Chapter 266: One More Relative

The old lady excitedly called Lu Lingyun to hurry up.

After Lu Lingjun stood up, she looked at her carefully.

"You and your mother are alike! Very alike!"

When Lu Lingyun heard this, tears welled up in her eyes. Her grandmother said the same thing when she first saw her in her previous life.

At that time, she was busy seeking official positions for Li Wenxun. Only after she was promoted to Jinling did she realize that she had returned to her mother Tong's hometown.

At that time, Jinling was extremely tense and was divided up cleanly by various powerful families. Everyone was trying to squeeze out the newly promoted Jinling prefect. Li Wenxun had no foundation and no one believed in him. All his policies could not be implemented. Lu Lingyun occasionally found out that the Tong family, the largest family in Jinling, was her maternal family. She knew at that time that her mother Tong almost broke with her family when she married Lu's father.

Lu Lingyun mustered up her courage and risked everything to visit the Tong family and build connections. At that time, she was the only one who was helpless in the entire Tong family.

Until her grandmother came out and said that she looked very much like her mother, and from then on she treated her like her precious baby.

She gave Lu Lingyun whatever she needed. When Li Wenxun wanted to push forward the decree, the Tong family was the first to support it.

When other noble families wanted to suppress her, the Tong family was the first to stand up and support Lu Lingyun.

After that, Lu Lingyun really rose to prominence and was promoted all the way.

Thinking of the things that happened in his past life, Lu Lingyun's eyes turned red.

"Silly child, what are you doing?" Grandmother Lin wiped Lu Lingyun's tears, "Did someone bully you? Tell me, and I will take care of it for you."

On the side, Liu heard this and said quickly, "Madam, Yun'er is just happy to see you."

"Yes, yes, yes, our cousin has become the wife of the prince of the marquis's mansion. Who can bully her? Grandma, my cousin is happy!" A crisp voice rang in Lu Lingyun's ears.

Lu Lingyun was sitting on the side of Old Lady Lin, holding her in her arms. She looked at the source of the voice.

Then I saw a familiar face. The girl was about thirteen or fourteen years old, with red lips, white teeth, a face as rosy as a peach, and a pair of twinkling almond-shaped eyes. She was very cute.

Tong Nanyi.

"This is your cousin Nan Yi." She heard the voice of Old Lady Lin, "Your uncle's third daughter."

"Cousin Lingyun." Tong Nanyi walked forward coquettishly and greeted Lu Lingyun with a smile.

"Sister Nanyi."

Lu Lingyun smiled widely. Tong Nanyi, her uncle's youngest daughter, was lively and cheerful, straightforward and sensible. She had a very good relationship with her in her previous life.

Unfortunately, after she got married, she died while giving birth.

It was after Lu Lingyun saw her son die during childbirth that she realized the reproductive deficiencies of the women in her maternal clan.

When she saw Tong Nanyi again in this life, her eyes couldn't help but tear up.

"I just kissed my cousin Lingyun when I saw her." Tong Nanyi felt the familiar and intimate look from the bottom of Lu Lingyun's heart, and couldn't help but step forward.

"I also think that our girl is easy to kiss just by looking at her." Another voice came.

This is the voice of a middle-aged woman.

"Yun'er, she is your second aunt, Wang." Old Mrs. Lin said.

Lu Lingyun looked at the middle-aged woman, Wang Peirong.

Lu Lingyun had two uncles in total. One was Lu Lingyun's mother's biological uncle, the current head of the Tong family, and the other was her second uncle born out of wedlock, who was a fourth-rank provincial judge in Jiangnan and was later promoted to a Beijing official.

This Wang Peirong is the original wife of my second uncle who was born out of wedlock.

Lu Lingyun had hardly seen her in her previous life because when she went to the Tong family, her second uncle and his family had been promoted and left.

She sorted out the timeline in her mind, and it was right now that their family was promoted.

At this time, Old Madam Lin said slowly, "Your second uncle got promoted, and his family moved to the capital. I remembered that you got married and stayed in the capital, so I thought of coming with you to visit you."

Old Madam Lin smiled amiably, and her second aunt Wang Peirong smiled even more and said, "Lingyun, we must go out more often in the capital in the future!"

After hearing this, Lu Lingyun understood the purpose of their visit.

In this life, she became the Crown Prince's wife. When her second uncle and his family came to the capital, they had no roots, so naturally they had to contact her.

But after all, her mother's marriage to her father had caused unpleasantness in the family, and her second uncle, who was born out of wedlock, was promoted, making him several levels away from Lu Lingyun. The embarrassment of coming directly to look for relatives was no less than when Lu Lingyun asked the Tong family for help.

Thinking of this, Lu Lingyun understood why her grandmother, at such an old age, had traveled across mountains and rivers to come to the capital.

Old Mrs. Lin came with her, firstly to help her concubine, and secondly because she really wanted to see Lu Lingyun.

Lu Lingyun didn't think that her grandmother came this time with utilitarian motives. Even if she did, she could accept it.

In her previous life, her grandmother tried her best to help her, so how could she not fulfill her wish in this life?

"Hello, second aunt, congratulations on second uncle's promotion. In the future when we are in Beijing, we should visit each other more often. We are all family, as the saying goes, we are of the same blood and will prosper together." Lu Lingyun followed Wang Peirong's words generously and agreed to this relationship.

After hearing what Lu Lingyun said, the eyes of the second aunt and old lady Lin all lit up.

Wang Peirong held Lu Lingyun's hand with gratitude and emotion, "Lingyun, you really made my second aunt at a loss for words. Yes, we are all family, and we will be united in the future!"

Wang Peirong never expected that Lu Lingyun valued them so much, and she was very nervous during this trip.

They were afraid that Lu Lingyun would not acknowledge them or would be indifferent to them.

After all, the Tong family had never contacted Lu Lingyun before. When Lu Lingyun's mother got married, she offended the old lady, who ordered that they had no contact with their family, as if they had no such daughter. Later, Lu Lingyun's mother died after giving birth to Lu Lingyun, and there was no news of her at all.

Over the past ten years, they never asked about how Lu Lingyun lived or how she lived well in the capital. They also had no contact with her after she got married. But when they knew that she married into the marquis's mansion and became the prince's wife, they came to the capital to meet her relatives without any hesitation. It was really embarrassing.

After much thought, she decided to persuade Old Lady Lin to come to the capital to visit her granddaughter before leaving.

He wanted to use Mrs. Lin's reputation to get closer to Lu Lingyun.

Unexpectedly, Lu Lingyun really treated them as family members.

Old Mrs. Lin never expected Lu Lingyun to say this and value her so much. She couldn't help but hold Lu Lingyun's hand with tears in her eyes, "Good child, grandma didn't take care of you before, but you don't blame us."

"Grandma, that's not the case," Lu Lingyun said beside Mrs. Lin, "We are a family."

Lu Lingyun was already grateful to Old Lady Lin and the Tong family. Besides, for her, having another powerful relative in the capital would only bring benefits and no disadvantages.