Phi-Fic Chapter 166 Whose Maid is Protected
Chapter 166 Whose Maid is Protected
The sturdy old woman was startled, but when she recognized who was speaking, her expression immediately relaxed and she said with a smile, "It's the eldest aunt who's back? Our lady has been waiting for you all day!" Her tone was frivolous, without any respect.
Rong Enqing curled his lips and waved to Xiu Zhang, "Go teach her the rules."
"Yes." Xiu Zhang bowed, walked up the stairs, raised his hand and slapped the sturdy woman twice, then scolded: "Not bowing to the Madam is disrespectful. The Madam is a super-first-class imperial title conferred by the emperor. You don't call her the Madam, but call her the eldest aunt instead, which is contempt for the emperor's authority. These two slaps are to remind you that when you see the Madam, you must kneel down and kowtow to show respect."
As he said this, he kicked the stout old woman in the knees, making her kneel on the ground, "Pay your respects to the Madam again."
The sturdy old woman was startled at first, then tried to stand up with an angry look on her face, but Xiu Zhang held her shoulders tightly, and she couldn't even straighten her back.
"Let me go! Let me go! I am the housekeeper of the Rong family's mistress. How dare you do this to me?" The sturdy old woman shouted, "Aunt, I am your sister-in-law's person. You are just going to watch this slut treat me like this?"
Rong Enqing glanced at the old woman with disdain and pouted at Xiu Zhang, "Keep slapping her until she learns the rules and calls people properly."
"I obey your command." Xiu Zhang responded, and raised her hand to slap the old woman several times. "Who are you? How dare you disrespect the old lady and threaten her?"
Xiu Zhang scolded your mother-in-law while slapping her in the face, which made Nanshan and others' eyes sparkle.
The old woman tried to struggle several times, but was easily suppressed by Xiu Zhang.
Finally, he couldn't bear it anymore and started shouting loudly: "Madam, Madam, help me! The eldest aunt is trying to kill me! Madam, if you don't come out, I will die!"
After hearing this, Xiu Zhang became even more ruthless, "How dare you, you servant, openly slander the Madam!"
Just then, Xiao Rong and Zhang finally came out of the house.
"What a great aunt you are!" Zhang sneered and looked at Rong Enqing unkindly, "It is said that when you beat a dog, you should look at its owner first. Do you take me seriously when you teach Aunt Zhang a lesson like this?"
Rong Enqing raised his hand to signal Xiu Zhang to stop and step aside.
Madam Zhang quickly crawled to Zhang's side, hugged Zhang's legs, and wailed, "Madam, please look at this old slave's face. How can this old slave face people in the future? I have been in the Rong family for my whole life, and at the end of the day, I am being bullied like this! How can this old slave have the dignity to live on!"
"Get out of the way." Zhang scolded Aunt Zhang coldly and looked at Rong Enqing again, "Aren't you going to give me an explanation, Aunt?"
Rong'en glanced at Zhang and Xiao Rong, walked up the stairs step by step, put his hand on the arm that Xiu Zhang extended to him at the right time, and walked into the house with a proud attitude.
"You!" Zhang was furious. She didn't expect Rong Enqing to ignore her! She asked twice, but Rong Enqing didn't say a word and just walked into the house.
Xiao Rong tugged at Zhang's arm and whispered, "Mother, don't forget the purpose of your visit today."
Zhang glanced at Xiao Rong, took a deep breath, calmed herself down a little, turned around and followed her into the house.
When she saw Rong Enqing sitting on the main seat, Zhang couldn't help but say, "What a great momentum! He didn't even call me sister-in-law when we met."
Rong Enqing laughed coldly and retorted: "When we meet, shouldn't my sister-in-law be the one to greet me? After all, I am also a lady of the first rank. Does my sister-in-law not take me seriously?"
Rong Enqing paused, and suddenly said self-deprecatingly: "Look at me, I said something stupid, didn't I? My sister-in-law dared to punish my maid in my Baishou Hall, how could she even have a place for me in her eyes?"
Zhang said angrily, "Isn't it just beating up a few of your maids? Is there any need to be so sarcastic? Didn't you also beat up Aunt Zhang?"
"Madame Zhang was disrespectful to me, and she deserved to be beaten. I want to ask my sister-in-law, what crime have these maids in my yard committed? Is it necessary for an outsider like you to step in and punish them for me?"
"They were disrespectful to me too! Is that reason enough?"
"That's enough." Rong Enqing said to Xiu Zhang with a smile, "Call everyone in. Call Aunt Zhang in as well."
Xiu Zhang responded and went out to call for help.
Zhang didn't understand why, but Xiao Rong was feeling uneasy, thinking that things couldn't be resolved peacefully. She had advised her mother before not to embarrass the people in her aunt's courtyard, but her mother just wouldn't listen.
Soon, everyone in the yard was called in.
Everyone knelt down to greet him.
Rong Enqing glanced at everyone, pointed at Nanshan and asked Zhang: "May I ask, sister-in-law, how did this little maid disrespect you? Did she not bow to you when she saw you? Or did she speak rudely to you?"
Zhang's face darkened and she said nothing. This maid was simply too pretty and annoying, so she was spanked a few more times and made to kneel in the yard.
Rong Enqing pointed at Chunyu and Chuncao and asked, "These two are the maids of my eldest granddaughter. Logically, they would not come to serve in the main room. How did they offend my eldest sister-in-law?"
Zhang's face became even uglier. The two maids bowed to her and hid in the room. She had waited in Baishou Hall for too long and was bored. Didn't she have to find something to do?
So they dragged the two men out of the house, slapped them in the face, and made them kneel together.
Rong Enqing pointed out the faults one by one, but Zhang couldn't even tell what the maid had done wrong.
Zhang's face was burning with shame and anger. Just as she was about to explode, little Rong stood up first and bowed to Rong Enqingfu, saying sincerely, "Aunt, I will apologize to you as my mother. It is true that mother did something wrong. But mother is just too bored waiting, so she made a fuss. Later, I will have someone give two taels of silver to each of the maids in your yard who were punished, as compensation. What do you think, aunt?"
Rong Enqing took a deep look at Xiao Rong. After what happened to Xiao Huan, Xiao Rong had really grown!
After all, she was her biological daughter-in-law, so Rong Enqing didn't want to offend Xiao Rong too much, so she nodded, waved to Nanshan and others, and said, "You all leave."
"Yes." Everyone responded and left.
Just when Rong Enqing was about to give Xiao Rong a chance to let the matter go, Zhang suddenly interrupted and said, "Sister-in-law, the maid in your yard was punished and received two taels of silver as compensation. Then, shouldn't you also compensate Aunt Zhang who was beaten?"
"Oh!" Rong Enqing sneered, looked at Aunt Zhang and asked, "When Aunt Zhang saw me just now, did you bow to me?"
Nanny Zhang was stunned.
"Have you ever said hello to me?"
Nanny Zhang was stunned again.
Rong Enqing turned to look at Zhang and said with a fake smile, "Sister-in-law, do you understand now?"
Zhang was extremely depressed, and she vented her anger directly on Aunt Zhang. "You rude idiot, why don't you get out of here? You're just an eyesore standing here!"
Nanny Zhang quickly crawled out.
Finally, only Rong Enqing and Xiu Zhang, their master and servant, and Zhang and Xiao Rong, mother and daughter, were left in the hall.
"Sister-in-law, didn't you come here today specifically to punish the maids in my yard?"
After what happened just now, Rong Enqing was no longer in the mood to reminisce about the past. He said in a light tone: "If you have anything to say, you can just tell me, sister-in-law."