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Chapter 222 Su Yulee

They heard a timid voice of a maid outside, she said, "First Miss, the second Miss is here and she says she wants to apologize to Madam and you."

Su Yuli was stunned slightly, then looked at the couch with a wry smile, lowered her voice, and said, "Mother, look, the second sister has come to apologize. If you don't care about others, you should care about the feeling of the second sister. After all, the second sister has always been kind and respectful to us and has never offended us, don't you think so?"

Wei Changying understood what she meant: Mrs. Qian caused a lot of trouble for the third branch, and the Su Family all knew well about it. But Su Yulee had always been respectful and affectionate to the family of the third uncle. She was not like her mother, who didn't like the third branch because of the dispute between Su Yuliang and Su Yuwu.

Such a niece came to apologize in person, and if her aunt, Wei Zhengyin, were still not going to let go of it, she would be the same as Mrs. Qian, who quietly reckoned Su Yuli.

Then she softly advised, "My cousin has already suffered a loss. If my aunt can't get some benefit for the fifth cousin, isn't it for nothing that my cousin has already suffered this time?"

Wei Zhengyin was silent for a few seconds, sighed deeply in the end, and said, "I know, you are all good children. You can see more clearly than I can! On the contrary, I lost my mind this time."

"Mother, what are you talking about? I understand that you just love me dearly." Su Yuli hurriedly said.

Wei Changying also said, "This is because of Aunt's love for her daughter, how can it be confusing? My cousin compassionates Aunt, and you are a pair of a loving mother and a filial daughter! Speaking of it, I think of what happened when I was in the boudoir. I'm so ashamed that I can't say. As a daughter, I'm far worse than my cousin. My mother often has to worry about me. I didn't even have the one-tenth of the thoughtfulness of my cousin."

"You are talking like this, so you couldn't be a bad daughter." Wei Zhengyin sighed, "What you said is very good. I have such a generous daughter, who is far better than me. The family status of the Gu Family in the capital is not even as good as my family, the Su Family in Qingzhou. Why should I worry about her?"

Su Yuli pursed her lips and said with a smile, "Didn't mother teach me when I grow up? What's more, there are so many things that I need to be taught by Mother in the future. So how can I be better than Mother?"

Mrs. Shi breathed a sigh of relief and warned with a smile, "Since Madam has made up your mind, it would be better to invite the second Miss to come in now, So that she will not be frightened outside by herself."

"That's very true." Wei Zhengyin nodded and said with a cold smile, "Mrs. Qian asked her daughter to apologize, didn't she just want to show that I am as unsympathetic to my niece as she is? I will not vent my anger on Yulee. In addition to this, I will also comfort her and let her come in fear and go with ease!"

As expected, Su Yulee, the second Miss, came in in fear to make an apology, "I heard that third aunt is ill? It's all my fault because my cousin is going to Eastern Hu so that the eldest sister has to get married earlier. This makes the third aunt..."

Before she had finished her words, Wei Zhengyin, who was lying on two pillows, covered her mouth with a handkerchief, coughed twice, and said in a hoarse voice, "Alas! I was thinking about why you would come and ask for forgiveness. And this is the reason? You worry too much. The reason why I am sick is that there was too much ice in the room in the past two days, and I had a bit of headache. Thus, I had to lie down. How can I blame you for this?"

Su Yulee was stunned. She held the handkerchief for a time and did not know what to say. Su Yuli then said, "Yes, the second sister, what are you thinking? After lying down for a day, my mother feels much better now. My cousin also has brought Granny Huang here. You know Granny Huang has learned some medical skills with Miracle Doctor Ji. Later, I'll ask her to prescribe some more medicine. I think my mother will be fine tomorrow."

"I heard that Imperial Doctor Ji wasn't able to diagnose the illness of the third aunt, so I thought..." Su Yulee obviously had an honest temperament and was not good at lying. Because Wei Zhengyin and her daughter's answer was not the same as she had imagined so that she was out of order for a moment. And in the middle of the words, she found that something was wrong. Her face flushed with embarrassment. She was stunned and didn't know what to do.

