Chapter 3 — Hong Trang Ten Miles Welcomes Her Back

"Is this the same stray girl who has been wandering outside for seven years? Why does she have such a miserable and miserable look?" Master Marquis put down the tea cup, his eyebrows furrowed into a knot. The butler coughed and reminded: "Master, this is the eldest lady." At this moment, Mrs. Hou raised her head and looked at me from top to bottom. Her eyes were not half happy to find her biological daughter, only full of scrutiny. "After all, I still grew up in the countryside, all the rules and regulations have been forgotten. Standing there like a piece of wood, don't you even know how to call someone?" I tried to suppress the disappointment in my heart, knelt down and bowed: "My daughter pays her respects to her father and mother." Lady Hau did not answer, on the contrary, the girl in her arms timidly opened her mouth: "Sister, I'm fine, I'm Kieu Kieu." It turns out her name is Tham Kieu Kieu. On the way, the butler once mentioned something to me. For several years I was lost, Mrs. Hau cried every day. The Marquis complained and immediately adopted a baby girl from a distant relative to raise under his pillow, naming her Tham Kieu Kieu. Over the past few years, everyone up and down the palace has looked at her with love and affection. "Kieu Kieu is timid, you just came back, you have a heavy temper, don't scare her." Mrs. Hau patted Tham Kieu Kieu's back, her tone immediately became gentle. I stood in the middle of the hall, looking at a family of three with a filial mother and daughter. Suddenly I felt that I was the only extraneous outsider in this house. "Okay, since you've been picked up, let's take you to the back yard to settle down. Outsiders keep saying that the eldest lady's body is not good, she's always been convalescing outside Trang Tu, and now she's completely healthy before picking her up." The Marquis waved his hand, as if chasing a beggar and chased me away. The butler took me to the back yard. When passing by Mrs. Hau, Tham Kieu Kieu suddenly stretched out her leg and tripped me. I was unprepared and fell directly onto the blue stone floor, with a large scratch on my palm. "Oh my! Why are you so careless?" Tham Kieu Kieu immediately shouted in alarm, hiding behind Mrs. Hou: "Is Kieu Kieu an eyesore for you? You don't even look at Kieu Kieu on the street." Mrs. Hou immediately hugged her, turned her head and glared at me fiercely: "What are you doing? Just coming back, do you want to show off your majesty's attitude to bully Kieu Kieu? I tell you, Kieu Kieu is the child I raised from childhood to adulthood, even if you are my own flesh and blood, you cannot surpass her!" I looked at the blood seeping out of my palm, didn't say anything, just quietly got up and followed the housekeeper to the most remote and ruined hospital. At that moment, I deeply missed Co Thua Da in distant Du Chau. 6 In three years in the Marquis Palace, my life was not as good as a low-class maid. Tham Kieu Kieu took over all the royalties that should belong to me. Every month, new fabrics are brought from her father, new jewelry is brought from Tran Bao pavilion, all of which she chooses in advance. The remaining fragments and outdated designs she chose were thrown to my hospital. I don't care about these things. Before leaving, Tinh Nam Vuong Phi stuffed me with a thick stack of money bills, I was not short of money at all. I just hope three years pass quickly. When I arrive, Co Thua Da will come to take me home. Co Thua Da and I have always secretly corresponded. Every half a month, he sends someone to send me a letter, the letter is full of his daily running stories. Today you beat up a fellow student in the Royal Hospital, tomorrow you will blow up a fake mountain in the Royal Palace. At the end of each letter, he wrote the same sentence unchanged: "Thua Ngu, I am counting the days every day, please wait for me a little longer." These letters are my only remembrance at the Marquis Palace. But deliberately, even that little thought Tham Kieu Kieu wanted to destroy. That day, I just received it

Co Thua Da's letter, sitting in the hospital reading it. Tham Kieu Kieu led a few ladies with an aggressive attitude and kicked down the door of my courtyard. "What dirty thing are you looking at that cannot be seen by anyone?" She snatched the letter from my hand. I panicked, rushed forward and wanted to rob him: "Give it back to me!" The women doing heavy work immediately pressed my shoulders and pinned me on the stone table. Tham Kieu Kieu took the letter and glanced at it a few times, then suddenly let out a shrill cold laugh: "Wow, what did I think it was, it turned out to be having an affair with a wild man!