Chapter 480: United Against External Forces
Except for the unpleasantness caused by Mrs. Xu, everything else about Old Lady Yan's birthday went smoothly. After dinner, each family sat for a while before leaving one after another with smiles on their faces.
Main courtyard.
After sending away the guests whose status and position were higher than that of the Yan family, Mrs. Li handed the rest of the guests over to Sun and Wu, while she took Daohua back to the house.
"Hurry, show me your wound."
Mrs. Li looked at Daohua anxiously. Her daughter came back late last night and she didn't have time to ask many things. She even heard about her daughter's injury from Man'er today.
Daohua smiled and said, "Mom, I'm fine, I just got a little hurt."
Madam Li interrupted: "Mother also wants to see the little wound."
Seeing this, Daohua looked helpless and could only sit down obediently: "Okay then, I'll trouble you to help me apply the medicine today. But, mother, can you not go and see the guests off?"
Madam Li carefully rolled up Daohua's sleeves without looking up. "It's okay. The mother who needed to be sent away has already been sent away. As for the others, your second and third aunts will be enough to come forward."
"Now mother has finally figured it out. You can't be too nice to some people. If you are too nice to them, they will think you are easy to bully and won't take you seriously. If you keep your distance and the coldness, they will respect and honor you."
Daohua nodded: "Mom, what you said is right."
Mrs. Li wanted to say a few more words, but when the bandage was removed and she saw the hideous scar on her daughter's arm, she couldn't help but curse out loud:
"Damn the Jiang and Chen families! The criminals were clearly targeting them. Miss Jiang and Miss Chen were fine, but they made my daughter suffer for them."
Seeing Madam Li blushing, Daohua quickly comforted her, "Mother, this wound only looks scary, it's actually not serious."
"It's not serious?" Mrs. Li's face was full of disapproval. "If it's not serious, you can't even hold chopsticks?" As she said that, she took the medicine handed over by Wang Man'er and carefully applied the medicine to Daohua, gritting her teeth.
"We shouldn't have let the Chen family off so easily today. They clearly caused trouble and implicated you and Yuan Yao. Not only did they spread the rumors but they didn't take the initiative to explain and even wanted you to take the blame. They are truly despicable and hateful. Our family will not have any dealings with the Chen family in the future."
"By the way, stay away from the Jiang family too. This incident started with them. It's reasonable for Miss Jiang to come forward to explain, but Madam Jiang is looking at you and Yuan Yao with an accusing look on her face. If the Jiang family didn't have the Queen Mother behind them, who would want to bother with such a person?"
Every time Mrs. Li said something, Daohua would nod in agreement and say, "Mother is right."
"You are also stupid. They can run, but you can't?"
Daohua sighed: "Your daughter is unlucky!"
After a while, Mrs. Li applied medicine to Daohua and re-bandaged her wound. At this time, Yan Zhigao came over with Yan Wenxiu.
Looking at the bandage on Daohua's arm, both of them looked concerned: "How is it? Is it serious?"
Madam Li nodded and said with a distressed look on her face, "How could it not be serious? Such a long wound, I wonder how painful it must have been at the time. But fortunately, it has scarred now."
Yan Zhigao walked to the main seat and sat down. He looked at Daohua and said, "Take good care of yourself at home during this period. Don't get bumped or bruised. You can't leave scars on a girl's body." Then he looked at Madam Li and said, "This girl is very active. You should keep a close eye on her."
Madam Li nodded seriously: "Don't worry, Master, I know."
Daohua felt a little helpless. What's wrong with leaving a scar? It's not a big deal.
Seeing Daohua glanced at him indifferently, Yan Wenxiu chuckled and shook his head. As the eldest sister, she was really careless about some things. If other girls knew that they would have scars on their bodies, they would have been worried to death or cried to death. But she looked indifferent.
Yan Zhigao added, "I've heard about what happened in the backyard today." He looked at Daohua and said, "Although our family isn't as prominent as the Jiangs, nor does it have the connections of the Chens, we are a clean family. We serve the Emperor with integrity. When something goes wrong, we should just fight for it, just like we did today. There's no need to swallow our anger."
Hearing this, Daohua raised her eyebrows, then smiled happily and said, "Yes, father." Her cheap dad is still a bit proud.
Yan Zhigao tapped his fingers on the table and squinted his eyes as he said, "I'll report it to Xu Tongzhi. As for the women, if you hear anyone spreading rumors again, just fight back."
Madam Li nodded. "Even Miss Jiang came out in person to clarify things today. I don't think anyone would be so blind as to stand up against the Jiang family."
Yan Zhigao hummed, "You should be more careful during this period. The child's reputation must not be tarnished."
Madam Li snorted angrily, "If Madam Chen hadn't panicked, this wouldn't have happened. Whenever I think of the Chen family, I feel terribly upset."
Yan Zhigao was silent for a moment. "Stay away from the Chen family in the future. Although the women in the Chen family are not good enough, Mr. Chen must have some skills to be appointed by the Emperor to manage the gold mining."
Mrs. Li curled her lips and said nothing more.
Yan Wenxiu played with the teacup and thought about Chen Jiayou. His grandmother and mother had caused trouble for his mother and sister. It seemed that he would have to give them some things to do in the future.
Yan Zhigao looked at Daohua again and said, "By the way, why didn't your third and fourth brothers come back with you?"
Daohua hesitated for a moment. The matter of Sishan Village concerned Prince Duan, and their family was involved. Although the news might not leak out, what if it did? So, she still had to let her adoptive father, mother, and elder brother know so that they could be mentally prepared.
After sending the maid out of the room, Daohua told what happened in Sishan Village.
After hearing this, Yan Zhigao and Yan Wenxiu were so surprised that they couldn't recover for a long time.
Mrs. Li knew that this was a big deal, so she didn't say anything.
Daohua said solemnly, "Father, Mother, Big Brother, please don't tell anyone about this. I suspect the Emperor will most likely not announce the events of Sishan Village."
Yan Wenxiu took over the conversation: "It will definitely not be announced."
Daohua heard him speak so confidently and asked quickly, "Brother, why are you so sure?"
Yan Wenxiu glanced at his loved ones in the room and spoke his mind without hiding anything: "To consolidate his power! Even though the emperor has been on the throne for many years, he still faces many constraints."
"In the court, there is the Jiang family, the most powerful foreign relative of the dynasty; outside the court, there is Prince Duan who is watching covetously."
"How can the Emperor allow others to sleep beside his bed? How could he possibly allow them to exist forever? Under such circumstances, it is inevitable that they will secretly accumulate their own power and wait for the right opportunity to eliminate them in one fell swoop."
Yan Zhigao nodded and looked at his eldest son with satisfaction. "Wenxiu is right." Then he looked at Daohua and Madam Li with a serious face. "Besides the four of us, you can't tell anyone else about this, including mother. Do you understand?"
Mrs. Li nodded quickly.
Daohua: "I will definitely keep my mouth shut." If it wasn't possible to implicate her family, she wouldn't even tell them.
As he spoke, he rolled his eyes and looked at Yan Zhigao and Yan Wenxiu with a smile, and asked tentatively: "Father, big brother, third and fourth brothers have been following Xiao Yeyang around all the time recently, why don't you stop them?"
Yan Zhigao glanced at his eldest daughter and said calmly, "It would be good to let them learn more from the young prince."
Yan Wenxiu picked up the teacup, smiled, said nothing, and started to sip it.
Daohua curled her lips. She was really good at pretending. If Xiao Yeyang hadn't told her, she would have really thought that they didn't know that her third and fourth brothers had become Jinling Guards.
Sure enough, she was still a little naive.
(End of this chapter)
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