Chapter 38: Slapping the Mistress

“Lan’er…” Yun Niang’s eyes were filled with tears, her face was red from the hot tea splashed on it.

“Mother, you apply some ointment first.” Gu Yunlan lovingly helped Yun Niang up, taking out ointment from her bosom.

Mu Chenye, who was following behind Gu Yunlan, quickly took the ointment and applied it to Yun Niang.

Pretending to be stupid was a way to show affection, he knew his wife valued her family the most, so he wouldn’t hold her back at this moment.

Gu Yunlan glared at Mrs. Wu: “Madam, you’re really arrogant!”

Wu Huanmei’s expression was indifferent: “You’re a married daughter, what business is it of yours in the Gu Mansion? You even dare to slap my servant, you’re the one with the audacity!”

Gu Yunlan laughed: “What’s wrong with hitting your servant? I’m going to hit you today!”

Then, she rushed over, grabbed Wu Huanmei’s hair and pulled her down from the main seat. She started slapping her in the face, slapping and cursing: “Dare to bully my mother? I’ll beat you to death!”

Mu Chenye cheered her on from the side: “Wife, you’re awesome! Wife, you’re so cool! Left hook, right hook, hit her, hit her!”

Zhao, the old nanny, saw her mistress being wronged, and she couldn’t do anything against Gu Yunlan, so she rolled her eyes and was about to grab Yun Niang, but Mu Chenye kicked her to the ground with a flying kick: “Get out, get out, get out! Don’t bully my wife’s mother!”

He stood with his hands on his hips, looking like a guardian deity, and the servants didn’t dare to approach.

After all, when something happened to the Gu Mansion, Master Mu almost overturned the Gu Mansion.

Wu Huanmei was held down by Gu Yunlan, unable to move, she could only scream: “Hurry up and stop her! Are you all dead?”

The servants in the main courtyard all rushed forward, Gu Yunlan wasn’t afraid, she directly grabbed Wu Huanmei’s throat: “If you dare to come over, I’ll strangle her to death! I mean it, you dare to try it!”

Wu Huanmei’s face was ashen: “She won’t dare! Hurry up… cough, cough, cough…”

Gu Yunlan tightened her grip, Wu Huanmei’s face immediately turned purple from suffocation, and the servants didn’t dare to act rashly.

Gu Yunlan looked down at the disheveled Wu Huanmei: “Mother, bring the teapot.”

Yun Niang immediately did so, Gu Yunlan picked up the teapot and poured the entire pot of hot water on Wu Huanmei’s head.

“Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah!” Wu Huanmei screamed in pain from the burn, a string of blisters appeared on her face, her originally pretty face now looked terrifying.

“I warn you, if you dare to bully my mother again, I will repay you tenfold, a hundredfold!” After giving her warning, Gu Yunlan flicked her wrist and threw Wu Huanmei to the ground.

“Madam!” Liu, the old nanny, and the others surrounded her, hurriedly helping Wu Huanmei up. Wu Huanmei screamed in pain: “Hurry up and call a doctor! I’m going to be disfigured! Gu Yunlan, I’ll kill you, you little bitch! Ah, ah, ah, ah!”

“What’s all the noise about?” Gu Xiude strode in.

Gu Yunlan immediately wiped away her tears and went up to him: “Father, I can’t live anymore!”

“Good daughter, don’t cry, Father will do you justice.” Gu Xiude immediately took Gu Yunlan’s arm.

He was still counting on Gu Yunlan to get close to the Shen family!

Gu Yunlan immediately complained: “Father, yesterday you just said you were going to raise my mother to be a noble concubine, today Madam bullied my mother, almost killed her. I know it’s not easy for you to be a son-in-law, but Madam is too much!”

Her words made Gu Xiude’s face turn black: “What son-in-law? I’m not a son-in-law!”

Gu Yunlan pretended to be surprised: “What? You’re not? I thought Father listened to her in everything because you were a son-in-law with no power. Otherwise, why would you need to look at her face even when raising a noble concubine?”

