The simple four words, "You and I are one," made the shopkeeper understand Feng Yuqin's significance in Miss Qin Yu's heart.
However, the shopkeeper truly had no idea that the two people in his mind were actually the same person.
Feng Yuqin also knew that after today, the Meng family would probably learn her true identity.
After all, the three maids she had brought today would soon appear in the Prime Minister's Mansion. Her identity was, in a way, exposed to the Meng family.
She didn't really care about this, because she knew that even if the Meng family knew she was Feng Yuqin, they wouldn't reveal her other identity.
And things did turn out as Feng Yuqin had expected. Not long after she arrived at the Prime Minister's Mansion, the Meng family learned of her identity.
After leaving the trading house, Feng Yuqin didn't try to hide her whereabouts. First, she found a place to take off her veil hat and restored her appearance to that of Feng Yuqin.
"Ma... Mistress..." Lu'e had seen Feng Yuqin before. Although several years had passed, there weren't many changes in her appearance.
Moreover, Lu'e was a smart girl. From Feng Yuqin's current appearance, combined with what she had talked about with the shopkeeper before and the words "You and I are one" she said when leaving, she quickly guessed something and exclaimed in shock, "Mistress is actually the eldest miss of the Prime Minister's Mansion?"
"What?" Lin Xuan and Xia He were both stunned and looked at Feng Yuqin in unison.
Feng Yuqin nodded. "That's right. I'm Feng Yuqin, the eldest miss of the Prime Minister's Mansion."
The three of them never expected that the negative remarks they had heard about the eldest miss of the Prime Minister's Mansion on their way here were actually about their mistress.
"Let's go to the herbal medicine shop first." Feng Yuqin said to the three of them and then walked forward.
The three immediately followed.
Although there were many negative remarks about the miss in the imperial city now, they believed that, as they had said before, the authenticity of these remarks remained to be verified.
Moreover, they had already sworn to recognize her as their mistress. No matter whether their mistress was good or bad, they couldn't do anything to betray her.
Feng Yuqin entered a relatively large herbal medicine shop in the imperial city. Since she was in her own appearance as Feng Yuqin, she was recognized soon after entering.
"Isn't this Feng Yuqin?"
"She still has the nerve to come out?"
"Maybe she hasn't heard about those things outside yet?"
"With all the buzz outside, it's impossible for her not to have heard."
"She's entered the herbal medicine shop. Could she be here to buy herbs?"
"Let's go in and find out." Some onlookers outside followed Feng Yuqin into the shop.
The waiter, of course, also recognized Feng Yuqin. After all, no matter how rarely the eldest miss of the Prime Minister's Mansion went out, they still had to look at the portraits of these noble ladies.
Otherwise, if they accidentally offended someone with a powerful background one day, they might easily lose their lives.
"Feng Yuqin, this is not a place for you. You'd better leave." The waiter's words were very impolite.
"What do you mean? Is this how you treat your guests?" Lin Xuan said to the waiter with an ugly expression.
"All the herbs in our shop are of the highest quality. You simply can't afford them." The waiter said disdainfully.
"You're not our mistress. How do you know we can't afford them?" Lu'e also said dissatisfiedly.
"Such a large herbal medicine shop with a snobbish waiter like you will surely be affected in the end." Xia He said with a gloomy face.
Feng Yuqin was quite satisfied with the reactions of the three.
It seemed that with maids by her side, she didn't even need to get involved in bickering with others.
Xiaoying and Xiaojin were very satisfied with the three for protecting their mistress so well.
"Who are you calling snobbish?" The waiter said with an ugly expression.
"Since you're not willing to serve us, we'll choose another waiter. If the others are also unwilling, we'll ask your shopkeeper to come. If the shopkeeper is also reluctant, we'll just go to another shop. After all, the imperial city is so big. It's impossible that we can't buy herbs anywhere." Feng Yuqin said calmly. Then, she scanned the hall with her eyes, pointed at a waiter, and said, "Come here."
The waiter pointed at by Feng Yuqin had been standing in the corner. Now that he was called by Feng Yuqin, he immediately ran over. "I wonder what herbs Miss Feng needs?"
"Huang Hui, this Feng Yuqin clearly can't afford our herbs. The herbs in our shop are extremely expensive. If she accidentally damages or steals them, you'll be in big trouble." The previous waiter said with a gloomy face.
Unexpectedly, Huang Hui just smiled faintly. "Wang Qi, since they've entered our shop, they're our guests. How can we turn away our guests?"
"Huang Hui is right," the shopkeeper's voice came. "Wang Qi, don't be so presumptuous just because you're a distant relative of the Xia family."
Wang Qi didn't expect the shopkeeper to embarrass him in public today. His already embarrassed face turned as black as the bottom of a pot.
"Miss Feng, I'm really sorry. It's my fault for not managing my staff well. I'll surely punish him severely later." The shopkeeper stepped forward and said with a smile.
Feng Yuqin narrowed her eyes slightly. She didn't understand why the shopkeeper had made such a choice.
After all, her reputation wasn't very good at the moment. Generally, people wouldn't choose to side with her.
But it didn't matter to her. She was too lazy to care about what these people were thinking.
She had been out for too long. If she didn't go back soon, her mother would worry.
So she chose some herbs, paid the silver, and left.
Fortunately, the money - grabbing beast had a strong ability to accumulate wealth.
After all, the former Life - taking Mountain wasn't called that for nothing. Many people had died there.
Over the years, all the property and treasures of those who died in the Life - taking Mountain had ended up in the space of the money - grabbing beast.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have had enough silver to pay for so many herbs today.
Lin Xuan and the other two were sure that their mistress was really rich. She didn't even frown when buying so many herbs.
Huang Hui was extremely happy. After all, since Feng Yuqin had bought so much, he would get a commission.
Seeing that the shopkeeper of the herbal medicine shop was very kind to Feng Yuqin, the others had to think twice before causing trouble for her.
Moreover, since Feng Yuqin wanted to return to the mansion as soon as possible, she left the shop immediately with her three maids after buying the things.
As soon as Feng Yuqin stepped into the courtyard, she saw Yan Aoyun pacing back and forth at the door.
She immediately stepped forward. "Mother, I'm back."
"Aqin, where have you been?" Yan Aoyun asked anxiously and worriedly.
Buying a few maids and bodyguards shouldn't have taken so long.
She thought that maybe the second madam and the others had framed her daughter again.
But then she thought of that bet and felt that the second madam should be more willing to see her divorced and then kicked out of the mansion with Aqin. So she felt a little more at ease, thinking that her daughter should be fine. But she still couldn't help worrying.
"I went to buy something. I'm going to go into seclusion next." Feng Yuqin pointed at Lu'e and Xia He. "Mother, these are the two maids I bought to take care of you. Lin Xuan will stay with me for the time being."
Yan Aoyun didn't really care about the maids. What she cared more about was that Feng Yuqin said she was going to go into seclusion. "Aqin, how long will you be in seclusion?"