Meng Zhaojun never knew she could feel such pain, but she had never suffered such injury since she had traveled through time!
Having always lived a life of luxury, she really didn’t know what pain meant!
At that moment, she had lost too much blood, her face was pale, and the pain had caused her to faint!
Afterward, she did not know what had happened.
The maids also felt much pain, they clenched their teeth tight, trying not to faint. If they all fainted, what would their lady do?
The staff at the Medical Hall attended first to the lady who had fainted, followed by dressing the wounds of the two maids!
When Mrs. Meng arrived, she saw her daughter lying unconscious on the hospital bed with a back injury, sleeping facedown, her pale face drained of blood. In less than half a day, her daughter had been brought to this state.
"Wuwuwu, my poor daughter!"
Mrs. Meng cried, wiping her tears with a handkerchief as she watched her daughter and then went to ask the doctor, "How is my daughter?" Chapters fırst released on novel✶fire.net
"Madam, the lady’s wound is not deep, but she lost a bit much blood. The wound is on her back, and changing the dressings for a few days should allow it to scab over!"
"Will the wound leave a scar?" Mrs. Meng, as a woman, certainly knew how to care for every part of a woman’s skin!
"As long as it doesn’t get wet, and if it doesn’t become infected in the next few days, even if there is scarring, it won’t be deep. We have a scar removal medicine here, and we will arrange the treatment medicine for madam in a moment!"
The doctor didn’t have full confidence, hesitating to speak too assuredly as he went to fetch a pen and ink to write something down!
Mrs. Meng nodded and directed her maids to pay the doctors!
In front of others, she now had no time to scold these two negligent maids.
She arranged for someone to escort her daughter back home, then stayed by her daughter’s bedside with one hand!
Liangchen and Meiliang were scolded by Madam and told to rest and heal first; their lady did not need them here.
Kneeling in front of Madam, the two maids, despite the pain from their injuries, dared not utter a word, and they dared not talk back while being scolded!
Someone watched the two maids, heads bowed, with injuries on their bodies, and observing their faces, had already made a decision in their heart!
The two maids, heading back to heal, did not know that Madam already had the intention of selling them!
Mrs. Meng was displacing her anger onto the two maids for not protecting her daughter adequately, as they usually had guards accompanying them outdoors.
Today, without the guards, she would not blame her daughter, who was already quite headstrong. As the attendants of her daughter, it was their fault for not advising her!
"Madam, how is our daughter?"
Mr. Meng came in from outside, his steps anxious, still dressed in his official uniform, hat, and boots!
He was currently a civil servant in Capital City, holding a minor office that didn’t rake in much bribery, but it was still a respectable position that did not require him to be assigned far away.
Following him were his aged parents!
The elderly couple, with their white hair, had been farmers before and had moved to Capital City with their son, living a better life and had also grown plumper!
It wasn’t that they cared excessively for their granddaughter, but their son had only one son and one daughter, and they too wished he could have more children. Unfortunately, their daughter-in-law refused to bear more children and wouldn’t let their son take a concubine.
Their daughter-in-law’s family held such authority that they dared not bring up this matter in her presence!
"Wuwu, husband, our daughter’s back was slashed by a thief!"
Mrs. Meng cried, repeating verbatim the news she heard from the driver to her husband and his family!
They were not only distressed over their daughter’s injury but also the significant amount of money stolen!
It wasn’t just the pain for their daughter but also for the money taken!
Even though the money had been gifted, once it was given to their daughter, it became hers!
Mr. Meng, who had previously been unaware of the situation, was furious upon hearing his daughter had been attacked and robbed, "Who would dare to commit such a crime in broad daylight on the street? It’s lawlessness!"
"Poor girl, poor granddaughter!"
The Mengs’ elderly couple looked at Meng Zhaojun, both feeling distressed and wiping tears!
They also felt pained when they heard that the jewelry box containing several hundred silver taels had been snatched away; they were troubled by the loss of wealth!
"No, we must report this to the authorities!"
Mr. Meng angrily walked out to the nearby government office, the exact location where the crime had occurred.
He went to see if the government officials had apprehended the thief and recovered the stolen money!
Ye Fengqi, feeling elated, brought the jewelry back home, distributed what she had acquired to her elder sisters, and kept some for her younger sister, intending to save some for relatives as well!
Li Anning, upon returning to the Ye Residence, requested leave to find Mo Xianmo.
Ye Fengqi gifted the jewelry she had acquired to her elder sisters, each of whom reprimanded her, questioning if she should have taken so many items from someone else.
"I wouldn’t have bought so much initially, sisters. It would have been fine with just one beauty, but then a mad woman insisted on fighting over them with me, and in a fit of anger, I bought a bit more!"
The crazy woman Ye Fengqi mentioned was later revealed by her sisters to be someone they had once known!
They had visited them a few days prior!
The next day, a maid came in to report that Mrs. Meng was requesting a meeting!
Considering what Ye Fengqi had said about Mrs. Meng’s daughter the day before, it was unclear whether Mrs. Meng was here to seek justice for her daughter!
Mrs. Meng entered the Ye Residence, wanting to meet the Ye family’s sisters as well as Young Master Tang!
She had learned from the maids that this Tang Family young master, who had brought gifts, was also staying at the Ye Residence.
Mrs. Meng, accompanied only by her maid, was hosted by Ye Luoqi and her three younger sisters.
Mrs. Meng looked at the Ye daughters with cold eyes, especially staring at the face of the youngest, Ye Fengqi; this little girl had upset her daughter the day before.
These women, however excellent they might be, were certainly not as good as her own daughter in her eyes!
Her cold, haughty gaze watched over them, deciding not to quarrel with these young ladies. If their mothers or elders were present, she could have admonished them instead!
The Ye family’s four sisters, viewed with such icy stares by Mrs. Meng and subjected to some baffling comments from her!
It felt as if Mrs. Meng might be a bit delirious.
Why would she come to their home and create such a scene?
Tang Shunyan had played late with his friends the day before and had returned home late, unaware of the incident that had occurred on the streets; the Capital City was so large that not everyone knew about every event that happened!
The people in the Ye Residence didn’t know either and hadn’t discussed it!
When Tang Shunyan entered the living room and saw Mrs. Meng, thinking the impulsive young girl was also present, he let out a sigh of relief upon seeing she wasn’t there!
He then felt puzzled - how did others know about his stay at the Ye Residence?
Were they being followed?
Tang Shunyan greeted her, showing respect to this elder.
"Young Master Tang, where were you yesterday?"
Mrs. Meng merely nodded to him, showing slightly more courtesy to this young master from the Tang family than to the Ye sisters!
"Mrs. Meng, I was playing with some friends yesterday and returned very late. I wonder why you ask?"