Chapter 2 The Black Hearted Aunt (2/2)

”Tong'er, tell your Aunt. Did someone bully you? I'll definitely help you.” Mdm Yu guaranteed once more.

”Mo Zhu, kneel down!” Mo Xuetong suddenly sat upright and pointed at Mo Zhu when she heard that. She shouted angrily, ”Aunt, take Mo Zhu away. Tong'er cannot take her service.”

Mo Zhu was shocked as she had not expected to get into trouble. However, she did not kneel down since she had Mdm Yu on her side. She straightened her neck and said indignantly. ”Miss, why had you asked me to kneel and said that you cannot take my service? What do I have to do with you falling into the lake? Why are you unleas.h.i.+ng your anger on a servant who has nothing to do with the incident? Can you treat us so abominably just because maids are servants?”

Then, she covered her face and started to sob!

Mo Xuetong laughed coldly in her heart. She looked at everyone in the room. Everyone except Mother Xu hurried to help her when they saw her crying. No one in the room stopped her!

”You've plotted against your mistress. Should I not send you away...” Mo Xuetong suddenly coughed violently before she could finish her statement. She clutched her chest as if she was going to faint.

The room was thrown into chaos as n.o.body could be bothered with Mo Zhu. Only Mdm Yu stared viciously at Mo Zhu who quickly reacted. She fell with a thud on her knees in front of Mo Xuetong and stayed there as the physician came in to take Mo Xuetong's pulse. After a fuss, Mo Xuetong finally recovered except that her face was much paler than before. She looked as if she was taking in less air than she was breathing out, looking especially weak.

After the physician left, Mo Xuetong took a sip of water from the blue ceramic cup in Mother Xu's hands. Then, she said with a sorry and tearful expression to Mdm Yu, ”Sorry for worrying you, Aunt. My body is not too good after falling into the lake.”

She breathed in and then turned her gaze to Mo Zhu who was kneeling on the floor and dared not speak. She did not know where she got her strength from and she suddenly grabbed the porcelain cup in Mother Xu's hands and threw it at Mo Zhu. As she was weak, the cup fell about two or three steps in front of Mo Zhu and shattered.

The clear shattering sound shocked everyone.

”Aunt, Mo Zhu had plotted against her mistress...Tong'er fell into the lake because she pushed me. If Aunt doesn't believe me, you can ask Cousin Xuan...Tong'er doesn't know how she offended this maid. She...she wanted to kill me...”

Then, she could not help but cough again. She believed, 100 percent, that if she said that, Cousin Xuan would definitely be on her side! Cousin Xuan had once told her that he suspected that in her last life!

Mdm Yu was panicked when she saw Mo Xuetong coughing like that. She patted her back gently while glaring at Mo Zhu viciously. Mo Zhu had been so shocked by Mo Xuetong's words, she was dazed. Mdm Yu said, ”You s.l.u.t, how dare you try to harm your mistress. Men, come and take her out. Give her 40 strokes of the cane!”

Mdm Yu was forced by Mo Xuetong to do this. Mo Xuetong was so angry, and she even implied that Qin Yuxuan had seen Mo Zhu plotting against Mo Xuetong. The fact was laid right before her eyes. Mdm Yu did not dare to protect Mo Zhu. If she did not do this right, she might even bring trouble to herself. How dare a servant plot to harm her mistress!

Mo Zhu saw Mo Xuetong coughing so hard she could not catch her breath and saw Mdm Yu's gaze looking at her viciously. That was when she realized that things had changed. She was fl.u.s.tered and rushed to Mdm Yu, crying and screaming and kowtowing!

”Shut her mouth and drag her away.” Mdm Yu said coldly. She immediately decided that since Qin Yuxuan had seen the incident, she could not keep the trouble causing girl around!

Mo Xuetong laid across the embroidered pillow, clutching her chest that hurt from the coughing. She did not soften at all as she saw Mo Zhu being dragged out like a dead dog. She would seek revenge this time in her new life. Blood rushed up her throat as if the fire of her past life was reaching for the skies like that day when blood splashed on her face.

Mo Zhu had only taken 30 canes before she died. Mdm Yu got people to drag her out and then comforted Mo Xuetong with a few words. She saw Mo Xuetong looking weak, but her eyes were filled with tears of grat.i.tude. That was when she relaxed and brought her people back to her house. She even told Mother Xu before she left to tell her if Mo Xuetong needed anything.

Mo Xuetong's weak and tired eyes opened once more when Mdm Yu's people left. She struggled to sit up.

”Mother, help me up. I have to write a letter.” Mo Xuetong said as she lifted her colorless face.

Cloud City was very far away, and nothing important usually happened there. The horse carriage that delivers letters only comes every five days. Today happened to be one of those days. If she did not send the letter today, she would have to wait five days. The people Auntie Fang sent would leave soon, she could not wait another five days!

She had to find a way to get back to the capital as soon as possible!

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