After sending off Ersha's wife, Wei Mengying hinted that Song Yixiao should stay behind as there was still something to discuss.

  Song Yixiao's eyebrows furrowed upon hearing this, thinking that she would continue to torment herself - but Wei Mengying took out an invitation letter: "Why was this thing sent over here, do you know the reason?"

  "What?" Song Yi smiled with a puzzled expression as she took it and looked at it, also being shocked. "They want to meet you? Why?"

  The signatures on the post were two, with Huang Furen, the wife of Taizi Binke, in front. Song Yixiao couldn't think of it for a while, but the one behind her, Song Luxi, would be too much to say she didn't know - it was actually her father Song Yuan's current wife and her stepmother Lu Shi!

  Wei Mengying saw that her daughter was not pretending, and Fang also showed a suspicious expression: "How would I know? I've never had any dealings with this mother-daughter pair! In my opinion, they have no reason to visit me, after all, it's probably still because of you!"

  "Sneering, 'A few years ago, you were all like dead! Unheard and unasked! Now look at you, blooming like a flower, mastering piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting. You think you can come and take charge now? Bah! My own flesh-and-blood daughter, raised with care like a precious gem, was she just meant to be calculated by them?!'"

  She said this to scold Song Yixiao - but having experienced her father's ruthlessness, Song Yixiao couldn't help but be distant and cold towards the Song family. Upon hearing this, she took advantage of the situation to turn cold: "Since they want to pay their respects to Mother, I don't want to see them! Please, Mother, pity me and don't bother with what they say, just don't call me out to meet them!"

  Wei Mengying also meant the same thing: "There's no need to make my son be gossiped about having a slow and lazy stepmother... So, you can go back and pretend to be ill, I'll immediately send a doctor over to prescribe some nourishing medicine for you! Whether you drink it or not is up to you, as long as we can save face and get past this!"

  Pretending to be ill?

  When it comes to delaying the wedding, Song Yi Xiao doesn't care, but now... her marriage with Jian Yu Bai is still undecided! If this gets out, who knows if people will think it's inauspicious!

  She hastily said, "Mother, have you forgotten that the Empress is in a hurry to drive me out? What if the Empress takes advantage of this and says she's afraid I'll pass on my illness to the people in the mansion, and sends me back to the Song family with my stepmother to recuperate?"

  "This is also... " Wei Mengying murmured, "But the Lu family is still okay, she even invited her mother's natal family's mother! That Huang Furen is said to have some kinship with the Crown Princess, and it's not good to offend her."

  If it weren't for considering Lu's family background, Wei Mengying wouldn't have bothered to see her at all!

  "Isn't the Empress Dowager's birthday coming up soon?" Song Yi smiled and thought for a moment, "Otherwise, I'll go back later and spread the word that I'm going to embroider a birthday picture for the Empress Dowager, so it's not good to be disturbed while rushing to finish it?"

  In order to give embroidered longevity gifts to the elderly of the host family, but not going to see her stepmother, this statement is actually not very convincing - but it's not what she said, it's Wei Mengying who said that it's different: "After all, the Hengshan Wangfu has raised Xiaoxiao for so many years, and the Empress Dowager usually treats Xiaoxiao like a granddaughter. This child has always been grateful and is working day and night to rush the work! The Empress Dowager's birthday is approaching, and I really can't interrupt her filial piety - after all, she's already 14 years old, and can only live in the palace for a few more days? Can she fulfill her filial duty under the Empress Dowager's knees for just this little time?"

  "So, if there's anything you want to say, just tell me! I'm her mother, and I think I can handle hearing anything about my daughter!"

  At this time, only the mother and daughter treated Huang and Lu as if they were thieves, but Huang and Lu also had a deep-seated fear of them: "Given Princess Wei's temperament, I'm afraid that this time when we go to their house with our daughter, we will suffer some humiliation!"

