Qiu Yelan was so glad, but bitter crying started to burst from Jiang Yadan’s backyard. “I have served the Eighth Young Master and the dead eighth madame so many years. I at least deserve credit for efforts. How can Madame ask me to be buried alive with the eighth madame as soon as she comes back? I can’t believe it! There must be some misunderstanding!”

Of course, the one who cried was Lu Zhan. In other words, she was very lucky to live until now. Before that, because of the premature death of Jiang Jinghu, when Madame Tao Junior’s position as the first wife was undermined, Madame Tao had wished to kill her. But at that time, Jiang Yadan and An Zhenshang saved her life because they needed her. After Madame Tao Junior was pregnant, according to the fact, she shouldn’t have managed to escape from death this time.

But she served Madame Tao Junior for many years and was keenly aware of her temper. She, remaining unkempt, knelt in front of Madame Tao Junior and kowtowed repeatedly until several tiles were stained with her blood. In the end, she melted Madame Tao Junior’s heart. Madame Tao Junior interceded with Madame Tao for Lu Zhan. After such a time, Lu Zhan thoroughly saw the cruelty of the backyard struggle. She never dared to initiate anything and lived carefully!

However, she thought it was not too late for her to wake up and turn back. Just a few causal words of Madame Zhuang would make her die.

“How dare you have the nerve to say your efforts?” said Mrs. Chang, the trusted subordinate of Madame Zhuang. She was skilled at watching faces in front of Jiang Yashuang, the dearly love trueborn son of Madame Zhuang. But before Lu Zhan, the maid with humble origin who was going to be punished by Madame Zhuang, she pulled a long face. Without saying a word, Mrs. Chang immediately tore her hair and slapped her face with no hesitation.

Mrs. Chang slapped her so hard that Lu Zhan was stunned totally!

“When Madame was far away in Beijiang, I didn’t know how you could be so ungrateful to bully the eighth madame in the Jiang Family.” Mrs. Chang scolded and hit her at the same time, giving her a severe beating. “If it weren’t for you, a shameless woman, the poor son of the Fourteenth Young Master would never be born without his mother!”

Lu Zhan was chosen as the maid of Madame Tao Junior since she was a child. Madame Tao Junior was good-tempered and treated servants with generosity. Later, she sank into the arms of Jiang Yadan and was quite spoiled. Although she was a maid, she had always lived a better life than normal rich young ladies and never been treated like this! After a few hits, she instinctively wanted to resist!

But Mrs. Chang was just waiting for her to resist!

“This little humble maid is so bold! She even dares to disobey Madame’s order!” Mrs. Chang justly and forcefully asked others to help beat Lu Zhan violently, “In that case, don’t give her the white silk and poisoned liquor to preserve her dignity. Just kill her!”

Mrs. Chang was not exactly to vent anger on Lu Zhan for Madame Tao Junior. After all, she didn’t see Madame Tao Junior. She just wanted to give a favor to An. But An was still so young, wasn’t he?

Her main purpose was to blackmail Lu Zhan’s family, “You really raise a good girl! She even dares to disobey Madame’s words! Don’t you really think that Madame know nothing about things that happened in this backyard when she is not at here? Do you know? Madame is willing to let the humble Lu Zhan be buried with the eighth madame because she considers that Lu Zhan served the eighth madame and the eighth madame was generous! She makes an exception. Otherwise, according to her temper, such a maid who betrayed her master would be sank to the moat and exile her whole family three thousand miles away! ”

“Do you really think anyone is qualified to be buried with the eighth madame?”

“Don’t be shameless. Wait for Madame’s order to deal with you! Such a family is doomed to be servants. The eighth madame was so good-tempered that she indulged you! You dare to pull a long face to your master. You don’t fear because you have never seen Madame’s means, right? Never mind. As long as Madame sends a message, I will teach you how to be a maid!”

“Oh, what a lovable girl. It is said that you have three sons and two daughters besides Lu Zhan. Which family is the little girl from? A granddaughter? Tut-tut, her face is so delicate, but your family won’t have a good future!”

“Can’t you understand?”

“If Madame gets angry and sells your family casually, your young granddaughter may fall into some dirty place at that time! But it doesn’t matter. Now those popular courtesans in Jing City also move in the circles of dignitaries and nobles. Maybe you’ll be lucky in the future. You can rely on her for a good life, right?”

