Qi Yue wasn’t finished yet, her gaze sweeping over the Wang family members in the room.
“Master, don’t speak so loftily. You’re just bullying people with your power, aren’t you? If you were a common family, would you dare act this way?” she said with a smile. “Put it another way—if I were a commoner, you could arrest people for nothing and beat them for nothing, but who told you to be unlucky enough to run into me? You can bully people with your power, so why can’t I? You say I hit my own face? You being surrounded and attacked by me—that’s hitting your own face!”
I’ve already transmigrated, which is unlucky enough. Don’t try to pressure me with official authority and status. It’s just one life, one breath—what’s the big deal? Who are you trying to scare? What do I have to fear!
Wang Tongye’s face turned iron-blue, his body trembling. It had been a long time since he’d seen anyone dare speak to him this way. The only time he remembered seeing such an attitude was in childhood when he was ignorant and fooling around with peers.
Young people were just too arrogant! This wasn’t a good thing! And she was a woman! Looking at the man standing beside her, he showed no sense of impropriety whatsoever, taking it all for granted!
“Grandfather,” Young Master Wang suddenly spoke up. “I’m afraid there really is a misunderstanding here.”
“What misunderstanding?” Wang Tongye’s voice was stiff, clearly extremely angry.
“Young Madam, you mean your face was struck by us first?” Young Master Wang looked at Qi Yue and asked. “Not that you were hit while striking us?”
“If you hadn’t hit me first, would I have hit you? Am I such an unreasonable person?” Qi Yue snorted, looking at him with some contempt.
Am I that stupid? To strike first and give others ammunition? Even if I were in the right, it would become wrong!
Young Master Wang’s expression stiffened slightly at her question. Though this was their first meeting, she did indeed seem a bit unreasonable…
“Grandfather, let’s call the steward to ask,” he said to Wang Tongye in a low voice.
From Qi Yue’s words, Wang Tongye also gleaned something. He took several deep breaths to suppress his anger and waved his hand.
Only then did everyone realize the steward was missing.
After much bustle, they finally found the steward sleeping in a corner of the gatehouse. After taking a few punches and being dragged to the gatehouse, when everyone went to fight, no one paid attention to him, so the old man had slept soundly in the gatehouse.
“It’s him!” Que Zhi immediately shouted upon seeing this wretched old man. “He’s the one who hit our young madam! And me too!”
Looking at the steward being carried in, reeking of alcohol and still not waking up when thrown on the ground, Wang Tongye already understood roughly what had happened.
This time it was truly… utterly unlucky!
It showed how unworthy descendants and subordinates could implicate the entire family.
“Splash him awake,” Wang Tongye ordered.
A bucket of winter’s cold water was poured over him, and the steward jumped up with a shriek.
“What happened? Who?” he shouted. “Little girl, little wretch, I’ll beat you to death…”
Que Zhi very timely stood in front of him, and the steward very cooperatively shouted these words.
“Lord…” Like a frightened little rabbit, she rushed toward Chang Yuncheng.
A’Hao reached out to stop her.
“Don’t be afraid. We’re all here. Let’s see if he dares to hit you again,” she snorted, very considerately taking Que Zhi into her arms.
All the Wang family members sighed inwardly.
“Wretch!” Wang Tongye shouted. “You got drunk and didn’t go home, what are you still doing in the house? Causing such trouble! Kneel down!”
The bucket of water had sobered the steward halfway, and combined with his master’s shout, as he knelt down he glanced around the room, seeing several familiar-looking women. His heart immediately jumped with alarm, and hazy post-drinking memories made him break out in cold sweat.
“Old Master, this servant was confused and shouldn’t have been greedy for drink,” he said, immediately slapping himself repeatedly.
“Do you recognize who this is? Why didn’t you come report when people arrived?” Wang Tongye shouted, pointing to Qi Yue and the others.
The steward looked at Qi Yue in panic.
“This servant saw them at the gate, but was drunk and confused, didn’t hear clearly and couldn’t remember which madam…” he said tremblingly, while kowtowing to Qi Yue. “This servant deserves death for offending Madam. This servant should die, was drunk and confused and failed to announce…”
Qi Yue frowned slightly. Could she really be so unlucky? Had her announcement of her name not reached the Wang family master’s ears but only reached this drunken steward? And then…
Was this real or fake?
“If we had known it was Young Madam of Marquis Dingxi visiting, how could we have ignored it?” Young Master Wang spoke from the side. “Young Madam, you’re not an unreasonable person, and we’re not unreasonable people either.”
He said this while looking meaningfully at Qi Yue.
The meaning was: you’re not stupid, and we’re not stupid either, to be caught in such matters.
That was indeed true. It seemed this time was truly… unlucky.
“Then this time it’s really misunderstanding upon misunderstanding upon misunderstanding,” she said with a bitter smile, spreading her hands.
This smile made her swollen face look even uglier.
Chang Yuncheng felt the irritation in his heart hard to calm.
“Misunderstanding? Misunderstanding or not, the hitting still happened,” he said coldly.
Wang Tongye’s expression, which had been about to soften, immediately darkened again.
“Then what does Lord want?” he asked flatly.
“Whichever hand did the hitting must pay,” Chang Yuncheng replied equally flatly.
At these words, everyone in the room’s expressions changed slightly.
Qi Yue was also startled.
The steward’s face turned even paler, but having lived to this age and risen from feeding horses to become today’s outer courtyard steward wasn’t due to dog-shit luck.
“Old Master, this servant caused all the trouble. Never mind the hand—even this life, this servant is too ashamed to want,” he said chokingly while kowtowing. “This servant will go make it quick and clean right now…”