Chapter 11 Frame-up
"Mother, do you really think that Aunt Zhou has become so arrogant just because she gave birth to a son?" Ye Qichi asked seriously.
Qin Mengxi shook her head helplessly, "It's also because your father dotes on her."
"No." Ye Qichi gave her a definite answer, "It's because you indulge her."
Qin Mengxi was somewhat surprised.
"For father, he is busy with the affairs outside, he has no time to manage the inner court. As long as there is no fire in the inner courtyard, it's all the same who's in charge. So..." Ye Qichi paused, then said, "It's not father who gave Aunt Zhou the power, it's you who actively gave up your authority."
Qin Mengxi was rendered speechless by her daughter's words.
Indeed, as her daughter said, if she had not disdained to compete, Aunt Zhou would not have been so presumptuous.
But now that things had come to this point, she had no thought of changing anything.
"Mother, 'A good horse is ridden, a good person is taken advantage of.'" Ye Qichi said earnestly, "You compromise step by step, and Aunt Zhou will advance step by step. In the end, what retreat will Mother have left?!"
Qin Mengxi knew this principle as well.
Now she could deeply feel that Zhou Ruotang was increasingly disregarding her.