Ch 119: Sudden Change In The Buddha Hall
Old Madam brought everyone to the front of the Buddha Hall. Only when they walked over did they discover that there wasn’t a single person at the door of the Buddha Hall. The door was slightly closed. Without much thought, she immediately told Nurse Qin to open the door.
The door was pushed open heavily. The few maidservants standing at the door first covered their faces and screamed. Old Madam stood in the middle. Originally, she couldn’t see, but as the few maidservants scattered and fled, the scene inside immediately appeared in front of everyone.
In the Buddha Hall, there was a man, a fat and ugly old man, lying horizontally on the ground, holding Madam Ling in his arms, sleeping soundly.
“This… this… go… pull them apart.” Old Madam was shocked and almost fell. Her face twitched twice, and her fingers trembled involuntarily. Gritting her teeth, she whispered to Nurse Qin beside her, hinting that she should go forward quickly and pull them apart, so that more people wouldn’t see.
The dignified Duchess and a man were embracing each other, lying in the Buddha Hall. If this kind of thing were to spread out, the Duke’s Mansion would lose face.
Nurse Qin immediately understood Old Madam’s intentions and rushed into the Buddha Hall to close the door.
“Mother had an accident?” Ning Xueyan, because she didn’t see, softly whispered a sentence.
She and Ning Yuling were standing quite close, both behind the crowd, unable to see the front.
Ning Yuling only heard the maidservants screaming in front, and then Old Madam said a sentence that she didn’t quite understand. She was pondering what it meant when Ning Xueyan beside her mumbled a sentence, and immediately became startled. She pushed away the two old women in front of her with a sharp voice and shouted: “Mother, Mother, did something happen to Mother!”
No one expected that she would suddenly rush out. Old Madam, standing in front, was almost pushed down. The few maidservants and old women beside her hurried to help. The scene immediately became chaotic, with people squatting, standing, and half-supporting, all in different poses.
Nurse Qin, who had just wanted to close the door to handle the scene inside, was even knocked over by the door that was pushed open, and fell to the ground. With an “ouch,” she held her waist and couldn’t get up for a while.
The door was wide open, and Ning Yuling’s shout of “Mother” abruptly stopped in her mouth. Without the people blocking the way, everyone outside immediately saw clearly the two people embracing inside. Moreover, it was even more coincidental that Madam Ling happened to open her eyes, looked around dazedly, and then met Ning Yuling’s eyes filled with shock and fear. She still couldn’t figure out what had happened.
She was in the Buddha Hall. She had eaten a little lunch sent from the kitchen at noon, and feeling bored, she leaned to one side and fell asleep!
Who would have thought that she would see so many people when she woke up.
“Ling’er, what happened?” Madam Ling’s expression turned serious, and she said with displeasure, thinking that Ning Yuling had caused trouble again.
“Beauties, what happened?” Before Ning Yuling could answer, a hand suddenly stretched out from behind her and pulled her into its arms, and a man’s voice, with a strong smell of alcohol, mumbled a sentence.
Madam Ling’s body heavily bumped into a thick, soft, and fluffy embrace. She subconsciously pushed back, and it was soft. Only then did she realize something was wrong. She was shocked and quickly turned her head. She saw a man’s old and fat face. She was shocked and screamed. She subconsciously struggled and wanted to push the man away.
But unfortunately, she was too shocked, and for a moment, she couldn’t get up. Instead, she was pulled down heavily by the man again, which looked like she was throwing herself into his arms from the outside.
Seeing her always pure and holy mother, actually with an ugly and old man, the two of them still didn’t know shame in front of everyone, and expressed themselves in such a way. Ning Yuling stood there, her face green, white, where she could still stay, pushed the people behind her away, covered her face and ran away, and rushed out.
“Ling’er…” Madam Ling subconsciously called out, pushed away the man’s embrace with force, saw Old Madam’s sharp face, and her mind was suddenly like being poured with cold water. Her complexion immediately turned green and white.
She turned around, reached out, and slapped the man’s fat face heavily several times: “Mother, Old Madam, I… I don’t know what’s going on, this… I don’t know this person, he… how did he appear here?”
All she wanted to do at the moment was to prove herself, and she didn’t see clearly because she was both anxious and flustered. The man beside her was the Marquis of Peace, someone she had never seen before.
“Go… invite the Marquis over, and have everyone else go out.” Old Madam took a long breath, suppressed the fire in her chest, her gaze gloomy and deeply cold, and said to Nurse Qin, who had finally gotten up, family shame couldn’t be spread. She couldn’t act now.
Nurse Qin answered and drove people out, and sent someone else to invite Ning Zuan.
Ning Xueyan stepped forward, supported Old Madam’s cold hand, and asked with concern: “Grandmother, please sit here first, I’ll go call someone to serve you!”
“No need, don’t go out, help me sit over there.” Today, she was too shocked, and Old Madam’s hands and feet were weak, and she really couldn’t walk, but she didn’t want more servants to see the Duke’s Mansion’s scandal, so she had Ning Xueyan help her. Anyway, Ning Xueyan also saw this matter, and she was her own granddaughter, better than others.
“Yes, Grandmother!” Ning Xueyan, complying with the summons, together with Nurse Qin, supported Old Madam to the left and right, and came to a chair next to the small Buddha Hall.
“Who, who dares to hit me.” The Marquis of Peace, who had been ignored all along, was awakened by the several slaps from Madam Ling. He immediately covered his face, dizzy, and looked at Madam Ling angrily, The people closest to him were Madam Ling, so it seemed that Madam Ling was the most likely person.
