When Mu Guozhong arrived, he slapped Liu Shi so hard that her face slammed against the door, and she cursed him while her face was covered in blood.
"Mu Guozhong, I've followed you for so many years, and this is how you treat me?"
Mu Guozhong said coldly, "So what if you've been with me for so many years? Xia Chan has been with me even longer, from when I was young until now. Compared to her, what are you?"
Liu said, "I don't care if you want to keep a mistress, but how could you choose my cousin? She only met you because she came to visit relatives here. If I hadn't helped their family back then, they would have fallen into ruin long ago."
Madam Liu glanced around at the outer residence again. Apart from being smaller, it was not much different from their Minister's residence. Many of the exquisite items were even moved from their Minister's residence.
If this mistress were someone else, Liu wouldn't be so angry.
Mu Guozhong said, "Even if I marry her, you can't say anything. Besides, I'm only keeping her outside, which is already considering your dignity."
Liu's face was covered in blood and tears.
"Mu Guozhong, Mu Guozhong, how could you say such shameless things? If you really cared about my reputation, you wouldn't have gotten involved with her."
Before Mu Guozhong could speak, Liu's cousin clutched her abdomen.
"Sir, my stomach hurts so much."
When Mu Guozhong saw the blood all over her dress, his face turned cold again, and he carried her away.
He then gave instructions to his subordinates outside.
"Guards, seize this wicked woman and lock her in the woodshed. When the lady wakes up, make her come and kowtow to apologize."
Liu was heartbroken and was locked in the woodshed once again.
The first time was because of a theft at the Minister's residence, and the second time was because of a mistress.
She felt utterly hopeless.
She used to think that Mu Guozhong was very good to her, and she was very proud of herself.
It seems that a man's affection is like the wind: gentle when he loves, but volatile and elusive when he doesn't, impossible to grasp.
Later, the mistress did indeed wake up, and then cried for a long time. Mu Guozhong coaxed her gently, and finally had a servant summon Liu Shi and make her kowtow and apologize.
At first, Liu was defiant, but later, Mu Guozhong sneered.
“Since I can make you my secondary wife, I can also make others my secondary wives. Liu, don’t be ungrateful.”
"Moreover, I can demote you to a concubine. If your children become illegitimate, then this Minister's mansion will have nothing to do with them."
Upon hearing this, Liu, who had been so assertive, suddenly trembled.
She didn't care anymore, but what about her children?
She knelt on the ground, her mouth bleeding from biting her lip, yet she still respectfully kowtowed to her cousin.
Her cousin, who had received so much help from her, never told her to stop, so she kept gritting her teeth and pounding away until her head was bleeding.
Only then did my cousin snuggle into Mu Guozhong's arms.
"Although she lost her child, my cousin genuinely apologized."
After saying that, she cried again. She was just like that kind of timid wife who was clearly very sad, but would rather suffer in silence than not be kind and forgiving.
This made Mu Guozhong even more distressed.
"Liu, from now on you will be confined to your home for a month. Go to the ancestral hall to pray for Xiang'er's child."
Liu gritted her teeth and accepted it. I heard that after returning home, she threw a huge tantrum and smashed everything she could in the room. Finally, urged by the servants, she had no choice but to kneel in the ancestral hall and chant scriptures.
When Mu Wanting thought about how she had also been forced to kneel in the ancestral hall when her mother was away over the years, her resentment subsided somewhat.
All of this is what Liu should have to endure.
Back then, she and her mother were inseparable, yet she still stole her mother's husband and dowry, and became her second wife. Isn't that a slap in the face to her mother?
She might even be behind her own mother's disappearance.
Mu Wanting opened another letter.
This letter describes the bustling activity at the Yongle Marquis's residence.
After Murong Rong schemed against Zhao Zhiyuan, Zhao Zhiyuan disappeared. It was later learned that Zhao Zhiyuan had bought a carriage and left the capital.
Only after inquiring around did the Marquis's residence learn that Zhao Zhiyuan had come to see Mu Wanting.
Mu Wanting's hand holding the letter froze. She hadn't expected that Zhao Zhiyuan would still be so attached to her.
But after he got her, didn't he just throw her away like a worn-out shoe?
She suppressed her soft heart and continued reading the letter in her hand.
Murong Rong finally realized that things had gone off track. Her mother-in-law treated her even worse, mocking her in various ways, and her sisters-in-law also bullied her.
In the past, they were able to feed and clothe her, but now they have reduced her expenses and her meals consist of bland and tasteless porridge and side dishes.
In addition, with the autumn imperial examinations just around the corner, she was afraid that something might happen and Zhao Zhiyuan would miss the exams, thus preventing her from becoming the wife of the top scholar, so she hurriedly came to chase after him.
At this point, she still believed that Zhao Zhiyuan, who hadn't even read a single page of the book, could become the top scholar in the imperial examination.
Mu Wanting raised an eyebrow. What were they all up to this time?
Zhao Zhiyuan's arrival wasn't enough; Murong Rong was also coming.
That scene is simply unimaginable.
Shen Xinglan walked over to Mu Wanting's side, holding an open letter in her hand, but remained silent for a long time.
Mu Wanting didn't ask, after all, she had just said that they should each have their own secrets, and she naturally couldn't go back on her word.
She turned to leave.
Shen Xinglan's tone was stiff.
“My men replied. He asked all the men he could contact, but none of them remembered your mother.”
He paused for a moment, then spoke again.
"However, Nineteen might remember your mother, because at the time, Nineteen was being followed by that group of people and ended up in your mother's group. He only found his way back on his own afterward."
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