Chapter 195 The sting was to the point
He Danggui pushed herself out of the chair, whose ears were humming unconsciously. Feng Yang... he was taking her away for that person!
She gnashed her teeth and murmured, “Feng Yang, you can whistle for it unless you take my corpse.” Bai Yangbai, where were you? Came to help me. Anyone was okay as long as he or she could stop the deal between Madam Luo and Feng Yang!
Feng Yang was shocked by the unmistakable ruthlessness in her words. What happened to this girl? After a pause, Feng Yang turned head to Madam Luo and said with a smile, “Ha-ha, well, I’m just kidding. Actually, I’ve newly opened a Daming Teahouse. I have appreciated Sister He’s tea art for a long time, so I’d like to invite her to make some cups of tea. Well, drinking a little tea is better to calm down, isn’t it? My sister He?”
The emotion of Madam Luo was comforted by his words, yet He Danggui’s hatred towards him was increasingly growing stronger. Well, what a damn matter was that? He drove her to hell first, and then pulled her in half with a rope to tell her how beautiful the world was. As she received his gift for the last time one year ago, she had made three rules with him. The second one was that he should be cautious in his words and deeds. He should not talk nonsense in front of Madam Luo, so that Madam Luo would not have wrong thoughts and make some stupidities, like deciding a wrong marriage for her.
Feng Yang readily promised at that time. However, he tried to sound out Madam Luo and her with some words today. Was this a declaration of broken agreement between them? At the beginning, he had just been coaxing the little girl, casually coping with a few promises. But now the “wire-puller” had issued the instruction, so Feng Yang did not hesitate to implement it, right?
Feng Yang felt the strong anger of He Danggui, so he apologized to her twice again. He Danggui stood a little farther away from him, facing him with the back of her head, and whispered, “I will not agree. Never.”
Madam Luo had mixed feeling when hearing that Feng Yang proposed to marry her granddaughter Yi. What she was pleased with was that Feng Yang was the best candidate for her granddaughter’s husband, because she had a complete understanding of him. If her granddaughter married into Feng’s Family, it would be convenient to go back natal family. Originally, there were 2 such candidates. But she had a bad impression on Guan Mo tonight, so Feng Yang’s proposal had coincided with Madam Luo’s plan.
However, Madam Luo was a little worried. A few days ago, the mammy around Shao came to report that Shao had been attracted to Feng Yang because of a chance encounter in the street. Now Shao only wrote “Feng Yang” these 2 characters in calligraphy practice.
Madam Luo couldn’t help but feel puzzled after hearing this. In these 2 years, Shao had become more and more gloomy, and been not very friendly in dealing with people and things. Now that Shao had fallen in love with Feng Yang, should she arrange these 2 people to get married to improve the relationship between her and Shao? But the left hand of Shao had been burned and Shao became disabled. It was not sure if Feng Yang would like her. Even if Feng Yang agreed to this marriage, Shao could only be his concubine. Originally, Madam Luo was going to give Shao a uxorilocal marriage and let Shao marry to a talented person from a poor family, so that they could live in East Yard of Luo’s Mansion all the time.
But Feng Yang was not so serious. Before Madam Luo could express her intention, Feng Yang had canceled the informal marriage proposal just now. He said that he just made a joke, didn’t he? This joke was not funny at all. No one in the room was laughing.
He Danggui took the lead in saying, “Madam Luo, Yi is very happy to live in Luo’s Mansion although I am disturbed by Second Aunt occasionally. It has always been my dream to greet Madam Luo every day and listen to the teachings. Until now, I have only listened to the teachings for three years. I still want to listen to them for a few more years.” Madam Luo had been so active recently to think about setting a marriage relationship for her. Her “plan of marriage proposal” with Bai Yangbai must be implemented as soon as possible. And it must be implemented before Feng Yang, a troublesome figure, asked for marriage proposal.
