The Demon Queen of Divine Doctor is not to be trifled with

Chapter 59 Why don’t we take our new father’s surname?

Seeing a group of maids rushing out of the yard and heading straight for the west courtyard, Madam Mu was furious. "What does this mean, mother? Are you going to raid our house again? We have already raided it once on the second day of the twelfth lunar month, and those things have not been recovered yet. We won't find anything valuable if we raid it again. Are you going to take away all our beddings?"

The old lady glared at her fiercely, and it felt like she was looking at someone with a blood feud.

The extremely uncomfortable feeling in Mu's heart also surged up. Why did the old lady hate her family so much? This question kept echoing in her mind. Unfortunately, she still had no clue.

Xiao spoke up and took the initiative to explain: "Sister-in-law, you misunderstood. Mother didn't mean to copy your things. Mother just asked people to check in each courtyard to see if there are any taboos. After all, the mansion is still in mourning. If you are not careful, it will be disrespectful to the deceased. We can't be careless. What's more, the fourth lady's nanny also went to check yesterday, so there is no reason not to let mother check."

"Are you only checking our west courtyard?"

"How is that possible?" Xiao said again, "Every room and courtyard must be checked, even Hongzhuang's place must be checked."

Ye Wenyan leaned back in his chair, tilted his head and asked Xiao: "How noble is Third Sister now? She even used the word even, as if her status was higher than any other master in the mansion. Did Second Aunt really forget how she saved her life and was not thrown into the pig cage?"

She crossed her arms in front of her, glanced at the Xiao family with a frown, and finally her gaze fell on the old lady. "I don't care how you investigate, but there is one thing I need to remind you of. The three-day deadline I gave you is almost up. You must add to our house by tomorrow at the latest, and you must return our lost things. Especially my eldest brother's set of writing brushes and ink. If there is anything missing, I must report it to the police."

The old lady took a deep breath and tried her best to adjust her mood. After a long while, she said, "Don't worry, the mansion won't covet your things."

"That's good." She smiled and ignored the old lady, turning to look at Ye Qingmei, "Is your forehead feeling better? I see there are still some scars. Have you not seen a doctor these days?"

Ye Qingmei nodded, "I can't invite guests from the mansion, and I can't afford doctors from outside, so let's just leave it at that, it's okay to cover my hair."

"Alas." Ye Wenyan sighed heavily, "Family affection is so weak. But it doesn't matter, I can cure it. I will send medicine to Big Sister tonight. I guarantee that my medicine will not leave any scars after one application. Don't say that your injury is so minor, even if your whole face is torn open, I can heal you and make you look as beautiful as before."

Xiao couldn't sit still anymore and called out anxiously, "Fourth Miss..."

She put away her smile towards Ye Qingmei, leaned back in her chair, picked up the tea that the maid had placed on the side table, blew on it twice, tasted it, and then shook her head, "It doesn't taste good."

Madam Ji said immediately, "I will send a letter to Yanhua Palace later and ask Eunuch Lian to send the best tea."

Now the old lady and the second lady were both angry. Xiao was angry that Ye Wenyan didn't respond to her words, and the old lady was angry that Ye Wenyan could drink the tea of Yanhua Palace? She didn't even drink it!

Yesterday the family bought her a cane, and now she was holding it in her hand just in time to use it. The old lady concentrated all her anger on her hand, banging the cane on the ground, cursing as she banged, "Unfilial son! How could the Ye family produce a scum like you? You are so disrespectful to your elders, aren't you afraid of being struck by lightning?"

Mu was so angry that she stood up and said, "Why should my daughter be struck by lightning? She has been stabbed, and you still think it is not enough. You want to curse her?"

The old lady's cane knocked even louder: "And you, you evil woman! You are not worthy to be the daughter-in-law of my Ye family!"

"Then can our family just pack up and leave?" Ye Wenyan leaned over to the Mu family and looked at the old lady.

The old lady then realized that, at some point, Ye Wenyan had lifted one of his legs and his foot was resting on the chair she was sitting on, making him look like a street thug.

"Grandma, please give me some advice! My father is gone, and my mother should have nothing to do with the General's Mansion anymore. Whether she lives on her own or remarries in the future, the General's Mansion has no right to control it. So, Grandma, please consider it. How about we move out with our mother and make a living on our own? In two years, we will follow her to remarry, and then change our surnames to our new father's. What do you think?"

As soon as these words came out, Ye Lianmian, who was sitting on the side, immediately became anxious: "Who wants to go with you? Who wants to take the new father's surname? Ye Wenyan, don't take me with you even if you want to die. I would rather die than move out of here."

Ye Wenyan ignored her and looked up at the sky leisurely.

The old lady was so angry that she was having convulsions. She screamed and swung her cane around and around, hitting the floor tiles so hard that sparks were about to fly off them. She was about to start cursing when Nanny Ji said, "Please be careful, old lady. Don't use too much force on your hands. I think the bricks on the floor are made of gold bricks fired in the imperial kiln in the palace. Please don't break them."

