Chapter 179 - Duchness Zhenguo Came Over to Start a Fight (2/2)
In the morning, he heard that Mo Xuetong didn’t feel well last night, so Mo Huawen got up early to see her. He didn’t know that Mo Xuemin left from the back door at midnight last night.
Right at the moment, the guard rushed in hurriedly.
“Master, something horrible happened. The first miss was caught by the d.u.c.h.ess and seemed to have been beaten up. You should go to have a look right away!”
“The d.u.c.h.ess caught Min’er and even beat her?” Mo Huawen hesitated for a moment, rubbed his ears and asked unbelievably.
“Yes, Master, there was blood all over first miss’s clothes and she was caught and forced to the gate by the d.u.c.h.ess. Besides, the d.u.c.h.ess asked Old Madam to greet her in person.”
It’s not the guard’s fault to have misread it. There was actually blood all over Mo Xuemin’s clothes, and some was already dry. Therefore, it looked scary on her clothes. Consequently, it’s normal for the guard to misread it with the d.u.c.h.ess’s angry expressions.
“Bang!” Mo Huawen got furiously and stood up fiercely. He gnawed his teeth and said angrily, “Go ahead and invite the d.u.c.h.ess inside. Tell her that I’ll greet her in person!”
Although the status of the d.u.c.h.ess was much higher than that of Old Madam, Duke’s manor didn’t have much power indeed. Besides, the marriage of Qiong’er and Sima Lingyun was quite a.s.sured, so Old Madam could be seen as an elder for the d.u.c.h.ess. However, the d.u.c.h.ess didn’t even care about their feelings and acted like this on the New Year’s day, which clearly meant they didn’t want to maintain the relations anymore.
“Go and check who let first miss out from the back door?” Mo Huawen told the servant behind him and then hurriedly rushed to the gate. It was Old Madam who was supposed to greet d.u.c.h.ess. In no case was the Master supposed to greet the guests.
It was not only disrespectful to the female guests, but also a very rude and impolite thing!
On usual days, Mo Huawen was a modest gentleman. However, now that he was so angry and they wanted to tear the faces apart, he didn’t care about dignity and fame anymore. Qiong’er was still little, and that incident was not concerned with love affairs. Though Qiong’er and that man hugged together, it was forgivable in the big fire. After two years’ time when the incident was forgotten, he would choose another marriage for her. They didn’t have to depend on Duke’s manor on Qiong’er’s marriage.
The d.u.c.h.ess sat in the carriage with a dark face, not knowing that Mo Huawen was hurrying here angrily.
She was really angry too. About her two children, at first, her daughter was humiliated and locked herself in the room crying. And she said that her big brother didn’t help his own kinfolk and hurt her for another girl. The d.u.c.h.ess got this thing through after a long talk.
When she was comforting her sad daughter, she surprisedly heard that her son was almost killed for this girl. When she saw Sima Lingyun who was carried in and covered with blood, she almost pa.s.sed out and hated Mo Xuemin so much. Therefore, she wouldn’t let Mo Xuemin go and asked someone to send raggedly dressed Mo Xuemin into Sima Lingyun’s room and let all the doctors who came to check on Sima Lingyun’s disease see her.
Thinking that her son was stabbed like that by a sharp chip of porcelain, the d.u.c.h.ess wanted to eat her alive. Thus, she didn’t care about how she was dressed. She just wanted to ruin Mo Xuemin’s innocence and let everyone know Mo Xuemin was in Sima Lingyun’s room for a whole night.
Since her son cared so much for Mo Xuemin, she’d get Mo Xuemin for him. Even if Mo Manor didn’t agree on this, she would make this marriage happen unless Mo Huawen didn’t want this daughter anymore! When thinking about that, the d.u.c.h.ess coldly smiled and leaned over to look. When she saw gaunt pale Mo Xuemin, she couldn’t help frowning.
She couldn’t see her beauty and thought she was not as pretty as her niece. When she got back, she would ask Yun’er to give Yiqiu a name. Now that they were together, it would be a scandal if they had a kid without a proper name. Of course, such a thing wouldn’t happen in a rich and famous family. It would be extremely disgraceful to have a concubine’s child before a main wife’s child.
Fortunately, the d.u.c.h.ess didn’t care about that. When two daughters of Mo Manor became the concubine’s Sima Lingyun, it didn’t matter who would become the main wife anymore. No miss from a third-cla.s.s official would marry into Duke’s manor. Therefore, she would let Yiqiu have the biggest power and make her the main wife. She could trust her own niece.
After his two daughters married Sima Lingyun, Mo Huawen couldn’t have been idle in light of Sima Lingyun’s career and future.
The d.u.c.h.ess’s anger was gradually gone when she had such a perfect plan in mind. When hearing the sound of opening the door, she thought Old Madam went out and got out of the carriage with the maid’s support. She tidied her clothes and intended to be politer. Now that the marriage was for sure, she would pretend to be generous, so that Mo Huawen would have nothing unsatisfying to say.
She put on a slightly lifted face and looked to the gate’s direction arrogantly. She didn’t believe she couldn’t deal with an old madam from the countryside! Besides, she made it clear that this old madam was not Mo Xuemin’s grandmother by blood. Therefore, she just needed to scare her and let her make Mo Xuemin marry her son. Even if Mo Xuemin didn’t want to marry, she wouldn’t let Yun’er down and make him sigh all day like the last time.
The d.u.c.h.ess didn’t know it was a trade between Sima Lingyun and Mo Xuemin, and she mistook Sima Lingyun’s imagination about Mo Xuetong for that of Mo Xuemin! Thinking that Mo Xuemin almost took Sima Lingyun’s life, she wanted to tear Mo Xuemin apart. Hearing the sound from the gate, her face got cold, which highlighted the strict expression on her square face.
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