Seeing that her niece was so immature, Wei Zhengyin was proud of her daughter's vision and had some pity for this honest niece who was not like Mrs. Qian. She really couldn't be angry with her. So she coughed and took the initiative to mention, "I understand. Two days ago, my eldest sister-in-law sent someone to the Gu Family to discuss a change of wedding date without informing your third uncle and me. Do you think I'm sick now because of this?"

Su Yulee was blushed and didn't know whether to nod or to shake her head. She could only vaguely say, "It's all my fault. If it weren't me, Mother wouldn't... And the first sister won't also... I... Anyway, it was me who let the eldest sister..."

Wei Zhengyin interrupted her incoherent words and said kindly, "This opportunity to go to the border to build meritorious service is earned by several families together, and your fifth brother is also among them. How can I not understand the feelings of the elders in the Qian Family? It is also reasonable to advance the wedding date, lest it will also delay both him and you. After all, you are now nineteen years old. And after three years, you will be twenty-two. It will be too late to get married after three years if you do not get married this year. It's just that this is a lifetime matter of Yuli. Thus, if the eldest sister-in-law should have told me and your third uncle first before telling the Gu Family, I would not have been really unhappy when I knew about it at first. Otherwise, I wouldn't have gone to the eldest branch to talk to your mother."

Listening to this, Su Yulee became more and more embarrassed. She lowered her head and said, "Third aunt, I'm sorry about you and my first sister. If it hadn't been for my wedding date, Mother wouldn't..."

"Let me finish my words." Wei Zhengyin shook her head at her and gasped a few times before continuing, "It's one thing to be unhappy, but your mother has already done it and the Gu Family has promised to marry your first sister in advance. How can I go and change the date again? That will not only delay you but also let the Gu Family know that there is a conflict between our two branches. Why is it necessary? Your eldest sister has been wronged, and you should no longer be wronged. Is it worthwhile for the two Misses in our family to be wronged together and for outsiders to have a good laugh at us?"

Su Yuli pursed her lips and said with a smile, "Gu Ziming from the Gu Family is also on hold to go to the border this time. He has to marry Infanta Chengxian first. I believe that the Gu Family will certainly sympathize with me. Now that the matter is out of the question, all reasonable people will sympathize with it. But as for those who are unreasonable, I will pretend not to hear their words."

Yet Su Yulee was so ashamed that she almost cried, "First sister..."

"Anyway, what has been done is done. So that's it." Wei Zhengyin first expressed her grievance for Su Yulee and then turned around to comfort her, "Fortunately, the Gu Family in the capital is just an aristocratic family. Your first sister is the lineal daughter of the gentlefolks, and the family house of our family is here. Even if the people in the Gu Family whisper something in private, they may not have the courage to wrong her."

Then she said, "I know you are an honest child. Did someone tell you that I am ill because of this matter so that you come here today?"

Su Yulee hurriedly said, "It's not the case, I..."

"Don't pay any attention to what these people say." Wei Zhengyin said painstakingly, "We have a blood relationship! Even if there are some bumps and conflicts, it is inevitable in a big family. You just said again and again that your mother did it for you, and that's right. I will not care about it because, in the end, it's for the sake of Yuli and Yuwu. You are lineal brothers and sisters who grew up together. There is absolutely no reason to turn against each other because of one or two grievances. What kind of family is this if we are not humble and tolerant of each other? Don't you think so?"

"What the third aunt said was right." Su Yulee bowed her head and whispered. A teardrop fell and hit on the back of her hand.

Wei Zhengyin said, "Alas, why are you crying?" She sighed and said, "Well, I'm telling you because I want you not to think about it more. It's not for other reasons. You're going to get married soon. I am also an experienced person. No matter what an open-minded person one usually is, she will always have a particularly delicate mind when she is about to get married. Your cousin Wei just said a few words to Yuli about her state of mind before she got married, and those words made Yuli cry!"

"Being taken good care of for more than ten years, once you get married into another family, you will rarely be able to serve your parents. It's natural that it's hard to ease your mind." Wei Changying sighed and said, "Fortunately, the two cousins are married in the capital. You will be close to home, and it's convenient to commute from your husband's home to your own home. You will be in a much better situation than me."

