Chapter 206 Even a ten-mile-long bridal procession, are you still unwilling?
"Father~" Lan Xin'er stepped forward and walked up to Lord Lan. She was the same age as Xiao Su Bao, but she was a head taller than Xiao Su Bao.
Lord Lan looked at Lan Xin'er, waiting for her to speak.
Madam Lan pulled her daughter back, standing in front of her: "Master, I know you love Shuyu, but the dead cannot be brought back to life. You can't empty the family's coffers just for her sake!"
While Old Madam Lan was still scheming, she heard this and realized what was happening.
He snorted coldly, "Nonsense! We only have so much money at home. When Lin Xi was sick, a lot of it was spent. Later, when Lan Shuyu was sick, it also cost a lot of money. Plus, that jinx Xiao Su Bao has made the family even less money!"
"You still dream of a grand wedding procession? You must be dreaming!" Old Madam Lan scolded, pointing her finger at Lord Lan's nose.
Just as Lord Lan was about to speak, a group of people suddenly appeared at the door.
Lan Feng rode his horse directly to the Lan family's gate.
He heard what Old Madam Lan said as soon as he entered the room.
"What kind of dream?" He rode straight into the Lan family's house on horseback.
He looked down at the Lan family members, a hint of coldness in his eyes.
He disliked his father and everyone in the Lan family.
"Feng-ge'er is back! Let Grandma take a look. He looks so haggard lately, and there's a wound on his face." Old Madam Lan stepped forward, her smile widening as she looked at Lan Feng.
"What was Grandmother saying just now?" Lan Feng looked at the old lady Lan indifferently, not taking her goodwill to heart at all.
He wasn't stupid; he knew that his grandmother hadn't treated his mother and siblings very well back then.
It was only because she was good at studying, entered officialdom, and obtained a high-ranking position that she smiled more often.
"Ahem, isn't this because General Tang wants to marry you, Shuyu? That's what we were talking about!" Madam Lan, supporting Old Madam Lan, looked at her stepson with a smile on her face.
"Even though my daughter is gone, she should still have a dowry of ten miles. When Xi'er married me, she brought a dowry of more than a hundred miles!" Lord Lan looked coldly at his wife and mother.
He felt that they were the real mother and daughter, while he and his son seemed like outsiders.
Lan Feng glanced indifferently at his father, but his eyes were fixed on Lan Xin'er not far away...
"Hello, big brother!" Lan Xin'er saw Lan Feng looking at her and immediately gave a polite bow.
Lan Feng nodded slightly, his expression softening a bit, because Lan Xin'er and Xiao Su Bao were about the same age, and Lan Xin'er usually treated Xiao Su Bao well and took care of her.
At least that's what he thinks.
"But back then, Lin Xi's illness cost a lot of money, and Lan Shuyu had to use ginseng to nourish her body every day... That all cost money, not to mention all the household expenses, so much money!"
"Your father still wants a grand dowry, but he's a dead man. A token gesture will suffice. He's dead, and all that dowry going to the Tang family will just end up in their pockets!" Old Madam Lan snorted, expressing her dissatisfaction.
“The ten-mile-long red bridal procession is wrong!” Lan Feng said, looking at everyone.
Lord Lan was taken aback, and immediately looked at his son with some anger.
My son used to treat my daughter so well...
He was about to speak when Madam Lan interrupted him: "Feng-ge'er is so sensible. It's not that Mother is unwilling to give, it's just that we really don't have that much stuff at home!"
Lan Feng looked at Madam Lan, and only nodded after she finished speaking.
Lan Xin'er was even happier to see that all the older brothers were on her side.
She said in a cute tone, "Big brother, Xin'er hasn't seen you in so long, I miss you so much!"
But when she strains her voice, it makes people feel inexplicably uncomfortable.
Lan Feng glanced at her and said in a calm tone, "Speak properly!"
"Big brother..." Lan Xin'er pouted angrily, tears welling up in her eyes, as if she had suffered a great injustice.
Lan Feng frowned slightly. He remembered that every time he saw Xiao Su Bao before, the little girl would only look at him with her big, bright eyes.
Her eyes were clear and clean, but Lan Xin'er's eyes were full of calculation, yet she didn't know how to restrain herself!
"Feng-ge'er, how can you talk to your sister like that? She's still a child. Look, you've made her cry!" Old Madam Lan scolded Lan Feng.
Lord Lan, standing to the side, frowned and couldn't help but say, "Lan Feng, your sister used to like you the most, but even with a grand wedding procession, are you unwilling?"
"Of course I don't want to!" Lan Feng glanced at his father, his eyes growing colder.
"Back then, the dowry list for my mother's marriage to my father was half a foot thick, with a dowry stretching for hundreds and thousands of miles!" Lan Feng turned his head to look at Old Madam Lan and Madam Lan.
The two people's expressions changed slightly as Lan Feng looked at them.
The Lan family now relies entirely on Lin Xi for everything they eat, wear, and use, but even so, these people still don't like their mother.
Especially grandmother!
Lan Feng knew this, so he moved out early on.
“Since we don’t have that much stuff at home, I’ll go to the Ministry of Rites and get my mother’s dowry list to see what’s included. Her dowry was originally meant for my siblings and me…”
After Lan Feng finished speaking, he turned and left!
His sister's wedding must be exceptionally grand, not to mention surpassing his mother's wedding back then, but it can't be too shabby either.
"Are you crazy?!" Old Madam Lan couldn't hold back any longer and raised her hand to hit Lan Feng's leg as he rode his horse.
"I'm still alive! I'm not dead yet! This family is not your place to make decisions!" Old Madam Lan said angrily.
Sure enough, all the children born to Lin Xisheng are rebellious by nature. Look at these two, none of them are easy to deal with.
Lan Feng did not dodge, and his right leg quickly swelled up.
"Mother, Feng was just saying it casually, why did you hit him!" Madam Lan stepped forward, already on the verge of tears from heartache.
Lan Feng dodged her hand.
He took a step back, a hint of mockery in his eyes.
"I've gone mad!" Lan Feng said, and without another word, he rode away on his horse.
The excruciating pain made him even more lucid, and his eyes held an indescribable emotion.
Little Su Bao is dead!
That's my sister's flesh and blood!
He didn't like her, but he didn't want her to die either!
He will get all of this back for his sister!
"Quick, stop him! We can't let him go!" Old Madam Lan slammed her cane on the ground twice.
Lord Lan was stunned. Looking at his son, he seemed to see himself in his younger self.
"Second brother, third brother, fourth brother, hurry up and stop your eldest brother! Don't let him go to the Ministry of Rites!" Madam Lan's face changed drastically as she shouted to her sons.
“Mother, those things originally belonged to Mother… It would be right to give them all to Eldest Sister!” Lan Lao Er couldn’t help but step forward and say.
Lan Feng had just stepped out the door, and he heard this sentence very clearly.
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