Becoming a literary master starting from the story of Minglan

Chapter 452 Rage

"The Fourth Miss is also confined to Linxi Pavilion and is not allowed to leave without orders. As for Zhou Xueniang... she's barely hanging on by a thread."

Liu Mama had already inquired with her maids and found out: "The old lady has also received the news. It is said that... she is really angry and has ordered a thorough investigation and severe punishment."

"Close it in the woodshed?"

A fierce glint of satisfaction flashed in Wang Ruofu's eyes as he said hatefully, "Hmph! That bitch got off too easily!"

"This scourge should be dragged out and beaten to death immediately! And that Zhou Xueniang, who aided and abetted the wicked, should be torn to pieces and her bones crushed to ashes!"

She paced anxiously back and forth in the flower hall, growing angrier and more resentful with each passing thought, a surge of anger rising to her head: "No! I can't take it!"

"I have to go to the woodshed! I want to ask that bitch myself where she got the audacity! I want to tear her glib tongue to shreds!"

As she spoke, Madam Sheng was about to rush out without a care in the world.

"No! My dear wife!"

With quick reflexes, Liu's mother stopped her abruptly, pleading urgently, "Madam! Madam, please calm down! You mustn't!"

Ultimately, because it was the elderly woman she trusted most, Madam Wang stopped temporarily at Liu Mama's urging.

"The lord is furious right now! And the old lady has given a death order!"

Madam Liu analyzed, "Madam, if you rush over now, you might accidentally offend the master or disrupt the old lady's plans. Not only will you fail to punish that vile woman, but you'll also get burned. It would be a loss for you!"

Recalling her past "achievements," Madam Wang regained some of her senses.

"Perhaps...perhaps we should be patient for now and wait for the Lord and the Old Madam's swift and decisive punishment?" Liu Mama continued, "Then Lin will definitely not be able to turn things around this time!"

"What the master values ​​most is the future of the young men in the manor. Last time, we let it go with the Fourth Miss, but this time it's different!"

Wang Ruofu was held tightly by Liu's mother, her anger finding no outlet, causing her chest to heave violently like a bellows.

She stomped her foot angrily, making the gold bricks beneath her feet thud loudly. In the end, she suppressed the urge to immediately tear Lin Qinshuang apart and gritted her teeth, saying, "Fine! Fine! I'll wait!"

"I'll keep my eyes wide open and see how the master and the old lady will protect that scourge this time!"

"She has harmed the Sheng family's bloodline! She has ruined the Sheng family's future! She is Honglang's only hope! If we don't grind her to dust and cleanse the family this time, I... I, Wang Ruofu, will be the first to object!"

"Even if it costs me my life, I'll cause chaos!"

Madam Wang's eyes burned with a fierce flame of revenge, as if she could already see Lin Qinshuang's doomed fate.

Seeing that Madam Wang had finally been persuaded and her emotions had eased slightly, Liu Mama quickly changed the subject to break the suffocating atmosphere and asked cautiously, "By the way, Madam, when you visited the eldest daughter at the Earl of Zhongqin's mansion this time, how was she...? Was she feeling any better?"

This time, Liu Mama had something to do at home, so she did not accompany Madam Wang to the Marquis of Zhongqin's residence.

It would have been better if Hua Lan hadn't been mentioned. As soon as the eldest daughter was brought up, Wang Ruofu's anger, which she had just suppressed, suddenly surged up again, even more intensely than before!

She slammed her hand on the table and cursed, "Bah! That heartless old hag from the Yuan family!"

"She's not recuperating at all! She's clearly determined to torment my Hua'er to death!" It turns out that Hua Lan's life has become increasingly difficult since she married into the Zhongqin Earl's mansion.

Her mother-in-law, Madam Yuan, appeared kind and gentle on the surface, but was actually mean and ruthless.

First, under the pretext of "financial difficulties in the household," they forcibly occupied the two most valuable farmhouses in Hualan's dowry, euphemistically calling it "managing them on her behalf."

