General, the lady escaped again

Chapter 262 Green Eyes and Gray Hair (1)

"There, I'm no longer an outlier..." The woman looked at Ji Xiaomu, "With you here, maybe I can leave with peace of mind."

"Don't worry, I have no ill will towards you. I just want to see the woman he brought back personally. I wish you a long and happy life together. Don't worry, I will leave at dawn, maybe to the place you mentioned." The woman smiled, but her smile was a little bitter.

When Ji Xiaowu heard the woman's words, she guessed that she might have misunderstood the relationship between her and Li Hong. "What is your relationship with Li Hong?"

"I... we have no relationship." The woman looked at Ji Xiaowu, "You are a good person, don't worry about me, I won't be an obstacle to you."

"Really? Then why are you crying?" Mother Ji tilted her head and looked at the woman. She was obviously reluctant, but she still wanted to help her?

"Did I... did I cry?" The woman froze, reached out and wiped her cheek, and sure enough, she felt tears.

"If you like someone, then you like him. Why pretend that you don't care? I wish him happiness. The relationship between me and Li Hong is not what you think." Ji Xiao sighed softly. "Being able to see you here proves that you are very important to Li Hong. Can you really give him to someone else so easily?"

"...But I don't want to be one of the women in his harem. That would be too pitiful." The woman said sadly, "If he becomes the emperor, he will be a high and mighty emperor. Even if he has no intention, the court officials will let him choose concubines. They are all rich ladies and daughters of officials. And I... am such an outlier. I know very well that with my status, I am not worthy of him at all."

"I don't want to be one of his women. That kind of life... is too terrible." The woman sighed heavily. "My mother told me since I was a child that I should find an ordinary man in the future. He farms and I weave clothes, and we can live an ordinary life."

"You can speak Central Plains dialect fluently... How did you come to Central Plains?" Ji Xiaomu looked at the dejected woman, not knowing how to comfort her, so she had to change the subject.

“My mother said that she was sent here by a big ship and given as a gift to a high-ranking official. Then she gave birth to me. Because of my green eyes, the official’s wife said I was a monster, so she drove my mother and me out of the house. My mother took me and wandered around, and finally ended up in a village where she met my father. My father married my mother and worked hard to raise me and my brother…” the woman recalled.

"Later... Later, there was a plague in the village. Everyone said that I brought the plague. In order to protect my brother and me, my father and mother were beaten by the villagers. They were seriously injured and died not long after. My brother and I were driven out of the village by the villagers, and I wandered around with my brother."

"Once my younger brother became seriously ill, and I had no other choice but to sell myself to an art shop and cure my brother's illness. The people in the art shop thought I was very special, and put me up for auction. I was bought by a wealthy businessman, but he wanted to humiliate me, so he asked me to take off my clothes for a body check on the spot. I didn't want to be humiliated, and when I was about to bang my head against the wall and want to die, he saved me, bought me from the businessman, and took me back to his home. He said that if I didn't want to, he could give me some money and let me leave. I was very grateful to him and had no way to repay him, so I stayed. He... is a good man." The woman looked at Ji Xiaomu and smiled.

"I'm sorry for saying so much. I have never told these things to anyone else, and I don't know why I want to tell you." The woman said embarrassedly. She didn't expect that she would say so much to someone she just met.