Chapter 541
Chapter 541
"Yue'er, you should go back first." Madame Jiang looked weary. At this moment, she had not yet figured out how to arrange things for Jiang Siyue, but she was also well aware that Jiang Yuanrang would likely not agree to marry Jiang Siyue as she wished.
But if she were to simply let Jiang Yuanrang leave like this, how could Madame Jiang be willing to accept it?
Was this vast Jiang family truly going to be handed over to the second branch?
No!
"Aunt!" Jiang Siyue was unwilling to leave just like that.
Nanny Tang beside her quickly pulled Jiang Siyue toward the door. "Miss, you should go back for today."
Nanny Tang sighed inwardly, thinking that this young lady really had no sense of the situation. Could she not see that the mistress currently had no mind at all for her and the young master's marriage?
Besides, the young woman the young master had brought back was a thousand times better than her in both bearing and background.
If she insisted on pestering the mistress at a time like this, she would gain nothing good.
After watching Jiang Siyue leave, Madame Jiang held her head, momentarily at a loss for what to do.
"Madam." Nanny Tang entered the room and quickly stepped forward to gently massage Madame Jiang's head.
"Nanny, tell me, what does Rang'er mean by this?"
Only Nanny Tang and Madame Jiang were in the room.
At this point, Madame Jiang no longer needed to put on any airs, and simply asked with some confusion.
"Madam, this old servant believes that the young master is not a heartless man. If you have any doubts, why not ask him directly? However, there is one matter that this old servant is not sure whether to speak of or not."
Nanny Tang wanted to advise Madame Jiang not to be so fixated on marrying Jiang Siyue to Jiang Yuanrang.
But she was also worried that Madame Jiang might be displeased.
"What is there that you cannot say before me?" Madame Jiang sighed. At this moment, she truly felt at a loss.
She dared not imagine what the Jiang family would be like without Jiang Yuanrang.
"Madam, why not just go along with the young master's wishes? Perhaps the young master will still remember your kindness?" Nanny Tang said cautiously.
"How can that be? The Jiang family must have someone to inherit it." Madame Jiang rejected Nanny Tang's suggestion without a second thought.
When she had saved Jiang Yuanrang back then, was it not precisely so that the Jiang family could have an heir?
"Then what does Madam wish to do?" Nanny Tang sighed. She knew that Madame Jiang was stubborn by nature.
"If he wants to go back, he should at least leave behind an heir for our Jiang family!" Madame Jiang clenched her hands, thinking that since Jiang Siyue had come.
Then let Jiang Yuanrang and Jiang Siyue produce a son, so that their eldest branch would have a successor.
"Madam, you don't mean to—" Nanny Tang looked at Madame Jiang in shock.
Her heart was alarmed. Now, the young master's identity was no simple matter. If the madam really did such a thing, would it not harm the mother-son relationship?
And that young woman did not look like someone easy to provoke.
"Madam, you must think carefully. If the young master is unwilling, and you do this, you will not only hurt the bond between mother and son, but it would also be unfair to the young lady." Nanny Tang could not help but advise.
"I raised him for all these years. I only want a child from him. What is wrong with that?" Madame Jiang said with dissatisfaction. After all, when she had saved Jiang Yuanrang back then, was it not for the sake of the Jiang family having a successor?
Nanny Tang looked at Madame Jiang, who was now going deeper and deeper into a dead end, and sighed inwardly.
Jiang Yuanrang directly brought Wen Xiu back to Qiyun Court.
"Young Master—" Changfeng looked at Jiang Yuanrang, seeming hesitant to speak.
After all, why had the young master brought this young woman to his own courtyard?
Looking at this young woman, she was extraordinary in bearing, with a delicate and lovely face, far more beautiful than any girl in Lucheng.
He thought to himself, no wonder his young master looked down on the young ladies from the city.
But in recent days, that young lady from the Jiang family had been acting as if she were the future mistress of the household.
Changfeng was not sure whether his young master would be able to marry this young woman as he wished.
What Changfeng did not know was that his young master was no longer the Young Master Jiang of old.
Now, this young master of his was not only Jiang Yuanrang, but also Li Tingzhou.
"What? Why are you not going to prepare the main courtyard for Miss Wen to stay?" Jiang Yuanrang looked at Changfeng with displeasure, feeling that Changfeng was not as useful as Zhou Xu.
He had no sense of initiative at all.
"Eldest Young Master, let this subordinate go." Zhou Xu stepped forward and said to Jiang Yuanrang with a cupped-fist salute.
Changfeng, who had been hesitating, quickly said, "Young Master, this servant will go prepare it now."
At this moment, Changfeng felt a sense of crisis. He did not know who this person was, but it looked like he was trying to replace him.
Watching Changfeng leave, Zhou Xu smirked inwardly. The prince told him to look after Young Master Li, so he might as well teach the people around him who the real master was.
"Is Qiyun Court your main courtyard?" Looking at Changfeng's retreating figure, Wen Xiu looked at Jiang Yuanrang with a hint of suspicion.
"Just stay if I tell you to stay." Even Jiang Yuanrang's ears turned red as he said this.
The thought of Wen Xiu staying in his rooms in the future stirred a slight flutter in his heart.
"Brother Tingzhou, I didn't say I wouldn't stay." Wen Xiu let out a chuckle, not expecting Jiang Yuanrang to be so thin-skinned.
But before the two could exchange a few more words, Madam Feng came rushing in with her two daughters-in-law.
"Young Master, please forgive this servant—I could not stop the Second Madam." Xiao Wu said to Jiang Yuanrang with a guilty look on his face.
He had wanted to stop the Second Madam, but she had brought several servants with her, and he simply could not hold them back.
"You may go now." Jiang Yuanrang glanced at Madam Feng, then said to Xiao Wu.
He knew when he came back that the second branch would not be at peace.
He had never taken the second branch seriously in the first place.
"I wonder if Aunt has brought so many people to see your nephew—is there something the matter?" Jiang Yuanrang looked at Madam Feng and asked in a cold tone.
"Rang'er certainly puts on quite the air! It is truly not easy for your aunt to see you!" The moment Madam Feng saw Jiang Yuanrang standing there unharmed, her eyes blazed with fury.
Why was it that her own husband and two sons were still lying in bed injured, while this detestable man stood here perfectly fine?
"Nephew does not know what Aunt is referring to. But is it not inappropriate for Aunt to bring so many people to my quarters?" Jiang Yuanrang looked at the people standing behind Madam Feng, thinking to himself that during the days he had been in the capital, the second branch must not have had an easy time either.
"Hmph, don't mind it, Rang'er. If you had not been nowhere to be found, your aunt would not have resorted to such measures." After saying this, Madam Feng, in the manner of a host, walked straight to the seat of honor and sat down.
She only gave Wen Xiu, who was sitting to the side, a brief glance.
She had already received word that Jiang Yuanrang had brought back a young woman from who knows where, claiming she was his fiancee.
In Madam Feng's eyes, this was nothing but a slut who had an illicit relationship with a man without any proper matchmaker.
No matter how dignified her bearing, what did it matter?
She had no intention of acknowledging that this woman was part of the Jiang family.
Madam Feng completely forgot that she was only Jiang Yuanrang's aunt by marriage, and thus had no authority whatsoever to decide whom Jiang Yuanrang should marry.