"You all go down." Madam Mu dismissed the servants in the room, and even Mother Mu went downstairs.
Before leaving, Mu's mother closed the door. Gu Yunran understood instantly and said to Zhuye and Ruizhu, "You two wait for me outside."
"Miss." Zhuye is usually carefree, but at this time he seemed to understand. She looked at Gu Yunran with some concern.
Gu Yunran patted her hands: "It's okay, you two go out first and wait for me outside."
"good."
Ruizhu pulled Zhuye out.
Madam Mu said, "Do you know what I want to ask you?"
Gu Yunran bowed slightly: "I know."
"Grandma's guess was correct. I was the one who placed that thing under the Fourth Miss's bed."
"But it really wasn't me who did it."
Seeing that Gu Yunran had a calm expression and was neither humble nor arrogant, Madam Mu nodded.
"You are indeed smart, and very similar to me back then. This is why I want to hand over the power of the family to you."
"Grandma is old, and the future of the Mu family depends on you young people. Grandma doesn't want to see you fighting among yourselves."
Gu Yunran slowly knelt down.
"Grandmother, I know you feel sorry for the Fourth Young Lady, but she has attacked me time and again, and my patience has reached its limit. If I don't fight back, she will become even more rampant and aggressive in the future."
Madam Mu reached out and helped Gu Yunran up: "Get up."
She took Gu Yunran's hand and asked her to sit next to her.
"I know I must teach her a lesson this time. But..." Madam Mu paused, "She can't bear the stigma of harming Grandmother."
Madam Mu sighed: "She is the fourth daughter of our Mu family and has not yet married. If she carries a bad reputation, how will she get married in the future?"
Gu Yunran nodded: "Yunran understands."
"Good boy, I'll leave this matter to you. Grandma is old and can't take care of so many things anymore."
Gu Yunran: "Okay."
She bowed to Madam Mu and said, "Yun Ran will take her leave first."
"Okay, I'm tired too, I need to sleep for a while."
Gu Yunran came out of Madam Mo Mu's room, looked at the sky, and sighed deeply.
Zhuye hurriedly ran up and asked, "Miss, did the old lady give you any trouble?"
"No."
Ruizhu asked, "What does the old lady mean?"
"We can't let the Fourth Young Lady bear that bad reputation. Ruizhu, go investigate," Gu Yunran said. "Start with Wenxiu."
Ruizhu: "I understand."
Zhuye helped Gu Yunran back to Biyun Pavilion and she sighed.
"The old lady is really amazing. She understood the whole story in just a few words."
Gu Yunran nodded: "The Mu family is a wealthy and powerful family. The old lady has been the mistress of the Mu family for fifty years. There is nothing she doesn't understand."
Even Gu Yunran felt inferior to him.
"What about the Fourth Young Lady? No punishment?" Zhuye said unwillingly, "If we let the Fourth Young Lady get away with it this time, who knows what tricks she'll pull in the future."
"Miss, how could the old lady be so confused!"
"Shh!" Gu Yunran covered Zhuye's mouth, "Don't talk nonsense."
Her voice was very low: "How is the old lady confused? She just feels sorry for her granddaughter."
“It’s human nature.”
"That's what I said, but I'm still furious. The Fourth Young Lady wanted to torture you to death this time. Fortunately, you were smart and discovered her plot. If she had succeeded, you would have become a rat crossing the street, everyone shouting and scolding you. Where would you stand?"
Zhuye started crying as she spoke. She felt sorry for Gu Yunran, who had finally escaped from the wolf's den, only to fall into the tiger's den again.
Gu Yunran reached out and patted her hand: "Good idea, I know you are worried about me, it's okay, I can handle it."
She took out her embroidered handkerchief and wiped Zhuye's tears: "It won't be long. When the Second Master comes back, we can live a free life."
Zhuye burst out laughing.
"Fortunately, the Second Master treats the young lady well and listens to you in everything."
"Let's go."
Gu Yunran took Zhuye's hand and returned to Biyun Pavilion.
Ruizhu had already taken Wenxiu away and brought her to Gu Yunran.
Wenxiu fell to her knees and kowtowed continuously.
"Please spare me, Second Madam. This is truly not what I did. Even if I had a hundred guts, I wouldn't dare do that thing and curse the old lady."
"Fourth Miss? What do you say?" Gu Yunran looked at the Fourth Miss and asked.
Mu Qianjiao glared at him, "Second sister-in-law, do we still need to interrogate her? This slut did it."
"I remember one time she accidentally spilled water on me. I lost my temper at the time and slapped her. She held a grudge against me and never expected to do such a vicious thing and frame me. Second sister-in-law, you must not let her off so easily."
Mu Qianjiao glared at Wenxiu angrily and said that, her teeth were gnashed, as if she wanted to eat Wenxiu alive.
This shameless idiot couldn't even handle such a small matter, and he actually turned around and harmed her.
If she, Mu Qianjiao, could have spared this little bastard today, she would not be called Mu Qianjiao.
Mu Qianjiao said this, walked up to Wenxiu, and slapped Wenxiu in the face.
"Do you admit that you framed me?"
Wenxiu cried and screamed at first, refusing to admit it. She knelt in front of Gu Yunran, kowtowed deliberately, and begged her to save her, but Gu Yunran seemed not to hear her, turned away, and did not look at her.
Wenxiu sat limply on the ground, like a deflated ball, with dull eyes and a dazed expression. She knew that her master would not help her if he knew what she had done.
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