Chapter 78: The First Step to Bringing Disgrace to the Marquisate
These two... one dares to do it, and the other dares to say it.
Su Luo's beating of her mother-in-law was shocking, and the Regent's praise of the beating was even more earth-shattering.
Old Madam Feng looked at Mo Jin in surprise. She didn't expect that her nephew was such a fun-loving person.
Li Ziyan shook off Nanny Ruiqing who was trying to stop her and rushed over to hit Su Luo: "You are completely lawless! You have no respect for your elders! It's all your mother's fault for not teaching you well! Today I will teach you! What does it mean to respect your elders!"
She rolled up her sleeves and was about to slap Su Luo, but a strong hand grabbed her wrist!
Zhou Yan, who had been waiting in the front yard until she fell asleep, finally realized something was wrong. He ran in after hearing the noise and saw Li Ziyan angrily slapping Su Luo, and shouted, "Mother! Stop it!"
Li Ziyan asked in shock and anger, "Do you know what she did? Why do you want me to stop?"
"I... I didn't do anything... It was my mother who instigated my mother to commit suicide, so I accidentally hit her..." Su Luo looked at her hands, unable to believe that she had hit her mother-in-law. Her eyes immediately turned red and she began to act.
Li Ziyan took a deep breath, her chest burning with anger. She realized with shock and anger that her daughter-in-law was a snake. She usually pretended to be well-behaved and harmless, but when the time came, she would bare her fangs and stick out her tongue.
"Bullshit! You didn't do it by mistake! You did it on purpose!" Li Ziyan gradually revealed her true colors. She started to shove and punch Zhou Yan, her mind completely gone. "Get out! Get out! How dare you protect Su Luo?"
"You unfilial son, have you forgotten who you came from? If you keep protecting Su Luo, I'll beat you too!"
Zhou Yan didn't care who beat whom, he only cared about the reputation of the entire Jing'an Marquis Mansion.
As a bystander, Su Luo's eyes were red and her face was full of grievance, a complete victim. Then she looked at Li Ziyan, who was beating and kicking her, like a shrew and a violent perpetrator!
The difference is obvious.
This is not a glorious thing. It would be better to have the argument behind closed doors and let so many people watch. Wouldn't he and his father be laughed to death by their colleagues?
Those colleagues who didn't get along with him would definitely laugh at the chaos in the Marquis's mansion. Zhou Yan felt irritated at the thought and immediately gritted his teeth and said, "Mother! Stop it! Be reasonable! Look at you now, how can you be a lady from a noble family?"
Compared to Su Luo's slap, Zhou Yan's scolding made Li Ziyan even more heartbroken. Tears streamed down her face, her face full of disappointment, and anger swept over her like a tide, almost swallowing her.
"I've raised you for over twenty years, nurturing you from a cradle to the tall, strong, and majestic man you are today. I've arranged your marriage and worried about your career..."
Li Ziyan burst into tears in anger: "You actually blame me for a woman?!"
"Others laugh at our humble origins in the Marquisate, and at my lack of appearance as a lady from a prestigious family. But you laugh at me too? You look down on me too?"
Li Ziyan was so aggrieved that tears streamed down her face. She raised her hand and angrily slapped Zhou Yan: "Unfilial son!"
This slap was extremely hard!
The beating made Zhou Yan's ears ring and blood even flowed from the corners of his nose and mouth.
Zhou Yan's face was swollen with five finger marks, his jade crown fell to the ground, and most of his hair was hanging down in disarray.
His expression was complicated, and he looked at Li Ziyan in shock: "My son has never laughed at his mother!"
"You just said I don't look like a lady from a wealthy family!"
"Yes, I said that. I'm telling the truth. To be honest, it's not necessarily a mockery!" Zhou Yan said frankly.
These words were like a sharp knife stabbing into Li Ziyan's heart! More hurtful than a laugh!
Zhou Yan was also a little angry: "Just be yourself. Aren't you tired of imitating the ladies of high-ranking families all these years?"
"A lady doesn't show her teeth when she smiles, so you don't show your teeth when you smile. A lady raises her pinky finger when she drinks tea, so you raise your pinky finger. There are so many things like that! In the end, you learned a bunch of weird things! My colleagues all said you... said you..."
"What did you say about me?!" Li Ziyan beat her chest and yelled!
"You! You're imitating someone else's beauty! You're copying a tiger but not a dog!"
Boom! Li Ziyan suddenly felt like she was struck by lightning!
