Seeing his parents standing tall and proud, their faces glowing with happiness, and Ice Block looking bright and gentle beside them,
Little Li could not help but feel a question mark pop up over his head.
"Ice Block, didn't you used to hide whenever there were strangers around when you were little?"
Li Dalong said with a chuckle, "That was when she was little. Little Bing has grown into such a graceful young woman now. Just now, she was the very picture of gentleness and virtue."
"The moment your second aunt saw Little Bing, she was like a little maidservant, serving tea and giving gifts."
Madam Gu's lips were practically curving up to the heavens as she spoke.
Ying Bing looked at him with sparkling eyes and said softly,
"They are not outsiders."
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Li Mo leaned back slightly, and the scene from earlier surfaced in his mind.
He knew about his second aunt. Ever since she had married into the Imperial Capital, she had cut off contact with her natal family. Great Yu did not have any notion of women obeying the three obediences and four virtues, nor of a married daughter being water that had been poured away.
It was simply because she had flown up onto a high branch and was afraid of being clung to and pestered by her "poor country relatives."
But once Ice Block stood there... it became obvious at a glance who the poor relatives were.
At the time, Ice Block had accepted the tea his second aunt offered, then looked at her with radiant eyes and said gently,
"We are all family."
When those crimson little lips spoke those words in the tone of the mistress of the household, how terrifying was the damage?
Just imagining that scene made Little Li's scalp