Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress
Chapter 381: Convergence(1)_1

Chapter 381: Chapter 381: Convergence(1)_1

Xiao Hong and Xiao Qing brought Cai Wei’s bedding from the West Ear Room and carefully placed it on Lady Mei’s kang, before carefully retreating.

In the face of the missy of Fourth Aunt’s family, they always felt an inexplicable awe, getting nervous at the sight of her. Even though the young miss was always pleasant and had never lost her temper with them, for some reason, her light smile always had a chilling undertone that was hard to decipher, making anyone who saw it shiver involuntarily.

It was getting late, and Cai Wei asked her maternal grandmother, Lady Mei, and Fei’er to lie down.

After they lied down and blew out the candle, the three generations huddled in bed, chatting nonchalantly. Lady Mei, who had endured a lonely and hard life, finally had someone to talk heart-to-heart with and inevitably became more talkative. As they were talking, they touched upon Lady Mei’s past.

As it turned out, Lady Mei did not come from an average family. Her father was the supervisor of the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau, handling all sorts of textiles for the royal court. He held the fifth rank and their family was once thriving.

However, her father was caught off guard when he ordered a batch of fabric woven with a design of a Xiyan flower, a flower that only blooms at night and wilts overnight, symboling a short life. This fabric provoked the wrath of the Empress of the previous dynasty. She filed a complaint before the Emperor, which enraged him. As a result, their family fell from grace, and her father was convicted of a serious crime and thrown into prison. Their whole family, dozens of people, was demoted to slave status.

As the Mei family held the unique skill of Shu embroidery, after their fall, many prominent families in the capital dispatched people to Jiangnan to redeem the female members of the Mei family to become embroiderers. Lady Mei was acquired at that time by the Duke An’s mansion. Not long after, she caught the Duke’s eye and became his concubine.

As for the rest of the story, Cai Wei and Cai Fei already knew it. Nevertheless, they could not help feeling a profound sense of empathy and sigh at the revelation of their grandmother’s arduous past!

After the initial shock, Cai Fei was incredibly envious when she heard that her grandmother possessed the legendary skill of Shu embroidery. What a pity that her grandmother had gone blind, otherwise she could learn this unique skill of embroidery from her!

The few of them keep chatting until midnight before they gradually got tired. Lady Mei was aged, and her body was weak; she fell asleep while they were talking.

A while later, the regular breathing of Fei’er signaled she had fallen asleep as well. Seeing that they were all asleep, Cai Wei quietly took out a medicine powder that induces deep sleep and sprinkled it on Lady Mei and Cai Fei. Observing that they were sleeping even more deeply, she then lit a candle and let out the Old Turtle.

"Great Immortal Turtle, can my maternal grandmother’s eyes be cured?" she asked.

The Old Turtle slowly crawled onto Lady Mei’s head, peeling back her eyelids and after carefully examining her eyes for a while, said, "It can be cured, but it will take some time and effort. Moreover, during the treatment, she must not cry or get agitated."

Upon hearing that there was still hope for her grandmother to regain her sight, Cai Wei was overjoyed and said, "All the conditions you mentioned are doable. Please start treating her now!"

The Old Turtle said slowly: "Old Madame’s eye condition has been accumulating for many years, and the surrounding acupoints have become rigid. It requires some time for acupuncture. After the acupoints become active, she should apply the eye drops that I will prepare three times a day, supplemented with the eye-care pills that I will compound. If there is no accident, she can regain her sight after a month!"

"That’s wonderful!"

Cai Wei happily said, "Please begin with the acupuncture now!"

Caiwei was overjoyed to learn that her grandmother’s eyes could be restored. Once her grandmother regains her sight, she will have her identify all the people who had harmed her in the past. She will make sure those people face severe punishment and the mastermind behind the acts will be seriously dealt with. Only then can she and her grandmother leave this place and lead a free and easy life as a family!