Chapter 424 I Knew You Wouldn’t Believe Me!


    Qiu Yn looked at her husband. And when she saw Jiang Yashuang nod slightly, she bowed and said, “I will go and see my grandmother and my youngest grand aunt.”


    When a husband died, it was the rule that the wife had to keep staying in the funeral hall.


    But since Madame Ou was so old and grieving for the death of herpanion, no one dared to let her go and kneel there for a few days. So, Marquess Qin personally stepped in and persuaded her to rest in the back room where Madame Tao would apany her.


    When Qiu Yn reached the door, she was greeted with a silent gesture from Mom Hu, who was on guard here. Mom Hu gestured that she should not go in yet.


    After waiting for a while, Madame Tao came out alone. She saw her with a slight nod and pointed to thepartment not far away.


    Qiu Yn saw that her back was slightly hunched. So, she went forward to support her. After they entered the room together, Madame Tao pushed her arm away and gestured her to sit down. “It was so sudden. You have been tired. Now no one is around and there is no need to care about etiquette!”


    “Thank you, grandmother.” Qiu Yn set her mouth in a line and sat on the stool. She asked softly, “Is my youngest grand aunt all right?”


    “The couple has been together for a lifetime. They have basically never fought with each other,” said Madame Tao in a sad voice, “As one died first, how could the other be well? No matter how resolute and decisive your youngest grand aunt is, she is so sad that she is almost at a loss! I have put something to help her sleep well in the tea. At least, it can let her get some sleep!”


    Qiu Yn’s nose twitched and she slightly turned her head away.


    But she heard Madame Tao asking, “Now all of you are helping out there. Have you arranged the things at home? It is okay with other things. But the three children brought up by you and Yashuang cannot be ignored!”


    “I have asked Mrs. Qu and Mrs. Zhou to take care of them, ordering that they should guard the door and make the children their priority. Anything else can be put aside.” Qiu Yn said in a low voice.


    “Well.” Madame Tao rubbed between her eyes and said wearily, “That’s too bad! Shuijin has been ill and is found to be pregnant. So, she is stuck in the ce far away from Jing City and thus cannote back. If she were here and only made simple orders, why should so many people be busy helping there?”


    Qiu Yn twitched the corner of her mouth and said softly, “Although my sixth aunt is too sad, with my fourth aunt and eighth aunt to help, everything will be OK.”


    Madame Tao asked a few questions about the funeral ceremony. A sh of disappointment passed over her face and she sighed, “It’s indeed just OK!” What she meant was that they were barely OK. But when He Shuijin was there, everything was done properly and no one could find real mistakes. Compared with that, it was far from being that good!


    Qiu Yn could not make anyments on that topic. After a silence, she persuaded Madame Tao to take care of herself as well.


    “I’m cool with that. I am almost going to die and have seen human beings who have gone ande.” Madame Tao said coldly, “You should worry about your father!”


    “My father-inw?” Qiu Yn was stunned. She thought to herself, “Jiang Tianchi hasn’t received the news yet, has he?”


    “Your father has been trained by your youngest grand uncle who is like a father to him. Your father is not young. But in the earlier years, your grandfather made him start as a soldier to get him some experience. He was seriously injured a few times inbat. And as you know, it’s hard not to cure in Beijiang… Before he died, your youngest grand uncle kept telling the news of his death should not be told to him immediately so that he would not grieve too much.” Madame Tao touched the corner of her forehead, not feeling well. Qiu Yn stood up and walked behind her, gently rubbing and pressing for her.


    “There is no one else here at the moment. So, I’ll be straight with you. The death of your youngest grand uncle will have an impact on your branch. But, with your father around, the impact is small.” Madame Tao closed her eyes for a moment to enjoy herself before she whispered, “But you couldn’t let anything happen to your father! It’s not just because Yashuang is still young but also because your father is the foundation of our entire Jiang Family… The death of your youngest grand uncle has been a big blow to your grandfather. If your father… I don’t know if your grandfather can hold it up.”


    Qiu Yn’s fingers stopped for a moment and then she continued. She said seriously, “I see, grandmother.”


