Chapter 516: Meng Shanchuan and Jin Yulu (V)
"Cousin, you're here at last." Seeing Aunt Pan, Mrs. Meng seemed to have found her backbone and immediately sat up from the bed.
"Oh, how did you become like this?" Aunt Pan was shocked. She didn't expect that in just one night, her cousin would become so haggard that even powder couldn't hide her fatigue.
"It's all because of that Jin. I'm so pissed off." Mrs. Meng pounded the bed in anger.
Without waiting for Aunt Pan to ask, he told her everything that happened yesterday.
"Ridiculous!" Aunt Pan showed an expression of disbelief on her face.
Her three daughters-in-law were all trained and obeyed by her. She had never seen such a rebellious person before.
She even made three rules with her parents-in-law. Not only did she not pay her respects, she also forbade them to urge her to have a baby.
Isn't the purpose of marrying a wife to carry on the family line?
"Brother-in-law and Chuan'er just let her do whatever she wants?" Aunt Pan stared at her cousin's face, always feeling that she was hiding something from her.
Mrs. Meng hesitated, but still did not tell anyone about her son's homosexuality.
Although being a homosexual is not a shameful thing, if the news that a homosexual becomes so nauseous and vomits when in contact with a woman and cannot pass on the family line were to get out, people would definitely curse the Meng family for being extinct.
She wouldn't allow this to happen.
"It's all because of that Jin. She seduced Chuan'er every day. That's why Chuan'er got a wife and forgot his mother. Wuwuwuwu, why is my life so miserable?" Mrs. Meng covered her face and started crying.
"Don't cry, there's no use crying." Aunt Pan wiped away her tears unhappily.
"It's just that she doesn't pay her respects, but your mother-in-law is sick, so she has to come and take care of her, right?" Aunt Pan thought for a moment and came up with a new idea.
Mrs. Meng stopped crying and her eyes brightened.
Yes, the agreement only says that you don’t have to come to pay your respects, but it doesn’t say that you don’t have to take care of the illness.
When the mother-in-law is sick, the daughter-in-law must come to take care of her. If you don't come and the news gets out, it would be considered unfilial.
"Cousin, I'm glad to have you." Mrs. Meng held Aunt Pan's hand with a look of relief, her eyes full of gratitude.
"We are family and we don't have different opinions. How can I bear to see you being bullied?" Aunt Pan laughed.
This time, Mrs. Meng played the whole trick.
She first lay on the bed groaning, saying that she felt unwell and uncomfortable, and then sent someone to call a doctor.
After discussing the condition with the doctor, he asked the servants at home to go to the winery to find Jin Yulu.
"Young Madam, Madam is sick. You should go back and see her as soon as possible." The maid looked at Jin Yulu with an anxious look on her face.
"Have you seen a doctor?" Jin Yulu asked expressionlessly.
"Yes, the doctor said it was chest tightness and shortness of breath caused by depression in the heart, and there was also a slight fever. You should go back and have a look."
"I'm not a doctor, and I can't change anything when I go back. Since you've called a doctor, you should take the medicine well. I will visit my mother-in-law after I get off duty." Jin Yulu never thought about serving her mother-in-law.
She thought she had made it clear yesterday.
The two of them are just familiar strangers living under the same roof.
"Young Madam, you are the only daughter-in-law. You have to go home and take care of Madam. Besides, Madam is sick, and there are many things in the house that she cannot handle by herself. You have to go back and help me." The maid remained the same. Don't give up.
A colleague nearby heard this and nodded, saying, "If that's the case, then you should go back and serve your mother-in-law."
"Yes, as a daughter-in-law, filial piety comes first. We are enough to take care of the affairs of the winery."
"See, I told you that women are better suited to being in the backyard, taking care of their husbands and children. If you can't handle household affairs well, how can you handle official duties?"
Hearing their words, Jin Yulu instantly became furious.
These people have always wanted to take her place, thinking that she, as a woman, had no ability and that she only became a sixth-rank official by relying on her beauty and her relationship with Meng Shanchuan.
Now that this has happened, they are eager to get her out as soon as possible so that they can use the excuse that she needs to go home to take care of her husband and children and serve her parents-in-law to kick her out of the winery company.
"I haven't finished my official business here and don't have time to go back. You go find the young master and ask him to go back and see what's going on." After saying this, Jin Yulu turned around and was about to go back to deal with the unfinished work.
"How can we ask the big masters to go back and serve?" The colleague showed a look of disapproval.
"Why can't he serve? She is his biological mother first, then my mother-in-law." Jin Yulu replied with a cold face.
When the maid heard this, she knelt down on the ground.
"Young Madam, I know you and Madam have had some private disagreements, but you can't just sit back and watch Madam fall ill."
Everyone looked at Jin Yulu with contempt in their eyes.
"In Daxia, filial piety is the most important thing. If an official is unfilial, he will be reported. Xiao Jin, no matter what conflicts you have with your mother-in-law, she is sick, and you should go back to see her." Jin Yulu's boss also came out and asked her to go home first.
A feeling of helplessness and sorrow, as well as unspeakable anger welled up in Jin Yulu's heart.
This maid was so aggressive that she insisted on forcing her to go back and ruin her reputation.
Jin Yulu raised her hand and slapped the maid: "Who told you to gossip outside? When did I have any conflicts with my mother-in-law? Did you accept money from others and deliberately ruin my reputation?"
The maidservant had never expected that she would dare to attack in public, and she was stunned where she stood.
"I'm not talking nonsense. You and Madam had a quarrel yesterday, otherwise Madam wouldn't have gotten sick from anger." The little maid covered her face and cried.
The little maid's words made everyone even more curious.
Jin Yulu didn't look at her, but looked at her boss.
"Master Yan, I have no conflicts with my mother-in-law. I didn't go back before because I wanted to finish the things I had at hand. Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety cannot be achieved at the same time."
Jin Yulu let out a long sigh.
"Mother-in-law just has a poor appetite, it's just a minor illness, it doesn't matter if I go back a little later. But it's a big deal if the brewing of Golden Wind Jade Dew wine is delayed. After all, that was the wine that the emperor designated to entertain envoys from various countries at the Ninth Princess's fourth birthday banquet."
Her words made everyone shudder.
Only Jin Yu Lu can brew the best flavor of Jin Feng Yu Lu wine, it just won’t work without her.
"My mother-in-law has always been sensible. There is no better person in the capital than my mother-in-law. She exempted me from paying respects every morning and evening, and told me to focus on my career and not to rush to have children. She treats me as her own daughter and loves me from the bottom of her heart. How could such a mother-in-law send servants to ask me to go home and take care of her because of a minor illness?"
Jin Yulu deliberately praised her mother-in-law highly, acting as if she trusted her mother-in-law wholeheartedly.
"This maid is not a favorite maid in my mother-in-law's courtyard. Who knows if she has been bought by someone? After all, my Lady Meng is extremely beautiful and has an extraordinary demeanor. There are many people who covet my Lady Meng's position."
Now, everyone began to suspect the maid.