Nian Huajiao: The cold-faced treacherous minister spoiled her unconditionally after breaking his vow

There is neither absolute black nor pure white in this world.

Good and evil, right and wrong, are all felt by yourself.

"You are my great-aunt, my grandfather's biological sister." Jiang Luo responded calmly.

"Haha...you are both right and wrong." Old Mrs. Qi chuckled.

Jiang Luo didn't say anything, but just silently supported her and continued walking forward.

"As for me, I severed my sibling relationship with your grandfather decades ago. It's just that he didn't want to." She said it casually, not afraid of the servants following her.

Jiang Luo was puzzled when he heard this.

Although she had never met this old lady in her previous life, Old Madam Jiang and Qin mentioned this old lady in front of them.

Of course, nothing nice to say.

She didn't think much of it at the time and didn't bother to find out why.

I thought to myself: Maybe this old lady is really bad...

Now I heard the old lady say this, I really don't understand: "Grandma, why are you..."

But Old Lady Qi glanced at her, and Jiang Luo immediately winked at Rendong and Mingxu behind him.

This brings us to family secrets.

The two of them understood and hurriedly stepped back a few steps, stopping where they were. After they were a distance away from them, they slowly walked forward.

"I was married to your grandfather's deputy general. On the wedding day, we only had the ceremony, and he followed your grandfather to the battlefield. Later... later he came back with a coffin, and I have been a widow ever since."

"I was only eighteen years old at that time. After I finished my mourning period, I returned to the Duke's Mansion and cried and begged your grandfather to let me go home, but he didn't agree. I smashed the main hall of the Duke's Mansion and almost burned down the ancestral hall, but still didn't get his consent..." Old Mrs. Qi said this with a smile, as if she was telling someone else's story casually.

Cui Ying secretly wiped away his tears behind his back.

Jiang Luo also felt a little sad after hearing this.

A woman's life can be summarized in just a few simple sentences. It's really pitiful.

And wasn't she the same in her previous life?

After marrying Lin Wen, she was no different from being a widow.

She watched as the husband she had chosen ignored her, spent her dowry in revelry, and had many women, including concubines.

Later, when her dowry was squandered, he turned from ignoring her to bullying and scolding her, and then later poisoned her and left her bedridden...

When she thinks back on it now, she feels so miserable.

She will not let the Qin mother and daughter go, nor will she let the scumbag Jiang Zhou go, and she will definitely not let the Lin mother and son go...

Old Madam Qi seemed to sense Jiang Luo's anger. She glanced at Jiang Luo beside her inexplicably, thinking: This little girl... is she angry about her experience? This is rare.

Jiang Luo knew that her emotions were exposed, so she quickly collected her thoughts and tightened her hand on Mrs. Qi's arm. She tried to use her own thoughts to comfort the person in front of her: "Grandma, don't be sad. Everyone has their own way to go. Maybe, living alone is better than living in a seemingly prosperous life but actually lonely inside."

Old Madam Qi paused and looked at Jiang Luo in surprise. She didn't know whether the little girl really didn't understand what she meant, or whether she really felt sorry for her.

"I told you all this because I wanted to tell you that when I helped you in the ancestral hall today, it was not because I wanted to help you from the bottom of my heart. At first, I wanted to use you to anger Qin Juan, but later I thought it would be okay to help you, which would be a good opportunity for me to establish my authority when I return to the Duke's Mansion. Then, your request was for your future marriage, and I saw my former self in you, so I helped you to the end..."

"But...what I said about your mother was from the bottom of my heart. I told you so clearly so that you wouldn't think that I helped you and you should be grateful to me. I hate those hypocritical faces the most." After she said that, she stroked Jiang Luo's arm and walked away on her own.

Cui Ying bowed to Jiang Luo and hurriedly followed.

Jiang Luo was a little stunned. She didn't expect that this great-aunt who came back halfway would be so upright.

In the ancestral hall, when the two of them had no interaction, she had guessed something when Old Lady Qi helped her.

At this moment, Jiang Luo was really grateful to Old Lady Qi.

At least she was not like those people in her previous life who took advantage of her and then ate her till not a bone was left.

"How do you know, great aunt, that Luo'er respects you from the bottom of his heart?" Jiang Luo trotted forward and asked.

Along the way, she had a question in mind.

Her great aunt had been practicing asceticism in the mountains for decades, so why did she suddenly return home?

Until Mrs. Qi's quick words and uprightness, coupled with the fact that she alone in the ancestral hall had made Mrs. Jiang and Mrs. Qin so angry that they dared not say anything, she had a guess in her mind...

If it were a normal family, widowed at a young age, childless, and wanted to return to the original mansion to live out their days in glory, shouldn't they be nice and polite, and get along well with the head of the family and the mistress of the house?

How could Mrs. Qi have such an attitude?

The old lady's return home at this time is definitely not as simple as it seems.

If she really guessed it right... However, this does not contradict what she wants to do. It can even be said that the two have the same goal.

Old Madam Qi did not stop after hearing Jiang Luo's words, and still left Jiang Luo with her back. However, after hearing Jiang Luo's voice, a smile appeared on her expressionless face.

Cui Ying also laughed.

Her wife is always so fond of teasing people.

"This is the first time we meet, how can we talk about respect?" Old Mrs. Qi said, looking at the Crescent Moon Lake in front of her that had remained the same for decades.

"That's true. But how could you know that I wouldn't respect you from the bottom of my heart in the future? My great aunt and I may have never had any intersection before, but from the moment you stepped into the ancestral hall and spoke for me, it was destined that we two, the grandparents and grandchildren, would have a fate and intersection. What do you think?"

When Mrs. Qi heard this, her smile got bigger. She stopped and looked at Jiang Luo seriously: "I am a straightforward person and it is easy for me to offend people. However, as long as I approve of someone, I will give her all my trust and treat her as my closest person."

Others may not believe this, but Cui Ying does.

In the first year when she was sent by the old Duke to be with the Madam, the Madam never said a word to her. Even when she encountered difficulties and had no one to help her, the Madam would not ask her for help.

She thought at that time that perhaps the lady had been so hurt by the Duke that she had lost her heart, which was why she was so disgusted with someone who had anything to do with the Duke's Mansion.

Later, as they spent more time together, year after year, the lady realized that she really wanted to stay in the manor, so she gradually accepted her. It was not until the end that she entrusted her with important tasks and trusted her even more.

She knew how difficult it was to get the lady to have a good attitude towards the people in the Duke's Mansion!

How could Jiang Luo not understand what she meant? He looked back firmly and said, "Luo'er and my great aunt have the same idea."

An old man and a young man stood by the lake, looking at each other.