After some thought, Autumn Moon still wasn't at ease and asked: "Miss, because of the matter with Wang Niangniang, Big Miss would do such a thing, I can guess that much. But what you think is, after Wang Niangniang and Big Miss are punished, will Madam dare to make another move? If she doesn't dare to make another move, then your adoption won't happen, right?"

  If it's said that Ye Jiaomei would use the method of cooking unripe rice to force Ye Zhuo to marry Jiang Xing, and Ye Zhuo used this point to counterattack, borrowing Ye Yuzhang's hand to beat down Ye Jiaomei and Wang Yiniang, then this is a case of borrowing strength from the situation to strike back. However, what comes next is that Ye Lin's actions are exactly as Ye Zhuo had calculated, leaving Qiu Yue bewildered. How did the young lady know what Ye Lin would do next? If Ye Lin swallowed her anger, wouldn't she be unable to cancel the engagement with the Xie family? And if Gong Shi also didn't follow the steps that the young lady had planned out, then wouldn't the matter of Ye Zhuo's adoption also be uncertain? But looking at the young lady's confident and self-assured appearance, it seems she isn't worried in the slightest. Qiu Yue doesn't know where Ye Zhuo got this confidence from!

  She smiled slightly, looking at the leaves swaying outside the window: "Strategizing and planning is like playing chess. You have to carefully analyze each piece in your hand, as every single one has its own characteristics. If you use them well, you can win. Look, Big Sister has a narrow heart and must take revenge whenever she's wronged. Since she was spoiled from childhood and never suffered any hardships, when she suffers even the slightest grievance, she can't help but want to retaliate immediately. After Wang's mother received such severe punishment, she couldn't let Old Master change his mind, so she could only vent her anger on others. She wouldn't dare touch Eldest Madam, nor would she dare move against Madame herself, so I, who have always been bullied by her, became the target of her revenge. Now that this handle has fallen into her hands, with her impulsive and willful nature, she won't think deeply about things. Adding to that, she's jealous and resentful of this marriage, so it's only natural that she would make a move on this matter. Spreading rumors and sabotaging the engagement is definitely something she'll do."

  "After so many years of getting along, the young lady naturally understands the temperament of the older lady. But as for Madam...” Yu Zhuo's analysis made Qiu Yue feel very reasonable. However, she couldn't help but worry about Gong Shi's matter. If things had reached this point and the young lady couldn't be adopted, then the following days would be difficult to get through. Once Old Master came back to his senses, he would definitely resent Yu Zhuo for bringing this disaster to the Yu household. At that time, no matter which lowly family they chose to marry her off to, the young lady's life would be ruined."

  "Madam's temperament, a glimpse of her whole character can be seen from the last time she paid respects to tea. She is more cunning than Ye Lin, but they share a common shortcoming, that is, being willful and unable to bear any hardship. The last time she paid respects to tea, she was very resentful and hated me extremely, always wanting to find another opportunity to turn the tables. But before she could make her move, Jiang Xing's incident occurred in Xinning Courtyard, which made her suffer another punishment from Old Master, and even sent a great god and two fox spirits to her place. Do you think she can bear it? Now that there is such a good opportunity to deal me a fatal blow and bring down Old Master, if I don't take action now, when will I?"

  "At most by tomorrow, the outcome will be clear!" Ye Zhuo stood in front of the window, slightly tilting his chin, his eyes narrowing slightly, a confident glow appearing on his elegant and refined face.

  "Miss, Miss has been spanked by old master!" Qiuju came in with a delighted face.

  "What's going on?" Autumn Moon turned around and asked excitedly. Although they were eager for Ye Lin to mess up the marriage, Ye Lin didn't get punished for it, which was still an unpleasant thing.

  "I was just helping to beat the dust in the main hall, when I saw the old master come back from outside, furious and ordering people to catch the eldest girl, saying he wanted to give her a good thrashing."

  "Looks like the marriage proposal didn't go through, huh!" Judging from this, not only did it not go through, but she was also humiliated. Otherwise, she wouldn't be so shameless as to want to hit a 15-year-old girl in front of her servants.

  Ye Zhuo listened, but his face didn't show any surprise. He calmly instructed Qiuju: "Go to the lake and pretend to pick flowers for me. Keep an eye on Xinning Courtyard. Since Big Miss was beaten, something should happen in Xinning Courtyard soon."

