Chapter 174.1: Chapter 174 Part 1

Translated by gingercat

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Li-shi only squinted at her without saying anything else to provoke her.

But even if she didn’t say anything else, Zhu-shi’s heart wasn’t at ease. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have made a mountain out of a molehill from just seeing Su Yucheng talking to a maid.

Of course, Zhu-shi wouldn’t admit this. She would only think that the maid had deliberately approached the man to seduce him. Back when Su Yucheng had an affair with a widow, Zhu-shi kicked up a huge fuss for over two months. She kicked up such a huge fuss that not only did the widow move away, but Su Yucheng also didn’t dare to go out for half a month.

Although in the end Su Yucheng admitted his mistake and gave in, Zhu-shi’s heart was still not at ease.

She waved Mrs. Li’s hand away and stood up, “You don’t need to worry about it. I can still manage my own man.” After she finished speaking, she hurried back to the east wing.

Showing an expression of schadenfreude on her face, Mrs. Li spat softly, “Go on, keep being stubborn. Sooner or later you will be suffering the consequences.”

She stood there for a while. It didn’t take long for there to be noises coming from the east wing.

There was Zhu-shi yelling followed by Su Yucheng’s furious scolding. Mrs. Li listened for a while, before leisurely returning to her west wing.

In the maids’ room, Lancao covered her face and wept as the other maids surrounded her to comfort her.

“Lancao, don’t take this matter to heart. After all, she is the Her Highness Side Consort’s sister-in-law. Although Her Highness treats us servants kindly, she definitely wouldn’t tear faces with them for the sake of us servants. Fortunately, they’re only here to stay for a few days.”

“Not to mention, it’s the first time I’ve seen such a vulgar woman, exposing all her dirty laundry to the air. Her Highness has such a good temper, yet she has such a sister-in-law!”

One of the maids hurriedly interrupted, “Stop talking! You really dare to say anything!”

Seeing everyone’s ashamed faces, she sighed and said, “However, you’re not wrong. If the relationship between their families weren’t like this, why would Her Highness be putting on such a facade? Acting like this, she knows she can’t treat them harshly or lightly. That’s why she’s treating them this way.”

The maids comforted Lancao one by one, and Lancao soon stopped crying. One of the maids went out to fetch some water for Lancao to wash her face. Since they still had other jobs to do, they didn’t stay any longer.

Lancao sat in the room for a while and didn’t come out until her emotions have calmed down.

The courtyard was very quiet. Only faint sounds of crying and cursing could be heard from the east wing.

During this time, Huiniang had gone over to talk. She asked Su Yucheng and Zhu-shi to keep their voices down. This wasn’t Linyun County, but Jin Wang Manor. This was why Su Yucheng and Zhu-shi’s voices were quieter. However, they could still be heard from outside.

Lancao was squatting in front of the flowerbed, watering the flowers when suddenly there was a slam of the door. A man was shoved outside from the east wing.

It was Su Yucheng.

Su Yucheng covered his face with one hand. He probably didn’t expect to bump into Lancao and was stunned for a moment. His face immediately blushed with embarrassment. He was about to leave when he stopped and hesitantly said, “Don’t take what happened just now to heart. My wife is too aggressive and implicated you.”

Lancao didn’t seem to expect that Su Yucheng would say this to her. At a loss, she lowered her head and said, “No, it’s nothing. I’m just a servant.”

She was originally a young woman with a delicate and clean appearance. Her surprised appearance added a touch of tenderness to her. Su Yucheng couldn’t help but take another look. However, he didn’t expect to bump into the deer-like eyes of the other party. He panicked, nodded his farewells and wanted to leave. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

He was going to the main courtyard. He was already used to it, but he had nowhere to go.

“Wait…” Lancao couldn’t help shouting.

Su Yucheng stopped and turned around to look back at her.

She took a step forward, took out a handkerchief from her sleeve, and handed it over timidly.

“You have a wound on your face. If your parents see it, they will probably worry about you. You should wipe it off.”

Su Yucheng took it, but before he could thank her, Lancao hurried away with her head down, leaving behind only a faint fragrance.

Yaoniang soon received news of what happened.

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Jin Wang was also there. Yaoniang felt both ashamed and vexed at what happened. She was frustrated about Zhu-shi being so shameless as to even raise a hand to a maid. She was also embarrassed about her natal family’s behaviour being exposed in front of Jin Wang.

Jin Wang was in a very good mood today. When he left in the morning, he had a constant smile on his face. This good mood lasted for the entire day and it still hasn’t disappeared.

He glanced at Yaoniang lazily and said, “What’s the big deal? It’s not something worth being so angry about.”

“This Zhu-shi is really…” Yaoniang was kind and rarely ever spoke badly about someone behind their backs. She couldn’t think of any appropriate words to describe her, but she was furious.

“If you really don’t like her, change it. She’s only a woman.”

Yaoniang hesitated: “But she…”

“There are seven grounds for divorce and she has definitely disobeyed several of them. Just one of them is enough to kick her out of the house,” said Jin Wang.

Jin Wang’s words completely turned Yaoniang’s world upside down. Her attitude towards Zhu-shi had always been tolerant because she knew that she would leave the family one day, but her parents would never leave. In the future, when her parents are old and sick, they would have to rely on Zhu-shi.

Plus, Zhu-shi gave birth to three children for the Su Family, so her position in the Su Family was even more stable. Not only did Wu-shi give in to her and tolerate her, but even Su Xiucai was also quite tolerant. Sometimes even when Zhu-shi did something outrageous, as long as it wasn’t too much, Su Xiucai would usually turn a blind eye.

After all, having sons was the most important and Zhu-shi definitely made significant contributions to the Su Family.

All this only encouraged Zhu-shi to become more ruthless. She wasn’t a fuel-efficient lamp, to begin with, but she only became more domineering with time. It finally reached the point where the entire Su Family is actually suppressed by a woman.

But what could they do besides tolerating her? It wasn’t easy for ordinary people to marry a wife and there was no such thing as taking a concubine. Otherwise, the shop owner wouldn’t have been gossipped about so often even after all these years from just taking a concubine.

This was why Yaoniang had really never thought about changing her sister-in-law.