The next day, Wei Changying went to Madam Su and was allowed to visit Wei Shengxian immediately. And Madam Su also prepared a four-colored gift to let Wei Changying bring along with her.

Therefore, Wei Changying asked Shen Ju, who sent Ge Shun home last time, to prepare the carriage to head out home.

The house bought by Wei Shengxian was located south of town, and it was not far away from the Shen Family's mansion. This was an area inhabited by rich families, and big and beautiful houses filled the area. The street was spacious and was cleaned neatly. However, there were few pedestrians on the street and the horses and carriages on the street were all not from ordinary people.

Seeing this, Wei Changying secretly nodded. The second aunt Wei Zhengyin was right. This eldest aunt Wei Shengxian might not be strong enough to speak in front of her people because she has no sons, but she is quite rich. Otherwise, she would not be able to afford a nearby property as soon as she came back from out of town. Of course, if she was not rich, she would not be forced by her family members to adopt an heir.

The carriage stopped in front of a door, and the traces of these newly purchased houses were evident. There was not an apparent breath of tung oil on the door, and the stone steps and walls were newly painted.

Yesterday, Wei Changying already sent Shen Ju to send a letter here. At this moment, the mansion's door was wide open, and Ge Shun changed a brand new cloth and led two neatly dressed Grannies to wait in front of the door.

Wei Changying couldn’t get off here for she was a female guest. Ge Shun and others greeted her outside of the carriage and asked Shen Ju to drive directly into the mansion. After the door was closed behind the carriage, Wei Changying was helped to get down the carriage but saw a crowd waiting for her outside already.

The leading one was a middle-aged beautiful woman, wearing a rich, lilac-colored dark embroidery twig peony leaf pattern on the broad sleeves, with raccoon flower brocade Rui cloud pattern Fu Shou long chestnut. She tied a jade belt, a twelve broken color skirt. There was a beautiful jade on the edge of the skirt, with a blue bracelet hidden on the wrist. She wore a lofty cloud-shaped bun, with a little emerald gold on the bun, which was decorated with a bird title, a phoenix shaped hair clasp, a jeweled bead, which was extremely rich and luxurious.

The beautiful woman had been clutching a handkerchief in her hand. Seeing that Wei Changying was about to get off the carriage, she busy stuffing her veil into her pocket and moved forward for several steps to personally help her get down. She whispered softly, "Good girl, I finally get to see you!" Speaking of this, her eyes turned red and almost started to burst into tears.

Knowing that this must be her eldest aunt Wei Shengxian, Wei Changying hurriedly saluted her and said, "I've been thinking about Aunt, but I haven't been out of the cabinet for a long time, everything is not complete, and there are joyous occasions at home. Therefore, it was not until today that I was able to get away to meet my aunt. I am so ashamed that I let my aunt wait here for me. Aunt, please forgives me!"

As she spoke, she stole a glance at her eldest aunt. She calculated that Wei Shengxian should be more than forty years old. Looking at her appearance, she must be very beautiful when she was young, but she inevitably became a little fatter because of her age. She should have an oval face in the past, but now it was much rounder. However, her appearance didn't show the sign of aging, and her skin was still white and tender. It could be said that her charm was still there, but the sad mood between her eyebrows was evident which added a bit of aging.

Behind her, she was followed by two girls in gorgeous clothes. The one on the left was a little older, and she wore a green upper shirt with four-fold Ruyi Jade moire texture on the wide sleeves, which revealed the tooth-colored chestnut on the neckline. She also wore a water-colored skirt, with a piece of silk on her arm, a touch of makeup, and stuck some decoration at the center of her eyebrow. The one on the right side was younger and she didn't put up any makeup. She wore a snow-green upper shirt with folded branches and peony embroidery with wide sleeves on the collar, and the edge of the moonlight-white middle clothes was embroidered with honeysuckle patterns and an inter-colored skirt of red and white.

The sisters dressed differently, but they had the same double-bun hairstyle with the same head hairpin. Their hairpins were both jade lotus flower with pearl hair clasps which were tied by a color sash. The color sashes were long which hung to their chest. They were blowing by the soft wind and looked very beautiful.

Talking about the appearance, the sister on the left looked like Wei Changying. She had an oval face, curved eyebrows, and bright eyes. Her skin was white like snow and looked very beautiful. The younger sister on the left looked more like her mother, Wei Shengxian. She had a pointed face, long eyebrow, big apricot eyes, which made her look vivid and lively.

The sisters followed their mother to greet Wei Changying. Wei Changying took several looks at them and sincerely praised their beauty. The sisters naturally became modest and said Wei Changying was the true beauty.

