An ugly girl starts off, then becomes a beauty

Zong Xiang and Wei Chu got up immediately. Just as they were about to go and see, they saw a small figure rushing out from behind the tree. It ran to the door of the main house in two or three steps. About ten meters away, Sang Ling also stuck his head out to take a look and recognized the person. Isn't this Cai's son Nie Yu? Why did he run to Wuyuan?

She subconsciously wanted to say hello, but then suddenly remembered that the child was a fool and Cai was a weird person, so it was better to stay away from them.

He called the servants in the yard and said, "Come, take him away safely."

Unexpectedly, just after he finished shouting, he took out a bag from behind him, and before I could see clearly, he waved his hand.

"Madam, be careful!" Cheng was the first to react. A stone as big as a bird's egg had passed in front of Sang Ling and almost hit her left eye.

She leaned back instinctively, and stones of all sizes were thrown in one after another, all with the sound of wind. The child did not say a word, but just gathered all his strength to smash inside. Zong Xiang had already run to the corridor to call the servants, so Wei Chu quickly closed the wooden door.

But the main gate of the inner courtyard has always been a structure with windows on the top and doors on the bottom. The lattice windows were covered with oil paper or cloth, and were not very sturdy. The servants in the garden did not dare to forcefully go forward to capture the young master Nie Yu. The rain of stones had not yet stopped, and soon a few of them smashed through the cloth between the windows. The master and servants in the house hid behind the screen, and Sang Ling only felt a heat on his eyelids.

When I touched it, I found it was blood.

Although the first stone did not hit her, there were sharp spots on it that could have scratched her skin. Cheng Ai and Wei Chu also saw it, and one hurried forward to wipe the surface while the other ran out through the back door to ask someone to bring medicine.

This happened just in time, and that night Master Nie returned home, and the next day everyone went to the Shifei Hall to pay their respects and visit him.

The old man had not come out yet, but Cai had been waiting in the hall. Sang Ling and Zhang ran into him in the backyard of Jingsi Residence, and went there together. They were the second group to enter the hall of right and wrong. As soon as they stepped over the threshold, they were slapped by Cai.

The room suddenly fell silent, and all the masters and servants inside and outside were speechless. At that time, the people from the West Mansion entered the front yard of the Hall of Right and Wrong, and Madam Zhaoyu followed closely behind them, and they all happened to see this scene.

Shen and Nie Guang and his wife stopped walking, but Madam Zhaoyu took a big step forward and stood between the two of them. She glanced at Sang Ling's slightly swollen face, then turned to Cai and asked, "Third brother's wife, why is this happening?"

"Ask this bitch!" Cai's tone was sharp. If Madam Zhaoyu hadn't been standing in the middle, she would have rushed over again after she finished speaking.

Sang Ling immediately remembered what happened yesterday when Nie Yu came to Wu Garden and threw stones, but the servants in the garden later coaxed him away with kind words. Could something have gone wrong?

Then he stepped over Madam Zhaoyu and said, "Aunt San, my cousin came over yesterday and threw stones at me for no reason. I had no contact with him and later asked someone to take him back. Why are you blaming me?"

"If you hadn't laughed at him for being stupid first, would he have come to your place?"

"I—" She was stunned, "When did I mention him?"

"You are still quibbling here. You never said anything about him, so how could he have gone there? He never left the Muxiang Garden on his own. If you hadn't laughed at him, how could he have come to you!" The woman became more and more angry as she spoke, and she almost roared at the end, grabbing Sang Ling with both hands.

Madam Zhaoyu immediately blocked the fight, and Zhang and several old servants who were waiting in the hall also stepped forward to mediate.

"My wife just got married, why do you want to talk about Ah-Yu? It may be that the servants are making trouble. We have to investigate it first."

"Shut up." Cai interrupted Madam Zhaoyu, "Stop being so pretentious. You have to protect your family members. If someone in my room had said something about Nie Ce, would you still be able to do this?"

"Sister-in-law, I've said it before, this matter may not be a misunderstanding." After Madam Zhaoyu finished speaking, the people from the West Mansion came over slowly. Nie Guang inherited the good genes of the Nie family and was born tall. He grabbed Cai firmly at the first move and said, "Aunt San, no matter what, please sit down first."

