Chapter 1142 - 364: Secret Medicine_3
Mo Yan waved her hand, "They didn’t say anything bad about me, so why should I mind?"
Liu Tinglan breathed a sigh of relief, and then climbed onto her good friend’s arm with a cheerful smile, "Their great-grandfather and mine were blood brothers, but actually, our relationship has become quite distant. Aside from new year and festivals, we usually don’t interact. They only came over because I’m getting married. If you don’t want to talk to them, just giving them the cold shoulder is fine, too."
She was too embarrassed to tell Mo Yan that these cousins (tang jie/mei) wanted to socialize with her, the appointed County Lord, in hopes of elevating their own status through her. She couldn’t bring herself to engage in such things, so she had refused. Because of this, she had even been scolded by a few aunts, being called a white-eyed wolf.
Exactly because she knew the nature of these cousins, she didn’t dare have them as her bridal attendants; she was afraid they might say something inappropriate at the Shen family and tarnish the reputation of the Liu family, a scholarly lineage.
Indeed, although they were all Liu family girls, none of these families had produced a Scholar for several generations, the best among them was merely a child candidate. Liu Tinglan’s household, on the other hand, had seen three consecutive generations from her great-grandfather to her father become Scholars, which lent prestige to these other branches and earned them a higher regard outside.
Without Liu Tinglan mentioning it, Mo Yan would have no way of knowing these reasons. Seeing that nobody would enter the room for the time being, she sneakily took out a dusty little porcelain bottle from her purse, her cheeks blushing slightly as she handed it to her friend.
Due to the lighting, Liu Tinglan didn’t notice her friend’s unusual expression. She took the small grey bottle with curiosity and asked, "What’s inside this?"
Mo Yan patted her flushed face, attempting to maintain a serious demeanor, "These are pills I specially made for you. They’re beneficial for your body."
The moment Liu Tinglan heard that, without much thought, she opened the cork of the small grey bottle and popped a pill into her mouth.
"Stop!" Mo Yan exclaimed in shock, hastily reaching out to stop Liu Tinglan, "Don’t eat it, these pills are not for ingestion."