Hearing that Lady Zhou had gone mad, everyone in the room was startled. Lian Manman wanted to ask Si Lang what exactly had driven Lady Zhou mad, but he had already turned and run away.
"My grandma, gone mad?" Lian Manman found it hard to believe. Lady Zhou wasn’t an ordinary person; her resilience was unmatched by commoners. In Lian Manman’s view, Lady Zhou was more likely to drive others insane; she herself would never go mad.
But then again, as the saying goes, "Too much rigidity leads to breakage." Lady Zhou, who had always had her way, had today faced humiliation in front of everyone. She failed to control her two most obedient sons and even put it in writing that from now on, these two sons and their families would no longer be under her command. Moreover, she had been frad and her reputation thoroughly slandered.
During this recent period, Lady Zhou had been staying in the West Room of the Upper House, among people like Lady Gu and Lady Chiang. Lady Gu was also under Lady Zhou’s control and would take any chance to secretly attack or stab at Lady Zhou.
And now Lady Zhou had gone mad?
Had Lady Zhou really gone mad, or not?
"It seems pretty quiet in the Upper Room, doesn’t it?" Lady Zhang comnted. If Lady Zhou had indeed gone mad, the Upper Room would surely be in chaos. Yet, listening carefully, it was quite silent over there.
"Just now, I thought I heard so commotion in the Upper Room. Weren’t we talking just now? I was preoccupied and didn’t hear it too clearly," Lady Zhao remarked.
"Si Lang has brought us news, what should we do, should we go take a look?" Lady Zhang asked Lian Shouxin.
The people in the room exchanged glances, all sighing inwardly, feeling a deep sense of helplessness.
"Manman, rember how you used to ask why we must always endure, why in front of your grandma, even if we’re right, we have to act as if we’re wrong? Others have asked the sa thing. Just look, no matter what the issue is, whether you’re right or wrong, if she doesn’t press you down, there’s no end to it... Your grandma has that crazed energy now, eventually, she might tornt herself until no one can stand to look at her," Lady Zhang finished, sighing deeply.
"Has my grandma gone mad before?" Lian Manman imdiately realized sothing from Lady Zhang’s words.
Lady Zhang pursed her lips and remained silent, just gesturing for Lian Manman to ask Lian Shouxin.
"Dad..." Lian Manman hurriedly turned her head to ask Lian Shouxin.
Lian Shouxin coughed twice and awkwardly turned his face away, clearly reluctant to answer.
Lian Manman’s eyes darted around. Both Lady Zhang and Lian Shouxin were unwilling to talk; it seed to be a very embarrassing issue. It wasn’t that Lady Zhang and Lian Shouxin felt embarrassed, but that they were embarrassed for Lady Zhou instead.
"This is another trap for us. If we don’t go, there will be no peace. If sothing really happened to his grandma..." Lady Zhang looked again towards Lian Shouxin.
Lian Manman felt that Lady Zhang herself probably didn’t want to go. She spoke this way to consider Lian Shouxin’s feelings, giving him a way out.
Indeed a virtuous woman, no wonder that despite the hard tis and having a mother-in-law like Lady Zhou, this couple had remained so loving over the years.
"Knowing that it’s a trap, how can we still go there?" Lian Manman imdiately said.
She could almost imagine how Lian Shouxin, Lady Zhang, Lian Shouli, and Lady Zhao, with a soft heart, unable to watch Lady Zhou going mad, would give in to her once more.
Wouldn’t that be a return to the tis before liberation? They had just gained their freedom, and at what cost had they won today?
Lian Shouxin, Lady Zhang, Lian Shouli, and Lady Zhao, none of them could go.
"I’ll go take a look. If my grandma has indeed gone mad, I’ll co back and call you," Lian Manman said. She wanted to investigate the situation first.
"Sister, I’ll go with you," Xiao Qi hurriedly said.
"Sister Manman, I’ll go too," Lian Yeye also said.
Lian Manman nodded; she, Xiao Qi, and Lian Yeye were all young and found it easiest to say and do whatever they wanted.
"Dad, Mom, all of you stay inside, wait for to co back. Brother, Sister, you two don’t go either."
After instructing her family, Lian Manman headed towards the Upper Room.
In both the east and west wings of the Upper Room, there was not a single soul. The back door of the outer room was wide open, and standing in the outer room, one could hear voices coming from the backyard.
So everyone had gone to the backyard. Was Lady Zhou having her episode there?
Lian Manman hurried out the back door and into the backyard.
"...let you eat, I’ll let you eat, you conscienceless beast..." Dressed in a dark blue robe and small shoes, Lady Zhou was stomping furiously in the leek bed, cursing as she trampled. Her vigorous activity flushed her pale face with color, and her disheveled hair fluttered with her movents.
Old Master Lian stood far away on the edge of a vegetable bed at the entrance of the backyard, red-faced with anger, holding a dry pipe in his hand, and pointing at Lady Zhou.
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