"What the hell, do you not have a family to go back to? Your own mother, Old Madam Liu, isn't dead yet! Do you really need to seek refuge with your sister?"
The intention was clearly obvious!
Dan Ling couldn't help but roll her eyes. She then gave a look to the two young maids behind her and stepped forward to pull the frail woman. "Third Miss, it's windy out here. Don't catch a cold and get a headache. This servant will have someone escort you back!"
"Sister," the frail woman looked at Princess Consort Kang with tears in her eyes, appearing helpless and melancholic.
It was as if Princess Consort Kang would be committing an unforgivable sin if she didn't take her in.
Princess Consort Kang was thoroughly disgusted. She immediately turned her head away and said in a cold voice, "Send Third Miss back."
"Wuwu, Sister," the frail woman wiped her tears with a handkerchief, wailing pitifully, "Sister, I know you hate me, but Lan Xin had no other choice but to come to you."
"If my husband's family hadn't been so unwelcoming to a weak woman like me, why would I have come to bother Sister?"
Princess Consort Kang turned and glared at her. "I sent someone to escort you to the Liu Manor, but you come here to cry and make a fuss? People who don't know might think the Liu Manor can't tolerate you either!"
"Aunt, how can you say such things?" A girl in her early twenties emerged from beside the frail woman, stamping her foot and looking utterly indignant. "Grandmother sent us to find Aunt! It's not like we deliberately came here to cause trouble."
Princess Consort Kang was immediately angered to laughter. She looked coldly at the mother and daughter and said, "Since you are widowed, going back to your maiden home is one thing, but coming to me, your elder sister, what is it you want to do? Are you trying to cause more trouble, just like twenty years ago?"
She hadn't expected this Liu Lanxin to still not have completely given up on the Old Prince, even after all this time. Princess Consort Kang found it both amusing and irritating.
She truly had "good fortune"! To be saddled with such an outrageous mother and an outrageous sister!
Twenty years ago, this Liu Lanxin had put on quite a farce.
On the day she was getting married, Liu Lanxin brought her a bowl of ginseng soup the night before.
Fortunately, she had always been very wary of this younger sister and didn't dare to actually drink it, so she pretended to faint.
As a result, this good sister of hers was actually so naive that she devised a scheme to swap brides just before the sedan chair arrived, planning to knock her out and take her place, happily intending to go to the Prince's Estate as its mistress...
The Liu family's farce was mocked for a full three years, and Princess Consort Kang would get a headache every time she thought about it afterward!
Liu Lanxin looked at Princess Consort Kang with a pale face, trembling slightly, like a small white flower shivering in the wind. She cried pitifully, "Sister, what are you saying? It's been twenty years; why are you still holding a grudge and refusing to forget?"
"I never thought Sister would be such a person." Liu Lanxin wiped her tears and cried, "Some things are not good for me to say here. Perhaps we should go inside the manor first and then talk."
Princess Consort Kang looked coldly at her little white flower sister, who was dressed in mourning clothes. "My Liu Lanyun conducts herself properly. There's nothing that can't be said. If you have nonsense to say, say it here."
Go inside the manor?
Dream on! You'll never get to move in in this lifetime!
Seeing her firm attitude, a trace of coldness flickered in Liu Lanxin's eyes. Then she started crying and stammering, "This is also Mother's idea. Sister, after all these years, you haven't given birth to any children. You can't just let the Old Prince be without an heir, can you?"
She sobbed, speaking pitifully.