Tingzheng returned ho with Lin Qinghan and their two children. After reaching ho, Tingzheng asked soone to take the children away, then he inquired Lin Qinghan: "Did you apologize to your sister after mistakenly taking the coral tree?"
Lin Qinghan’s heart skipped a beat, but she quickly said with a face full of grievance: "After I found out the coral tree was Kexin’s dowry, I went with my mother to apologize to my sister and Kexin. At that ti, my sister said in front of my mother and that since it was sent wrongly, we might as well let it be, considering the coral tree as a gift to my mother. Upon hearing this, my mother didn’t return the coral tree, but she gave a pair of glass-type jade bracelets from the bottom of her chest to Kexin as compensation, but sadly sister didn’t want them. I thought, since sister didn’t even want those exquisite bracelets, she would probably scorn what I have, so I sent three thousand silver notes. Sister didn’t accept them either, and sent them back. I thought we would wait for your return and then find sothing better to send to Kexin as compensation. However, unexpectedly, when brother-in-law returned, he flew into a rage over this matter, forbidding to enter the house. Ah Zheng, I still don’t know what exactly happened?"
Tingzheng stared at Lin Qinghan and asked after a long silence: "Is that all?"
Lin Qinghan hesitated before saying: "Also, last year when I returned with Wanting and Lixin, it happened that both of them were sick. When I went to see sister at the ti, I didn’t bring the children. Sister was particularly angry and has been more indifferent to afterwards."
Tingzheng asked incredulously: "When the child was sick, you could have told sister. Sister isn’t such a petty person."
Madam Lin felt aggrieved as she said with red-rimd eyes: "Later, I visited twice but didn’t see sister. Ah Zheng, you know sister has never liked ."
Seeing this, Tingzheng’s anger imdiately turned into a bitter feeling. The relationship between his wife and sister was becoming increasingly strained, now to the point where they were utterly incompatible.
Yueyao sent Tingzheng away, feeling irritable and wanting to talk to soone. But An Zhichen wasn’t ho, and as for Kexin, Yueyao didn’t want to talk about these troubling matters with her daughter.
Yueyao entered the study, took so scriptures, and started copying them, but the more she wrote, the more agitated she beca, so she simply put the pen down on the inkstand and walked into the courtyard.
Yueyao looked up at the sky, blue sky and white clouds, and the weather was truly beautiful, but Yueyao had no mood to appreciate this wonderful scenery.
Gu You had an idea seeing the situation: "Madam, why don’t you go for a walk! Or go to chat with Madam Ma." Gu You had served Yueyao for so many years, it was the first ti seeing Yueyao so agitated.
Yueyao thought for a mont and agreed with Gu You’s suggestion, but on her way to the Ma Family, she encountered Princess Wanhe out shopping.
Princess Wanhe saw Yueyao’s terrible expression and curiously asked: "What’s the matter? Who made you so angry?" In Princess Wanhe’s impression, Yueyao was soone who could hold her composure extrely well, little things surely wouldn’t make Yueyao’s expression so unpleasant.
Yueyao sighed: "It’s hard to explain."
Princess Wanhe teased deliberately: "Isn’t it the Earl of Pingyang finding a lover outside, and now you’re going to confront him?" Princess Wanhe knew that An Zhichen treasured his wife, it was impossible for him to really have a mistress outside.
Yueyao laughed hearing this: "How could that be." After a pause, she said: "It’s about my brother Tingzheng. He ca back today, and visited this morning."
Princess Wanhe glanced at Yueyao and asked: "There’s a rumor going around, saying you want your brother to divorce Madam Lin? Is this true?"
Yueyao was silent for a mont before responding: "I did want Tingzheng and Madam Lin to separate, but Tingzheng refused today." She had a good relationship with Princess Wanhe, plus Princess Wanhe was trustworthy, so she didn’t want to hide it.
Princess Wanhe didn’t know how to react to Yueyao: "I thought it was just a rumor! Didn’t expect it to be true. Yueyao, I have to say, you’ve been painting too much, it’s made you foolish."
Yueyao was taken aback by the scolding: "What’s the matter?"
Wanhe looked at the sky speechless: "Luckily Lian Tingzheng didn’t agree, if he had, you’d regret it without a place to turn."
Yueyao looked at Princess Wanhe and asked: "Why do you say that?"
Princess Wanhe truly felt Yueyao had stayed ho too much, making her oblivious: "Yueyao, as Madam Lin has given birth to a daughter for Tingzheng and manages the Inner Courtyard, even if there are no achievents, there’s hard work. Oh, just because of the many conflicts between you and Madam Lin, you can use your nurturing grace on Tingzheng to demand his separation from Madam Lin. Yueyao, have you ever considered the impact your actions might have on Brother Shengsheng and his brothers?"
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