There is also spring for passers-by

Nanny Lian, who was left to the original owner by her mother, was sent to the farm by the wife of the prince of the Cui family three years ago because she found fault with her. None of the maids and servants around the original owner were from the Han family, but all of them were from the Cui family.

Wen Wan locked the door to the woodshed, retrieved a quilt from the space, and slept wrapped in it. After waking up, she took a muscle-strengthening and meridian-opening pill and a toxin-removing and body-tempering pill, then practiced the fist and kick techniques she had learned from the original owner's memory for half an hour, until her whole body felt warm and her impurities were expelled.

Han's mother, Wen, also came from a military background. Her father had been a prominent general in the Han army, but after his death on the battlefield, the general's wife took pity on her orphan and took her in to care for her. She and Han's father had been childhood sweethearts, like siblings in their youth, and in their teenage years, they fell in love.

At sixteen, Wen married Han's father and devotedly cared for her mother-in-law, helping her manage the mansion. The year the original owner was born, many people in the capital were infected with smallpox, and the Han family's old lady passed away. While staying with Han's mother, Nanny Lian constantly urged her to practice martial arts.

Later, Cui Zhen discovered it and reported it to the Crown Prince's wife. The Crown Prince's wife warned Nanny Lian several times and ordered her not to teach the original owner martial arts anymore.

Nanny Lian said, "Madam, learning martial arts was my late wife's last wish."

The Crown Prince's wife, Li, was displeased with Nanny Lian's defiance and the Han family's old servant's private instruction in martial arts. She found excuses and faults to dismiss all the servants left by Wen Shi to her daughter. Li initially intended to sell them off, but discovered they were all from respectable families, indebted to the Han family in various ways, and had sworn before the former Han master to protect the last remaining descendant.

Li had no way to deal with Nanny Lian and the others, so she had to find a way to get rid of them.

Nanny Lian was sent to live in the manor under the name of the general's mansion. Some of the old servants returned to the general's mansion, some went to the manor, and some went to the shop to work as managers.

Wen Wan was familiar with this body and discovered that Han Qingwan's soul was not in the soul-nourishing bead space.

"Xiaojiu! Where is the original owner's soul?"

Xiaojiu: She is a fragment of your soul.

Wen Wan felt as if she was in a dream. No wonder this body merged so well with hers. Last time in the modern world, it took her ten years but it still couldn't merge as well as it did in just a few hours.

"Xiaojiu, I want to leave here."

Wen Wan moved the firewood against the door. It was almost four o'clock in the morning and she was in a deep sleep. She pulled out the hairpin from her head and poked the big lock on the outside. With a click, the lock opened. She untied the chain that locked the door, walked out, and then turned around to return to her original state.

She returned to the small courtyard to the north, where the original owner had lived. It was even more shabby than the quarters of the Ningyuan Marquis's concubines. Wen Wan entered without being noticed by the maids and servants. She pulled her makeup box from the inner room. It was still there, but most of the jewelry she had brought back from the Han family had been borrowed or taken by the young ladies of the Cui family. Whether given or taken, no one had ever returned it. The box held a secret: something very important.

Wen Wan put the original owner's important things into the system space.

He quietly returned to the General's Mansion, but now only the injured and disabled retired old men from the Han family army were guarding here.

She jumped over the wall and just as she landed she heard a loud shout: "Who?"

"Grandpa Wu, it's me—Qingwan..."

When Wenwan expressed the original owner's emotions, her voice was filled with tears.

A firelight flickered in a room to one side, and the sound of footsteps, one light and one heavy, was heard. Wu Qi came over with a lantern in his hand. Seeing Qing Wan, who was lightly dressed in the night, he said, "Young Miss..."

"Grandpa Wu, I didn't do anything bad. It was the eldest daughter of the Cui family who plotted against Miss Xie. But they were unreasonable and insisted that I take the blame for Cui Zhen. When I refused, they locked me up in the woodshed. I was going to starve or freeze to death..."

As soon as Wen Wan finished speaking, tears rolled down her cheeks.

Wu Qi's eyes were filled with anger, "They are going too far!"

"Grandpa Wu, I don't want to go back to the Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion. They drove away Nanny Lian, Maizi, Dou, Meizi, and Xingzi, and replaced them with maids from the Cui family. These maids and servants don't listen to me. The food they give me every day is all the leftovers from the servants. Woo woo, I haven't had meat in two years..."

The crying child gets the milk. As expected, when she was crying, she heard two more angry curses.

"It's simply too much!"

In the darkness of the night, a middle-aged man with one arm came over, walking like the wind.

"Miss Wan is the descendant of the Han family! Every year, the Han family's chief steward sends 1,200 taels of silver to the Ningyuan Marquis's residence. With such a large sum of money, it's more than enough to support ten young ladies. Yet, they let Miss Han eat the leftovers of the servants and maids."

"The eldest young lady made a mistake in choosing the right person..."

It's even more of a mistake to entrust someone to a wrong person. Madam Cui would say that she begged the eldest young master's wife to get engaged to her because the Han family was wealthy and she wanted to take over the entire family.

Wen Wan stuttered, "They wouldn't let me learn martial arts from Nanny Lian, and they looked down on the Han family for being a military family, saying I was uncouth. If I argued for my father and grandfather, they'd punish me by making me copy 'Nu Shu' and 'Nu De'. If I didn't, I wouldn't be given any food..."

These old men in the General’s Mansion were all the Han family’s most loyal retainers and subordinates, and they were all people who had followed General Han. Upon hearing this, all of them were filled with righteous indignation.

"Grandpa Wu, Uncle Shi, I don't want to go to the Cui family. I want to live in my own home, and I want to live with you. I don't want to marry into the Cui family. I want to inherit the legacy of my father and grandfather, guard the border town, and defend my country."

Wen Wan doesn't bother with those twists and turns; she just does what she thinks.

Grandpa Wu's left leg was seriously injured, and although he could walk with difficulty, he was a cripple.

Uncle Shi had his arm chopped off by the Northern Yan people on the battlefield. He was almost not saved and was in a coma for seven days and seven nights before waking up.

The other Uncle Niu is missing an eye and has a hideous scar on his face. He looks murderous, but he is actually a warm-hearted and upright person.

There are more than twenty people in the General's Mansion, all of whom have retired from the battlefield. They live in seclusion and have little contact with outsiders. They have been silently guarding the General's Mansion and the last remnant of the Han family.

When Grandpa Wu heard that Wen Wan hadn't eaten for a few days, a middle-aged man who knew how to cook immediately went to the kitchen and cooked a large bowl of noodles.

Wen Wan was really hungry and didn't care about her manners. She wolfed down the whole bowl of noodle soup. She looked at the twenty or so eight-foot-tall men next to her, each one more heartbroken than the other. Among them were a dozen women and a dozen half-grown children.

Wen Wan said, "Grandpa Wu, please don't send money or gifts to the Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion. No matter how much you send, it won't be enough for me. The jewelry left to me by my grandmother and mother were all borrowed or snatched away by the Cui family, and they never returned them. If I want to take action, before I even touch their clothes, they all accuse me of pushing them or hitting them, and then I'll be punished again..."

Two women hurried to clean up the bedroom where the original owner and his mother had lived.

Wen Wan stayed at the General's Mansion that night. She really didn't want to go back.

The chief steward, Wu Qi and others were not convinced, and Gongsun Dan came up with an idea. Gongsun Dan took the chief steward to ask for an audience with the virtuous king, hoping that the virtuous king would protect the orphan of the Han family for the sake of the Han family.