Chapter 76: Revenge is a dish best served cold 1 (2/2)
Yuan Liqin felt like glaring at the two ladies but because she was in public, she couldn't act out. Before coming here, her grandmother warned her to be low key and not cause a scene. Yuan Liqin wasn't about to join her mother to copy Buddhist tablets in the ancestral room.
She could only stay calm but mentally put the two ladies on her bad list. ”Please don't make fun of me Jei Jei, I recently caught a cold of late's so I just want to stay quiet”.
The first young lady chuckled and brought her hand to her mouth ” oh is that how it is, I thought it was because of the scandal that broke out at your family's Garden party” she clicked her tongue several times and shook her head as if she couldn't stand the thought of it. ”It was quite a mess everyone”.
Although most of the ladies were thirsting for an opportunity to talk about the little scandal involving the Yuans, a few were too scared to bring it up for fear of retribution. However now that it was brought to light, everyone stepped out in full force.
” I heard about that. sister Liqin, your Yuan family has to keep watch of concubines like that”.
”Yes, Yes see how she dragged her madam into this mess”
”Tsk tsk, It is such a pity, It must not be easy for your Yuan family. look how she even dragged the newly minced princess into that mess”
Yuan Liqin watched as these vultures took jabs at her while pretending to be concerned about her. She wasn't surprised to see them do this, Ste had done something similar to a few of them when they faced a situation similar to this. However, it was still painful to be at the receiving end of this. Especially for someone like her, that was used to being an onlooker.
The Ladies continued, finally dragging the Lu and Zhu family into this mess. Most of them were disgusted to see a Shu daughter in their midst and wanted to teach her a lesson. Since she seemed to be close to Lu Yiling, they decided to draw a wedge between them.
Everyone knew the true conditions behind the second young master's marriage, evens if the Lu family pretended to get along. It was easy to guess that Madam Lu was discounted in both of her daughters-in-law.
Lu Yiling's relationship with this Shu daughter could be described as shaky especially since there were rumours that madam Lu was considering this Shu daughter as a wife for the General before the imperial decree was announced.
”Speaking of that newly minted Princess, I must applaud her for being capable. Even with her shady background, she still got married to the second young master”
”Yes, she is full of schemes. I heard that she caused quite the sensation before her marriage among the young Masters. Even the Xu family Shizi Xu Jingting was also bent on marrying her”
(Shizi - refers to the heir of a noble title just like the Emperor's heir was called the crown prince)
”Wow, she has made rounds, Fenfang mei mei how did your Di sister end up with a maid like her?”
Zhu Fenfeng looked at the mocking smile on the last speaker's face and sneered. Did she deliberately call Zhu Fengyin a Di daughter to point out the fact that she was below them all since she was concubine born?
'Ha, see if I don't wipe that smile off your face. Once I marry the crown prince and become the second most powerful woman in Northern Wei, after the Empress. Nobody will dare make fun of my birth, you will have to bow to me' Zhu Fenfang thought curving up her lips and replied
”My eldest sister is vet kind and is a good judge of character. Plus we also grew up with her Highness, she has never been like that to us. I think that she was just misunderstood”
The previous young mistress smiled and said ”Are you this naive. Ha, how pathetic. Who doesn't know that it was your precious sister that brought her in? You gave a lot of guys acting all nice with sister Yiling!”
Lu Yiling who following her brother's sudden marriage felt a little guilty stepped in ”Don't make things hard for Fenfang Jei, ss us innocent”
”But she really innocent?” Another young mistress closer to commandery Princess Xia Yong said.