“Who are you, woman?” He was dizzy at the moment, and for a while, he hadn’t figured it out.
“You… you, who brought you in here? This is the Buddha Hall of the Duke’s Mansion. Unrelated people can’t get in here at all!” Madam Ling, this time, also saw clearly that it was the Marquis of Peace, and was greatly alarmed. She couldn’t imagine that the Marquis of Peace would be here. In the present, both of them were in an embarrassing situation, and she hurriedly spoke to hint.
Duke’s Mansion’s Madam Ling? The Marquis of Peace touched his dull head, and at this moment, he also realized something was wrong. He looked around and saw a small Buddha statue in the middle. It was the Buddha Hall that was usually enshrined in a mansion. Although he was a good-for-nothing, he also knew that something had happened, and he hurriedly distinguished.
“I also don’t know why I am here. Someone brought me here to rest!”
“The Marquis of Peace, tell me, who brought you here?” Old Madam’s expression was gloomy, her sharp gaze fell on the Marquis of Peace, but she spoke in a calm tone. She had suppressed her anger at the moment.
The maidservants and old women were all driven out, just to avoid this kind of thing from spreading. Now, there were only Nurse Qin and Ning Xueyan beside her, so naturally, she wouldn’t talk nonsense.
“I… I was drunk at the time and couldn’t remember… it seemed like a maidservant, yes, it was a maidservant!” The Marquis of Peace did not dare to say that his own boy servant had led him in to rest, he thought about it, and directly pushed the matter onto the maidservants of the Duke’s Mansion. In the inner courtyard of the Duke’s Mansion, only women could come in at will.
He just said it casually here, but he didn’t know the truth. Ning Xueyan stood aside, the corner of her mouth slightly hooked, and looked at Madam Ling, who was hurriedly tidying up her clothes, revealing a faint sneer.
This kind of thing, and there was no strong witness, how could it be explained clearly!
Of course, for the same reason, it couldn’t be said that the Marquis of Peace and Madam Ling definitely had an affair, but, that was enough…
“Can’t remember clearly, Marquis of Peace, do you want to call the maidservants of the Cloud Mist Courtyard over one by one to see if we can find out who it is?” Old Madam sneered.
These words were very impolite, staring at the Marquis of Peace and Madam Ling, and directly at the Cloud Mist Courtyard, which was almost the same as confirming that the two had an affair.
It was no wonder that Old Madam suspected them. Although the two were lying together, there was no substantial action, but before, there was the matter of Madam Ling giving the Marquis of Peace the jade pendant, and after that, there was the result that the Marquis of Peace couldn’t explain why he was here. Even the secret thing like the jade pendant, Madam Ling could send it to the Marquis of Peace, and let the Marquis of Peace threaten the Duke’s Mansion. If it was really just a misunderstanding, how could Old Madam believe it.
“Mother, it’s really not me… I, I also don’t know why, I was particularly sleepy after lunch today, and I leaned to the side and took a nap, who would have thought that I would be like this when I woke up, I… I don’t know why the Marquis of Peace is here… he, shouldn’t he have left?”
Madam Ling was startled and her flower-like appearance was gone: “Mother, I really don’t know anything!”
“You were sleepy after finishing lunch, and you don’t know what happened after that, you mean someone deliberately put medicine in your meals?” Old Madam sneered, and slammed the table fiercely, her eyes looked at Madam Ling with a cruel look, the disgust in her eyes couldn’t be concealed. With no outsiders present, she didn’t need to pretend to like Madam Ling.
“Nurse Qin, bring the old woman who delivers food for First Madam in.”
“Yes, that person is from Xiangfu Garden, she happened to be inside just now, the old servant will let her in now.” Nurse Qin nodded and went out, and soon brought in an old woman.
Seeing Old Madam’s face ashen, the old woman’s feet went weak, and she knelt down.
“The First Madam’s lunch was brought over by you, is there anything wrong today?” Old Madam asked slowly, word by word.
“Yes… it was the servant who brought it over. It was the same as usual. The servant has been guarding First Madam’s meals and hasn’t left for a moment.” The old woman said, trembling with fear. If it was in the food, she would die without a burial place.
“You’re talking nonsense, there must be a problem with this meal. I wasn’t that sleepy when I ate it usually, but today I was so unconscious that I must have a problem.” Madam Ling thought about it more and more wrong at the moment, and insisted.
“Did you meet any unusual people, and they specially talked to you?” Old Madam’s eyes flashed and continued to ask.
Talked? Old Madam’s words reminded the old woman, her eyes lit up, and she immediately reported: “Yes, Old Madam, someone specially talked to the servant today. The previous few days, they didn’t talk to the servant, today she specially came over and chatted with the servant for a long time. At that time, First Madam’s meal was already ready, and the servant was packing the basket.”
“Who?” Unexpectedly, things took a turning point, and Madam Ling excitedly grabbed the old woman’s hand.
If it could be found out that today’s matter was really someone framing her, then today’s matter would be over for her. Moreover, she had an intuition that the one who assassinated her was Ning Xueyan. Although she was standing behind Old Madam and didn’t say a word, but the occasional gaze she raised, and the mocking smile in those dark jade eyes, Madam Ling saw clearly.
The malice in her eyes couldn’t be hidden. Little bitch, dare to assassinate herself, she must make her die without a burial place.
“Mother, don’t pull it too tight, you’re going to strangle her!” Seeing her hateful gaze falling on her, Ning Xueyan slightly smiled and reminded her gently.
