When the couple arrived at the lady's house, they saw that the maids who usually served in the house, including Wei Zi and others, were standing under the eaves. The courtyard was no longer as quiet as usual, but was filled with an atmosphere of tension and anxiety.

Xu Lingyi's face darkened slightly, and he hurried over. When Wei Zi saw Xu Lingyi and his wife, she also hurried over: "My Lord, Madam. The Madam said she wanted to lie down for a while." She bent her knees to greet the two of them, "Only Madam Du is left inside to serve."

The Fifth Master had a son in his old age, and the Madam Dowager has always doted on him. Now that Feng Qing has happened, how can she not be sad!

Eleventh Lady secretly guessed that Wei Zi had tiptoed into the room to report.

After a while, she came out and said, "The Madam please let the Marquis and his wife in." Then she opened the curtain and helped the two of them into the room.

You could hear a pin drop in the inner room. The curtains of the nanmu bed were half-drawn. The lady wore a pearl hairpin and a small jacket, leaning on a large pillow.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?" Xu Lingyi asked as he entered the door, with a trace of anxiety in his eyes.

"It's okay, it's okay." The lady smiled slightly, but her brows could not hide her fatigue and tiredness. "I'm old and not energetic. I want to lie down for a while."

The two of them stepped forward and bowed. Mother Du hurriedly brought over a brocade stool and served hot tea.

"Should we ask Doctor Liu to come over and take a look?" Xu Lingyi understood a little bit from what he saw. When he came in the afternoon, his mother was still energetic. But after he went back to talk about Feng Qing's matter, she was not in good spirits when he came again. He was also worried that his mother would get sick because of this incident, so he said slowly, "Can you ask him to prescribe some medicine to regulate your qi and unblock your meridians?"

"No need." The lady smiled, "I just want to lie down."

As soon as he finished speaking, Wei Zi came to report: "Fifth Master is here!"

The lady raised her eyebrows and said, "Tell him that I feel a little uncomfortable. Let him go back first!" Her tone was light.

The deeper the love, the more severe the criticism!

Eleventh Lady was thinking about it.

Xu Lingyi had already advised: "Mother, Xiaowu is the most filial. I'm afraid he won't be able to sleep well tonight after what you said. Let him come in and greet you!"

As Eleventh Lady listened, she gradually understood why Xu Lingkuan was like this.

Whenever Xu Lingyi got angry, the lady would come out to dissuade him. Whenever the lady got angry, Xu Lingyi would come out to dissuade him... Not only did it not teach him, but it also emboldened Wu Ye. It was the reason why he was doing more and more outrageous things.

She couldn't help but sigh in her heart, and then she heard the lady's cold smile: "If he remembered me, he wouldn't be so hypocritical and incorrigible."

Xu Lingyi winked at Mother Du and continued to persuade her: "...He is young and does not know better. To be honest, it is all my fault as a brother. I will take good care of him in the future. After what he has experienced, he should know the seriousness of the matter..."

Mother Du also knew that the old lady was disappointed with her son and her words were insincere. Now, after receiving Xu Lingyi's instructions, she hurried out to invite Master Wu in.

When Fifth Master saw that it was Mother Du who personally helped to draw the curtain, his face was filled with surprise. When he walked to the door of the inner room and heard Fourth Brother's words of persuasion to Mother, he knew that his brother had told Mother about the matter. His face turned red and then white, and he felt very ashamed. He hesitated for a long time before entering the inner room.

"Mom..." He looked at his mother timidly.

Xu Lingyi quickly stopped talking and greeted his brother in a friendly manner: "I'm here."

Wu Ye was flattered, but when he thought about the fact that he had done something wrong, he looked a little frightened.

The lady looked at him with pity, anger and helplessness, and her face darkened.

"Mom!" The Fifth Master was frightened when he saw this, and hurriedly knelt down in front of the bed, "It's all my fault. I made you sad and brought shame to the Xu family. Just beat me up! Don't get sick from anger." As he said that, he stretched out his face for the lady to hit him.

"Beat you..." The old lady looked at her youngest son's handsome face and suddenly thought of the phrase "all show and no substance". She couldn't help but smile bitterly, "If I beat you, you would listen to me. I would rather beat you every day. But if I beat you, will you remember the past? If I beat you, will you change?" As she spoke, her eyes were slightly wet.

Seeing this situation, Eleventh Lady tiptoed back to the hall.

Mother Du looked at him with a flicker of eyes and followed him out of the inner room.

The two stood in the hall and smiled at each other, but then they heard the voice of the third lady coming from outside the door: "Oh! What's going on! You're standing in the yard!"

"The Madam said she was feeling a little uncomfortable and wanted to lie down for a while. So all the servants in the room left." Wei Zi replied, "Third Madam, please stay here for a while. I will go and inform them." As she spoke, she lifted the curtain and walked in.

Seeing Shiyi Niang and Mama Du both standing in the hall, she was shocked. Then she heard the lady's voice, which was not loud but could not conceal her anger, coming from the inner room: "... As the saying goes, every failure makes you wiser. You are so good that you turned a deaf ear to the words of your family. That Liu Huifang, what did I say at that time? I told you to stay away from him, but you got involved with his sister..."

She immediately turned pale as paper. She knew she had heard something she shouldn't have heard, and she looked at Mother Du for help.

Mother Du hesitated and glanced at Eleventh Lady.

If it was someone else, she could ignore it, but Mother Du was the most capable person around the lady. She sighed and smiled as she went into the inner room.

The lady was scolding the red-faced Xu Lingkuan when she suddenly saw Shiyi Niang coming in. She stopped talking and asked, trying to suppress her displeasure: "What's the matter?"

