Chapter 412: The Concubine's Sister Travels Through Time VS the First Sister Reborn (18)
"Why are you so happy?" The girl noticed his abnormality.
"Because you will be sad for me." The young man answered honestly.
"We have known each other for a while. If you die, I will be sad for a while. Isn't it normal?" The girl said innocently.
"Ge Shiyi, you really know how to talk." The young man patted the hot water on the pool heavily, causing a splash, and swam away.
He really thought that she was sad because she cared about him. It was normal, he didn't want it.
"Come here." Shiyi hooked his finger at the young man in the distance.
"Not coming." Qi Yanlai felt that he was still angry and didn't want to see her.
"Really not coming?" Shiyi rubbed his knees that were a little painful from kneeling and stood up. He said indifferently: "If you really don't come, then I will leave."
"Go ahead. I don't care." Qi Yanlai swam for another distance with great determination, but his ears were alert to the movements behind him.
Footsteps, one step, one step, and another step...
Is he really leaving? He turned around in a hurry, but just happened to bump into the warm embrace of the woman behind him.
"No, no, no..." He took two steps back in panic, his whole body was hot in the hot water.
"No, no, no, what are you talking about? Hold on to your clothes, mother is coming." Shi Yi stuffed his outer robe into his arms, gave him a thin reed tube to breathe, and then swam to the edge.
"Daughter, have you felt better recently?" Liu Yanqing looked at the figure of the woman soaking in the pool with concern.
These days, she has been alone with her eldest daughter, and it seems that their relationship has returned to the past.
"Much better. Thank you mother for your sympathy and concern." Shi Yi stretched out his white wrist and lifted his long hair that fell into the water.
"Hearing you say this, mother feels much better." Liu Yanqing stretched out her hand to hold her daughter's long hair, combed it with her fingers, and her thoughts slowly calmed down.
"Mother, let's go to the farm tomorrow." Shi Yi turned to look at her.
"Okay." Liu Yanqing nodded in agreement, "I should have taken you to see it earlier. You will be the mistress in the future, so you must know how to check the accounts."
"Mother, you are so good to your daughter." Shi Yi leaned his face on her palm.
"Silly child, I carried you for ten months and gave birth to you with great expectations. How could I not treat you well? Even your sister didn't get as much as you." Without anyone around, Liu Yanqing didn't hide it and said directly: "The dowry I prepared for your sister when she got married was not even a quarter of yours."
"Mother?" Shi Yi looked up at her, as if asking why.
Liu Yanqing thought for a moment and said the reason: "It's not that mother doesn't love your sister. It's just that you are filial and obedient, and you are the legitimate daughter. You will marry a rich or noble man in the future. You should prepare more dowry so that your husband's family will not look down on you. As for your sister, she entered the Fourth Prince's mansion as a concubine, which is already a head shorter than them. The Fourth Prince's wife is Zhao Lilang, the daughter of the wealthy Zhao family. Compared with them, her dowry is definitely not as much. Besides, your sister knows how to plan for herself, and she doesn't lack these dowries."
"Mother..." Shi Yi suddenly understood the hostility of her legitimate sister Ge Yuyi towards her. Mother was indeed more partial and considerate to her.
"It has been said since ancient times that parents who love their children will plan for them in the long run. But people have preferences, and things have preferences. You are the one your father and I have been looking forward to during our tender honeymoon, and naturally you carry more of our expectations. We have indeed neglected your sister. But she has this kind of temper now, and your father and I can't correct her. Only by letting her bump her head and bleed will she understand." Liu Yanqing sighed and said, "I hope she can understand it sooner, so she can suffer less."
"Mother..." Shi Yiyi looked embarrassed, wanting to comfort her but not knowing how to start.
Liu Yanqing patted her shoulder and said softly, "Fortunately, you are a good child and did not disappoint me and your father. I know your father resented me for being distant from the concubine, but she is the daughter of my rival after all, and it is difficult for me to like her. But your father also misunderstood me. Even if I don't like the concubine, I will not plot to harm her. Thanks to you standing on the side of the concubine several times, I didn't let my mother's image be too dark. Mother was angry with you before, which was really wrong."
"Mother, it was your daughter who embarrassed you before." Shi Yi's eyes had more complicated emotions.
"Don't worry about my affairs, take care of yourself first. Your father and I are an old couple, even if he is dissatisfied with me, he dare not do anything to me, but you." She paused for a while and said worriedly, "It's your marriage issue that mother is very worried. Mother doesn't want you to be rich and glorious in the future, but only hopes that you can find someone who understands her feelings."
"Mother, why are you here?" Shi Yi's face turned red in an instant.
"You will eventually get married. Your mother hopes that you will marry someone you like. No matter how good the family background is, it is not as good as someone you like. Of course, the most important thing is that the person has to have good character." Liu Yanqing rubbed her daughter's long hair and let it scatter in the water.
"What if my daughter can't find such a person and never gets married?"
"If I can't find it, I won't get married." Liu Yanqing said firmly: "As long as mother is alive and the Duke's Mansion is alive, no one can force you."
"Mother, you treat me so well." Shi Yi sighed again.
"Are you stupid? You are my favorite daughter and I have no choice but to treat you well." Liu Yanqing fished out her daughter's long hair and drained it.
"Mother, I was joking with you before. I will find someone I like, and I don't want to be an old maid at home for the rest of my life. I will get married in style. Please don't worry about me."
"That's good. Mother is waiting to have your wedding banquet." Liu Yanqing was happy for a while, then thought of something, and immediately instructed: "Not only must you like him, but his character must also be good."
"Don't worry, mother. I have good taste." Shi Yi rubbed her palm affectionately, and said coquettishly: "My skin is almost wrinkled from soaking in the hot spring. I wonder if I can have a bowl of glutinous rice balls made by mother."
"Greedy." Liu Yanqing stretched out her hand and touched her eyebrows, but her face was full of smiles.
"Mother, shall we eat glutinous rice balls tonight?" Shi Yi continued to shake her hand.
"Yes. Mother will go back and make the filling for you." Liu Yanqing gently pinched her face and left.
The footsteps faded away, and Qi Yanlai came out of the water, staring at Shi Yi for a long time.
"What's wrong? Is there something on my face?" Shi Yi asked.
"Can I be the person you like? I have a good character." Qi Yanlai blushed and recommended himself.
(End of this chapter)
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