Mo Yan waved her hand, "They didn't say anything bad about me, so why should I mind?"
Liu Tinglan breathed a sigh of relief, and then climbed onto her good friend's arm with a cheerful smile, "Their great-grandfather and mine were blood brothers, but actually, our relationship has become quite distant. Aside from new year and festivals, we usually don't interact. They only came over because I'm getting married. If you don't want to talk to them, just giving them the cold shoulder is fine, too."
She was too embarrassed to tell Mo Yan that these cousins (tang jie/mei) wanted to socialize with her, the appointed County Lord, in hopes of elevating their own status through her. She couldn't bring herself to engage in such things, so she had refused. Because of this, she had even been scolded by a few aunts, being called a white-eyed wolf.
