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Zi Xue shook her head and said: Your Majesty is worrying too much. Marrying far away is indeed not good for the princess, but it is a good thing for my daughter.

After all, once I leave here, I will never see anyone from the Zi family again.

You will always see people everywhere in the same place. There will also be bad rumors in the capital. Even if my daughter doesn't care about these, her future husband's family may not.

So it's good for everyone if my daughter marries far away.

Upon hearing this, the emperor looked at Zixue several more times before sighing and saying: My son is not blessed.

Zixue and Eunuch Fulai left the palace together and returned to their own mansion. They told the servants that no one would come to the Zi mansion.

Fulai went to Zifu to convey the imperial edict.

Zifu soon received the emperor's decree to sever ties with Zixue.

The entire Zi Mansion was stunned. What was going on? Zi Nan asked Fu Lai in confusion: Eunuch Fu, why did the emperor issue such an order?

Fulai did not have a good face towards this family, but he still replied: The county princess went to the palace in person to ask the emperor for an order, and from now on she is no longer a daughter of the Zi family.

You know how you treated the county lady. She doesn't need your hypocritical kindness anymore.

Lord Zi, it is rare to find a mistress like Madam Zi. We all admire you for having such a lady.

Finished talking and left.

But the Purple Mansion Hall was completely silent.

How could Zinan not know what Fulai meant?

Zi Xue went to the palace to ask for permission to sever ties, how could she not say anything?

Everyone knows how they have treated their second daughter over the years. Now she would rather be cursed by the world than have anything to do with them.

Zinan now feels that he has lost all face. He wonders how many colleagues will laugh at him when he goes to court tomorrow.

But Cheng Xiu was so angry that she wanted to go find Zi Xue to settle the score.

Zinan scolded him: "Do you have a pig brain? Now she is the county lady, do you understand?"

And now there is an imperial decree to sever ties. Although your crime of insulting the county lady can be serious or minor, do you think Zixue will not punish you because you are her mother?

She is now hoping that you will cause trouble. By that time, not to mention you, it will be hard to say whether I can still keep my official hat on my head.

Now she is the monarch and we are the subjects. Don’t mention that you are her mother, even if you are her grandmother, you still have to show respect.

As long as you dare to say something unpleasant, she can give you an excuse to disrespect the imperial power.

You'd better not provoke her now, otherwise you will die without knowing how.

Upon hearing this, Cheng Xiu fell to the ground in a daze. How did she treat her second daughter in the past?

It seems like I have never taken care of it. Even the things I use seem to be the leftovers from Zishuang.

Zifeng didn't say a word the whole time, because he and his second sister rarely talked to each other and saw each other even less frequently.

Whether at a party or at home, my sister seemed to have never eaten with them.

Thinking of this, I suddenly asked: Is Zixue your parents’ biological child?

Zinan and Chengxiu were stunned when they heard this. Chengxiu didn't know how to answer. She said, "Yes, Zixue's behavior doesn't seem like that of a biological child." They themselves felt that Zixue was not their biological child.

Not to mention everyone in Zifu.

Finally, Cheng Xiu said dryly: Yes, he is my biological child. After saying that, she felt too embarrassed to face anyone.

Zifeng didn't say anything after hearing this, but just nodded.

They are biological children, so they are biological children. But why is there such a big difference?

He remembered that the second sister was much more obedient than the eldest sister when she was young. Why did everyone in the family like the eldest sister and ignore the second sister?

After searching through my memory, I realized that many things were the result of my eldest sister's complaints, and everyone just concluded that my second sister was naughty without any further investigation.

And the parents didn't seem to care whether the second sister was wrongly accused. It was just about the clothes at home, and the eldest sister only said one sentence.

Anyway, my clothes are too small and my second sister doesn’t go out, so there is no need to waste money on making new clothes.

It’s better to just wear your sister’s clothes, and her clothes are also very new.

The eldest sister always stops the second sister from making new clothes in the pretext of saving money for the family, as if the second sister's clothes are a waste and hers are her due.

Zixue was at home, so she didn't even need to be given pocket money. Every time the eldest sister would say, "The second sister doesn't go out, so why does she need money?"

If I don't go out, it seems that I don't have to eat. Thinking of this, I suddenly realized that the whole Zifu was being played around by my eldest sister, and no one had noticed it yet.

If it weren't for what happened today, he would never have thought that his second sister really didn't have a good life in Zifu.

Now that she has severed ties with Zifu, perhaps this should be the happiest thing for Zixue.

The emperor gave Yun Tianyu the title of county lord because of his actions that hurt a girl.

He even gave them a mansion, but their closest relatives were thinking about how to hide it from Zixue and not let her know that her fiancé was having an affair with her sister.

