Chapter 159: Vicious Female Supporting Character vs. Childless Emperor 3
The old lady was sure that Ji Yunhuan was just putting on an act, so she waved her hand and had the gate of the courtyard closed. She shouted sternly, "Come here! Beat her! Twenty times, not one less. I wonder how she can pretend to faint anymore."
Qiao Yue protected the young lady tightly, and the maids rushed forward to stop the maids. Screams and the maids' scolding mixed together, and Linlang Garden was in chaos.
With a loud bang, the gate of the courtyard was smashed open from the outside, and a beautiful middle-aged woman rushed in. The gold hairpin on her head was a little crooked. She didn't care about her decency at all, and trotted along with her skirt in her hand. Wherever she went, people avoided her and dared not bump into her.
"Huan'er? What happened to my Huan'er?" The beautiful woman rushed in and hugged Ji Yunhuan in her arms. Her precious daughter's body was incredibly hot. She was shocked and angry, but she managed to stay calm. "Qiaoyue, tell me, what happened?"
Qiao Yue knelt on the ground, tears streaming down her face. "The young lady has a fever and fainted, but the old lady insisted on spanking her and wouldn't let me go get a doctor. Madam, please save the young lady."
Ji Yunhuan sensed a familiar breath and instinctively went to his mother's arms, murmuring, "Mom, please save him, please save him..."
Zhuo Wei's heart was almost broken. Her precious daughter, whom she had cherished for more than ten years, was bullied like this just when she went out to check the accounts.
"How on earth are you taking care of the young lady? Go get a doctor!"
The old lady stood up from the mahogany chair, her wrinkled face full of majesty. Her sunken eyes swept over the maids in the yard and she said angrily, "Let's see who dares to go! Whoever dares to move today will get out of the Prime Minister's Mansion. Once you are in the hands of human traffickers, it will be hard to say whether you live or die."
"And you, you are born into a merchant family and you are not presentable. You have no virtues as a wife. You are arrogant and rebellious, and you don't respect your mother-in-law. You have corrupted a good child. I am not dead yet, and it is not your turn to make the decision in the Prime Minister's Mansion!"
Zhuo Wei was so angry that she almost laughed. "Old Madam, what you said is really interesting. When Yueyue asked for money, why didn't you say that you are the head of this house? What you wear and what you wear on your head are all gifts from me. It doesn't cost you any money to hire a doctor, so why are you so anxious?"
The old lady pointed at Zhuo Wei, her hands shaking with anger, "You... are really from a merchant family, you talk about money all the time, you stink of money, I won't argue with you."
"You have lost your moral character and failed to discipline the young lady in the mansion. I will have to teach her the rules. She pretends to be sick every time to avoid punishment. This time, she will not be able to escape!"
Qiao Yue has already slipped out to ask for a doctor. As long as the lady is around, she is not afraid of the old lady. Anyway, her bond is in the lady's hands, and the old lady cannot sell her out.
Zhuo Wei called two maids to help her daughter into the house, and she stood at the door to stop the old lady. "Old lady, if you just take a quick look, you will know that Huan'er is really sick. In the final analysis, you never treat Huan'er as your own granddaughter. You just want to use her to control me."
"You accused Huan'er of a crime without knowing the truth because of a few casual words from outsiders. How can you be a grandmother like you? The elders are kind and the younger ones are filial. Since you don't like her, you don't have to come in."
The doctors came quickly and Qiao Yue called several doctors at once. Zhuo Wei opened the door and invited the doctors in, then closed the door to prevent the old lady from coming in.
Ji Yunhuan was lying on the bed, her little face flushed red, and she was talking nonsense, but she was surprisingly strong and held the Persian cat tightly, refusing to let go.
The Persian cat was pure white all over, except for its belly which was stained with blood. It lay quietly on Ji Yunhuan, and no one knew whether it was dead or alive.
