Chapter 416 Mother and daughter join forces, invincible

Aunt Sang gently reminded, "This is the eldest aunt of the Xie family, Madam Xie, the wife of Lord Ye, the Minister of Justice."

It turned out to be her.

There is indeed a deep hatred.

This was none other than the elder sister of the sixth daughter of the Xie family who was beheaded in public by Xiao Yan.

Madam Xie glanced at Lu Qiniang, her handkerchief covering the corner of her mouth. Her voice was not loud but sharp and piercing: "Anyone can sit at the table at this banquet today? If I had known that peasants would be here, I wouldn't have come even if it was a banquet for the Duke's Mansion."

"Oh, who are you? Are you a fairy from heaven?" Erya's clear voice rang out like a silver bell. "You don't care about worldly things, and don't eat things grown by peasants? Forgive my poor eyesight, I didn't recognize you just now. From a distance, you were wearing jewels and jade, and you walked with a swaying gait. If you knew me, you would think you were a noble lady. If you didn't, you would think you were a new, jingling shelf from some silver shop!"

Mrs. Xie's face flushed with anger. She pointed at Erya and cursed, "You are indeed an uneducated peasant."

"Oh, I'm uneducated, so I praise you. You're well-educated, so you scold me." Erya said with a forced smile, "I don't know if this is the upbringing of the Xie family or the Ye family. I want to learn from them too! It's just that I'm clumsy with words and can't understand your noble upbringing."

"You little bitch, since you know who I am, why are you still pretending?"

"I'm pretending?" Erya laughed. "When it comes to pretending to be an elephant, who wouldn't be inferior to you? You look down on peasants, but why do I remember that the old master of the Ye Mansion was born in the village and is still plucking flowers and growing vegetables in the mansion, saying that he has retired to the countryside? And the eldest lady's beloved daughter got married to a newly-minted Jinshi after failing the imperial examination two years ago. Isn't she also from a poor family? Oh, so it turns out that you and your daughter couldn't get married, so you had to marry peasants. That's why you have such deep resentment?"

"Oh, how pitiful. You have an unfortunate life, so you bite everyone you see when you go out." Arya waved her hand, "Forget it, why should I bother with you? You are forty years old, but you look sixty. It's not easy."

Mrs. Xie was so angry that her whole body was shaking. She had never been humiliated in public like this before.

Especially when she felt the vague gazes from people around her, she felt ashamed and angry to death.

"Little bitch!" the nanny behind Mrs. Xie scolded.

San Ya rushed over, jumped up and slapped her in the face, making her stagger. Then she put her hands on her hips and said, "If I can't beat her, I can't beat you either, old thing. You've shown yourself!"

Erya clapped her hands and praised, "Good job, Jiaojiao, I'll give you chicken legs to eat when I get home tonight!"

Lu Qiniang said, "Alright, alright. No matter who the lady is, as long as she's from the Xie family, I want to say something. How can a girl from your Xie family burn food and treason? Your family is really shameless. If it were any other family, they would have wanted to cover up this matter. How dare you bother to cause trouble for others?"

It's really the opposite of Tiangang.

"We peasants don't have such thick skin." Lu Qinniang curled her lips, her speechlessness evident in her words.

"Alright, alright," someone nearby tried to smooth things over. "It's New Year's Day, don't start a fight over a few words and ruin the atmosphere. Miss Zhu is going to play the zither, let's all listen."

The tense atmosphere in the hall seemed to be gently plucked by these words, and everyone's eyes turned to the center.

Miss Zhu was already sitting in front of the piano. Although she was young, her temperament was calm and gentle.

Facing the turmoil that had just occurred, there was no change in her expression. She just calmly tuned the strings of the zither.

When the piano started playing, it was not an exciting tune, but a piece of music called "Wild Geese Landing on the Plain Sand".

The melody begins gently and peacefully, like a gentle breeze across the fields of early spring, spreading quietly with soothing power. Gradually, the melody becomes broad and melodious, as if depicting the scene of wild geese soaring freely under the vast, clear sky.

Lu Qiniang couldn't understand the mystery in it, she just thought it sounded nice. Miss Zhu's movements were also indescribably smooth and graceful.

She thought to herself, this is the demeanor a girl from a wealthy family should have.

It’s a pity that her family was poor in the past and her three daughters had no chance to learn.

Oh, San Ya is of the right age now, but it is simply a dream to expect her to sit down and play the piano.

Thinking of this, Lu Qiniang couldn't help but look at San Ya, but found that she was playing with her fingers with her head down out of boredom.

Sure enough, what did she say?

While playing the piano, Lu Qiniang secretly asked Erya, "How did you know so much about Xie's background?"

It was as if he had done some special investigation and was waiting for her to come and humiliate herself.

"Yun Ting and I asked for the list, and then picked it out one by one." Erya bit her ear and said, "Just in case someone does something weird. I can't let myself be hurt!"

Suffering a loss in front of these people is not like in the past when you suffered a loss in the market. If you suffer a loss, I can come to your house and scold you at night.

I suffered a loss here, and I don’t know when I can make it up.

So, don't suffer any loss.

Lu Qiniang thought to herself, you have this determination and patience, but it will be useless if you follow Chang Hui.

I don’t know if she thinks her daughter is good, but she thinks it’s okay for Erya to marry into a wealthy family.

As long as I don’t suffer any loss, it’s fine.

After the song was finished, everyone in the hall praised it.

Lu Qin's mother didn't know how to praise, so she just shut up and smiled.

Unexpectedly, the man surnamed Xie still refused to give up. He glanced at her and said with a mocking look: "You are useless in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and you still have the nerve to sit here."

Lu Qinniang got angry when she heard this and blurted out, "You can't even speak human language, but you're sitting here too? If you think it's cheap to sit with me, why don't you get your own table? You don't have that ability. Please let me advise you to be more restrained. When I give you the imperial edict, you'll have to bow to me when you see me! It's best to avoid me in the future, so you don't have to bow to a peasant like me. It will piss you off to death."

Madam Xie: “…”

"Mother, a summer insect shouldn't talk about ice. Don't pay attention to that kind of person." Daya said, "Speaking of music, chess, calligraphy and painting, I wonder if Madam Li is here today. I've heard that the Zhongshan chess tradition has been passed down for hundreds of years. My ancestor was once a disciple of Yi Qiu during the Warring States Period and has a collection of the 'Nine Boards Mysterious Map' chess manual."

Lu Qiniang looked at Erya.

——Erya should know.

As a result, Erya had no expression on her face.

Lu Qiniang: “…”

Erya thought to herself, Oh my god, I know who the guests are today, how could my elder sister not know?

Whatever she has to discuss, she has to consult her elder sister, right?

"I'm here." Mrs. Li replied.