Real Empress from a Noble Family

It took Sir Jibei some time to prepare the human testimony, material evidence, and contractors inside Jing City to take control of the overall situation. So, he blocked the delivery of the message that his nephews died to Jing City. As a consequence, in Jing City, people thought that Jiang Qizheng was murdered while others were safe. So, Madame Zhuang, who appeared at the Jiang Family suddenly, scared the whole Jiang Family out of their wits.

“Are those scouts along the way all dead?” Marquess Qin heard the news and then almost died of anger. He thundered, banging his fist on the table, “I told them to find out Madame Zhuang’s itinerary and let Yashuang pick her up. I expected he could tell her what was important to handle. How could she appear so suddenly?”

His subordinates broke out into a cold sweat by being scolded, “It is said that Madame Zhuang entered the Jing City by the south gate. I guessed… I guessed that she took a detour so that the scouts didn’t find her. They thought Madame Zhuang was at somewhere far away from Jing City.”

He shouldn’t be blamed. Jiang Tianchi’s letter was expedited. Everyone including Marquess Qin believed that Madame Zhuang would return to Jing City at the fastest speed. So, she wouldn’t be in the mood to detour.

But she did!

So, it caught everyone off guard!

Marquess Qin scolded for a while and then stopped as he had no time to continue to rebuke. He waved his hand, “Go to find Jiang Yashuang… Wait, is he out of Jing City today?” Marquess Qin expected Madame Zhuang would arrive in two days. He worried that she would spare no efforts to hurry on with her journey when she was around Jing City. It would be too late for Jiang Yashuang to stop her if he set out from the Marquess’s Mansion. So, he sent Jiang Yashuang to the post outside the city to wait for her. It was supposed to be in the case. However, Madame Zhuang chose to detour. The kid who was the ablest to stop her was impossible to help.

It was absurd that he, father-in-law, argued with her as soon as she returned home. Marquess Qin couldn’t afford to bring such shame on himself. He was about to ask Madame Tao to talk with Madame Zhuang. But he didn’t expect that Madame Tao sent Mom Hu to tell him, “Madame felt dizzy just now. The doctor told her to stay in bed for rest. She knows that Madame Zhuang is irritable. So please take more care of her.”

It was clear that Madame Tao tried to avoid getting into trouble. How couldn’t Marquess Qin see through her? So, he was livid with anger. Marquess Qin thought for a while and then he heard from his servants that Madame Zhuang brought a group of strong and ferocious servants to go to the mansion of the first branch. She also sent some of them to barricade the gate of the third branch. He bitterly gave his sleeve a swing, “Let Qiu Yelan stop her!”

He was worried that it would have a bad impact on Qiu Yelan’s pregnancy as there were so many people gathering there. He ordered, “Ask more servants to accompany Yelan. It is the most important thing to keep her kid safe!”

Qiu Yelan felt anxious as soon as she got the order. “Is he serious? What shall I do? I am anxious about how to get along with my mother-in-law! Is it absurd that I go to tell her not to hurt those guys who murdered her daughter the first time I met her?”

How could she live for the rest of her life?

It was lucky that Mrs. Zhou was sober, “Marquess Qin said that your pregnancy was the most crucial thing. You can walk around there and then you excuse yourself for feeling uncomfortable because too many people are around you. In that case, we can accompany you to come back.”

“Let’s do it!” Qiu Yelan made the decision as she stood up!

According to the ideas, they would walk around for a while and then leave.

However, when those servants saw her coming, they instantly cleared a path for her to walk right away.

In full view of a large crowd, with Marquess Qin’s order, Qiu Yelan tangled up for a while and then entered the house accompanied by Su He gingerly. They crossed the corridor, walked through the courtyard, and turned into the pavilion. She wounded her way for a while to get to the main house where Jiang Tianao and his wife lived in. It also suggested how preferential Marquess Qin was to his nephew.

But such a fancy mansion was ruined. On her way to the main house, Qiu Yelan saw flowers and plants along the way were stepped on and exquisite furnishings and railings were destroyed as if the typhoon had just passed. “Does my mother-in-law take the vanguard troops in Northern Army?”

The damage and speed of destruction were beyond the ability of the average robust servant.

She was thinking when Mrs. Zhou who followed her pulled her sleeve, “Wait, Madame! There spreads a loud noise in the main house. You are pregnant. Do not show up first. Please let me take a maid to check it out. In case you get hurt by the people who are scuffling inside.”

Qiu Yelan followed her advice. She asked Mrs. Zhou to make inquiries together with Chunran and Xiaran. If something wrong happened, she could leave with the excuse that she was uncomfortable. However, after they entered for a while, they came out with a group of nannies and a woman in a plain blouse.

The woman was about 40 years old. Her skin was white and her appearance was charming. Though her face looked strained and weary, she wore a fierce expression. She was in a plain white dress. There seemed to be something in her right sleeve. She looked around and then walked directly towards Qiu Yelan and looked at Qiu Yelan with scrutiny.

Qiu Yelan was anxious. Suddenly she found that the woman looked familiar. She thought carefully and then she figured out that Zhuang Man looked like her so much! She knew the woman was her mother-in-law!