"What's there to sit on?" Cai tried to lift him up, but found she couldn't move. Her eyebrows were raised, and she simply cried out at the top of her lungs, "You guys have ganged up on me for this new bitch, thinking my Ah-Yu is easy to bully. Isn't he a descendant of the Nie family? His last name is Nie too. I want to find my great-grandfather, my great-grandfather!"

Mrs. Zhaoyu was able to break free from Cai's hands and took two steps back with the help of Zhang. Just as she straightened her torn robe, she caught a glimpse of someone behind the inner door through the corner of her eyes. Behind a beaded curtain, the old man was holding a dove stick, his face gloomy. She was silent for a while, but she understood what he meant.

"Go and admit your mistake first." He then turned to Sang Ling and said, "Go and kowtow to your Third Aunt and admit your mistake."

"Why?" The girl beside her looked up in surprise. The shock and grievance in her heart had not yet been completely suppressed. She heard her own voice trembling, "Mother, I didn't say that to Ah-Yu."

Cai's shouting and cursing had not stopped yet. She cursed Sang Ling herself and even the eighteen generations of the Sang family, calling them all bitches and sluts. All the dirty, ugly and harsh words echoed in this hall of gossip.

She felt that it was possible that Madam Zhaoyu could not have failed to understand - if she was such an ignorant person, why would she have sent Cheng Ai to inquire about the situation in the mansion on the first day after the marriage, and why would she have told her in advance that Zhang and Shen Huajun went to Wuyuan every now and then?

Since her marriage, she has been docile and obedient.

Seeing that Madam Zhaoyu closed her eyes and then looked at her again, her intention did not change. Sang Ling had no choice but to take a small step back, but shook his head, "Mother, I didn't say anything about Ah-Yu. He came here for no reason and threw stones." Cheng Ai also hurriedly explained, "Madam, the young madam never said anything, it was -"

"Go kowtow and admit your mistake!" Madam Zhaoyu said in a deep voice, gritting her teeth.

In the courtyard of the Hall of Disputes in mid-spring, the breeze from the corridor brought with it bursts of cold air, which immediately made Sang Ling shiver all over. The wound on her eyelids also ached slightly. She grasped her hanging sleeves and remained silent for a moment. "I won't." As soon as she finished speaking, she was slapped by Madam Zhaoyu, "Go and admit your mistake!"

It was not known how long the commotion lasted, perhaps just a moment, or perhaps a long time had passed. At this time, the inside and outside of the hall were already filled with people who came to join in the fun. The front hall was completely blocked. In the end, the Shen family, the mother-in-law, and the daughter-in-law went together to clean up the situation, and the crowd reluctantly retreated.

Sang Ling only felt dizzy. The grievance and confusion aroused at the moment were like billowing smoke, instantly filling the sky above her heart, forcing her to retreat, but her feet seemed to be stuck in a quagmire.

Madam Zhaoyu's slap seemed to have not stopped yet. Her slender fingertips grabbed the heart and scraped the fragile defense on the surface. The seeping blood slowly gathered in front of her eyes. Everyone's appearance began to become blurred, and even their voices were weird.

It seemed like she was the only one left here.

She gasped suddenly—

"Young lady." Cheng's voice sounded beside her ears. She came forward and grabbed her wrist, but Madam Zhaoyu grabbed her even faster and carried her towards Cai's side.

She had no choice, and her mind also restrained her.

Being restrained by Nie Guang, Cai was unable to move forward, so Madam Zhaoyu pushed her over and said calmly, "Third brother's wife, your nephew's wife apologizes to you, please don't blame me."

As he spoke, he pressed her shoulders.

Sang Ling completely forgot how to struggle, perhaps he had never expected such a thing to happen. Even though he still didn't accept it in his heart, he just knelt down as if he had lost his bones and allowed Madam Zhaoyu to press him down.

In fact, as a mother-in-law, she was not very strong, but her dominating aura and unyielding attitude were enough to defeat a newly married bride.

Yes, Sang Ling still had some sense left, and even though he resisted at first, he refused to acknowledge this inexplicable slander.

But the slap from Madam Zhaoyu was like a blow to the head, silently warning her: where is she at the moment, whether she has the capital to resist, and if she resists, whether she has a way to retreat.

She was just a small boat in the vast ocean of Mu Wuhou's Mansion, and even a small wave could easily overturn it.

She could only kneel down in fear and admit her fault to her third aunt Cai under the gaze of the Nie family, "Third aunt...please forgive me."

Fortunately, Madam Zhaoyu finally took a step back and did not ask her to kowtow.