“Hah-hah. she was not discreet. I kindly advised her to obey Madame’s order, which considered her relationship with the eighth madame and helped her fulfill her filial piety as a daughter! She not only didn’t listen to me, but also started to fight me!”

“I have served Madame all life. I have never been humiliated like this even before the Eighth Young Master and Jiang Yashuang!”

Lu Zhan’s family should also be the dowry of Madame Tao Junior. According to the rules, after Madame Tao Junior’s death, it should be An, the son of the Fourteenth Young Master, who had the perfectly justifiable right to deal with them. As the husband’s family, the Jiang Family should avoid arousing suspicion. After all, the people as dowry were also part of the dowry. They should all belong to An. It was not convenient for the husband’s family to get involved.

However, there were few people in the Jiang Family who would abide by the rules. Madame Zhuang was even the most unreasonable person. Lu Zhan’s family was beaten by Mrs. Chang with no way to fight back. Everyone knelt in front of her and begged for a long time. They almost took out all their savings over the years to send her away!

With Lu Zhan as an example, she didn’t need to come to the An Family. They would obediently offer a large number of the property to her and ask her to say good words in front of Madame Zhuang. For example, they wanted to let An Zhenshang change her surname alone. As for their family, they would like to avoid this kind of humiliation!

However, though Mrs. Chang took the property openly, she replied to the request with two words: “No way!”

Not only did she reply to the An Family in this way, but when she came back to report to Madame Zhuang, she complained to Madame Zhuang about the An Family, “The An Family was so delusional. They thought that I would accept a little money and they even dared to have designs on your order! No wonder their daughter was bold to murder the eighth madame! The whole family is unruly!”

Mrs. Chang said, presenting the property she extorted from them to Madame Zhuang for disposal.

Madame Zhuang said coldly, “Since it’s for you, take them and share with Mrs. Qu… As for some people who refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit, you can send a message to Censor and ask them to investigate what illegal things the family has done!”

Qiu Yelan, who was talking with her, understood that since Madame Zhuang said this, the An Family almost came to an end. Seeing that the An Family who oppressed Madame Tao Junior overwhelmingly and even Madame Tao couldn’t do anything with was about to go up in smoke because of a few words of Madame Zhuang, she couldn’t help turning her head to wipe the corners of her eyes. There seemed to be a wall blocked in her heart, “It’s a pity that my eighth sister-in-law can’t see this!”

She was very regretful now. She thought of so many ways to help Madame Tao Junior, but she only forgot one way to persuade her to go to Beijiang to find Madame Zhuang!

“I really didn’t know my mother-in-law before!” Otherwise, Madame Tao Junior could serve her mother-in-law alone. Even if she might not conceive An, she would have been much better under Madame Zhuang’s protection. Maybe Madame Zhuang simply called her son over. But it was too late to say this now.

“Are you thinking of An’s mother?” After ordering Mrs. Chang, Madame Zhuang let everyone withdraw with one look. She took her hand and sighed, “Although I haven’t seen that girl, I know her feeling very well!”

At this point, a hint of ferocity flashed across her face, “Jiang Yazhu’s biological mother was also such a flatterer! Luckily, I got the news early and arrived in Beijiang in time to stop her wild ambition! Since I got married with your father so many years, the only quarrel was because of that b*tch. So, I could see it! These shameless ones should be beaten to death as soon as we find out! Only in this way can we give a warning and deter those coveters!”

Although Qiu Yelan saw her mother-in-law dispose of Lu Zhan and An Zhenshang, she knew that her mother-in-law would deal with those troubled mistresses with no compassion, but she didn’t expect that her mother-in-law would tell her the harm of mistresses bluntly. This was what a mother would tell her daughter. And not every mother would say so. In this era, many mothers persuaded their daughters to be generous and take the initiative to take mistresses for their son-in-law!

Anyway, she got along well with Madame Zhuang for a short time. She didn’t know whether her words were sincere or not.

After all, seeing the cruel mother-in-law like Madame He, Qiu Yelan dared not to take her mother-in-law lightly!

Madame Zhuang didn’t ask her to answer but said to herself, “I haven’t seen Jiang Yazhu and his wife these days. Do you know where they have gone?”

