I’m the Farmgirl You Can’t Mess With
Chapter 763 - Chapter 763 Offering an Explanation

Chapter 763: Offering an Explanation Chapter 763: Offering an Explanation Editor: Atlas Studios Shu Qingniang didn’t expect it to be so difficult to see Shu Wanniang.

When she heard that they were setting off today, she specially waited along the route, but she was stopped early.

Standing in her position, she could barely see the carriage in the middle.

Shu Qingniang walked towards the carriage step by step, but she kept thinking about things that happened in her younger days.

At that time, she’d felt that the neglect of her legitimate stepmother and the competition with her sisters were the greatest source of hatred.

She’d felt that it was already the greatest misfortune for her to be born as a concubine’s daughter.

She did not expect that there was an even greater misfortune waiting for her.

Despite being born a daughter of an aristocratic family, she was married into a merchant family.

Her husband disregarded her and her mother-in-law often tortured her.

Even though she was already married, the Shu family still controlled her life.

All of this was because of Shu Wanniang!

It’d have been fine if Shu Wanniang lived poorly, but she lived a better life than anyone else.

It was said that even in the most difficult times, her husband was unwilling to let her suffer any grievances.

But why?

She was clearly so stupid, so how was it that she’d been better off than her all along?

When she was in Jingzhao Prefecture, Shu Qingniang had to do her best to curry favor with others in order to obtain everything that a daughter of an aristocratic family deserved.

Meanwhile, the dumb Shu Wanniang did not have to do anything.

But all she had to do was sit around at home and wait to have everything be brought to her.

Shu Qingniang’s heart was filled with hatred, but her face was wooden and did not show any change in expression.

After so many years, all her expressions had worn off.

Shu Qingniang walked for nearly 15 minutes before reaching Shu Wanniang’s carriage.

Shu Wanniang lifted the curtain and stared at Shu Qingniang for a while before sighing.

“If you didn’t report your name, I almost wouldn’t have recognized you.” Shu Qingniang raised her head and looked at her.

Her eyes couldn’t help but turn red as she said, “Sister hasn’t changed at allaEUR|” Her voice was slightly softer as she looked at Shu Wanniang with emotion.

However, her hands under her sleeves were clenched into fists, and her nails dug into the flesh of her palms.

The slight pain kept her awake.

Among the three sisters of the Shu family, Shu Wanniang was the most beautiful.

However, because of her timid personality and lack of outstanding talents, she didn’t particularly stand out.

On the other hand, the confident and gracious Shu Shuniang dazzled brightly.

Shu Qingniang was also praised as a delicate beauty because of her outstanding poetry back then.

However, after 21 years, be it the dazzling Shu Shuniang or the delicate beauty Shu Qingniang, age had begun to show on their faces.

Especially Shu Qingniang.

Because of her unhappy marriage, she had been living a miserable life all these years.

All of this showed on her face.

Shu Qingniang raised her head slightly to look at Shu Wanniang and said with a smile, “Sister, I want to talk to you in private.” “If you have something to say, say it here.” Shu Qingniang looked at her uneasily, unwilling to speak.

Shu Wanniang lowered the curtain and said, “If you won’t speak, I’m leaving.” Shu Wanniang waited for a while.

Seeing that Shu Qingniang remained silent, she instructed, “Let’s set off.” Shu Qingniang’s expression changed.

She stopped her and said, “Sister, please wait a moment.” Seeing that Shu Wanniang didn’t even lift the curtain, she was shocked and angry, but she quickly adjusted her mentally, telling herself that it was normal for people to change.

Shu Wanniang was also a human, so it shouldn’t be surprising that she had changed.

Shu Qingniang’s eyes lit up as it occurred to her that perhaps Shu Wanniang’s change was not entirely a bad thing.

She said, “Sister, I came to look for you to apologize and beg for your forgiveness.

Secondly, I wish to offer an explanation to defend myself.” Shu Wanniang lifted the curtain and looked at her.

