Chapter 28: Dispute Arose Again
The three concubines came forward to pay their respects to the Second Master and Second Mistress, and then stood on both sides. Xiao Jun saw that Aunt Li did not come, and thought to himself that what happened yesterday was something that he and Aunt Li had gone too far. Now that Aunt Li did not come to pay their respects, even if she was injured, she should have sent someone to pass on a message. Wasn't this deliberately making things difficult for his new mistress?
It turned out that he didn't know that Aunt Li was locked up. Yesterday afternoon, while Mengxi was away, he sent Hongyu to bring Aunt Li the best healing medicine. But later, the old lady came to visit her. After Hongyu came back, he had forgotten about it. Fearing that Mengxi would punish him, he looked at the eldest aunt and asked sternly:
"What's wrong with Aunt Li today? She didn't come to pay her respects or send someone to pass on a message. Is she so rude?"
Although Xiao Jun's tone seemed stern, he was protecting Aunt Li in his heart. Since he had already questioned her, Second Mistress should not interfere in the matter. He would just scold her a few more words as a pretense, and the matter would be over. Second Mistress would not take the opportunity to lose her temper and make a big fuss, causing Aunt Li to suffer again.
The affairs of the backyard should have been decided by her as the mistress, but the Second Master started to question her without asking any questions. Even a fool could understand his intentions. Meng Xi thought to herself, "He is here to support his concubine." She thought the punishment from the old lady was severe enough, and she would not make things difficult for her today. But she still felt uncomfortable seeing Xiao Jun like this. Since he had spoken, she just sat there and watched the excitement without saying a word.
The eldest aunt saw that the second wife was sitting there like an old Buddha, and had no intention of speaking. The second master looked at her again, so she had to step forward and say:
"Second Master was unconscious yesterday and didn't know that Aunt Li has been locked up, waiting for the old lady's decision."
When Xiao Jun and Meng Xi heard this, they looked at each other in shock. They had both forgotten about this matter and thought that Aunt Li was being kept in the yard.
Logically speaking, he should be fine now. When Mengxi paid his respects this morning, he should have asked the old lady to release Aunt Li. After all, it was Aunt Li's business and the backyard's business, and it should have been decided by the Second Mistress. Only the Second Mistress could step in. It was not easy for him to ask, and he could not ask.
Remembering that this was not his business, he was reluctant to step out. He glanced at the Second Wife beside him, but saw her sitting there as if nothing had happened. He couldn't help but feel angry, but he couldn't vent his anger. His face suddenly darkened. He forgot who had just been so anxious to intervene in the backyard affairs and forced Mengxi to shut up.
He didn't believe Mengxi would forget about it. He was asleep, but she was awake. Xiao Jun thought she did it on purpose and was taking the opportunity to take revenge on Aunt Li. He secretly sighed that this second wife was too vicious.
Seeing Xiao Jun's face darken, she knew that he had misunderstood her again. Mengxi had been thinking about the Red Heart Banana yesterday and had indeed forgotten about it, but she couldn't explain it now. Instead, the more she explained, the worse it would be. Seeing that the Second Master looked at her with a dark face and said nothing, she had no choice but to speak:
"Since the Second Master is fine now, I think the old lady has calmed down. I will send someone to ask the old lady to release him to recuperate as soon as possible."
As she said this, she glanced at Hongzhu, who immediately understood and said, "I will go and report this to the old lady right away."
"Um"
Seeing that Mengxi didn't give any explanation and just dealt with it directly, as if she was doing it to give him face, Xiao Jun was even more convinced that she did it on purpose. He felt even more disdainful in his heart. He responded indifferently and sat there with a gloomy face.
Aunt Zhang, who was standing aside, was delighted to see the rift between the two of them, and thought to herself that her chance had finally come.
It turned out that Aunt Zhang was so angry after hearing what the maid Xiaoqian said yesterday that she had already expressed her condolences to the new Second Madam's ancestors. She secretly hated the Second Madam for being such a vicious person. She hated her just because of the night when the Second Master went to Aunt Li. Yesterday, she found ways to make the Eldest Master force the Second Master to stay in the upper room for half a month. The original period of seven days was doubled by her. It was hard for these concubines. If things went wrong, the Second Madam would not even let them see the Second Master within half a month, as was evident yesterday afternoon.
She didn't believe the fortune-telling nonsense, and she didn't believe that the second wife was a noble lady. If she was a noble lady, she, Zhang Yan, was the one, not the new second wife. She was sure that this was the second wife's way of winning favor.
The Second Master liked exotic fragrances by nature, and he especially liked the scent of red heart bananas. For the sake of this pot of red heart bananas, she had taken great pains to curry favor with the Third Concubine. Since he got this pot of red heart bananas, the Second Master has come to her room significantly more often. If you calculate, the Second Master has basically not been to the First Concubine in the past year. Now Mengxi wants to take away this pot of red heart bananas, and she jumps with heartache , but she can't refuse. The concubine herself is the property of the Second Master and the Second Mistress, not to mention the things in the concubine's room. The master likes it, and she is not able to show her filial piety enough, so how dare she not give it to her.
The red bananas were only in her and Aunt Li's room. She wanted to discuss a countermeasure with Aunt Li, but Aunt Li was locked up and the maid had already moved the flowers away. She wanted to go to the Second Master to complain, but because of the order of the eldest master, she couldn't even get into the door of the upper room. Aunt Wang and Aunt Xiao Wang were eager to move the red bananas out of her room as soon as possible, not to mention asking them to discuss how to deal with the Second Madam together. After thinking about it, she really couldn't think of any good solution, so she had to move the red bananas to the upper room reluctantly.
God finally gave her a chance, and it was time for her wish to come true. Just when she was racking her brains to think about how to meet Second Master, he actually accompanied Second Madam to meet them today. She had been thinking about how to tell Second Master about this, and when she saw that Second Master was angry with Second Madam, she knew that her chance had finally come.
Aunt Zhang was also betting that the Second Master didn't know that Second Madam had forced the red bananas from her and Aunt Li's room. If he knew, he would be furious. So she stepped forward and bowed to Second Madam, saying respectfully:
"Second Madam, I have moved the pot of red bananas from my room here as you ordered. But I think that the red bananas are very fragrant and Second Master likes them very much. It would be a pity to leave them in the garden. It would be better to put them in Second Madam's room so that Second Master can see and smell them from time to time, which would be even more pleasing to the eye."
After hearing what Aunt Zhang said, Xiao Jun turned his head to look at Mengxi. A cold light flashed across his face. Aunt Zhang saw it and said to herself, "It's done," and felt ecstatic.
After hearing what Aunt Zhang said, Mengxi thought to herself, "She is unwilling to accept this. It seems that each of these concubines is a tough one."
Feeling the cold light from the Second Master sweeping over, Mengxi was instantly furious and cursed inwardly. She really wanted to grab this bastard in front of her who didn't even know he was being killed, kick him flat, then roll him into a ball and kick him like a ball.
"Fuck, I've been working so hard just to help you, an idiot who can't tell right from wrong, to detoxify. You fool! You bastard! You son of a bitch! You really deserve to be teased."
