Madam Lu waved her hand at her: "Yun Ran, get up quickly!"
She signaled her personal maid to bring a chair for Gu Yunran and asked her to sit down, while Lu Qingzhou stood in the middle of the hall.
Madam Lu said with a cold face: "I heard that Fan Mei Niang beat up Aunt Zhao, and you want to help beat her too?"
Lu Qingzhou glared at Gu Yunran: "You really are good at complaining."
He turned to look at the old lady and said in a deep voice, "Yes, mother! But Madam Zhao is a slave who bullies the master. If such a servant is not punished properly, won't outsiders laugh at the Lu Mansion?"
Gu Yunran sneered, "Hasn't the Fourth Master let outsiders laugh at the Lu Mansion enough?"
Lu Qingzhou: "Gu Yunran, what do you mean?"
"The Fourth Master disregarded the reputation of the Lu Mansion and kept a mistress outside, who even had a son. That would have been fine, but he allowed his concubine to beat up a servant who had done the Lu Mansion a favor, ruining the reputation of the Lu Mansion!"
"Gu Yunran, stop accusing me." Lu Qingzhou's chest heaved with anger. "You just can't stand me being nice to Mei Niang. You're jealous and so mean-spirited that you'd fabricate lies to slander Mei Niang and me."
Mrs. Lu couldn't bear to listen any longer, so she slammed the table.
"Be quiet!"
The room suddenly became quiet.
She looked at Lu Qingzhou and said, "Yun Ran is right, Qingzhou, you are confused!"
"What am I confused about?" Lu Qingzhou didn't understand. "Is it because Nanny Zhao is your personal nanny that she can't be punished for bullying her by taking advantage of her seniority?"
Mrs. Lu almost fainted from anger.
Gu Yunran reminded him, "It seems that the Fourth Master has forgotten everything except the vows he made with Concubine Fan."
She paused and continued, "Back when the Fourth Master was still in Lujia Village, he encountered a riot on his way to Shengjing. It was Madam Zhao who took the Lu family in. Later, they were discovered by thieves. Madam Zhao, in order to save the Lu family, fled through the underground cave with the whole family."
"Her husband and son died in the riot."
"Only our young daughter, Vanilla, escaped with us."
"Second Master's survival was purchased at the cost of Madam Zhao's youngest son's life. Her two sons were only fifteen and thirteen years old."
"But, Fourth Master, what did you do? You're going to use a stick to hit your savior just because of a concubine's unreasonable behavior? If this gets out, what will happen to the reputation of the Lu Mansion?"
Lu Qingzhou then remembered that it was true, but he had been living a peaceful life in the past few years and had really forgotten what happened in the past.
He argued cunningly: "Mei Niang is not being unreasonable."
"One concubine snatched another concubine's food and beat up a maid. When Nanny Zhao went to lecture her, she became furious and beat her ruthlessly. Isn't the Fourth Master's discipline unreasonable?"
Lu Qingzhou gritted his teeth: "She went to steal other people's food, it's your fault. She is pregnant and she is prone to hunger. How can such a small monthly allowance be enough?"
"If you had given her more money, she wouldn't be so hungry that she would have to steal food from others."
Hearing Lu Qingzhou's words, Gu Yunran laughed out of anger, "Can you blame me for this?"
"If the Fourth Master doesn't have the ability to support a concubine, why would he marry one and suffer like this?"
"You!" Lu Qingzhou's face turned pale and blue. He gritted his teeth and stared at Gu Yunran angrily, wishing he could tear her apart.
Gu Yunran sneered: "Coward!"
After saying that, she flicked her sleeves and left.
After giving Lu Qingzhou a good scolding, she felt much better.
Old Madam Lu looked at her son with heartache and wanted to scold Gu Yunran, but she turned around and left unexpectedly. Old Madam Lu was so angry that her heart was beating.
"Qingzhou, your wife called you a coward in front of an old man like me. Can't you stand up for your mother and divorce her when you get to a higher position?"
"Mother!" Lu Qingzhou was also very angry. He shouted impatiently, "You don't need to teach me."
Madam Lu sighed, "Just bear with it for a while. It's because her family is so powerful."
Suddenly she thought of something and looked at Lu Qingzhou with hope. She asked, "You've been at the Dali Temple for a while now. Have you been promoted?"
Lu Qingzhou's face turned ugly: "I'm just an ordinary constable."
It's falling instead of rising.
He thought for a moment and then said, "Maybe Master Mu wants to train me."
Madam Lu nodded in agreement and suggested, "Mu Qianchen is Concubine Xia's cousin. If you treat Concubine Xia with more care, if you can have a son, Concubine Xia will say something good about you in front of Mu Qianchen, and you'll get married faster."
"My son knows."
"Okay, go ahead." A lot of things have happened in the mansion recently, and Mrs. Lu's head was throbbing with pain. Suddenly, she thought of an important thing and called Lu Qingzhou.
"Wait a moment."
"Mother, is there anything else?" Lu Qingzhou stopped and asked.
"Nothing is more important than your meteoric rise to prominence. Remember this." Madam Lu warned, "When the time comes, you can have any woman you want."
"I understand, son." Lu Qingzhou was a little impatient.
Mrs. Lu continued, "Fan Mei Niang is a girl from the countryside after all. She doesn't know the rules of etiquette. I have arranged for a nanny to teach her the rules. Do you agree?"
Thinking of today's scandal, Lu Qingzhou nodded: "Son, no objection."
He went to the front yard as soon as he came out of Baomo Hall and did not go to Nianmei Pavilion again.
As soon as Lu Qingzhou left, Madam Lu's face darkened and she called out to the door, "Lanhua."
"The servant is here."
Lanhua is a second-class maid in Madam Lu's courtyard. She used to be served by Nanny Zhao personally. Now that Nanny Zhao is injured and bedridden, she serves as her personal servant.
"Did he take the person with him?"
"Replying to the old lady, the second lady has already taken the person over."
Old Madam Lu rubbed her aching brows. If it weren't for the fact that Fan Meiniang was pregnant again, she would definitely not have kept her.
What a disaster!
Nianmei Pavilion.
Fan Meiniang waited and waited, but Lu Qingzhou never showed up. Faced with a dozen maids holding her down, she was annoyed and angry.
Although she was a little scared, she was certain that these servants would not dare to touch her.
"Let me go!" She struggled to break free. "The Fourth Master is always so kind to me, and I'm pregnant now. Who the hell do you think you are? How dare you teach me the rules?"
"Fourth Master, if I knew, I would never let you go!"
She tried hard to break free from the grip, but the two people holding her down were servants who were strong and sturdy from doing rough work. She couldn't break free at all and was forced to kneel on the ground.
Nanny Wang scoffed coldly, "Madam Fan, don't dream of the Fourth Master coming to save you. The Fourth Master has gone to live in Madam Xia's courtyard. You won't be able to see him for a while."
"You are a lowly whore who doesn't know etiquette, and you almost caused the Lu family to be despised by outsiders. The old lady is furious. Let me teach you a lesson!"
As she spoke, Nanny Wang winked at the two maids beside her. The maids understood and turned around to go out. Not long after, they returned with a bunch of things that made people feel cold just by looking at them.
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