Chapter 267: Found Him (2) (1/2)
Chapter 267: Found Him (2)
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Chu Lian watched over Senior Servant Liu in the side room while waiting for movement from the parlour. Luckily, Senior Servant Liu’s body was still rather robust so she had only broken a bone from this fall. She would be completely fine after lying in bed and resting for three to four months.
It was only about an hour later that someone came over from the parlour to report. When Chu Lian finished listening to the report, she quickly got up to return to the parlour.
As she held onto Matriarch He’s arm to support her as they left the main branch’s courtyard, Chu Lian turned back to look through the parlour’s open doors. The master and mistress of the main branch were still kneeling in the center of the parlour, their backs ramrod-straight. However, husband and wife were now like strangers, ignoring each other.
After sending Matriarch He back to Qingxi Hall, it was clear that the matriarch was worn out. Before she left, the matriarch didn’t forget to remind her not to speak of the matter, and especially not to let Countess Jing’an find out.
Chu Lian nodded in agreement. She sent the matriarch all the way to her bedroom before returning to Songtao Court.
The next day, Madam Zou had been grounded by Matriarch He. She heard that He Changqi had already consummated his relationship with Miaozhen last night and that Miaozhen had settled into He Changqi’s study.
Due to various reasons and circumstances, He Dalang had still taken a concubine before he had hit thirty years of age. However, when the servants talked about it in private, they would say that the heir had merely accepted a bed servant. A bed servant couldn’t be counted as a concubine, so he hadn’t broken the He Family’s rules. After all, it was his wife who hadn’t been able to give birth to a male heir after ten years!
Since Madam Zou had been grounded by Matriarch He for half a month, the management of the estate fell to Matriarch He instead. In the past few days, whenever Chu Lian made her morning visits to Qingxi Hall, she would be held back by the matriarch for quite some time, either getting forced to go over some of the estate’s account books or to watch the matriarch handle various matters of the estate.
If not for Chu Lian being a bag of lazy bones who didn’t want to take over the management of the estate, Matriarch He would have probably let her temporarily replace Madam Zou as the lady-in-charge.
In the blink of an eye, it was already mid-October. These days, Chu Lian didn’t leave the estate at all in order to avoid the inescapable pest, Xiao Bojian.
During this time, Royal Princess Duanjia only visited her once to pass on some gifts from Princess Wei.
Before she left, Chu Lian accompanied Royal Princess Duanjia on a walk around her own courtyard. They had even gone to the study in the outer court, but Royal Princess Duanjia’s expression still remained unhappy for some reason.
Chu Lian had too many things on her plate, so she didn’t delve deeper into the matter.