Qiu Yelan was stunned and replied, “Aren’t they in the yard?”

“They packed up their things two days ago. The whole family has set off to north to go to your father!” Madame Zhuang sneered, “That’s what your grandfather means! They think I don’t know. The son of a concubine in my own branch is going away. Of course, I can know, unless I’m dead!”

“…” Qiu Yelan frowned, “What does grandfather mean?”

“He did it to show me deliberately!” Madame Zhuang sneered, “It’s just a warning to me that there is not only my son in the fourth branch. Even Jiang Yazhu, the son of a concubine, is also the blood of the Jiang Family. But does that evil guy deserve to be compared with my child?”

Looking at Qiu Yelan, she continued, “So, have you seen the harm of mistresses? Once you cannot handle it well, it will make trouble for your own children! Even if the bad child can’t shake the status of Yadan and Yashuang, it will eventually take their possessions! You must learn from me in the future. Once you find that someone is hitting on Yashuang, just strike! Remember to remove out the source of the trouble! Don’t worry about the aftermath. I’ll bear anything for you!”

After Qiu Yelan, wiping her tears, left, Mrs. Chang came in with bird’s nest for Madame Zhuang. Seeing her drinking slowly, she smiled and said, “I really don’t know why madame Qiu is so blessed to be your daughter-in-law! Even a real mother may not be willing to indulge her daughter by telling what you just said to her!”

“I hate those mothers-in-law who add other mistresses to daughter-in-law in my life!” Madame Zhuang drank half a bowl of bird’s nest and gave the rest to Mrs. Chang, humming coldly, “If my grandmother of my maiden family hadn’t stuffed mistresses to my father’s backyard one after another, my mother might not have died so early! So, when I got married, I swore that if my mother-in-law dared to stuff someone in my backyard, don’t blame me for ignoring the relationship with her!”

“Anyway, Madame Dou passed away early, and Madame Tao didn’t do that! So, I didn’t suffer any grievances from my mother-in-law. Naturally I should benefit my own daughter-in-law! After Dan’er was born, I decided that as long as my daughter-in-law was reasonable and somewhat polite and filial, I wouldn’t embarrass her… I didn’t intend to tell my daughter-in-law about those words, but up till now, after listening to so many words, I realized that the virtue of Madame Tao Junior was better than Qiu Yelan. Such a good person has gone for Yadan’s offspring! Now I only have Qiu Yelan, the only legitimate daughter-in-law of mine. I can’t stay in Jing City for a long time. I’m afraid that if Jiang Yashuang were to get tired of getting along with his wife after a long time, Qiu Yelan probably would repeat the mistakes of Yadan’s wife!”

“An has lost her biological mother’s protection. He has to depend on Qiu Yelan’s love and care later! Once Qiu Yelan might pass away, what would my legitimate grandchildren do in the future?”

Mrs. Chang listened with a smile and said, “When all is said, the fact remains that it’s your kindness to treat your daughter-in-law as your own daughter…”

Speaking of which, she realized her mistake immediately and felt regretful. She quickly stopped. Madame Zhuang’s only biological daughter had just passed away!

Fortunately, Madame Zhuang didn’t notice it and said to herself, “And there’s another reason why I treat Qiu Yelan so confidentially. Since Jiang Yayue and Jiang Yaqing have died, no matter what Old Master and those guys think, it’s the most appropriate to hand over Western Army to Qiu Jinglan now! It’s said that Qiu Jinglan loves his sister Qiu Yelan most and regards her as his life! Anyway, Jiang Yashuang also dearly loves her now. I’ll help her a lot and make her completely loyal to Jiang Yashuang and our branch! As for Qiu Jinglan, he’ll definitely work for us wholeheartedly for that! ”

“It’s necessary to give a reason for people to work themselves to death for us. It could be either threat or gratitude! Otherwise, no way!”

Mrs. Zhuang took a breath, narrowed her eyes, and said lightly, “Qiu Yelan was born noble with good appearance and an outstanding brother. Now she is pregnant. And Jiang Yashuang likes her so much… I just make it clear that I’ll protect her. In this way, she is happy, and thus her brother can feel relieved. I am happy too and rest assured for my sons. So why not?”