Chapter 77 Luo'er's beauty amazes everyone!
The news of Li Kechuan's broken leg during the Mid-Autumn Festival caused quite a stir in Jinling. She hadn't been wanting to go out lately, so why did she dress up specially today?
Madam Qu had clearly been waiting for quite some time. When she saw her daughter, who had blossomed into a woman of exceptional beauty and elegance, her eyes lit up.
"Daughter-in-law greets Mother. Luo'er, you've come."
Li Qinglu simply bowed slightly and said, "Mother."
Noticing Li Qingluo's coldness, Madam Qu felt a pang of disappointment...
Why is Luo'er so cold to her mother now?
I don't know what Old Madam Pei suddenly thought, but she made Li Qingluo ride in the same carriage as Madam Qu.
Li Qingluo could only follow the Qu family.
Inside the carriage, Madam Qu smiled slowly at Li Qingluo: "Luo'er, you look quite beautiful today. Did I have Qingyi deliver all these jewelry to you last time?"
Li Qingluo: "It was a gift from my grandmother."
Today, Li Qingluo's entire outfit, from head to toe, including jewelry and shoes, was arranged by her grandmother.
As for the gifts that Madam Qu had recently given her, she had never worn any of them and had thrown them all into the storeroom.
Upon hearing this, the smile on Qu's face froze.
"Mother, Mother, didn't I give you so many gifts? Why didn't you wear any of them?"
Li Qingluo: "Oh, I'm wearing the same one my mother gave me today. It should be here."
Li Qinglu touched her head and quickly found the hairpin that was the darkest, oldest, and cheapest.
She pulled it out and showed it to Madam Qu in her palm.
"Mother, do you still remember?"
Qu's face immediately turned ugly.
Did she give this to me?
How is this possible...?
Suddenly, Madam Qu remembered that when Li Qingluo first returned to the mansion, Chuan'er had made a scene in her room. So, under her mother-in-law's strong command, she had reluctantly asked Granny Chang to pick out two or three of the most inconspicuous and worthless pieces of jewelry from the storeroom and send them to her.
Could this be the one that Granny Chang picked out?
Even Granny Chang thought this hairpin looked ugly on her!
What's more, about her?
A young and innocent girl!
At this moment, Qu finally felt a sense of shame.
"Luo'er, it was because the nanny and the others didn't investigate back then. But later, didn't I send you a lot of valuable and beautiful jewelry?"
"I remember I even invited a tailor into the house to take your measurements and make you some clothes. Did your mother make this for you today?"
Li Qinglu stared at Madam Qu, finding it amusing, and a hint of mockery involuntarily appeared on her face.
"Mother, you don't even know what color the clothes you made for me are, yet you ask about this?"
Qu had no idea what color Li Qingluo liked.
Li Qingluo likes cyan, white, pale yellow, and light green.
However, what Qu sent her were all pink, purple, and bright red items.
Li Qingluo continued, "Actually, those are all colors that Li Qingzhu likes, right? If so, please don't bother to do it again next time, Mother."
"I have my grandmother to take care of me, so I naturally have plenty of clothes to wear. Otherwise, I probably would have already started to smell bad when I first entered the mansion."
Her words enraged and angered Ms. Qu.
"you!"
Qu pulled hard on the handkerchief in her hand. No matter how she looked at Li Qingluo, she felt that Li Qingluo was deliberately talking back to her!
"I am your mother, is this how you speak to me?"
Li Qingluo immediately lowered her head, "Yes, Mother. Luo'er knows her mistake."
She admitted her mistake quickly, but Madam Qu clearly knew that she didn't truly understand her error!
Li Qingluo lowered her head and stopped speaking, her eyes filled with estrangement and indifference towards her.
This was difficult for Mr. Qu to accept.
Clearly, when she first returned to the General's Mansion, she was also respectful, obedient, and polite to him!
She even brought her a lot of homemade food, massaged her back and shoulders, and would greet her morning and evening. Even when she stood obediently to the side, she would look at her with expectant eyes...
At that time, Madam Qu was still grieving the loss of Zhu'er and had become somewhat distant from her.
These jewelry and clothes are nothing, why would she hold a grudge until now?
No matter what, she was born of me, and I'm already willing to talk to her properly, yet she's still so ungrateful!
Thinking of this, Madam Qu no longer wanted to look at Li Qingluo, and felt a little resentful. She also couldn't help but think of her obedient Zhu'er.
Unable to control herself for a moment, Ms. Qu's eyes reddened again.
The residence of the Marquis of Zhongyi.
Li Qingluo, supporting Old Madam Pei, was respectfully welcomed into the mansion by the gatekeeper.
However, their reputation in the General's Mansion in Dongyin Lane instantly attracted a lot of scrutinizing glances.
"I heard that the real young lady from the Li family has also come today?"
"What do you mean by 'real girl' or 'fake girl'?"
"Wasn't it said that she was sent to the countryside to recuperate when she was young?"
"You don't know? I heard that the one before was a fake heiress whose identity was switched, but the one who has returned home now is the real bloodline of the General's Mansion!"
"What? Such an outrageous thing? Let me see what this girl looks like?"
"She's from the countryside, what else could she be like? I heard she was switched by a midwife back then, sent to a remote mountain valley to do farm work and gather pig feed every day, so she's all withered and thin, how could she be pretty?"
"I heard she even sleeps with poultry, like pigs and chickens. I bet it must smell really bad."
"What a tragedy! But, was it because she couldn't tolerate that fake heiress that Li Qingzhu committed suicide by self-immolation?"
"Who knows? But even if she dies, she deserves it. She wasn't even a member of the General's family by blood, yet she enjoyed wealth and luxury for them for over a decade. Did she deserve it?"
"But it wasn't the young lady's fault that her identity was switched back then. She was innocent too..."
Li Qingluo heard quite a lot along the way.
My heart was filled with: "..."
The matter of the real and fake heiress was indeed intentional on her part, and it was released along with the fact that there was an extra Li Qingzhu in Li Kechuan's room.
However, she never told any stories about being dark-skinned, thin, and emaciated, or about cutting pig feed and sleeping with poultry.
But this is not hard to guess.
Liu Jinzhi has recently lost track of Li Qingzhu, and she is probably the most anxious one. So, she tries to please Li Qingzhu by humiliating Li Qingluo, which is in line with her nature.
Amidst the murmurs, as Li Qingluo and Madam Pei appeared and entered the crowd, all the noise suddenly vanished.
Gaunt and thin?
The woman before me had skin as white as snow and as smooth as jade.
How could it be beautiful?
Her eyebrows were like kingfisher feathers, her face like solidified cream, and her eyes like black lacquer.
Her figure was slender and tall, unlike the willow branches which were light and unsteady.
She held her head high and shoulders back, dignified and generous, with a unique charm reminiscent of Madam Pei's carefree and unrestrained demeanor in her youth.
Today, almost all the powerful and influential families in Jinling City have sent one or two thousand taels of gold.
But this legitimate daughter of the Li family, while not necessarily the most beautiful among all the women, is certainly unique and extraordinary.
With further nurturing, she'll surely become the most beautiful woman in Nanjing in no time!
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