Chapter 33 - 27: Quietly (Happy Birthday to "Si Qing Lan Yu")
Chapter 27 Sneaking
Eldest Sister Zhao paused in her tracks, looking ahead.
Zhao Erniang and Zhao Si Niang followed her gaze and saw Fu Tinghan heading towards the main house led by a servant. Zhao Erniang pursed her lips, "Here he comes again."
Eldest Sister Zhao felt a slight headache and instinctively reached up to touch her head.
Being too far away, she couldn’t hear their conversation, nor did she have time to take a closer look. She only saw them chatting happily before she moved closer to listen, and then a stone came flying out.
Now seeing Fu Tinghan brought back that splitting headache feeling, "Has Mr. Fu been visiting every day?"
"Exactly, he comes every day as if afraid others wouldn’t know they’re engaged." Zhao Erniang commented unhappily, pulling a flower from its stem. "Even Uncle Cheng is biased, only allowing Third Lady and Second Son to attend to the sick these days. Our second branch reaches the front yard gate only to be turned away."
Eldest Sister Zhao lowered her gaze and said, "They are the blood relatives. It’s normal to be biased."
"But right now, Father is the Princely Heir, meaning he inherited Uncle Cheng’s responsibilities. Uncle Cheng won’t let Father attend to him, nor see us. If word gets out, who knows what people will say about us." Zhao Erniang said unhappily, "It makes the siblings of the main branch seem diligent, attending to him every day along with the main branch’s son-in-law, as if we in the second branch aren’t filial to Uncle Cheng."
"Who doesn’t know that when Mr. Fu arrives, he goes straight to the main house’s garden instead of visiting Uncle Cheng at the main courtyard. Who knows what they do in that garden?"