Chapter 1470 - 289, Who? (6)
Lao Fan was a good eater and drinker, so Xiao Linshuang felt relieved. The very next morning, she didn’t even eat breakfast before wanting to leave, which puzzled Lady Liu. Even for a keen reader, there wasn’t a need to rush at this very moment.
Xiao Linshuang grabbed two buns, three shrimp dumplings, two apples, and a bunch of grapes from the table and stuffed them all into her food box. Then she spoke seriously to Lady Liu, "Mother, His Majesty said there’s only a one-month reading period left, and now there are just a few days remaining. I can’t afford to waste any more time. Besides, there’s someone waiting for me in the palace!"
"Who is waiting for you in the palace? Hey, at least finish speaking before you go, Yaya, Yaya!"
Seeing how Xiao Linshuang was hastily getting ready to leave, Lady Liu felt both amused and annoyed. She squinted her eyes and scolded jokingly, "You little stinker! You’re hardly home with how young you are! What will you do after you get married? Will you forget about your mother then?"
Lin Yuan and Lin Wei came by the river just in time to overhear her grumbling and couldn’t help but snicker.
Lady Liu, hearing the laughter, glared at them and lectured seriously, "You three as well, after you’re married, you must come back to visit!"
People say that a married daughter is like water poured away, and if she visits her parents’ home too often, she will be laughed at. But Lady Liu was hoping for the opposite—she wanted them to return often.
As everyone sat down to breakfast, Lin Yuan offered Lady Liu a shrimp dumpling and teased, "Mother, if we come back home every day in the future, won’t you worry about being laughed at by those ladies of noble families?"
Lady Liu glared at her, "Laughed at? What’s so funny about my daughters returning to their own home? Let them say what they want, as long as they don’t dare say it in front of me!"
Xiao He blinked in puzzlement. "Why wouldn’t they dare to say it to your face?"