Chapter 36 - Setting Them up: the Fight in the Back Yard

Chapter 36 Setting Them up: the Fight in the Back Yard

After Chen Nianshan tricked Wei Yuewu into the yard where the wolf dog was kept, she went back to her own courtyard to take a bath and change her dress.

Anything that would happen in that yard had nothing to do with her.

She did not expect that Wei Yan would come at this time. However, she still came out of her room to greet Wei Yan. The stained dress that she had taken off was thrown aside. As she was in a hurry to welcome the guest, she did not notice a slip of paper falling down one of the sleeves of her former dress. One maid in the room saw the note, but did not care much about it, and only casually put the note beside the dress.

When Wei Yan entered, she immediately saw Chen Nianshan’s dress that was thrown aside, then she saw the note beside the dress. Her eyebrows were sharply raised. She hurriedly took two steps, grabbed the note in her hand and unfolded it.

It turned out to be a love letter that Chen Nianshan had written to Mo Huating. Wei Yan exploded with anger on the spot!

Before she came, Wei Yan still had some doubts about the relationship between Chen Nianshan and Mo Huating. But when she saw “Brother Huating” and “Sister Nianshan” that were written on the note, her doubts vanished right away. She slapped Chen Nianshan fiercely in her rosy face and scolded loudly, “Bitch, no wonder you have refused to marry all this time. So you’ve been thinking of marrying Marquis Jing Yuan. Look at yourself in the mirror, you bitch. Do you think you are worthy of the marquis when you look so base?”

Chen Nianshan had always been treated with extreme care since she came to live at the mansion of Marquis Jing Yuan. She had never suffered such a grievance before. Now she was totally dazed by the sudden slap. She touched her swollen face, observed Wei Yan’s fierce appearance, and was set on fire too!

She abruptly seized Wei Yan’s hair with one hand and pulled it hard. She was angered into tears. “Second Miss Wei, how did I offend you? You sneaked into the mansion to look for my cousin. That proves your lack of decency already. Now how can you say I’m shameless?”

Chen Nianshan was usually very scheming. She couldn’t help but blurt out those words after being slapped by Wei Yan for no reason.

“You slut, did you ever know who you are before you seduced Marquis Jing Yuan? You really don’t look at your own disgusting face, do you? I guess you never looked at yourself in the mirror.”

Wei Yan was so embarrassed and outrageous when Chen Nianshan mouthed back that she cursed Chen Nianshan loudly.

“It’s true I’m not as noble as you, but I know how to behave as a lady. And you, Second Young Lady, your identity is more respectable than mine, but you should go to private meetings with a man and be so anxious to be a concubine. So Second Young Lady, you really surprised me that you actually wanted to be a concubine when you enjoy such a high status!”

Now that Mo Huating was not here, Chen Nianshan did not want to put on a show. Therefore, she mouthed back with the same venomous words.

As they kept exchange insulting words, the quarrel between the two ladies escalated into a fight. The maids of both sides tried to protect their mistresses and separate them from each other. Just as the whole scene became totally chaotic, Wei Yuewu came in.

Before she came in, Wei Yuewu had intentionally talked to an old menial maidservant so that she could approach the back door. She went there and waited until she saw Wei Yan enter the back door. She then lagged deliberately a little distance behind and followed Wei Yan to Chen Nianshan’s courtyard. However, she did not come in immediately.

When she heard the crying and fighting from the inside, she knew that it was about the time to go in. She slowly walked into the yard with Jin Ling, when a maid happened to run out in a hurry. Jin Ling sidestepped and grabbed the sleeve of the maid. “What’s wrong?”

This maid of the mansion of Marquis Jing Yuan did not know Jin Ling, but she judged Wei Yuewu to be a lady from her attire. She hurriedly said, “The Second Miss Wei and Miss Chen started a fight.”

Wei Yan had been to the mansion of Marquis Jing Yuan many times in private, so quite a number of maids here knew her.

“Then tell Marquis Jing Yuan that the Second Young Lady and Miss Chen are fighting, and the Sixth Young Lady is trying to stop them. Ask him to come over quickly and see what to do about it. It will be really troublesome if he’s too late!”

Jin Ling looked as if something serious was about to happen.

The maid of the mansion of Marquis Jing Yuan had intended to find more maids and old maidservants so as to separate Wei Yan and Chen Nianshan. She felt it reasonable the minute she heard Jin Ling’s words. She hurriedly courtesyed to Wei Yuewu and ran out of the courtyard to ask Mo Huating for help.

“Miss, shall we go in?”

Jin Ling stuck her head in and looked inside.

“Here we go!”

Wei Yuewu smiled and stepped inside. Jin Ling followed her closely.

In the room, the two parties of people were wrestling with each other. In the center of the crowd were Wei Yan and Chen Nianshan. They had not the slightest trace of dignified and delicate air they normally put on. Both of them were as fierce as a shrew, cursing each other with insulting words like “little bitch”, “cheap girl”, “obscene” and so on. They were simply uttering whatever words they couldn’t say or didn’t dare to say in normal times.

The maids beside the ladies had originally tried to persuade their mistresses to stop fighting. However, after they themselves suffered several blows in the process, everyone was set on fire. At this moment, not only the young ladies were grappling with each other, their maids also started to fight one another. When Wei Yuewu entered the room with Jin Ling, no one noticed them at all.

Wei Yuewu sat at a table in one of the corners. Jin Ling picked up a cup that was placed upside down on the tea tray and poured a cup of water. Wei Yuewu took the cup and had a leisurely sip. Her cold gaze fell on Wei Yan and Chen Nianshan. She didn’t care whom Mo Huating wanted to marry, but she must take revenge…

She did not have the slightest bit of sympathy for Wei Yan or Chen Nianshan. Mo Huating had conspired with Wei Yan the previous time, and this time he plotted with Chen Nianshan. In that case, the two ladies would have to bear the consequences!