  "That's nothing!" Madam Huang sighed repeatedly, "As long as you can make amends with that child and put aside your past grievances - even if it's just temporary, but at least soften her heart a bit, there might be hope to avoid her taking revenge on you all in the future!"

  It's no wonder Mr. Huang is worried about his daughter!

  When Lu married into the Song family, although it was said that Song Yixiao had already been swept out of the house.

  But at that time, the matter of Song Liu's family was a sensation in the city, and the fact that the Song family had wronged their eldest daughter was not a secret in the imperial capital, and the Lu family naturally knew about it too.

  But it doesn't matter anyway - a girl who is no longer in the Song family, with her dowry already given in advance, probably won't have any relationship with her natal family for the rest of her life. Isn't that just like she never had an older sister to begin with?

  Who would have thought that Song Yixiao would actually be favored by Prince Yan?

  Lu Yicheng rushed home to tell his wife Huang after hearing the news from the crown prince, and Huang was so anxious that she called her daughter back to her mother's house!

  The Lu family is closely related to the East Palace, so they are very clear that the Crown Prince attaches great importance to Jian Xuebai, no less than his own brother, Prince Liang!

  Especially behind Jian Yu's back, there was also an empress dowager who doted on him excessively!

  Song Yi surprisingly climbed up so high, how can the Lu family still pretend she doesn't exist?!

  Is the power of pillow talk still worth mentioning?

  "We must coax that girl well!" Huang Shi warned her daughter in a decisive tone, "Otherwise, don't think that the Prince of Yan is also on the Crown Prince's side, who doesn't have their own close and distant relatives? At that time, she might say something casually, and it's not certain that it won't make your uncle's life turn upside down! Maybe even you, Bao'er, and your future children will all be implicated!"

  "After all, she was the eldest lady of the Song family, and at a young age, she had suffered greatly under her previous stepmother, Liu. In the end, she was even driven out of the house! Although she was given a dowry, it couldn't make up for the grievances she had endured! Moreover, Wei Wangfei was not a virtuous person, to say the least. If she could abandon her husband and remarry, it's clear that she wasn't a good person! It's already difficult for her not to teach her daughter to resent the Song family, let alone speak well of them!"

  "In this case, a girl who grew up, can you expect her to have any good feelings towards the Song family?"

  "You also gave birth to a daughter for Song Yuan, and named her Yibao, who is treasured by the Song family. Can you imagine how that girl would feel if she heard this? In the past, when she was powerless, she could only endure it even if it was unbearable! But now that she's the wife of the Duke, she can't make a move openly due to filial piety, but secretly she'll trip you up... She doesn't need to take action herself! Just by showing her attitude, there will be people who will take action against you to curry favor with her!"

  It involves the future of the whole family, and Lu is not a fool, so she naturally won't oppose her mother's words: "The old lady and husband are both that girl's blood relatives, it's not good to bow easily! If you want to make amends, I'll have to take the lead! But I'm not afraid of going to the Wangfu in Hengshan to knock on the nail, what I fear is that Princess Wei won't even see me!"

  Huang smiled bitterly: "You've been called back! Can't Mother even look at you? Alright, I'll write myself on the poster and accompany you there! Considering the face of the East Palace, Princess Wei should at least give us a chance to meet - but whether we can see that girl or not is hard to say!"

  Seeing his daughter purse her lips and not speak, with a worried expression, he comforted her, "It takes more than one day for ice to form three feet thick! Even if you can see the person right away, do you think that after six years of estrangement, it's possible to just chat for a bit and forget all past grievances? It's all about gradual effort! In short, let's first make sure that girl feels our sincerity is genuine!"

  The mother and daughter suppressed their depression, focusing on choosing gifts without mentioning it again. As for the side of King Hengshan's mansion - Queen Dowager Hengshan had been waiting anxiously since the Shangsi banquet, and finally received news from Princess Qingjiang today!

  He didn't come to propose a marriage to Zhuo Ping'an, but rather to specifically interrogate her!

