Yi Ning didn't want to offend Miss Xie.
Knowing that this so-called distinguished guest was Xie Yun, she would rather stay at home to watch Aunt Qiao and her daughter. After all, the latter only used soft eyes, but Miss Xie preferred the real thing.
Xie Yun ignored her and just sat down beside her to listen to the opera.
After lunch at the Cheng family's, the four wives gathered to play Pai Gow. Yi Ning played a few rounds, but her luck wasn't good, and she lost all the silver note she had brought with her, worth a hundred taels. Luo Yixiu joined her, but also lost miserably. Having lost all their money, they both stepped away from the game and went outside for some fresh air. As soon as they sat down in the pavilion outside the flower hall, they saw Xie Yun approaching them.
Xie Yun wore a light red jacket with gold trim all over it, a plain embroidered skirt, and a mutton-fat jade pendant around her waist.
She sat beside Yining and spoke after a long while, saying calmly, "Why is it you?"
"If he doesn't love you, what's the point of you following him?" Xie Yun said, "If you treat him like a brother and sister, do you think he will always be with you?"
Xie Yun is a very smart person, she can guess why Luo Shenyuan married her.
Yining didn't say anything.
"If you were sensible, you would know that he only pities you." Xie Yun smiled slowly, somewhat proudly. "We can discuss poetry and songs, and I can also help him in the officialdom. What can you do? If you marry him now, you will only be a burden to him."
"Second Miss Xie, you're overthinking it." Yi Ning looked at her calmly, "Since you're engaged to Cousin Cheng Lang, why bother about others?"
Xie Yun didn't take her seriously at all, playing with her bracelet. "Actually, if you wanted to, you could have come to me then. I'd have asked my aunt to find you a marriage partner. But now you've married him, don't blame me for targeting you. We might even be neighbors in the future, and your cousin Cheng Lang and I will definitely go visit you then."
Xie Yun's expression was as dignified as ever, which was a natural habit she had, and it was not directed at anyone.
Luo Yining lowered her head, then smiled slowly. She stood up and said, "Second Miss Xie, what happened between me and Luo Shenyuan has nothing to do with you. Even if Third Brother doesn't like me, what's the point of Second Miss Xie asking about it? Could it be that he likes you?"
Xie Yun didn't expect that she would actually refute back.
"As for who I want to marry, that's my business. I don't mind you asking about it." Luo Yining said word by word.
Xie Yun also stood up. She didn't expect Luo Yining to be so resolute. Instead, she smiled: "Miss Wei, you can certainly deceive yourself. You have lived with him like this your whole life. To him, you are just a concubine."
"It seems Second Miss Xie thinks she's like the white moonlight, the udumbi flower, in the hearts of others." Yi Ning bowed slightly. "Excuse me, but in my eyes, Second Miss Xie is no different from those women. The same jealousy clouds her rationality, the same pretentiousness yet she doesn't do anything useful. Miss Xie is named after the talented woman Dao Yun, whose famous line 'Not even as willow catkins rise in the wind,' but Second Miss Xie uses her power to oppress others. Isn't that pathetic, the girl herself says?"
"I, Ruoshui, am willing to be my inner chamber girl, so what does that have to do with Second Miss Xie?" Yining said at last, paused slightly, and turned to leave.
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