Chapter 1622 Solution 1
After seeing Wang Rong, Mrs. Tang originally wanted to meet her cousin Wang Ji, but after seeing the injuries on Wang Rong's back and thighs, Mrs. Tang left with a gloomy face and did not go to see her cousin again.
Grandma Wang wiped her tears and sent Madam Tang out. After watching her carriage go away, she immediately turned back to look for her mother-in-law, "Mother, the eldest aunt has left and didn't go to the next door."
Mrs. Wang nodded gravely and fanned Wang Rong gently. "The clan leader will definitely ask."
Wang Rong was still unconscious, and Doctor Ning, who stayed behind, was asked to go downstairs to rest. Now, only their family was in the room.
Mrs. Wang was silent for a moment, then said to Wang Da, "Go get some linen and use it as a rinse for your brother. Maybe it will help."
Wang Da opened his mouth and hesitated, "Mother, this is not good..."
Mrs. Wang gritted her teeth and said, "Go quickly. This is the only way. Your father passed away early, and your grandparents were still alive at that time, so the family didn't split up. We can only rely on my little dowry to make a living. Now your grandmother doesn't care about anything. Such a big thing has happened. The letters we sent have not been replied yet. I don't know if she didn't receive them or if she is unwilling to come back for your eldest brother."
She said, "This time, we have really offended your uncle and aunt. Even if we try to be nice to each other later, if the grudge is not over, they will have plenty of ways to make us suffer. We might as well take this opportunity to separate."
Mrs. Wang wiped her tears and said, "If we had known that staying in the capital would mean risking your lives, we would have returned to Taiyuan earlier. Even if we were poorer, at least we could still survive."
Wang Da also wiped his tears, knelt down and called out, "Mother."
Mrs. Wang said, "Your brother is already like this, but we can't go back in disgrace. Otherwise, those relatives in Taiyuan will not know how to look at us."
She looked at him with a far-reaching gaze and said, "We were born into an aristocratic family, so we look glamorous to outsiders and no one seems to dare to bully us. But they don't know that we are the ones who bully others most fiercely. So even if we go back, we must go back with confidence and reason, so that they won't dare to bully us."
Wang Da then agreed and went to the warehouse to get a few rolls of linen and started cutting.
After leaving the Wang family in Guangdefang, Mrs. Tang immediately returned to the Wang family in Chongyuanfang to see her father with an angry face.
Her father was leisurely feeding the fish along the lakeside. When he saw his daughter return, he immediately waved and asked with a smile, "How come you have time to come to my place? I was just about to tell you that I've been in Beijing long enough and will be returning to Taiyuan someday."
Patriarch Wang is the patriarch of the Wang family. He did not hold an official position in the court. In fact, he was just busy with clan affairs. Moreover, the emperor wanted to revise the clan history, and the patriarch of the Cui family was so angry that he resigned from his post, and he dragged a few of them to resign together.
Patriarch Wang felt that being an official was boring, and the emperor did not treat him with much courtesy, so he resigned as well.
When he was happy, he would come from Taiyuan to the capital to live for a while to see his sons and daughters. When he was unhappy, he would go back to Taiyuan. He was very comfortable.
Mrs. Tang walked up to her father and asked with a sullen face, "Father, do you know that Uncle Ji beat up Cousin Rong?"
"Hmm? I've heard of it. It's because that kid rode his horse and trampled on the young crops. What happened?"
Madam Tang said with a sigh, "Father, Cousin Rong has always been cautious and soft-tempered. Would he let his horse trample on the seedlings? The horse only stumbled and trampled on a few plants, and the farmer immediately repaired the damage. Cousin also had to make compensation..."
Patriarch Wang raised his hand to stop her and said with a smile, "Silly child, this is just a court game. Do you still want to find evidence to prove right and wrong with them?"
"There's no need to distinguish right from wrong with outsiders, but the clan must know that Uncle Ji's impeachment wasn't Cousin Rong's fault. In fact, he was the one implicated by Uncle Ji."
The Wang clan leader frowned. "They are uncle and nephew, they are one family. They share the same fate. How can you say they are implicated?"
Madam Tang said expressionlessly, "Uncle Ji beat Cousin Rong with a court stick."
Patriarch Wang's face darkened, and the smile on his face completely disappeared. "What did you say? What did Wang Ji use to beat people with a stick?"
"Court caning!" Madam Tang clenched her fists and said, "I went to see the injuries on Cousin Rong's body. From his lower back to his thighs, they looked exactly like caning, not just ordinary beatings with a stick. He was still unconscious when I went there, and the middle part was broken."
Patriarch Wang dropped the fish food in his hand, turned around and left.
Just as Madam Tang was about to catch up, he stopped and turned back and said, "Go home. You're a married woman, so it's not good for you to get involved too much in this matter. I can go over and take a look myself."
Mrs. Tang stopped, thought for a moment, and nodded, "Then I'll go back?"
Patriarch Wang nodded and frowned, saying, "Don't bully your son-in-law for no reason. Last time I saw him, he had a bruise on his forehead. When I asked him, he said he fell. I knew it was you who beat him."
In the past, whenever Tang He got beaten, he would always say he fell down. But how could an adult always get bumped up? He wasn't a two-year-old child.
Mrs. Tang: "...That's what he fell!"
Patriarch Wang had a look of disbelief on his face, and Madam Tang was furious. It was Tang He who fell. It had rained the day before yesterday and the gravel road in the garden was a bit slippery. He had to hide to scare her, but he accidentally slipped and fell and hit his head. How could he blame her for this?
Mrs. Tang returned home angrily. Lord Tang, who had rarely left the yamen on time and was playing with his son, saw them. He hugged his son and tried to turn around and hide, but Mrs. Tang saw him with her sharp eyes and shouted, "Stop!"
Master Tang turned around with his son in his arms, put him down, smiled ingratiatingly at his wife, and walked forward with his son, "Madam, are you back?"
Mrs. Tang snorted and asked, "Why did you come back so early today?"
"It's all right now. The drought is inevitable. Most of the rice in the fields has turned yellow. The next step is harvesting. We can only start working after they are almost dried. So I think I should take advantage of this time to spend more time with you."
Mrs. Tang's expression softened a bit. She patted her son's head and had him taken out to play. Then she told him about Wang Ji's family and said, "My father has passed away. I'll have someone send some herbs over tomorrow. Manbao said it would take three days to know for sure if he's out of danger."
She became angry again. "A healthy man was beaten to the point of being on the verge of death. I don't know what Uncle Ji was thinking."
Lord Tang frowned, pulled her away from the servants, and asked, "Why, is my father-in-law still upset about the clan history incident?"
Madam Tang: "My father has long forgotten about this matter. He just enjoys his life and doesn't like being an official. That's why he took advantage of the situation and stood with Cui."
"I'm afraid the other branches of the Wang family don't think so."
(End of this chapter)
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