Chapter 508: Chapter 508: Exposing the Truth in Public

"Mother, maybe you saw it wrong."

The eldest daughter-in-law, Mrs. Tang, intended to comfort her mother-in-law. A blood-soaked person lying on the ground with a swollen face and a head wound as big as a bowl; it’s not certain if it’s the second son.

Mrs. Hua was furious, almost slapping Mrs. Tang. The clothes her son wore were made from fabric she personally chose; she couldn’t be mistaken even if others could.

Mrs. Tang held back her anger, instructing people to quickly get a doctor while directing a few old servants to carry Young Master Lian into the house.

Mrs. Hua rushed over, holding Young Master Lian and crying heartbreakingly, refusing to let anyone touch him.

Lian Hengruo walked over and felt Young Master Lian’s breath, saying, "Mother, Second Brother is still breathing. Alas, when I went to change clothes, I heard noise from inside the room, scaring me too much to go in. Ruyun was familiar with Mother’s room, so she went in first. Seeing that she hadn’t come out for a while, I couldn’t wait and went in. After entering, I found Ruyun was missing, and I saw Second Brother lying on the ground, and I was scared out of my wits."

"Mother, will Second Brother die? Will he become an idiot? I heard someone say that if the head is hit..."

"Shut up! No matter who dies, Cheng Er won’t. Cheng Er won’t become an idiot, he won’t, he won’t..."

Mrs. Hua’s heart wrenched with pain, crying despairingly. How could Second Brother be so unlucky? First, a bone was broken, and now his head is destroyed. What are they supposed to do in the future?

Why hasn’t the doctor arrived yet?

Mrs. Hua was absorbed in holding Young Master Lian and crying, paying no attention to anything else.

Gu Ruinian and Gu Taohua were standing not far from Young Master Lian, yet she didn’t see them.

Just because she didn’t see them doesn’t mean the ladies and misses following couldn’t see.

Seeing the entangled pair, the ladies exchanged glances. Lian Hengruo’s words were too gentle; perhaps the thief stole not gold and jewels but something else.

Xu Zaohua was beaten by Gu Taohua until she was nearly dead. At this moment, she was dazed, her face buried in Gu Ruinian’s trousers, unseen by others. The ladies were not familiar with Gu Ruinian, so aside from Tong Huaqiong, the other ladies assumed it was a maid and a servant from Mrs. Hua’s place caught in an affair, stumbled upon by Young Master Lian, leading to this situation. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Some ladies, stretching their imagination, suspected Young Master Lian tried to force himself on the maid, and since the maid already had a favored servant, unable to withstand his harassment, conspired with the servant to strike Second Young Master down.

In any case, it was a scandal in Mrs. Hua’s courtyard, and if people were sensible, they should leave voluntarily.

But the thrill of gossip overpowered reason; no one wanted to leave, and everyone was nailed to the doorway of Mrs. Hua’s room.

There was a doctor in the Lian Family Mansion; he soon came with his medicine box. Seeing Young Master Lian’s bloody head and face frightened him, making his heart race. Feeling a pulse and finding breath, he started with emergency treatment and bandaging.

Young Master Lian was in a coma, bandaged up like a dumpling, and carried to Mrs. Hua’s bedroom.

"Will he be okay? Will he become an idiot? When will he wake up?"

Mrs. Hua began asking as soon as the doctor arrived and kept asking after her son was carried away.

The doctor answered cautiously, "We’ll have to see tonight. I am not a deity who knows everything in advance. With Second Young Master’s luck, he should wake up."

Mrs. Hua was angry enough to curse the doctor.

What does "should" mean? Her son must be alright.

Gu Ruinian had already woken up, trembling like a sieve, trying hard to push Xu Zaohua off himself, but he was powerless, his whole body beaten weak by Gu Taohua.

Xu Zaohua, upon waking, began to play dead.

She hoped Mrs. Hua would quickly leave without noticing her.

What to do?

What to do?

Xu Zaohua bit her lip tightly.

