Chapter 452: You can’t catch a wolf without sacrificing a child
"It's all your fault, you fool. If you hadn't taught Yun Hai well, how could he have done such a stupid thing and been punished by His Majesty to be sent to the Beijing Camp?"
"You are the cause of Yunhai's current situation, and you still want to blame others. Get away from Yunhai. You have no right to cry in front of him."
Old Madam Wu cursed and tried to pull Chen away from Wu Yunhai.
She absolutely could not let Yunhai's death implicate her.
No one knew better than her how cruel Hong Zhong's heart was.
A look of surprise flashed across the face of Marquis Zhongyi who was standing by.
In his heart, his grandmother had always been a kind and dignified person, but now she was like a shrew with fangs all over her face.
She grabbed Chen's hair tightly and pulled it out.
He even saw Chen's pulled hair in his grandmother's hands.
Chen was pulled by the old man so hard that it hurt, but seeing Wu Zheng's shocked expression, Chen felt it was worth it.
Everyone in the ear room was also stunned by Madam Wu's vigorous actions.
You couldn't tell she was half buried in the ground; her strength was extraordinary.
Wu Lan'er, who was standing by, symbolically touched Madam Wu's hand.
Yin Yang persuaded:
"Mother, please admit your mistake to the old ancestor. What you said just now really hurt the old ancestor's heart."
"Brother Yunhai deserves it..." She was about to say, it's not that the Wu family doesn't care about him, it's you, mother, who made him behave badly.
But before he could finish his words, he was slapped hard in the face.
"Shut up! Yunhai is your biological brother. He's lying on his bed dying, and you're still blaming him."
"I've loved you all these years in vain."
Wu Lan'er covered her burning cheeks and looked at Madam Wu in disbelief.
This old guy actually hit her just now!
Old Madam Wu was so focused on teaching Wu Lan'er a lesson that she loosened her grip for a moment. Seeing this, Chen quickly broke free.
She looked at Wu Lan'er's hands covering her face and exclaimed.
"Blood, Lan'er, your face is bleeding."
Hearing Chen's shout, Wu Lan'er quickly took her hand away, and there was indeed a bright red bloodstain between her fingers.
Wu Lan'er suddenly got furious and screamed.
"My face, my face!"
She looked at Madam Wu resentfully, her eyes full of hatred.
"Grandfather, what did Lan'er say wrong? You want to hurt me like this. Do you know what a face means to a woman? You want to destroy me!"
Wu Lan'er had never suffered such injustice since she was a child, and she said without thinking:
"Wu Yunhai deserves it. If he hadn't used his brains and been used as a pawn to cause trouble for the Jingzhong Camp, would he have ended up like this?"
"For a dying man, you treated me like this. Aren't you afraid that I will be disheartened and turn my back on you in the future?"
"Aren't you afraid that I will expose all the ugly things you have done?"
Everyone in the ear room narrowed their eyes slightly, as if Wu Lan'er knew something.
Old Madam Wu did not expect that her nails would scratch Wu Lan'er's face.
Although Wu Lan'er is only Hong Zhong's concubine's daughter, she was raised by her side since she was a child, and her love for her great-granddaughter Wu Lan'er is no less than that of Wu Yunhai.
Because she was so likable, she even loved her more than Hong Zhong at one point.
She raised her personally and never hid many things from her.
She was also very angry when she taught Wu Lan'er a lesson just now. Yunhai was her brother from the same mother. How could she curse Yunhai to death?
Now she never expected that the child she raised would threaten her!
Shen Zhao listened to Madam Wu's inner thoughts, his brows slightly furrowed.
No, wrong identity!
Wu Yunhai and Wu Yunfeng's identities were swapped, so Wu Yunhai should be Madam Wu Hongzhong's eldest son.
It is understandable that Wu Lan'er is a concubine's daughter, but how could Wu Yunhai and Wu Lan'er be born of the same mother?
Chen Zhao seemed to know why Wu Hongzhong and the old man of the Wu family wanted to swap Wu Yunfeng and Wu Yunhai.
Wu Yunhai is not the son of Mrs. Wu Hongzhong.
Thinking about Wu Hongzhong’s wife, she was also a person of great background.
I just don’t know if Wu Hongzhong’s wife knows about this. If she doesn’t, she has thought of a way to bring Wu Hongzhong down.
Retracting his thoughts, Shen Zhao watched the development outside intently.
Wu Zheng then started to scold Wu Lan'er.
"Lan'er, you must not be rude to the old ancestor. It was you who acted inappropriately just now. The old ancestor beat you for your own good."
Seeing this, Chen quickly walked to Wu Lan'er's side and protected her, saying:
"My Lord, I cannot agree with what you said!"
"Lan'er is not wrong. Yun Hai is on the verge of death. It is indeed his own fault."
"Although Lan'er has been raised by our ancestor since she was young, in my heart she is the same as Zhiyou."
"Zhiyou was raised in Jiangnan as well. I only have Lan'er as my daughter to keep me company in this mansion."
"Now that the old ancestor has beaten Lan'er's face like this, it will definitely leave a scar."
"Lan'er hasn't married yet, and she doesn't even have a husband. If her face is ruined, how can she find a suitable marriage in the future?"
"You and the old ancestor don't feel bad, but I, as a mother, do."
As she said this, Chen turned around and looked at Wu Lan'er with a distressed look on her face.
"My poor daughter, from now on, I only have you and Zhiyou. I promised your aunt that I would send Zhiyou back to Jiangnan after the New Year to marry your cousin. From now on, you will be the only one by my side."
As she spoke, Chen took out a bunch of silver bills from her pocket with a painful look on her face.
These were all the money she had deducted from the old man over the years, a total of 100,000 taels.
"My dear daughter, this is the dowry that I have been saving for you and Zhiyou over the years. Now that Zhiyou is marrying into the Chen family, I don't need to prepare a dowry for her anymore. I will give this to you. Take it and find a famous doctor to heal the wound on your face."
"Mother is still waiting to find you a noble family. Zhiyou is marrying far away, and mother doesn't want you to leave Kyoto again."
Wu Lan'er was just wondering if Chen had taken the wrong medicine today.
Suddenly he opened his heart to her.
But when she saw the pile of silver bills that Chen took out and heard Chen's words, she was actually somewhat moved.
She didn't expect that the person who was really good to her would be her stepmother whom she had always disliked.
Wu Lan'er took the banknote from Chen's hand and glanced at it. The denomination on it was actually ten thousand taels.
She couldn't bear to think about how much the money could be, and she felt even more touched.
She called out sincerely, "Mother, you are the only one in this house who truly treats me. In the past, I was instigated to stay away from you. I hope you won't blame me for my previous ignorance."
Now that I think about it, my stepmother is different from the ladies of other noble families in other mansions.
Her stepmother never made things difficult for her. Although she was not very close to her, she never said anything bad about her in front of outsiders.
In the past, the old ancestor often said all kinds of bad things about her stepmother in front of her, but the stepmother who was criticized never even touched her.
Instead, she kept saying that the old ancestor who treated her like a treasure had beaten her until her face was disfigured.
She is not stupid, she can still tell what is good and what is bad!
Mrs. Wu, who was standing by, almost vomited blood when she saw the loving mother and daughter in front of her.
Chen patted Wu Lan'er's hand and said, "My dear daughter, from now on you will be your mother's beloved child."
As she spoke, Chen walked up to Madam Wu and challenged her in a voice that only the two of them could hear:
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