"Bang bang bang!"
"Bang bang bang!"
"Marquis of Zhenbei, come out here!"
At the entrance of the Zhenbei Marquis's mansion, a group of commoners swarmed to the gate and pounded on it.
inside the house.
The old lady sat in the front hall, waiting for the Marquis of Zhenbei to return and tell her the good news.
Ye Lanyin is truly ignorant of her own limitations and has no regard for the law.
She acted with impunity because her family was a general's mansion.
Even though her son has been so humiliating, she still has no shame and wants to divorce him.
Now, she wanted to see where Ye Lanyin could escape to!
"Mother, Master has been gone for so long, why hasn't he come back yet?"
"Could something have happened?" Zou Shuang'er asked with a worried expression.
Upon hearing this, the old lady immediately frowned and shouted, "Pah! Pah! Pah!"
"What are you talking about, bad luck? Dehong had a bad day yesterday, could it get any worse?"
"Alright, don't mention such unlucky things again."
"Our Marquis's family is about to rise to prominence."
Zou Shuang'er replied, "Yes, Mother."
Zou Wanqing's clear voice rang out.
"Grandmother, when can your granddaughter be recognized as part of the family?"
"My eldest and second brothers have always been children of the Marquis's family, and they recognized their ancestors and returned to the clan at a young age."
"Although many people know about my granddaughter now, they all think she is someone else's child."
The old lady's eyes nearly popped out of her head when she saw Zou Wanqing.
She reached out and picked Zou Wanqing up from the ground.
With a loving expression, she said, "Wanqing, when your father comes back, your grandmother will talk to him and see what method we can use to make your name known to the public."
Zou Wanqing beamed with joy upon hearing this.
He hugged the old lady and kept acting coquettishly.
"Grandma, thank you."
She endured the nausea from the smell of feces and urine on her body.
"Madam, something terrible has happened."
Suddenly, several hurried sounds came from outside the door.
"Something's wrong! There's a disturbance outside."
"What?" The old lady stood up abruptly, completely forgetting Zou Wanqing in her arms.
However, Zou Wanqing was caught off guard by the old lady's sudden movement and fell directly off her lap.
"ah--"
"Bang!"
Zou Wanqing's face fell to the ground.
"Wanqing—"
Startled, Zou Shuang'er ran over and quickly picked Zou Wanqing up from the ground.
Zou Wanqing touched her aching forehead and burst into tears, "Waaah, Mom, it hurts so much!"
"Oh!" Zou Shuang'er exclaimed, "They're bleeding!"
The old lady glanced at her, then leaned on her cane and walked out the door. "What happened?"
"I don't know what happened, but a group of people outside are telling us to pay back the money."
"Some even threw vegetable leaves at the gate of the mansion."
Upon hearing this, the old lady pulled her leg back down.
"Smash...smash the door?"
"right."
The old lady was so frightened that she quickly turned around and said, "I'm not going, I want to go back to the courtyard."
"Let Zou Shuang'er go."
The servant's lips twitched a few times.
Then he went back to find Zou Shuang'er, "Aunt Zou, what should we do about the group of people causing trouble outside?"
Zou Wanqing immediately became furious when she heard someone call her mother "aunt".
"You lowly wretch, what did you call my mother?"
The servant was startled.
"The master said that before she is formally elevated to the position of mistress, she should be called 'aunt' or 'concubine'."
"Smack!"
Zou Shuang'er angrily raised her hand and slapped him, "Don't call me 'aunt,' call me 'madam'!"
The servant touched his burning face, gritted his teeth, and said, "Without your orders, sir, I wouldn't dare. Even if you beat me to death, it won't do any good."
"You—" Zou Shuang'er was so angry she wanted to hit him again.
But someone grabbed her hand.
"Shixuan?"
Zou Shuang'er looked at Lin Shixuan, who looked exhausted, and felt a pang of heartache.
"From now on, just call me Madam. I'll take responsibility for anything that happens."
When the young master spoke, the servant replied, "Yes."
What's going on outside?
"Young Master, the people are making a huge fuss at the gate, shouting for the Master to leave."
"But the master has not returned from the government office yet, and I really don't know what to do."
Lin Shixuan pinched the bridge of his nose and flicked his sleeve. "I'll go take a look."
Now that he is the only eldest child in the household, he should be the one to support half of the family.
...
"Open the door!"
"Open the door quickly."
"Marquis of Zhenbei, get out here."
"You coward, Marquis of Zhenbei, how dare you insult us like this? We'll beat you to death!"
Some people even brought a large basin of excrement directly from the cesspool and poured it onto the gate of the Marquis's mansion.
The stench filled the air, and many people backed away.
"Squeak~"
The gates of the mansion were finally opened, and the people stopped what they were doing upon hearing this.
"Lord Zhenbei, give me back my silver..."
"Why is it you?"
"Where is the Marquis of Zhenbei?"
Everyone started talking at once, each offering their own perspective.
Lin Shixuan looked unwell, staring at the filth on the floor and the excrement on the door.
He took several steps back.
What are you doing?
"How could you possibly produce something so filthy?"
He seemed to feel nauseous and tried his best to suppress his dry heaving.
"Lin Shixuan, this is none of your business. Summon the Marquis of Zhenbei!"
“My father has gone out and hasn’t returned home yet,” he said coldly.
"Not home? Who would believe that?" the people mocked.
"You've bullied Ye Lanyin's family and schemed against her for so many years. Where else could she go if not hiding in her own home?"
When Liu Ruyan followed them out, she was also terrified.
Looking at the scene at the gate of the mansion, she immediately took out a handkerchief and covered her mouth and nose.
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