That's not all. What's even more outrageous is that shortly after Shige'er turned one year old, Madam Yuan used the excuse that she was "old and lonely" and "weak and needed her grandchildren to bring her joy and longevity" to forcibly take the still-infant Shige'er away from Hualan and move him to her own courtyard to "raise him personally."

In reality, she kept the child by her side, forbidding Hualan from visiting easily, and frequently used "rules" and "filial piety" to pressure her.

Hua Lan was anxious for her son and worried day and night. She was also upset that her mother-in-law had seized her dowry and that her husband, Yuan Wenshao, was subservient to his mother and dared not stand up for his wife and child. She was filled with resentment and could not find peace in her heart.

In addition, Madam Yuan made things difficult for him in every way, with strict rules on morning and evening greetings, and often deducted from his food and daily life. She would scold him and set rules at the drop of a hat.

In just a few months, Hua Lan became emaciated. Her once plump cheeks were deeply sunken, her eyes were covered with dark circles, and her once bright eyes were now dull and lifeless, filled only with deep weariness and despair.

She couldn't sleep at night; every time she closed her eyes, she saw her son's crying face. Overwhelmed with worry, she actually fell ill and remained bedridden, unable to take any medicine.

Madam Yuan showed no pity whatsoever. Instead, she scolded her for being "weak-bodied," "unlucky," and "a burden to the Yuan family's descendants." She also forbade her from seeing Shige'er more often, fearing that "she would pass on her illness."

"My poor, wretched Hua'er!"

When Wang Ruofu spoke of her painful experiences, tears welled up in her eyes, a mixture of heartache and anger!
"When I went to see her, she was lying on a cold bed, covered with a worn-out brocade quilt. There wasn't even a decent charcoal brazier in the room! Her small face was so thin that it was only the size of a palm, and there wasn't a trace of color in it!"

"Holding my hand, tears streamed down her face like a broken string of pearls, and she kept murmuring 'Shige'er'... Her good mother-in-law, using the excuse of fearing that the illness might spread, only allowed me to glimpse the child from afar through the curtain! That Shige'er..." Wang Ruofu's voice choked with sobs, "The little one, held by the wet nurse, looked listless, far less lively and rosy than when he was with us!"

"That spineless idiot Yuan Wenshao! I even thought he was a good person! He actually listened to his mother and let that old hag take Shige'er away! He didn't even dare to say a word in his defense! Isn't he trying to rip Hua'er's heart out?!"

Wang Ruofu became increasingly angry as he spoke, feeling a sharp pain in his internal organs.

Lin Qinshuang's vicious behavior certainly made her hate her to the extreme, but the torment her daughter suffered in her husband's family was like being cut by a dull knife, making her worry day and night and unable to eat or sleep.

The shocking calamity within the Sheng family, intertwined with her daughter's dire situation in the Yuan family, left even the usually strong-willed Madam Wang feeling unprecedentedly exhausted and powerless.

She slumped back into her chair, propping her forehead up with her hand, and murmured, "These two... they're all such a worry... My Hua'er, what am I going to do..."

"Why don't we wait until the master returns and discuss it with him?" Liu Mama suggested.

Madam Wang nodded repeatedly in agreement: "Yes! We really need to discuss this with the lord!"

"Not only the lord, but also the old lady!"

"It's safest to ask her for help with this kind of thing!"

Although Madam Wang had some reservations about Old Madam Sheng, she had to admit that Old Madam Sheng was the most reliable person in some matters, and sometimes even more reliable than that Mr. Sheng.

Moreover, Madam Wang also knew that Old Madam Sheng treated Hua Lan differently. After all, Hua Lan was the first granddaughter that Old Madam Sheng had personally raised, so her status in her heart was naturally different.

……

No one knows what Sheng Hong confessed alone in the ancestral hall. All that everyone knows is that their lord walked out of the ancestral hall with unsteady steps and his face was extremely ugly!