Wei Shengxian waited until they finished their courtesy to introduce the girl on the left side, "This is your elder sister Xiyue." And the girl on the right side of course would be her younger daughter, "This is your little sister, Ruxuan."

She then said, "You have been waiting for a long time to meet your cousin at home. This is your first uncle's lineal eldest daughter. Her maiden name is Changying and ranked the third among your cousins, but she was personally instructed by your maternal grandmother!"

Wei Changying was imperceptibly surprised: because of the harshness and defense towards the children of concubines from her grandmother, Old Madam Song, as well as the Wei Shengyi family's vague hostility to the eldest branch and vague resentment towards Old Madam Song. Even if Wei Shengxian, who was the same as Wei Shengyi to be the child of concubines, dared not show her resentment against her father's wife, she should still be very afraid or dread of Old Madam Song.

But when Wei Changying heard Wei Shengxian emphasized to her daughters that she was taught by Old Madam Song, she felt that the eldest aunt admired her grandmother very much?

When Song Xiyue and Song Ruxuan heard their mother's last sentence, their eyes lit up. And when they spoke to Wei Changying again, their attitude was more respectful, "Cousin Changying was taught by maternal grandmother herself? I often hear from my mother that my maternal grandmother was born as the lineal First Miss of Jiangnan Hall. She not only had a noble status but also experienced strict boudoir training. She is a model for women and young ladies. Cousin was taught by my maternal grandmother so that it could be imagined that you are just like my grandmother in her younger age. I hope Cousin will not hesitate to instruct us!"

Wei Changying was stunned. The model of women and young ladies? Herself?

Glancing at the Wei Shengxian, Wei Changying saw that this eldest aunt had no meaning of mocking or joking. Instead, Wei Shengxiang seemed to truly believe in this saying. Wei Changying started to understand something: so this eldest aunt has always been considered Old Madam Song as the role model? And she even taught her daughters also to consider Old Madam Song as the highest role model among the young ladies?

This was still not right. A person who considered Old Madam Song as the role model! How could she be forced by the family of her husband to distress?

If Wei Shengxian had been trying to learn from Old Madam Song, she would at least have a life like Duanmu Xinmiao's!

Thinking of this, she showed her two cousins a gentle smile, "Grandma is quite good, but I will let two cousins disappointed. Although I had been taught by my grandmother, I didn't learn even one percent of my grandmother's greatness."

Song Xiyue and Song Ruxuan became increasingly respect Wei Changying, "Cousin is indeed modest!"

"..." When you got to know me more, you would know that I am not humble at all. I am telling the truth! Wei Changying sighed in her heart and heard Wei Shengxian was seriously teaching her two daughters to learn from Wei Changying. She smiled bitterly: if Song Xiyue and Song Ruxuan actually learned from her that they had been thinking about beating up their husband all day long before they got married, Wei Shengxian would be so angry!

It was still a summer day, they began to sweat after talked a few words next to the carriage. Wei Shengxian hurriedly invited her niece to enter the cool room to sit.

Perhaps because this house now had only three people living in it, Wei Shengxian and her two daughters, and the male master was not here. Everything in the house showed the delicacy and the breath of feminity. Even the utensils containing ice in the cold room had carved flowers on it, and its four corners were inlaid with Luminous Pearl as decoration.

There was a special kind of fragrance that came from the ice. Seeing that Wei Changying was looking for sources of this fragrance, Song Xiyue introduced, "This is Ice Soul Incense. Ordinary incense will need to use fire to burn, but Ice Soul Incense will need to be treated in the opposite way. It will be needed to be put in ice to let out the fragrance."

Song Ruxuan went over, opened the lid of utensils containing ice, and invited Wei Changying to come near to take a look. She saw inside the ice, which was carved like lotus, there was an amber-like spice. It had tooth color, matte, and looked not very eye-catching. But if you came near, you would feel the fresh fragrance, which was extremely odorously.

Even though Wei Changying was the lineal daughter from the gentlefolks family and self-recognized as someone who had seen lots of precious and rare things, she was still surprised when she saw this and said, "This kind of special fragrance actually exist in this world?"

"When my father was working in Zezhou, a Siamese merchant went to Zezhou to sell it. At that time, no one knew about it. But the merchant said that this incense was extremely precious, and there was only one case of it so that he would not sell it unless it was purchased with a thousand pieces of gold. Everyone in the market thought he was crazy! Later, after failing to sell it for a year, the merchant finally learned a little and started to inquiry in the big families in Zezhou from house to house." Song Ruxuan answered with a smile, "Zezhou City and Siam were close at hand. Although Zezhou was prosperous in a state because it was a state city, how could it compare with the Capital here? The so-called big families there, even if they came from the big surname, were all collateral branches. They thought of the firewood and rice all day long, how could they waste their livelihood on elegant things? If it hadn't been for my mother also accompanying my father, this cage of Ice Soul Incense would be bought by other people!"

