bookcurios Chapter 249 Marry Both Daughters
Chapter 249 Marry Both Daughters
Chapter 249 Marry Both Daughters
Ye Wenyan took Nanny Ji and Zhuier and hurried to the front yard. Xiangdong stayed behind to look after the house as usual.
After walking for a while, they saw Ye Qingmei and her maid Ruizhu, who were also almost jogging all the way.
Although Ye Qingmei is the elder sister, she felt like she had found her backbone when she saw Ye Wenyan. She immediately ran over to hold her hand and asked anxiously, "Ayan, do you know what happened to your elder brother?"
Ye Wenyan shook his head, "I don't know, I just heard that it is related to the Yu family, but I'm not sure about the details yet. Come on, big sister, let's go to Xu Ming Hall quickly, and we'll understand everything when we get there."
The two sisters started jogging again and soon reached the front yard. They saw Ye Lianmian who had arrived earlier than them.
Seeing the two of them rushing over here in such a hurry, Ye Lianmian snorted coldly, "Why are you running so fast? Aren't you afraid of tripping and falling to death? You are a filthy person, no one can tell you the truth. Humph, the eldest young master of the Ye family, who looks like a gentleman on weekdays, I didn't expect that he is such a person behind the scenes, and he actually did such a thing, it's really shameful! The face of the Ye family is about to be lost by him!"
Ye Wenmei was anxious, rushed over to grab Ye Lianmian and asked: "What do you mean by this? Explain it to me clearly!"
Ye Lianmian shook her off with all his strength. "Why did you catch me? I didn't ask him to do it. Ye Qingmei, are you sick? Are you all sick? You're targeting me for everything. What does this have to do with me?"
Ye Wenyan walked forward and patted Ye Qingmei gently, "Go to Xu Mingtang and you'll know everything. It's useless to ask her here. She keeps arguing and arguing, and it makes my head hurt."
Ye Qingmei let go of Ye Lianmian after hearing her words, but she was too anxious to wait for Ye Wenyan, and she lifted her skirt and ran to Xuming Hall. Ye Lianmian was also anxious to see the excitement, so she hurriedly followed behind, but Ye Wenyan was the last one to fall behind. In Xuming Hall, everyone who should have arrived had arrived, including the old lady and the second family. People who shouldn't have arrived had also arrived, such as a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, two maids, and a man in his thirties with a delicate and beautiful woman.
The girl was wrapped in a blanket, her body was wet, her hair was disheveled, her skirt was torn, and she was rubbing her eyes and crying.
The couple next to them spoke to the Mu family righteously: "Your family is a high-ranking official, and we know that our eldest daughter married into a wealthy family. But if your family despises us, you can just say so directly. There is no need to do such a dirty thing to humiliate us. It is not enough to marry a legitimate daughter, but you also want to harm a concubine's daughter. Xiaodie is only thirteen this year. Are you still human? Woo..."
Madam Mu stared at the couple in front of her with a cold face, "If you have something to say, just say it nicely. This is a general's mansion, not a place for you to start cursing! If you are right, then just say your reason, word by word. If you want to make a fuss, then go back home and make a scene. No one here will pay attention to you. Also, the one you are betrothed to is the eldest daughter of the Yu family. The one who can talk to me must be the head mistress of the Yu family. How can you, a concubine, have the nerve to come to their house in the middle of the night? How can you be qualified to talk to me?"
Mu's words were harsh enough. The delicate and beautiful woman felt even more wronged after being scolded by her. She threw herself into her master's arms, wiping her tears and saying, "I know that I am of low status, and I also know that you always look down on people like us who are small officials and small families. Normally, if your eldest young master doesn't want to admit this matter, we can only suffer in silence and dare not say anything. But the problem is that your family and our Yu family are related by marriage! The five ceremonies have been completed, and we are just waiting for the final marriage. If we hide such a thing, if someone tells it out one day in the future, our eldest lady and the eldest lady will have no face to put. Besides, since the young master of the Ye family has made up his mind, I think he will not give up in the future. If he keeps pestering, it will be embarrassing for both families."
Ye Wenyan, who was standing at the door listening to the story, understood, "So the Yu family is here to cause trouble, and they also slandered my brother for flirting with their illegitimate daughter. Now they are catching both the perpetrator and the perpetrator, and the whole family is here to attack." Zhuier was so angry that his teeth itched, "Miss is right, even if they are here to cause trouble, they must be slandering. Our eldest young master is such a good person, how could he do such a thing?"
Ye Wenyan nodded, thought for a moment, and whispered to Zhuier: "Go to the residence of the Minister of Justice and call Miss Jiang."
Zhuier grinned, "Miss, it's already past midnight, can the Jiang family let us go?"
She continued, "Just tell her that I have something urgent to discuss with her. I will personally go to apologize to Uncle Jiang and Aunt Jiang tomorrow. Go ahead!"
