Chapter 636 - Chapter 636: Chapter 636: Troubles Arise During Zhongyuan Festival (Part III) (1/2)

Chapter 636: Chapter 636: Troubles Arise During Zhongyuan Festival (Part III)

The carriage sped along, and every now and then, complaints could be heard from inside.

“It’s all your fault! I told you to get up earlier, but you didn’t listen! Now we’ve missed it, who can you blame?”

“You blame everything on me? Who was it that took so long changing clothes three times? If not for your delay here, we would have surely caught up earlier and wouldn’t have to spend our own money hiring a carriage.”

“I changed my clothes because someone was too busy putting on makeup for their old face. Look at your age, you’re old and still using make-up, who are you trying to impress?”

“I’ll put on makeup for whoever I want! Even if I’m older, I’m still younger than you. You dare criticize me, an old man? Let me tell you…”

The arguments never seemed to stop from beginning to end.

Poor kids squeezed into a corner of the carriage, huddled together and not daring to utter a single word.

All they could do was let the carriage take them to an unknown future.

Unaware that another carriage was following them, Liu Sisi and the others took a break and had a rather forced meal before continuing on their way until evening fell. The carriage then turned off the official road and raced down a small path.

The destination was near!

Indeed, after racing along the path for nearly an hour, the carriage finally stopped in front of a grand manor.

They had finally arrived at the Di family’s old home!

At the moment, it was already afternoon, and they had been in the carriage for nearly the entire day!

Before everyone could jump out of the carriages, a large group of people walked out of the manor to greet them.

Liu Sisi took a casual glance and frowned.

A woman, not much older than her, was leading the group. She was dressed in simple yet exceptionally fine golden-thread snow gauze, which truly was worth its weight in gold. She looked incredibly luxurious.

“Is Seventeenth Master home? I was sent by Old Madam to greet the Seventeenth Master.”

This so-called Seventeenth Master naturally meant Elderly Mr. Di, who ranked seventeenth among the family members.

The young married woman greeted with a smile, “Old Madam has been talking about Seventeenth Master since yesterday, eagerly waiting for your return. That’s why she sent me out early to wait here for your arrival.”

Elderly Mr. Di’s smile froze on his face, unable to move for quite a while.

This extravagantly dressed woman was just a servant!

But that wasn’t important. The important thing was that the main family knew that their Third Child was now a captain and, more crucially, that their daughter-in-law was a Prefecture Princess, yet they only sent a servant to greet them. This was a slap in the face! A blatant slap in the face!

Liu Sisi raised her eyes slightly, taking in all the details of the woman in front of her.

“Father! From what Sisi sees, the main family’s master must be out and thus unable to greet us personally. In that case, we might as well find a wine-house on the street to stay for one night, so as not to trouble this nanny.”

Liu Sisi’s face was full of smiles, her voice clear and neither humbling nor arrogant, with no intention of making a scene.

She turned around and walked away.

As she left, Elderly Mr. Di followed her silently with his crutch.

Immediately, everyone from the four carriages got off, then got back on, and with not a single person missing, they directly sped away.

This left the young married woman standing there, speechless for a long time.

Only when the carriages were far away did she remember something and hurriedly chased after them, shouting at the top of her lungs, “Seventeenth Master! Seventeenth Master! Seventeenth…!”

The only response she received was the sound of the carriage’s trotting, the carriage wheels grinding against the stone slabs.