MTL - The Legitimate Daughter Returns: The Real Daughter is Reborn

Chapter 24 A humble beginning

 After the princess finished speaking, Li Mengyao's eyes revealed a sense of pride, and she looked at Su Leyun with gloating.

She doesn’t have enough face to ask the truth, so how dare this concubine dare to disobey the princess and avoid answering?

Unexpectedly, Su Leyun didn't panic at all. He lowered his eyes and said with a smile: "This matter not only involves me, but also sister Wan'er. I wonder how sister wants me to answer?"

Su Leyun looked at Su Wan'er with a smile and asked her the question.

The smile on her lips suddenly disappeared. Su Wan'er stood stiffly on the spot. Others didn't know it, but she knew in her heart that Su Leyun was not a concubine but a serious legitimate daughter of the Hou family. On the contrary, her identity was shady...

Su Wan'er bit her lower lip lightly, not knowing what to do for a moment, so she had to look pitifully at Li Mengyao for help.

Li Mengyao could never see her looking aggrieved, so she paused for a moment and immediately took over the words.

“Princess, maybe it’s because Miss Su has been weak since childhood or for other reasons, so it’s not convenient for her to speak.”

Li Mengyao finished speaking respectfully, and secretly turned her head to give Su Leyun a fierce look. She was indeed a shady outsider who dared to use tricks in front of everyone. After returning to the Marquis Mansion, she didn't know how to tease people.

She knew that her status was shameful, and there were taboos in her family, so she pushed the hot potato to Su Waner.

If Su Wan'er kept silent she would easily offend Princess Anle. If she spoke truthfully and exposed the family scandal, she would definitely be punished by her elders after she returned.

Princess Anle glanced at the three of them and smiled relievedly: "That's all, I'm just curious. If you don't want to say anything, just don't say anything."

Zhao Mingyan smiled along with her, glanced at Li Mengyao thoughtfully, motioned for Su Leyun to stand behind her, and led the ladies to the back hall for the banquet.

Li Mengyao pulled Su Waner behind and whispered in her ear: "Don't be afraid, let me vent your anger."

 After saying that, she waved her personal maid to come over, whispered a few words and then let her go.

Su Wan'er's eyes showed a trace of expectation, but her face looked embarrassed, and she persuaded her: "She is my sister after all. Sister Mengyao, let's forget it."

Li Mengyao nodded her forehead with hatred: "You are so good-tempered. You treat her as a sister, but she does not treat you as a sister! Even if you don't do it for yourself, you still have to support your aunt! Do you really want that The little **** climbed on top of you!"

 “Sister, forget it, sister!”

Su Waner followed behind her, but Li Mengyao insisted on going her own way.

Seeing her slender figure disappearing around the corner of the corridor, Su Wan'er raised a smile of success on her lips. She had known Li Mengyao for several years and knew her feelings well, so she deliberately let her recognize Su Leyun as her foreign wife.

Hmph, killing someone with a borrowed knife, she has always used this trick well!

 “Princess, please take a seat.”

Zhao Mingyan gave up the throne, but the princess refused and refused to take the initiative to take the first seat on the right.

“You are the birthday girl today, how can I steal your limelight?”

Princess Anle has a smile on her face, her face is dignified and prudent, and there is no trace of arrogance at all.

 “She is different from her brother.”

 Su Leyun sat in the middle seat discreetly, raising his eyes to look at Princess Anle, and unconsciously thought of that angular and somewhat unruly face.

It’s no wonder that the King of Jin protected his sister very closely. With such a gentle temperament, without the protection of his biological mother, how could he survive in the cannibal palace?

Before she could finish thinking, Li Mengyao and Su Waner walked in one after another and sat down next to her.

"Sister, the person sitting above me is the legitimate daughter of the late queen. She has a distinguished status. You should be careful."

Su Waner acted coyly and lowered her voice to give her instructions.

Su Leyun lowered her eyes and said nothing. In her previous life, she also pretended to be a good sister in front of others, always thinking about her, but stabbed her in the back, made her make a fool of herself in front of everyone, and reduced her to the entire Beijing family. The **** of the joke.

Let’s see what tricks she will use this time.

The maidservants filed in, the smell of wine mixed with the smell of food, and the steaming tables filled the table.

Zhao Mingyan raised her glass, stood up with a smile and said: "Thank you all sisters for coming to celebrate my birthday today. The elders are not here today, so please enjoy yourself."

 After saying that, she raised her head and drank the wine in the glass. There was a heroic spirit in her clear eyebrows, and she was worthy of being born in a general.

The noble ladies gradually raised their glasses and drank to their full.

The clank of music sounded, and the dancer in red dance clothes stepped on the lotus steps and walked in the door lightly, flicking her sleeves, as graceful as a fairy.

 The ladies stopped their cups and chopsticks, knelt down on the table and admired it carefully.

"Miss Su Er has never seen this in Jingzhou, has she? Do you know what kind of dance this is?"

Li Mengyao pursed her lips and smiled, looking at Su Leyun teasingly, her words were full of superiority.

Su Leyun looked calm and said slowly: "Jingzhou naturally doesn't have these."

 Li Mengyao looked like I knew this and continued: "Miss Su Er, it seems that not only do you have bad etiquette and rules, but you also have bad knowledge."

Su Waner pulled Li Mengyao's sleeve aside and stopped her from continuing. She persuaded her softly: "Sister Mengyao, my sister just came back from Jingzhou and she hasn't had time to learn these things."

As soon as these words were spoken, the ladies sitting on the left and right heard it and looked at Su Leyun with a bit of contempt.

Su Wan'er's words seemed to protect Su Leyun, but in fact they clearly exposed her shortcomings.

Jingzhou grew up, but his knowledge was rudimentary…

“This is the branch-breaking dance, and Leyun is not unaware of it.”

 In her next life, she naturally could no longer allow others to criticize her and belittle her, so she spoke the name of this dance slowly.

Unexpectedly, Li Mengyao would not let her go, and sneered: "Since Miss Su Er knows, why did she deliberately manipulate her just now and keep silent for so long?"

Su Leyun put down his wine glass, looked at the graceful dancers, and said slowly: "I was just thinking that they are the same women as us, but they are from different backgrounds. We can have fur around the stove and delicious food, but they can only stay in the cold winter." Wear gauze, hold back the chills and dance to please the nobles.”

After saying this, several noble ladies showed unbearable expressions. They have been in high positions for a long time, and their daily activities are nothing more than playing music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine and tea. They have never experienced the suffering of ordinary people.

 Singers and dancers exist to please their masters and nobles, and no one will understand them...

“They are pretentious, and the value of their existence is to make people happy. Who made them come from a humble background? This is their fate.”

Li Mengyao looked at Su Leyun with a half-smile, indicating that the dancing girl was from a humble background, and the concubine was also from a humble background, so she should accept her fate.

Su Leyun raised his eyes, looked at Li Mengyao steadily, and said word by word: "Even if they are of low origin, they were born to their parents, and they are no different from us."

The argument between the two had already reached the main stage. Zhao Mingyan frowned and looked at Li Mengyao, puzzled. The girl from Zhenguo's family had always been steady. Although she had a stronger temper, she was not so unreasonable and aggressive.

The princess naturally heard it, her beautiful eyebrows were knitted together, and her eyes looking at the dancer showed a bit of unbearable.

Zhao Mingyan did the same. She raised her hand to stop the music, dispersed the rewards, and let all the actors go down.

“Now that the actors have dispersed, we must have some fun. Bring me my guqin!”

Li Mengyao glanced at Su Leyun as if demonstrating, stood up and knelt down in the middle of the back hall.

 (End of this chapter)