The coachman soon saw Lin Qingwei. Remembering how she had humiliated him that morning and how he had almost fallen off the oxcart and died, he went crazy with rage!
She's just an unloved and abandoned young lady, what's there to be so high and mighty about!
He's a relative of the lady's most trusted maid! Who in the mansion doesn't give him face? Yet today he was outmaneuvered by such an arrogant brat!
The lady made him use a filthy ox-shed cart to pick up people, which clearly showed that she didn't want Lin Qingwei to come back. What's so scary about a young lady who can't go back to the Lin family and has no one to rely on?
Moreover, when Granny Li from the estate rescued him, she also mentioned that the Madam and Master genuinely disliked Lin Qingwei and had no intention of letting her return to the capital. Yet, she somehow managed to get involved with a Madam and arrive in the capital with her maid.
We must humiliate her in front of everyone so that she has no face to stay in the capital!
The coachman glared fiercely at Lin Qingwei and strode forward to block their path.
"Young Miss! I've been looking for you everywhere!"
The people around hadn't dispersed yet, and those who were already paying close attention to the girl who had failed to impersonate the Lin family's young lady stopped in their tracks to see what would happen next.
Lin Qingwei looked at him coldly: "What young lady? You've mistaken me for someone else."
The coachman assumed that Lin Qingwei knew about his bad reputation in the capital and therefore didn't want to reveal his identity at this moment. He squinted his eyes and chuckled lewdly.
Then, raising his voice deliberately, he said, "How could this servant mistake you for someone else? Aren't you Lin Qingwei, the eldest daughter of the Lin family! This servant went to the estate to pick you up early this morning, how could I possibly mistake you!"
Suddenly, the crowd behind her became noisy again, and Ye Shi, who hadn't even reached the carriage yet, suddenly felt a little flustered.
"Isn't this the coachman from the Lin family? He said this person is Miss Lin! He's not mistaken, is he?"
"Huh? Who exactly is she? I'm a little confused."
"But Madam Lin herself said that this girl is not her daughter."
"This girl is kind-hearted and has been helping me the whole time. I don't think she's the type to curry favor with the powerful. Could there be something going on?"
Ye's temples throbbed, and her breathing became rapid; she felt like she was about to explode! Lin Zhengwen supported her, his brows furrowing deeper and deeper.
"You must have mistaken me for someone else. How could I possibly be the eldest daughter of the Lin family?" Lin Qingwei said this with a hint of sarcasm, deliberately looking at Ye Shi across the crowd.
The coachman was completely unaware of Ye's presence, his mind solely focused on uncovering Lin Qingwei's true identity.
"There's no mistake! If I don't recognize you, how could Mama Li, who has taken care of you since you were little, not recognize you? She was the one who accompanied you this morning! If you weren't the eldest daughter of the Lin family, why would she be so respectful!"
“Maybe I’m the one threatening her? If I want to impersonate the eldest daughter of the Lin family, the first person I need to bribe is Mama Li,” Lin Qingwei said. “Besides, the eldest daughter of the Lin family had a scar on her right arm from falling off the artificial hill when she was a child, but I don’t have one.”
The driver thought to himself, "Lin Qingwei is so unwilling to admit her identity, and she's even resorting to lying to avoid it!" He felt even more contempt for her and thought to himself, "Let's see how I expose her!"
"Impersonating the young lady? Everyone knows the young lady isn't favored. Would someone impersonate her just to starve on the estate? Besides, our young lady doesn't have any injury on her right arm at all..."
"Enough!" Ye suddenly rushed out from the crowd, interrupting the coachman.
If he continues to say that, it's no wonder people will have doubts!
Upon seeing Madam Lin, the coachman acted as if he had seen a righteous official, immediately launching into a complaint, pointing at Lin Qingwei and saying, "Madam! This morning, the eldest young lady severely humiliated me! She even insulted you! You must stand up for me!!"
Lin Qingwei stood there innocently, looking at everyone.
She seems to have been plagued by all sorts of bad things. When she claims to be the eldest daughter of the Lin family, Madam Lin steps forward and says that she couldn't possibly not recognize her own daughter. When she says she's not the eldest daughter of the Lin family, a man who has been a coachman in the Lin family for decades steps forward and claims that she is.
"So, Lord Lin, do you think I am or not?"
The girl was dressed in plain clothes, but her back was very straight. Her eyes were bright and she looked at Lin Zhengwen with a half-smile. She completely ignored Ye Shi and didn't bother to give him a single glance.
The person in charge is here.
Now that things have developed to this point, there's nothing Lin Zhengwen doesn't understand. The person in front of him is indeed his eldest daughter, whom he hasn't seen in thirteen years.
With a deep sense of guilt in his voice, Lin Zhengwen called out, "Qingwei, it's you."
Madam Ye took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and glared fiercely at the coachman, signaling him to shut up! There was no going back now! Her reputation, and the reputation of the entire Lin family, couldn't be ruined by Lin Qingwei!
She immediately rubbed her eyes, squeezed out a few tears, and stepped forward to grab Lin Qingwei's hand with self-reproach: "It's all my fault! It's all my fault! You've been away from the manor for thirteen years, and I never imagined you'd grow up like this. Luckily, Sunlai came back in time, otherwise we would have really missed each other!"
Madam Shen found it amusing and said sarcastically, "I don't know who said that a mother could not recognize her own daughter."
Lin Qingwei withdrew her hand and took a step back, appearing very distant.
“You’re not wrong. You just don’t want me as your daughter. I understand. I’ll leave the capital and go far away. I won’t bother you again.”
After saying that, he turned around and left very resolutely.
But at this moment, under the watchful eyes of everyone, if Lin Qingwei were to leave, who knows what kind of rumors would spread about the Lin family in the future! The Lin family's good reputation built up over so many years would be ruined in an instant!
Ye hated Lin Qingwei to death, but she had no choice but to soften her attitude and coax her.
"Qingwei, how could your father and mother not want you? You're overthinking it. Your room has already been prepared in the manor, just waiting for you to come home. Your father and mother are actually looking forward to your return every day."
But whenever I think about how you almost strangled Xiuyao when you were little, I feel uneasy, afraid that you might do something to hurt your sister again.
What parent in the world doesn't love their child? You refused to admit your mistakes, which is why we had the heart to send you away. We've sent people to the estate to fetch you for the past thirteen years, but you always refused to come back.”
In just a few words, the focus shifted back to Lin Qingwei. The surrounding people, who were just angry that Ye Shi didn't want to acknowledge Lin Qingwei, now felt that it was understandable.
Lin Zhengwen stood aside without saying a word. Although he felt guilty towards Lin Qingwei, he also truly cared for Xiuyao, his most precious daughter. Therefore, he was always in a dilemma when facing Lin Qingwei.
His eldest daughter was stubborn from a young age and was not close to him and his wife, so she was naturally far less affectionate than his second daughter.
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