It seemed that what she expected was right. Zhu Quan had no time to give her a false status as a superior, and he was afraid that she would be married out for time-wasting. He simply asked Feng Yang to take her away and lock her up. Zhu Quan would come to Yangzhou City to enjoy the flowers when he was free. In this way, she did not even count as Zhu Quan’s concubine, and the oath, “Marrying her as a concubine would result in the loss of children and grandchildren”, made by him became useless. No, she must deal with the trouble between Feng Yang and her as soon as possible. She couldn’t deal with him courteously but without sincerity.
Madam Luo stared at Yi and Feng Yang, but she could not know what they were thinking. She simply put aside the matter for the time being and planned to consider it later. “Yi, when your Second Uncle just asked you about the matter of Hua Yu, you said that you would tell him a story.” Madam Luo asked, “What kind of story of ‘real people and thing’ is?”
When He Danggui looked at Luo Chuangu, who was unconscious like a snowman on the ground, she couldn’t help but smile. She said, “Now my Second Uncle has been severely injured. First, Hua Yu’s fetus had a problem. Then, Run Xiang, the waiting-maid, was pregnant, but now she is tortured for being accused of misbehavior. Her fetus might not survive. Finally, news came out that Wu Jiu, who is a “beau” of Run Xiang, said when he got drunk that Second Mistress’s leg has a tattoo, which he has seen with his own eyes. Now the chaos at home is more wonderful than the story of a storyteller, and even my story is inferior by comparison. Madam, look, after my Second Aunt woke up after being strangled by my Second Uncle, she didn’t even look at my Second Uncle, but let him face down as if he was dead. However, she immediately kowtowed to you and explained. What does this mean?”
Madam Luo squinted her eyes and asked, “What does it mean?” Could it be said that Yi had seen that, too?
Regardless of the sharp gazes of the Sun Meiniang and her servant, He Danggui said slowly, “My Second Aunt is the most eloquent person in the world and is good at sophistry. Actually, it has been a matter of fact, and there is nothing to question. But she just touched Madam with only a few words, and Madam was even believed that she is innocent. My Second Uncle is generous and soft-hearted, so he will be easy to feel reassured only if my Second Aunt fools him with a few words. Thus, she doesn’t pay any attention to him. Just imagine, when a woman was charged with such a crime, shouldn’t she explain it clearly to her husband at the first time?”
“He Danggui, what do you think you are? How dare you talk about my business?” Sun Meiniang was furious and said, “If our Luo’s Family hadn’t taken you in, you would have starved to death in the street. We sent you to the academy to study. You didn’t learn anything else, but first learned to tell tales and frame the elders! What a shameless bitch! How dare you seduce Pan Jingyang and Feng Yang again!”
“Second Aunt, since you are an elder, you must be like an elder when you speak. Otherwise, when you say something that are beneath your dignity, the first thing others will laugh at is not my conduct, but yours.” She pulled her mantle on the ground after a gust of night wind. Then she said unhurriedly, “I owed it to my grandfather and Madam Luo’s kindness to be named Third Miss of Luo’s Mansion, so my identity is Third Miss of Luo’s Mansion. I always pay attention to my identity in every word and action, walking without showing my feet and smiling without showing my teeth. I am being well-behaved as Third Miss, and I don’t know what ‘seduce’ means.”
Sun Meiniang snorted coldly, but she could not refute it. Mammy Shangguan who came out of the Palace said in public that the words, deeds and manners of Third Miss were the best of all the Misses not only in Luo’s family, but also in Yangzhou City. Mammy Shangguan said that Third Miss could integrate those etiquette standards into every daily thing and do it perfectly, which let people pick out no flaws.
He Danggui showed the sting in her words, “Even though you are my elder, Second Aunt, you have become a junior in front of Madam Luo. Madam Luo took me in and cherished me. It is the grace of Madam Luo herself, but you repeatedly spoke “on behalf of” the entire Luo’s Family in front of Madam Luo. You usually threatened me that Luo’s Family can drive me out at any time. My status is low, and I don’t dare to say anything more. But I just want to ask you whether the most authoritative person in Luo’s Family now is Madam Luo or Second Aunt? Madam Luo leaves me in Luo’s Family, but Second Aunt wants to drive me out. So, who should I obey?”