Eleventh Lady hurried forward and said, "Third sister-in-law comes to greet you!"

The lady listened and sneered: "Tell her. I'm not feeling well and don't want to see anyone. Let her go back first!"

Eleventh Lady knew that the Madam was unhappy at the moment, and whoever met her would be in trouble. She hurriedly said "yes" and left the inner room, then shook her head at Wei Zi.

Wei Zi breathed a sigh of relief and went out to reply to the Third Madam: "...The Madam has already gone to bed, you and the Third Young Master can come back tomorrow!"

The maid in Eleventh Lady's room and the servant of Fifth Master were waiting in the courtyard. Third Madam noticed them when she entered the room. She knew that people from Fourth and Fifth Houses were all there. She couldn't help but smile awkwardly when she heard this. She said unwillingly, "I don't know what the big deal is. It's not enough to keep Marquis and Fifth Master to discuss it, and you want to keep Fourth Brother's wife as well?"

Xu Sijian, who came with his mother, asked with concern: "Grandma, what's wrong with you? Have you called a doctor? Is it serious?"

Wei Zi heard the hidden meaning in Third Madam's words, but pretended not to hear them, and answered Xu Sijian wholeheartedly: "It's nothing serious. It's just that he's old and a little weak. Third Young Master, just rest assured and lie down and you'll be fine!"

After hearing this, Xu Sijian wanted to ask more questions, but the third lady pulled him away: "Your fourth uncle and fifth uncle are serving in the room. It won't be too late for us to visit your grandmother tomorrow." Then she dragged him away regardless of Xu Sijian's wishes.

Wei Zi breathed a sigh of relief, but saw Xu Siqin and Xu Siyu coming together.

The lady is still missing.

Xu Siqin was very worried and pulled Wei Zi to ask about the Madam's situation. However, Xu Siyu glanced at the maids and servants standing under the eaves and asked Wei Zi with a smile, "I wonder if my third aunt and my third brother are here?"

Wei Zi was stunned.

I didn't expect Xu Siyu to ask this.

Xu Siyu hurriedly explained with a smile: "I was afraid that Third Aunt didn't know that Grandmother was ill."

"The Third Madam and the Third Young Master just came."

After hearing this, Xu Siyu said to Xu Siqin, "Let's go back first. It won't be too late to visit grandma tomorrow when she's feeling better." Then he took Xu Siqin and walked out. After leaving the lady's courtyard, he asked the maid to follow him from a distance and whispered to Xu Siqin, "Didn't you notice that my mother's maid and my fifth uncle's personal servant were waiting under the eaves?"

"That's why I'm a little worried." Xu Siqin frowned. "Since Fourth Aunt's maid and Fifth Master's personal servant are here, Fourth Uncle and Fifth Uncle must be here too. Even the two elders are alarmed. I'm afraid it's not the 'lack of spirits' that Mother Du mentioned..."

Xu Siyu couldn't help but laugh after hearing this: "Brother is too honest!"

Xu Siqin raised his eyebrows in confusion.

"Think about it, grandma was fine during lunch, how could she suddenly become so 'unhealthy' that she even lost her grandson? Think about it again, if she was really sick, Doctor Liu should have come a long time ago, but Mother Du said that only my third aunt and my third brother came..."

Xu Siqin suddenly realized: "It seems that it is most likely that Uncle Five has caused some trouble, so he asked Uncle Four to discuss what to do!"

A hint of smile flashed across Xu Siyu's eyes: "You react too slowly!"

"Who is as clever as you?" Xu Siqin grinned. "As long as grandma is not really sick, it's fine!"

"Who is the ghost?" Xu Siyu shouted, "We have agreed that you can't say that to me in front of outsiders."

"There are no outsiders here, right?" Xu Siqin said with a smile. "Besides, you have a new mother, right? I think your new aunt is pretty good."

Xu Siyu smiled and did not continue his words. Instead, he asked: "Brother, is the third daughter of the Zhongqin family very pretty? I heard that you were reading "Guanju" at home..."

Before he could finish his words, Xu Siqin had already raised his fist and punched him on the shoulder: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Xu Siyu ducked to avoid it and ran away laughing: "There is a beautiful woman, on the other side of the water..."

"You still say, you still say..." Xu Siqin chased after him with a red face.

At this time, they were just young men who were pretending to be sad in order to write new poems.

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The lady lost her temper for a long time, and Xu Lingkuan kept promising that he would never do it again. Only then did she gradually calm down: "...You must remember your words. Be a man of integrity and keep your promises."

The fifth master pounded his head like garlic.

Xu Lingyi stepped forward to help his brother out, "Mother, it's getting late. Let the maids set the table! If you have anything to say, let's talk after dinner."

The lady didn't have such confidence. She sighed helplessly and said sadly, "Then let's set the table!"

Mother Du, who was listening to the noise outside, hurried in to help the lady change her clothes, while Eleventh Lady asked Wei Zi to set the table.

After dinner, the lady kept Xu Lingyi to talk.

Fifth Master and Eleventh Lady hurriedly stood up and said goodbye.

After leaving the lady's house, the Fifth Master bowed briefly to Eleventh Lady and left.

After Eleventh Lady returned to her room and washed up, a maid from the Madam's room came to report: "The Marquis said that he will stay at the Madam's place tonight. Let the Madam rest early and don't have to wait at the door."

Eleventh Lady gave the maid a few coins and went to bed early.

The next morning, while she was combing her hair, a maid came in and said, "The uncle from Gongxian Hutong is here!"

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