Lu Lingyun was getting ready when she heard the news from Zhiyan. She couldn’t help but chuckle. “Miss, why are you laughing…?” Zhiyan was fuming on her behalf. Lu Lingyun glanced at Zhiyan’s puffed-up face in the bronze mirror and shook her head. Her gaze fell on Chunxing and Chunhe who were standing behind. “Zhiyan, you stay in the room. Chunxing, you accompany me to serve tea to my in-laws.”
Zhiyan had been by her side since childhood, always putting her first, but sometimes she was too overprotective. When she saw Lu Lingyun being wronged, she was the first to jump out and speak up. In her past life, at the Li family, where she was constantly under the thumb of her brother-in-law and sister-in-law, constantly subjected to underhanded tricks without being able to retaliate, Zhiyan’s straightforward nature proved useful. But in the Houfu, there was no need for that. Things were all out in the open. If her people were too quick to react, it would only annoy Lady Qin. She needed to adjust the people around her and send Zhiyan out.
“Miss…”
Zhiyan’s eyes turned red the moment she heard that Lu Lingyun didn’t want her to follow.
“Alright, alright, stay in the room and go through the inventory in the storeroom. That’s more important, understand?” Lu Lingyun gave her a look, and Zhiyan’s simple mind immediately understood. Yes, yes, now she was the only true insider by Miss’s side, and someone needed to keep an eye on the family’s belongings.
“Yes, Miss!”
Chunxing, who had been called upon, also stood up cheerfully, “Yes, Young Madam!”
“An Mamá, you come with me too.” Lu Lingyun glanced at the two Mamás.
“Young Madam, let this old servant follow you instead. Yesterday, you suffered a great injustice in the Houfu. They bullied you like that, completely disregarding you and the Lu family! This old servant must get justice for you!” Wan Mamá interjected.
Lu Lingyun gave her a cold glance, “Wan Mamá, my family is not here to defend me? You keep saying they don’t take us seriously. You mean to say that my family is bullying me? What are you thinking?”
Wan Mamá’s face changed upon hearing this.
Lu Lingyun continued, “Wan Mamá, you came with me from my family home. I know you’re worried about me being wronged. But now that we are in the Houfu, this is our home. In our own home, if we have something to say, we say it. Why all this talk about disrespect? Don’t you think?”
At this point, Wan Mamá dared not retort. To say another word would be feigning protection for Lu Lingyun while actually instigating a rift between the two families.
She quickly nodded, “Yes, yes, yes.”
“You stay in the room and tidy up. An Mamá, you come with me.”
“Yes, Young Madam.”
Lu Lingyun left with Chunxing and An Mamá.
Ningxin Courtyard, Lady Qin’s courtyard.
“Did she really say that?”
“Yes, Madam.” The Mamá beside Lady Qin was full of praise.
Before Lu Lingyun even arrived, the words she had spoken in her room that morning had already reached Lady Qin’s ears. When Lady Qin heard Lu Lingyun’s words, “It’s not my family bullying me,” her eyes lit up. She twirled the emerald green Buddhist beads in her hand, nodding, “She is truly a sensible and considerate child.”
At this moment, a servant girl’s voice came from outside.
“Madam, the Young Madam has come to serve tea.”
Lady Qin stood up immediately, “Quickly let her in.”
Lu Lingyun led her people into the room. Lady Qin walked directly towards her.
“Mother.”
Lu Lingyun wanted to bow, but Lady Qin grabbed her hand.
“Good child, you have suffered a great injustice.”
Lady Qin directly touched her hair, looking at her with the love of an elder.
Initially, she only had a third of her heart set on Lu Lingyun. It was mostly because she valued her as a daughter-in-law. But today, at their formal meeting, she already felt a genuine affection for her.
This daughter-in-law was understanding, sensible, polite and respectful, far better than she had expected.
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