Shu Qingniang raised her head slightly and said, “Sister, do you still hate me?” Shu Wanniang looked at her steadily and asked, “What do you think?” Shu Qingniang said bitterly, “I’m not surprised you do.

After all, I was the one who pushed you down back then.

Sister, I’ve let you down.

Actually, I didn’t think too much about it when I reached out to push you back then.

I just hate them.

Why was our carriage so far behind when we’re clearly all children of the Shu family?

Why didn’t those guards protect us?

They only cared about our eldest sister and youngest brother.

Aren’t we both daughters of the Shu family, too?” Shu Qingniang covered her face and cried bitterly.

“At that time, I saw that those mountain bandits were about to catch up to our carriage.

Therefore IaEUR| I panicked and pushed you off.” She recalled with a face that was half crying and half smiling.

“At that time, I was terrified, thinking that I would definitely die, certain Mother wouldn’t let me off.

But when we were out of danger and I went to beg Father to send someone to save you, Father and Mother didn’t say a word.

Even Eldest Sister only glared at me angrily.

I thought that it was because they didn’t have enough manpower and weren’t willing to take the risk to save you.

Although I was disappointed, I was more worried for myself.

I feared that Mother would settle scores with me and beat me to death after we reached the capital.

At that time, I wanted to send my nanny’s son to look for you.

After all, I was the one who pushed you off.

If you could be rescued, I might be able to atone for my mistakes.

“I didn’t expect you to be sent back in less than four hours and I felt so relieved at the time.

Although it wasn’t my nanny’s son who found you, it reduced my guilt.” Shu Qingniang smiled neurotically.

“But I didn’t expect Father and Mother to be so ruthless as to want to have you killed.

Never mind Father, but even though Mother clearly wanted to eat me alive after what I did to you, she actually agreed to feed you poison.

Whether you believe it or not, Sister, I never thought of killing you.” Shu Wanniang shifted her gaze away from her and looked at the blue sky.

“But all of this started because of you.

Regardless of whether you wanted to kill me or not, what you did put me in a position of death.

From the moment I fell from the carriage, our sisterhood was already over.

What’s the point of you looking for me now?” Shu Qingniang raised her head slightly.

“Nothing much.

I just want to tell you these things.

I’ve been hiding these things in my heart for a long time.

In the past, I couldn’t say them, nor was there anyone to hear me say this.

Now that you’re here, I can finally tell you.

“Before we went to the capital, the marriage of the three of us had already been privately decided.

As the most outstanding daughter in our fourth branch, they’d definitely make sure Eldest Sister married well.

Although you’ve always been ignorant, you’re Mother’s biological daughter, after all.

Therefore, Mother arranged for you to marry the second son of the Right Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Works at that time.” Shu Qingniang’s expression twisted slightly as she asked, “But do you know what kind of marriage Mother arranged for me?” Shu Wanniang was slightly surprised.

At that time, she only focused on reading and embroidering all day long and did not care about what was going on outside.

Having just reached adulthood and her wet nurse was not by her side, naturally she would not pay attention to such matters.

Shu Qingniang said with a smile, “Mother planned to let me be a concubine to the father of the Minister of Justice at that time.

The Minister of Justice was already 58 years old, and his father was old enough to be my great-grandfather.

I’ve clearly been obedient and fawning on Mother, and I was also very respectful to you and Eldest Sister.

Why must she treat me like that?” Shu Wanniang looked at her in surprise.

Then, she laughed self-deprecatingly and said, “It’s already been 21 years.

What’s the use of telling you this?

Besides, she alone can’t make the decision for our marriages; it has to go through Lord Shu.

This is not the reason why you harmed me.” Shu Wanniang said, “You knew that the mountain bandits had already rushed over at that time.

You must’ve known what’d happen to a young woman if she fell into the hands of the mountain bandits.” When Shu Wanniang thought of how she had been carried up the mountain by the mountain bandits, she was almost scared out of her wits.

At that time, she wanted to commit suicide, but she couldn’t use any strength at all.

If she hadn’t met Mu Shi, she would have really lived a life worse than death.

Hence, she would never forgive Shu Qingniang.

Never.

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