Reborn as a Weak Beauty Pampered by All

Chapter 1751: Chapter 1321: Why Bother Worrying About This? (2)

”What’s so hard about that? As long as you want to, you can just tell Sir directly when you see him next time.”

”Aunt Fu, since Sir arranged for us to serve the young lady, maybe he wants us to stay with her in the future! Actually, Aunt Fu, you might go back to the old house, but as for me... I’m likely to stay by the young lady’s side for good.”

”Do you really like the young lady that much?”

Aunt Fu smiled as she asked Ah Xiang.

”Mm, I do. The young lady is a really good person. She might seem a little cold on the outside, but when you talk to her, she feels very kind and warm.”

Ah Xiang said softly, ”And the young lady is so beautiful, just like a Fairy from the old myths. The two little young masters and the little miss she gave birth to are as delicate as porcelain, so pretty they look just like dolls. You can’t help but love them at first sight!”

Suddenly, Aunt Fu asked, ”You’re twenty-three now, aren’t you?”

”In another two months, it’ll be my twenty-third birthday.”

Ah Xiang replied with a cheerful smile.

”Never thought about getting married here?”

When she heard this, Ah Xiang stared in a daze for a long time before shaking her head. ”I’m not getting married.”

”When a man comes of age, he should marry; when a woman comes of age, she should wed. How can you go through life without getting married?!”

Aunt Fu disapprovingly shook her head, then said, ”If you get married, you’ll have your own children. When you’re old, you’ll have grandkids around your knees. Isn’t that happiness?”

”But Aunt Fu, you’re older than me and you never got married. I think you’re doing just fine.”

What’s so good about getting married?

Not only do you have to tend to a man, sometimes even his whole family, and you have to give him children, tiring yourself out your whole life—if the kids end up ungrateful, who knows what you might suffer when you’re old.

But if you work for the Jiang Family all your life, the contract says that so long as you serve them until a certain age, the Jiang Family will take care of your retirement.

Ah Xiang thought that sounded pretty good.

Because before she started working for the Jiang Family, she lived in the slums, and she saw plenty of women hustling for their entire families. Some were just two or three years older than her and already toiling away to keep things running at home, but they never seemed to get much out of it.

Getting yelled at or even beaten by their husbands, being scolded by their mothers-in-law for not being filial, looked down on by their own children for being useless.

Everyone has their own hard luck in life.

Those who had it a bit better—take her mother for example—her parents never really fought, her dad never hit her mom, and her grandma treated her mom decently. But life was still so hard it made her mom’s hair go gray and her face wrinkle up early on.

There was nothing they could do. Too many people in the family and too many expenses, but not many ways to earn money. Forget about moving out of the slums one day—even just getting by comfortably was no easy thing.

It was only after she started working for the Jiang Family that her family’s situation noticeably improved, although it was still far from being truly comfortable.

Before she came back to the country, her family tried to persuade her to end her contract and leave the Jiang Family. They said they’d help her find a good man to marry, but she didn’t agree.

Working at the Jiang Family, she broadened her horizons and learned how to tell good from bad in life.

So, before she left, she gave her savings to her parents and told them that barring any accidents, she planned to stay in the country.

Her family couldn’t bear to part with her, but her mind was made up. In the end, she finished her last reunion with them before coming home, tears in everyone’s eyes.

To say she didn’t feel sad would be a lie, but since she’d already made up her mind, she didn’t regret it.

”Me... I once had a man. I remember we’d been married for less than half a year, and he was working at a foreign-run mine. There was a gas explosion that caused a massive collapse in the tunnels underground... By the time news reached me, he was already gone, buried together with more than two hundred other miners under the rubble. I... I couldn’t take the blow, and I lost the baby I was carrying, just short of three months along.

My man’s family was long gone, and I still had a grandma at home, but the day after I got married, my grandma passed away in her sleep. She left with a smile on her face. When I opened the door and saw her, she was lying on the broken wooden bed, a smile at her lips, and no matter how I called her, she didn’t answer.”

Aunt Fu’s voice turned somber. ”The grandmother I depended on for life parted from me, then less than half a year later, the husband who was supposed to spend a lifetime with me was gone too. Even the child in my belly left me. Honestly, I was so disheartened, I lost all faith in life. But when I thought about dying, I just couldn’t accept it, so I kept dragging myself along, looking for any work I could do. Later on, I heard the Jiang family estate was hiring servants, so I went to try my luck. I never thought I’d be so lucky as to get hired.”