"you……"

Jiang Muxue glared at her hatefully, but couldn't say anything in rebuttal, so she just turned away.

"Green Orange, let's go!"

Jiang Muxue walked very fast, unable to suppress the hatred in her heart. In the past, she looked down on Feng Yaoyao, who had an average family background, average looks, average talent, and was stupid as hell. Apart from her status as a legitimate daughter, how could she have the qualifications to be arrogant in front of her?

After walking for a while, Luju suddenly grabbed her.

She turned around, and Luju was immediately frozen in place by her terrifying gaze.

Jiang Muxue said coldly: "Are you going to laugh at me too?"

“No, no…” Luju pointed to the side and explained hurriedly: “Zhu…Zhu Yuxuan is here…”

Jiang Muxue then remembered the purpose of her trip and wondered why she was so angry?

Not only did Feng Yaoyao look down on her, but even that lowly shopkeeper dared to give her a favor and serve her well.

She took a deep breath and walked towards Zhuyuxuan.

There were already quite a few people in the shop, all of them young girls. She looked around and asked the waiter, "I heard that you have new products in your shop. Where are they?"

The waiter smiled and gestured, "Please follow me, sir."

The waiter led her to the second floor of the shop, and when they came to a display shelf, he said, "These are all new products in our shop."

Jiang Muxue looked over and thought they were all very delicate and beautiful. "What are the prices of these?"

"From right to left, the price of each item is six taels of silver, ten taels of silver, fifteen taels of silver, nine taels of silver, and twenty taels of silver."

“Pack one of each for me.”

"Okay." The waiter happily picked out the jewelry for her, "Please wait a moment, sir."

Luju watched from the side and calculated. It was a total of sixty taels of silver, which was almost as much as Aunt Jiang's annual salary.

She quickly pulled Jiang Muxue's sleeve and said, "Aunt, you..."

However, Jiang Muxue gave her a vicious look before she could finish her words, and Luju immediately fell silent.

Jiang Muxue was furious at the moment. After being ridiculed by Feng Yaoyao, she just wanted to elevate herself in other ways to make herself feel more balanced.

The waiter packed her jewelry into a brocade box, then led her downstairs to the counter to pay.

Jiang Muxue was just about to take out the silver when she suddenly heard a familiar voice.

"Yo-Jiang...Aunt? What a coincidence, isn't it?"

Jiang Muxue felt like her veins were about to pop out. She silently took out the silver and was unwilling to even glance at Feng Yaoyao.

However, the other party is not the kind of person who will give up just because you avoid her. She came forward and saw the box of jewelry that Jiang Muxue bought. She said with a sigh, "So many jewelry must be expensive, right? I didn't expect a concubine in the Zhong Mansion to be able to take out so much cash at once."

Naturally, the Zhong family could not give her so much money. All of this was part of the dowry given to her by Madam Mu and Aunt Feng.

She was so annoyed that she put the silver down on the counter, turned to glare at Feng Yaoyao, and said through gritted teeth, "Are you done yet? With your peacock-spreading show-off look, which unlucky young man would marry you? I'm afraid your ancestors must have sinned."

"You... Ha-so what? At least I will be better than you in my life! Jiang Muxue, you will never be able to turn things around."

Jiang Muxue sneered and said, "It's not the end yet, who can tell for sure?"

She said, told Luju to pick up the box and turned to leave.

Behind him, Feng Yaoyao suddenly raised her voice and said, "I don't know what sin Master Zhong has committed. He is still lying on the bed, dying, while his concubine is out there having fun."

Hearing this, Jiang Muxue paused, was stunned for a moment, turned around and looked at her coldly, "What do you mean by that?"

Feng Yaoyao said, and said, "It seems that you don't know yet. Only then did someone find Zhong Gongzi who was half -dead in the alley near Mufu. He heard that he was beaten with blood and bones.

As she said this, she shook her head with a look of great regret.

Jiang Muxue frowned. Based on her understanding of Feng Yaoyao, she would not joke about such things.

So, Zhong Lei really...

"Luju, let's go back home." Jiang Muxue did not stop and walked out in a hurry.

Sitting in the carriage, Jiang Muxue's brows never relaxed.

Although she didn't like Zhong Lei, he was her husband after all. If anything happened to Zhong Lei, she would not be able to live well.