She didn’t care about why Mo Huating did not want to cancel the engagement. Now that she had come here today, she must see it broken off. There wasn’t evidence, right? Then she could create some. Normally speaking, in the case of engagement, the woman’s reputation would be damaged after the engagement was canceled. But what if the man himself committed indecent deeds?

Such a reason was enough to make Mo Huating unable to say “no” to her request for breaking off the engagement.

Wei Yuewu calculated that it was about time that the maid had reached the outer courtyard. She believed that Mo Huating would definitely not be entertaining the guests in the outer courtyard now. That wolf dog that had been starved for several days should treat Mo Huating well…

“Wei Yan, use your brain. My cousin likes me and wants to marry me. He has promised me that he will definitely marry me one day. What’s the use of you making a scene right now?”

Chen Nianshan received another scratch from Wei Yan. She gritted her teeth in hatred and screamed. She didn’t have the heart to pretend to be a delicate lady now. She grabbed a tress of Wei Yan’s hair with one hand and pulled it hard like a shrew.

“You bitch, you said that you wouldn’t marry before Mo Huating did. Have you already made your fiancee a cuckold? There are only you two at this mansion. Once I become the mistress of the mansion, the first thing I will do is to drive you out of here. You bitch, let go of my hair.”

Wei Yan could not stand the pain. She cried and cursed out loud.

While Wei Yuewu was watching them fight, she was paying attention to the outside. When she heard the rapid and messy footsteps outside, she knew Mo Huating was coming. A cold smile appeared at the corner of her lips, and a trace of fierceness flashed across her face. She abruptly stood up and smashed the cup in her hand onto the ground.

A crisp sound was heard from the broken cup on the ground. In the meantime, Jin Ling shouted in an angry voice, “My mistress has asked both of you to stop. Marquis Jing Yuan’s fiancee is my young lady, but both of you have an affair with Marquis Jing Yuan. What do you take my lady for?”

Her words made all those outside and inside involuntarily freeze…

“Second Young Lady, my mistress is your cousin, but you and Marquis Jing Yuan actually… And Miss Chen, you have been living at the mansion of Marquis Jing Yuan for long. My mistress has already figured out that you and Marquis Jing Yuan are not just cousins. But even if you two really love each other, is it necessary that you have to kill my mistress?”

Jin Ling said with uncontrollable rage.

Whoever heard those words would feel them extremely harsh, but the meaning behind the words made every listener speechless. Mo Huating stood outside. His mind went blank for a moment, and he was unable to think of a way to deal with the situation.

“Second elder sister, Miss Chen, you can quarrel with each other as you like. It has nothing to do with me. Anyway, today I am here to cancel my engagement with Marquis Jing Yuan. As for which of you will get together with Marquis Jing Yuan in future, it has nothing to do with me. I don’t want to be involved into this pool of muddy water. Besides, my father, Marquis Hua Yang, won’t let you trample his dignity and stain his honor like that.”

Wei Yuewu added after Jin Ling finished her words. Her voice carried a hint of anger. Anyone could recognize the fury in her words, as well as a trace of an angry tremor. Understandably, anyone who encountered such a thing would go nuts.

Outside the room, the Madam Dowager appeared hesitated when she heard Wei Yuewu mention Marquis Hua Yang!

“Why are you here?”

Wei Yan had finally noticed Wei Yuewu. She immediately raised her head and asked with an unfriendly expression.

“That’s my question, second elder sister. Why are you here? Didn’t Grandmother ask you to have a good rest in your own courtyard?”

Wei Yuewu’s face turned cold as her scornful gaze fell on Wei Yan’s face.

“You…you bitch, stay away from my business!”

Wei Yan scolded. She flew into a rage the moment she was swept by Wei Yuewu’s contemptuous gaze. She had just stopped quarreling with Chen Nianshan. Now she had become used to uttering dirty words, which came out of her mouth so naturally.

“She can’t meddle with your business, what about me? Do I have any right to discipline you?”

An old voice came from the door all of a sudden. Wei Yan raised her head and clearly saw the Madam Dowager’s sullen face. She immediately became extremely nervous. “Gran…grandmother…you…why are you here?”

“Even you can come here, why can’t I?”

The Madam Dowager knocked her crane heavily on the ground twice and walked in with a cold face. Lady Tu and Mo Huating followed behind one after the other.

The faces of Wei Yan and Chen Nianshan immediately turned pale …

This time, it was not in the hall outside, but in Chen Nianshan’s room. The Madam Dowager sat in the top seat with a grim expression. Her eyes were cold as she looked at Chen Nianshan and Wei Yan, who were sitting aside. Having finished a fight, the two of them didn’t look like a young lady from a noble family at all. Actually, they had tidied themselves up a little.

However, their messy dresses, the scratches on their faces, and the strands of fallen hair, all showed that the fight between the two were very fierce.

Wei Yuewu sat beside Lady Tu. Her slightly cold gaze fell on Mo Huating’s face. The corner of her lips under the veil silently revealed a trace of mockery.

Now, as things had gone so far, Mo Huating could no longer refuse to cancel the engagement by any quibbling!

“Marquis Jing Yuan, I don’t care who you want to marry or whose daughter you have an affair with. However, we’d better break off this engagement between you and Yuewu.”

Unlike the Madam Dowager, Lady Tu didn’t need to reserve face for Wei Yan. She slammed her palm into the table and with a cold light shining in her eyes, she coldly reprimanded Mo Huating without giving any face to him.