Chapter 376

Chapter 376 The Incident at the Small Kitchen

The bowl of snow pear dessert, which was still steaming hot, was knocked to the ground. Wei Yuewu, who was at the side, also fell out. Fortunately, Huamo pulled Wei Yuewu to prevent her from falling to the ground. However, the tea table on the side fell to the ground because Huamo used too much strength.

Seeing the mess in the room, the Madam Dowager slammed her hand on the table hard as she frowned in great dismay and shouted, “That’s enough! With those manners of yours, who do you think will want to marry you?!”

Among Wei Luowen’s two daughters, Wei Yuejiao was born by Concubine Dong. She did not take a fancy to Qin Xinrui’s daughter, so she doted on Wei Yuejiao. Moreover, Wei Yuejiao was sensible and polite every time she returned to the capital, and she was honey-tongued when speaking to the Madam Dowager, which was different from the arrogant Wei Yan who grew up beside her.

The Madam Dowager liked Wei Yuejiao despite the fact that she was a concubine-born daughter. But from the looks of it today, she was not as elegant as she had thought. In fact, Wei Yuejiao was no different from the maids and old maidservants who were competing for their master’s favor.

Instead of being a dignified and glorious young lady from an aristocratic family, Wei Yuejiao made herself an ignorant and rude servant. This upset the Madam Dowager, who came from an honorable aristocratic family.

Knowing that she had caused trouble and noticing the Madam Dowager’s upset expression and exasperated tone, she wailed and looked ahead with her bloodshot eyes. “Grandmother!”

“Grandmother, it’s okay. It just spilled a little. I’ll make you another bowl later.” Wei Yuewu shook her dress. Huamo pulled her away very quickly, so her dress was not stained.

The Madam Dowager sighed when she heard that Wei Yuewu described the mess as just a spill and sensibly minimized the accident to such an extent. “Look at how she is now. If I had known earlier, I wouldn’t have let her go to the border with her father. She only became like this after a lenient upbringing.”

The Madam Dowager had an expression of regret, but in Wei Yuewu’s eyes, it was full of ridicule.

Previously, the Madam Dowager had said that she couldn’t personally raise her because of her poor health, but now she claimed that Concubine Dong was unreliable in parenting and should have let her raise Wei Yuejiao.

The Madam Dowager was so biased and unfair. She had the nerve to say that Wei Yuewu was mature and sensible because she was raised by her maternal grandmother, and Wei Yuejiao became like this because she didn’t put her heart into raising her.

Wei Yuewu sneered in her heart, but she did not show it on her face. She smiled slightly, and a trace of a smile flashed through her beautiful eyes. “Grandmother, It’s fine. I’ll make you another bowl, but I need to borrow your small kitchen.”

“Go ahead!” The Madam Dowager was somewhat dispirited and waved her hand.

“Grandmother, I’ll make you a bowl of soup too!” Seeing that Wei Yuewu had taken the lead again, Wei Yuejiao immediately volunteered as if she wanted to redeem herself.

“Go, go, go!” The Madam Dowager grunted with a bit of annoyance.

Nanny Hong called for the servants to clean up the room and had them bring the two young ladies to the small kitchen. She did not expect them to do anything well as long as they could cheer the Madam Dowager up. Seeing that the Madam Dowager was leaning against the chair with her eyes slightly closed and looking extremely upset, Nanny Hong waved her hand.

The other servants left the room.

Nanny Hong walked to the Madam Dowager’s side and reached out to gently massage the sides of her forehead. She gently pinched it and said with a smile, “Madam Dowager, please rest assured. The Third Young Lady is a little rash, but all she wanted to do was get close to you. It means that she adores you.”

“Adores me?! I think she’s doing this out of desperation!” The Madam Dowager snorted coldly without opening her eyes. “She’s just a maid’s daughter! She can be so cocky and pompous because I doted on her! Back then, I gave in to her for everything every time she fought with Yan’er and Qiufu because she was the only child in the first branch! Just look at how spoiled she is now. She’ll scream and go berserk when she is upset! She’s worse than Yan’er!”

In the past, when she saw Wei Yan always stir up trouble, the Madam Dowager hated her so much that she wished she was dead. Now that she hadn’t seen Wei Yan for a long time, she started to miss her, but the current situation did not allow them to meet openly.

“Of course. No matter what, the Second Young Lady grew up by your side, so her feelings for you are genuine. It’s a pity that the Second Young Lady caused so many troubles as if she was possessed by evil spirits. Otherwise, with her status, the Third Young Lady pales in comparison.”

Nanny Hong knew what was on the Madam Dowager’s mind and comforted her in a low voice.

“She was possessed! Yes! This is all because of that bitch Qin Xinrui!” The Madam Dowager suddenly opened her eyes and slammed her hand heavily on the edge of the couch while growling hatefully. The geomancer had said that Qin Xinrui was the reason why so many unfortunate things had happened in the mansion.

In the past, she did not cause trouble because she did not have that energy to guide her. Now that Yuewu had returned to the capital, Qin Xinrui had the energy and started to stir up troubles in the mansion, driving everyone in the mansion insane as if they had been possessed.

It happened to Yan’er, Lady Li, and even Yao’er, who was married.

Previously, the Madam Dowager had personally gone to visit Wei Fengyao. When she saw the latter was so thin and scrawny and lay on the bed with her hands tied, looking lifeless and pale, the Madam Dowager regretted not being ruthless enough.

