"If you don't come over here again, I'll eat you!"

The fat boy couldn't hold back his tears any longer, and ran to Madam Liu, letting her find a clean towel and prepare him for her to eat.

When Fuxia was almost dry, Liu Yunqing couldn't bear to tease the shivering child anymore, and gently rubbed Fuxia's head with his palm.

"Why are you so timid? I am Tuan Niangzi, your sister Liu. Don't you recognize me when I become a human?"

The little fat man didn't dare to say a word. Liu Yunqing had no choice but to transform herself to prove herself. There was another flash of white light, and Liu Yunqing turned into the appearance of Tuan Niangzi. Only then did the little fat man feel relieved, and he cried bitterly beside her.

"Sister Liu, you scared me to death!"

Not to mention Fuxia, even Liu Yunqing had just figured out what was going on.

At first she only knew that she died suddenly in her previous life and became a kitten in this life. Who would have thought that this was not the case, she was originally the eldest lady of the Liu family.

Two months ago, she lost her soul and accidentally ran away to another time and space, which was the previous life in her memory. She finally came back and almost lost her soul again. She only recovered by attaching herself to Tuan Niangzi's body. Today, when her soul was called back, her soul finally returned to her body.

She couldn't explain the adventures that happened during that time, but she could be both a human and a cat at the same time. It was probably as Fuxia said, she really became a monster.

The two little balls were meowing and chatting. Liu Yunqing glanced to the side with his amber cat eyes and saw a warm light passing by the window, as if it was about to come in.

Sure enough, the next moment, with a creaking sound, someone gently pushed open the door. Without bothering to tell Fuxia anything, she quickly made Madam Liu lie down on the bed. She also wiped her ears to see if they had gotten better, for fear that something had been revealed.

The little fat boy was smart. He hid under the bed and carefully watched the person coming in with his big eyes.

He first saw a pair of embroidered shoes with willow branch patterns, and then he leaned forward and saw that the person coming was a woman in her thirties or forties. The faint candlelight illuminated the few strands of white hair on her temples.

He had seen this woman in the team that was collecting frightened souls. She was probably Madam Liu's mother, Qi.

"Yunqing, mother came to see if you were cold at night."

Placing the bean-sized lamp on the low table beside the bed, Qi sat down next to the bed and felt if her daughter's hands were cold.

Although her daughter's hands did not feel cold, Qi still put an extra thin blanket on her daughter's legs and continued talking to her.

"Mother has been forgetful lately. She even forgot that it rained a lot in April. As soon as the weather warmed up, she hurried to change your thin blanket and your new spring clothes. If I hadn't dreamed of you complaining about being cold and tired, I'd have been afraid that you would have frozen."

"Your younger sister always thinks that mother is partial to you. She said that she wanted to eat the soft cheese from Fan Lou the other day but mother didn't allow her. But mother made four or five new clothes for you without saying a word."

"She is only five years old, and mother can't explain it to her. Right now, our family doesn't have much money left to buy food for your little sister at Fanlou. Your new clothes were made for you by mother using the fabric from my dowry, and it didn't cost much."

"Mother is thinking that no one can be wronged but our eldest lady. You have been sensible since you were young, and you always give your younger sisters the delicious and fun things. Now that you are not doing well, your younger sisters should give in to you. Even if we have to spend all our family wealth, mother will wake you up..."

Having said that, Qi could no longer hold on and sobbed into Liu Yunqing's arms.

Liu Yunqing couldn't bear it. She hadn't wanted to bother her father and mother so much in the middle of the night, but seeing that her mother was so upset, how could she lie down? What's more, she was very confused by her mother's words.

Liu Yunqing turned sideways, put his arm on A Niang's shoulders, and gently stroked her back.

"Mother, how come there is no money at home to buy cheese for my little sister? Why do you have to make her clothes yourself?"

My family ran a bookstore. There was one on Gaotou Street, facing the Five Temples and Three Prisons, and another on Baocisi Street. To the west was the Kaifeng Prefecture Government Office, and to the east was the Imperial College. Both were in prime locations.

Not to mention selling pens, ink, paper and inkstones which are essential items for scholars, even if you sell herbal tea for one penny a bowl, you can earn one or two taels of silver in a day. How come you don’t have money to satisfy my little sister’s food and drink?

The family usually hired two maids to make clothes, but my mother never did any of the washing, sewing or cooking herself.

Qi was startled, and then she hugged her daughter and cried with joy, calling her "my daughter" over and over again, as if she wanted to embed Liu Yunqing into her own bones and blood.

The crying woke up the two young ladies, one big and one small, in the east wing. They rushed over in the drizzle without even putting on their clothes. When they saw that their elder sister had woken up, the two young ladies also cried like little kittens. The four of them hugged each other and it took them a while to stop crying.

It was at this time that Liu Yunqing realized that there seemed to be someone missing at home. She wiped the tears from the three people in front of her one by one and asked.

"Mother, where is my father? Is he drunk and sleeping soundly again?"

When Father Liu Chenggong was mentioned, the three people in front of him fell silent. Second Lady Liu Yunxi said angrily, "Sister, don't mention that unfaithful man! Since you jumped into the Bian River, he has never returned to this family except to scold you for being unfilial!"

The third wife Liu Yunxiang, with tears in her baby voice, also echoed: "Daddy doesn't want us anymore, he has a younger brother, and he wants to drive us away!"

What father and brother? Liu Yunqing looked at his mother, and after a while his mother said embarrassedly.

"It's because of my mother's incompetence that she didn't give birth to a child to carry on the Liu family's bloodline. Because of this, your father has become increasingly dissatisfied with me in the past two years. After you got into trouble, your father simply stopped coming home. I went to the bookstore to look for him, but I met another woman in our bookstore. The guys actually called her the Second Madam!"

"That second wife is a woman in her early twenties, not much older than you. She was pregnant and pointed and gesticulated in the study room, acting like the mistress of a clothing store. I was so angry that I argued with her for a few words, and I was slapped by your father!"

"It's up to him to come back or not! At least mother can find a way to raise the three of you, and we three will live a good life!"

Qi didn't cry, but expressed some anger and self-pity, but Liu Yunqing's face turned dark.

She knew that the old man was not honest. When she was a child, she took her second sister to the market during the New Year and saw the old man quarreling with a woman in the street. However, out of filial piety, she never pointed it out.

She had been in charge of the store since she was fourteen years old, and she had kept a tight control over all the financial transactions. She then opened the second store, and nothing had ever happened to the old man. He had just gone to brothels to eat and drink, and he was still able to show his authority as a father in front of his daughters.

The reason why Liu Chenggong was in a hurry to find a husband for her when she was only fifteen years old was because he didn't want to be controlled by such a powerful daughter, and he also wanted to sell his daughter as a favor.

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