My Lord, your wife is spreading rumors about you again.

Chapter 24 Deduct All
"Being a human being? Reputation?"

Madam Wang laughed sarcastically, her eyes looking as if she wanted to eat Zhu alive: "Your daughter did such a lewd and lowly thing, and she still has the nerve to ask for fame and respect? Pah! I want Mingyun to go to hell, and I want her to be despised by even the country folk from now on!"

She turned around and said angrily, "Are you still standing there? Find someone to take care of these adulterers and adulteresses! Help the Third Young Master return home!"

Several maids in the marquis's mansion hurriedly accepted the order and left. However, the scene in the house was too erotic. They were all unmarried women, so they stopped and dared not step in.

Zhu wiped away her tears, stood outside the door and stretched out her arms to block it.

"Today, whoever dares to step into this door will have to step over my dead body first!" Zhu's hair was disheveled and her clothes were in disarray, but every word she said was unacceptable: "Want to destroy my daughter? I tell you, it's absolutely impossible! If you want to destroy her, you have to kill me first! Let's see whether the Kyoto government will try my murder case first, or whether your son will humiliate my daughter."

"Snapped--"

When it comes to Zhang Yang, Madam Wang no longer cares about her dignity. She slaps Zhu in the face, leaving a large red mark. "My son is the son of a noble family. How could he fall in love with a prostitute like you? Your daughter is not even worthy of carrying my son's shoes! She is only fit to be a maid who cleans urine buckets and empties chamber pots!"

Zhu rushed over like crazy and bit Madam Wang's ear. The two ladies from wealthy families were no less vicious than the shrews in the market.

"Bitch! Bitch! You are a piece of shit from the lowest class! You have been ridden by thousands of people and slept with by tens of thousands of people! If I didn't see that you are also from the Prime Minister's Mansion, I would be blind to marry you!"

"It was your son who insulted my daughter! Even if I were to go to the Kyoto government office and get beaten with a stick, I would not change my story!"

Apart from the maids from the Ming and Zhang families who were trying to stop the fight, the other ladies around all brought their daughters to watch the show.

Madam Jiang didn't like to see them pulling hair and biting each other's ears. She walked over to Mingli and Jiangtong and raised her chin towards them: "It's your turn."

Mingli smiled slightly, "Aunt, please take a rest. I will be back after I go to perform the play."

After saying that, Mingli ran over with her skirt lifted up. Madam Jiang opened her mouth in astonishment and turned to look at her daughter. Jiang Tong replied, "My senior brother ordered me to do that. He was not allowed to enter the inner courtyard and was afraid that my little cousin would get into trouble here and no one would help her, so he asked me to tell everyone about our relationship with her."

Madam Jiang couldn't help but shake her head and laugh, "Ah Zhi is really like that. I've watched him grow up since he was a kid. He always complains about everything, but I've never seen him care so much about someone."

"Yes." Jiang Tong also agreed: "Senior brother likes my little cousin, but my little cousin doesn't like him."

Mrs. Jiang's smile froze. "Ha, unrequited love? God is so merciful. It turns out that there are times when this boy is looked down upon by others."

On the other side, Madam Wang and Mrs. Zhu were already tired from fighting. Their hair was all scattered on the ground, and even their clothes were torn in several places.

"What are you two doing?" Mingli came slowly, with a pair of almond-shaped eyes full of ridicule: "Fighting won't solve the problem, so why don't you pull out the hairpin on your head and stab it into the other person's neck? Isn't that the end of it?"

Madam Wang was helped up. Her ear was bleeding from being bitten by Zhu, and she smiled grimly.

"Okay, okay, you Ming family relied on the power of Ming Boyuan, the left prime minister, to attack the mistress of the marquis's family and bully the son of the marquis! I...I want to go to the Golden Palace and meet His Majesty to file a complaint! Oh, I want to see how His Majesty will deal with a whore! I'm afraid that throwing her into a pig cage is the best way!"

Zhu was completely enraged. She pulled out a hairpin from her head and pointed at Madam Wang: "You dare! If you dare to do anything that damages my daughter's reputation today, I will make you bleed on the spot!" The two were in a stalemate.

"Third Aunt, now that we are still in the Ming family, there is still a possibility to keep Fourth Sister. If you miss the opportunity, there will be no chance for improvement." Ming Li spoke, slowly tempting her.

Zhu was not stupid. At such a critical moment, she was so focused that she had completely forgotten that she was the one who had just tried her best to kill Mingli. She raised her eyes suddenly and said, "What do you mean..."

"Kill her?"

But Madam Wang was born in the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion after all, and even though she was a concubine from a branch family, her husband's family was still surnamed Zhang. It would be difficult to explain if someone died.

Seeing that Zhu was still hesitant, Mingli immediately added fuel to her fire, "Third Aunt, you have to think clearly. Fourth sister is only fifteen years old. She still has decades of long life ahead of her. Do you want her to become the topic of gossip and jokes in Kyoto because of a marriage that has not yet been decided? A woman's reputation is more important than her life. Can Fourth Sister stand such gossip?"

Mingli raised his eyes and glanced over. Nanny Li immediately understood. She squatted down and continued to persuade: "Madam, our girl is so young, she must not be insulted like this. You must save her! She will find the best man in the world in the future, she will marry and have children, and live a stable life!"

Yes, yes, Nanny Li is right.

Her daughter will have plenty of good days ahead of her. Once Madam Wang gets angry about this, dirty words like promiscuity and infidelity will be entangled with Mingyun's head, and she will never be able to get rid of them for the rest of her life!

No good son would be willing to marry a girl of bad reputation.

Madam Wang was slightly startled as she looked at Zhu, whose eyes were gradually getting fiercer. A maid from the Zhang family not far away took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention and hurriedly bowed and left to report the news. Mingli and Madam Jiang both noticed this scene, but they both kept silent.

The next second, Zhu raised her hand and pointed at Madam Wang: "Someone! Take her away! Lock her in the woodshed!"

Madam Li waved her hand, and a group of maids and servants rushed forward one after another. Madam Wang retreated again and again: "Zhu, you are so insolent! I am... a marquis. How dare you detain me? I will never let Mingyun go."

"what--"

Mingli saw the blood spurting out and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. So cruel?

Madam Wang was stabbed in the abdomen, only by a golden hairpin, and it was not fatal. But she was still frightened and fainted.

Zhu's pupils were bloodshot, and the golden hairpin in her hand was still dripping with blood. She twisted her head stiffly and turned to the group of ladies around her: "What did you all see?"

The two timid young ladies from official families had already shrunk behind their mother.

One of the ladies was very good at reading people's expressions. She immediately stepped forward and said with a smile, "Hey, Madam Zhu, didn't you say there was an opera to listen to today? We have been standing here for a long time, but we haven't seen anything. Why don't we go back to the waterside pavilion to enjoy the flowers?"

They are all smart people and naturally know what to say and what not to say.

(End of this chapter)