The Wei couple happened to be passing by and, upon hearing his scream, rushed over immediately.
"What's wrong? What happened? Yi-ge'er, are you alright?"
Both of them asked in a panicked tone, and when they saw Jiang Chengyi lying on the ground, they quickly went forward to help her up.
When Jiang Chengyi was turned over, his face was covered in blood. His nose was obviously broken. Tears and snot were mixed with blood. He looked extremely disheveled and disgusting.
But Cen Jie didn't feel disgusted at all. On the contrary, she took out her embroidered handkerchief with heartache and carefully wiped the dirt off his face.
"You stupid servants, how come you can't even lift a person? You deserve to die! Go and receive your punishment!" Cen Jie cursed, and the servants were so frightened that they fell to the ground and dared not get up again.
After all, they all knew how much the madam doted on the young master; she treated him like a precious gem, afraid he might fly away if she held him in her hands or melt if she kept him in her mouth.
Now that the young master has bled, the servants are definitely in for a rough time.
"Alright, Yi-ge'er, you're a real man. Jiang family men shed blood and sweat but not tears. What kind of behavior is this, crying and wailing like this!" Cen Ying stood aside and watched coldly, feeling that their acting had gone too far, and was very impatient.
"Big sister, Yi-ge'er is already so badly injured, how can you still say such things? How heartbroken Yi-ge'er would be to hear that!" Cen Jie couldn't help but retort immediately.
“Little sister, the Wei family are all scholars and don’t understand the rules for martial artists. The men of the Jiang family are all going to the battlefield. It’s common for them to lose an arm or a leg, let alone suffer a broken bone. Yi-ge’er is surnamed Jiang, so he can’t cry and whine over a little blood. Spoiling him like this is really harming him.”
Cen Ying didn't take her offense to heart and instead retorted seriously.
“Yi-ge’er is still young, elder sister, you don’t need to pressure him like this.” Cen Jie pretended not to hear and instead gently comforted Jiang Chengyi.
Hearing her aunt's gentle words of comfort, Jiang Chengyi felt extremely relieved.
He really liked this feeling of being pampered. You know, no matter how much Cen Ying loved him, she was only this gentle when he was a child.
Now that he's grown up year by year, he hasn't enjoyed this kind of treatment in a long time.
Seeing their display of maternal love and filial piety, Cen's anger flared up instantly.
Her own son, looking aggrieved, hid in the inn, while the coward enjoyed comfort in his mother's arms. Why should he?
“Jiang Chengyi, we’re going back to the manor. If you don’t leave now, I’ll have the Marquis come to pick you up later.” Cen Ying didn’t want to waste any more words with him and directly brought up the Marquis of Loyalty and Righteousness.
They said they were coming to pick him up, but they're probably just going to kick him back.
When Jiang Chengyi heard Cen call him by his full name, he immediately jumped up and took the help of the servant to stand up.
"Let's go now, Mother, I'll go back with you."
Seeing that Cen Jie was about to say something, Jiang Chengyi immediately reassured her, "Aunt, I'm perfectly fine. It's just a minor injury. I'll be fully recovered in a while, and I'll come to see you again later."
The Wei couple looked hesitant, clearly having much to say, but with Cen Ying present, they could only keep it to themselves.
The two of them reluctantly saw them off to the door, and even after the Jiang family members had all boarded the carriage, they still couldn't bear to leave.
Xu Wanying lifted the carriage curtain and looked at the worried expression on the couple's faces, and couldn't help but click her tongue.
[System, this couple looks shifty and sneaky; they're really in cahoots, their schemes are practically jumping into my face. With that cowardly young master, how could he possibly control the entire Marquis's mansion? It's utterly delusional.]
The system made a startling statement: [Host, as I said before, the bold get rich, the timid starve. The Wei family's scheme has succeeded. The one who will inherit the Marquis of Loyalty and Righteousness is this bastard from the Wei family.]
Xu Wanying immediately seized on the loophole: "Wait a minute, didn't you say before that Jiang Chengyi cheated on his wife and even killed her, and the butcher retaliated by chopping him into eight pieces? How did he become a marquis?"
The system calmly replied: "Oh, there's no contradiction. When he was a young master, he enjoyed stealing women; after becoming a marquis, he intensified his habit. By the time he stole the butcher's wife, he was already a marquis. Stealing women is all about the thrill and secrecy; if you involve too many people, it's no longer stealing. So, in the end, he died because of this—it's retribution."
"ah!"
Before Xu Wanying could react, Li Chunlan, who was riding in the same car with her, couldn't help but cry out.
"Sister-in-law, what's wrong?" Xu Wanying was startled and immediately turned to her with concern.
"I'm fine, I just saw people arguing outside the window," Li Chunlan casually made up an excuse.
To everyone's surprise, Xu Wanying immediately disregarded what the system had said earlier, focusing her attention entirely on the outside of the car. She took the initiative to lift the curtain and look out the window.
"Where? There's no one arguing!" she said, her voice filled with excitement.
Hehehe, I love watching the excitement!
Fortunately, the carriage was traveling through the streets, which were lined with various restaurants and shops, bustling with people.
Just then, someone tried to dine and dash and ran away, but was caught by the waiter and threatened to be handed over to the authorities.
Xu Wanying immediately began to watch the spectacle with great interest, without Li Chunlan needing to find an excuse.
But now Li Chunlan is left with only regret, because her third sister-in-law has started discussing the troublemakers with Shenqi in her heart, and the question from earlier has not been brought up again.
The carriage drove into the Marquis of Zhongyi's residence. Li Chunlan wanted to talk to Xu Wanying, but Xu Wanying had already bid farewell to Cen Shi and was preparing to return to Qingxi Pavilion.
The system couldn't help but chime in: [Host, don't you want to know why the real and fake young masters were switched?]
Xu Wanying immediately replied: "Of course I want to, but wouldn't that be a waste of countless amounts of energy?"
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