Thirteenth Lady's Comback: Her Everyday Life as a Bystander-Chapter 170 - 9: Scent Unveils the Truth (Part 2)

Susu naturally noticed Yang Liu’s attentiveness and appreciated her friend’s discretion for not asking questions, because Susu herself did not know how to explain, after all, she was now Su He who had sold herself to bury her father.

How could she explain that despite holding many precious perfume recipes, she had fallen to the point of "selling herself to bury her father"?

Upon hearing Yang Liu’s words, she said: "That’s exactly what I am curious about. Yang Liu, this situation now involves the grudges of the previous generation and the child in your womb, it’s not something the two of us can solve. I think you should discuss it properly with your brother-in-law."

Although Susu was curious about how the Han Family learned about this forbidden palace fragrance from the previous dynasty, she knew that these family matters were not for her to meddle in. What she could do was ask the Old Madam to request the Imperial Physician on behalf of Yang Liu, who now needed prescriptions for nourishing the heart and protecting the fetus. Her body was so weak, not due to the pregnancy itself, but because of the Mist Dream.

As for vomiting whatever she ate, that was a psychological issue for Yang Liu. Regarding this, Susu advised her from multiple angles, finally convincing Yang Liu that with appropriate exercise and avoiding a diet of rich foods, as long as the child didn’t grow too large, giving birth would be as easy as playing! (Ha, what a lie!)

Susu had originally planned to stay with Yang Liu for a few days, and because her "dog-like nose" had sniffed out such a secret, Yang Liu was even more reluctant for Susu to leave and insisted on taking her around from the bedroom to the courtyard and then to the little kitchen, which amused Susu.

But seeing Yang Liu pretending to be calm, Susu touched her nose and resigned herself to it with a wry smile.

In the evening, apart from Old Master Huang whose health was not good, the entire Huang Family held a banquet to welcome Susu. Men and women were seated at separate tables. Watching the Han Family standing obediently behind Mrs. Huang gave Susu a chill down her spine.

This woman, possessing the love of her man, the authority of the household, and the guilt of the Huang Family head, yet could treat herself as a dowry maid for twenty years in order to one day "avenge an old grievance" - what kind of character and determination was this? If the victim hadn’t been Yang Liu, Susu would truly have praised her as a "female hero"! 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

But now, Yang Liu and the child in her womb were the most innocent, making Susu feel that gentle face had turned repulsive. Especially since Mrs. Huang’s family was merely merchants, how could her dowry maid have such a background? How did she know about the Mist Dream?

Such a sinister figure lurking in the shadows, if it weren’t for Susu’s keen sense of smell, it would have just been termed a "difficult birth" for the harm that could have come to Yang Liu and her unborn child.

After eating, Susu retired to the guest room. After Qi Qiao and Linglong helped her with washing up, Susu let her hair down and half-reclined at the bedside, reflecting on the "Huang Family secret" inferred from Yang Liu’s hesitant words during their afternoon conversation.

Being a guest, Susu didn’t need Yang Liu’s husband to accompany her. But as the host, he had to come and greet at least once, so her brother-in-law returned home early from accounting work and even ordered the best meal from the largest restaurant in Tong County.

After lunch, Susu left some time for the married couple, retreating to the guest room to rest. Yang Liu called her husband from the outer courtyard and told him everything Susu had discovered.

After hearing the story, his face changed instantly, believing his wife’s words without a hint of doubt. Susu and Yang Liu hadn’t anticipated that her brother-in-law not only knew about "Mist Dream" but had seen it with his own eyes.

It turned out the Huang Family’s ancestors were just ordinary farmers, and their current wealth was due to an ancestor six generations back marrying a Palace Maid who had escaped from the palace during the fall of the previous dynasty.

This Palace Maid was one of the Chief Palace Maids serving the last Empress of the previous dynasty. To hide her identity, she married the Huang Family ancestor who was thirty and unmarried due to poverty.

To become a Chief Palace Maid beside the Empress, and even escape the palace during the fall of a nation, she was clearly no ordinary woman and certainly not a virtuous one.

This Huang Family Great-Grandmother was not only exceptionally knowledgeable, but she also brought with her quite a few jewels and ornaments when she escaped. After marrying, she helped the Huang Family ancestor to amass wealth, turning them into prosperous land-owning gentry.

But as the saying goes, "A rich man does wrong," the Huang Family ancestor took in a sixteen-year-old concubine at the age of fifty, and within a year, the concubine gave birth to a chubby boy.

The old saying that an old man dotes on his youngest child proved true. Coupled with the "pillow talk" of the beautiful concubine, the Huang Family ancestor feared that if he passed away, the concubine and the youngest child would suffer under the legitimate wife, so he decided to separate the eldest son, splitting the family wealth equally between the legitimate son and the concubine’s child.