  "Yes." Qiu Ju's thoughts were simple and she had no idea about Ye Zhen's plan, but she didn't ask either. She happily followed Ye Zhen's instructions and left.

  "Miss, what preparations should we make?"

  "There's nothing to prepare." Ye Zhuo shook his head and frowned, "But, why hasn't Autumn Chrysanthemum's family come to ransom her yet? Now that they've encountered Old Master's bad mood, it'll be even harder to bring up this matter."

  "Her brother said he would come over after work today. But don't worry, miss, even if you leave the mansion, we can still go out," Autumn Moon comforted her.

  Ye Zhuo nodded: "It can only be so." She put down her teacup, picked up a stone and a carving knife on the case, and began to carve seriously.

  About an hour later, Autumn Chrysanthemum rushed in, flustered and anxious, shouting: "Miss, Miss, it's not good! I heard the kitchen staff say that Madame was screaming with stomach pain earlier, yelling that she wanted to go back to her mother's house and didn't dare stay at Ye Manor anymore, otherwise...". She lowered her voice, "otherwise the little young master in her belly would be harmed by you..."

  Upon hearing this, Qiū Yuè suddenly stood up with a "ding" sound and looked at Yè Zhuó's gaze filled with reverence. Things had indeed happened just as the young lady had predicted, without any difference whatsoever.

  Ye Zhuo turned his head, calmly and slowly, to Qiu Yue and said: "You go to the main house now, tell Grandfather about what has happened over the past few days, and ask him to come over to discuss the matter of inheritance. Of course, if he is unwilling, don't force it, I will stay in the An Tang for a while, think of a plan to get rid of this title of Second Young Mistress Ye, rent a small courtyard and live my own life."

  "Yes." Akizuki would no longer question any of Yuezhu's arrangements, and respectfully responded with a single word, turning around to rush straight towards the corner door.

  "Autumn Chrysanthemum, I called you out of the house yesterday. Look at you, you refused to go and now something has happened. Probably after I leave the house, you will be able to leave too." Ye Zhuo looked at Autumn Chrysanthemum with a apologetic tone.

  Ye Zhuo's plan, because he wanted to use Qiu Yue for something, only mentioned it briefly to her alone, as for Qiu Ju, she was not very clear. So seeing Ye Zhuo still having the leisure to care about her leaving the house, Qiu Ju became anxious and waved her hands repeatedly: "Miss, I'm fine, I really am fine. But you, are you really going to be adopted into the main house or become a nun in the nunnery? The main house is definitely not an option, isn't it said that Lady Tai Tai has...that thing? Becoming a nun is absolutely out of the question!"

  Ye Zhuo looked at Qiu Ju's anxious appearance and was moved in his heart. He patted her to comfort her, saying: "Don't worry, I have my own way of handling these things."

  Qiu Ju saw Ye Zhuo's composed expression and felt slightly reassured, uttering a hesitant "oh" before falling silent. Anyway, both the young lady and Qiu Yue were much smarter than her; since they weren't panicking, it was likely that nothing major would happen.

  Ye Zhuo didn't care about her, turned around to pack up her things. Now that she had a reputation for being unfaithful to her husband, in Ye Yuzhang's heart she was already worthless. Gong Shi used the child in her belly as leverage, so once this tactic was employed, she would no longer be able to stay in the manor. Given Ye Yuzhang's style of doing things, when she left the manor, she estimated that the servant women would still have to search her body. Therefore, now while there was still a bit of time, she had to carefully put away the silver notes and the golden hairpin that Gong Shi gave her, so that she could bring them out of the manor.

  She let Ye Yuzhang take off her good clothes without regard for her dignity, and Ye Zhuo changed into a half-old light blue floral skirt. She only inserted one silver hairpin on her head, plus two worthless pearl flowers. The silver ticket was rolled up into a small roll, along with the gold hairpin, and hidden in the hollow sole of the shoes she had specially made for this day. That's it, everything is ready. In fact, the hollow sole can still hide a few more pieces of jewelry, but she didn't bother to do so. With Ye Yuzhang's stinginess, even if she left the house, he would come after her to ask for it back. She didn't want to suffer humiliation for that little bit of money. With her skill in gambling on stones, it wasn't hard to make money at all?

  She had just finished tidying up when Chun Ya walked in and called out at the door, "Second Miss, Old Master wants you to go to the main courtyard."

  "Here." Ye Zhuo glanced at Qiu Ju and walked out calmly.

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