Playing The Virtuous Woman After Whoring Around
Jiang Yimian suddenly laughed, looking at the person behind her and said indifferently, “Since you’re a lowly peasant girl, why are you so concerned about Miss Xue? Or is it that you’re jealous of this lowly peasant girl?”
Lowering your status to please others, yet you’re not even as good as someone you look down on?
Tsk, so Miss Xue and I, this peasant girl, are the same kind of people. We both want to please others, but you failed, and I succeeded. So it seems you’re really not as good as me.
So who exactly is lowly?”
She truly looked down on this person before her. They were clearly engaging in flattery, yet they pretended to be aloof, thinking that everyone else was the same as them, yet they insisted on dividing everyone into three, six, and nine grades according to their own status.
Looking down on those of lower status than themselves, yet smiling at those above them.
What a hypocrite.
Xue Lingyu was so angry that her face turned red. For a long time, she couldn’t think of how to retort. Just as she was about to strike, she saw Chun Yue and Wet Nurse Gui walking over.
She immediately suppressed the anger in her heart, let out a cold snort, glared at Jiang Yimian, and then left angrily.
If she weren’t in the villa right now, she would definitely tear this annoying village girl apart.
She is the Minister’s daughter. How could she be scolded by that lowly peasant girl? How dare she.
Along the way, she kept cursing Jiang Yimian in her heart.
Only after entering the courtyard where Bai Shi lived, did she say with a wronged expression, “Mother, that village girl came to the villa and, relying on Xie Yu’s favor, scolded me. It was simply too much.
She caused you to be disliked by Xie Yu, and now she’s even become arrogant in front of me.”
Xue Lingyu felt only wronged. Before the village girl appeared, both she and her mother were favored by Xie Yu.
If Xie Yu hadn’t had a good impression of them, why would she have agreed to bring them along on this trip out of the capital?
But that village girl not only caused them to lose Xie Yu’s affection but also dared to scold her. It was simply rampant.
Bai Shi heard this, and her embroidering hand trembled violently. The needle pricked her finger, causing her to instantly frown, thankfully it wasn’t deep.
She casually wiped the blood from her finger and then winked at her daughter before going straight into the house.
Xue Lingyu followed uncomprehendingly.
As soon as they entered the house, Bai Shi said with a serious expression, “From now on, you can only say these things in front of me. If someone with bad intentions hears you, Miss Xie will only dislike us even more.”
Currently, the villa is full of Xie Yu’s people; their every move is being watched. A slight misstep, and they will be caught.
This wasn’t her purpose for leaving the capital.
Xue Lingyu merely snorted coldly and said with some dissatisfaction, “Dislike is dislike. I don’t know what she’s thinking. After all, my father is a high-ranking Second Rank official, yet she still doesn’t like us.
She’s just a powerless person who only enjoys the Emperor’s respect, a Princess.
We try our best to please her, but she still doesn’t like us. It’s better to please His Highness Prince Chu. I think the Chu Prince’s momentum in the capital is the strongest recently.
Half a year ago, during the war, if it weren’t for Prince Chu leading the troops to block the rebel army, several prefectural cities might have been lost, and even if the Imperial Court’s people had come, they probably wouldn’t have been able to resist.”
As soon as she said this, Bai Shi’s eyes widened in fright. She quickly covered Xue Lingyu’s mouth and rebuked her in a low voice, “Are you crazy? To speak ill of the Royal Family is a capital crime punishable by death!
Your father is a Second Rank official, but he’s only the Minister of Rites. He’s unwilling to engage in corruption, cowardly and afraid of taking risks. Many people are eager for him to step down from his position as Minister.
As his daughter, you must be cautious in your words and actions. Don’t mention anything about Prince Chu again.”
Although she didn’t understand much about court affairs, she also knew that because of last year’s war, the Emperor and Prince Chu were only superficially peaceful. Their relationship wasn’t as harmonious as before; they were secretly fighting, and something might happen.
Xue Lingyu pouted. Seeing her mother so frightened, she nodded listlessly.
She didn’t know why her mother was so afraid. Clearly, the Xue Family’s situation in the capital wasn’t very good. Pleasing Xie Yu was probably impossible, so they might as well follow a wise leader.
Bai Shi then released her hand and said in a low voice, “Right now, besides the few maids we brought from the capital in our courtyard, everyone in the villa is the Princess’s person. Be careful what you say from now on.”
She only arranged a maid beside the Princess, and it already angered her. If the Princess finds out about her daughter’s treasonous words, their mother and daughter might lose their lives immediately.
Xue Lingyu said sullenly, “I’m just dissatisfied with her indifference towards us, yet she treats that peasant girl differently. What’s so good about that peasant girl?”
She has no money, no power, yet she’s extremely arrogant.
Bai Shi said, “Just mind your own business. That peasant girl knows medical skills, so naturally, Xie Yu likes her.
As for you, you should worry about your marriage. Your marriage will be put on the agenda when we return to the capital this time.”
As soon as Xue Lingyu heard this, she immediately frowned, her face full of displeasure. “Mother, I absolutely refuse to marry that dandy from Duke Anguo’s Residence. He spends his days in the red-light district. How could he be a good person? If I marry him, I’ll be a widow in life.”
Who in the capital doesn’t know that the young master of Duke Anguo’s Residence is a dandy? If she marries him, she’ll definitely be ridiculed.
Bai Shi said sternly, “This marriage is not up to you. Duke Anguo’s Residence is your best choice now. If your father’s biological daughter hadn’t died, do you think you could have gotten this marriage? Be content.”
Xue Lingyu, upon hearing this, instantly reddened her eyes, her eyes filled with tears. She said with grievance, “I tolerated picking up her leftovers before. Now that she’s dead, I have to pick up her leftover man? Mother, I don’t like that dandy.
I don’t want to marry him.”
Thinking of all the rumors she had heard in secret over the years, she trembled with anger.
Seeing her daughter crying sadly, Bai Shi quickly reached out and hugged her, comforting her, “Who said you have to marry that dandy?
Duke Anguo’s Residence doesn’t only have that one young master. The eldest son was raised on an estate since childhood. I heard that he returned to the capital a few months ago. It is estimated that it won’t be long before Duke Anguo will let everyone in the capital see his eldest son.”
Currently, the second young master in Duke Anguo’s Residence is only the son of Duke Anguo’s second wife. He is a wastrel who spends his days doing nothing, and has long been abandoned by Duke Anguo.
But the eldest son is different. Although he was raised on the estate since childhood, he is said to be extremely well-behaved, and the title will definitely be his in the future.
If her daughter marries the legitimate son, she will be Madam Marquis in the future, naturally better than marrying anyone else.
This good marriage is something that countless noble ladies in the capital long for but cannot obtain. Now that it has fallen to her daughter, it is a great blessing.
However, Xue Lingyu looked disdainful. An eldest son who has been raised on an estate and is unfavored might not be better than that dandy; she doesn’t want to marry either of them.
She wants to marry a fine young man like Prince Chu, someone who is both outstanding and valiant.