Chapter 7 Surprise

"Come on, let's find a place to stay first, and then think about what to do next. I'll go see if I can get the household registration changed again." He Youyou sighed, took her daughter's little hand, and touched the two gold hairpins on her head. These two things should be worth a lot of money. Let's replace them first and get the household registration done.

Fortunately, she still had those two things on her head, otherwise she and her mother would definitely be starving. Why didn't this girl take something out before she came out? Even a little something from her dressing table could have been exchanged for a lot of money.

Sigh, it's still too small.

"Oh dear, Auntie, wait, we haven't brought the small box yet..." Qu Weiwei watched as her aunt pulled her away, and then she remembered the small box she had casually placed next to her cloak. This was, on the surface, all their possessions.

"What little box?" He Youyou looked at the dark red little box she was pointing to with a puzzled expression. After seeing the little box clearly, she immediately hugged her little girl with joy and kissed her several times before stopping.

This box contains what they need most right now. They were just lamenting that the little girl was too young to know how to take useful things, but seeing this box surprised her so much that she swallowed back her earlier lament.

"Why did you think of bringing this box out?" Although she was pleasantly surprised, He Youyou was also quite puzzled. After all, she had always kept this box hidden in the closet, and this little girl had definitely never seen it before. Why would she think of taking it out?

"When I was playing hide-and-seek before, I hid in the wardrobe and saw this little box. Fifth Aunt also took a little box like this when she left, so I thought I would take this little box with me. Is it useless in there?" Qu Weiwei was not lying. At that time, she saw Fifth Aunt carrying a similar little box when she came out of the Qu family.

“Yes, yes, yes, it’s very useful. You know, the most important things for my daughter and me are in here. With these things, our lives will be more convenient, and we won’t have to find someone to re-register our household registration.” He Youyou was really afraid that if she said it was useless, the little girl would cry.

"Auntie, I'm hungry." Qu Weiwei rubbed her rumbling tummy and looked at her pitifully.

"Come on, Mom will take you to eat on another street. The people here know us too well. We can't stay here, or we'll be exposed." He Youyou didn't want anyone to know that she and her mother were still alive, and she didn't want to go back to Master Qu's side.

She was forced into it. If it weren't for Master Qu threatening her with her father's life and fortune, how could a girl of only seventeen or eighteen years old have been willing to marry a man about the same age as her father as a concubine?

Now that they're free, who would want to go back to that cage, where they were harassed by the wife every day? That kind of life was unbearable.

Qu Weiwei knew from her mother's words that her mother definitely didn't want others to know that they were still alive, which was why she wanted to stay far away from them.

It took the mother and daughter almost an hour to arrive at the small courtyard, which looked even smaller than the courtyard where her mother lived in the Qu family mansion.

He Youyou poked her hairpin into the lock, and the lock opened naturally. She opened the door, pulled the little maid, and went inside.

“Weiwei, we’ll be living here from now on. Your grandfather secretly bought this house for your mother, and he used it to register your household and your birth certificate. I won’t be called He Youyou anymore. Your grandfather has registered my household under the name He Yuping. You graduated from a girls’ high school. You won’t be called Qu Weiwei anymore either. When I take your birth certificate to register your household, I’ll change your name. What do you want to be called?” He Youyou wanted to change her daughter’s name.

The name Qu Weiwei was given casually by the First Madam, who probably meant for her daughter to live a humble life. Now, she doesn't want to use that name anymore, nor does she want her daughter to live a humble life, so she needs to change it to a more pleasing name.

Qu Weiwei wasn't that attached to her name, after all, her original name was given to her by the director of the orphanage.

"Mother, please get it for me," Qu Weiwei said nonchalantly.

Qu Wei skipped and hopped to visit the house. The courtyard was indeed small, with three main rooms, a side room on each side, a fairly large kitchen, and a thatched hut for storing firewood. In the backyard, there was a toilet, a chicken coop, and a small vegetable patch that had never been planted.

There was a hand pump in the front yard, surrounded by a ground paved with blue bricks. A large wooden basin for washing clothes and a wooden bucket were placed next to the hand pump.

These things look like they haven't been used for a while; they look dirty, and the iron hoops on the outside are rusty.

"Mother, are we going to live here from now on? But it's so close to the Qu family, won't we be recognized?" Qu Weiwei was still a little worried. After all, it was in the same city and only two streets away. Anyone who wanted to would definitely recognize us.

“We won’t be staying here for long, so we won’t buy many unnecessary things. We need to save money. Once things calm down, we’ll head south to visit your grandfather. This is just a temporary stop.” He Youyou had already discussed this with her father, and she would take her daughter to stay with him whenever she had the chance.

He Youyou thought that day wouldn't come too early, but who would have thought it would come several years earlier than she expected.

"Oh, okay, but we need to prepare a lot of things to leave here. We also need to take a car or a boat. What should we take?" Qu Weiwei didn't think there were still cars available now, but the journey south would definitely be very difficult. If they didn't prepare properly, it would be very difficult for the mother and daughter to travel south.

"Don't worry, Mother will take care of everything." He Youyou patted her head to reassure her, seeing how worried she was.

Her father was a teacher at the village school and taught quite a few students. Master Qu hired him as his accountant because of his academic degree.

After He Youyou entered the Qu family, her father regretted it deeply. He regretted why he had entered the Qu family as an accountant. If he hadn't entered the Qu family, his daughter would not have been favored by the Qu family patriarch.

He knew his daughter was unhappy in the Qu family, so he found a way out for her early on. He helped her change her household registration, bought her a house, and then went south to find a new way out.

After all, if his daughter were to escape the Qu family one day, she would definitely not be able to stay in Pingcheng. He only had one daughter in his life, so he had to find a way out for her as soon as possible.

After half a year in the south, he wrote a letter to his daughter, and the address he sent it back to was the new house he had bought for her.

In the letter, he told his daughter that he had already bought a house and a shop there, and was just waiting for her to come south to reunite with him someday.

He Youyou didn't tell her five-year-old daughter about these things, but she had already figured out what to do, so now she could eat a full meal and get a good night's sleep without worry.