Chapter 944: Chapter 943: The Furious Eldest Lady Wu
Wufu arrived at the Corner Gate, and naturally wouldn’t go back. She spotted the gatekeeper woman and exclaimed, taking out an earring, claiming it belonged to Miss Wu Yining, and went chasing after it, never to return.
Upon returning to the Wu family, Madam Wang and her entourage entered their main hall without even having a sip of water before unleashing a barrage of scolding on her eldest daughter.
Calling her brainless, lacking sense of occasion, and unable to grasp propriety, she scolded Wu Yining to tears, crying so pitifully.
"You’re crying, you still have the nerve to cry? Do you think the matter of you fighting with the Wen family’s girl will be concealed? Just wait, by tomorrow, the whole of Changan City will know, the dignified legitimate daughter of the Wu family acting like a shrew with someone in public." Madam Wang trembled with rage, pointing at her angrily: "You’re of marriageable age now, and after all these years, your brain has grown in vain. I think it’s your father and I who have indulged you too much, made you unaware of the bounds."
It was a great chance, she was waiting to find her daughter a suitable match, but this girl just made a spectacle of herself and turned herself into a shrew-like figure.
Among those who attended today’s banquet, apart from a few from smaller or merchant families, wasn’t everyone a reputable family? Which prestigious family would dare accept such a shrew? It’s humiliating!
Wu Yining sobbed intermittently, defending: "Mother, how can you scold me? It’s all because that dead girl Wen Qi provoked me first. If it weren’t for her saying father has some concubine-born child outside, would I have gotten angry?"
"You believed something baseless and then had outburst on the spot? Couldn’t you hold back for a moment? Would it kill you?" Madam Wang scoffed: "A legitimate daughter, yet led by the nose by a concubine-born daughter? Fool!"
Wu Yining wailed loudly.
Madam Wang, frustrated, shouted: "Shut up. Get back to your room to cry, until you learn to reflect and realize your mistakes, you can’t go anywhere!"
Wu Yining could bear it no more, ran out sobbing from the main hall.
Madam Wang still wore a dark expression, as her wet nurse Nanny Wei offered her a cup of tea, advising: "Madam, the young lady is still young, teach her gradually, why get angry and harm the harmony between mother and daughter?"
Madam Wang sneered: "She’s still young? Already at the age to marry, easily provoked into a fight with someone, this isn’t about being immature, it’s about being extremely foolish."
"Of all places, she chooses to have an outburst there, at a banquet like that, she may not care about face, but I do! Look at her like that, how does she resemble a dignified young lady? I see no difference between her and the rough girls from the countryside. If I were the matriarch, I’d never dare accept such a girl as a daughter-in-law!" Madam Wang ranted on, still angry, then fiercely smashed the teacup in her hand, unclear whether it’s due to her daughter’s stupidity or hearing something alarming.
Nanny Wei calmly called a maid to clean up the shards and served another cup of tea, urging: "Madam, the young lady meant to defend the master, after all such words are harmful to the master’s reputation. If she doesn’t care even about her father’s reputation, then wouldn’t outsiders think her indifferent and callous?"
Madam Wang listened, her expression slightly calmed but anger still burned within, pressing on her aching and swelling chest, she said: "Defending what’s right should be appropriate, her actions only trapped herself. The greatest fear for girls is tarnished reputation, how am I supposed to arrange a marriage for her now?"