Chapter 38 Inferiority
Even though he thought so, he still had to be polite for the sake of appearances: "Thank you for your concern, Madam. I wonder how things are going at home. Is my mother okay there?"
"Okay, okay, your mother gave birth to a child and raised him well in the mansion. You and your daughter suffered a lot in Nanyang a few years ago. The Ye family owes you this." Madam Ye answered without hesitation, as if she had expected Ye Lanzhou to ask about his mother.
Raised well...
It seems that the Ye family is deliberately hiding this from her.
It was no wonder, Ye Lanzhou was different from the others in the mansion. They saw her as aloof and distant, never close to anyone except her mother. This had been the case since childhood, not to mention the years since they had separated from the Ye family. The only leverage the Ye family had to threaten Ye Lanzhou was her biological mother, Qin.
As he was thinking, his eyes were slightly blank, but happened to meet Ye Qingshang's eyes.
Ye Qingshang was born beautiful and somewhat similar to Madam Ye when she was young, and of course, she also had some similar arrogance.
Madam Ye has become so versatile now because she is older. The arrogance she had in her youth has disappeared. But Ye Qingshang is different. She is still young and is the legitimate daughter of the Ye family. She has been raised by everyone in the family. Naturally, she disdains to say words to please others.
She and Ye Qingshang did not have a very good relationship. Like most legitimate and illegitimate daughters of aristocratic families, the difference in status made it difficult for the two to have friendly communication. The only difference was that Ye Lanzhou was too lazy to communicate with Ye Qingshang.
Wearing plants as clothes, holding high and pure aspirations, not pursuing superficiality, and creating her own elegance.
Unlike her name at that time when she was still Ye Wang, Ye Qingshang's name carries the wishes of the people in the Ye family.
Since she was a child, she envied Ye Qingshang for having a beautiful meaning, and because of this, she felt inferior, so she refused to have any interaction with Ye Qingshang.
Ye Qingshang's cowardice in childhood gave him the capital to bully her. When he was five years old, Ye Wang picked up a wild cat and brought it back to raise without telling anyone in the mansion. Ye Qingshang discovered it by chance, and after crying to Madam Ye several times, she snatched the cat away.
But the cat didn't survive in the end and died in the backyard of Ye Mansion.
In fact, Ye Wang didn't have such deep feelings for the cat. What the people in the Ye Mansion said was right. She was a person with a simple nature. She wouldn't even be sad because the cat she picked up died. She would only be bothered that Ye Qingshang could snatch away something that belonged to her with just a few words.
The seeds of inferiority and hatred sprouted in his heart, so he developed some hostility towards Ye Qingshang.
Ye Qingshang, who was standing in front of her, had no idea what she was thinking. She spoke softly, "Fourth sister, with this baby, you've truly become a phoenix, but why was it born and raised in the royal mausoleum area?" She scoffed, knowing that they were in the palace and fearing that someone might hear them, so she lowered her voice so only the three of them could hear, and asked, "Could it be that the royal family doesn't value this baby in your sister's belly?"
"Shang'er!" Madam Ye frowned, her face filled with anger but no condemnation. It seemed she was speaking to Ye Lanzhou. "What do you think of your fourth sister? After all, she's pregnant with the royal heir, which is a great honor for our Ye family. What about you? Have you done anything?"
Ye Qingshang glanced at Madam Ye's expression, said nothing, and just glared at Ye Lanzhou.
Madam Ye turned and continued, "But then again, Fourth Girl, the late emperor is gone. You must be lonely in the palace, aren't you? Back in Nanyang, when the late emperor was the crown prince, you defended Jinling City with all your might, preventing the southern barbarians from overwhelming Nanyang. I heard that after the Jinling army was defeated, the late emperor even stayed in Nanyang, wasn't that right?"
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