“The master is so unfair. It was clearly the First Madam who insisted that you go out shopping. Not only does he refuse to punish her, he wants to punish you instead!”
“Lü Ping, enough. Don’t say any more. I was at fault too. I knew I was pregnant and couldn’t move around easily, so I shouldn’t have gone out, especially in such heavy snow.”
“No, Madam. You didn’t know that the Shui family has a rule forbidding pregnant women who are more than six months along from leaving their courtyards without the master’s permission. But the First Madam knew! And she still…”
“Ah, let it go, Lü Ping.”
“But…”
“Lü Ping!”
“Fine, fine, I’ll stop. But the master didn’t have to send you to the other estate in the middle of the night, or call the soldiers back from the city gate to open it. It’s snowing so hard. Couldn’t it have waited until tomorrow?”
“…”
Very nice, Ask if the little lady is very pretty, so her mother lets her wear a veil