Wedding Day (4)
"The Lei women don't even know how to apologize when they bump into others. Especially those who are their betters in life." Chae said when she looked at Madam Tori and Madam Jessie.
"Mother, did we not witness, the rude manners Concubine Lisa displayed just a while ago? Of course she would be rude to Lady Lihua on her wedding day, her mother didn't teach her very well. Like mother, like daughter." Bom said as she dusted her mother's shoulder where Jessie bumped into her.
"You--You." Jessie could only say for everyone saw what happened between her daughter, Lady Lihua and Queen Yuki.
"And look here, Mother." So Hyun said as she covered her mouth with the back of her hand mockingly. "Why are the Lei's wearing veils like Lady Lihua? Are they trying to be modest or are they trying to be maidens again?"
"Or are they trying to say that Prime Minister Lei is a possessive man and wants you to wear a veil to hide your beauty?" Bom snickered at them. "We all have already seen your face and there's nothing to hide behind a veil."
The ladies around them laughed at Bom's statement. For them, as married women to all of a sudden wear a veil, were them just asking to be mocked and ridiculed. Everyone knows how the Lei Madam's look like already and they are no great beauty to hide behind a veil. Even Cindy, who is a maiden, who never wore a veil before, all of a sudden wore a veil as well.
Cindy wearing a veil, made sense because she is a maiden. And maiden's wear them to protect their beauty and purity. However, everyone has already seen how Cindy looked like for the past 18 years, how is it that she's trying to act innocent and pure now?
"Madam's you look ridiculous in those veils did Prime Minster Lei not tell you when he saw you?" Chae asked as she looked around at the men's side for Prime Minister Lei.
"Prime Minister Lei is not feeling well, he is at home, in bed at the moment." Madam Tori told her.
"If he would have seen you guys go out in this, he would have stopped your foolishness." Bom tells them.
"Or maybe they are trying to suggest that they will be divorcing the Prime Minister soon and will be maidens to be married off?" So Hyun said condemning them even more. "Is that why you came to the wedding without Prime Minister Lei? Are you hunting for your new husband?"
No one could win against the Han women's slick tongues. One condemns, one lectures, and the other frames. The three of them continuing changing their tactics on the Lei Madams.
Madam Tori saw red and immediately attacks So Hyun. She have been waiting for this moment the moment Lihua revealed herself to them. So Hyun wanted to rip all their faces off and make them pay for treating Lihua so bad. For feeding her poison. For all the suffering she must of felt. So Hyun wanted to pay them back tenfold for what they did to her niece.
So Hyun stepped back and instead of attacking, she dodges and with a flick of her hand, it rips the veil off her face. Tori falls down to the ground and as she falls, Cindy cries out in horror trying to save her mother, when Bom also takes the time to rip off the veil off her face. Madam Jessie was too late to save them, but she wanted to save herself. So instead of giving them a helping hand, she steps back to retreat, but Chae didn't let her retreat.
Lihua gave them orders to take off the veils of the Lei Madam's and Cindy at the wedding celebration and they will complete the mission without fail. As Chae pulls the veil off, everybody screams at what they see.
All three women look to have aged by five years. While their faces looked like their skin were dry and pealing off. The screams of horror stops everyone from what they were doing to stare at the Lei women.
"Mother," Bom said as she covered her mouth. "No wonder they covered their face's with a veil."
"They pretended to hide their beauty, but instead they were hiding their ugly faces." So Hyun said. "Poor Cindy. A woman's beauty is our livelihood. What are you going to do with your face like that?"
"Daughters," Chae said as she gathered them to her side. "You should remember what your parents teaches you, for your true self will show through sooner or later."
The Lei Madam's and Cindy scream in horror that the veils they wore were torn away from them and their faces were shown to the whole nobility. They got up and ran out of the great hall, their maids following them behind as everyone started talking about the faces of the Lei Madams and Cindy Lei.
It started a couple of days ago. It was dry skin that wouldn't go away, so Tori sent a servant to go look for medicine to put on their face. When the medicine didn't work, they bought more medicine and more medicine to moisturize their face. However nothing worked. Even the doctor didn't know what was wrong. And over night their faces changed as wrinkles and age spots appears. Not knowing what to do they placed an enormous amount of medicine on their faces thinking that it would work but to their sadness, nothing did.
Prime Minister Lei woke up sick and decided to stay home that day instead of attending the wedding of Hell King and Lady Lihua. The women, on the other hand, had been on a three month detention from the nobility and had bought new clothes to wear to this occasion so they were determined to go. Dressed up nicely and with a veil over their faces, they thought they would be fine, but to their horror, they bumped into the Han women and caused a scene and their demise.
"I'll pay back those Han women if its the last thing I'll ever do!" Tori swore as Jessie and Cindy get into their carriage after her.
"Not only did they embarrass us, but they suggested that we would divorce Prime Minister Lei and went to the wedding to go husband hunting!" Jessie cried out.
"What's wrong with our skin mother?" Cindy cried as she touched her cheek. "The doctors don't know whats wrong. How am I ever going to marry with my face like this?"
"Hush, child, you're mother will take care of everything." Tori said as she took Cindy in her arms.
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