Chapter 9 – The battle against the step-grandmother The Evil Prince and his Precious Wife The Sly Lady (1/2)
Chapter 9 – The battle against the step-grandmother
By sandy | October 12, 201622 Comments
“Shut up!” Murong Xue slapped Old Maid Qiu’s face, “You dare accuse the Dowager Lady when you had done wrong? Are you tired of living?!”
Old Maid Qiu’s face immediately formed a bright red five-fingered impression, hot and painful. A dark shadow formed across her eyes and she gnashed her teeth in anger, saying, “Young Mistress, I am really not lying. It really is the Dowager Lady…”
“Still dare argue?!” Murong Xue slapped her again till she fell to the ground, then she looked down upon her. She was going to harshly teach her a lesson when a strict voice rang, “What’s the commotion about? What’s going on?”
She had only had a few sentences and help had arrived. How quickly servants in the Marquis’ Mansion sends messages. However, the maids in front of the west wing are all the Dowager Lady’s servants. The only one not serving her is Old Maid Qiu, and even she is a traitor. Of course that person would come so quickly. please read only translator’s website
Murong Xue’s mouth curled into a sneer as she leisurely turned around. It was really the Dowager Lady Du slowly walking over with the support of a maid. Her white hair was tied up high pinned lightly by a dark green jade pin. A dark grey head wrap with bamboo embroidery had been decorated with a piece of emerald, complementing the jade pin, dignified without losing its severity.
Her mouth was tight and she glanced at Old Maid Qiu with the swollen cheeks, frowning tightly, “What’s going on?”
Old Maid Qiu looked at her like she had found her backbone. Eyes bright and tears like broken pearls dripping down, both knees kneeling on the ground and kowtowing till it sounded, she said, “Old Mistress, save me! Young Mistress wants to sell me away!” please read only translator’s website www.novitransla
Murong Xue raised her eyebrows and casually said, “Old Maid Qiu opened the treasury without permission and had pushed the blame on to Grandmother. By teaching her a lesson, I am helping the Mansion discipline any bad practices. If not, some people will think that since they are more experienced, they can bully young masters and boss around the Mansion.”please read only translator’s website
“Really?” The Dowager Lady’s cold sharp gaze passed over Old Maid Qiu, whose forehead was red and swollen, then fell upon Murong Xue. “But Old Maid Qiu was not lying. I am the one that asked her to open the treasury to retrieve the jewelry. You are teaching the wrong person a lesson.”
For the sake of her precious granddaughter, she had ordered the servants to open her daughter-in-law’s treasury without permission – that wouldn’t sound good. But Du did not come up with excuses to push the blame and even admitted it straightforward. It seems that she really hates Murong Xue.
If the original person had been standing here, she would definitely not be able to raise her head from the harsh scoldings of Du. But she is from a 21st century noble family and definitely wouldn’t bow down to this old piety woman. “Which law in Qingyan states that the step-mother-in-law can use her dead daughter-in-law’s dowry at will?”
A dark shadow flashed across Du’s eyes and she coldly looked at Murong Xue, “When your mother married into the Marquis’ Household, she had belonged to the Household. Her dowry is naturally the Marquis’ Household’s assets. I manage the internal Household and have the authority to touch anything related to the internal Household. My treasury did not have any appropriate accessories, therefore it’s only reasonable to ask Qingyan to pick a few pieces from here.”
“Qingyan’s law clearly states that when the first wife passes on, the dowry is passed on to her children. The things in this treasury is left behind by my mother for me and my brother and has nothing to do with anyone else in the Murong family. As long as my brother and I are still alive for a day, you, step-grandmother, have not right touch it.”
After her parents had died, Du had left Murong Xue in the Ruoxue Court and did not care about her survival. In the few times she had seen her, if it was not to pick on something, then it was to reprimand her. If Du did not treat her like her granddaughter, then Murong Xue did not need to treat Du as her grandmother.
“Now, without my brother’s or my permission, you have violated Qingyan’s law by opening the treasury and picking from my mother’s dowry.”
“Really?” Du glanced sideways to Murong Xue, her eyes full of disdain. “Well then, step-granddaughter, are you prepared to sue your step-grandmother and send her to jail?”
“The jewelries are still here and not lost. Step-grandmother need not go to court. You only need to beat his bullying and sly slave with a hundred paddles and sell her off.” Murong Xue said lightly.