The incident of Li Kechuan breaking his leg during the Mid-Autumn Festival caused a great disturbance in the whole of Jinling. She had been reluctant to go out recently, so why did she dress up specially today?
Qu had obviously been waiting for a while. When she saw her own daughter, who had completely grown into a beautiful and elegant girl, her eyes lit up.
"Daughter-in-law greets mother. Luo'er, you're here."
Li Qingluo simply bowed: "Mother."
Qu Shi noticed Li Qingluo's indifference and felt a little disappointed...
Why is Luo'er so cold towards her, her mother, now?
I don’t know what Madam Pei was thinking all of a sudden, she asked Li Qingluo to ride in a carriage with Qu.
Li Qingluo could only follow Qu.
In the carriage, Qu stared at Li Qingluo and smiled slowly, "Luo'er, you look very nice today. Did mother ask Qingyi to send you all these jewels last time?"
Li Qingluo: "My grandmother gave it to me."
Li Qingluo's outfit today, from head to toe, including jewelry and shoes and socks, was all bought for her by her grandmother.
As for the things that Qu had recently given her, she had never worn them either and had thrown them all into the warehouse.
When Qu heard this, the smile on her face froze.
"Mother, mother, isn't it better to give you a gift? Why don't you wear any of it?"
Li Qingluo: "Oh, I'm wearing something my mother gave me today too. It should be here."
Li Qingluo touched his head and soon found a hairpin that was the darkest, oldest and least valuable.
She pulled it out and put it in her palm for Qu to see.
"Mother, do you still remember?"
Qu's face suddenly turned ugly.
Is this a gift from her?
How is this possible...
Qu suddenly remembered that when Li Qingluo just returned home, Chuan'er went to her room and made a big fuss. So, under the order of her mother-in-law, she was very reluctant to let Nanny Chang pick out two or three of the most inconspicuous and worthless pieces of jewelry from the warehouse and send them to her.
Could this be the one that Nanny Chang chose at that time?
Even when Nanny Chang wears this hairpin, she finds it ugly!
What about her?
A young and tender daughter!
At this moment, Qu finally felt a little ashamed.
"Luo'er, I didn't investigate at the time. It was Mammy and the others who didn't handle the matter properly. But later, didn't I also give you some valuable and beautiful jewelry?"
"I remember that I even asked a tailor to come to the house to take your measurements and make clothes for you. Was the outfit you are wearing today made by your mother?"
Li Qingluo stared at Qu, feeling amused in his heart, and a hint of ridicule appeared on his face involuntarily.
"Mother, you don't even know the color of the clothes you made for me, and yet you ask me this?"
Qu had no idea what color Li Qingluo liked.
Li Qingluo likes blue, white, light yellow, pale yellow and light green.
However, what Qu sent her were all pink, purple and bright red.
Li Qingluo continued, "Actually, those are Li Qingzhu's favorite colors, right? In that case, please don't bother me next time."
"I have my grandmother to take care of me, so I naturally have clothes to wear. Otherwise, I would have smelled bad the moment I first entered the mansion."
Her words made Qu angry and embarrassed.
"you!"
Qu tugged at the handkerchief in her hand. No matter how she looked at Li Qingluo, she felt that she was deliberately contradicting her!
"I am your mother, and this is how you speak to me?"
Li Qingluo immediately lowered her head, "Yes, mother. I know I was wrong."
She admitted her mistake quickly, but Qu knew clearly that she didn't really know she was wrong in her heart!
Li Qingluo lowered his head and stopped talking, with a look of alienation and indifference towards her in the corners of his eyes.
This was difficult for Qu to accept.
It was clear that when she first returned to the general's mansion, she was respectful, obedient and polite to him!
She even brought her a lot of homemade food, massaged her back and shoulders, and greeted her morning and evening. Even if she stood obediently by her side, she would still look at her expectantly...
It was just that at that time, Qu was a little cold to her because she had just lost Zhu'er and was feeling sad and heartbroken.
These jewelry and clothes are just trivial matters. Is she going to hold a grudge against her until now?
After all, she was my own child, and I'm willing to talk to her nicely now, but she's still so ungrateful!
When she thought of this, Qu didn't want to look at Li Qingluo anymore. She felt more resentful in her heart, and she couldn't help but think of her obedient Zhu'er.
Unable to control herself for a moment, Qu's eyes turned red again.
The Mansion of Marquis Zhongyi.
Li Qingluo supported Old Madam Pei and was respectfully welcomed into the mansion by the doorman.
However, the reputation of their General's Mansion in Dongyin Lane really attracted a lot of attention in an instant.
"I heard that the real girl from the Li Mansion is here today?"
"What's a real girl or a fake girl?"
"Didn't they say she was sent to the countryside to recuperate when she was young?"
"You don't know yet. I heard that the one before was a fake daughter whose identity was swapped, and the one who returned home now is the real bloodline of the General's Mansion!"
"What? Is there something so outrageous? Let me see what this girl looks like."
"She's from the countryside, what else can she be? I heard she was swapped out by a midwife, sent to the valley, to do farm work and pick grass for pigs every day. That's why she looks so withered, dark, and skinny. How can she be pretty?"
"I heard she sleeps with poultry, like pigs and chickens. It must be really smelly."
"What a sin! But, was it because she couldn't tolerate that fake daughter that Li Qingzhu burned herself to death?"
"Who knows? But even if she died, she deserved it. She wasn't of the general's bloodline to begin with, and she enjoyed wealth and glory for others for more than a decade. Can she bear it?"
"But it wasn't the eldest girl's fault that her identity was changed. She was innocent..."
Li Qingluo also heard a lot along the way.
My heart was filled with a thought: “…”
The matter of the real and fake daughter was indeed her intention, and she released it together with the fact that there was a substitute for Li Qingzhu in Li Kechuan's room.
However, she never told the story of her past when she was skinny and dark, or when she had to pick grass for pigs or slept with poultry.
But this is not difficult to guess.
Liu Jinzhi had recently lost track of Li Qingzhu, and she was probably the most anxious one. So she wanted to please Li Qingzhu by humiliating Li Qingluo, which was also in line with her personality.
Amidst the discussions, all the noise suddenly disappeared as Li Qingluo and Old Madam Pei appeared and walked into the crowd.
Skinny, dark and thin?
The girl in front of me has skin as white as snow and as smooth as cream.
How can it look good?
Her eyebrows are like emerald feathers, her face is as white as cream, and her eyes are as black as lacquer.
Her figure is slender and tall, and she is not as light and graceful as the willow.
She held her head high and shoulders straight, dignified and graceful, and had a unique and unrestrained charm about her, just like the free and unrestrained demeanor of Mrs. Pei when she was young.
In the entire Jinling City, almost all the powerful and prominent families have come with one or two thousand gold coins.
But this legitimate daughter of the Li family, although not the most beautiful among all the other girls, is definitely unique and extraordinary.
I'm afraid that if I continue to grow her, she will become the most beautiful girl in Jinling in the near future!
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