Chapter 417 Miss Lin San is just an accomplice
"So, Lin Tingxuan sneaked back to Beijing?" In the carriage, Song Yanxi couldn't help sighing as she listened to Song Xubai's story.
She poured him a cup of tea and handed it to him, saying softly, "Don't worry, drink some water to moisten your throat first."
Song Xubai nodded, drank the tea in the cup, and continued, "I haven't heard anyone say how Miss Lin San ran back. I only know that she must have suffered a lot along the way. She looks thin and dark, like she is fleeing.
If she hadn't rushed out of the General's Mansion, shouting that the Lin family was going to force her to death, no one would have recognized her."
Thinking of the girl who always followed him around and called him sister-in-law, Song Yanxi lowered her eyes and said nothing.
Song Xubai thought she was being soft-hearted and said hurriedly, "Sister, this Miss Lin San is just an accomplice. You must not sympathize with her."
Song Yanxi said softly: "No."
It's enough for her to make the same mistake once.
No matter how soft-hearted she is, she deserves it and cannot blame anyone else.
Hearing this, Song Xubai suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. He carefully looked at her expression before angrily saying, "Sister treats her so well every day. She will never miss out on anything you have, and even when you don't have anything, you always think of her."
On weekdays, he ran several shops. Because he felt sorry for his elder sister who had to manage such a large family on her own, he often sent some food and daily necessities to the general's mansion in private. He knew the details very well.
That Miss Lin San is clearly an ungrateful person who can never be tamed!
The more Song Xubai thought about it, the angrier he became. His eyes reddened as he spoke, "My sister treats her sister-in-law with all her heart. Even I, her younger brother, sometimes get jealous. Not only does she not appreciate my kindness, she even slanders my reputation everywhere!"
"What did she say?" Song Yanxi held the handkerchief and carefully wiped the sweat from his forehead with a gentle smile.
Song Xubai's eyes flashed, and he said sullenly, "It's not something nice to say, sister, please don't ask."
"Who taught you to only talk halfway?"
"Sister..."
"Tell me, I'm not angry."
Looking closely at her expression, Song Xubai asked tentatively, "Are you really not angry, sister?"
Song Yanxi was helpless, "When has my sister ever lied to you?"
Song Xubai hesitated for a moment before speaking, "She cursed my sister outside, saying she was vicious and cruel, saying she couldn't win over that bastard and that she wasn't liked by her mother-in-law. She was also jealous of my beauty and deliberately plotted to harm her, to harm her..."
He really found it difficult to say the rest.
Song Yanxi also knew that the words he had just said had been embellished.
What Lin Tingxuan really cursed were vicious words like "poisonous woman", "bitch", "fickle" and so on.
As the youngest child and the only daughter of the Lin family, she was raised to be arrogant and domineering since childhood and learned all the shortcomings of Mrs. Lin.
When she first married into the Lin family, because she had only a younger brother and no younger sister in the family, and only this one sister-in-law, she was treated as her own sister.
She can't even get the moon or the stars, but she can get food, clothing, shelter and transportation. As long as she asks for something, she will find a way to get it for her even if it takes some effort.
As time went by, she discovered Lin Tingxuan's true face hidden under her well-behaved appearance, and she was disappointed and heartbroken.
Old Madam Lin just doted on her, and her sister-in-law Zhou did nothing, which made her become more and more lawless due to her pampering.
She learned her lesson and felt that she could not continue to indulge herself like this. Otherwise, once she married the man off, she didn't know how many rumors would be waiting for her in the general's mansion.
As her second sister-in-law, she would also face criticism in the future and even be laughed at by other women in the clan.
Lin Tingxuan had been spoiled since she was a child, so naturally she didn't want to be controlled by her. But after she realized that she had feelings for Minister Xu's son, and after she reasoned with her and moved her with emotion, she finally agreed to change.
During that period, she could hardly eat or sleep, and her whole heart was devoted to helping her become a lady from the inside out.
It didn't matter that her words and actions were vulgar, she spent a lot of money to hire a nanny who had worked in the palace to teach her.
Since she was ignorant of poetry and had a short-sighted vision, she picked out the most important parts of the books, broke them apart and sorted them out slowly with her.
For three whole months, she never left the house and finally trained her sister-in-law, whom even her own aunt didn't want to look at, into a well-behaved lady.
After a flower-viewing banquet, Lin Tingxuan successfully won the favor of Mrs. Xu, the Minister of the Court, and took the initiative to speak to her at the banquet.
Lin Tingxuan was so happy that she almost went crazy. She took her hand and said, "Second sister-in-law, you are the best person to me in this world!"
But how did she treat her second sister-in-law?
The day before the news of Lin Tingfeng's death came, she was still teaching Lin Tingfeng how to embroider a mandarin duck handkerchief.
But her sister-in-law, who had always claimed that she should treat her as her own sister, immediately changed her attitude and cursed her for having a bad life and killing her brother.
They said she was unvirtuous and unfilial, and that being the daughter-in-law of the Lin family was really beyond her reach.
She also said that she was ungrateful and used the physical contact between them when she was rescued to force Lin Tingfeng, her savior, to marry her.
She only learned about these heart-wrenching remarks after her death.
Except for the timid Zhou, everyone in the Lin family was a master of acting, and she never noticed any clues until her death.
How could she not hate?
Fortunately, Lin Tingxuan is stupid enough.
As soon as she married into Minister Xu's house, she ignored Zhuang Shihan's previous advice to her to be more careful, and sent the head ornaments and jewelry she had used to add to her makeup to her mother-in-law's room as if they were treasures.
She didn't forget to step on her and said something like, "My second sister-in-law is a merchant by blood. She is greedy for money and treasures these things like they are nothing. She told me not to let my mother-in-law see them.
Mother-in-law, tell me, I've already married Yulang, so shouldn't I give you these things as a token of my filial respect?"
Mrs. Xu praised her for being well-behaved and sensible, and being a good daughter-in-law. Then she turned around and talked about it with her good sisters, saying that she, the second sister-in-law, was conscientious and responsible, and had trained a good daughter-in-law for their Xu family.
When Lin Tingxuan heard this, she actually thought it was a compliment to her.
Afraid that mentioning her old friend would upset her new sister-in-law Zhuang Shihan, she began to try her best to distance herself from their relationship.
When those words were relayed to Zhuang Shihan, Song Yanxi realized that she hated her so much.
She hated her for not agreeing to give her half of the dowry, and hated her even more for relying on her status as sister-in-law to force her to learn this and that.
She even boasted to other noble ladies at a banquet, saying that her husband liked her as a person, not her pretended virtue.
Somehow, this news reached Mrs. Xu's ears, and someone from the Xu family came the next day to invite Mrs. Lin and Zhou to their house for a chat.
In the end, Mrs. Lin took Zhuang Shihan with her.
When the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law came back, their faces were uglier than each other.
Originally, Mrs. Xu wanted to make the decision and let her son and Lin Tingxuan divorce to save the reputation of both families.
If the Lin family was unwilling, they could only write a letter of divorce and state in the letter that they were divorcing the wife because she was unvirtuous, jealous, talkative, and disrespectful to her mother-in-law.
Any one of these would be enough to bring shame to the General's Mansion.
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