Cold-faced Empress

Prime Minister Fu and Lady Li apologized profusely.

Old Madam Fu was too lazy to listen anymore. With a dark expression, she waved her hand, signaling Fu Siying and her family to go to the guest room to rest.

The second wife coldly saw Fu Siying and her family out of the house.

"Was that girl deliberately trying to anger the old lady? Eldest brother and sister-in-law, it's fine for you to take care of your relatives, but you can't just bring any kind of person in front of the old lady!"

The words made Prime Minister Fu and Lady Li's faces turn pale and then red.

Upon entering the guest room, there were no more servants from the main family around. Li Shi, trembling with anger, questioned Wei Lanling.

"What were you doing just now! Were you deliberately trying to smear the Fu family's reputation?!"

Wei Lanling panicked and felt wronged, tears streaming down her face: "Aunt, I clearly had a portrait of my grandmother in my pocket, I don't know why it turned into... Aunt, please believe me, how could I have the guts to smear Uncle and Aunt's reputation!"

At this moment, Wei Lanling paused, looking at Fu Siying with resentment and suspicion: "I never take my pocket off, it's just that my cousin borrowed it for a while just now."

"What do you mean by that? Are you saying I'm deliberately framing you?!" Fu Siying immediately frowned, furious. "I don't know what's in there... Wait a minute!"

She suddenly paused, remembering something, and hurriedly lowered her head to open the pocket at her waist. After rummaging through it and finding nothing, her expression changed, and she reached out and pulled the turtle diagram tightly clutched in Wei Lanling's hand.

Because Wei Lanling was so angry that she squeezed it so tightly, the turtle pattern broke with a "rip".

Fu Siying examined the torn turtle picture closely.

"Ouch!" she cried out suddenly, then glared angrily at Wei Lanling, "Wei Lanling, you've ruined the tortoise and longevity painting I prepared!"

A painting depicting the longevity of a tortoise?!

Li was taken aback: "What tortoise and longevity painting?"

"The Prince Ning's grandmother will be celebrating her birthday next month, and I have been invited to a banquet to offer my congratulations. I am preparing to paint a picture of a tortoise symbolizing longevity as a gift. I am not sure if it is appropriate, so I brought this over, thinking that I can ask the Prince Ning about it if I happen to see him."

Prime Minister Fu questioned, "How could it have ended up in Wei Lanling's pocket!"

Fu Siying said helplessly, "I couldn't remember what kind of paper it was for a moment, so I took it out to look at it. When I put it back, I put it in the wrong place and stuffed it into Wei Lanling's pocket."

"You! How could you do this!" Wei Lanling trembled with anger and sobbed uncontrollably.

Fu Siying didn't think she had done anything wrong: "Can you blame me for taking the wrong painting?"

He snatched the pouch from Wei Lanling's hand, opened it in front of everyone, and pulled out the real portrait of his grandmother.

Compare the portrait of the grandmother with the painting of the tortoise symbolizing longevity.

"Your portrait is folded so small, while mine is folded so big! You say it's a painting you did yourself and that you often cherish it, but didn't you notice the difference when you picked it up?" Fu Siying was shocked and angry. "You're so careless and reckless, always causing trouble!"

"I……"

Fu Siying was furious: "What kind of thing is this? Why are you asking for a portrait out of nowhere? Are you sick? If you don't show the portrait to the old lady, nothing will happen!"

That makes some sense.

Stunned by the sophistry and unable to utter a word, Wei Lanling burst into tears. The truly careless one was Fu Siying; how dare she make such a baseless accusation!

Not only was she misunderstood by everyone, but she was also slapped by Fu Siying. Wei Lanling was truly wronged.

With the truth revealed, Li had no choice but to ask Wei Lanling and Xiao Li to rest in the guest room next door.

Behind her, Fu Siying's furious voice still rang out: "I'm so angry! How can an ordinary turtle be compared to the ancient tortoise I drew?! You have no taste!"

"Say less," Li said, feeling extremely frustrated. "You only lost a painting, but Wei Lanling has lost all face, and your mother and father have also lost face!"