“You’ve had a hard journey, mother.” Qiu Yelan didn’t expect that her mother-in-law came to see her on her own after hearing her arrival. She was surprised. She had a feeling of being caught off guard and hurried forward to salute.

Though she wore fierce expression when she got out, it had nothing with her. By the time she came up to her, there was already a slight smile on her face, “Are you the wife of my son? It is said that you are pretty. That is true.”

Though Qiu Yelan heard a lot of discussions about her mother-in-law, she was not sure of her temper. She thought rapidly that it wouldn’t make mistake if she said something sweet. She smiled, “Thanks, mother. You are so elegant and graceful. I can’t even compare with you.”

Madame Zhuang was nearly fifty. It was bitter and deadly cold in Beijiang. Though she maintained herself meticulously, she was not young any more. It was not proper for Qiu Yelan to compliment her on her youth and beauty. So, she chose to praise her elegance.

“I hear that you are pregnant. What are you doing here?” Madame Zhuang was indifferent to her compliment. She cared more about Qiu Yelan’s pregnancy. Madame Zhuang then stepped forward to support her. She took her hand and said, “Go home. I will take it over.”

At the moment, Mrs. Zhou considerately told her, “Madame, Madame Yelan didn’t know you come back. It was Old Master…”

She didn’t finish her words yet when a girl’s shrill voice rang out from the moon gate, “Grandmother! Grandma! Grandfather, look at grandma…”

Instantly, there was a mess inside the door. Qiu Yelan and others around her were startled. She was about to say something while a disheveled girl ran out from the moon gate. She came at Madame Zhuang directly, “You are such a vicious b*tch! I will kill you!”

Qiu Yelan figured out that girl was Jiang Huizhi. She was wondering whether Madame Dou was beaten to get ill. Otherwise, how dared Jiang Huizhi beat Madame Zhuang? She didn’t finish thinking as Madame Zhuang leaned to another side. She winked at a nanny who came out with her. The nanny didn’t mind the identity of Jiang Yazhi at all as she kicked her insouciantly, causing Jiang Huizhi to roll on the floor.

At that moment it was silent all around.

Madame Zhuang stared at Jiang Huizhi without expression. She said in a cold voice, “You are such an innocent b*tch! You dare to make a scene in front of me… Next time I will rip her mouth off.”

Several nannies responded to her magnificently. Qiu Yelan was not sure whether Madame Dou was fine or not after seeing this circumstance. Or if something wrong happened to her, how serious the injury was? Suddenly, she felt that something in her sleeve dropped. She looked at her sleeve subconsciously while Madame Zhuang pinched gently on the back of her hand.

She raised her head surprisingly. She saw that Madame Zhuang suggested she not to say anything. After that, Madame Zhuang hummed, “Now we have finished greeting the first branch. Let’s go to the mansion of the third branch. You are easy to be exhausted when you are pregnant. I just want to reminisce with the elders. You shall not interfere. Just go home!”

That would be best! Qiu Yelan was unassured and unwilling to stop her mother-in-law. She had no energy and no mood to accompany her to fight. It was the best choice to get away. So, she didn’t refuse her. She greeted, “I will follow your commands to leave, mother.”

When she just got to the door of her house, she was stopped by Marquess Qin’s servant.

“What does he mean?” Qiu Yelan got angry this time, “He asked me to stop my mother-in-law and I followed his order. But I am pregnant. I just came back and did even not go through the door. Why shall I go over there? Even if my husband were here, he should also fail. I am just a daughter-in-law. The mansion is so large that I am so exhausted even in the soft sedan. If the first branch is in a critical moment, he can go there by himself. Why does he ask me to go there over and over again? Is he bullying me?”

She was about to refuse him by excusing of pregnancy. The servant knew she was discontented, he persuaded her, “Please go there. I hear that something horrible happened to the first madame after being beaten by Madame Zhuang. Old Master now is mad. He even has sent Dr. Lin to the first branch to diagnose.”

Qiu Yelan was shocked, “What?” Dr. Lin was not the one who could be called out easily!

“Otherwise, as you are pregnant, how can he ask you again and again?” The servant smiled bitterly, “Let me say something ominous. The first madame breaks her head. Now she is in poor health.”

“I will go there right away.” Qiu Yelan remembered what Jiang Huizhi reacted. She was anxious, “I see my mother-in-law was nonchalant at that moment… Wait!” She touched the stuff in her sleeve. She dared not to see it because Madame Zhuang implied her to be secret. She planned to take it out after she went home. She had no idea what it was.

Qiu Yelan was surprised by the stuff after she touched it. It was clearly a hammer!

Qiu Yelan quietly weighed this hammer. According to her preexistent experience, she knew that whoever held it could kill the one she wanted to kill.

“My mother, how dare you to act so exaggeratedly?” Qiu Yelan was speechless. “If you wanted to be fierce, you could find someone else.” Madame Dou was just a woman who lost her parents. Killing her could make no sense but let Jiang Yayun grieve. The first branch could also threaten them with this thing. Next, if the fourth branch wanted to find justice for Jiang Qizheng’s death, they even had something to refute them.

“If you want to destroy someone, why don’t you kill Jiang Tianao?”