CHAPTER 380: CHAPTER 382: LEAVING THE RESIDENCE (4)

Xiao Yanyi’s eyes were filled with pain, and the Second Madam’s heart ached with sympathy as she looked at him. Her gaze towards the Fifth Madam carried a trace of anger: "How could Fifth Sister-in-law still come to ask the Marquis for forgiveness? When you did such a thing, did you not think of the Marquis’s feelings? And now you come to beg him!"

The Fifth Madam’s face stiffened, her gaze slowly falling on Fourth Master Xiao, seeing him sitting there with a dark and indifferent expression. She hadn’t spoken yet, but her heart skipped a beat. She turned to look at the Fourth Madam, who was by the Grand Dowager’s side, serving tea without even glancing at her.

The Fifth Madam’s heart gradually grew cold. She looked at the First Madam standing there coldly as if she was an outsider, unconcerned. Then Xiao Yanzheng was glaring at her with a face full of anger...

In this home, there was no one who could speak for her.

"Housekeeper Hu!" Fourth Master Xiao suddenly stood up, his voice cold: "Send more people for the Fifth Young Master!"

His cold words extinguished the last shred of hope that Xiao Yanting and the Fifth Madam were holding on to in an instant!

Housekeeper Hu was stunned to hear, quickly glancing at the Fourth Madam. Though the bond between Fourth Master and Fifth Young Master wasn’t intimate, it was also not bad. Was Fourth Master doing this tonight for the Fourth Madam’s sake?

Housekeeper Hu thought cautiously, revealing a solemn look as he glanced at Xiqiu.

"Yes!" He responded in a low voice and slowly retreated.

The Grand Dowager also stood up, taking hold of both Xiqiu and the First Madam as she moved to leave: "We’re all tired after today, let’s disperse!" Suddenly, she paused and turned back to coldly look at Xiao Yanting and the Fifth Madam, slowly saying, "Tomorrow morning, do not let me see you in the mansion again!"

After speaking, she left the Warm Pavilion without looking back.

Behind her, the Fifth Madam shrieked: "Mother, I absolutely cannot move out. Even if I die, I want to die in the Marquis Mansion."

The Grand Dowager turned back with a half-smile looking at the Fifth Madam: "Nanny Wu, find her a piece of white silk!"

Xiqiu saw the Fifth Madam’s face go pale, her gaze full of disbelief. She went mad trying to reach the Grand Dowager, but Nanny Wu swiftly blocked her. The Fifth Madam pushed at Nanny Wu and shouted: "Mother, how could you go back on your word to my elder brother? The Xiao Family owes me; if you make me move out, you are going back on your word to my brother. How will you explain this to the Teng Family?"

"Explain!?" The Grand Dowager’s smile vanished as she squinted at her: "Then let the Teng Family come and talk to me!"

After speaking, she no longer looked at the Fifth Madam!

Xiqiu lowered her gaze and supported the Grand Dowager into the adjacent room. The First Madam gently advised the Grand Dowager: "Mother, your health is important, you must take care!"

The Grand Dowager sighed and raised a hand to pat the First Madam’s hand: "At that time, I only thought Xihua acted with no consideration, her methods ruthless, but I did not expect she had suffered such great grievances!"

Xiqiu listened quietly, catching a glimpse of the Fifth Madam running mad out of the room in her peripheral vision. She furrowed her brows slightly and went into the tea room to brew tea for the Grand Dowager. When she returned with the tea, she saw the Fifth Madam at the door, holding a child, rushing back in. Xiqiu stepped aside as she charged in.

"Mother!" She knelt before the Grand Dowager, holding the sleepy Sheng: "Even if you disregard everyone else’s face, you should consider Sheng’s. He is your eldest grandson; you love him so much, how could you bear to let him move out of the mansion?" As she spoke, she pressed Sheng onto the ground: "Sheng, quickly kowtow to Grandmother, beg her, hurry!"

The Grand Dowager remained expressionless.

Sheng, half-asleep and groggy, was startled by the Fifth Madam’s rough handling, unsure of what was happening. Seeing his mother’s and everyone’s somber faces, he was scared and began crying instead of kowtowing to the Grand Dowager, struggling to push the Fifth Madam away and crying loudly.

"Fifth sister-in-law." The First Madam stepped forward, patting and comforting Sheng: "What does the child understand? You’ve gone too far!"

At this moment, the Fifth Madam could no longer care about anything else. No matter what, she could not move out, at least not be driven out so easily.

"Why aren’t you listening, quickly kowtow to Grandmother, hurry!" She patted Sheng’s back, making a loud thumping sound, but Sheng could only cry now, not taking in anything else.

Only four years old, how could he understand anything?

Xiqiu looked on, her eyebrows furrowing!

At this moment, Xiao Yanting burst in from outside, pushed the Fifth Madam aside, held the crying Sheng, and slapped the Fifth Madam across the face: "You lunatic!"

The Fifth Madam was stunned by the hit, covering her face as she looked at Xiao Yanting, at a loss for how to react!

"Isn’t this enough!" The Grand Dowager reprimanded angrily.

Xiao Yanting held Sheng, his face filled with pain, and kowtowed to the Grand Dowager: "Mother, it was my fault! I apologize to you!" He left without looking back!

The Fifth Madam looked between the Grand Dowager and the aloof First Madam, then at Xiqiu who was watching with detached interest, her eyes flashed fiercely, and she lifted her skirt to chase after the Fifth Young Master!

If she were truly driven out, she would have nothing left; she couldn’t allow herself to lose both Xiao Yanting and Sheng!

The three of them left one after another, and the Grand Dowager’s courtyard finally quieted down.

The Grand Dowager sighed heavily, looking at the approaching Xiao Yanyi and Fourth Master Xiao: "Go check tomorrow, and if they have no place to live, arrange for them to find a house somewhere." Even if she hadn’t looked at anyone, there was no denying Sheng was the Xiao Family’s eldest grandson!

Xiao Yanyi nodded and replied: "There is still a two-entry house on Yanling Lane owned by the mansion. Though it’s not large, it’s enough for them to live in."

Just a house, the Grand Dowager nodded weakly: "Go ahead and arrange it, don’t let Sheng be wronged!"

Xiao Yanyi agreed.

"Everyone should disperse, we’ve had enough commotion for one night, go and have a rest!" The Grand Dowager spoke wearily, her face full of exhaustion.

Xiqiu bowed to the Grand Dowager and left with the others.

Once everyone had departed, Nanny Wu approached the Grand Dowager and massaged her shoulders. After a long silence, the Grand Dowager asked Nanny Wu: "What do you think about this matter?"

Nanny Wu’s expression tightened at the question!

She smiled and replied to the Grand Dowager: "Your servant couldn’t fathom much, but what Zhou Dao Po said didn’t seem like lies." The Grand Dowager waved her hand to interrupt: "I wasn’t asking you about that."

Nanny Wu stopped her hands, pondered for a moment, and then replied: "Perhaps we have to wait for Fourth Master to investigate before we can be clear."

Just who were those thugs, what was the identity of Zhou Dao Po’s son being held, whether the girl who died from the medicine was real or not, and if Zhou Dao Po truly felt remorseful and revealed everything.

After all, if the girl had truly died because of Zhou Dao Po’s medicine, why didn’t her family report to the authorities and instead forced her to do such things.