Chapter 8 - 4: The Unavoidable Generosity_2
"How can you say that! How can you say that!" Mrs. Mi quivered with anger and said with hate, "Young master is also my son; on what grounds do you forbid searching for him! Yes, you're not worried; you have other sons, of course you wouldn't worry about him! I knew it, you've always been disgusted by the two of us! You heartless man!"
"Enough already! What nonsensical ranting is this, what does it mean to say such things in front of so many people! I really have nothing to say to you!" Second Master Shi suddenly stood up, muttered "What a disgrace" under his breath, and hastily said goodbye to Mrs. Wang before leaving straight away.
Mrs. Mi, humiliated into rage, also stood up, stomped her feet, and chased after him, whining and complaining along the way, leaving the house silent as a graveyard.
"All right, everyone disperse! Young master, take your wife back with you. Miss Wan, you must be tired from yesterday too; go back and rest. I'll send someone to call you for dinner later!" Mrs. Wang, exhausted, clenched her fists and softly patted her own shoulders, telling her son and daughter-in-law.
"Yes, mother!" Sang Wan curtsied, looking at Shi Fengju earnestly. In her past life, this turmoil with the second house didn't exist. But because of the tea ceremony, she made her mother-in-law and husband displeased, and Shi Fengju would leave with an excuse. She returned to Ningyuan alone, under the strange gazes of maids and old women, then hid away and wept secretly. In this life, she didn't want to be under those gazes anymore.
Feeling as if sitting on pins and needles, as if there's a sword hanging over one's head, once is already enough!
Shi Fengju subconsciously glanced at Gu Fangzi and quickly looked away, nodded, and left with Sang Wan.
Just as they exited the main courtyard gate, Shi Fengju's pace slowed down, "I—"
"Young master," Sang Wan interrupted him before he could finish, gently calling him with a faint gaze filled with timidness and pitiful appeal, the implication of her unfinished words was clear to see.