Chapter 3224 — The Old Director's Worry
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So when the old director learned that Xu Shilan would come to the orphanage to give a charity performance, her heart was torn between excitement and fear. She was afraid that any contact with Xu Shilan would not only ruin herself, but also ruin Xu Shilan and the orphanage!
Would that jealous woman, Dongfang Xiaocui, ever let Xu Shilan off? Would she let the old director off? When the time came, the children of the orphanage might well be dragged into it! Though the old director had founded the orphanage in the first place to search for Xu Shilan, after all these years she had long since come to love the children there, and she feared they would meet with danger and trouble!
What she had never expected, though, was that Xu Shilan had actually recognized her anyway!
"Miss Xu... what are you saying? Is there... is your mother here?" the old director asked, feigning composure. She did not want to reveal her identity, and so she asked with a faint hope in her heart.
"Madam!" Feng Sanmang, who had been standing at the door all this while, now strode quickly over and bowed directly. "I've finally found you!"
"Sanhuang?" The old director knew that she could hide it no longer. She knew Feng Sanmang; back when she and Feng Tianqi had been in love, Feng Sanmang had been Feng Tianqi's attendant!
It was only that she came from a family of thieves, and the Feng family rather looked down on her, a girl of petty pilfering. And then the head of the Feng family had fled his marriage; sooner or later someone in the Feng family would have to be joined in marriage with the Dongfang family, or they would bring down the Dongfang family's vengeance upon themselves!
After all, it was the Feng family that had begged the Dongfang family for the match in the first place, and now the Feng family had fled the marriage—where was the Dongfang family's face in that? To quell the Dongfang family's fury, the Feng family would have to honor the engagement, and so Feng Tianqi married Dongfang Xiaocui in place of his elder brother!
Feng Tianqi was a rather weak-willed, good-natured man, unable to refuse the earnest, longing gaze of his father. And Dongfang Xiaocui, after looking at photographs of the other men of the Feng family, had chosen Feng Tianqi as well, feeling that he was more refined, unlike Feng Tianhu with his shifty, sly ways. So the Dongfang family decided that Dongfang Xiaocui would marry Feng Tianqi!
Under such circumstances, Feng Tianqi had no choice but to make a difficult decision and take Dongfang Xiaocui as his wife. The old director, in truth, understood his predicament, and knew that her own status made it impossible for her to enter the Feng family as a properly wedded wife—but to be a concubine was still possible.
After all, the cultivation world kept to the customs of ancient times, and a man with three wives and four concubines was a normal state of affairs. What she had never expected was that Dongfang Xiaocui was such a jealous woman that she would actually bring men to assassinate both her and Xu Shilan!
Thinking back on all these things, it was as vivid as yesterday. Seeing Feng Sanmang, the old director finally accepted her own identity, though she was rather puzzled. "Sanhuang, how did you recognize me? You and Xiaohan... you shouldn't know me at all, should you?"
"Madam... look at your face right now..." Feng Sanmang was briefly taken aback before he understood why the old director had asked. It was precisely through the change in the old director's appearance that he had recognized her as the woman who had once been Feng Tianqi's lover.
Hearing Feng Sanmang's words, the old director was briefly startled too. She turned to look at the mirror in the room, and the moment she did, she froze! Was this not how she had looked in her youth? No wonder both Xu Shilan and Feng Sanmang had recognized her!