman who had thrown herself before her and said, “It’s okay, it’s okay. From now on, Great-Aunt will protect you. As long as Great-Aunt is here, nothing will happen to you.”
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