Chapter 631: Chapter 633, Rising Fame (3 more updates)
Madam Feng wept and nodded her head.
Feng Wushuang hurriedly helped her elderly mother into the carriage, then apologized profusely to Yun Jinnian with a bow, "Fourth Miss, Mother has been speaking of you for some time, could you please accompany her and talk for a while?"
Yun Jinnian nodded slightly.
Mrs. Yuan then supported herself into the carriage as well.
Feng Wushuang, seeing this, breathed a sigh of relief and turned to the onlookers with a fist in palm salute, "Everyone, I’m really sorry for obstructing your way. My apologies, truly sorry!"
"Oh, isn’t that Lord Feng? What has happened to you?" someone recognized Feng Wushuang and eagerly inquired, also taking the opportunity to establish a connection.
"I do not wish to conceal from everyone here that when my mother and I first came to the Capital City to sit for the examinations, my mother fell ill on the way, and we had used up all our provisions. We sold everything we had to treat her illness, and by the time we arrived at the Capital, we were utterly destitute and reduced to begging. That day, outside the Xufuji Store, we saw the young lady of the Fourth Miss’s family and had the audacity to beg, and the Fourth Miss, being kind-hearted, gave us two hundred taels of silver. It was with this silver that I was able to rent a room, hire a doctor, buy medicinal herbs for my mother’s treatment, and also purchase the Four Treasures of the Study to sell my paintings for silver. Over the past year, I have been searching for the Fourth Miss to repay the kindness of that day, and fortunately, heaven favors the diligent, and I finally found her!"
As Feng Wushuang spoke, he couldn’t help but get teary-eyed.
"Moreover, my mother thinks of her every day. That day, I recognized the Fourth Miss outside Huiquan Tower but did not dare to acknowledge her rashly, so I went home to inform my mother, hoping for a proper solution. But unexpectedly, today I saw the Fourth Miss by chance, and my mother recognized her, which led to this situation. I’ve made a joke in front of everyone," he said.
As Feng Wushuang spoke, he saluted again with a bow.
The crowd also listened with tears brimming in their eyes, touched by the account, praising the Fourth Miss Yun as having the heart of a bodhisattva.
And she was certainly generous.
She had given two hundred taels of silver to a beggar without hesitation.
Others then mentioned the incident at Qiaoshi Pavilion, and suddenly everyone knew that the Yun Fourth Miss truly had a kind heart and also extraordinary medical skills - she had even given away a Tian Mountain Snow Lotus worth a fortune to save a stranger.
In light of this, the two hundred taels of silver really didn’t seem like much at all.
The only dramatic aspect was that she had coincidentally assisted the current top scholar, Feng Wushuang.
Truly discerning eyes!
Having watched the excitement, the crowd then said their farewells with a fist in palm salute.
But there was a carriage stopped to the side, and a man stepped forward, bowing to Feng Wushuang, "Lord Feng!"
"Lord Xu!"
This Lord Xu was the third master of the Xu Family, Xu Sheng, the husband of the third madam of the Xu Family.
Xu Sheng saluted and called into the carriage, "Fourth Miss of the Yun Residence!"
As it turned out, the Xu Family and the Yun Family were related by marriage, so it was fitting for Yun Jinnian to address Xu Xinmo as ’Third Uncle’.
Yun Jinnian, inside the carriage, found it awkward as the elderly Madam Feng kept weeping, and she wasn’t very good at consoling people.
When she heard someone calling her, she immediately felt relieved.
Lifting the carriage curtain, she looked at Xu Sheng puzzled, "You called for me?"
"You don’t recognize me, Fourth Miss Yun?" Xu Sheng asked.
Yun Jinnian shook her head.
"I am the third master of the Xu Family, Xinmo’s Third Uncle!"
The Xu Family...
Yun Jinnian quickly realized and hurriedly got down from the carriage, bowing to Xu Sheng, "Jinnian greets Third Uncle!"
Xu Sheng nodded.
This Fourth Miss Yun was indeed more sensible than Xinmo by quite a bit.
"Fourth girl, I’ve heard that your medical skills are exceptional?" Xu Sheng inquired, his voice betraying an urgent desperation.
"I know a bit," Yun Jinnian replied modestly.
Xu Sheng took a deep breath, unable to care about decorum, and hurriedly said, "It’s like this, my wife had complications with her pregnancy, and the messenger said that there is a fear we cannot save both mother and child..."
As Xu Sheng spoke, tears fell from a man’s eyes.
His voice also trembled intensely.
Yun Jinnian quickly asked, "Are there any other symptoms?"
"The messenger said that she’s bleeding non-stop..."