Chapter 5 - To Be a Drag? In Your Dreams!

Wei Mengying held her daughter to Madam Cao’s bed, took off her shoes, tucked her in and put down half of the curtain.

She turned around to see that her mother also came into the room and closed the door. Then she said with a smile, “Madam Liu is so heartless! She must never have expected that Yixiao is so lucky to encounter a timid buyer who returned her to the Wei Family. Now they can never scold us for fawning on the rich!”

“You didn’t do that?” Madam Cao answered in surprise, “I thought it was you who made the arrangement and set the trap for Madam Liu’s trusted subordinate!”

“How is that possible?” Wei Mengying said in surprise, “Last time I came back, I have told you that the prince is nice to me but my mother-in-law doesn’t like me…” She heaved a sigh, “Somehow I feel that I just can’t win favor from the mother-in-law. The former one and the current one both dislike me. Over the past days, I have been busy dealing with the trouble that the dowager consort makes for me. How can I have time to attend to Yixiao?”

Madam Cao said, “Then there wouldn’t be anyone else to help her… It seems that she is lucky indeed!”

“Anyway, Yixiao is fine now!” Wei Mengying said happily and yet then complained to Madam Cao, “Yet, you are too careless! You should only have said that Madam Liu sold Yixiao instead of mentioning the buyer is a bawd. Even though Yixiao is still young, it will be bad for her reputation if she is linked to the brothel…”

“You only care about your daughter’s reputation. What about your nieces’?” Madam Cao said unhappily, “If I didn’t say that, how to demonstrate Madam Liu’s viciousness and Madam Pang’s heartlessness? You are happy after becoming a prince’s wife, but your nieces are implicated by you. They haven’t got married by now! If I don’t ruin the reputation of the Song Family completely, how can I show the Wei Family are actually strict about educating daughters? It was because you married a wrong man and didn’t want to get your daughter killed that you were forced to remarry.”

Wei Mengying had no idea how to reply instantly, “Okay. Okay. You are always right. I am no match for you in terms of arguing. I was only saying. After all, with the Shougong Sand, people can only gossip in secret!”

“Cut the crap talking!” Madam Cao hummed and said, “Seriously, if you really love your daughter, you should try your best to persuade the dowager consort into agreeing to accept her into the prince’s residence!”

“What?” Wei Mengying was dumbfounded instantly, “Are you kidding me? I’ve told you that the dowager consort dislikes me for I have married once and had a daughter so she always pulls a long face before me. Therefore, she can’t agree to accept Yixiao! Besides, she will not only disagree but also take the opportunity to scold me!”

Then she proposed, “If you are not okay that Yixiao returns to the Song Family, how about letting her live in the Wei Family? The expenses will be offered by the Song Family!”

“I don’t want to go anywhere!” Song Yixiao bit the quilt in depression and thought angrily, “I am a highborn lady of the Song Family, who should be raised by the Song Family. Why would I depend on the others for a living?”

It was a pity that she shouldn’t speak now, so she could only continue listening.

“Judging from your sentimental reaction just now, I thought you really loved your daughter!” Madam Cao snorted, “But if you leave her in the Wei Family, any of your five sisters-in-law will never agree! They all have daughters. Why do they raise your daughter? Particularly, Yixiao takes after you, so she must become a beauty after growing up. Then she will outcompete her cousins around her age! By then, you want my girls just to serve as a foil to reflect her beauty?”

“The Wei Family will not raise the daughter for you. Forget about it! If you don’t bring her to the prince’s residence, she can only return to the Song Family!”

“Then send her back to the Song Family!” Wei Mengying said without hesitation, “After the incident this time, the Song Family will not dare to do anything to hurt her.”

“Hear me out first!” Madam Cao shouted impatiently, “It has been only one year since the Song Family treated Yixiao unfairly! Moreover, now Madam Liu is held accountable. A child will not remember for too long! Don’t forget that Madam Pang and Song Yuan are her blood families. When the gossiping is quieted down in some days, what if the Song Family cajole Yixiao into saying that the bawd is arranged by us?”

Wei Mengying was astounded!

Nevertheless, on second thought, she did nothing indeed, “If one has done nothing wrong, one need not panic at the tap on the door in the middle of the night.”

“There are so many people wronged to death!” Madam Cao snorted, “Besides, haven’t you really done anything wrong?”

Noticing that her daughter was speechless, she slowed down her voice, “Even if the Song Family don’t ask her to reverse the verdict, they will not raise her well! They cannot do it openly but can’t they play dirty? It is fine that you don’t care about your daughter, but have you thought about the consequence? If anything happens to Yixiao again and she is not that lucky again, by then will the dowager consort scold you for being heartless? Won’t she say that you don’t care about your own child but your own interest only even though you know that the Song Family are evils?”

“Not only the dowager consort but also Prince of Hengshan will be disappointed in you, right? No men like the woman who can even abandon her own child, whether they are ruthless themselves or not. You can ignore the dowager consort’s thought but how can you leave out Prince of Hengshan’s thought?”

Wei Mengying bit her lips and stayed silent.

Madam Cao continued saying, “Moreover, will your daughter be of no use for you? She is eight years old now and she will be able to get married in seven or eight years! As a decent lady of an official family and the eldest legitimate granddaughter of the Grand Secretariat of the Hanlin Academy, she is stunningly beautiful too. If you can keep her beside you and teach her well, she will be very useful for you in the prince’s residence and get another helper for you after she is married!”

She lowered her voice, “Don’t forget that Prince of Hengshan even has a grandson! Even if you are pregnant now, let alone the position of heir, how much of the prince’s property can you get? Now that you want to reject this great helper. How silly you are!”

“All in all, you just go back to implore the dowager consort and Prince of Hengshan to let Yixiao live the prince’s residence. In light of her appearance, it won’t be in vain for you to raise her! Even if they don’t agree, you won’t be held accountable once anything happens to her in the Song Family!”

Most importantly, “Since you are a conscientious mother, if she dares to make irresponsible remarks, she is not in accordance with filial duty. Even if she is manipulated by others, she will be overwhelmed by people’s gossiping. You don’t even need to say anything about it… Do you understand?”

Song Yixiao sighed with admiration, “Old ginger is hotter than younger one indeed. My grandma is much more far-sighted than my mother! No wonder mother is so well educated! Yet, you want me to follow my mother to the prince’s residence as a drag? In your dreams!”

If she insisted on belonging to the Song Family, how could the Prince of Hengshan beg her to live in the prince’s residence?