Chapter 420 - Got Alarmed and Returned Home Anxiously (1/2)
“Oh, cousin Fen is not in good health now.” Mo Xuetong gave a faint smile, with coldness in her eyes.
“Sister-in-law, no. It is… I was sick a few days ago. So…” He Yufen felt greatly disgraced, so she raised her watery eyes and looked at Mo Xuetong aggrieved, just like a tender and decent young lady.
Mo Xuetong just looked at her quietly with her head tilting up slightly. Then, she put the book in her hand aside on the table, and the smile on her face gradually dissipated. She took up the teacup on the table and said in a cold voice, “Since Cousin Fen is not in good health, why not rest at home, but still run out. In this weather, it will be terrible if the virus is spread out.”
The words sounded rather impolite, different from Mo Xuetong’s style. He Yufen froze for a moment, then raised her head in surprise, and looked at Mo Xuetong unbelievably, only to spot the displeasure in Mo Xuetong’s bright eyes. He Yufen was too embarra.s.sed to say a word.
To put it crudely, if He Yufen was ill but still came to the manor, she did not have any dignity and deliberately spread the virus. How malicious she was!
“Sister-in-law, I…” He Yufen stood up and stuttered, trying to explain for herself.
“First Miss He, you’re so casual. My Lady hasn’t allowed you to stand up, but you just do it. It seems that you are so snooty about My Lady.” Looking at Mo Xuetong’s expression, Mo Lan knew that Mo Xuetong wanted to show severity to He Yufen, so Mo Lan said with a sneer.
“I, I’m not…” He Yufen hadn’t finished her explanation for the first question, and another emerged, which made her tongue-tied for a moment.
“First Miss He, isn’t it? Or does First Miss He make fish of one and flesh of another? Just now, when seeing His Highness, you ran from far away just to pay a salute to His Highness. But why did you salute to My Lady so casually now? Is it possible that First Miss He looks down upon My Lady?”
Mo Lan said coldly, with piercing criticism.
Although Mo Lan’s words were a bit partial, they were all about the facts. To be honest, He Yufen did despise Mo Xuetong and thought Mo Xuetong just had a beautiful face, far behind He Yufen herself. But at present, Feng Yuran just did not how good He Yufen was. If he knew it one day, he would definitely marry her. He Yufen firmly believed that.
Therefore, He Yufen always paid a casual salute to Mo Xuetong. At this time, when Mo Lan took the matter and made a fuss about it, He Yufen was at a loss for an explanation for a while, and her face turned pale now and red then. She was so vexed.
“I’m not…”
“First Miss He, please stand up.” Mo Xuetong took Mo Lan’s topic and gave a simple smile. But her eyes showed no a hint of joy and just stared at He Yufen deeply, as if the eyes could see through her from face to heart, which racked He Yufen with a shudder. Hearing Mo Xuetong did not even call her cousin, He Yufen felt bad and did not dare to say more, just called timidly, “Sister-in-law!”
“I really don’t deserve to be First Miss He’s sister-in-law. Since First Miss He has never treated me as your sister-in-law, I think I am not worthy of the address!” Mo Xuetong laughed grimly with her eyebrows arched. Since Consort Zhao had taken action, this meant that Mo Xuetong and He family were bound to stand on the opposite side and corroborated some of Mo Xuetong’s guesses.
No matter what kind of role He family played in the matter of Consort Xian, they would not bring goodwill.
Therefore, why did Mo Xuetong have to draw back again?
It was known to all that He family wanted to join King Xuan’s Manor. They still tried to fool Mo Xuetong by exchanging He Yufen and He Yuxiu, the two sisters. Now, He Yufen did the thing like that, and she still had the face to see Mo Xuetong!
He Yufen had never expected that Mo Xuetong, who used to be gentle and innocent, would be so fierce. He Yufen blushed, but still pretended to be pitiful with tears in her eyes, and argued. “Sister-in-law, it is not the truth. In my heart, I always treat you as my natural sister-in-law. If I have done something wrong, you can scold or beat me, but you cannot evaluate me like that.”
He Yufen looked sincere and pitiful, but her heart was full of resentment. He Yufen thought, “If Mo Lan had not come to block me, I could have had time to grab King Xuan’s clothes. If I had grabbed Feng Yuran’s clothes, even though I could not run into his arms, I would have pulled him to stumble. If so, we two might have fallen together. And then, no matter what the cause was, the result was just that– we fell in a cuddle.”
“I am an unmarried girl. But since such an accident happened to me, Feng Yuran has to give me an explanation. Consort Zhao said that as long as I could have an affair with Feng Yuran, she would have a way to help me enter the King Xuan’s Manor, and even being the legitimate wife was not a dream.”
“But unexpectedly, the poor maidservant appeared in the way and kept me out of His Highness, which made me not only tumble, but also watch His Highness walk past me.” Thinking of this, He Yufen gritted her teeth with hatred.
And now, He Yufen fell into a pa.s.sive position where she had to pretend to be pathetic, trying to muddle through.
Mo Xuetong threw her a glance and did not unmask her. Mo Xuetong gave more smiles, but looked much colder. With a look at He Yufen, Mo Xuetong s.h.i.+fted the topic. “First Miss He, His Highness will send some people to the south a few days later. If you have anything to pa.s.s there, His Highness is happy to help.”
“King Xuan will send people to He family?”
He Yufen’s face turned pale immediately, her lips quivering. Scared with little color on the face, she clenched her hand which was holding the handkerchief and huddled it up. Now, she was inwardly chaotic, not knowing how to answer Mo Xuetong. She looked at Mo Xuetong with a guilty conscience, tried to force a smile, and stuttered. “Sister-in-law, I, I have nothing to say. There are always letters from home. I have nothing to send.”
Unsurprisingly, something weird! Mo Xuetong kept staring at He Yufen, and her eyes became gloomy.