Sun Meiniang’s face changed rapidly when she heard this. The damned girl even disrupted her relationship with Madam Luo and made Madam Luo scruple her. It was so insidious that He Danggui directly cut the ground from under her.
“Madam Luo, don’t listen to her nonsense. I never said that I would drive her out of Luo’s Family. She was too careful. As long as any elder said something about her, or a servant was slightly disrespectful to her, she suspected that they were driving her away.” Sun Meiniang said bitterly, “You have known how to tell tales about the elders since you are young. It can be seen how difficult you will be when you grow up. Originally, I wanted to discipline you for your mother. Now that you are so ignorant. It’s all right. Well, I will not care about you from now on. I’ll see what kind of monster you will become.”
“Madam Luo, look, my Second Aunt is quibbling again,” He Danggui pointed out, “This is a typical unreasonable argument. When she fails, she will be unreasonable and importunate. Only by this way can distract people’s attention. Originally, you asked me to ‘tell a story’, and I told my ‘story’ well. But now I don’t know where I have told because my Second Aunt disturbed me. What I talked about just now is that my Second Aunt has no respect for her husband and was perfunctory. In a flash, the discussion turned to something about my growth. It doesn’t make sense to reason well with her. At ordinary times, does she also fool my Second Uncle like this?”
Madam Luo was shocked when she looked at her weak son in a coma. In those years, he married a powerful wife, because Madam Luo wanted him to deal with less business at home and go outside to start a career. But she didn’t except that in the past ten years, there was no fame. No grandson was born in the family, and two granddaughters were more spoiled. Was it because the powerful daughter-in-law fooled him on the face and framed him behind his back?
Seeing that the eyes of Madam Luo were not in harmony, Ding Rong’s wife got heated and yelled, “Madam Luo, you can’t believe her nonsense. Lord and Mistress are in harmony with each other, and show great respect for each other. They have never quarreled. Why does He Danggui as an outsider talk about the matter of our Second Branch?”
He Danggui looked at Madam Luo with innocent eyes and said, “Madam Luo, the person who ‘lets me shut up’ has come again. I dare not say anymore.”
“Go ahead!” Madam Luo said in a deep voice, “I approve of you!”
He Danggui got the approval, so she continued, “Just now we talked about the last words of Biddy Wen and the tattoo of my Second Aunt. Even though we don’t know why my Second Uncle was so excited after hearing it, but it could be realized that my Second Uncle was really angry with fierce eyes. He wanted to kill Second Aunt to vent his anger. Why was my Second Uncle so angry? Wasn’t it the first time that he has encountered this kind of thing? And he was too silence to report those to Madam Luo?”
Sun Meiniang gritted her teeth and sneered. She said, “Hum, wake him up! Go and ask him! Ask him how I deceived him!”
He Danggui turned a deaf ear and said, “Forgive me, I really can’t agree with the excuses made by Administer Ding. Is it ridiculous that she said that my Second Aunt was too busy with her business to have a private meeting with the servant? Administer Ding also counted the contribution of my Second Aunt. It is clear that Administer Ding prides my Second Aunt on being veteran. Could Second Aunt show the tattoo on her leg to others because of her status as a wife in charge of the family? As for the contribution of my Second Aunt, of course, she is very busy and has sent many beauties to her husband. But my Second Uncle is nearly forty years old and didn’t have a son. Everyone said that my Second Aunt once was the number one female scholar, but she failed repeatedly in Second Uncle’s business. He spent money being an official but made some troubles after a few days. Which embodies the contribution of my Second Aunt?”
Ding Rong’s wife really wanted to strangle this girl with her own hands. She really regretted that when she went to the farm to spy on this girl, she couldn’t find an unmanned corner and a belt to strangle her. If she had killed this evil girl in those years, maybe Second Mistress Luo would have given up her hatred and lived a peaceful and comfortable life. And there would have been such a girl here saying nonsense! What a malicious one! He Danggui had hidden the knife for 3 years, and now she took it out to stab people!
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