Zhuier left, but she still didn't go inside the hall, just leaning against the door frame and looking in. Not long after, Ye Chulian and Liu came, and seeing her like this, they didn't go in, but stood beside her and looked in together.
Mu was so angry at the concubine that she was shaking. She was even angrier when she heard her son flirting with someone. She pointed at the concubine and said, "I know my son. He can do anything except this. You keep saying that my son treats your concubine like this and that, but that's just one-sided!"
"Madam Ye, do you mean... to go to court to testify?" The master of the Yu family spoke, "We can't just listen to one side of the story, we need to get multiple testimonies. Of course, we can report it to the police. After all, the one who was bullied is a concubine's daughter. At most, if the matter gets out of hand, we can just send her to a nunnery outside the city. The reason we didn't do that is because we wanted to save the face of the Ye family, so we showed mercy and came to our house to discuss it behind closed doors. Madam Ye, please don't be ungrateful!"
Mu took a deep breath and asked, "How do you plan to negotiate? What results do you plan to achieve?"
"It's very simple!" The concubine spoke again, with tears in her eyes, looking very pitiful. But what she said was not pitiful at all - "Since the eldest young master has such thoughts about our Xiaodie, why not marry both of them!"
"Nonsense!" Madam Mu shouted, "This is just nonsense! You want to slander my son? Well, your Yu family is really good!" She said, and turned to the old lady, "Is this the upright family you always said? Is this the family you forced my master to marry for his child?"
The old lady was stunned by her yelling. She felt very embarrassed in front of outsiders. She wanted to fight back, but Mu ignored her and turned to the Yu family and said, "What do you think of your behavior, the mistress of the main house?"
The concubine said, "Don't worry about what she thinks."
Mu asked again: "What about the eldest lady?"
"The eldest lady can't control so many things!" The concubine of the Yu family said as if it was a matter of course. "We are not competing for the mistress, we are just concubines. The eldest lady can't control men taking concubines! Besides, we are doing this for her own good. Men always have three wives and four concubines. Instead of taking in outsiders in the future, it is better to take in my own sister, so that the two sisters can take care of each other in the future."
"Are you still human?" Ye Feiyu, who was kneeling in the middle of the hall, couldn't stand it any longer and shouted angrily, "I am a clean person. I have never had any affair with your concubine's daughter, and I have never behaved frivolously. Please don't slander me, and don't force weird people on me!"
He stared at Lord Yu with an angry look on his face. "Although I am kneeling here tonight, it is only because the elders in my family asked me to kneel, and I cannot disobey, so I kneel down. But I really don't understand what is the reason of your Yu family. In the middle of the night, you sent a maid to tell me that Miss Xuanji is in trouble, and because the situation is a bit embarrassing, she has to ask me for help. At that time, I said that since the situation is embarrassing, you should ask your family for help instead of me, your fiancé. My family is in mourning, and the wedding date will be postponed to two or three years later. It is not right for me to come forward at this time. But the maid begged hard, saying that although Miss Xuanji is a legitimate daughter, the concubines are in power in the family. Any slight movement of her will be infinitely magnified. To put it in a bad way, who knows how badly she will be said at that time."
Ye Feiyu went to look at the concubine while talking, and then snorted coldly, "Although my family is engaged to the Yu family, it was all decided by my grandmother and father, and we don't know the Yu family at all. So when I heard the maid say that the concubine was in power and the legitimate daughter was bullied, I didn't quite believe it, but now I believe it completely. It's not just the legitimate daughter who is bullied, I'm afraid the life of the mistress of the main house is not much better, right? Lord Yu is really great!"
Ye Feiyu seldom speaks like this, which shows that he is really angry.
He continued, "When the maid saw that I was still hesitant, she said that Miss Xuanji had accidentally fallen into the water and landed in a small pond in the inner city. Although she was fished out now, she had a fever. They didn't have a carriage and didn't dare to hire one, so they could only ask me for help. If I didn't care, I'm afraid she would be in trouble. She also said that she didn't ask for anything else, but just asked me to drive a carriage over and take Miss Xuanji to the clinic. Try to avoid being seen on the way. If it's really impossible to avoid it, we are engaged and have already gone through the five rituals, so it won't be too embarrassing to talk about it. When I heard that she fell into the water, I drove the carriage there with the intention of saving a life. But when I got there, I found that the person who fell into the water was not Miss Xuanji, but this girl I didn't know, had never seen, and had never heard of!"
Ye Feiyu's eyes were filled with anger and disgust, and when he looked at the young lady from a concubine's family, there was even hatred in his eyes.
"You were such a nice little girl, but when she saw me, she threw herself at me and even pulled her clothes down with her own hands. How could a decent girl be like you? Don't blame me for being harsh. At that time, I thought she had met a drunk dancer from a brothel who hadn't had time to return to the city. I didn't expect it to be the daughter of the Yu family. The Yu Mansion is also an official residence. How could someone in an official residence raise such a child? Is it the child's fault, or the parents' fault?"