The Female Lead Decides to Act Wickedly

Chapter 1724: Chapter 625: The Female Lead Who Was Reverse (Part 14)_3

Or rather, is this man actually Fubao’s person or not?!

He might be a servant from the Prince Mansion, or maybe someone trying to curry favor with them.

If he’s not Fubao’s servant and still refuses to state his identity, Granny Li just can’t feel at ease.

But Ji Xiang’s words successfully soothed Granny Li.

This little maid is Fubao’s slave, and she was specially ordered by Fubao to come and visit them.

Oh my, Fubao is still alive, she really became Princess Liang.

Worthy of being the good granddaughter she’s cherished for over ten years—now that she’s made something of herself, she immediately comes to look for these elders.

As for how they hadn’t heard a word from Fubao for several months before this, Granny Li can understand—

”Ai, after all she’s a new bride who just married in, and into the Royal Family no less. Fubao is all alone there, she surely needs time to adapt!”

”Only after she’s found her footing in her husband’s home can Fubao have the time and energy to care for her kin back here!”

Thinking this way, Granny Li couldn’t help feeling sorry for her precious granddaughter: ”That child, in the Capital City, she must have suffered quite a few grievances!”

”Even if she has good fortune, she’s still someone’s daughter?in?law; how could that ever be as free and at ease as living at home?”

Granny Li was so busy feeling distressed that she forgot she was still confronting the villagers at this moment.

It was Ji Xiang who hadn’t forgotten the matter at hand.

After she saluted Granny Li, the Yang Family and the others, she went back to the topic just now: ”Are wealthy families really such good families?”

”How could they not be? No worries about food or clothing, no need to toil doing hard labor, and there are even people to serve you!”

He Sheng’s family spoke with a face full of envy and jealousy, every word thick with longing and desire.

”Exactly! Wealthy families are wonderful, eating delicacies, drinking fine wine, three wives and four concubines, crowds of slaves...”

The villagers chimed in one after another.

Ji Xiang only shook her head. ”You’re only seeing what’s good about wealthy families, but not their dangers!”

”Leaving others aside, let’s talk about me. My grandfather once served as Vice Minister of Ministry of Revenue, a third?rank official; my father was also an official of the court. A scholarly clan, generations of officialdom!”

”And what am I now? A palace slave!”

Ji Xiang exposed her own disgrace, yet there wasn’t much sorrow on her face.

It seemed she had long grown used to her identity.

And it makes sense: in the past decade or so, thanks to struggles over the throne, how many wealthy families have been toppled.

Yesterday they were still high?and?mighty daughters of Dukes, today they’re cast down into the dust—either confiscated and sent into the palace as palace slaves, or thrown into the official brothel.

All branded as of base status, doomed for life, with their descendants generation after generation all to be slaves.

To become a free commoner again is almost impossibly difficult.

Hearing this, everyone was stunned.

So wealthy families could be this dangerous?

They could hardly imagine that those once lofty Nobles would actually have a day when they fell into the abyss.

Slaves?

Official prostitutes?

Turns out they’re not even as well?off as ordinary common folk.

At least these mountain villagers are still free persons, of good status, with the chance to cross social ranks.

”Even if a wealthy family isn’t overturned, living deep within a grand compound isn’t necessarily happy or peaceful.”

Ji Xiang went on, ”Wives and concubines at odds, legitimate and illegitimate children fighting, even blood?kin can turn against one another!”

”With all that filth and strife, how could it compare to the harmony and warmth of ordinary common households?”

”Our Princess Consort said herself that she’s immensely grateful she was born into the He Family. Not only does she have parents who dote on her, she also has a grandmother and grandfather who treat her like a treasure!”

”Her brothers and sisters all live in harmony; she grew up carefree, and everything she’s experienced and felt has been beauty and happiness!”

”If there is a next life, she still wants to be her parents’ daughter and her grandmother’s granddaughter!”

Ji Xiang’s words weren’t made up out of thin air.

He Tiantian sent her and Duke Chengen’s Mansion’s steward Chen Fu together to He Family Village precisely so she could say these things in front of everyone.

After all, the original host possessed Lucky Fish good fortune, yet was born into a poor family; no matter how you looked at it, that didn’t seem very reasonable.

And He Yingying had seized on that point, using it as one of the reasons to attack the original host, and successfully turned the original host from a lucky star into a Demon!

He Tiantian letting Ji Xiang say this was to argue on behalf of the original host’s reincarnation.

Cough, cough, it does carry a bit of sophistry.

But the original host’s character setting was that of a Lucky Girl whose wishes come true.

He Tiantian said she didn’t want to go to some complicated wealthy family, that she preferred the simplicity and happiness of a farming household, so she chose to be born into the He Family—this more or less fits the setting.

In this way, the loophole is barely patched up!

”That’s right, wealthy families aren’t all good families. Sometimes they’re not even as happy as we little common folk.”

”The He Family may be a bit poor, but Granny Li truly dotes on Fubao. Tsk tsk, Fubao has never suffered since childhood; the whole family treats her like a treasure!”

”Yes! Yes! If I do good deeds and can choose my next life, I’ll definitely look for a family that cherishes and loves me, treats me like the apple of their eye!”

Ji Xiang’s speech actually won the crowd’s approval...