The Comeback of the Charming Farmer's Wife

Chapter 2611: Chapter 95: The Li Manor Incident 2

Li Mengru thought to herself that even this maidservant, who had always been silent and timid, had become bold now that Li Luru was about to become Princess Consort, bold enough to talk back to her own mistress.

If Li Luru really became Princess Consort, would there still be any place in this household for her and her concubine mother?

Hmph, originally she wouldn’t have lost her composure like this, but the thought of having been pressed beneath a bastard girl for over ten years made her so angry she could barely breathe.

And that fruit tea was no ordinary fruit; it was bought specially from the prefecture and simmered just for that little slut. In the past, if she wanted to drink it she had to ask Madam, yet that wild child actually got to drink it every day.

Living more luxuriously than her, the legitimate young lady—on what grounds? Moreover, her concubine mother had told her that Father had already agreed to her idea, so when she saw her drink that fruit tea just now, she couldn’t hold back.

She exchanged a glance with Concubine Sun, and Concubine Sun immediately began to wail, "Oh heavens, how is one supposed to live like this? Even a maid dares to lecture her mistress—what kind of rules are these? Old Master, you must stand up for Second Miss."

"Tch, they’re all servants—who’s really nobler than whom?" This mutter was very soft, but Li Luru and Third Young Master Li both heard it.

"You girl, who would’ve thought your tongue’s grown so sharp now."

"Third Young Master, times have changed. Isn’t my young lady in a special situation now? Naturally this maid must defend her mistress."

Seeing the siblings chatting so merrily over there, without the slightest regard for her sobbing, and Madam not showing the least intention of scolding Xiaohong, Concubine Sun tugged at Li Shan and said, "Old Master, Third Miss is going too far. It’s only a bowl of tea; if it’s changed, it’s changed. Yet she actually lets a maid talk back to Second Miss—does she not put this elder sister in her eyes at all!"

"Insolence!" Yang Aoshuang slammed the tea bowl heavily onto the table. "What do you think you are? Just a lowly concubine—who gave you the guts to cling to the legitimate young lady? A concubine consorting with servants, this is clearly against the rules recorded in the annals. That second girl never thought this tea soup was bad on ordinary days—how is it that today she suddenly finds fault with it? Even if she truly thought it bad, she should have asked Miss Le before changing it. To change it without asking—what is that? Is this what you call Concubine Sun’s rules?"

"Mother, Third Sister never said she disagreed," Li Mengru hastily said.

Yang Aoshuang looked over with a smile that was not quite a smile, but did not argue with her. Instead she turned her spearhead toward Concubine Sun. "I’ve long said that the second girl should be raised by me. You insisted that you are her birth concubine mother, as if afraid I’d separate you mother and daughter, insisting on staying together. Staying together was one thing—since she came out of your belly, you should have taught her well. But you, you actually raised her into something like this." freewebnσvel.cøm

"Knowing full well that Miss Le cannot speak, yet still saying that if Miss Le doesn’t open her mouth... What, are you mocking your younger sister? You’re not so young anymore; it’s time you properly study the precepts and virtues for women, lest you marry out someday and disgrace the Li Family’s name."

Yang Aoshuang very much disliked these illegitimate sons and daughters, yet she rarely tore their faces in front of so many people. But today they had stepped on her daughter, so she couldn’t be bothered with that.

"Uu... Father..."

"Ohhh... Old Master..."

With those words, mother and daughter immediately burst into tears, each crying louder than the other.

"We’re not even married out yet, and she’s already suppressing her own elder sister—how will there be any place left in this household for us to stand in the future?"

"Old Master, it’s fortunate your body is still sound now, but if one day... how am I supposed to live?"

As she cried, she set off the other concubines to weeping as well; they were all worried about pretty much the same things.