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Chapter 165 Inside Story
Chapter 165 Inside Story
Yu Zi blurted out in desperation, "My lord, please spare my life. I am the maid of the second wife. You cannot do whatever you want with me."
When Duke Rong heard that this woman was still the maid of his second wife, he even expressed doubts about her whereabouts.
"Since she is the maid of the second wife, why did she go to my father-in-law's outer study? Her behavior is even more suspicious. She will be taken down for strict interrogation."
Tang Wenzhu watched the whole process of Duke Rong disposing of Yu Zi without saying a word, not knowing what he was thinking.
When the guards outside the study came in and put a rag in Yuzi's mouth, who was still struggling, and forcefully took him out, Duke Rong Guo rubbed his dizzy head and looked at Tang Wenzhu.
"Brother Zhu, you have something to do to find your father?"
Tang Wenzhu did not tell him the purpose of coming to see Rong Guogong, but looked at Rong Guogong calmly and said softly:
"Father, if the child doesn't come, will you let that maid be your concubine?"
Unexpectedly, Tang Wenzhu would say these words. Duke Rong Guo had no idea that just now Yuzi was about to lean into his arms, and his youngest son happened to see him.
Duke Rong Guo only thought that his younger son Tang Wenzhu had a bad guess when he saw Yu Zi in his study.
Hearing that Tang Wenzhu doubted his character, Rong Guogong was both ashamed and angry. He couldn't help scolding him: "What did you say at such a young age?"
With Duke Rong's self-esteem and majesty as a father, Tang Jingyan would not explain to his eight-year-old son that he was drunk and unprepared and that was why Yu Zi approached him.
Tang Wenzhu was not frightened by Duke Rong's reprimand and asked the question in his heart again.
"Then does the father hate the mother?"
These days, my father doesn't go back to my mother's main courtyard to rest at night, nor does he have meals at the same table as my mother. Even when he goes to pay his respects to his grandmother, he goes separately.
Tang Wenzhu didn't pay attention at first, thinking that Duke Rong was busy with important affairs in the court, but now he had an explanation in his heart.
Although the third brother Tang Wenbai was not born to the same mother as him, the brothers and sisters in the family all got along very well and never stayed away from Tang Wenbai because of his status as a bastard.
Tang Wenzhu also likes the third brother who is not very smart but has a soft temper and will play shuttlecock with them.
What he saw and heard today made his young mind suddenly understand something, and he felt a little bit about the third brother's occasional inferiority and sensitivity.
The entire third generation of Duke Rongguo's family, except for the third brother Tang Wenbai, were all born to their legitimate wives and had the double love of their parents.
The third brother, Tang Wenbai, has lost his biological mother since he was a child. No matter how kind his mother, Liu, is to him, she is still not his biological mother. There is a natural estrangement;
What's more, his mother, Mrs. Liu, didn't care much about them. Tang Wenzhu could feel it at a young age.
Tang Wenzhu just stared at his father Rong Guogong, wanting to know the truth from his father, but he was disappointed.
"My father and your mother are husband and wife, how can you hate her?"
Although Rong Guogong is relatively open-minded, he still has the dignity of a parent in front of his children and will not expose his private affairs in front of his children, especially when Tang Wenzhu is still a child.
Tang Wenzhu was not satisfied with his father Rong Guogong's answer and asked again: "Will my father still take concubines and have children in the future?"
Duke Rong Guo didn't understand what was going on with Tang Wenzhu today. The topic kept revolving around whether he should take a concubine or not, and his confused mind suddenly lost patience.
"If you have nothing to do, go and practice martial arts and calligraphy, and stop worrying about your elders."
Tang Wenzhu never received a positive answer from his father. He felt angry and suppressed his anger before exiting the study room.
From that day on, Tang Wenzhu became tired of studying and refused to practice martial arts. Even though he was slapped on the palm by Duke Rong, he still went his own way. Mrs. Liu, the Duke's wife, was very worried about her young son's decadence, and tried her best to persuade him, but to no avail.
Only the masters in Duke Rong's mansion knew about Tang Wenzhu's transformation, and no news spread outside the mansion.
Seeing that Tang Wenzhu refused to change despite repeated admonitions, Duke Rong Guo ordered his people to lock him in a room and let him think about his mistakes behind closed doors.
The second bedroom lost a maid, and the second wife Zhang bought it back specially. Suddenly, the inner courtyard of the second bedroom exploded.
The second wife, Mrs. Zhang, heard that the nanny who taught Yuzi the rules came to her to report Yuzi's disappearance. At that time, she thought she was hallucinating.
A living person can't leave the house without the master's token. How can this girl fly over the walls?
The second lady, Mrs. Zhang, bought Yuzi from Ren Yazi with great effort and at a high price. To disappear without a word was something that the second lady couldn't bear.
I ordered people to search the second-bedroom yard but couldn't find it, so I had to go to the main courtyard to ask the Duke's wife Liu to help find someone.
"Sister-in-law, I didn't mean to embarrass you. It's just that the maid I bought disappeared from our house. I have to give an explanation to the other people in the second house."
This was the first time Mrs. Liu heard that her maid was missing. Seeing that Mrs. Zhang, her second sibling, was so confident that she was not just lying, she sent Mother Shen to have someone search for her in the house.
When the search for someone alarmed the entire Duke's palace, Duke Rong sent someone to send a message to Liu, the Duke's wife.
"The Duke of Guo suspects that Yu Zi is a spy sent from somewhere and has been detained in a cell."
When the second wife, Mrs. Zhang, heard that Yu Zi was a meticulous worker, she did not dare to ask her sister-in-law, Mrs. Liu, to help with the request, so she took the person back to the second room in despair.
Mrs. Liu didn't take it seriously when she heard about it. Seeing that her second brother and sister didn't ask for her husband, not even the lost money, she smiled silently and gave up on the matter of finding the maid.
Even though Tang Wenzhu was locked in the room to reflect, he heard about this incident. In his heart, the eight-year-old child only felt that his father was cold, heartless and hypocritical.
When the Lantern Festival arrived, Duke Rong and his wife Liu had to take their children out to see the lanterns as they did in previous years in order to conceal their cold war.
Tang Bingyan acted coquettishly in front of her father Rong Guogong, "Father, in previous years the little bamboos came with us, please let the little bamboos go."
Mrs. Liu also looked up at Duke Rong Tang Jingyan, waiting for his decision.
Duke Rong Guo felt that since Tang Wenzhu had to suffer and learn a lesson, he could not give up halfway and did not agree to his youngest daughter's plea.
However, seeing his wife Liu Shi and young daughter Tang Bingyan looking at him expectantly, they finally relaxed. Tang Wenzhu was not allowed to leave the house, but he could go out to get some air.
Mrs. Tai didn't know the reason for Tang Wenzhu's change in temperament, but Rong Guo Gong taught his son, so she couldn't interfere too much because she was old, lest she damage the majesty of Rong Guo Gong.
Speaking of which, Mrs. Tai has not seen her grandson Tang Wenzhu for five or six days, and she really misses him.
Today is the Lantern Festival, and only their grandfather and grandson are left in the mansion. The Tai Madam specially sent someone to call Tang Wenzhu to Songhe Courtyard, so that they can talk together.
Seeing that Mrs. Tai was in a good mood, Yao's mother specially asked for this errand to pick up Tang Wenzhu and come to Songhe Courtyard.
But when they arrived at the wing where Tang Wenzhu lived in the main courtyard, the fourth young master Tang Wenzhu was nowhere to be seen, so he hurriedly led people to search the house.
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