Daming female local tyrant

Hearing a young girl speak angrily, Jing Lan roughly guessed who it was without turning around.

It should be Lu Shulan, her stepmother's biological daughter who used to live on the ground floor of the embroidered building in Tongchuntang.

Cheng Ze once introduced her half-sister to her. Relying on her mother Qi's favor, Lu Shulan has always been domineering.He likes to compare himself with the sisters of the Lu family, and if he meets with other ladies in Jinling City, he likes to show off his clothes.

After all, the Lu family is the only family in Jinling City that gets jobs from the weaving yamen, and the silks and satins woven by the Lu family's weaving workshop are unique in terms of colors and materials.The female family members of the Lu family were the first to get the moon when they were close to the water, so they were the first to wear silk and satin dresses of new designs and colors.

Lu Shulan is one of the most active people who likes to make dresses out of novel materials and wear them out to show off.

Therefore, at a young age, she is only 13 years old this year, and she likes to dress up beautifully, showing off like a peacock all day long.

But her mother in the second room, and her grandmother Yuan Shi didn't talk about her here.

In their view, it's not a bad thing for a girl to dress well when she's older. Besides, the satin weaved by the Lu family's weaving workshop is so beautiful, if it's not used to make dresses and wear it out, wouldn't it be moldy in the warehouse?

On the contrary, the two of them went to visit relatives and friends, and they also liked to take Lu Shulan there, gaining everyone's praise and attention.

Especially after Lu Shulan turned 13 years old, every time she went out with the big families in Jinling City, Yuan and Qi would personally choose clothes for Lu Shulan and take her out in a beautiful dress.In order for Lu Shulan to get more attention from the women of rich families, and then choose a good marriage for Lu Shulan from these suitors.

Basically, most girls in this era get engaged at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and get married after they reach fifteen years old.

In the eyes of Yuan Shi and Qi Shi, Lu Shulan's age has come, and they are already preparing for Lu Shulan's marriage.

The second wife of the Lu family, Yuan Shi's husband, Lu Shiyun, who died of illness seven or eight years ago, had only one son and one daughter with Yuan Shi.

One son is Jing Lan's father, Lu Xueshan, and one daughter, Lu Suyi, married into the Huang family, one of the four prominent families in Jinling. She married Huang Zhide, the eldest son of Huang's family, and gave birth to a son and a daughter after marriage.

Because Lu Shulan, as the only second wife of the Lu family, was born in the Lu family and raised in the Lu family, it is reasonable for her to be pampered.The result of her pampering is that Lu Shulan has a cunning and eccentric temper, selfish and domineering.

Now that she came back from Lu's Girls' School, seeing her room changed, it was normal for her to get angry.

"Shu Lan, you child, didn't you see that your grandmother and your father are here? What's the matter?" When Qi heard Lu Shulan's voice, she turned around and scolded her.

However, although Qi's words were reprimanding Lu Shulan, the tone was reproachful, and it was still pampering in people's ears.

The first thing Lu Shulan saw when she came back from the Lu Family Girls' School was that the whole room had changed. She just saw a few people in the room in a daze, and she really got angry before seeing who these people were.

After hearing her mother's words, she took a serious look at the people in front of her.

Her mother, her grandmother, her father, and a very beautiful and outstanding girl of fifteen or sixteen years old.Seeing this girl, although Lu Shulan felt strange, she actually felt as if she had seen this girl somewhere before.

Who is this girl?

Lu Shulan stared at Jing Lan for a few moments, and then suddenly thought that her room had changed because of the girl in front of her, right?

Jing Lan turned her head and saw a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl who looked very similar to Qi, wearing a brocade haze red jacquard trousers, a pink brocade silk satin skirt, and a three-ring bun with some A headdress inlaid with precious gold, and a bracelet inlaid with gold and jade on his hands.The whole person looks bejeweled and dazzling.

After sizing up Lu Shulan, Jing Lan's eyes collided with Lu Shulan's. She calmed down, and quickly bowed to Lu Shulan, and said warmly, "You must be sister Shulan, right?"

"Who are you?" Lu Shulan raised her chin and asked with a very arrogant look.

This time it was Qi who spoke first again, she moved her hands, pulled her daughter's sleeves and pushed towards her mother-in-law and her husband, said anxiously: "Your grandmother and father are here, hurry up and salute them."

Seeing this, Jing Lan couldn't help but raise the corners of her lips.

She secretly slandered, no wonder her great-grandmother looked down on Qi, seeing how she taught her children.

The masters and embroiderers of the Lu family's women's school can only teach the girls of the Lu family knowledge and female celebrities, but the etiquette and manners are taught by their mothers, and the etiquette and manners of most girls from rich families are not deliberate. I learned it, but I learned it when I saw my mother do it.

From the very beginning when Lu Shulan appeared here, she angrily complained to the people in the room why her room had changed, which was actually quite rude.

I don't know if she can see clearly who is in the room, but no matter if the room is a guest or an elder, it is impolite for her to yell as soon as she comes in.

Later, after Mrs. Qi taught her a lesson, she should have restrained herself, and then hurriedly saluted her grandmother and father, not to mention salute, at least she should have said hello.