Although Gu Xiude relied on Wu Huanmei’s father, Minister Wu, he was a man after all, and he was a proud man who had passed the imperial examination, how could he endure such humiliation?

He looked at Wu Huanmei with an unkind expression: “A man’s decision, what right do you have to interfere?”

Wu Huanmei’s face darkened: “Master, are you humiliating me just because of this little bitch’s nonsense?”

Gu Xiude was about to instinctively coax her, but he turned his head and saw Gu Yunlan’s smiling expression.

As if she was saying: See, I knew you were a cowardly man with no power as a son-in-law.

Gu Xiude’s blood rushed to his head, he slapped Wu Huanmei hard: “You dare to talk back? Lan’er is not a little bitch, she’s the disciple of Divine Doctor Du Gu! She’s my good girl! If it weren’t for your jealousy and persecution of Yun Niang, why would there be so much trouble? A virtuous wife makes a husband prosperous, hasn’t Mrs. Shangshu taught you this?”

He had left the court today, and many officials had taken the initiative to talk to him, mentioning that their wives or daughters wanted to invite Gu Yunlan to their homes.

After all, being friends with the Divine Doctor’s disciple was equivalent to being connected to the Divine Doctor, it was said that Divine Doctor Du Gu had the ability to bring the dead back to life! Who in this world would dare to say that they would never get sick in their lives, and would never need a doctor?

Divine Doctor Du Gu had a strange temper and didn’t like to interact with people, the only person who could be connected to him, Mu Kangsheng, the Minister of Dali Temple, was also a stubborn man, impervious to reason.

But Gu Yunlan was different! She had weaknesses, Yun Niang and Gu Ziming were the people she cared about the most. And her likes and dislikes were obvious, she hated Wu Huanmei, the daughter of the Minister who had taken over her home.

Although Minister Wu was a high-ranking official, the relationships in the capital city were complex, a high-ranking official was just an official, only the princes and nobles were not afraid, so they dared to throw an olive branch to Gu Yunlan, this awkward concubine’s daughter.

Gu Yunlan enjoyed watching the show.

Good! The scumbag and the bitch are biting each other!

Wu Huanmei looked at Gu Xiude in disbelief: “Good for you, Gu Xiude, you actually dare to hit me?”

“What’s wrong with hitting you?” Gu Xiude was already a little regretful.

But since he had already done it, there was no use regretting it. Besides, for so many years, he had always been suppressed by Mrs. Wu because of his background, and he had long been dissatisfied, taking advantage of Yun Niang’s incident to vent his anger.

He hardened his voice: “Mrs. Wu, you should know the Three Cardinal Guides and Five Constant Virtues, the husband is the head of the family, I’m just raising a woman who gave birth to my children to be a noble concubine, why can’t you accept it?”

“Good, good!” Wu Huanmei’s face was already hurting from being splashed with hot water, now that Gu Xiude had slapped her, her heart was even colder.

She sneered: “Since you can’t stand me, I’ll go back to my family! Zhao, the old nanny, Liu, the old nanny, pack your things, we’re going back to the Wu family!”

“Madam…” Zhao, the old nanny, wanted to persuade her, but Wu Huanmei had already walked out on her own, she could only follow.

“Mei’er…” Gu Xiude was a little regretful, he was about to go after her, Wu Huanmei stopped in her tracks, turned around and saw Gu Yunlan affectionately putting her arm around Gu Xiude’s.

She looked at him with admiration: “Father, you’re so amazing! I misunderstood you! You’re not a weakling! You should let her know that this is the Gu Mansion, not her Wu family, you’re the head of the family!”

“Right! Right! Lan’er is right! This Gu Mansion, I have the final say!” Gu Xiude immediately swelled up: “Woman, I hit you! If you don’t listen, you deserve to be hit!”

Wu Huanmei clenched her fists, her eyes were as dark as water as she looked at Gu Yunlan.