"You also have a reason." Wei Zhengyin said, "Your father fell ill all of a sudden, otherwise he would not be retired yet. If that is the case, it would also be convenient for you to go back to your mother's house."

Wei Changying smiled and said, "Aunt is right. The mansion of the Wei Family is indeed not far away from the Grand Preceptor's mansion."

The two chatted for a bit, and Su Yuli took the opportunity to drag Su Yulee to comfort her.

So when Su Yulee cleaned up her mood, Wei Zhengyin asked her to come over and told her, "Just don't think of this more. Listen to me. Because this wedding date is ahead of schedule and there are two of them in a row, the family is particularly busy. So I'm afraid your mother and I can't have the time to enlighten you in time. For families like us, who come from extraordinary families, the ceremony of marriage is grand. Your Corolla wedding clothes on that day will also be very heavy, but they all have to be worn for a full day. And in order to avoid embarrassment, you would not be able to eat or drink that day. If you don't keep your body well, it will be really hard to endure that day."

Wei Changying said with a smile, "I have the most experience. I have practiced martial arts since I was a child, and I think that my physical endurance is good among women. However, on the day I left Fengzhou, if my brother hadn't carried me into the carriage, I would have been unable to walk halfway. After that, I begged my Grannies on the way to let me wear only casual clothes. When I got to the capital, on the day I entered the door, I was so tired! When my husband went out to make a toast, and my sisters-in-law and my husband's sisters accompanied me, my first sister-in-law asked me if I wanted something to eat. I didn't control my manners and didn't even pay attention to polite words. I just couldn't wait to ask for it!"

These words made everyone laugh. Su Yulee could not help but smile as well. She said with surprise, "It will be that tiring?"

"A red-gold inlaid Corolla alone will weigh dozens of Jin without counting other hairpins." Wei Changying said, "The wedding dress is at least dozens of Jin, and there are all kinds of ornaments, so it's not easy to lift your arm after you wear it all. Not to mention you have to get up in the middle of the night to dress up, but you can't eat anything. Isn't it tired, sleepy and hungry to cope with all kinds of rituals with an empty stomach?"

"Don't be intimidated by her." Seeing that Su Yuli and Su Yulee's face were both a little discolored, Wei Zhengyin took over and said, "It is true that Changying said that her physical endurance was much better than that of ordinary women because of her martial arts practice. But you see, there are a lot of people in the world who got married, and there are a lot of them from gentlefolks. But we haven't heard of any brides having an accident on the day of the wedding, right? So even delicate young ladies like you can also endure it."

Su Yulee could not help but said, "But even cousin Changying also said that it would be so tiring, then how can we endure this?"

"The old saying is that when people encounter delight things, they will have high spirits." Wei Zhengyin said with a smile, "So everyone will feel tired on that day, but everyone will be able to endure it!"

These words made Su Yuli and Su Yulee blushed, and Su Yulee gently blamed, "Third aunt!"

"But you also have to take good care of your health. Look at me. I was too greedy to coolness and put on too much ice in the room these two days, and I got a headache." Wei Zhengyin said, "Fortunately, it is not serious! So when Imperial Doctor Ji came over, I didn't want him to prescribe me the bitter medicine so that I was impatient to ask him to check on my illness. Yuli was so worried that she ordered the servants to boil the medicine in the kitchen, so the whole yard was filled with the smell of medicine. This made me not want to drink it more and more! Fortunately, now that Changying has brought Granny Huang to visit, there is a way to get better without taking medicine. The weather is hot these days. You should not be like me. You'd rather hang in there and never fall ill at this significant moment. Do you understand?" She took this opportunity to answer Su Yulee's doubts just now.

Su Yulee gratefully said, "Thank you for your concern, third aunt! I think the ice in the utensils containing ice in my room is just right now. But when I go back today, I'd better get rid of one of the ice."

"You are young and can stand the heat a little bit. But women have a feminine nature, so you would rather be hot than catching a cold." Wei Zhengyin affectionately urged her daughter and nieces to take care of their health...

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