The Eldest Daughter Reborn: She Provoked the Obsessive Crown Prince and Couldn't Escape

Fu Luan carefully got off the carriage, when a disheveled person suddenly crawled over to her from the ground.

His messy hair, infested with fleas and maggots, covered his face.

When the beggar saw Fu Luan get off the carriage, he rushed forward and suddenly grabbed her foot!

Hua Luo and Fu Ling were so frightened that they hugged each other and screamed.

Just as Fu Luan was about to kick the man away, someone grabbed him and threw him out...

It's Fu Yuan!

"How dare you be so insolent in front of the Marquis of Chang'an's mansion!" Although Fu Yuan scolded him, he still tossed him a small piece of silver and a few copper coins.

The beggar slightly raised his head, and his eyes could be vaguely seen through his hair.

"Hmph, the renowned eldest brother of the Fu family, the Left General of the Imperial Court, is he really going to try and fob off a beggar like me with just a few copper coins?" the man sneered.

Fu Luan had already left under the escort of Hua Luo and Fu Ling, but upon hearing this, he felt that the voice sounded somewhat familiar.

She couldn't help but glance back a few times. The beggar looked down on Fu Yuan's money, but he still stretched out his shabby hand and grabbed the silver.

"He's just a beggar, what's there to see?" Fu Yuan frowned and urged her to leave quickly.

“Perfect timing, I have something to tell you…” Fu Luan sighed.

Since what happened in the carriage, she has rarely seen Fu Yuan;

Even when they occasionally bump into each other at home, the two only nod slightly.

Perhaps knowing that she was avoiding him, Fu Yuan asked to go elsewhere to perform military duties and only returned home today.

Fu Yuan sneered, "Do you think I can still enter your house? Aren't you afraid I'll do what I did last time?"

Fu Luan scoffed, "Hmph, with Hua Luo and Fu Ling here this time, I refuse to believe that my elder brother is so shameless!"

"Do you think those two young girls are a match for the current Left General?" Fu Yuan raised an eyebrow.

Fu Luan said coldly, "If you dare to do that to me again, be careful I'll kill you!"

"Don't think I'm afraid, and don't think I... can't bear to..."

As the two were talking, they saw Madam Ding carrying a spring stool hurriedly past with several old women.

"Ah! Grandma, don't look!" Hua Luo hurriedly covered Fu Luan's face with her fan, while Fu Yuan stood protectively beside Fu Luan.

Even Madam Ding and the old women, after performing their greetings, stood in front of that person, afraid that Fu Luan would see them.

Fu Luan smiled bitterly, "You can all watch, so why can't I watch? What is it that I can't watch?"

She gently moved the fan aside, pushed Fu Yuan aside, and then made Ding Niangzi and the others stand aside;

Only then did they see that the person lying on the bench was someone with burns on their face and the back of their hands.

"Who is this person...?" Realizing that this might be one of her servants, Fu Luan quickly put away her smile and asked.

Madam Ding replied, "My lady, his name is Asong, and he used to serve outside the second gate."

“At the last family banquet, our household used the name of our great-aunt to do charity by distributing porridge.”

"Ah Song was injured while distributing porridge. Those refugees looked pitiful;"

"Actually, he's a really bad person at heart! He's not worth pitying at all!"

At this point, Madam Ding sighed; upon hearing Fu Yuan cough, she immediately continued:

"Sighing in front of your great-aunt, this servant deserves to die!"

"That day, when some refugees were grabbing the porridge, I don't know if it was intentional or not;

"They knocked over the porridge bucket, and the scalding hot porridge poured all over Ah Song!"

"He was burned so badly he looked like a ghost..."

"Ugh! What a disaster! I almost burned my skin off even through my clothes!"

"The face and hands, which are not covered by clothes, are even more severely affected!"

"This is what it looks like after I've been treated by a doctor for a while."

"The doctor said that if we had received immediate treatment, it wouldn't have gotten this serious, but..."

As if she had touched on a difficult point, Madam Ding looked at Fu Yuan.

Fu Yuan frowned and said, "A-Luan is asking you a question, so just tell the truth. Why are you looking at me like that?"

Having received Fu Yuan's approval, Madam Ding curtsied and continued her story:

"We originally invited Dr. Liu, whom our family often consults, and we were to pay the official bills."

"But the second young lady saw it and said, 'Why bother hiring a royal physician to treat a servant? What a waste!'"

"Then they found Dr. Zheng, who had treated her before..."

"No need to say anything, I know everything! Is it because Doctor Zheng's medical skills are mediocre that he delayed Ah Song's treatment?" Fu Luan waved her hand.

Madam Ding nodded, "That's exactly what you said, Auntie."

"Originally, we let him rest for a while, since he couldn't work in the manor in this condition anyway."

"But after applying the medicine prescribed by Doctor Zheng, his condition only worsened."

"Now that it's summer, it's even worse. The severely burned areas have started to ulcerate."

"His wife also works in our household, and she came to tell the servants about this matter."

"They said they felt Dr. Zheng wasn't very reliable, so they didn't look for him and found another ordinary doctor instead."

"But ordinary doctors would just wave their hands and say that it's too late and can't be treated."

"I felt sorry for him, so I took it upon myself to think that I should find Physician Liu to examine him."

“We servants are not like our masters, so we shouldn’t let the imperial physician come to our door to treat us.”

"So they found a few women and thought they could carry him over..."

Before Madam Ding could finish speaking, Ah Song, who was sitting on the bench, cried out, "Grandma, it hurts, it hurts!"

"This servant came with the lady as part of her dowry, and four or five generations of my family have served in the Fu family."

"If I can be cured now, it will be thanks to you, my aunt."

"If it can't be cured, what will happen to my mother, my wife, and my daughter..."

Asong choked up when he mentioned his daughter.

His face was burned, and a third of his lips were bloody and mangled, stuck together.

He could only use the remaining two-thirds, struggling to utter each word one by one.

Seeing this, even the hard-hearted Fu Yuan sighed silently and felt sympathy for Asong's plight.

"Ah Song, don't worry, from now on your whole family will be taken care of by the Fu family."

"If I, Fu Luan, am gone, there is still the Fu family of Chang'an."

"If the Fu family in Chang'an is gone, there is still the Fu family in Luoyang;

"If the Fu family in Luoyang is gone, there are still the Fu family in Yongning, the Fu family in Penglai, the Fu family in Yangxin, and the Fu family in Dian Kingdom..."

"In short, as long as the Fu family exists, your family will have no worries about food and clothing."

"Even if the Fu family didn't exist in this world..." Feeling the tears welling up in her eyes, Fu Luan turned her back.

Fu Yuan wanted to hold her hand, but remembering what she had just said, he said softly:

"Don't worry, I won't let the Fu family get to that point! I will protect the Fu family and..."

Fu Luan knew what he was about to say, so she quickly coughed.

Then he asked Fu Ling to find an empty room for Asong to see a doctor.

Fu Yuan accompanied her the whole way, remaining silent and simply watching her calm and composed demeanor.

He remarked once again that his younger sister, whom he had watched grow up, was increasingly displaying the demeanor of a family head. However…

After everything was settled, Fu Luan instructed, "Sister-in-law Ding, this courtyard will be reserved for Asong's family from now on."

"You choose a few quick and efficient maids to serve him. Give them instructions that they should treat Ah Song like a master."

"Anyone who dares to slack off or look down on him will be in big trouble!"