    “The family have been spoiled by the fourteenth daughter-inw. Now none of them are fit to take charge of the situation.” After another moment, Madame Tao opened her eyes, pushed her hand away, and said warmly, “Go and help. Don’t make it too chaotic. Otherwise, if your grandfather sees it, he will be anger!”


    … After leaving the room, Qiu Yn greeted Mrs. Hu, who was still guarding the outside. And then she took Su He at the door towards the front hall.


    As they passed through a narrow alley, a girl in linen, with two maids following behind, happened toe by. When they looked at each other, the girl in linen immediately bowed, “My neenth aunt!”


    “Huizhi!” Qiu Yn nodded slightly and gestured her to straighten up, “There’s no need of that!”


    Compared to the time when Madame Zhuang just returned, Jiang Huizhi had lost a lot of weight. Although girls at her age were generally slim, they shouldn’t be as thin as a shadow as she was.


    Qiu Yn knew that it was probably because of the unhappiness in her heart. Once upon a time, the first branch was the proudest one in the Jiang Family. Whatever good things and opportunities were theirs as long as they liked. Even if things were not originally theirs, they had to be theirs in the end.


    Jiang Huizhi, as the first trueborn granddaughter of the first branch, was treasured and loved by both Jiang Tianao, Jiang Yayun, and their wives. Strictly speaking, this girl’s upbringing was even more prestigious than that of Jiang Qizheng, the only princess of the Jiang family to be crowned.


    But their situation turned ugly these two years. The first branch was beaten again and again in several important fights, even to the point where the death of thedy of the house could only be ignored. Faced with such a gap, Jiang Tianao sounded his age. How could the young girl Jiang Huizhi feel nothing?


    “You look too peaked. You don’t look so good that you ought to see a doctor and get into shape when you have time!” Looking at her niece, who was about her age, Qiu Yn said warmly, “The past is gone for good. You’d better take good care of yourself.”


    Half of the me for how Jiang Huizhi looked like thaty in the fourth branch. But Qiu Yn had no resentment towards her… After all, it was easy for the victor to forgive.


    When they happened to meet this time, Jiang Huizhi behaved with decorum and didn’t show resentment. So, Qiu Yn gaveforting words to her.


    After saying this, she wanted to leave. After all, Qiu Yn believed that Jiang Huizhi had heard a lot of simr words and she wouldn’t care about the words from her.


    But Jiang Huizhi smiled sadly at her words and said, “Thank you for your concern, my neenth aunt. But the dead is as natural as the living. There is no point in taking care of myself or not!”


    Qiu Yn thought she was talking about Madame Dou’s death. She was not angry, saying, “If you don’t think of yourself, think of your parents and brothers. You have always been the apple of your family’s eye. If something happens to you, how distressed do you think they will be?”


    “If it hadn’t been for them, I would have killed myself!” However, no one had expected that Jiang Huizhi would roar like that without thinking!


    Qiu Yn could see that she was not talking in anger. So, she was slightly stunned and repented that a casual word of concern had let this niece say something of her death wish. Above all, she was not very good at this kind offort either. It took her a while to find the right words to say, “Why do you have to force yourself to take on things between thest generations? I believe my dead eldest aunt would like you to have a good life!”


    “My neenth aunt, you’re overthinking this. I am not talking about matters between elders but about what happened to me.” Jiang Huizhi’s lips trembled slightly. And then she suddenly said, “If I say the thing in which the Emperor and I got involved in the pcest time… was neither done by me nor by my branch, will you believe that?”


    Qiu Yn was a bit surprised. She hadn’t thought that what let Jiang Huizhi have a death wish was not the decline of the first branch nor the death of Madame Dou and Jiang Yayue. It should be this matter that made her act like this.


    While she was pondering, Jiang Huizhi misunderstood it. She raised her sleeve to cover her face and whimpered, “I knew you wouldn’t believe me… Except for those in my branch, no one believes me! No one!”


    “No…” Qiu Yn was about tofort her, but Jiang Huizhi no longer had the confidence to say more. She hid her face and held onto the wall of the narrow alley, pushing her way past Qiu Yn and stumbling away.


