"Whether it's true or not, we'll know if we go and take a look," said the Second Lady as she walked towards the main kitchen.
Feng Qing followed behind, thinking that her mother was overthinking.
They couldn't possibly cause trouble.
The Second Lady could tell what Feng Qing was thinking just by looking at her expression.
"Qing'er, have you forgotten about the incident of blood on your neck?" the Second Lady said earnestly. "Feng Yuqin is different now. I'll give special instructions tonight. It also has the meaning of testing her."
"Mother, what if it's true? Won't we be able to drive them out of the mansion then?" Feng Qing said with a worried look on her face.
"How could that be? Your father has a good relationship with the Prefect of the Capital. Feng Yuqin may not know this, but don't you? Their bet is like pushing themselves into a pit of fire. What we need to do is add fuel to the fire before they fall into it and then kick them when they're down after they've fallen in," the Second Lady glanced at her daughter. "Qing'er, this time, mother and daughter will be driven out of the mansion openly. Without the glory of the Prime Minister's Mansion, they'll wish they were dead."
Hearing this, Feng Qing's face was filled with joy.
"Madam, something bad happened. There's a fight in the kitchen," a maid rushed over.
The Second Lady's face darkened. "What's going on?"
"The First Lady and the Eldest Miss carried food boxes to the main kitchen. They said they were the masters of the mansion, but these servants dared to act one way in public and another in private, serving them food that even the servants wouldn't eat. This was an act of insubordination, and they wanted to beat to death those nurses in the kitchen who were overstepping their bounds," the maid said. Here, her body trembled because she remembered the terrifying aura of the Eldest Miss. It was too scary.
"Let's go and take a look quickly," the Second Lady's face darkened.
The head nurse in the kitchen was brought here by her from the Ji family. She couldn't let Feng Yuqin beat her to death. Otherwise, where would her face go?
...
"Murderer! The Eldest Miss of the Prime Minister's Mansion is killing people without distinguishing right from wrong!" As soon as the Second Lady walked outside the courtyard of the main kitchen, she heard this scream.
Her face darkened. Stepping in, she saw Feng Yuqin grabbing a nurse by the collar and hitting her left and right vigorously.
Seeing this rough and cruel side of Feng Yuqin, the Second Lady subconsciously stopped in her tracks.
After she came to her senses, she roared angrily, "Feng Yuqin, what are you doing?"
Hearing the Second Lady's voice, Feng Yuqin threw the nurse in her hand aside and glanced at the Second Lady indifferently. "What? Is the Second Lady still young but already blind? Can't you see what I'm doing?"
Feng Yuqin didn't take a concubine wife seriously at all. After all, the parallel world she had transmigrated into was different from what she had known before.
She used to know that a concubine wife had the same status as the original wife, but in this parallel world, the status of a concubine wife was the same as that of a concubine.
How could she, the legitimate eldest miss of the Prime Minister's Mansion, take a concubine seriously?
Of course, she would retort as she pleased.
"Feng Yuqin, have you no manners? How dare you talk to my mother like that?" Feng Qing angrily pointed at Feng Yuqin and said.
"Second Miss Feng, I'm the original wife, and my daughter is the legitimate eldest miss. The mother you mentioned is a concubine wife. A concubine wife is just a nice name. In fact, she's just a concubine," Yan Aoyun calmly began to explain the status knowledge of the Xisong Kingdom to Feng Qing. "What is a concubine? A servant. And my daughter is a proper master. Servants should bow to the master when they see one. Not only did you not bow, but you also called my daughter by her name directly. Have the manners of your Ji family been eaten by dogs?"
Hearing Yan Aoyun say in front of so many servants that she was a concubine and equivalent to a servant, the Second Lady wished she could tear Yan Aoyun to pieces.
Hearing this, Feng Yuqin clapped her hands for her mother in a timely manner. "My mother is right. Second Lady, why don't you quickly bow to me, the proper master?"
The servants in the courtyard didn't expect the Eldest Miss, who had returned from a marriage alliance, to be so arrogant. She even dared to ask the Second Lady to bow to her.
"What are you all making a ruckus about?" Feng Pingqiu's loud roar sounded at the door.
"My lord..." The Second Lady, whose expression had been gloomy just now, immediately rushed to him when she saw Feng Pingqiu appear. She looked at him with tears in her eyes.
Feng Pingqiu liked this expression of the Second Lady the most.
Every time she showed such an expression, he would always do whatever the Second Lady said.
"Father, the First Lady and the others are too much. They not only came to the main kitchen to beat and kill the servants without distinguishing right from wrong but also bullied my mother," Feng Qing said as if she had found a backer when she saw Feng Pingqiu appear. She pointed at Feng Yuqin confidently.
Feng Yuqin glanced at Feng Qing coldly. "If you don't want your finger, you can continue to point at me."
Hearing this, Feng Qing subconsciously retracted her hand.
"Evil creature, what did you say? Say it again," Feng Pingqiu roared angrily.
Feng Yuqin frowned. "I hate it when others point at me. If you all don't want your fingers, I don't mind cutting them off."
After saying that, a dagger suddenly appeared in her hand. "Those who don't believe it can just stretch out their fingers and try to see if I'll cut off the fingers that point at me."
"You're too much. Father is here, and you dare to say such things as cutting off people's fingers. If Father weren't here, would you cut off people's heads?" Feng Qing, who was smart enough, started to set a trap for Feng Yuqin again.
It was a pity that Feng Yuqin didn't care at all.
Feng Yuqin looked at Feng Qing indifferently and said word by word, "Do you want to try? Next time, you can choose a time when Father isn't around to provoke me and see if I'll cut off your head without hesitation."
"You're the Eldest Miss of the Prime Minister's Mansion. Your words and deeds represent the Prime Minister's Mansion. You always talk about cutting off people's fingers and heads. People who don't know might think that Sister deliberately educated her daughter like this," the Second Lady's words were equivalent to saying that Yan Aoyun didn't know how to educate her children, so Feng Yuqin always wanted people's fingers and lives.
Feng Pingqiu glanced at Yan Aoyun coldly. "This is the daughter you've raised?"
Yan Aoyun snorted. "So what if she's my daughter? Moreover, I think she's doing just fine. We've endured for more than a decade, but what did we get in return? So my daughter and I have decided not to endure anymore."
"Mother is right. We'll protect our rights and interests from now on," Feng Yuqin pointed at the food boxes. "This is the first thing we'll do. So please ask the Second Lady to give us an explanation."
The servants in the courtyard had quietly shrunk into the corner when the Second Lady appeared.
After all, over the years, they were used to seeing Feng Yuqin and her mother being oppressed by the Second Lady. They all thought that Feng Yuqin wouldn't get the better of it today.
So when they saw the Prime Minister appear, they were even more convinced of this idea.
But they never expected that even when the Prime Minister was there, Feng Yuqin still dared to confidently ask the Second Lady to give them an explanation.