Chapter 519 This is my protection as a mother
How can the lintel of the residence of the Minister of Personnel be compared with the lintel of the residence of the Duke of Zhenguo?
There was a buzzing sound in Mrs. Wang's head, and all the blood color faded away.
She knew that Chu Ruohan was not joking.
Although the Duke's wife looks gentle, her methods are never comparable to those of ordinary women in the harem.
She will really go, and she really dares to go.
By then, what would be lost would not only be the reputation of her Wang family, but also her husband's future!
"Madam, please spare me! Spare me!" Madam Wang no longer cared about her dignity and crawled a few steps on her knees.
She wanted to pull the hem of Chu Ruohan's skirt, but the maid blocked her way and she couldn't touch it.
She turned around suddenly, grabbed her frightened son, and cried out in a shrill voice.
"Evil son! Why don't you kneel down! Kowtow and apologize to your brother Xuan! Do you want to kill our whole family?"
Wang Shuo had never seen his mother lose her composure like this. He was so scared that his legs went limp, but he still refused to move.
“Bang!”
A crisp slap echoed throughout the hall.
Mrs. Wang used all her strength to hit Wang Shuo's face to the side, and a bright red palm print quickly appeared.
"I told you to kneel down!" she screamed, her face covered with tears and snot.
Wang Shuo was stunned by the beating and burst into tears. This time it was no longer a cry of triumph, but a cry of fear from the bottom of his heart.
He was pinned to the ground by his mother and forced to kneel down in the direction of Chu Ruohan.
All the guests in the room were so silent that they even breathed softly.
No one expected that a proper full moon banquet would turn into such an embarrassing scene.
Master Gu San's face had already turned ashen.
His grandson's full-moon banquet was repeatedly disrupted by people from the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion.
The anger and frustration in his heart almost burst out of his chest, but seeing Chu Ruohan's unyielding look, he had to suppress it.
He couldn't let the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion and the Minister of Personnel's Mansion really break up, and he couldn't let the banquet of his third branch become a laughing stock in the whole capital.
"Cough!" Master Gu San coughed heavily, stood up, and walked to the center of the field with a sullen face.
He first glanced at the Wang family mother and son who were kneeling on the ground and crying, his eyes full of disgust, then turned to Chu Ruohan, and said in a tone that carried a hint of an elder's admonition: "Enough."
"The children's little quarrels were minor, and Madam Wang has already disciplined them. Why are you being so aggressive and damaging the harmony between the two families?"
As soon as he opened his mouth, he characterized the matter as a "minor incident."
Chu Ruohan slowly raised her eyes and looked at Master Gu San with clear eyes, without any intention of backing down.
"Third Uncle." She said in a flat voice, "Brother Xuan is the eldest grandson of the Duke of Zhenguo. He is often pointed at and called a bastard without a father or a mother."
"If this is just a 'small matter' in your opinion, then I would like to ask, in your opinion, what is a big deal?"
Master Gu San's face turned red after hearing her words, and he was speechless for a long time.
Chu Ruohan ignored him and her gaze returned to Madam Wang.
"I don't want to repeat what I said. Do you want your son to kowtow and admit his fault now, or do you want me to go to the Ministry of Personnel and have a good 'reasoning' with Minister Wang tomorrow? It's your choice."
Mrs. Wang shuddered, no longer daring to hesitate. She grabbed the back of Wang Shuo's head and forced him to the ground.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Again and again, the dull sound struck everyone's heart.
"Hurry up and tell me! Say you were wrong! Ask Master Xuan for forgiveness!" Mrs. Wang cried and urged.
Wang Shuo cried and shouted incoherently: "I was wrong, I was wrong, Brother Xuan, I was wrong, please forgive me..."
Chu Ruohan watched expressionlessly until he kowtowed more than ten times, his forehead red, and then he said lightly: "Stop."
She turned to Lu Ge'er, her voice unconsciously softened: "Lu Ge'er, do you think that's enough?"
No one expected that she would ask Lu Ge'er.
Lu Ge'er's straight back relaxed slightly. He knew that his aunt was supporting him and telling everyone that what he did today was not wrong.
He took a step forward, bowed to Chu Ruohan and said, "Aunt, I feel that Young Master Wang is young and ignorant. Now that he has admitted his mistakes, that's enough. It's just..."
He changed the subject and shot a sharp look at the maids lying on the ground.
"But these few wicked servants spoke viciously and humiliated their master. They must not be forgiven!"
"Come here." Chu Ruohan didn't even look at the maids. She just instructed the housekeeper beside her, "Do as I just said. Send them away immediately."
"Tell their masters that our Zhenguo Mansion does not accept any form of apology. We only hope that they will properly discipline their servants in the future."
"Yes, ma'am." The housekeeper responded and immediately called a few strong and sturdy maids to drag out the maids who were crying and begging for mercy.
The farce finally came to an end.
But the atmosphere in the hall was colder than an ice cellar. The joy had been completely washed away, leaving only a mess and embarrassment on the floor.
Mrs. Gu San was holding her precious grandson, frozen in place, her face uglier than if she had been crying.
The full moon banquet she had carefully prepared turned into a complete joke.
Chu Ruohan walked to Lu Ge'er, raised her hand, and straightened his collar which was slightly messy due to his quick steps, with the same movements as when she came.
"Well done." She said softly, with undisguised approval in her eyes, "You are the older brother, it is your duty to protect your younger brother."
Lu Ge'er nodded vigorously. Whether it was Lan Jie'er or Xuan Ge'er, he would protect them...
Chu Ruohan no longer looked at anyone in the hall. She took Lu Ge'er's hand and said to the maid beside her, "Let's go back to the mansion."
"yes."
"Chu Ruohan!" Seeing that she was about to leave, Master Gu San couldn't help but call out again with a complicated tone.
Chu Ruohan didn't stop, but just left a sentence lightly: "Uncle, today is the day of the third house's wedding, so your niece-in-law won't stay any longer."
"I just want to give you a piece of advice. Children are the future of the family. If you can't protect the children's reputation, you can't protect the family's future."
"I hope you understand this principle."
After saying that, she took Lu Ge'er and Lan Jie'er and left under the complicated gazes of everyone.
The carriage of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion slowly drove away, leaving behind the guests from the three branches and one courtyard of the Gu family, and a full moon banquet that could no longer be whitewashed.
Master Gu San stood there, and Chu Ruohan's last words were like a needle that pierced his heart.
He looked at the sleeping face of his grandson in his arms, and then thought of Xuan Ge'er who was humiliated in public and Lu Ge'er who stood up, and he felt mixed emotions.
For the first time, I began to waver in some of my long-held ideas...
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