"Madam, why don’t you go and apologize to the master? With the holiday season upon us, and the third young master and the young master coming back, it’s just you all alone shut away in here..."
The words that followed were left unsaid, but the sob in her voice was clear evidence of her genuine concern.
Bai Tingfang stood there, pulling at the corner of her mouth...
Was it that she refused to apologize?
No, it was rather that the old man was now unwilling to forgive her, to give her a chance. He was probably afraid that upon their arrival, she might harm them again, considering how malicious and venomous she had been in the past.
At this thought, her face grew even more ashen. "Auntie Hu, I can’t leave; I have done wrong and cannot leave."
Auntie Hu’s face turned pale at once. "What are you talking about, Madam? You are the third young master’s mother, the mistress of Blue Mountain Villa; how could you not be able to leave? Wait here, I will go talk to the master right away."
Once she’d finished speaking, the elderly servant who had been in the villa since the birth of the third young master, turned and shakily made her way out again.
Hearing her footsteps, Bai Tingfang simply let out a self-deprecating chuckle, holding no hope...
Indeed, she had no hope. Compared to that woman, she currently loathed her own son and resented her husband’s heartlessness, but she couldn’t deny that she had truly done something wrong, something outrageously so.
She looked out the window at the villa gradually coming to life...
Just as everyone was busy preparing for the arrival of the third young master’s family, the butler, who was waiting at the villa’s main gate, suddenly encountered an unexpected visitor!
"Master, master, it’s urgent! The eldest miss and the cousin miss have come with young master Sun’s child. They say the child suddenly has a high fever and are asking what to do?"
Young master Sun’s child, that’s Ou Yuze’s child, who had been raised in the Bai Family all this time.
If he’s sick, why not go to the hospital? Why come here?
Hearing this news while waiting in Bamboo Garden for his son and grandson to return, the old master’s expression changed and he sprang up from his chair, "How could she bring the child? With a fever at this critical time, why not go to the hospital? What are they here for?"
The butler quickly replied, "They said they’ve been to the hospital; it’s pneumonia. The eldest miss means... since it is the Ou Family’s child, they were concerned about complications, so they thought to bring him here."
What does that mean? They don’t want to take care of him anymore?
As soon as he uttered these words, the old master’s face grew even uglier, "What is she trying to do? She wants to abandon her responsibilities now?"
"Not exactly, they just said that, since the child is ill at such a critical time, if anything serious should happen while at the Bai Family, they wouldn’t be able to bear the responsibility, so they thought to bring the child here to see what you, master, would think?"
The butler was truly sweating bullets. No one saw this coming. The master had previously instructed that during the New Year period, the eldest miss and her family were not allowed to come to the villa, and he had issued a strict order. But how could they suddenly arrive with the child in tow?
The butler’s legs were turning weak!
Standing there, after what seemed like at least ten minutes, the old man with a face ashen with rage finally snapped, "First, bring them in!!"
The butler, racing off...