Wei Changying praised, "This fragrance is fresh with a slight coldness. It's just like the slight fragrance of plum blossoms in the snow, but not as cold as the fragrance of plum. It's also like the faint fragrance of daffodils, but it's not as clear as of the daffodils'. It is between the two, in the name of ice soul, elegant and clean just like the soul of the snow. In particular, in today's hot summer, ordinary incense needs to be burned, and the smoke and fire can only increase the heat. Thus, we can only use the fragrance of fruits and fragrant flowers. These have long been wary. But with such a peculiar fragrance, which can be put in utensils containing ice, we can enjoy the incense and avoid the heat in the summer. A thousand pieces of gold is indeed not expensive."

Wei Shengxian immediately said, "If Changying like this, you can bring one half of it with you when you go back. Unfortunately, that Siamese merchant was also trafficked from elsewhere. And except him, others were not able to find this kind of Ice Soul Incense. If we predict this situation earlier, we will buy more from him."

"Well, thank you, eldest aunt! I am indeed curious about this kind of special fragrance!" Wei Changying also did not refuse. First, she was her aunt so that it would look closer for her to accept the things given by her aunt after years of apart. Secondly, Wei Shengxian was so rich that a thousand pieces of gold would not count as anything to neither the aunt nor the nephew.

As Wei Shengxian and her daughters expected, Wei Changying agreed to it immediately. They all smiled and looked more casual, so they began to talk about other things. It was mainly Wei Shengxian who was asking about Old Madam Song. It was the first time that Wei Changying had seen the admiration towards the father's wife from a daughter of a concubine. Even Wei Zhengyin, the biological daughter of Old Madam Song was not as concerned about Old Madam Song as Wei Shengxian. Wei Shengxian respected Old Madam Song from the bottom of her heart, even to the point of worshiping Old Madam Song!

Originally, Wei Changying first heard from her aunt and the second aunt that the eldest aunt was quite excluded by her husband's family, and she considered to look for an opportunity to ask her to see if she could help. However, Wei Shengxian has been asking her about the situation of Old Madam Song in the past years in great detail so that she could not have the moment to politely ask about the eldest uncle who was absent at this moment. Not to mention anything else.

Until Wei Changying repeatedly assured Old Madam Song had a good life these years, especially her health. She was asked by Wei Shengxian too many times that she almost told the story that she climbed the wall to steal a glance and saw the scene that Old Madam Song was so angry that she beat her husband to prove that Old Madam Song was absolutely strong. Fortunately, she was still a clear mind when she was about to say it out so that she was able to force herself to stop. Only then did she preserve the status of Old Madam Song in Song Xiyue and Song Ruxuan's heart, who was the highest role model for women in the eyes of them...

Wei Shengxian was finally relieved. Even if she was in the cool room, Wei Changying could not help but wipe the sweat secretly. Wei Shengxian also felt embarrassed to only ask about Old Madam Song on the first date of meeting her niece. Thus, she explained weakly, "My mother has always been kind-hearted. The eldest brother does not have good health, and the second brother was not born to my mother and was instigated by my grand... by some people so that he often has some misunderstanding about my mother. I think my mother is getting old, so I don't want to let her worry about these things. If my second brother still can't get over it, I have to find some time to talk to him."

Wei Changying wiped sweat and put up a forced smile, "Eldest aunt, please rest assured. The second uncle is good. I don't want to hide it from the eldest aunt. When I married into the capital from Fengzhou early this year, because Changfeng was young, it was my second uncle and my third elder brother accompanied me to the bridegroom's family on the wedding day."

Even though she had been treated by Old Madam Song as a rare treasure so that she never spoke heavy words towards her, Wei Changying knew deeply the means of her grandmother. She saw with her own eyes how trembling her third brother, Wei Changsui, was in front of her grandmother. Not to mention that before Old Madam Song returned home with Wei Huan, young Mrs. Huang who was left by her in the capital already suppressed Wei Changying's second sister-in-law Mrs. Duanmu for more than ten years, not to mention Old Madam Song herself. Such a grandmother, in the eyes of Wei Shengxian, became the being of "kindhearted". After all, Old Madam Song treated her own flesh and blood, especially Wei Zhenghong and his two sons, in an extremely soft and caring way. Maybe Old Madam Song also treated Wei Shengxian quite well years ago?

But Wei Shengxian actually worried that Old Madam Song could not bring Wei Shengyi under control? Wei Changying couldn't imagine how Wei Shengyi had been raised by Old Madam Song...