Jiang Caiping asked the maid beside her to put down the bedding and said to Su Jinyue, "Don't be so stubborn. Your grandmother is doing this for the good of the mansion."

"As long as you admit your mistake tomorrow, your grandmother will definitely not let you continue to copy scriptures in the ancestral hall as punishment."

"It is indeed your fault what happened today." Jiang Caiping consciously softened her tone towards Su Jinyue, "But mother doesn't want to be angry with you. Mother believes that you will get better in the future."

"Because you are my daughter."

Maybe Jiang Caiping thought that these words would move her, but Su Jinyue was deeply hurt by these words.

Yes, she is her mother’s biological daughter, but in her previous life, she allowed everyone to trample her down as if she were worthless, and treated Su Zhiyao like a treasure.

I wonder if her mother would shed a tear for her when she learned of her death in her previous life?

The warm yellow candlelight shone on Su Jinyue's face, but it could not illuminate the coldness in her eyes.

After Jiang Caiping finished speaking, Su Jinyue finally spoke, "Mother, please take the bedding and food back. I'm not hungry."

Jiang Caiping's face froze after being rejected by Su Jinyue. She wanted to criticize her, but after thinking about something for a moment, she nodded and said, "Leave the bedding here. You should have a good rest tonight."

With a creak, the door of the ancestral hall was closed.

Xiao Tao then came close to Su Jinyue and said, "Miss, in fact, the Madam loves you very much, but she was deceived by the Second Miss."

Blinded?

Su Jinyue shook her head, "Xiaotao, put the Buddhist scriptures away."

"Yes, miss."

The next morning, the maid came to deliver breakfast, and Xiaotao went out to get water for Su Jinyue to dress up.

Someone came to Old Lady Su's room. Nanny Song entered the ancestral hall and bowed to Su Jinyue. "Miss, the old lady asked me to take the Buddhist scriptures you copied and send them over."

Su Jinyue raised her slender white fingers, covered her lips with them and yawned, then looked lazily at Nanny Song, "I was tired last night, so I went to bed and didn't copy."

"Madam." Su Jinyue picked up the Buddhist scriptures on the table and showed them to Madam Song. "I'm not a god. I can't copy the Buddhist scriptures a thousand times in one night."

Nanny Song's expression changed. "Even if she didn't copy it a thousand times, Miss should have copied a lot in one night."

"Didn't I say that I was tired last night and didn't copy it?" Su Jinyue said, "You can report this to grandma."

Nanny Song was so irritated by Su Jinyue's attitude that her face turned pale. She turned around and quickly walked out of the ancestral hall.

Inside Rong'an Hall.

When she heard that Su Jinyue had never copied the Buddhist scriptures and was still claiming to be so confident, Old Lady Su was so angry that she smashed the teacup!

Bang!

The broken pieces of the teacup were scattered all over the floor!

"She really doesn't take my words as a grandmother to heart!"

At that time, Su Zhiyao handed an orange to Old Lady Su, "Grandma, originally my granddaughter didn't want to tell you either."

"But, since my sister came back from the border and received the reward from His Majesty, she has become more and more different from before."

Old Lady Su snorted coldly, "She is just relying on her little reward to make trouble in the Marquis' Mansion?!"

She looked at Nanny Song, "Go tell her that she can only leave the ancestral hall when she finishes copying the Buddhist scriptures a thousand times! Otherwise, she won't have to be fed!"

"I think she has been spoiled these days!"

"yes."

After Nanny Song left, Old Lady Su raised her eyes and glanced at Su Zhiyao, "He, the Xie family, wants to marry a wife, but has he said when he will marry you?"

Su Zhiyao's face turned pale, and she said softly, "Qingxu said that I can only be brought into the mansion after my legal wife is married, and she said that the rules cannot be broken."

"What rules!"

Old Lady Su snorted and said disdainfully: "It's just because his family has attached themselves to the Shangshu family's daughter, and now they are fawning on her!"

"You are the concubine he asked for permission to marry, so what if you move in on the same day!"

Su Zhiyao's eyes were red, and she said to Old Lady Su, "Chu Ling said yesterday that on the day she marries me, she must have a sedan chair to carry me in through the side door!"

"Grandmother, I am Qingxu's legitimate concubine. How can I enter the mansion through a small gate? If I do that, I will be acknowledged as the legitimate daughter of our mansion. If I want to be a concubine in Xie's mansion, how can our mansion maintain its reputation?"

Old Madam Su's wrinkled face showed her dissatisfaction with Su Zhiyao. "Since you know how to lose face, why didn't you think about the reputation of our mansion when you and the Xie family were making peace in the palace that day?"

Although she knew that Old Madam Su was dissatisfied with her because of this matter, Su Zhiyao's face was still burning with anger when she mentioned it again.

"If this hadn't happened, and the Xie family had dared to treat you like this, the worst that could happen to us would be to break off the engagement!"

"But now everyone in the capital knows that you and Xie Qingxu sat down in the palace. Which good family would dare to marry you?!"

Su Zhiyao cried until her eyes turned red, "Grandma... someone clearly framed me and Qingxu in that incident. Someone led my granddaughter there. I was really wronged!"

Old Lady Su looked at Su Zhiyao intently, "That was in the palace, who would frame you!"

"The last time I went to the palace, my sister and I had an argument and something happened to me. I..."

Old Lady Su asked, "You mean, it was Jin Yue who did this to you?"

Su Zhiyao quickly shook her head, "Grandma, that's not what I meant. I just blamed myself for the quarrel with my sister that day. I was in a trance and fell into the thief's trap."

If Su Jinyue hadn't made trouble and insisted on breaking off the engagement with the Xie family, there wouldn't have been so many problems!

Old Madam Su looked unhappy and complained more about Su Jinyue.

"Old lady!"

At this moment, the maid came in hurriedly to report, "Many maids and servants of wealthy families came to our mansion, saying that they had an appointment to come to pick up medicine today."

Old Lady Su frowned and looked at Su Zhiyao, "What medicine do you want?"

Su Zhiyao also looked confused. She left early yesterday and didn't know what happened afterwards. Naturally, she didn't think about Su Jinyue's words last night.

"Old Madam, there are already a circle of maids and servants outside our mansion. They are all sent by noble families. What should we do now?"

Old Lady Su calmed herself down and asked the maid, "Whose family are they from?"

The families the maid mentioned all had officials of the fifth rank or above, and there were even servants from the Grand Tutor's mansion waiting outside the mansion.

At this point, Old Lady Su's expression finally lost its composure. "Did they tell us what medicine they came to get?"

"It is said that the young lady promised last night that she would give the medicine today."

Old Lady Su had an unpleasant expression on her face, and she said to the maid, "Go to the ancestral hall first and bring the young lady out!"

"yes."

As soon as Nanny Song left, the maid hurried to the ancestral hall.

"Miss, the old lady wants you to go to Rong'an Hall." said the maid.

Su Jinyue pretended to pick up the pen and wrote two words, "Grandmother just told Nanny Song that I can't leave the ancestral hall because I can't finish copying the Buddhist scriptures."