But she didn't, she only saw Jing Lan as an outsider, after Jing Lan greeted her politely, she didn't respond politely, but asked who Jing Lan was.

This kind of behavior shows that she has no elders in her eyes at all, or that her grandmother and father have not received the respect she deserves.

How did the Qi family teach her daughter to be like this?

Jing Lan suddenly felt very curious.

Under the urging of her mother, Lu Shulan finally came to her senses. She came back from the Lu family's girls' school, and after entering the house, she hadn't saluted the elders in front of her.

So she hurriedly bowed to her grandmother and father, then straightened up, and asked again who was the strange and beautiful girl in the room.

What she asked was Qi Shi.

Qi introduced to her: "This is your elder sister Jing Lan, the ancestor brought her back today."

Before Lu Shulan could finish listening to her mother's words, she yelled, "Elder sister Jing Lan? Mom, did you make a mistake, you only gave birth to me!"

Lu Shulan was born more than a year after Jing Lan was taken away from the Lu family. Even if she grew up, she heard that her father's dead wife had given birth to a daughter, and the Lu family was taken out of the Lu family because of a hit. , but she didn't care about it at all.

Suddenly heard from her mother that a big sister had come, she didn't react for a while, and it was quite normal to yell all of a sudden.

When Qi heard her daughter's yelling, she was a little embarrassed, so she hurriedly pulled her aside, leaned close to her ear and told her the reason why Jing Lan returned to Lu's house, and only then did Lu Shulan understand why that beautiful girl appeared in front of her. The reason for this house.

She thought, no wonder she thought Jing Lan was familiar but didn't know her. It turned out that she was Cheng Ze's older sister, Cheng Ze and Jing Lan looked very similar.

However, she was still very dissatisfied and said: "Mother, she will come back when she comes back, but why do you want me to move upstairs? Isn't this a dove occupying a magpie's nest?"

Although Lu Shulan suppressed her voice to complain, Jing Lan's ears were sharp and she could hear what she said clearly.

After listening, she thought, doves occupy magpies' nests?Still don't know who the dove occupies the magpie's nest?

More than an hour ago, when Mrs. Qi brought Jing Lan to Xiulou and asked her mother-in-law and maids to move the things of Lu Shulan who lived on the ground floor upstairs, Jing Lan knew that when Lu Shulan came back, her The half-sister must be unhappy.

I don't know if Qi's move is to deliberately provoke conflicts between her daughter and herself, or to show that her stepmother values ​​Jing Lan who returned to Lu's house.Because she asked her biological daughter to give up the ground floor and live upstairs.

It stands to reason that a mother who really thinks about her child should try to avoid conflicts between the new child and the original child by arranging food and drink for the child who is not her own.

Thinking about it differently, if Jinglan were Lu Shulan, who was used to living on the first floor of the embroidery building, and suddenly came back to a strange sister who was not her mother and lived on the bottom floor of the embroidery building, she would feel that she was not favored, and The feeling that the new kid has taken her place.It's no wonder that Lu Shulan can accept it!

Jing Lan did not refuse Qi's arrangement to avoid conflicts with Lu Shulan, out of two considerations.

First, she wants to know whether Qi's doing this is really out of good intentions, or is she trying to provoke a fight between her daughter and herself.Maybe she wanted to see her daughter bullying herself, and felt secretly refreshed.The elders of the second room of the Lu family must all be on Lu Shulan's side unanimously, and Lu Shulan is domineering, if he is stupid and weak, he will definitely be bullied by Lu Shulan.She can't just go to her ancestor as soon as she is bullied. Once it's okay, the ancestor will probably reprimand Lu Shulan, but after a few more times, the ancestor will definitely think that she is useless, and instead dislike her.

Second, according to the rules, the ladies of the big family are old and young in an orderly manner. When she returns to the Lu family, since she is the eldest daughter of the second bedroom, she should live on the ground floor.Lu Shulan used to be the eldest lady, but not anymore, of course she should live upstairs.Jing Lan thought that when she returned to Lu's house, she would firstly enjoy the benefits of being a daughter-in-law, and living on the ground floor of the second-bedroom embroidery building was one of them.Therefore, she would not humbly say that she would live on the second floor when Qi made such an arrangement.

In fact, Mrs. Qi took Jinglan to the embroidery building behind Tongchun hall, and after she told Jinglan to live on the ground floor, she thought that Jinglan was going to decline, but Jinglan didn't respond at all, and said everything The words arranged by the mother.At that time, Qi was thinking, girls from the countryside don't understand anything, if they were smarter, wouldn't they immediately say they should live upstairs?She just arrived and took over the house where her younger sister used to live. Isn't she afraid that Shu Lan will end up with her?

On the sidelines, Mrs. Qi taught her daughter a few more words, telling her to stop talking nonsense. Jing Lan is her eldest sister, and of course she will live downstairs when she comes back. The old ancestor wants to come over to see if her mother is well arranged...

Having said that, Lu Shulan remained silent, because she was not liked by her ancestors just like her mother.

Every time she sees her ancestors, she feels apprehensive.

Probably the old ancestor was the only person in the Lu family that made her afraid.

In the end, she reluctantly said: "The child will obey mother's arrangement for the time being."