IBTSOME Chapter 47 Part 1: Condemn

I BECAME THE STEPMOTHER OF MY EX-HUSBAND

 

Chapter 47 Part 1: Condemn

 

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Gu Cheng Yao wanted to explain, but couldn't say anything. When Lin Wei Xi saw his silence she became more disappointed. She sneered, didn’t want to look at Gu Cheng Yao anymore, just walked around him, looked at the woman who bowed her body outside the partition, the granny tried in vain to hide her whole body: "I taught you during the day and this is how you reflecting? Not only did not admit your mistakes, but also brought the inner house matter to Shizi’s face, and still provoke Shizi to argue with me. Your means of doing things can even go through the sky!"

     

Estate granny had long been afraid to look up. When she heard Lin Wei Xi's full of frost words, her legs trembled with fright, directly knelt down: "Wangfei please quell your anger, this slave didn't dare to instigate Shizi and Wangfei! This slave just didn’t have any other way. This slave whole family old and young are all attached to Yan Wang Mansion, and two generations have served the mansion for ten years. If Wangfei drives us out, we will not even have land, and there is no way to make a living, the only way is only to starve to death!"

 

Lin Wei Xi was angry but also found it laughable: "So you just blame me?"

 

For no reason Gu Cheng Yao didn't like Lin Wei Xi's expression. He said, "I met them by chance, so I brought them over to ask clearly. You don't involve them."

 

It was actually good for Gu Cheng Yao to be silent, as soon as he open his mouth, Lin Wei Xi's anger that was suppressed with great difficulty was drawn back. Among the many people present, the one Lin Wei Xi wanted to scold the most was Gu Cheng Yao.

 

"By chance? Shizi dare to say this again? You dare to say that these slaves haven't fiddled in front of you before entering the door?"

 

"I..." Gu Cheng Yao was loss for words. Bu Mama did say something, also that steward took the opportunity to complain. Gu Cheng Yao also knew that there might be ulterior motives, but Lin Wei Xi declined the estate’s stuff just because the day was too cold that the fish was frozen, and also wanted to remove the steward’s position, which was too arbitrary and callous.

 

Shizi and Wangfei clashed with each other, all the maids in the room bowed their heads and held their breath. Only Bu Mama looked in all directions, feeling proud with herself. She stood up and said: "Wangfei, this old slave knows that you are full of youthful vigor, and want to make some achievement for everyone to see. But no matter how urgent, there is no reason to use our people, let alone these loyal servants have served the mansion for more than ten years. If Wangfei send them away, it will chill the people’s heart below."

 

Lin Wei Xi ignored Bu Mama and looked at Gu Cheng Yao directly: "You think so too?"

 

Gu Cheng Yao wanted to say yes, but he looked at Lin Wei Xi's disappointed and cold eyes, and for some reason he couldn't speak. Bu Mama was his half-mother. For so many years, she had done her best for him. Naturally, she would not tell lies, and Gao Ran also agreed with Bu Mama. So after hearing these two people, Gu Cheng Yao’s first reaction was that Lin Wei Xi done something again. After listening to Bu Mama's report, Gu Cheng Yao couldn't help but frowned. Lin Wei Xi's punishment was too heavy. After all, she was an old servant who had served the mansion for many years. How could she be thrown just like that?

 

This was the brilliance of Bu Mama, or should be said Gao Ran. They didn't directly say that Lin Wei Xi wanted to overturn the regulations left by Wangfei Shen, but went around and used the previous matter as a raft to deny Lin Wei Xi. As long as Lin Wei Xi's punishment was overruled, would anyone still obey her changing the menu for the celebration?

 

Lin Wei Xi laughed, the mocking in it was very obvious. At this time, there was the sound of footsteps outside the door, and a person stood outside the door, bowed and said: "Young lady."

 

Lin Wei Xi restrained her anger and said, "Come in."

 

Gu Cheng Yao subconsciously frowned. Who was this to actually called Lin Wei Xi ‘Young lady’ and not ‘Wangfei’? When the person came in he only kowtowed to Lin Wei Xi. Lin Wei Xi pointed her finger to Gu Cheng Yao and said, "Don't be rude, this is Yan Wang Mansion’s Shizi."

 

Only then the person greeted Gu Cheng Yao. Everyone didn't know who this person was, to have the cheek to be so arrogant. Lin Wei Xi explained: "This is a retainer under the Marquis Zhongyong Mansion. He manages the estate in the suburbs of the capital for me. Coincidentally, it’s also in the southern suburbs of Daxing County."

 

Gu Cheng Yao remembered that before the imperial court conferred Lin Yong as Marquis Zhongyong, in addition to thousands of hectares of fertile fields, he was also given a batch of slaves, presumably this was one of them. Not only Gu Cheng Yao, but others also felt in a daze. Although Lin Wei Xi brought ten miles of red makeup to marry into the mansion, everyone in the mansion still thought that Lin Wei Xi was a helpless orphan, they almost forgot that she was also the daughter of a marquis.

 

Lin Wei Xi continued: "After I received the report from the steward of the mansion estate this morning. I was surprised, it was the same location, but why my estate is fine. I sent someone to inform the estate in the southern suburbs to let them take a trip to Yan Wang Mansion estate."

 

Estate granny’s face had changed a bit. The Lin family's retainers received the words and said, "This slave receive the order from our young lady and went to your mansion manor. It is true that the fish in the fish pond are not very lively, but it is not because freezing or met a disaster, but because the manor’s stewardship is not good, the water in the pond has not been changed for seven or eight days. The debris in the water is extremely dirty. No wonder the fish were not energetic. If it delayed for a few more days, I’m afraid all the fish will be dead."

 

After the other person finished speaking, Lin Wei Xi looked at Gu Cheng Yao with a sneer in her eyes: "Do you understand now, it's not that I treat the slaves harshly, but that they cheat the master to fatten up their own pockets! They looked after the estate like this and on top of that, with the excuses of cold weather disaster, still want to ask me for a hundred taels of emergency money as the capital. Shizi, such a slave, we should be sympathetic, and also can't be punished heavily?"

 

Gu Cheng Yao shivered as he watched the estate granny kneeling on the ground trembling, did not dare to reply. There was nothing left to understand right now. If that person was telling a lie, then the estate granny would jumped up long ago to make a fuss, but she didn't dare to move, it means that this was true.

 

Gu Cheng Yao suddenly had a huge doubt about himself. Before he came here, he genuinely thought that Lin Wei Xi had gone astray and he was here to correct her. However, in a short period of time it was proven that it was not that Lin Wei Xi was harsh, but he was the one that ignorant. He was blinded and deceived into running around in circles by a few wicked slaves!

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