Lan Shanyang was stunned by Qin Meiying's scolding. She glared at her son, who was secretly laughing behind her, and fiercely picked up the ruler, pointing it at him: "Lan Linxue, let me tell you, this is not over! Don't think that just because your mother is backing you up, I'll let you off the hook! You wait, one day I'll skin you alive!"
Lan Linxue grinned and snorted.
They never taught him a lesson before, but now that he has a powerful backer, he can still be taught a lesson. It's simply outrageous!
Lan Linxue didn't say a word, but she held Qin Meiying's arm tightly and looked at Lan Shanyang defiantly.
Qin Meiying immediately raised her eyebrows: "How else do you want to discipline him? Let me tell you, Lan Shanyang, if you still want my son and me to be with you, then don't discipline him in front of me. I can't stand it."
As she spoke, Qin Meiying's eyes filled with tears again, and she held her son's hand tightly.
Seeing his wife so upset, Lan Shanyang quickly put down the ruler and came over, pulling her close: "Oh dear, I was just saying that! Why are you so upset!"
As she spoke, Lan Shanyang reached out and tenderly wiped away all the tears on Qin Meiying's face.
Seeing that her son was still clinging tightly to Qin Meiying's arm, Lan Shanyang's brows furrowed again. She forcefully pulled Qin Meiying to her side and slapped her son's hand away.
"This is my wife! Let go of her! Now, get back to what you were doing and don't get in my way. I can't stand your pathetic behavior!"
As he spoke, without waiting for the other two to agree or not, he put his arm around Qin Meiying and gently comforted her as they walked away.
Lan Linxue glared at Lan Shanyang's back, looking indignant: You bad guy who doesn't want his son after getting a wife!
"Are you going to send someone to deliver the imperial decree or not? My men are waiting outside, they're dying of worry! Your grandson is about to escape!"
Upon hearing this, Lan Shanyang immediately shouted angrily at the person behind her, "I'll do what I promised you! Get out of here right now, and get as far away as you can!"
Qin Meiying knew her husband didn't think much of their son at the moment, so she nodded to Lan Linxue, "Xue'er, you go take care of your business first. I'll look after this for you!"
Lan Linxue nodded, smiled gently at Qin Meiying, then glared at Lan Shanyang's back before turning and quickly walking out.
He was still rubbing his back when he left; the ruler really hurt.
Qin Meiying saw that Lan Linxue had walked quite a distance, but she was still craning her neck to look at her.
Lan Shanyang smiled slightly, pulled his wife into his arms, and said comfortingly, "There are too many people, what are you still looking at! After we've finished dealing with this, I'll have him come over to keep you company!"
Upon hearing this, Qin Meiying immediately turned to look at Lan Shanyang: "Were you deliberately disciplining your son in front of me so that we could reconcile?"
Lan Shanyang sighed deeply: "Lin Xue is a very stubborn child. If you try to reason with him, you'll never see him change his mind in this lifetime. There's no other way, so I have to resort to some extreme measures!"
Qin Meiying smiled genuinely after hearing Lan Shanyang's words, and rested her head on her husband's shoulder: "I'm sorry to have troubled you! But, you must have felt pain in your heart after hitting our son, right?"
Lan Shanyang's face immediately turned cold: "It doesn't hurt! It doesn't hurt at all. I just didn't hit him hard enough, otherwise he wouldn't be so lawless today!"
As he spoke, Lan Shanyang put his arm around Qin Meiying and walked towards the back.
Qin Meiying sighed deeply: "It's because we have too few children, otherwise you wouldn't have focused all your attention on Xue'er. So it's inevitable that he's a bit spoiled!"
At this point, Qin Meiying said with a hint of puzzlement, "It really is strange. You conceived so quickly when you were pregnant with Linxue, but then there was no sign of pregnancy at all! I asked the imperial physician back then, and he said there was nothing wrong with you!"
Lan Shanyang's eyes flickered slightly when he heard Qin Meiying say that, but he quickly looked away. He hugged his wife tighter and said softly, "Why say all that? It's been so many years. Do you want to have another one? One is enough! More is useless!"
With that, Lan Shanyang deliberately changed the subject and took Qin Meiying to rest.
While Lan Shanyang was resting, Lan Linxue was extremely busy.
Seeing Quan Jing leave the palace with him, he was no longer too worried about Hu Tianyong. It was the Jiang family that was causing him concern.
Instead of returning to her residence, Lan Linxue took the seventh son and went to the Jiang family's place to keep watch and observe the situation.
He had only been there a short while when he discovered that the Jiang family had made a move.
The gate was flung open, and countless servants rushed out with torches, saying that a thief had broken into the courtyard.
Upon hearing this, Lan Linxue's eyes immediately lit up, which meant that she had obtained the item.
Lan Linxue whispered a few words in Lao Qi's ear, and then the two of them quickly disappeared into the night.
In less than fifteen minutes, beggars all over the street started shouting: "Thieves have broken into the Jiang family! They've stolen something! There's a reward for finding them!"
The loudest shouts came from outside Hu Tianyong's house.
Lan Linxue was cheering her on from behind, just in case things went wrong.
After he finished making arrangements, he took Lao Qi back to wait for news.
As Lan Linxue sat in the mansion, anxiously waiting for the person to return.
An hour later, Shuanghua returned with Haitian and Qu Ling'er, their faces beaming with smiles.
"How did it go? Did it succeed?"
Before Haitian and Shuanghua could speak, Qu Ling'er covered her mouth and laughed, saying, "We have to succeed! We took the things we stole from the young lady's room and threw them all over the Hu mansion, making them jump around in a frenzy. Moreover, I personally saw these people take the Jiang family's young lady's undergarment to Hu Tianyong."
You didn't see how ugly that old man's face looked when he saw the thing.
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