Chapter 27

Hypocritical Shu Mei

Qing Ran had to admit that face in front of her was stunning. Especially these little red lips. Every word that left her mouth were soft and comfortable. Imprinting in the heart of the listener this image of a beautiful flower.

While she was lost in thoughts. The white lotus in front of her spoke again, in a soft and tender voice. Her eyes teary. Sounding very aggrieved. "Jiejie…"

An Qing Ran looked at her calmly. She clearly knew that all her past life grievance and misfortune were due to the little girl now standing in front of her.

She trusted her as if she was her full-blooded sister. This 'mei mei' was always following her around. Relying on her. An Qing Ran felt that she had to take care of her.

She was so fond of the little girl and trusted her. What was the result? This dear sister climbed into Kang Wang's bed at her most helpless and vulnerable time.

"Jiejie, what are you thinking about?" asked An Yan Ran pulling her sleeves. An Qing Ran instantly disgusted and slapped her hand away. Her attitude startled and surprised An Yan Ran.

"Jiejie, are you avoiding Yan er?".

An Qing Ran realised that her reaction was excessive. Her rebirth was so fresh and she wasn’t able to control herself. She had to remind herself that she was now eleven years old. She wanted to see if she could change in this life! And could not help to ask:

"Yan Ran, why are you saying this?"

"Jiejie, can I come in?" asked An Yan Ran a pathetic face and on the verge of tears.

"Of course!" at these words Qing Ran moved to the side and let her in. An Yan Ran entered the room and looked at Qin Ran.

"Jiejie, what happened today … Yan er only heard about it. I don't know how to say this … father is now with mother in East Warm Pavillion and ‘mei mei” doesn’t dare to bother them. So, I come to talk to about it to JieJie."

An Qing Ran sat down and pointed at another chair. "Sit!"

She had tried to control her tone as much as possible. She was afraid to lose control of herself. When it was all said and done, nothing had happened yet.

An Yan Ran sighed. "I heard what the maids said about yinang. But I think that Yinyang managing such a large Fu, there are a lot of things to take care of. Surely, she can't take care of it all. The servants are usually lazy and unreasonable. I always thought my Yinyang was too kindhearted. Since mother couldn’t take care of the estate, she worked so hard! But today, these incompetents, served leftovers to our guest! It's obvious that they were too lazy and did something stupid. Yiniang would never have ordered them to do such a thing! Think about it Jie, how could she let father loose face in front of the crown prince. Jiejie like this doesn’t it make more sense?"

Hearing her speech, An Qing obviously understood what this white lotus meant. She wanted to clean her mother of all guilt.

Too lazy to talk, Qing Ran nodded her head. Yan Ran immediately smiled

"I knew Jiejie would understand…"

"So you mean is that father is a muddled person" interrupted Qing Ran before she could say another word.

Yan Ran was stunned by her answer. "Jiejie what happened to you?"

"What do you mean?"

"Doesn't Jiejie hates Yan Ran? JieJie would never speak like this to this meimei before…" said the little girl pitifully.

An Qing Ran knew that her tone was not right and smiled. "It's not so. Jiejie is just tired". Yan Ran nodded and muttered:

"Jiejie, can you help me explain this to mother? Yiniang would never deliberately deduct the monthly allowance of East Warm Pavillion or arrange for mouldy cakes to be sent to mother…"