The Grand Secretary's Pampered Wife Chapter 142.1

Chapter 142.1

Anyone who had had any contact with Yao s.h.i.+ would not believe that Yao s.h.i.+ could be this violent.

Yao s.h.i.+ was suffering from severe hysteria and depression. If she went mad, she might lose her mind and do such a thing, but it was another matter.

At the moment, Yao s.h.i.+ was very sober and at the right mind, and her mood was also very calm. The slap she gave Concubine Ling was a slap with a purpose.

Yao s.h.i.+'s eyes were like torches as she said, "This slap is to pay you back for worrying my daughter."

As a mother, the thing she was most unwilling to happen wasn’t herself getting hurt, but rather being insulted and harmed in front of her children.

She wanted to protect her children from being hurt, be it physically or mentally.

The corner of Concubine Ling's mouth was covered with blood, which showed how hard Yao s.h.i.+’s slap was.

Concubine Ling wiped the corner of her mouth with her finger, then looked at the blood at her fingertips and smiled mockingly, "Madame, what are you talking about? I don't understand."

Yao s.h.i.+ responded in a cold voice, "In front of me, are you qualified to refer to yourself as ‘I’?”

Concubine Ling's eyes grew cold, and as though she was already too lazy to pretend, she laughed coldly and said, "Has Madame gone crazy? After serving the Old Madame all morning, you think you really are the mistress of the estate?"

Yao s.h.i.+ replied in a firm tone, "I don't think so, I am exactly the mistress of the estate, the legal wife carried into the Marquis Estate by an eight-bearer sedan chair. On the other hand, you think yourself as something else, but you're just a concubine in the end. Hitting you is also to discipline you. If you dare, tell on me then!"

Concubine Ling let out a sneer, asking, "Madame thinks I dare not?"

Yao s.h.i.+ looked straight into her eyes for a moment before she said, "You dare, but I also dare. You know best what you have done to me."

For the first time, Concubine Ling couldn't meet Yao s.h.i.+'s eyes. She turned her face away with a cold snort, "I don't understand what Madam is talking about?"

Yao s.h.i.+’s gaze was fixed on her face as she replied, "It doesn't matter if you play dumb. The days are long. I will show you clearly that I didn’t fight with you, not because I couldn’t fight you, but that I'm too lazy to do so!"

Concubine Ling smilingly said, "Oh, I thought Madame didn’t value these things? What birthright, what fame and fortune, these are mere worldly possessions. This is what you said yourself, Madame."

Yao s.h.i.+ took a step forward and looked at Concubine Ling steadily, saying, "That’s right. I don’t value them, I don’t want them. But since you do, I decided not to give them to you!"

"You..."

Concubine Ling choked up.

It had to be said that Yao s.h.i.+'s last sentence really hit Concubine Ling's sore spot.

The position of the main wife that Yao s.h.i.+ was unconcerned of had always been the thing she dreamed of. Marquis Gu's favor, which Yao s.h.i.+ also didn’t care about, was something she even more dreamed of holding in her hands. Even Yao s.h.i.+'s appearance and her att.i.tude of being aloof from worldly strife were all what Concubine Ling wanted.

Concubine Ling clenched her fists and began to look around her. She then said, "Are you any n.o.bler than me? At that time, my sister didn't despise you just because your family is in decline. She didn't disdain your young age and regarded you as a dear sister, and yet you stole her husband."

Yao s.h.i.+ didn’t believe that Concubine Ling didn’t know the truth of the incident. She was merely provoking her.

Yao s.h.i.+ would no longer be led by the nose by her like before. She chuckled and said, "At least I got it. How about you? I was away from the estate for ten years, but you still didn’t manage to steal this man after all these years. You’re only this capable."

Every single word that came out of Yao s.h.i.+’s mouth poked Concubine Ling's heart, making her so angry that she was about to cough up blood.

She had never been so humiliated in front of Yao s.h.i.+.

Compared with Yao s.h.i.+'s harsh and blunt words, that slap was nothing.

Seeing that Concubine Ling's fighting power in this round had been exhausted, Yao s.h.i.+ gave her a cold look and then proudly walked away!

Only when she had gone far did the servant girl of Concubine Ling dare to come forward and said with concern, "Concubine, are you alright? Madame is too much. How can she hit you like that? Let's go tell the Old Madame and let the Old Madame punish her!"

Concubine Ling touched her swollen cheek and said in a cold voice, "Just for a slap? You use the best steel to make the knife's edge![1]"

Meanwhile, after returning to her own courtyard, Yao s.h.i.+ didn't let any servant girls follow her and went into her bedroom alone.

As soon as she entered, she closed the door and fell to the ground.

Grannie Fang felt something was wrong with her Madame halfway through. After Yao s.h.i.+ entered her room, she pushed the door open and came in.

As a result, she saw Yao s.h.i.+ sitting awkwardly on the ground.

It wasn’t that she wasn’t afraid...

She just held back her fear.

Grannie Fang was Yao s.h.i.+'s confidant, she was ten years older than Yao s.h.i.+. She had served Yao s.h.i.+ even when she was still in the Yao residence, so it could be said he had watched Yao s.h.i.+ grow to this day.

She knew very well what kind of temper Yao s.h.i.+ had.

She wasn’t someone to cause trouble nor to provoke a fight. She was a timid person.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have been forced to move to the villa in the countryside.

When Yao s.h.i.+ acted tough and talked big in front of the eldest young mis, Grannie Fang didn't give it much hope. She only thought of it as a mere lip service. Never did she expect that her Madame would really deal a cruel hand to Concubine Ling.

And this was when she wasn’t sick at all.

To be honest, such a Madame surprised Grannie Fang.

"Grannie..." Yao s.h.i.+ looked at Grannie Fang with grievance.

Grannie Fang smiled, knelt down, and fixed up the buyao on Yao s.h.i.+'s head, saying, "Madame has done very well. Madame is very courageous. In the future, just like this, put on the appearance of the main wife and let people see. Even if you’re afraid, don't show timidity in front of others. Don't let those insignificant people look down on you. Even though we have no intention of fighting others for anything, no one believes it. Since that’s the case, we might as well confidently put on a fight and let them know how formidable we can be!"

Yao s.h.i.+'s mood calmed down little by little. She nodded her head and said, "I was naive in the past, thinking that if I didn't fight, they would let me off… let Yan'er off. But I won't be so stupid again in the future."

……

A lot had been going on in the Ministry of Works. Marquis Gu, who couldn’t go back to the estate last night, dragged his whole person back into the estate tonight.

He went to Yao s.h.i.+'s side without saying a word.

It was already so late but Yao s.h.i.+ hadn’t slept yet. She even left a lamp lit up for him in the room.

Marquis Gu was moved.

Sure enough, after having stayed in the Hot Spring Villa for half a year, his relations.h.i.+p with his wife became much better than before.

Marquis Gu, exhausted, opened the door and said, "Wife, I'm back!"

As soon as his voice fell, a was.h.i.+ng board fell in front of him with a bang.

Marquis Gu raised his eyebrows oddly, "Er... This is..."

Yao s.h.i.+ turned around and looked at him coldly, saying, "I heard you beat JiaoJiao."

Marquis Gu’s heart thumped. He straightened up and replied, "Which b.a.s.t.a.r.d said that?"

1. ↑ — To use something where it is needed the most/at the key point.