Memories (3)

Ying Yue and Yu Yan exchanged glances. "Sir, how do we know we can trust you?" Ying Yue asked.

He looked at the little hat maker and said, "have you heard of the Song family in the capitol? I am from there! My name is Song Su Wei, the second young master of the Song family."

Although the girls were poor and lived on the outskirts of town, some things were impossible to miss. They would have to try really hard if they didn't want to hear of the song family. There were many gasps all around. The Song family wanted to take in two poor little girls from a desolate place and give them a home? How generous and kind.

The girls were surprised, with their young age they had no idea what they should say to that so they looked to their most trusted companion other then each other, Granny Fei, for her opinion.

Granny Fei looked at them with love and kindness in her eyes. She was unable to have children, and had taken a liking to these little girls, unofficially taking them as her grandchildren. "I think you should go." She said. If this young man had a way to make their lives better, then so be it.

Without anymore hesitation, the girls nodded their heads and said, "Well then sir, we will come with you. But first we need to go home to gather our belongings."

Song Su Wei nonned his head in satisfaction. Well we can take you there in the carriage, come along.

The 2 little girls packed up the remaining things that they had not sold yet, and handed them to Granny Fei. "Granny, thank you for watching over us while we were still too young to take care of ourselves. This is the only thing we can repay you with."

Granny smiled. Originally, she didn't plan on taking them, but now she decided to keep them. She took the hats, meat and Beast essence and put them in her basket. "Thank you darlings, I will keep them to remember you by!"

"Ok! Bye bye, Granny!" They said as they headed to the carriage.

When they got inside, the little girls gasped. The carriage was larger than their home! Shaped like a dome, they could easily stand on each other's shoulders and walk around within, they tentatively sat down on the luxurious cushions and continued to stare everywhere with awe.

The Song family was the 3rd richest family clan in the capitol. With close connections to the Crown Prince, they were protected by the Royal family's name.

Riches abundant beyond your imagination, some people say that just one-third of their fortune could buy the entire Capitol City!

Ying Yue gave the driver directions and when they pulled up on the side of a forest, a mound of sticks covered by a bright blue tarp could be clearly seen. "There it is! Home!" Ying Yue said. She and Yu Yan quickly got out of the carriage and crawled inside.

They gathered all of their things, although it wasn't much, there was something that they knew they couldn't leave behind.

Their name plates.

When they were abandoned, they had each been left with name plates. One said Ying Yue and the other was Yu Yan. They were carved out of jade and on a silver slab of diamond. They were extremely luxurious. They knew that if they sold them, they would be able to live very well for dozens of years, but it was their only connection to their parents, and they just couldn't bear to part with them.

They stuffed them inside a pile of clothes to keep them from wandering eyes and looked around.

Seeing their nearly empty home, they smiled. Finally, they were living the life that they deserved.

-

Two days later, Capitol City.

"Second young master, fourth young miss, we have arrived." The driver said as he pulled the carriage to a stop in front of a huge, luxurious mansion carved out of marble and trimmed in gold.

Along the way, they learned that they would be given the titles of 8th and 9th young miss of the Song family, and would live in the main branch. The person who brought them here was Song Su Wei, the second young master of the Song clan. The lady with him was Song Mo Hualing, the forth miss of the Song family.

They all climbed out of the carriage and went inside. They little 7 year old girls were told to wait in the lobby. "I will go to speak to the clan leader about you two joining the clan. Wait here for me."

The girls silently nodded and obediently waited.

Song Su Wei went into the clan leader's study after knocking. He bowed respectfully and said, "Clan leader, I have returned."

The clan leader studied him. "Who are the young girls that you brought back, and what do they want?"

"They are the compensation that I have brought back because of my failure to complete the mission you gave me." He went onto one knee "Clan leader, please punish me."

"You failed the mission and brought back two little girls as compensation? I sure hope that those girls have some value."

"Great grandfather-"

"Clan Leader." He corrected.

"Of course. Clan leader, one of those girls is a tier two essence cultivator and the other makes hats comparable to the ones sold at Lingyu pavalon. If the one girl receives a master and the other better materials, think about all the money and fame we would receive. A tier two essence cultivator at 7 years old? A beautiful clothing designer that designs the Empresses dresses? If we make them the 8th and 9th mistresses of the song family, all of the credit of the things they make will go to us."

"A tier 2 essence cultivator, you say?" The clan leader said, his interest piqued.

"Yes, we had the little girl make one on the way here, she completed it within 3 hours."

"Wow. That is quite impressive. But you know nothing about hats, how would you know that they are comparable to the ones that Empress wears?"

"The fourth sister directly put one of the hats on and told her to make another as a gift for the empress. If the fourth sister plans to give one as a gift to the Empress, doesn't that mean they are extraordinary?" He explained.

After debating for a moment, the clan leader agreed. "Very well, title them 8th and 9th mistress of the Song family and register them into the genealogy unofficially."

"Yes, Clan leader."

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Downstairs, the girls had been waiting for over a half an hour. When he came back, he told them that they were now the 8th and 9th mistresses of the Song family.

He told them that they would be sharing a bedroom for now and brought them to it. Actually, this room was quite large. It had two beds and two dressers. One half of the room was empty. "What will go over there?" One of the sisters said.

"Over there is where we will be leaving you a place to keep your materials. A few desks and shelves of all the things you could ever need to make hats or beast essence will be endlessly supplied."