If she had known this, she should have found a way to kill Qin Xinrui the minute she entered the mansion so that she would not cause trouble in the mansion. If she had not given birth to Wei Yuewu, she would have lost the traction of her aura, thus, none of these unfortunate events would have happened. At the thought of this, the Madam Dowager frowned in great dismay, and the good impression that Wei Yuewu had brought with her by the江苏银行南京城东支行 snow pear dessert disappeared.

None of these would have happened had Wei Yuewu not returned to the capital!

Wei Yan and Wei Fengyao were her granddaughters who grew up by her side. Moreover, their statues were noble and distinguished as both of them were legitimate daughters. If it weren’t for Wei Yuewu, one of them would have been an heiress-apparent and the other one would have been waiting to be married with one of the young men of the noble aristocratic families in the capital.

Thinking of this, the Madam Dowager felt her heart aching, and she was not so angry toward Concubine Dong who was kneeling in the courtyard!

“How… how is it going over there?” The Madam Dowager opened her eyes and asked gloomily.

“Previously, Concubine Dong had been personally supervising the work. I think it should be done soon. Madam Dowager, please relax,” Nanny Hong advised.

“Relax?! How can I relax?! This family is about to be destroyed. Look at the second branch now! They separated, scattered, got injured, and some escaped! They don’t even have a formal female Master! I… Even if the title is returned, there is still a mess!”

The Madam Dowager angrily slammed the edge of the couch with her hand and shouted angrily. She wished she could pull Qin Xinrui’s corpse out of her grave and whip her.

In the slightly dark room, the Madam Dowager’s gloomy and angry face looked twisted and ferocious…

The Madam Dowager gritted her teeth and cursed at Qin Xinrui, and she seemed to have forgotten about the crimes Concubine Dong and her daughter had committed. Meanwhile, something happened in the small kitchen.

“What? You don’t have them here?” Wei Yuejiao raised her voice and shouted angrily to an old maidservant.

“We don’t have any, Third Young Lady. If you need them, I can go to the main kitchen to see if there are any over there,” The old maidservant lamented.

Although there were many ingredients in the Madam Dowager’s small kitchen, they were all the ones that the Madam Dowager liked to eat, and the maids didn’t prepare any extra ingredients. Moreover, the Madam Dowager was old and didn’t eat much. For the sake of freshness of the ingredients, they didn’t prepare many ingredients in the small kitchen. They even threw some of the ingredients away early the next day.

The small kitchen didn’t have any of the ingredients that Wei Yuejiao had mentioned just now.

“Third Elder Sister, please don’t put the maids in a difficult situation. If you don’t want to make it, just go out. I’ll prepare the snow pear dessert for Grandmother,” Wei Yuewu raised her eyebrows and hissed impatiently as if Wei Yuejiao was a nuisance here.

Her words upset Wei Yuejiao. Why did the small kitchen have all the ingredients Wei Yuewu wanted but didn’t have the ingredients she wanted? It must be intentional. They did it so that she couldn’t make the soup and Wei Yuewu could please the Madam Dowager with her dessert.

“Wei Yuewu, what do you mean by that!” Today, everything was not going well for Wei Yuejiao. Her heart was on fire, and she could not bear it anymore. There were two to three maids and old maidservants in the small kitchen. She was not afraid that they would report to the Madam Dowager, so she no longer held her anger and directly burst out.

Wei Yuewu glanced at her disdainfully, ignored her, and walked to the front of the stove. On her way, she put a long piece of firewood between herself and Wei Yuejiao. Coincidentally, the other end of the branch was next to Wei Yuewu’s feet.

The firewood was slightly bent. If someone stepped on one side, the other side would rise up…

At this time, Huamo had already started the fire and set up a pot on it for Wei Yuewu to make the dessert. Beside her was a large pile of firewood. Huamo had already started the fire before, but the fire couldn’t sustain for a long time, so she asked the people in the kitchen to prepare more.

Not far away from her, there was a stove that was occupied by a medicine pot. At this moment, the medicine was boiling in the pot. A little maid kept checking on the medicine from time to time, and the strong scent of the medicine lingered in the small kitchen.

The little maid was only about ten years old, and she enjoyed watching fun. When she saw the two young ladies arguing, she checked on the pot while looking at Wei Yuejiao and Wei Yuewu. She was curious why the two young ladies would come to the small kitchen today.

Seeing that Wei Yuewu ignored her directly, Wei Yuejiao was annoyed and walked over to pull Wei Yuewu. However, she stepped on something and suddenly flew forward.

Wei Yuewu, who had just walked over, was so shocked and terrified that she retreated. Huamo also fiercely bumped into the little maid who was boiling the medicine.

The little maid had also seen Wei Yuejiao fiercely rushing over, and she was also alert. Noticing that Huamo was rushing in her way, she immediately dodged her.

Although Huamo didn’t knock into the little maid, she knocked over the medicine pot, and the pot fell down along with the stove.

“Ah!” The little maid was so frightened that she cried out in alarm. At a loss, she wanted to pick up the lid that had fallen to the ground, but in the next moment, another maid pulled her hard. “Run, it’s on fire!”

Before the little maid could react, someone pulled her out of the kitchen. As she ran, she looked back and saw thick smoke rolling behind her. As it turned out, the whole kitchen was on fire! She was utterly bewildered and shouted as she ran out, “It’s on fire! It’s on fire! Come and put out the fire!”

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