Soon, the carriage arrived at the gate of the Zhong Mansion. As Jiang Muxue walked down, she met a doctor who was walking out of the mansion carrying a medicine box.

She quickly stopped the man and asked, "Doctor, is Mr. Zhong in the mansion injured?"

The doctor didn't recognize her, but seeing that she had her hair in a bun, he thought she must be Mr. Zhong's wife, so he nodded and said, "Yes."

"How badly is he injured?"

"Don't worry, Madam. Although the young master's injuries appear to be serious, they are not serious. He will recover after a period of rest."

Jiang Muxue finally breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank you, Doctor Lao."

Afterwards, she hurried back home.

As soon as Jiang Muxue walked into the yard, Yu suddenly rushed to her and slapped her hard in the face.

She was caught off guard and was knocked to the ground.

Jiang Muxue half-lay on the ground, feeling her head buzzing and her vision went dark for a while. After a while, she gradually regained her clarity.

She slowly raised her head, a look of disbelief on her face, "How dare you hit me?"

Yu stood there with her hands on her hips, her face full of ferocity. She snorted coldly and said, "I'm going to hit you, you little bitch! Your husband was so badly injured, and you didn't even bother to take care of him. You even went out and spent money wantonly. You have no sense of being a wife at all!"

"Luju, help me up." Jiang Muxue was a person who never gave up, and she finally calmed down.

Green Orange immediately helped her up from the ground.

Jiang Muxue stood up and was taller than Yu. She looked at Yu with her eyes slightly lowered, her face cold and gloomy. The clear red fingerprints on her fair face seemed to be stained with blood. "Don't go too far!"

Yu Shi felt a little scared when she was stared at like that, but when she thought about how a concubine like her could be so arrogant, she immediately straightened her back and stared back at her, "What? Do you still want to disrespect your mother-in-law?"

"Heh - mother-in-law?" Jiang Muxue sneered, raised her hand without hesitation and slapped Yu in the face.

Yu's face was slightly turned away by the blow she received. She was completely stunned and filled with disbelief.

Jiang Muxue said: "In my eyes, there are only people who respect me and people who don't respect me. If you want to call me mother-in-law, at least you should behave in a way that I will be convinced by, instead of using chicken feathers as a token of authority and bullying me all day long!"

"You..." Yu pointed at her and couldn't utter a complete sentence for a long time.

Jiang Muxue curled her lips, looked at her sarcastically, and walked into the house.

Outside the door not far away, Nanny Zhao, who had hurried over upon hearing the news that Jiang Muxue had returned home, happened to see this scene and was so shocked that it took her a long time to come back to her senses.

Is this still the Eighth Miss she knew? Clearly, she was still weak and hesitant in telling her tragic experience in the Marquis' Mansion the day before yesterday, but now, facing the aggressiveness of Yu Shi, she could actually sneer back without giving any face, and even hit her mother-in-law!

No daughter-in-law in the capital would dare to treat her mother-in-law like this! Even the wife of the principal wife would not dare to do this. How could a concubine like her be so bold? If this were to get out, wouldn't she be scolded as an unfilial descendant?

Thinking of the seriousness of the situation, Nanny Zhao hurried to the courtyard where she was temporarily staying.

She must tell the old lady about this immediately!

…

In this room, Jiang Muxue walked into the bedroom and saw Zhong Lei lying on the bed, still unconscious. There were bruises all over his face, so she lifted the quilt to check.

His upper body clothes were all taken off and he was wrapped in thick gauze. Even though the wounds could not be seen, one could tell that they were quite serious.

But the doctors said it's nothing serious, so it shouldn't be a big deal.

Jiang Muxue sat down on the chair next to her and touched her face. She felt a sharp pain coming over her. "Hiss—"

Seeing that one side of her face was swollen, Luju said cautiously, "I'll get you some swelling-reducing medicine to apply on it."

She nodded.

Green Orange then retreated.

Soon, Luju came back with anti-edema medicine wrapped in cloth.

"I'll do it myself." Jiang Muxue said.

Luju handed the medicine bag to her.

Jiang Muxue took the medicine bag and gently pressed it against her cheek. The slight pain came over her, reminding her of the insult she had just suffered. The hatred in her eyes was not concealed at all. "You damn old woman, one day I will make you pay for this!"