The Valued Lady is Truly Dominant

Song Ci hadn’t spoken yet, when Madam Jiang and Madam Lu walked over hand in hand, smiling warmly as they greeted the two.

”Mother, what good news are you discussing with big sister-in-law? Let us listen too.” Madam Jiang asked, beaming.

Song Ci shot her a reproachful look: ”It’s a conversation I fear you won’t like hearing. You might blame me, as your mother-in-law, for lecturing you.”

Madam Jiang wasn’t intimidated by these words; she sat closer and affectionately clung to her arm, saying, ”Mother-in-law is greater than the sky. Even if you lecture us, it’s all for our own good and giving us benefits. I’m not afraid to listen. After all, a conversation with mother-in-law is worth ten years of reading and avoids many detours. Quickly, please hurry and scold us, your daughters-in-law can’t wait!”

Song Ci: ”...”

Such disrespect, never thought you’d actually be a masochist.

Madam Song and Madam Lu were laughing, but inwardly they sighed, only Madam Jiang could jest with her mother-in-law so unabashedly without any fear, and Song Ci accepted it.

Among the daughters-in-law, the most favored was actually rare, Niu Pan’er, followed by Madam Jiang, then Madam Song and Madam Lu, with a mother-daughter-like closeness that they couldn’t match.

Madam Lu didn’t understand either; if the mother-in-law pitied the second sister-in-law and fourth younger sister for losing their mothers, she herself was also very much alone, yet didn’t receive such favor, proving it was all about personal connections.

Song Ci cleared her throat and said, ”It’s not exactly a lecture, just something worth hearing. I was just talking about Su’er’s marriage...”

She first mentioned having asked Princess Anping to be a matchmaker, which prompted Madam Jiang and Madam Lu to repeatedly congratulate Madam Song.

Song Ci then spoke about the disadvantages of girls giving birth too early: ”You all have sons and have come from being girls yourselves, so you naturally understand how difficult childbirth is.”

The daughters-in-law exchanged looks, all sighed, naturally understanding, but they all grit their teeth to get through it.

”Therefore, bear with your heart and cherish your daughters-in-law. You hope your families cherish their own daughters too, right? As long as health is fine, a delayed child is acceptable; don’t get anxious if the daughter-in-law doesn’t conceive soon after entering the family.”

”Mother-in-law is right.” Madam Jiang tentatively said, ”Mother, are you saying this as a prelude to the upcoming family rule additions during the ancestral worship?”

This year, during the ancestral worship, adding the rule that a man can only take a concubine at forty if childless was well known to them.

”Yes and no.” Song Ci smiled: ”It’s because while I’m old but not completely senile, I’ll say more to make you mindful, lest when I’m fully senile, I can’t say anymore.”

Everyone exclaimed: ”Mother...”

Song Ci waved her hand, changing the topic: ”Bringing this up, I’ve heard some gossip from the Princess.”

Gossip? They were all for it!

Madam Song and others pricked up their ears, energized.

Song Ci’s lips twitched; ancient women, they had only this particular hobby.

She coughed, and succinctly told them about the awful thing done by the Wen Family’s Old Madam.

Madam Jiang was greatly shocked: ”That Wen Old Madam must really hate that Miss Wen, right? How could a grandmother do such foolish things to harm her own granddaughter?”

Madam Song snickered coldly: ”Called noble families, they’re nothing but appearances, generation after generation doing scandalously absurd things.”

Teaching such a Miss Wen was one thing, and now another incident happened. How did she ever think the Wen Family was a good match for her own family?

Ugh, truly blind. Luckily, that didn’t work out, or who knows how it might have ruined her family’s Su’er.