Hearing this, Luo Lan pouted and glanced at Leng Yu reluctantly, pursing her lips and muttering, "Husband, I'm leaving!"
Leng Yu looked at her with affectionate eyes, raised his hand and scratched the tip of her nose, and smiled softly:
"Go, return to the Duke's Mansion and wait for your husband to come and marry you."
Facing the sunshine, Luo Lan looked up at him and chuckled softly. She reluctantly pulled her hand out of Leng Yu's palm, turned around, lifted her skirt and walked towards the carriage.
Just as she was about to step her right foot onto the carriage, a sharp voice rang in everyone's ears.
"Luo Lan, my good niece."
Luo Lan was very familiar with this voice. She was about to get on the carriage when she heard the scream, but stopped and looked in the direction of the sound with a frown.
Liu was seen pulling Shui Chunhua towards her, trotting towards her. Before she could speak, she picked up the corner of Shui Chunhua's clothes and yelled at her:
"Kneel down and apologize to your sister."
This scene made Luo Lan a little confused. Just when Shui Chunhua was about to kneel down, Luo Lan said coldly:
"No need to kneel, I can't bear it."
Seeing this, Shui Chunhua quickly straightened her legs that had just bent, while Liu looked at Luo Lan with a smile and said in a flattering manner:
"Lan'er, Auntie brought Chunhua to apologize to you. A few days ago, she became suspicious of your identity. You must not take it personally. She has been dumber than you since she was a child. Everything..."
"Stop talking."
Luo Lan interrupted her impatiently, and then asked in a cold voice:
"Tell me, what do you want from me?"
Although Luo Lan's tone was stiff, Liu licked his face and said nonchalantly:
"I heard that you were going back to the Duke's Mansion to hold your wedding ceremony with Prince Yu. Aunt thought that we are your family after all, and we can't let you marry alone. So, I asked Chunhua to stay with you for a few days and talk to you to comfort you."
Hearing this, Luo Lan suddenly wanted to laugh. Shui Chunhua was trying to comfort her? It was more like she was upset. This was really a huge joke.
But she also knew that her aunt must have some bad intentions in sending Shui Chunhua to her, or she had other purposes.
She didn't even want to say a word to someone like her.
So, she replied directly in a cold voice:
"No need, I'm used to being alone, you guys go back!"
As she finished speaking, she was about to lift her skirt to get on the carriage, but Liu suddenly pulled at the corner of her clothes. The moment she stretched out her hand, Ah Hong grabbed her wrist tightly. Ah Hong stared at her intently and shouted:
"How dare you, a common woman, to stop Princess Yu? You are really courting death."
Hearing this, Liu was so frightened that she retracted her hand that was about to pull Luo Lan. Leng Yu winked at Xiao Lingzi and the others around her. Xiao Lingzi and the others stepped forward, pulled Liu and Shui Chunhua aside, and then said to A Cai and A Hong:
"Please set off, Princess. Please take good care of the Princess."
After Luo Lan sat in the carriage, the carriage left smoothly. Leng Yu stood there, watching the carriage go farther and farther away, feeling reluctant to let it go.
Seeing that Luo Lan was unwilling to pay attention to her, Liu turned to look at Leng Yu and said with a flattering smile:
"Your Highness, Luo Lan has been raised in my home for sixteen years. Now she is going to marry into Prince Yu's mansion. As her aunt, I am happy for her. We will be a family in the future."
Listening to Liu's shameless flattery, Leng Yu frowned, then raised his hand to Xiao Lingzi and said:
"Go back home."
Seeing that Leng Yu ignored her, Liu shouted at the top of her voice:
"Your Highness, no matter what, Luo Lan grew up eating the rice and drinking the water of my family. Now that she's getting married, I have to ask for a betrothal gift!"
Hearing this, Leng Yu stopped in his tracks as he was about to return home. He turned around and looked at Liu. His eyes, as deep as a cold pond, shone with a cold light. Liu was so scared that she quickly lowered her head and dared not look him in the eye.
Leng Yu looked down at him and asked word by word:
"What did you just say? A betrothal gift? You and Lan'er are not related at all, and you accepted a thousand taels of silver from Concubine Chang, breaking off all ties with Lan'er from now on. How dare you still mention the word betrothal gift?"
His words were cold and high-pitched. Liu swallowed her saliva in fear and continued to pester:
"The past was the past, and the present is the present. If the prince does not give me a betrothal gift, I will...I will not leave."
As she spoke, Liu sat down on the steps of Prince Yu's mansion, acting as if she was a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water.
Looking at this fierce and arrogant woman, Leng Yu raised the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing a disdainful expression, and then said to Xiao Lingzi:
"Drive away."
Leaving only these two words, he walked into the palace.
Xiao Lingzi, Xiao Shuangzi and the others surrounded the mother and daughter with knives in hand. They waved the gleaming blades in front of Liu's mother and daughter. Seeing this, Liu stiffened her neck and said,
"Do you still dare to kill people here?"
The little twins snorted coldly, then said contemptuously:
"We can't kill people here, but I'll give you a quarter of an hour. If you don't leave, I'll let the dogs bite you."
"You dare?"
Shui Chunhua didn't know where she got the courage from, she raised her head and shouted arrogantly:
"I really don't believe it. You, Prince Yu's Mansion, are so bullying that you dare to let your dogs out to bite people in broad daylight."
The little twins smiled and waved to the small jar at the door.
"The dogs in our palace haven't seen meat for a long time. Let them out for a walk."
Hearing this, Xiao Tanzi winked at him cunningly and waved to the people inside the door. After a while, a burst of dog barking was heard, and several dogs that looked like wolves ran out of the yard, all of them sticking out their tongues, looking very scary.
This scene frightened Shui Chunhua, who looked up first. She pulled Liu and mumbled:
"Mother...wolf...dog...wolf..."
Liu shook her hand in anger and shouted angrily:
"There are plenty of stray dogs in our countryside. There's nothing to be afraid of."
“But…but…”
Before Shui Chunhua could finish her words, she suddenly screamed "Ah" and ran away.
Confused, Liu looked up hastily. When she saw several dogs with blood-spraying mouths surrounding her, she stepped back in fear, yelling,
"No, don't eat me..."
Leaving these words behind, she staggered to her feet, shouting, "Ah, help!"
She rolled and crawled away.
Looking at her embarrassed back, Xiao Tanzi touched the head of one of the dogs and said gently:
"Well done! From now on, I'll be counting on you to deal with people like this."
After saying this, he raised his eyebrows proudly and said:
"Go back, I'll give you some meat to eat."
The dogs seemed to understand what people were saying. They stuck out their tongues and followed Xiaotanzi towards the palace.
When Luo Lan arrived at the Duke's Mansion, Liu Dechang was already waiting there. Seeing her carriage stop, he hurried over to greet her. The moment the curtain of the sedan was opened, he said happily:
"Lan'er, Dad has been waiting for you for a long time."
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