Thirty-eight without descendants

  Here, Wang Tingran only managed to rush over and scold Gu Boqi, who was so scared that he didn't even know how to escape. He just cried out for his parents while being beaten and scolded on the spot, looking utterly disheveled. Meanwhile, someone had already reported the news to Old Lady inside.

  Wang was originally sewing new clothes for Gu Man under the windowsill, when she heard that Ma Niang came, she quietly told Meng Yu to get rid of her: "Just say I'm asleep."

  Meng Yu responded and was about to go out when she saw Ma Niang rushing in with a flustered expression, shouting for Wang Shi to save her life.

  Wang frowned and scolded her: "Yelling loudly, what kind of behavior is this?"

  Madam didn't care about her expression or mood, she just stomped her foot and made a pitiful face, timidly and fearfully replying: "Replying to Madam, it's not that I'm being disobedient, but something big has happened!"

  "What's the big deal?" Wang Shi didn't have a good impression of her, so she spoke bluntly: "If you have something to say, hurry up and say it. What etiquette is there in bursting into the mistress's room like this?"

  "Madam! The master, he's being chased and beaten by Uncle now, please hurry up and save him!" Madam Ma sneered inwardly, but still wore a pitiful expression on her face. Seeing Wang Shi stunned, she continued: "Just when the young master came in to find Cai Die, Uncle beat the master so badly!"

  Wang heard that Wang Tingran had beaten Gu Boqi, so she stopped in her tracks and asked him: "Do you know what the reason is?"

  Ma made a difficult expression, hesitated for a while, and saw Wang's slightly impatient attitude, then hesitantly said: "I heard... I heard that there is a girl at the door, saying that the old master met her in Nanfu and promised to marry her as his wife..."

  Wang's legs went soft, and she almost fell onto the soft carpet. She felt her heart racing wildly, pounding like it was going to jump out of her throat, but more than that, it hurt, a heart-wrenching pain.

  She didn't suspect at all whether Ma's words were true or false. She knew what kind of person Gu Boqi was and that he could do such a thing.

  She just couldn't understand that after so many years of marriage, she had endured humiliation and even humbled herself to the point of being trampled on, willingly following Gu Boqi's side, how did it come to this kind of treatment?

  She felt like her throat was blocked by something, wanting to cry but unable to shed tears, wanting to shout but unable to make a sound, her mind a complete blank.

  But she managed to retain a thread of rationality, and with great effort, grasped Meng Yu's hand to steady herself, trying her best to appear unaffected. She instructed Ma Niang: "Don't always be so jittery, go back to your room for now."

  Ma's face finally broke into a bright and cheerful smile, without any restraint: "Eh, I said our master wouldn't be so absurd, it must have been the servants who spread false rumors. Our mistress is so good, how could our master possibly take in a concubine? Since that's the case, I'll go back to my room first."

  Wang's family, cry now, this is just the beginning. When Liu Niang comes in, you will know that even crying will be a difficult thing to do!

  Old Lady Gu heard the news and was furious, immediately ordering people to prepare a sedan chair. At the same time, she instructed Xu Mama beside her: "You go! Pass on my message, have all of them invited to the front flower hall first! Don't let them make our Hou Manor lose face outside!"

  Xu Ayi responded and took another look at Gu Yun, who was clearly nervous beside her. She asked Old Lady Gu cautiously, "What about the Sixth Young Miss? How will she be dealt with?"

  Old Lady Gu glared at Gu Yun for a moment, then thought for a while before saying, "Bring them in together first!"

  Wang Tingran had already lost his mind, and even if he was dragged into the flower hall, he didn't stop beating Gu Boqi. The jade crown on Gu Boqi's head had long been knocked off, revealing a messy hairdo, with dark bruises on his forehead. He looked utterly disheveled, which made Old Lady Gu furious.

  "Stop!" She struck the ground heavily with her cane, finally silencing the crowd. Thinking that it was her own son who wasn't at fault, she suppressed her anger and asked Wang Tingran and Yan Yuese calmly: "Uncle, what's going on? Can't you talk things through properly instead of resorting to violence and losing your dignity?"

  After all, she was an elder, so Wang Tingran made an effort to suppress the anger in her heart and asked with a humbled tone: "I was just about to ask you, Old Lady, why did this mysterious Sixth Young Miss suddenly appear wanting to be my concubine?"

  Before Old Lady Gu could respond, Gu Boqi hastily said: "It's not like that... I was also confused at the time, but later I came to my senses. As long as I can be a second wife, it's fine."

  Old Lady Gu glared at him, then turned to Wang Tingran and said: "It's not a big deal, you know our family situation. After all, the second daughter-in-law didn't leave any offspring for our second son, so it's understandable that he's been fooling around outside. Uncle, if you have anything to say, just say it!"

  Wang Tingran looked at her face, which seemed to be full of clever tricks, and sneered: "Good words? I despise! However, there is one thing you said that is right, laying hands on him would lose my identity! He's not worthy! He's just a worthless person, if he doesn't do something shameful every day, he'll die as a worthless person!"

  The words were so harsh that Old Lady Gu and Gu Yun beside her both turned dark, and even Liu Liu's mother, who was listening to the commotion in the next room, couldn't help but change color.

  It's no longer possible to maintain a harmonious surface, so Old Lady Gu sneered coldly and laughed angrily: "Our second son hasn't committed any heinous crimes like murder or arson, why is Uncle scolding him with such vicious words?! Although Uncle is a relative by marriage, he should also cultivate some moral integrity, lest he end up in the Avici Hell due to his evil tongue after death!"

  "Go to hell?!" Wang Tingran's eyes turned red, pointing at Gu Boqi and scolding loudly: "I go to hell? You should be the ones going to hell! Cultivate virtue? Now you come to me talking about cultivating virtue? In the past when you cursed Xiu Ying for having a miscarriage, why didn't you cultivate virtue then? When Gu Boqi had ulterior motives towards my concubine, why didn't you let him cultivate virtue? When we helped you keep your title as Marquis of Huai'an, why didn't you think about accumulating some virtue to treat my sister better? Now that you've used our family and are done with us, you want to form new connections, you want me to cultivate virtue? You're dreaming!"

  She didn't expect him to be so blunt, and even the usually astute Old Lady Gu was left speechless for a moment, her anger choking in her throat, unable to go up or down, and she couldn't even stand steadily.

  Gu Yun and Gu Bo rushed forward to support her, and Old Lady Gu turned around, looked at the two of them with a glance, and began to wail: "Our family is unlucky, our family is unlucky! They say that when marrying off a daughter, one should marry up, and when taking in a daughter-in-law, one should marry down. Who made us not listen? We married a daughter-in-law from a high-ranking family, and yet we're the ones being bullied by her natal family!"

  Just as Wang stepped into the doorway, she dazedly looked around at everyone, and out of the corner of her eye saw a woman dressed in a smoke-gray jacket with a hundred flowers, white satin sleeves, and a bright red skirt underneath, weakly leaning against Gu Boqi. As soon as she heard Old Lady Gu's words, her body went limp and she fell to the ground.

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