9 Culprits

It was unknown if she had been beaten silly or frightened senseless. For a long time, she couldn't recover from her shock.

The other servant girl knows that it'll be turn her soon so Zhuyi hurriedly begged for mercy: "Third Miss, please forgive me." "It was Second Young Master who insisted on playing hide and seek with this servant, this servant was supposed to look for him in a moment …"

"You didn't take good care of the second young master!" Nangong Yue coldly said. If it weren't for her weak body, she really wanted to personally teach these two lowly maidservants a lesson! "Help me teach these two lowly maidservants who have neglected their duty"

"How dare you!" Finally coming back to her senses, she puffed up her chest and proudly looked at the wives.

The wives were all hesitating. They all knew that this woman was not of simple origins.

Seeing this, Yunniang heaved a sigh of relief, thinking: I am the madame's man, who would beat me up for the sake of this unfavoured third lady!

Nangong Yue coldly smiled and suddenly removed the golden collar around her neck. She raised it high up and said, "Who's going to beat up will get this golden collar" Before she finished speaking, she had already thrown the golden collar high into the air. When the wives saw this treasure, they were like cats who had seen blood, their eyes shining brightly.

A stout old woman pushed aside the people beside her and jumped, grabbing the golden collar vigorously and hiding it in her bosom. Then, she grabbed the front of Yunniang's clothes and slapped her a few times. This woman's hands were as thick as a hand, and with just a few slaps, Yunniang's face had already turned red and swollen like a pig's head.

"This servant is innocent! This servant is wrongly accused" Yunniang was crying and screaming as if she'd suffered a great injustice, but Nangong Yue turned a deaf ear.

At that moment, a familiar voice was heard from the right, "Xin'er, Yue'er!"

Nangong Yue's body stiffened. She looked towards the source of the sound and saw a thin and slim familiar figure standing at the entrance of the garden. Her eyes were hazy with tears as she looked at them.

It's mother!

With a worried expression, Madam Lin lifted her skirt and ran excitedly towards the pair of children.

Yue'er … Once upon a time, mother was like this, calling her name with that warm and loving voice. Memories interweaved together with the present. Nangong Yue's eyes turned sour as tears filled her eyes.

In her previous life, her mother had suffered multiple setbacks. First, her older brother Nangong Xin had drowned and his father had betrayed her.

Then, her mother had become overly sad, and gradually lost her sanity. In these past few years, every time she thought of that moment, her heart felt like it had been slashed by a knife.

She blamed herself for not paying attention to her mother, for not being able to save her mother … She had never expected to see such a familiar and gentle figure again. She felt a sense of relief and almost choked with sobs.

Her mother's beautiful appearance was both familiar and unfamiliar, causing Nangong Yue to feel extreme sorrow for her mother.

She froze for a moment, then with a trembling voice called out, "Mother." She greedily looked at her mother's young and delicate face, calling out in her heart: Mother, she really is mother!

At this time, her mother was only twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, with a white oval face, black almond-shaped eyes, and cherry lips. She was in her most beautiful and brightest age, like a blossoming flower.