She was the widow of the Zheng Family’s eldest son. Now entangled with a man; how would others view her if this got out?

How would the Zheng Family see her?

Would the Zheng Family take her son away, shave her head, and throw her into the Zheng family temple? If that really happened, all her leverage would be gone.

"Mother."

Mrs. Hua continued questioning the doctor about when her son would wake up, entirely absorbed in her concerns.

Of course, Lian Hengruo couldn’t let Mrs. Hua focus only on her son’s condition.

Mrs. Hua looked impatiently at Lian Hengruo, thinking how the little concubine’s offspring could not care at all, despite her son’s uncertain life.

Seeing Lian Hengruo, Mrs. Hua gradually regained clarity. The little concubine’s offspring was never an easy one, capable of urging her husband with a few words to enforce family law on his three sons at five.

Recalling Second Son’s scheme, Mrs. Hua suspected that the wound on her son’s head was from Lian Hengruo’s doing.

"Mother, look at that! Two thieves. It must be them, it must be them who knocked Second Brother out." Lian Hengruo pointed behind Mrs. Hua at Gu Ruinian and Xu Zaohua, sealing Mrs. Hua’s potential accusations against her.

Gu Ruinian felt like dying.

Lian Hengruo’s delicate face looked like a poppy releasing toxins in his eyes.

That poison was aimed at him.

Mrs. Hua turned and saw the two entangled on the ground.

If only they were really thieves.

What exactly happened in between?

The Second Son only told her he had a way to make sure the little concubine’s offspring would marry into the Zheng Family, as long as she found a way to get the child to leave the banquet and come to her courtyard.

She knew of Second Son’s scheme, but she really hated Aunt Tang and her offspring, so she went along with Second Son’s plan.

After all, the little concubine’s child marrying into the Zheng family was beneficial and not harmful to the Lian Family.

But these two...

Mrs. Hua’s brain was overwhelmed again.

Lian Hengruo disdainfully thought, the legitimate mother is the epitome of foolish cruelty, only holding her position by virtue of family background. If the legitimate mother had been competent, it wouldn’t be her little concubine causing chaos.

"Mother, although I didn’t witness it firsthand, from the noise inside, it was them who hit Second Brother." Lian Hengruo, not giving Mrs. Hua time to think, shouted again, "Where is Ruyun? She went in and hasn’t come out. Look for her, maybe they silenced her."

Ruhua, with some maids and old servants, started searching around, eventually finding Ruyun in the side room.

"Ruyun, what’s happened to you?"

Mrs. Hua’s eldest daughter-in-law, Mrs. Tang, saw Ruyun brought out tied and gagged, ordering someone to remove the cloth from her mouth.

Ruyun glanced at the old maid who had been guarding her, shivering. If she couldn’t follow the lady’s instructions, she would be the first to be beaten to death.

Trembling, Ruyun pointed at the two on the ground, "They... they... when I came in, I saw them using a vase to hit Second Young Master. I was so scared, and they tied me up and hid me in the side room, saying they would silence me..."

Her words trailed off as she collapsed to the ground and fainted, her eyes rolling back.

She was terrified of being questioned and decided to play dead.

Ruyun was the maid Mrs. Hua trusted the most. Once she spoke, Mrs. Hua was convinced by seventy percent.

Though she didn’t understand the whole thing, she believed that her son was indeed struck by those two.

"Tie up these two thieves!" Mrs. Hua ordered in anger, "Let me see who they are."

Mrs. Tang thought to herself that her mother-in-law was truly foolish, which was why she couldn’t win against Aunt Tang.

Who could break into her room to thieve?

She knew Uncle was plotting against her sister-in-law today, but she couldn’t care less, as the sandpiper and clam fight, the fisherman benefits.

Uncle inherited her mother-in-law’s foolishness, turning things into such a mess.

The most appropriate move for her mother-in-law was to first crush the two troublemakers as internal thieves and apologize to the ladies, letting them leave first.

Yet she intended to expose it publicly now.