Upon hearing this, Ye Wenyan also looked at the ground. After looking for a while, she pulled Mu and said, "Mother, mother, these are really gold bricks! My daughter is young and ignorant. She only knew that the house was magnificent and beautiful, but she didn't know that the floor was paved with gold bricks. Was this awarded by the palace? It seems to be the same as the floor of Xu Ming Hall in the front yard."

Mu calmed down for a while, sat back and told her: "It was indeed awarded by the palace, because your grandfather and father had made great military achievements, and the late emperor awarded a batch of gold bricks a few years ago. But there are not many gold bricks after all, and they are extremely precious, so the family was reluctant to pave the yard. Xu Ming Hall is the front hall, which is considered the face of the Ye family, so it was naturally paved. After paving, there were still some left, and it should have been paved in your grandfather's study, but later on, I don't know how, it was paved in Fulu Courtyard."

The old lady banged the ground again. "What do you mean, old man?"

Madam Mu shook her head. "It's nothing. Yan'er asked, so I just told her the truth. Mother, please don't knock it anymore. If it really breaks, we will have to go to the palace to ask for punishment, which is so embarrassing."

The old lady was particularly frustrated. She had finally gotten the cane, but she had no place to use it. She just felt that it was quite enjoyable to bang it, but the eldest wife's family asked her to stop. Her heart was hanging in the middle, neither up nor down. The discomfort was so severe that it was enough to suffocate her to death.

But what could she do? The floor was covered with gold bricks granted by the emperor, and they could not be damaged. If it was just normal damage in life, it would be fine, but if she deliberately knocked it with her cane, Ye Wenyan might accuse her of something in front of the emperor.

Now that the emperor is not supported by their Ye family, she has no confidence in the palace.

The old lady endured and endured, and finally managed to hold back her anger. Xiao's face was very ugly. Just now, she heard again that Ye Wenyan could heal the wound that destroyed her face. These words were like cutting out her heart.

You know your daughter's face can be cured, but she refuses to treat it for you. What can you do to her?

She was thinking about random things in her mind and looked outside frequently.

Ye Wenyan pondered again: "What is Second Aunt looking at? Are you looking forward to those women who went to search? Why don't we guess what they can find? And in whose yard did they find it?"

Xiao looked at her and groaned, "Who knows!"

Ye Wenyan also snorted, "Second Aunt really has good intentions, and Grandmother also has good intentions."

Xiao especially wanted to ask what this good intention meant, but at this moment, there was a movement outside the hall!

Everyone turned around and saw two maids coming back with a servant girl. The servant girl was still shouting as she walked, "Miss, save me! Miss, save me!"

Ye Wenyan was happy, it was Xichun.

After they entered the house, two maids pushed Xichun forward, and one of them raised a bunch of wintersweet flowers in her hand and said, "The fourth young lady's maid was picking flowers in the plum garden, and was caught by this old slave. We have caught her red-handed!"

Xichun crawled down to Ye Wenyan's feet and grabbed her skirt tightly, "Miss, please beg for mercy for me. Miss, you must help me! I know I was wrong, and I will never dare to do it again!"

She asked Xichun: "What did you do?"

Xichun replied: "I went to pick flowers for the young lady."

"When did I ask you to pick flowers?"

"Young lady didn't let me pick them, but I saw Zhuier secretly go to the plum garden every day, and Young lady's room was full of the fragrance of flowers. I also saw Young lady take flower petals out of her purse. So I guessed that Young lady must like flowers and want to use them, so I went to pick them for her, but I didn't expect to be caught. Young lady, please save me!"

Ye Wenyan shook his head, "There's a big funeral in the mansion, and you're picking flowers. This is disrespectful to the ancestors. Besides, when did I ask Zhuier to pick flowers? You can't just say whatever you want as soon as your upper lip touches your lower lip, right?"

"Miss, you can't do this. You can't deny it. If you deny it, what will happen to that servant?"

"You can do whatever the old lady wants to do to you." She moved her legs, shook off the hem of her skirt that was being pulled by Xichun, and said to the old lady, "I'm very sorry that this happened. As her master, I have joint responsibility. So I'm going to leave this maid to the grandmother to deal with. Whether it's beating, punishment or killing, I promise not to plead for her. How do you think?"

The old lady frowned, "Is it all just because you don't plead for her? Fourth girl, I heard it clearly just now. Your maid said that not only did you use flowers in your room, but your purse was also full of flowers. This is wrongly accusing you, isn't it?"

Ye Wenyan was surprised: "Of course I was wronged! How could there be flowers in my purse!" As he spoke, he covered the purse hanging on his waist with his hands and shrank back in the chair. Anyone who saw him would think he looked guilty.

Mu's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that Yan'er really had hidden the flower?