My whole body feels like I'm falling into an ice cellar!
Li Ziyan only felt the endless darkness around her, and she was shaking with anger!
It turned out that the aristocratic circle that she had spent many years trying to break into was all laughing at her.
And these words were spoken by her son himself, which hurt her deeply!
"Bang!" Li Zi Yan fell backwards in anger!
"Ah! Fainted?" The wife of the Imperial Household Department behind her quickly took a few steps back. "She almost hit me! Luckily I dodged quickly!"
Li Ziyan's head hit the ground directly, and a small amount of blood spilt out.
Zhou Yan looked at the wife of the Imperial Household Department in anger and said, "My mother isn't heavy, and it wouldn't hurt her if she fell on you. If you don't dodge, my mother won't get hurt even if she falls on you."
"...Your Highness, what you said is truly overbearing. You have no responsibility for your mother falling down? You are such a skilled martial artist, why didn't you catch her right away?"
The lady of the Imperial Household Department's words were a double-edged sword for Zhou Yan.
Zhou Yan was too lazy to argue with such a gossipy woman, so he quickly helped Li Ziyan up and glanced at Su Luo: "I'll come and help with my mother-in-law's affairs later."
Su Luoliu looked at Zhou Yan, who was bleeding from his mouth and nose, with disheveled hair and slap marks on his face, and she helped Li Ziyan, who was bleeding from the back of her head and had fainted, to leave without saying a word.
Her brows were furrowed, her eyes were red, and she raised her sleeve to cover half of her face below the tip of her nose so that others could not see the corners of her mouth that were curled with joy.
Mo Jin, who was standing five steps to the side, looked at her and happened to glance at the corner of her mouth.
He knew that this woman had good acting skills but also a dark heart.
He plotted against him, the Marquis' Mansion, and many other people.
Did Su Luo plot against Wen Zixi?
Mo Jin frowned when he realized this question suddenly popped up in his mind.
If Su Luo calculated everyone except Wen Zixi...
A strange feeling flashed through the man's mind for no reason.
Su Luo looked sharply at Mo Jin who was staring at her thoughtfully.
Under the watchful eyes of the public, Mo Jin's every move and even every look would be speculated by countless people. Mo Jin usually would not make such a low-level mistake as staring at her, so... what is he doing now?
Old Madam Feng stomped the ground with her cane and coughed as if her throat was uncomfortable.
Mo Jin suddenly withdrew his gaze, his face calm.
"Madam Su needs to rest now, so I will go back with the ladies first." Madam Feng said at the right time.
"Thank you, Madam, the wife of the Imperial Household Department, and the wife of the Minister of Rites..."
Su Luo knelt down and thanked them one by one, then respectfully watched them leave.
Mo Jin raised an eyebrow and glanced at her.
"Your humble servant respectfully bids farewell to the prince." Su Luo saluted.
When most of the guests had left, Su Luo dismissed all the servants and only kept her confidants.
She glanced at Zhihua and Zhizhong behind her and asked, "How are things going?"
"Don't worry, Miss Seven, everything is ready." Zhihua answered steadily.
Su Luo closed her eyes, hiding the ruthless calculation in them, and nodded with satisfaction: "I will bring ruin to the lives and reputations of everyone in the Marquis of Jing'an's mansion."
"This is just the first step." She sneered, making people shudder.
Yun Ran was silent, feeling uncomfortable. The girl in the past was carefree, kind and well-behaved, definitely not like she is now.
Growing up is painful. Su Luo is a flower that grew out of the family blood feud, deep and thorny.
She didn't become like this suddenly.
It was every day and night when she missed her father and brothers, every time she worried that her mother would be killed, every time she recalled the pain of starving to death in the cellar, and the voices and smiles of her father and brothers talking in her mind that made her transform with each passing day.
"I'm so hungry." Su Luo covered her stomach and said with difficulty, "I want to eat braised lion's head. I want my father to teach me how to hold the long tassel. I want my grandfather to teach me how to assemble the crossbow. I want my eldest brother to pat me on the head and say I've grown taller. I want my sixth brother to always scold me for being a crybaby..."
In the empty yard, she slowly squatted down and hugged herself, tears falling down, each drop wetting the stone slabs.
"Look up, it's time to eat braised lion's head."
A cool and pleasant male voice sounded above my head.
She looked up and saw the tall and sturdy Mo Jin, pursing his thin lips, with his left hand on his waist and a plate of steaming braised lion's head in his right hand.
In an instant, Su Luo burst into tears.
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