When Meng Yang asked the old steward to come and pick her up, he repeatedly mentioned Song Wangyue. The old steward thought that a ten-year-old child who could be so valued by her master must have something outstanding, but he never expected that it would be such a beautiful girl.
He immediately bent down, “Little Miss.”
Song Wan Yue had already heard their words and knew that this was the oldest steward of the Meng family, who had watched her grandmother grow up, so she quickly stepped down and hurriedly held her up, “A junior wouldn’t dare to accept this big salute.”
“As you should.”
Having been a subordinate all his life, his duty was engraved in his bones, and even if his master treated him well, he would not forget his duty.
“The young master is busy with his affairs these days and has ordered the old slave to come and fetch you, the old slave has sent someone to tell the young master, so please follow me first, everyone.”
The old steward led the way, he was originally supported by the young man, but at this moment he also pushed the young man out of the way, and walked quickly, not to say with a raw wind under his feet.
The group left the pier and got into the carriage towards home.
Just a short distance away, Meng Yang’s carriage came galloping up. The old steward lifted the curtain of the carriage and, looking at the early family carriage from afar, immediately told the coachman to stop.”
The coachman there also saw them and drove the carriage over to stop in front of their carriage.
Before Meng Yang could see the crowd, he shouted on, “Yue’er.”
Song Wan Yue poked her head out of the old man’s carriage and Meng Yang waved at her, “Come to Uncle Grandfather’s carriage.”
Although the Meng family was a merchant family, the rules and etiquette were extremely strict, so the fact that the elder brother did not salute the old gentleman when he met him, but called out for Yue to come to his carriage, showed how much he missed Song Wan Yue.
The old gentleman also smiled, deliberately not showing his face, “Go on.”
Song Wan Yue came down and got into the carriage on this side.
At a small stall in the distance, a woman was buying a rattle for her child, the moment she turned back after paying she saw the figure of Song Wangyue and was incredibly stunned, then she clung to the man holding the child, “Sangha, look, is that Yue’er?”
The man quickly looked over, Song Wan Yue had already gotten on the carriage, he only saw a pink corner of her clothes.
His hand holding the child tightened and before he could say anything, the woman was already running towards the carriage and the man hurriedly followed with the child in his arms.
The carriage was already heading forward and the man pulled the woman back and gave her the child, “Wait here with the child in your arms, I’ll go after it.”
The woman hugged the child tightly and urged urgently, “You go!”
The man went after him.
But two legs were no match for four, and he did not catch up even at the end of the long street, gasping for breath with both hands on his knees, his eyes fixed on the distant carriage.
It was only after a while that he stood up straight and slowly turned around to walk back.
The woman was waiting for him at the same spot with the child in her arms, and when she saw him coming from afar, she greeted him with a quick step, “Well, did you see it?”
The man shook his head slowly.
The woman looked anxiously behind him, where there was no sign of the carriage.
“It must be Yue’er, I can’t be wrong… Sang-ho, do you see whose carriage it is?”
“The Meng family’s.”
“Let’s go to the Meng family to find it.”
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Inside the carriage, Meng Yang surveyed Song Wan Yue, “I haven’t seen her for more than half a year, Yue has become more and more beautiful.”
Song Wan Yue proudly puffed out her small chest, “That’s right.”
Meng Yang was amused and laughed, ever since he received the letter saying that they were coming over, he had been looking forward to it every day, and the one he was looking forward to the most was Song Wangyue.
“Was the journey alright?”
Song Wangyue didn’t hide anything and told them about the encounter with the water bandits, but of course she only made light of it and passed it by.
Hearing her speak in a relaxed manner, Meng Yang did not worry and asked a few more questions before turning to business.
Meng Yang told her that she was making a lot of money because of the business of pills, hot pot base and herbal tea.
“The weather is hot and the hotpot base is worse, but the herbal tea has sold a lot, I built two workshops and still can’t supply them, I’m preparing to build two more, right on my own farm.”
He spoke with such excitement that if the carriage had not stopped, he would have gone on and on.
The Meng family was a large family in Jinling, and naturally the mansion they lived in was not bad, it was even described as opulent, one could tell just by looking outside that it was a large family home.
Mrs. Meng Yang had also got the message and had come out long ago to wait.
Once everyone had disembarked from the carriage, after she and Meng Yang had greeted the old man, she took Meng’s hand and wouldn’t let go, her eyes red, “I’m looking forward to seeing you all here.”
“Let’s talk inside if there’s anything to say.”
Meng Yang was afraid that they would cry uncontrollably at the door, so he greeted them all and went into the house and went to the parlour to take their seats.
After exchanging pleasantries, Mrs Meng Yang dragged Meng straight to her house. The old gentleman, Xu and Song Lin were also each taken to the prepared courtyard to rest, leaving Song Wan Yue alone to talk with Meng Yang.
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A carriage stopped at the entrance of the Meng House and a family of three got down, the man holding the child and the woman walking beside him to the main gate.
The Meng family had many visitors every day, the concierge was used to it and was very polite when he saw them coming, “May I ask who you are looking for?”
“Song Wangyue.”
The woman spoke impatiently.
The concierge did not know Song Wangyue’s name and was stunned to hear it. She wanted to tell her that this was the Meng family, not the Song family, but then thought that perhaps she was looking for one of the family’s maids and said, “Which courtyard is she in, tell me and I’ll go get her for you.”
The Meng family was not harsh on their servants, and it was permissible for someone to come and look for them or visit them.
“She is not a servant ……”
Hearing him say this, the woman was a little anxious, “It’s, it’s the little girl who came over in the carriage just now, I’m her sister, her surname is Gu, her name is Gu Wen.”
Song Wan Yue’s sister but her surname is Gu, the concierge intuited that the woman had mental problems, but looking at the two dressed like they did not look like ordinary people, they still had a smile on their faces, “Our family did come to relatives, it is our family’s young lady who has been married for many years, there is no one you are looking for, only our little sister’s husband’s family surname is Xu, not Song.”
Xu?
Gu Wen’s mind flashed back to what Gu Yi had told her about Song Wan Yue’s grandfather’s family surnamed Xu, and she instantly became excited, “Are they from the capital?”
The concierge froze again, “Indeed, they are from the capital.”
“Then that’s right, it must be Yue’er, go and pass the word and tell her my name straight away.”
The concierge would be convinced and looked at her a few more times to make sure she was indeed in good spirits, before running in to report.
Inside the parlour, Meng Yang and Song Wan Yue were talking happily. If it wasn’t getting late, he would have taken Song Wangyue to the workshop on the farm to have a look.
The butler reported at the door, “Master, just now the concierge came to report that a woman called Gu Wen came to the door looking for Little Miss, saying that she was her sister.”
Song Wan Yue looked over at the door, “Who did you say came to see me?”
Looking at her expression, the housekeeper guessed that the woman should not be lying and raised her voice a little, “She said her name was Gu Wen and that she was your sister.”
Song Wangyue rose to her feet and walked quickly outside.
Seeing her like this, Meng Yang then got up and followed her out as well.