Zhuo Wei was afraid of hurting her daughter, so she didn't dare to use brute force. She could only coax her softly, "Huan'er, be good, let go, okay? Mother will take good care of the kitten, and let the doctor check the kitten's injuries, okay?"
Tears flowed from Ji Yunhuan's tightly closed eyes. She loosened her hands and the Persian cat was taken away by Zhuo Wei.
Qiao Yue found Ji Yunhuan's childhood cradle from somewhere, which was just big enough to put the Persian cat in. A young doctor was not on his turn to see patients, so he took another approach and bandaged the kitten.
The young lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion liked this cat very much. If she cured the cat, she would definitely receive a reward.
Several old doctors took turns to feel Ji Yunhuan's pulse, and finally concluded that he had a cold entering his body. They discussed and wrote a prescription.
Ji Yunhuan was delirious due to the fever and couldn't open her eyes, but she knew her mother was beside her and she kept crying and saying sorry.
Zhuo Wei held her baby daughter in her arms, put a wet towel on her forehead, and urged impatiently: "Hurry up, you are taking so long to write a prescription, Huan'er has started to talk nonsense, if she gets burned, I will smash your clinic!"
"Don't cry, Huan'er. You didn't let mother down. It was mother who let you down. Grandmother doesn't like me, and I've caused trouble for Huan'er. Grandmother is not kind. We should just ignore her in the future."
Ji Yunhuan closed her eyes and shook her head, almost throwing the scarf off her forehead. She cried even louder, "I'm sorry... I'm sorry... Mother, it's all Huan'er's fault that the Ji family was confiscated. Mother, please don't die, don't leave Huan'er alone..."
Zhuo Wei thought her daughter was confused due to fever and had a nightmare. She patted her daughter's back and soothed her softly, "Huan'er, don't cry. Your father is the prime minister. The Ji family will be fine. At worst, we won't be officials anymore. Let's go back to Suzhou as a family. Your grandparents miss you."
Ji Yunhuan fell asleep while crying. The doctor finally wrote out the prescription. Qiao Yue was boiling the medicine in the corridor. She had to watch over it herself to feel at ease.
Shangguan Ruoxue knelt at the door, her eyes red from crying, and said with a guilty look on her face: "It's all my fault. My cousin is of noble status. If something happens to her, what will I do?"
The old lady sat on a chair. She was old and had difficulty walking, so she sat most of the time. She wiped Shangguan Ruoxue's tears distressedly and sighed:
"You are too kindhearted. She pushed you into the water, and you prayed for her. Hurry up and get up. Don't hurt yourself by kneeling like that."
Shangguan Ruoxue leaned her head on the old lady's knees, "Fortunately, the old lady loves me. Only my cousin can get well. It's okay for me to kneel down. I'll recite some sutras for my cousin."
As soon as Zhuo Wei went out, she heard Shangguan Ruoxue crying and felt very annoyed, but the old lady liked her way of doing things. It was Huan'er who was sick, but the old lady was more concerned about a cousin who was so far away from her.
"Cousin, who are you crying for every day? The Prime Minister's Mansion provides you with food and clothes, and everything is on par with legitimate daughters. I believe I have never treated you harshly. You are crying here dressed like you are attending a funeral. I don't know if I would think that there is a funeral in our mansion. How unlucky!"
Shangguan Ruoxue shrank her body, her face pale with fear, "Madam, please don't be angry. I won't dare to do it again. Please don't chase me away."
The old lady was like an old hen protecting her cubs, staring at Zhuo Wei with dissatisfaction, "Don't scare her, I invited Xue'er into the house, and if I don't agree, don't even think about driving her away!"
Zhuo Wei originally had no such intention. She was wealthy, so raising another little girl was nothing. But at this moment, she was provoked to anger and sneered:
"That's fine. Since the old lady is so kind, you can pay for all of my cousin's expenses in the future. We can't afford to keep idle people in the mansion!"
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