Wu Ziya's mind raced, her face filled with remorse. "Mother, I didn't know what was going on at the time. I felt like I was possessed and couldn't control myself! I shouldn't have listened to the slander of the villain and lost my mind!"
Madam Wu secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She bent down and held Wu Ziya's head, her eyes sweeping over the maids and servants serving in the room one by one: "Who on earth is it! Who bewitched the master and made her commit such a catastrophic disaster! Tell the truth, and I can still treat your family well. If you dare to conceal it, don't blame me for being cruel!"
When the wet nurse met Madam Wu's gaze, her heart suddenly sank. Madam was going to take action against her. The wet nurse was very reluctant to stand up, but when she thought of her little grandson at home and then looked at the young lady who was raised by her, she closed her eyes and a line of tears rolled down her old face. This was the child she raised!
The nurse resolutely took all the blame on herself: "My Lord, Master, Madam, it was this old slave who did it! I was thinking about how pitiful our young lady is now. After losing her child, she has been crying every day and is in a trance. I was afraid that if she continued like this, she would die. I was also concerned about her status. I thought that after Master Ping died, the young master raised by the young lady would be the only legitimate son. With a child by her side, there would be no other children in the family competing for her favor. She would never have to worry about anything in her life!"
"It was this old servant who, in a moment of confusion, bewitched the young lady! Lord, please forgive the young lady. I will die as an apology!"
The wet nurse kowtowed three times to Wu Ziya, then kowtowed heavily to Lu Yan. She turned around and ran straight to the pillar. With a "bang", blood splattered, and the wet nurse fell to the ground, dead.
"ah!"
Seeing her wet nurse like this, Wu Ziya screamed and fainted.
Mrs. Wu looked at the wet nurse's corpse and felt secretly happy. After so many years, the old thing finally died, and only her daughter was implicated. She hugged her daughter and cried in pain.
Lord Wu looked at his wife and daughter, who were crying bitterly, and pulled out a deed. He pushed it over to them, "The culprit is dead now, and the Marquis should be able to explain to Madam Bai. I didn't raise the child well, but she's married now, so I can't bring her back to teach her. I'll have Madam send two more maids to teach her. She's been frightened, so she needs to stay indoors for a while to recuperate."
"I've already informed the Fourth Prince. This is our fault. No matter how angry you are, it's justified. As for the Bai family, our Wu family will compensate her with a shop to calm her nerves."
At this point, Lu Yan had nothing more to say. He had saved a life, and the Fourth Prince had also been informed. He could only accept it: "Father-in-law and mother-in-law, please talk to her. I'm leaving first."
Mrs. Wu watched Lu Yan leave and quickly ordered someone to carry the wet nurse's body out.
Wu Ziya woke up at this moment, wailing and throwing herself on her wet nurse, crying and refusing to let go. Madame Wu was so angry that she kept hitting her: "I wanted to send her away at the beginning, but you refused. Now she has caused trouble for you, hasn't she? Tell me, was it her who instigated you?"
Mrs. Wu was convinced that her good daughter was led astray by her wet nurse.
Wu Ziya was crying so hard she couldn't speak. She just held onto her wet nurse's body and refused to let go. Madame Wu was so angry that she pried her fingers apart one by one: "If I died, would you still be so filial? Ah? What a sin!"
Wu Ziya watched her wet nurse's body being dragged away, her tears gradually drying up. She leaned weakly against Mrs. Wu and said in a hoarse voice, "What should I do?"
Only then did Mrs. Wu finally let go of her worries. As long as her daughter still cared about the future, there was still hope!
Madam Wu helped her onto the couch and had someone come to wash her face. "The best solution right now is for you to go to the temple and pray for blessings, and stay there for a year or two."
Wu Ziya was reluctant to leave: "If I leave, won't the Bai family be in charge of this family? The Bai family relies on Ping'er. Ping'er? Haha, why doesn't he drown? Drown him! Drown him!"
Wu Ziya's eyes began to look strange again. Lord Wu slapped her in the face. Seeing her distracted eyes regain focus, he gritted his teeth and lowered his voice to scold: "You have so many people around you, why did you do it yourself! Now you're sacrificing yourself and implicating your children at home! How stupid!"
Wu Ziya calmed down completely after being slapped in the face. She lowered her head and mumbled, "Father, I was wrong."
Madam Wu hugged Wu Ziya, touched her cheek, and earnestly warned her: "Once you enter the temple, don't run around, and don't eat anything except what's at home. That Jia Yi Niang is the Fourth Prince's spy, and spies have many tricks. Letting you go to the temple is not to punish you, but to protect you!"
Wu Ziya only then realized that her parents had considered this step for her. She stopped crying and making a fuss, and immediately asked someone to pack up her things. In less than half an hour, she got on the carriage and went to the temple at night.
Lu Yan went to Qitongju, and the Wu family gave him instructions, and he also wanted to tell Bai Wanyi.
Bai Wanyi had just bandaged his own wound and was standing by Ping'er's bed, unwilling to leave. Hearing the noise and seeing Lu Yan, his face suddenly darkened. "Are you here to persuade me to send Ping'er back to the front yard? After such a big incident, I'm worried about Ping'er staying in the front yard! Stay by my side from now on."
Lu Yan frowned: "Boys should be independent eventually and can't always hang around in the backyard."
However, when he met Bai Wanyi's angry gaze, he couldn't say the rest of the words.
Lu Yan sighed, sat down beside the bed, touched Ping'er's hand, and said to Bai Wanyi, "Master Wu and Madam Wu have arrived and interrogated the servants in the courtyard. They say Wu's wet nurse instigated the master to cause chaos in the inner chambers, and she died by striking a pillar. Wu needs to rest and recuperate. Let's just leave it at that."
Bai Wanyi suddenly raised his eyes and stared at Lu Yan: "The Wu family has a good plan! First, they use the life of a servant to exchange for my son's life!"
Lu Yan was very impatient and growled in a low voice, "Ping'er, isn't everything alright? A wet nurse has already died! What else do you want?"
Bai Wanyi sneered, "What else do I want? I don't want Wu Ziya's life either. Push her into the lake. She'll be held down as long as Ping'er is held down. She'll struggle as many times as Ping'er struggles! She deserves to die. If she were alive, I would have let this matter go!"
Lu Yan looked at Bai Wanyi and felt that she was extremely unfamiliar at the moment: "When did you become so aggressive!"
Bai Wanyi sneered, "Am I being aggressive? Ping'er is my own son? Not your son?"
This sentence left Lu Yan speechless. Bai Wanyi continued, "If someone else held Ping'er in the water, would you have the same attitude? If someone else held your grandmother in the water, would you have the same attitude? If someone held Qin Wan in the water, would you have the same attitude?"
"Wanwan will not let the inner house become so chaotic! Wanwan will not let Ping'er take the risk to go to the lake in the middle of the night, and Wanwan will not let Ping'er go out alone without a servant by her side!" Lu Yan blurted out.
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