Are they really family rather than enemies?

No wonder Zixue didn't take anything with her when she left, except for her clothes that were so washed that they turned white.

There was not even a silver hairpin on her head, nor a single piece of silver jewelry on her body.

Suddenly I found that the entire Zi Mansion was so ridiculous. The second daughter of an official's family was not only not favored, but was even worse than an ordinary servant.

No wonder he left so abruptly, and no wonder he went to the palace to ask for permission to sever ties.

After figuring it out, he said to the servant: Go to the Second Miss, oh no, go to Zixue's room to see if there is anything that needs to be packed. Pack it all up, there will be no Second Miss in the mansion in the future.

The servant took the order and went. He returned soon with a package, which was very small and contained only three sets of clothes.

The servant said: There is nothing in the entire room except these clothes, there is no wardrobe or dressing table.

There was just a small stool and a table with a broken leg, and on it a comb with a few teeth missing, and that was all there.

Zifeng opened it and took a look. There were some patches on it, but these were not important. What was important was, in these ten years, there were only three sets of clothes?

I asked uncertainly: Doesn't he have small clothes or big clothes?

The servant shook his head and said: No, I asked the maid who takes care of Miss Zixue, and every time her clothes became too small, she would take them off to patch up the shorter clothes or make shoes to wear.

As for larger clothes, there were none. The maid said that the Second Miss only sent over one torn piece of clothing every two or three years.

There weren't many clothes, and even the threads for sewing were bought by the maids with their own money.

The second young lady has no monthly salary, so she doesn’t even have needlework.

The second young lady said that she would pay us back when she had money in the future, so why would we want her money for needlework?

The servant's answer stunned everyone sitting in the hall.

Cheng Xiu said in disbelief: Didn't Zishuang give her all her clothes? How come she has no clothes left and needs to sew them herself?

The servant said: The eldest lady is only given one piece of clothing every two or three years, and those clothes are always torn or faded. The second lady is not given clothes very often.

Cheng Xiu's face turned pale instantly. So, her second daughter had always lived a life worse than that of a maid?

He asked angrily: Why didn’t she tell us that she had no clothes to wear?

The servant was even more contemptuous in his heart and told you, “You must also listen.”

The servant said: Every time the second young lady's maid came to talk to the master and the lady, the eldest young lady would say, didn't I send a few clothes over? And they were all new, how come there is nothing to wear?

So when the Madam and the others heard the eldest daughter say this, they said that the second daughter was being pretentious and they should ignore her.

After the maid came a few times, the second young lady asked her not to come again.

From then on, the maid never came to ask for clothes again.

Although the second young lady was not hungry, the food was all eaten by the maids.

I heard that it was arranged by the eldest daughter, who said that the second daughter was young and didn't need to eat so many good things, so as not to spoil her appetite and make her not like to eat anymore.

And the money saved in the kitchen was given to the eldest daughter.

Cheng Xiu didn’t know what to say now. She was completely stunned. It turned out that this was the kind of life Zi Xue lived in the mansion.

She wanted to see with her own eyes what kind of place her second daughter lived in, and didn't want to listen to the servants, so Zinan and Zifeng also went with her.

When they walked into the yard, everyone found that there were only two maids here.

Cheng Xiu said: Why are there only two of you? Where are the others?

The two maids were stunned when they heard this and said, “Madam, there are only two of us in the second young lady’s yard.”

Cheng Xiu didn't say anything after hearing this, but his face turned even paler.

Even Zinan and Zifeng didn't say anything and went straight into the room that they hadn't entered for more than ten years.

Looking at the empty room and the pitiful broken table that was about to fall over, it was hard to imagine that this was the room of a rich lady.

Cheng Xiu could no longer control herself and started crying in agony, holding her head.

Zifeng didn't know what to say when he looked at this room which was not even as good as the maids in the mansion.

I remember that I once said that my second sister looked poor and shabby, and that she wore such tattered clothes. Was she hoping to gain pity from others?

Zinan called the housekeeper, and when the housekeeper came in he was stunned. Is this the second young lady's room?

Zinan said in a cold tone: Is this all the things in the second young lady's room?

The housekeeper quickly said: Master, the eldest lady helped to decorate the second young lady's room, and the second young lady's maid also came to me and told me that she wanted to change a table.

But the eldest daughter said that the second sister didn't need to dress up, and no one came to her yard, so she didn't need a table or a dressing table.

No matter what the second young lady needs, the eldest young lady will just ask her. She has more than enough supplies, so she can just move them over whenever the second young lady needs them. There is no need to buy anything extra and waste money.

Zinan's face wasn't very good either. He thought how blind he was that his second daughter lived a life worse than a maid's under his nose.