“Please ask the Imperial Physician Wang from the palace to treat the Sixth Young Lady. Please ask him to stay at the mansion for half a day. After Xiao Wu returns home, he will check Xiao Wu’s pulse.”
“The child was born prematurely. I’m afraid she has never recovered in the countryside. She may look glamorous on the surface, but she is empty inside. If she doesn’t take good care of herself in the next few years, she will suffer after getting married.”
Mrs. Fan ordered, “As for the Sixth Young Lady, if the imperial physician says that the Sixth Young Lady is not feeling well, let her stay in her courtyard and take good care of herself.”
The imperial physicians in the palace were all shrewd people. They were well aware of the struggles of women in the inner courtyard of the palace.
Whenever they checked the pulse, they would say that she was sick even if she was not sick. It was just the difference in the severity of the symptoms. At worst, drinking some tonic medicine would not hurt her body.
Therefore, this time, Imperial Physician Wang was invited to come. Whether Ling Zhuo was pretending to be sick or really sick, she had to be forced to ‘recuperate’ for a period of time.
Today is the Seventh Young Lady’s welcoming banquet. If the Sixth Young Lady, who was nominally the Seventh Young Lady’s biological sister, did not show up, she was afraid that people below would criticize her.
The Seventh Young didn’t care. After all, she had just returned home, but the Sixth Young Lady was in a dilemma. She didn’t know what the other ladies in the family would say about her.
“As long as Eldest Madam understands.” Nanny Fan smiled with relief.
She knew that it was impossible for Eldest Madam to let go of her feelings for Sixth Young Lady at this moment, but Eldest Madam had to understand the importance of things.
If the Sixth Young Lady was well-behaved and sensible, the Marquis’s mansion did not lack her share of the dowry.
But if she was not satisfied and always wanted to compete with the real young lady, she should also understand her status.
***
“Is Mother here? Did the messenger get lazy and didn’t pass the message to Mother?”
Ling Zhuo was lying on the bed, looking out of the room from time to time.
A few days ago, because her frequent pretending to be sick had made her parents dissatisfied, Ling Zhuo had been quiet for a while.
But today when she heard that her mother’s real daughter was about to return home and that her mother packed a bunch of good things to go to the Chuzhen Courtyard last night, Ling Zhuo couldn’t help it.
Chuzhen Courtyard1储, chǔ: (bound form) to store up; to keep in reserve / heir to the throne
珍, zhēn: precious thing / treasure / culinary delicacy / rare / valuable / to value highly
院, yuàn: courtyard, what an interesting name this was. It stored precious treasures. The girl who was about to return to the mansion was the treasure of her parents, so what was she?
She was obviously the child that her parents had loved for eleven years.
Ling Zhuo was very afraid, afraid that her parents would no longer like her. She was even more afraid that once her parents no longer loved her, her once high status would fall and she would lose all her current honor and wealth she had now.
So, she pretended to be sick again.
She hoped that her mother could come to visit her before the girl returned to the mansion.
It would be better if she could delay it for a longer time. If she waited until the girl returned to the mansion, her mother would still stay with her.
In this way, everyone in the mansion should know that she, the Sixth Young Lady, was the most favored. Even if there was no blood relationship, it could not be changed.
Unfortunately, she not only did not wait for her mother Mrs. Fan, but she also did not wait for the compensation gift that Mrs. Fan could not come.
Listening to the message from the maid, Ling Zhuo’s eyes widened in disbelief.
Recuperate? Was her mother going to confine her?
Just because of a wild girl who had been living outside for eleven years, her mother wanted to confine her.
Ling Zhuo couldn’t accept this situation.
***
“That girl is really spoiled.”
In Rongshou Hall, Old Mrs. Wu and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Xiao Wu, were talking about the affairs of the first branch, with rosy faces and happy expressions.
Until now, that little girl still couldn’t see reality clearly.
In fact, as long as she showed weakness and pretended to accept Yu Wu’s arrival, according to the feelings that the Marquis and Mrs. Fan have for her, they would only love her more.
It was a pity that some people would not die unless they seek death.
Mrs. Xiao Wu didn’t think that she was such a person at all. She began to calculate what benefits she could get from using Ling Zhuo.
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