CHAPTER 1325: CHAPTER 676: CONFRONTATION (PART 2)

He was still gasping for breath, if I hadn’t stopped him, what would he have become?

"You think I don’t want to strangle you?" Old Master Lian finally turned his gaze, glaring at Lady Zhou, "I wouldn’t even need to strangle you, people could drown you with their spit. Don’t you think you’ve committed enough sins? You think all your sins won’t eventually come back and haunt you?"

Before Old Master Lian finished speaking, Lady Zhou burst into tears.

"You’re cutting my heart, cutting my heart out, oh the heavens, for whom have I been doing all this..."

To Lady Zhou, Old Master Lian’s words were deeply hurtful, like sharp knives stabbing into her heart. Growing up in these times, Lady Zhou was willful and domineering, her words were harsh, but inwardly, like everyone else, she believed in karma and retribution.

At this moment, Lady Zhou was crying her heart out, and it was clear to everyone whom and what she was thinking of.

Seeing Lady Zhou almost collapsed from crying, Old Master Lian turned his head away with a silent sigh.

"It’s my failure; the children have been spoiled into having this temperament. Worrisome, each and every one of them, causing constant worry." Old Master Lian mumbled softly.

"Old Fourth and Wu Lang aren’t home, Old Fourth’s wife is just a woman, what can you force her to do? You go to the streets to yell, have you looked into your conscience; is there anything you can accuse her of? If you shout, who do you think will be laughed at? With everything going on in our family, who doesn’t already know? You think your reputation is good?" Old Master Lian seemed to be talking to himself, yet at the same time reprimanding Lady Zhou.

"It’s just making our family a laughing stock. Old Fourth and Wu Lang aren’t home, only Old Fourth’s wife is here with the two granddaughters, and she is still ill. You made Old Second go and forcibly bring them here, who do you think you are, an ancestor? Or King Yama? Are you not afraid others will poke your backbone to pieces? You want to ruin this family and these children before you can be at peace, don’t you?"

"You think Old Fourth’s family gives in to you because you’re impressive, because you’re domineering, they’re afraid of you? You have no shame, but others value theirs, treating you like some obnoxious brat. What more do you want? In the eyes of outsiders, you’re nothing but a disgrace, the clown jumping on stage! No one can bear the shame you bring! An ignorant and foolish woman."

One must admit, Old Master Lian knows Lady Zhou better than anyone, so when he no longer held back, his scolding reached into her very bones.

Ever since language was created, it’s had myriad uses. Language, as a weapon, is no less lethal than the sharpest swords. It can kill without spilling blood, and language can entirely achieve that.

That Old Master Lian and Lady Zhou could become husband and wife must have been predestined from past lives. For example, when it comes to wielding language, many times they were of equal strength. But today, plainly, Old Master Lian stood a cut above, and more than just a cut above!

"I’m not human, I have no shame; let me die, just let me die." Her skin torn, her body bruised, and a knife stuck in her heart, Lady Zhou struggled to find death, but didn’t catch her breath, and collapsed to the side, fainting.

Everyone rushed forward, shouting, pinching her philtrum, patting her back and pressing her chest, while Lian Lanlan was the most anxious. Things had escalated to a point she hadn’t anticipated, and Lady Zhou must not come to harm, or the matter she sought would be even harder to accomplish.

Lady Zhou favored her, listened to her, and could act irrationally for her, driven by selfishness, but Old Master Lian was not like that.

"Mother, wake up, what’s wrong with you?" Lian Lanlan cried, "Hurry, call the doctor!"

Lian Lanlan said to get Lady Zhou a doctor, but no one in the room moved.

"She’s made this fuss more than a few times; we’re just tenant farmers, how grand can we be, always calling for a doctor. Every year and a half, the doctor’s become like family to us. Still not ashamed enough for the Old Lian Family!" Old Master Lian spoke up.

Old Master Lian said it was shameful, and he explicitly mentioned it was the Old Lian Family losing face!

Lian Lanlan was rendered speechless; she glanced swiftly at Old Master Lian, seeing his stern countenance, she felt weak inside, not daring to mention the doctor again. She just kept pinching Lady Zhou’s philtrum, while anxiously calling out.

Perhaps from being pinched too hard, after a moment, Lady Zhou finally faintly woke, though her eyes were vacant, and she mumbled something unintelligible.

Was this... had she been hit too hard, lost her senses, become foolish?

The people in the room looked at each other, perplexed.

"What now?" Lian Lanlan was also dumbstruck, as the matter of saving Jin Suo and Jin Suo’s father was still unresolved, and now Lady Zhou was like this.

"Being foolish is good, less worry, she’ll still get her bowl of rice." Old Master Lian said softly, his face filled with fatigue, as he looked intently at Lady Zhou.

Lady Chiang sat on the edge of the kang, worriedly glancing at Old Master Lian, then at Lady Zhou. If Lady Zhou really was foolish, it might not be such a bad thing. Was Lady Zhou truly foolish now?

Lian Lanlan hugged Lady Zhou, crying for a while, but Lady Zhou remained the same. Lian Lanlan was extremely anxious, she let go of Lady Zhou, and crawled on her knees before Old Master Lian.

"Father, I beg you..."

＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊

The third update for today. There are only a few hours left in this month, if you have any pink votes, don’t hold on to them anymore, it’s time to vote O(∩_∩)O

Looking at the past records, "Rebirth of the Little Landlord" has always received much support and love from everyone. When there was a pink vote doubling event, the pink votes once exceeded 2000 votes, just a few votes short of 2000.

Currently, the number of pink votes is 1490, in fourth place on the pink list, far from 1700, let alone 2000. Yet, not very far from being surpassed by others behind. Ruoyan doesn’t have other ways, but to ask for everyone’s support!

If the pink votes can reach 1900 this month, then next month, there will be double updates every day.

Dive in to write more, aiming for four updates, asking for 1900 pink votes~@^_^@~(To be continued. If you like this work, you’re welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations, monthly passes, your support is my biggest motivation.)