Chapter forty two

At home, lady Chen was waiting for her daughter to come back.

Just seeing the kid return, she was very glad. However, she did not allow her girl to escape; she dragged her to the ancestral room and told her to kneel down before the forebear's tablets.

"Please all ancestors have pity," lady Chen said. "Don't mind the descendant. The descendant acknowledged her fault, and now she comes to apologize." Then she turned to her daughter, "Lantian, say sorry to the ancestors."

"Why do I say sorry? I don't do anything wrong. It's them who are wrong," Lantian stated.

"Stop speaking nonsense. Hurry up, apologize to the ancestors."

"No. I am not wrong. The ancestors were unreasonable. They created the wrong law. It is injustice for the women. I don't accept it."

"This daughter!" Lady Chen hit the arm of her girl but it was slight. "Can you stop being stubborn? Even though you are not satisfied with the ancestors, you cannot say this to them. They are our ancestors. We have to respect them though they are not good or do something wrong."

"So you agree with me that they are not right."

Lady Chen's mouth was blocked. This made Lantian smile with victory. But for her ma, it was not a joke. She was trying to discipline her daughter, nonetheless her daughter was not serious and thought it was a funny thing.

"Please the ancestors," lady Chen prayed, "forgive the descendant. She is still young. Please don't mind. Please, please, please…"

It was stressful to see such an action but the young woman could see how much her mother worried about her. However she would not admit she was wrong as she was not wrong; just she wanted her mother to stop worrying and mumble by her ears, so she thought of a trick to display.

"Enough. I will say sorry," Lantian stated.

"Really?"

"Um." Lantian nodded her head. "But I have two conditions."

"Say it."

"First, you go out, I want to say it alone. Second, give me one thousand."

"Fine, fine," lady Chen said with a big smile. As long as her daughter agreed to apologize, she could do whatever.

After her ma got out, Lantian looked at the tablets before her and snoozed her nose, "Choo. Want me to apologize! Don't ever hope for it." She stood up then said, "I am your descendant; how can you do this to me? Angry with me? Come out, come to debate with me. I am not afraid. I'm telling you, I don't care about the rule you created. Though it is the rule falling from heaven, I won't follow if it is not fair. You don't give me justice, I will find justice for myself. If you don't help me, don't bother me."

On the table there was a plate with fruits. The rude granddaughter saw it; she walked to it and took one fruit to eat then she left the room without saying goodbye.

In the kitchen, lady Chen was preparing a meal for her daughter. She held a big smile over her face as she thought Lantian really listened to her by paying an apology towards the ancestors.

Actually, she knew that her girl didn't say anything wrong at all but she wanted to repair the relationship between her husband and her daughter, so she had to make her do it.

This tactic was effective.

As Wu Guang heard that lady Chen took Lantian to the ancestral room, his mind cooled down. Though he didn't want to meet his daughter yet – because he was still sensitive to what she had said.

The same; Lantian didn't want to see her father. She came back home because she did not want her mother to worry.

After leaving the forebears room, the big young lady went to take a bath; after that, she ate the food and told Xiaolan to take money from her mother then went to the tailor shop.