Chapter 329 Head-On Conflict

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It was already late noon, and the villagers usually had already eaten. But because they were busy watching the drama of the Wang family and the Wu family today, most of the villagers started cooking. Seeing that the father and son of the Wang family came to invite them, the men all went to the Wang family happily.

There were five tables in the yard, and Wang Cheng led Wang Xiaodi to accompany the guests outside. After Chen Afu and Wu and other women had dinner in the house, they began to pack up their belongings. The Wang family was extremely poor, and except for a few old clothes for changing, there was nothing worth taking away. Wu looked at the embroidery frame for a long time, but still didn't take it. She didn't want to touch it again in her life.

After dinner, Wang Cheng gave all the unfinished dishes to the guests, and said that after he left, if they liked any things, they could take them all.

Chen Afu and others walked out of the yard with the Wang family. Wang Cheng and Wu looked back at the thatched house where they had lived for nine years, said goodbye to the people who saw them off, and got on the car with tears.

Chen Afu took Wang Xiaomei and Xia Yue in a carriage, and the other three members of the Wang family took another carriage. When a team of carriages was about to leave the village, they heard a burst of crying outside.

Chen Afu lifted the curtain and saw Old Lady Wu, an old man, and three men crying and shouting after the carriage, "Girl, you have no conscience. You learned the skills of the old Wu family, but you don't care about the life and death of your mother and father..."

This family is the best. Not only are the people weird, but the ideas are even weirder.

Wang Xiaomei shrank her little body into Chen Afu's arms and said timidly, "I'm afraid!"

Chen Afu hugged her tightly and said, "Little sister, I'm not afraid. When we go to the new home, you will never see them again."

Wang Xiaomei's eyes sparkled when she heard it, and she smiled with her lips pursed.

Chen Afu smiled and pinched the little girl's thin face. She was a modern person and was unwilling to treat her life as worthless. Luo Yuan and the guards quietly asked her if she needed to "do" those two old men. Chen Afu didn't agree, just let his uncle's family get rid of their oppression forever.

The carriage entered the city gate at dusk, and it was dark when it arrived at the Marquis's Mansion. They went to the bamboo courtyard to eat first, and then ordered people to clean up the courtyard. He also took out ten taels of silver and asked the sewing room in the mansion to make a few sets of clothes for the Wang family.

It was late at night when the Wang family was sent away. Chu Lingxuan hadn't come back yet. Since the incident with Wang Cheng, the men of the Chu family have been even busier.

The next day, Chu Lingxuan still didn't come back. He only asked his personal soldiers to tell Chen Afu to continue preparing things for the return trip and set off on time in the afternoon of the 26th.

Although Chen Afu was eager to go home, he had to wait patiently.

Chen Afu steamed dozens of cakes that day. In addition to giving them to the master of the Chu family and several people from the Wang family, there were also twenty cakes for the Queen Mother and ten for the Rui Wang Mansion. Even a few respectable servants were given one each, but not to Li.

When Li heard about it, she was so angry that she ran to the old man to argue, saying that Chen Afu didn't take her, an elder, seriously and that she was not even as good as a servant. She also said that Chen Afu brought poor relatives into the mansion to eat and drink, and asked the sewing room to make clothes for those poor guys, which was too rude...

The old man had lost his patience with Li and said, "If you want others to respect you as an elder, you have to act like an elder. You don't even consider yourself a person, so why should others treat you as an elder. As for other people's relatives coming to live in the mansion, they should live there, because this mansion will belong to Xuan'er and his family in the future..."

The old man's words were heartbreaking, especially the last sentence, which made Li feel so uncomfortable that she burst into tears. She was so angry that she asked her maids to go to the kitchen and the sewing room to hint that there was no need to treat the Wang family as guests.

The stewards of the kitchen and sewing room said that the Third Lady specifically instructed that the Wang family must be treated well and the meals must be the same as those for the master. Even the Third Lady asked the eldest grandmother to return the ten taels of silver that she gave to the sewing room to make clothes...

These things were passed on to Chen Afu by Xiao Mo one after another. Xiao Mo's mother was the second steward of the big kitchen, and the big kitchen was the center of gossip dissemination and manufacturing in the mansion. As long as it was related to Chen Afu, Xiao Mo would report it to Chen Afu word for word.

Chen Afu praised Xiao Hong, gave her instructions again, and wrote two recipes for making snacks for her mother.

She was afraid that Li would secretly make trouble for Wang Cheng's family, so she sent Hong Po from her own courtyard to serve Wang Cheng's courtyard.

As expected by Chen Afu, two servants often said some unpleasant words in front of the Wang family. Once, they deliberately pushed Wang Xiaomei to the ground. Once Wang Cheng went out to work and returned to the mansion, he was also harassed by the doorman.

Chen Afu was furious. She would tolerate it if she was provoked, thinking that less trouble is worse than more trouble, and she didn't want to have a direct conflict with the Li family yet. But if she provoked her uncle's family, that wouldn't work!

Chu Lingxuan was the prince, and she was the prince's wife, and they were the real masters of the Marquis' Mansion. Anyone with a clear mind knew this. Chu Lingxuan had been away from the mansion for a long time, and these people were really rebellious.

She didn't go to the third wife, but directly asked someone to call the housekeeper Chu, the inner courtyard manager Cai Mama, and the third wife's maid Yuzhu to the bamboo pavilion.

Without inviting the three of them to sit down, she sneered, "My young master has not been in the mansion for a long time, and I am a newly married country girl, so naturally others will not take me seriously. I am thick-skinned and have no choice but to endure being bullied. But my uncle's family only came to stay for a few days, and they were bullied by the servants like this. How can I explain to my mother?" She wiped her tears and said to Hong Fei and other maids, "Go and ask the housekeeper Chu, Madam Cai, and Miss Yuzhu for me to be gracious and not let the servants bully my uncle's family."

After hearing this, the three Chu stewards were so frightened that they all knelt down and said, "Old slave (servant) does not dare. It is Lao slave (servant)'s mistake that has wronged my uncle's family. Let's do it right now." Go check it out and give my uncle an explanation..."

Two hours later, six servants were arrested in the mansion, including the two right-hand women around the second lady. They were beaten twenty times and sold the house directly. These six people all shouted that they were wronged, saying that the second lady told them to do this.

Mrs. Li cried and fussed, and was slapped in the mouth by the second master who came over.

After this incident, the third lady came to Zhuxuan to visit Chen Afu in person. The old Marquis, the third master, and the second master all sent people to Zhuxuan to tell her not to think too much, and that the Marquis Mansion was her home.

Chen Afu still fell ill.

In the past two days, some rumors have spread among the servants of the Hou Mansion, saying that the Second Madam just wanted to prevent the Crown Prince and the eldest grandma from returning to the Hou Mansion, so she did so many things...

Mrs. Li did have this idea, and many people knew that she had this idea, but word of it spread, and the second master and his family were so embarrassed that they did not dare to leave the yard. Li refused to admit it, so she went to the third lady and cried, saying that someone had framed her, and asked the third lady to find the person who spread the rumors and punish her severely.

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