Favoring concubines and ignoring wives? The mistress of the marquisate remarried a powerful official

Song Wanning had been the mistress for three years. In her previous life, she had worked hard for the Marquis' Mansion for half her life and had tried all the injustices, big and small, in the Marquis' Mansion. Now, this incident was just a small test for her.

The mothers at the door looked at each other, unsure of what Song Wanning was thinking. The leading mother looked at Song Wanning with a bitter face and advised, "Grandma, now that we have the evidence, why do we need another trial?"

Song Wanning looked at the leader, Madam Liu, and sneered, "Why? I am still the mistress of Lan Courtyard. You came to my yard to take someone away, and I can't even ask about it?"

"That's definitely not the case." Mother Liu sighed twice. She naturally didn't dare to offend Song Wanning. She only said sadly, "Then I will tell grandma the whole story of this matter..."

"Let me speak first, I'll speak first..." Cui Xiaoxiao was afraid that Mother Liu and others would wrongly accuse her, and she couldn't wait to tell her story.

"Okay, tell me everything." Song Wanning was here today to clear Cui Xiaoxiao's name. It wasn't that she was kind-hearted. But how could she watch Wen Tingbo and his family succeed in their scheme?

Now Cui Xiaoxiao cannot leave the Marquis' Mansion, which will be a useful handle for her to divorce in the future.

"Early this morning, the nanny in the Madam's courtyard called me and said that the Madam had something to tell me." Cui Xiaoxiao still had tears on her face, but she did not dare to hesitate and said word by word, "The Madam said so, and I did not dare to delay, so I quickly followed the nanny to the Madam's courtyard. It's a pity that when I arrived, the Madam was taking a nap, and the nanny asked me to sit in the courtyard for a while and wait for the Madam. Who would have thought that after sitting for a while, the maids and old women in the Madam's courtyard disappeared. I felt strange, and seeing that the door of the Madam's room was open, I wanted to go in to see if the Madam was awake. Before I went in, I was called back by the nanny..."

Cui Xiaoxiao felt more and more wronged as she spoke, and cried, "Grandma, please make the decision for me. As soon as I came back, these women came to my house and said that I stole something. I really don't know where the bracelet came from."

When Madam Liu heard Cui Xiaoxiao say this, she hurriedly excused herself, "The women in the Madam's room all have work to do, so there are no so many people watching you. Auntie, as a concubine of the Marquis's mansion, is not at all content. She took advantage of the Madam's room being unattended to steal. This is really a heinous crime."

"Mom, please don't interrupt me when I'm talking." Song Wanning glanced at her mother who was talking and said coldly, "Whoever I tell to speak should speak. Since it's not your turn to speak yet, you'd better speak quietly, otherwise people will think you have something to hide."

After hearing this, Madam Liu finally fell silent and apologized repeatedly, "Grandma is right, it was I who overstepped my bounds."

Song Wanning picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip, then asked solemnly, "Let me ask you, on weekdays, there are more than 20 maids and servants serving in the Madam's courtyard, so why is there no one when the old lady is here?"

Madam Liu's face darkened as she said with a stiff upper lip, "This... the maids in the Madam's room all have work to do, so it's possible that they were careless for a moment."

"Do you think I'm blind or deaf?" Song Wanning's face darkened and she threw the teacup in her hand to the ground, splashing the scalding tea on the flowers and plants. "Which courtyard in this mansion dares to let the ladies take a nap without anyone to serve them? Who is in charge? How could they do such a careless thing? Today, it's just a bracelet that was lost. If a bad guy breaks in someday, wouldn't it put the master in danger?"

After hearing what Song Wanning said, Madam Liu immediately knelt down and cried, "Grandma, I am the one in charge, but... I was busy, and I was negligent."

Mother Liu can only swallow her anger now. After all, she would never say that it was the Madam's order to do this. She just wanted the Madam to set up this trap to drive Cui Xiaoxiao out.

Song Wanning's voice was cold, and her angry words made people dare not refute at all, "In my opinion, it was because of your negligence that the wife lost the dowry bracelet. Mother should bear half of the responsibility for this matter."

Madam Liu had a sad face and had to admit her mistake, "Grandma, you are right. It is mostly my fault. Please punish me."

"In my opinion, there are many suspicious points in this matter." Song Wanning glanced at Cui Xiaoxiao who was still kneeling on the ground, and said slowly, "Mrs. Cui is usually a bit domineering. She must have offended many people in this mansion. I'm afraid that some little maid is thinking of revenge."

After hearing this, Cui Xiaoxiao felt that she had hope of redressing her grievances. She raised her head quickly and said with tears in her eyes, "Yes, yes, grandma is right. I have a bad moral character and have done many wrong things. I am afraid that someone wants to take revenge on me, so I did such a cruel and evil thing to frame others."

Song Wanning's eyes once again turned to the maids and servants in the entire courtyard. She was so imposing that people had to be afraid of her. "Who was the maid who found the gold bracelet?"

There was a commotion among the crowd, and soon a maidservant of about seventeen or eighteen years old stood out. She said weakly, "It's me... I'm your servant..."

Song Wanning remembered her. She was originally Yuchan, a maid in the lady's room.

Yuchan had just heard what Song Wanning said about the maid's revenge, and now she was even more frightened, with guilty conscience written all over her face. Seeing that Song Wanning was about to question her, she suddenly knelt on the ground, lowered her head and said, "Grandma, I really don't dare to wrongly accuse the aunt. The bracelet was found in the quilt. I have no intersection with the aunt on weekdays and have never had any enmity with her. There is really no reason for me to retaliate against her. Please understand, Grandma."

Song Wanning looked up at the maid Zhuque beside her. Zhuque understood what she meant and looked at Yuchan who was kneeling on the ground and said slowly, "Yuchan, how dare you lie? You sneaked into my aunt's yard alone before and hid the bracelet in my aunt's quilt, but someone saw it. Now you deny it?"

"I never mentioned it. I didn't." Yu Chan's face turned pale as she spoke, and she trembled as she said, "I got the bracelet later..."

Yuchan said this and immediately realized that she had said the wrong thing. She immediately lowered her head and dared not say another word.

"The maid Yuchan stole the bracelet that came with my wife's dowry and framed my aunt because she was jealous of her." Song Wanning stood up, walked in front of Yuchan, and said, "Yuchan, am I right?"

Yuchan was stunned now. She had no choice but to take the blame. Yuchan nodded and cried, "It was all because I felt that Auntie, who had no parents, could be favored by Second Master. I was jealous. Yuchan knows I was wrong. Please forgive me, Grandma."