CH 19.2

19. Cousin (2)

The four generations of the Yu family live under the same roof, which is a great blessing in the eyes of others, and Yu Laojun, who has the highest seniority, is also regarded as a person of great blessings. The whole Yu family was always supporting and holding Yu Laojun for fear of displeasing her. Under such conditions, almost no one remembered that the old lady of the second household, Yu Wenjun’s birth mother, Second Old Lady Yu, was still alive.

Yu Laojun had two sons, Yu Fu and Yu Yan, the first son, Yu Fu and his wife passed away a long time ago, and Yu Yan also passed away a few years later. The only one who is still alive in their generation is the second old lady, Yu Ermao. Yu Qingjia is the legitimate granddaughter of Yu Yan, and after seeing Yu Laojun, she immediately went back to send her greetings to her grandmother.

Yu Qingjia walked up to the door where the Vanilla incense is curling up and waited for the maid to inform her grandmother of her arrival inside the room. As expected, the maid quickly came out and said, “Sixth young miss, the old lady is currently worshipping the Buddha and is not available at the moment. Miss Sixth is exhausted, and had a very rough journey.Your filial piety is already known to the old madam, and she said that you don’t need to pay attention to these ceremonies and rest first.”

Yu Ermao was obsessed with Buddhism, and had become a monk ten years ago. She had fully devoted herself to Buddhist rituals at home and rarely meet with outsiders. When Yu Qingjia was young, Madam Yu had a difficult time and also thought of relying on her mother-in-law to help her, but unfortunately, Yu Ermao was already half an outsider. Due to her family status, she couldn’t become a monk, so she had to transform her residence into a dark room to worship the Buddha. She had long detached herself from the fights between the first and the second households of the Yu family.

As her daughter-in-law, Madam Yu can’t even count on her. As a granddaughter who has been separated with her for years, Yu Qingjia had never even seen her face since she was a child, let alone now.

She was not surprised by this result at all. So she said a few polite words to Yu Ermao’s maid, and then took Murong Yan to the second household’s courtyard. The second old madam Yu thought the house was too noisy, so she moved out to live alone early, but her grandfather Yu Yan and mother had already died of illness. Her father Yu Wenjun was also delayed in Pingchang County, so now, only Yu Qingjia and Murong Yan are left inside the deep triple courtyard of the second household.

When Yu Qingjia entered the courtyard, she quietly said to Murong Yan, “Fortunately, you are also here, otherwise I would be so scared to sleep at night if I lived alone in such a big courtyard.”

Murong Yan swept a glance through the misty curtain hat in front of him. He stared at the silent compartments, and a little satisfaction emerged in his eyes. The Yu family has been living in Jian’an Lane for generations, the arches are thick and the green walls are long, which was almost occupying half of the street. They are naturally integrated and independent. Pedestrians standing outside, can only see the Yu family’s overlapping eaves, lush ancient vines, and they can only sigh with envy at the Yu family’s successive heirs, deep blessings.

After entering from Jian’an Lane and crossing into the outer gate of the Yu family, the green stone paths were leading towards every courtyard in all directions, and each courtyard is inhabited by every member of the Yu family. These courtyards are independent worlds when the doors are closed, and they are integrated with the whole mansion when they are opened. Which showed the flourishing branches and leaves of this family. As the direct descendant of the Yu family, Yu Yan’s branch has a very large courtyard. But it was only a pity that Yu Yan’s family is not as prosperous as the other families. Yu Yan and his wife had only one son, Yu Wenjun. He was also adopted into the first household and holds the ancestral rites for the two branches. The fight between Madam Li and Madam Yu lasted for ten years without proper clarifications, resulting to now, with the second household having only Yu Qingjia as the recognized child.

Yu Qingjia walked in the empty hall, and was unable to take a sigh. After her mother’s death, Yu Wenjun took Yu Qingjia to Qingzhou to take up a post, and before he left, he let out a group of servants. Even those who hadn’t left yet, after two years of work, they all found their own way to the other courtyards. She had entered the courtyard for a long time, and only saw two 12 or 13 year old young maids, and an old and frail old woman.

The three servants are not much different from the old and the weak. Bai Zhi and Bai Lian is still stranded in Qingzhou with Yu Wenjun, and Yu Qingjia does not want to go to Yu Laojun to ask for new servants, She had a feeling that if she asked her some, the ones she would receive will all be spies sent by her. Anyways, it won’t be long until her father comes, so if she can just deal with it herself, then she would just do it and bear with it for now.

The first room of the main courtyard of the second household was also the main room where the head of the family would live, but since her grandfather had died early and her grandmother had moved out to worship the Buddha alone, it was vacated to Yu Wenjun and his wife. So Yu Qingjia lived alone in a small room inside the second courtyard. The third courtyard had a set of rear-covered rooms, and excluding the middle alley, there was only the corner door in Yu Qingjia’s courtyard that led to it. Now that there were only the two of them in this large household, Yu Qingjia was not polite and asked him directly, “Vixen, where do you want to live? Now that there are only a few of us in the family, I can see that the next courtyard is still empty, why don’t you live there?”

Murong Yan was standing in Yu Qingjia’s courtyard at this moment, he pushed open the black wooden corner door and looked back. The rooms.in the third courtyard is much smaller than the previous two, and it looks very unimpressive as well. Murong Yan looked down at the door bolt, even with the door closed, it doesn’t make any difference.

Murong Yan happily made a decision: “Let’s do it here.”

Yu Qingjia walked up to his side, held the door and looked in, and was quite surprised. The next set of room is also in the second courtyard, which was equal to Yu Qingjia’s residence, apparently only the mistress and her family has this qualification, at least it should also be a favored mistress as well. It will be quite flattering to assign it to Murong Yan, who was simply a concubine. However, Murong Yan, who was arrogantly wishing to climb the sky even in Guangling, suddenly found a sense of respect and conscience and wanted to live in a room with a lower status?