    “Miss Huizhi!” Her two maids were so anxious that they shouted and gave a hasty salute to Qiu Yn, “Miss Huizhi has not been in a good mood these days. The neenth madame, if she has offended you, please excuse her for that!” After saying that, they hurried to chase after Jiang Huizhi.


    Qiu Yn frowned and twisted her head to look at where she hade from. Jiang Huizhi was hurriedly running and in a few moments, she was out of the alley and gone. The figure of Jiang Huizhi looked so hasty and frustrating. She had lost her grace and elegance as ady and was full of despair and sorrow.


    “Madame, what do you think about what Miss Huizhi just said?” Su He, who was waiting, asked in confusion.


    “We’ll talk about itter. What is most important now is the things after my youngest grand uncle’s death.” Qiu Yn shook her head and stopped Su He. But in her heart, she was pondering, “It wasn’t like she was lying… If it wasn’t the work of the first branch or her, could it really be that the rest of the Gu Family had deliberately set her up in order to pick us against each other?”


    Suddenly she remembered the time she apanied her mother-inw to the pce when she was pregnant and bumped into Emperor in the imperial garden. “The internal fight in the Jiang Family can make the rest of the Gu Family take their revenge. Moreover, wouldn’t it be better for Emperor to no longer be a puppet?”


    If this was true, it would be a great matter!


    “I’ll talk to Yashuang about that!” Qiu Yn thought this and then frowned again, “But Cousin Xin has already be the Empress! With the Jiang Family’s power now, it’s not a big deal to have another Emperor. But what should Cousin Xin do?”


    The confidante’s marriage was already tragic. It had been less than a half year since she became the Empress. Was she going to be the Empress Dowager?


    Moreover, although she felt that Jiang Huizhi told the truth, who could tell that if she acted like that or not? What if it was a ploy by the first branch and they have some ulterior motive?


    “It has been too busy for these days. Just wait for a couple of days!” Qiu Yn set her mouth in a line and made up her mind, “In a couple of days, when I’m not so busy, I can calm down and I’ll be able to look at things with less emotion.”


    Only when she had thought of this, she heard Jiang Tianhe’s voice behind her, “Yn!”


    “Aunt Tianhe!” Qiu Yn was stunned and turned around to salute, “Do you have anything to tell me?”


    Jiang Tianhe looked at her with a half-smile, “I just saw Jiang Huizhi walking in the direction you came from. Did you meet her?”


    “Yes.” Qiu Yn was surprised and she asked, “Are you looking for her?”


    “She just came to me. Why should I look for her?” Jiang Tianhe said disdainfully, “Now my father has died. The whole family is so busy. I don’t know how the first branch has taught her! On the pretext ofing over to pay respects, she dared toe here to fight against me… And she dared to say that she had never thought about being a concubine. All was nned by someone else! Hey! If she really didn’t want to be a concubine, why would she have seduced Emperor earlier?”


    Only then did Qiu Yn understand why Jiang Huizhi ran away in tears when she had only thought for a while before she answered. That was because she had already been humiliated once by Jiang Tianhe!


    “You are so thoughtless. Your fifth grand aunt has the disposition of the Jiang Family. You cannot think that how hard and merciless she is! There is a generation between her and you. As a junior who is not known for a fiery temper, you dare speak to her alone… Are you troubling yourself?” Qiu Yn sighed in her heart but did not admit that Jiang Huizhi had said something simr to her. She pretended to be surprised, “Is there still such a thing? I don’t know about that.”


    “Yes, there is!” Jiang Tianhe sneered, “Your youngest grand uncle even mentioned her before he died, telling Fubing to treat her well in the future!”


    Qiu Yn exhaled, “It’s true that before he died, my youngest grand uncle still remembered to get the family to make up.” But sadly, just by looking at Jiang Tianhe, it could be observed that the efforts of Sir Jibei had been wasted!


    “So, I have something to ask you!” Jiang Tianhe didn’t stop Qiu Yn just to tell her niece how she bullied her grand niece. After saying the whole story, she stated that she was there for something…