Forced to marry, I picked up a young powerful official

Hehua's eyes were red. He raised his sleeves and wiped his eyes hard, trying to hold back the tears.

"When the second young lady returned home, your status plummeted. At that time, your situation in the Shen family was not much better than that of us servants. Hehua saw it all, but you still took out your own money and let me go home. You told me that day that I should live a good life after returning. I have always remembered it in my heart."

"After returning home, I helped my brother and his wife with their business and looked after the children. I also hoped to meet a good man and marry him. Only in this way could I repay the girl's love for me. But... who knew that my brother and his wife would be so shameless and sell me as a concubine!"

Tears continued to roll down her face, but her expression remained stubborn.

"My freedom was bought by the girl. She asked me to go back so that I could live a good life. How could I let them mess with me? So, these days, I pretended to be obedient, but I was actually planning to escape from the capital. When I knew that the girl was in Qingyu Lane, I dared to come to her and beg her to take me away. No matter where the girl goes, Hehua is willing to follow!"

After saying this, she kowtowed heavily again.

"Hehua, you get up first."

Shen Nankui helped her up and sighed, "I didn't expect that your family would be so inconsiderate of blood ties."

He Hua's eyes were filled with sorrow. "When they wanted to sell me to an old widower as a concubine, they were no longer my family!"

Shen Nankui patted her shoulder gently, and after a moment of silence, he asked, "Hehua, are you really willing to follow me?"

He Hua nodded firmly, "If the girl doesn't give up, He Hua is willing to serve the girl for the rest of her life to repay her kindness!"

Seeing her loyalty, Shen Nankui couldn't help but be moved by her friendship.

"In that case, I will take you with me when I return to Cang County this time."

Hearing this, Hehua burst into tears of joy, "It is a blessing from my previous life that Hehua can return to the girl's side!"

Shen Nankui asked: "How much silver did your brother and sister-in-law sell you for?"

"Fifty taels of silver."

There was a hint of humiliation in Hehua's eyes.

Shen Nankui nodded and said, "Okay, after we leave Beijing, I will have someone send these fifty taels of silver to your home and tell them that you are mine. From now on, you don't have to be held hostage by your brother and sister-in-law anymore."

Hehua had never expected that the girl would solve her worries so quickly. Besides being pleasantly surprised, she was so moved that she didn't know what to say. She wiped her tears and said, "Hehua thanks the girl for her kindness. I will definitely serve her well in the future. In the next life, and the next life after that, I am willing to be your slave and wait for your orders!"

Shen Nankui smiled and said, "You have already left the mansion. Since you have been deregistered as a slave, you don't need to sell yourself into slavery anymore. In the future, you can just work by my side."

The two grew up together and had a special friendship. In addition, Hehua was loyal to her, so it was not important to her whether there was a slave contract or not.

Hehua stood there in a daze, unable to utter a word, tears streaming down her face.

"girl……"

Seeing that she was about to kneel again, Shen Nankui hurriedly pulled her back and said helplessly, "Don't kneel anymore. We are about to set off. You should save some energy for the journey."

After saying that, she left the house first to see if Zhongshan was ready.

Hehua stared at her back blankly, letting the tears flow freely on his face.

After a long while, she seemed to come to her senses. She raised her sleeve to wipe away her tears, and a look of determination flashed across her eyes.

She must not let the girl down.

Everything was ready, and Shen Nankui set off. Gu Yichuan sent her out of the city and watched the carriage go away until it disappeared, then he returned alone.

Shen Nankui looked at his figure from the car window and felt very uncomfortable.

Obviously, they had been separated many times before, but why did she feel so sad this time...

Seeing that she was unhappy, Hehua wanted to cheer her up and asked, "Miss, your uncle must treat you very well, right?"

Shen Nankui nodded, a smile unconsciously spilling from her lips, "Yes, he treats me very well."

"I think our son-in-law is very handsome and will surely pass the imperial examination in the spring, and then he will earn a title of the top scholar's wife for the young lady!"

Shen Nankui thought about Gu Yichuan's appearance, her brows full of tenderness.

"I believe in him."

She looked at He Hua and said gently, "We have left the Shen family, so you should call me Madam from now on."

"Okay, Hehua will remember it."

Hehua knew about the marriage exchange and had been worried about it. But now that she saw the girl and her husband were getting along well, she felt sincerely happy.

The weather was cold and the roads were slippery, so the carriage took three days to get back to Gu's house.

Having been away from home for so long, Shen Nankui originally thought that Gu's mother would not be happy with her, but who knew that after returning, Gu's mother only said, "Oh, you are willing to come back?" and nothing more happened.

She couldn't help but wonder when her mother-in-law became so good-tempered?

I had already prepared some words to deal with her, but now it seems that I have saved myself the trouble.

Gu Qingrong and Liang were both working in Yanxia Pavilion and were not at home at the moment. However, the two little ones, when they saw Shen Nankui come back, pestered her for a long time.

Ah Qiao asked her slyly, "Aunt, do you also think that grandma has changed?"

"Why do you say that?"

Ah Qiao said, "You don't know, when my uncle wrote back, grandma knew you weren't going home, so she was mad for a few days and said a lot of bad things about you!"

"What happened next?" Shen Nankui asked.

"Cough cough!"

It was A Yuan who was winking at A Qiao.

But Ah Qiao didn't realize it, she pouted and said, "Brother, why are you trying to scare me? I'm from my aunt's side, she hasn't been home for a long time, so I naturally have to tell my aunt about what's going on at home."

Shen Nankui smiled, "Okay, go on."

"Later, Dad and Mom did business in the city and made a lot of money. They bought a lot of good things for grandma, and said that if it weren't for you, our family wouldn't be able to live such a good life. They told grandma not to scold you. If they made you angry, you wouldn't want to manage the family anymore, and then our family would be poor again. And Aunt Liu also advised grandma like this every day. Grandma held the good things that Dad and Mom bought for her, and gradually she stopped being angry with little aunt."

Ah Qiao spoke excitedly, with a beaming smile on her little face.

Ah Yuan, however, was already covering his face and groaning, "Stop talking, idiot!"

Ah Qiao seemed not to notice and continued with an indignant look on her face: "Humph, grandma is really greedy for money. My aunt is so kind, but she only cares about money and not people. It's not fair at all. The whole family has to coax her. My aunt, I feel sorry for you!"

Shen Nankui asked: "Are you done?"

Ah Qiao lowered her chin, showing two rows of white teeth, "That's it!"

Seeing that she was still trying to take credit, A Yuan glanced at her with great disdain and said with sympathy: "A child cannot be taught, and a rotten tree cannot be carved... Tsk tsk!"

This little fool, has he forgotten his aunt's other identity?