Chapter 145 The Grandfather and Grandson Have a Frank Meeting
"Invitation? Invitation?" Wang Zhangshi swallowed the curse that was about to escape her lips and stared longingly at the invitation in Feng Yuerou's hand.
"Yes, this is the invitation to my family's flower banquet. My family just sent it to me this morning," Feng Yuerou said with a smile. "Since your aunt is coming all this way, shouldn't you at least see what the invitation looks like?"
Wang Zhangshi forced a smile and said gently, "Yuerou, you see, you definitely won't need this invitation when you go back to your parents' home for the banquet. Why don't you give the invitation to your aunt?"
Upon hearing this, Feng Yuerou immediately curled her lip in disdain and said sarcastically without any mercy, "Aunt, don't push your luck."
"I showed the invitation to my aunt so she could see what the invitation for my family's flower banquet looked like."
"It's one thing for my aunt not to be grateful, but how could she possibly have such a despicable thought as to keep the invitation for herself?"
Upon hearing this, Wang Zhangshi immediately realized she had been tricked. She was so angry that she nearly fainted.
Before she could explode, Feng Yuerou continued, "Besides, this invitation already has an owner! It was specially sent by my family to me to personally deliver to my mother-in-law. What, are you trying to take it from her?"
Wang Zhangshi was taken aback, then glared angrily.
The mother-in-law that Feng Yuerou mentioned... could it be Min Qiaoshi from the Xuanping Marquis's mansion?
"You mean this post is for that bitch Min Qiao?"
Suddenly realizing something, Wang Zhangshi angrily questioned, "I've been waiting for you here for so long, and all you did was go to the Xuanping Marquis's residence to deliver a letter to that vile woman, Min Qiaoshi?"
Feng Yuerou said with a smile, "Aunt is wise. However, my mother-in-law has been traveling a long way and is tired after days of travel. When I went there, she was still sleeping. So, I brought the invitation back with me. I will deliver it to her first thing tomorrow morning."
“My family said that the invitations would only be valid if I personally handed them to my mother-in-law.”
She humbled herself, yet the Feng family made Feng Yuerou eagerly deliver what she couldn't obtain to that vile woman, Min Qiao Shi! They even had to personally hand it to her!
Is it true that even though Min Qiaoshi isn't coming, they're still begging her to attend?
Is she really that lowly? Is Madam Min Qiao really that noble?
Wang Zhangshi was furious just thinking about it.
Seeing Wang Zhangshi's face turn ashen with anger, her chest heaving violently, Feng Yuerou didn't want her to die of anger in her own home. So, she quickly summoned someone: "Hurry up and send your aunt out! Otherwise, she might die in our house!"
Upon hearing this, Madam Wang rolled her eyes and immediately turned away.
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After having lunch, Madam Min Qiao took a walk in the garden to digest her food. Just as she returned to Songhe Hall, the gatekeeper's maid came in to report that Madam Wu and Min Yuexi had arrived.
Madam Min didn't make things difficult for her and simply called someone in.
"The daughter-in-law greets her mother."
"Granddaughter sends greetings to her grandmother."
After entering the room, Wu and Min Yuexi respectfully curtsied to Min Qiao.
Just as the two were about to get up, Madam Min Qiao snorted and said, "Did I tell you to get up?"
So the two of them stood there, bent over and kneeling. But this posture was even more tiring than being forced to kneel! In almost an instant, fine beads of sweat appeared on the foreheads of both mother and daughter.
Madam Min gave the mother and daughter a cold look, then picked up the teacup beside her and slowly began to play with it.
Only when the mother and daughter swayed slightly and were clearly about to collapse did she put down her teacup and raise her hand slightly.
The mother and daughter quickly got up and secretly wiped the sweat from their foreheads with handkerchiefs.
"Do you know why I'm punishing you?" Madam Min looked at the two of them coldly.
Madam Wu trembled, her face deathly pale, and she said in a muffled voice, "I know. It's because of Madam Zheng's matter."
Madam Min Qiao remained noncommittal, her gaze slightly shifting to Min Yuexi. "What do you think?"
Min Yuexi bit her lip and said seriously, "Because I was too stupid, I failed to protect my mother, and she fell into the trap set by the He family, which also caused Madam Zheng to almost lose her life."
At this point, Min Yuexi knelt down in front of Min Qiaoshi with a thud, raised her head and looked at Min Qiaoshi with burning eyes: "Grandmother, I want to protect my mother, my elder brother and younger brother, and I also want to protect the Marquis's Mansion and my father. Please teach me!"
She was reborn, and she thought she could change her fate! She could protect the people she wanted to protect! But the truth told her that she was not her grandmother; she didn't have her grandmother's abilities and courage. She couldn't do anything, and she couldn't change anything!
Min Qiao's eyes darkened, and she instructed Ayi, "Take everyone out."
Ayi acknowledged the order, waved to the maids serving inside the room, and led them out the door.
Madam Min glanced at Madam Wu again and ordered, "You go out too."
Wu was taken aback, then looked nervously at Min Yuexi.
Min Yuexi nodded at her.
Only then did Mrs. Wu reluctantly leave the house.
After everyone else had left, only Madam Min Qiao and her grandson Min Yuexi remained in the hall.
Madam Min didn't beat around the bush, looking silently at Min Yuexi, "You've been reborn too." Her tone was certain.
Min Yuexi nodded: "Yes, I was reborn. I know, Grandmother was reborn too. Otherwise, Grandmother wouldn't have let Lu Ming and me break off our engagement, nor would she have ignored the affairs of the Marquis's mansion, much less..."
Before Min Yuexi could finish speaking, Min Qiaoshi frowned and impatiently interrupted her.
"Now that you've been reborn, you should remember how I died in my past life! And how you treated me in your past life!"
"What makes you think I would still help you after everything that's happened?"
She was reborn and gave up, but she still couldn't let go of the things from her past life.
She thought she had let go and taken life and death lightly. But when she faced Min Yuexi, who had been reborn just like her, she still couldn't suppress the anger rising in her heart.
Min Yuexi's eyes were bloodshot and tears welled up. At this moment, she deeply felt the grief and anger of Zu Min Qiao Shi.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."
"Grandma, I'm sorry! Grandma, I'm sorry! Grandma, I'm sorry!..."
She kowtowed repeatedly to Madam Min, apologizing as she did so, until her head bled and blood blurred her vision with blood and tears.
She barely managed to suppress the dizziness and, under Min Qiao's mocking and indifferent gaze, cried out, "Grandmother, I'm sorry! I know I shouldn't have treated you like that in my past life! I know everything you did was for our own good, and to protect the Xuanping Marquis's mansion! But I just can't help hating you! I wish you were dead!"
Do you know what kind of life I lived in my past life?
Min Yuexi cried out in anguish, "I seemed to be living a life of endless glory, with an official title and everyone envying me for marrying such a good man!"
"But no one knows that beneath my magnificent official robes lies a body covered in wounds!"
"Beneath the halo of my lifelong, monogamous relationship lies Lu Ming's numerous mistresses!"
"Beneath my facade of having both a son and a daughter lies the truth: my biological children were drowned by Lu Ming at birth! In their place is the bastard child he secretly fathered with his mistress!"
“Grandmother, tell me, how can I not hate? How can I not resent?”
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