Chapter 112
Shen Rang turned and strode away.
Jing Yuan, who was originally guarding the side door, saw him come out and quickly followed him away.
At first, Jingyuan didn't know what he was going to do, but when he saw that Shen had given up Liuyun Garden and was heading straight towards Rongxi Hall, he quickly stepped forward and blocked his way: "Young Master, Madam is probably copying scriptures right now, we can't go over there!"
There weren't many rules in the manor, but there was one ironclad rule: Zheng Shi couldn't be disturbed when she was copying scriptures at night, otherwise she would be sold off directly.
Although Shen Rang was Zheng's son, and Zheng wouldn't actually sell him off, she would certainly be unhappy.
As a son, it is a mistake to displease one's mother.
Chen Rang stopped in his tracks.
Jing Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and then said, "Young Master, even if it's something extremely important, we should talk about it tomorrow!"
Seeing Shen Rang like this, Jing Yuan knew what it was about.
Apart from the one in the back room, no one else could cause Shen Rang's emotions to fluctuate so drastically.
"Granny Zheng just told me that she was sent by the young mistress to inventory the storeroom this afternoon. Unexpectedly, the young mistress made trouble for the second young lady during that time. I heard..." Jing Yuan carefully looked at Shen Rang's expression and swallowed the rest of his sentence.
Shen Rang took a deep breath: "I once said that I would protect her."
They thought that putting someone in the yard would protect her, but they never expected that she would still suffer such a great injustice.
A murky black aura churned within his unfathomable black eyes, making it impossible to discern his thoughts.
Jingyuan sighed and said, "The young mistress is in charge of the inner courtyard after all. You can't be at home all the time."
Besides, even if Shen Rang is always at home, he still has to consider Yun Xi's status. Even if she is wronged right in front of him, Shen Rang can't say anything in front of her.
After all, Shen Rang shouldn't have met Yun Xi at all.
Shen Rang took a step forward, and Jing Yuan quickly followed.
“She is currently locked up in the back room. I was thinking that if we could elevate her to the status of a concubine, perhaps she could suffer less grievance.”
Jing Yuan twitched the corner of his mouth.
The young master is a gifted student and is now catching up in terms of social skills, but he is still completely clueless about the intricacies of this grand mansion.
"Young Master, the Young Mistress will always be the Young Mistress. Even if we elevate the Second Miss to the status of a concubine, or even to a secondary wife, the Young Mistress will still be the one who calls the shots in this household!"
“The young mistress clearly doesn’t like the second young lady. No matter how much you praise her, as long as she’s still in this house, the second young lady will definitely suffer.”
"Besides, nowadays many families would rather die than become a concubine!" Thinking of this, Jingyuan broke out in a cold sweat. "It's fortunate that I stopped you, otherwise if you had told the madam and made the second young lady a concubine, who knows what the outcome would have been!"
Shen Rang was taken aback: "How could this be?"
He only thought that once Yunxi became a concubine, she could live in a more comfortable place and suffer less grievance. He never expected that there would be such a complicated situation.
“Yes,” Jingyuan nodded. “Being a concubine means being inferior. Think about it, before the Second Miss came to the capital, she was pampered and raised by the Chen family. After she came to the capital, although the Yun family did not treat her well, she was still the Second Miss. With such a status, she would be more than qualified to be the principal wife.”
Jingyuan's words completely suppressed the restlessness in Shen Rang's heart.
If that's the case, then we should indeed be more cautious about this matter.
Seeing that Shen Rang had calmed down, Jing Yuan was relieved: "Your Highness, I know that you are doing this for the Second Miss's own good and that you can't bear to see her suffer. However, there must be a proper way to do things, right? If you do something good but end up doing something bad, then in the end, it will be the Second Miss who suffers."
Shen Rang nodded and said nothing more. The two of them walked around the courtyard for a long time before returning home.
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