Doted By The Regent King
Chapter 433 Leave it to Me

Chapter 433: Chapter 433 Leave it to Me

Wufu settled Old Lady Zhou and the others in the Floral Hall before Madam Zhou returned to her own room, her mind unsettled. She didn’t know how to speak to Wufu and feared angering her.

While she was anxious, Qiu Xiang reported that the young lady had arrived.

Madam Zhou hurriedly stood up and saw the radiant young girl, bathed in sunshine, walking in with a smile that bloomed like flowers, "Wufu, you’re here."

"Mother, why did you come back so soon? Why not stay a few more days?" Wufu helped her sit down on the Arhat bed.

"It’s all the same wherever I am. The estate is close to the mountains, quite cold indeed," Madam Zhou said with a smile.

Qiu Xiang served tea to both of them and then stepped back.

After taking a sip of tea, Wufu toyed with the lid of the teacup, waiting for Madam Zhou to speak.

Madam Zhou hesitated for a while before saying, "Wufu, I, I met your maternal grandmother at the estate!"

"Oh?" Wufu looked over.

"It was purely coincidental," Madam Zhou hastily explained, then quickly recounted the whole experience of running into Old Lady Zhou and the others.

Surely a coincidence!

Wufu scoffed silently. This curse of fate really clung to them, inescapable.

"Wufu, did you, did you do that... act of retribution on Dajun?" Madam Zhou stumbled over her words as she asked.

Wufu raised an eyebrow, "What, did they complain to you?"

"It’s not exactly complaining, just, they mentioned it to me."

"So, what does Mother think?" Wufu held her tea, not looking at Madam Zhou, but at the teacup, and asked faintly, "If I really did it, what would Mother think?"

Madam Zhou paused, then chuckled, "That beast, he got what he deserved!"

"Mother doesn’t think I’m cruel?" Wufu asked, somewhat surprised.

Madam Zhou reached out to hold her hand, saying tenderly, "Silly girl, you are my daughter. What mother would think her daughter cruel?"

"But..."

"Cause comes before effect, he brought this upon himself," Madam Zhou said with a hint of coolness in her eyes, "But Wufu, having done it, why not hide it? If it spreads, it will harm your reputation. I have told you, you are porcelain, and he is a clay jar; it’s not worth it to tarnish your reputation over such a person."

Wufu felt relieved inside and started to smile, "If I dare to do it, I’m not afraid of them spreading it. They also dare not, look, after so much time, have they dared to say anything to outsiders? They wouldn’t dare! I want them to know I did it, yet they have to swallow their teeth with blood."

Madam Zhou watched her daughter’s confident smile with a touch of warmth in her eyes.

"Mother, rest assured, I will protect you," Wufu said.

Madam Zhou wiped the corner of her eyes, then patted the back of Wufu’s hand.

"Wufu, I heard from them that your uncle has been locked up in jail for embezzlement!" Madam Zhou tentatively began.

Wufu put down the teacup, "Mother means, you want to help them?"

Madam Zhou gave a wry smile, "She knelt in front of me. A mother kneeling before her daughter, I..."

Wufu understood then. Old Lady Zhou was playing the sympathy card, striking at the heart; she calculated that Madam Zhou couldn’t escape the duty of filial piety, using it to press her.

Thinking of this, a hint of coldness flashed in Wufu’s eyes.

"So, what does Mother intend to do?"

"I, I don’t know. Wufu, I’m sorry for putting you in this difficult position. They said, they just want you to speak to the Lord County Magistrate, to get him out," Madam Zhou said.

It seemed Zhou Xuennian had also told the Zhou family that she had some connection with the Lord County Magistrate.

"Mother, rest up. Leave this matter to me," Wufu said, having made her calculations, and stood up.

To use filial piety to press Madam Zhou, hmph, that would depend on whether she would relent!