Cold-faced Empress

"Just tell me."

"Two years ago, Lady Wei's husband's family divorced her because she had no children."

……

"what?!"

Li was startled and her body stiffened as she leaned forward.

Fu Siying was also taken aback, her lips slightly parted as she stared at the servant, thinking she had misheard. Little Li had been divorced two years ago?!

The servant continued, "Lady Wei's husband remarried, and the new wife gave birth to a son. Lady Wei and her mother lived separately in Ye City, making a living by embroidery and needlework, and occasionally received some financial assistance from her cousin. Until Lady Wei's husband passed away, the new wife treated her cousin extremely harshly, which made life difficult for Lady Wei and her mother."

"Afterwards, Madam Wei received some compensation from the Wei family on the condition that the Wei family would not prepare a dowry for her cousin. She then took her cousin away from the Wei family and came to the capital to seek refuge with Madam Wei."

After the servant finished speaking, he took out a few sheets of paper and presented them to Madam Li.

"I, a lowly servant, dared to lie and claim to be a servant of Miss Wei's husband's family, and went to the Wei family to demand Miss Wei's dowry. The mistress of the Wei family angrily copied a letter of divorce from the late Master Wei to Madam Wei and threw it at me."

Li took the copied letter of divorce, and Fu Siying quickly leaned over to take a look.

Every word was crystal clear.

After reading it, Madam Li's expression grew even more solemn: "Yes, there's no mistake, this is indeed the letter of divorce."

Fu Siying frowned and asked the servant, "What is the attitude of the mistress of the Wei family towards Wei Lanling and her daughter?"

"The matriarch of the Wei family said that it was a clean break and that each of them should be happy. From the moment Madam Wei took Miss Wei away from the Wei family, the two families had no relationship anymore. She also asked me to tell Madam Wei and Miss Wei that they only wished to never have any contact with each other again."

After inquiring about some details, Madam Li gave the servant a generous reward, instructed him to keep the matter a secret, and waved for the servant to leave and rest.

"I never imagined they had been hiding so many things!" Madam Li exclaimed in fury.

Fu Siying was lost in thought, her mind a jumbled mess.

In her past life, she was too busy liking Wei Lanling to even think about investigating the Wei family in Yecheng. After all, both Xiao Lishi and Wei Lanling said that the Wei family was extinct, so there was no need to investigate.

But to everyone's surprise, the three of them were telling a colossal lie!

"After they got married, my mother never saw her again, only receiving letters from her during the New Year to say hello. I never imagined that she had kept me completely in the dark."

"What a complete fraud," Fu Siying murmured, her expression grim.

She suddenly remembered many things, such as the bundle of gold, silver and valuables that Madam Li had. She had previously thought it was a small amount of the Wei family's property, but now it seemed that it was all the money that Madam Li and Wei Lanling had.

And when Wei Lanling met Old Madam Fu, she said she missed her grandmother. I thought it was fake then, and now I realize how incredibly fake it was.

They really think that because they are in a foreign land, they can say whatever nonsense they want.

Lady Li was no longer Lady Wei; she was a discarded wife! Wei Lanling was even more lowly, a girl taken away from her husband's family by a divorced woman!

With such a status, not to mention her cousin, even the emperor's cousin would be looked down upon.

Madam Li was both angry and worried: "We can't let the Marquis of Wei's mansion know about this. Otherwise, they will definitely think that our family knew about it and concealed it, and deliberately let Wei Lanling and Ning Ruicheng contact each other, bringing bad luck to their family."

“The Marquis of Wei’s mansion is on its last legs, why should we be afraid of them?” Fu Siying was not worried about whether the Marquis of Wei’s mansion would blame them. “It seems that my aunt and Wei Lanling really have no way out, they can’t even go back to Ye City. They probably really think that the Wei family is dead, which is why they are pretending so well.”