  "Empress Dowager is indeed a good strategist!" The newcomer was a slave, but her status was not ordinary. She was the inner servant who had accompanied the eldest princess of Jin State when she got married. When the Princess of Qingjiang left her parents' home, the Empress Dowager loved her daughter so much that she gave this servant to serve her. Now, she sat upright in the hall with a face full of gloom and weirdness. "With just a little trick, not only did she make the stepdaughter-in-law suffer a dumb loss, but also calculated the relationship between the Princess and the Prince's siblings. The Princess felt ashamed and inferior, yet also deeply suspicious - really didn't know where she had offended the Empress Dowager, so she sent this slave to ask for advice!"

  The Empress Dowager of Mount Heng was stunned by these words!

  "What did you mean by that, Lord Chen?" she asked, suppressing the shock in her heart and continued, "Please clarify your words, is there some kind of misunderstanding here?"

  " Misunderstanding?" Chen Gonggong sneered, "Six years ago, Jian Gongye had already met Miss Song. Since returning to the capital with the army this spring, he has seen Miss Song several times at the Boling Houfu...".

  Here is the translation:

  At this point, Hengshan Wang Taifei's face turned pale, her eyes full of incredulity. She snorted in laughter and said, "At the Shangsi banquet, Jian Gongye took off his jade pendant and gave it to Song Xiaojie in front of the Junzhu, entrusting Junzhu with handling their marriage - fortunately, Junzhu was cautious and didn't make a big deal out of it. Although she had no idea that Song Xiaojie was the one Jian Gongye had been pining for, she only paid a little attention to it and didn't explicitly say anything! Luckily, no great disaster occurred!"

  "Otherwise, if Lord Jian knew that the young lady he planned to marry as his legitimate wife was actually recommended by you to be the county lord's daughter-in-law... how would the county lord face Lord Jian in the future?!"

  "Chen Gong's face was gloomy, 'My family's young mistress had only met Miss Song once before, and they just exchanged a few pleasantries. I didn't know she had already caught the eye of Lord Jian, but that's beside the point! This Miss Song grew up in your household, you must have known about her relationship with Lord Jian long ago, yet you still recommended her to be my family's daughter-in-law, even bribing Zhen Li who is close to my young mistress. I dare ask, what are your true intentions?!'"

  It's done!

  Empress Wang of Mount Heng didn't even bother to respond to his words?

  Her heart was icy, not because she was afraid of what the Qingjiang County Master would do to her. The Qingjiang County Master had already won the favor of Emperor Xianjia, and in the end, even Emperor Xianjia had to call Taifei "Aunt". In terms of generation and status, Qingjiang County Master couldn't do anything to her!

  The queen is worried about her descendants!

  She had previously mentioned to Qingjiang Junzhu when recommending Song Yixiao that she hoped Qingjiang Junzhu could support Lu Guanlun as the crown prince, and Qingjiang Junzhu also agreed - now that things have taken such a turn, how can Qingjiang Junzhu possibly fulfill her previous promise?

  On the contrary, the county master now estimates that it doesn't matter who does the world son of Hengshan Wangfu, as long as it's not Lu Guanlun!

  "Among all the grandsons, only Guanlun has a strong and upright character, and is also friendly, filial, and fraternal! He inherited the royal mansion, so there was no need for infighting among the siblings, and the other children could also receive support from the royal mansion!" The Empress Dowager of Hengshan supported Lu Guanlun as the heir, not entirely out of favoritism, but also considering the overall situation. "If it were someone else, who would have such a broad mind?!"

  Especially the young Lu Guanyun, "With Wei's mother teaching her with a deep and sinister heart, it's hard not to be crooked! If the position of Shizi falls into their hands, will there be any room for others in this palace in the future?!"

  The princess was so shocked and angry that she couldn't speak for a long time!

  Waiting for her to come back to herself, but seeing Chen Gonggong's shadow in front of her?

  Just as everyone was in despair, the second young mistress walked in with a serious expression and said: "Grandmother, I have a plan that will definitely make Aunt Duan calm down!"