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Chapter 269: Chapter 269: Watching Sister Ting’s Dominant Performance
Lu Jingyan and the others followed Li Muchen upstairs, already in the bedroom accompanying Lu Sheng, when Jiang Ting was still on the first floor, carefully arranging for people to place the vase she brought.
Only after watching the butler set the vase properly did she just start to go upstairs, when she heard these two old aunts with loose lips and advanced years, standing at the bedroom door complaining and gossiping.
Their voices weren’t even loud, but her ears were sharp.
She silently moved closer, standing half a meter behind them, clearly hearing every word they said.
Jiang Ting had one quality – she was fiercely protective of her children.
Not to mention her biological sons. Back when she hadn’t seen Lu Qianrou’s true nature, Jiang Ting treated Lu Qianrou as her most beloved daughter, indulgent and protective, never allowing her to suffer the slightest grievance.
And now, after going through those past events, Jiang Ting had long since started treating Lu Sheng as her own daughter, and she also harbored guilt for the deceased Du Ran.
So, hearing these two aunts behind her slandering Du Ran and Lu Sheng, calling them a cheap woman and a little bastard, she instantly flew into a rage.
She didn’t care if she was in the Lu Family or the Li Family, since she had always been someone who preferred action over words in dealing with people she disliked.
Without a second thought, Jiang Ting reached out and with a couple of strong slaps, strongly berated them with her words as well as her hands.
She had slapped them – she wasn’t unaware that this was Li Family’s home and that Li Muchen was in the bedroom. Was she supposed to be afraid of Li Muchen finding out?
Unexpectedly, as soon as Li Muchen came out of the bedroom, before she could even clarify how these servants had insulted their future Young Madam, that Aunt Li reversed the narrative.
Heh.
She swayed dramatically and started crying and wiping her tears, claiming they had just been talking when Jiang Ting rushed up and slapped each of them. She even urged Li Muchen to take their side.
What a thing to claim.
When the commotion started, not only did Li Muchen come out, but so did Lu Jingyan and the others.
Seeing the swollen faces of the two servants, it was clear they had been slapped hard. And hearing Aunt Li’s tearful tale, even Lu Jingyan was momentarily baffled: "...Mom, what happened here?"
That was precisely what Aunt Li was waiting for.
Before Jiang Ting could respond to Lu Jingyan’s question, Aunt Li, with hair disheveled and covering the slapped cheek, began to sob her complaint to Li Muchen.
"Master, I had just finished serving tea when I was talking with Mrs. Wang outside, discussing my daughter’s affairs."
"Out of nowhere, Mrs. Lu, I don’t know if she misheard something or what, came up and slapped Mrs. Wang. I was startled and went to pull her away but she slapped me too!"
"Master, Mrs. Wang and I are almost sixty years old. We have been with the family since the lady first married here, and we watched you grow up."
"Even though we work as servants in the Li Family, we are not the lowly slaves people could abuse and mistreat in the olden days! And we certainly aren’t to be slapped and scolded at will, right?"
"Moreover, even the lord, the lady, and you, Master, have never raised a hand or shouted at us. But Mrs. Lu, an outsider, hitting us on her first visit!"
"Master, if you do not stand up for us, we would truly die of humiliation!"
Aunt Li cried as she spoke.
Oh boy, just a few sentences – first they twisted the truth, claiming they said nothing and it was Jiang Ting who misunderstood; then they played the sympathy card, mentioning how they watched Li Muchen grow up from childhood; next they exaggerated the severity of the matter, raising it to an insult of their dignity; and finally, they used moral blackmail, demanding that Li Muchen take their side.
Although they might not be highly educated, these older female servants working in wealthy families are one sly person after another.
If it were someone else without any solid evidence, being accused by Aunt Li like this would really be hard to explain.
After all, if Jiang Ting were to say that she hit them because they insulted Du Ran and Lu Sheng behind their backs, these two could perfectly deny it together, claiming she misunderstood.
Even if Li Muchen wanted to protect her and dismiss these servants or whatever, the incident would absolutely spread, and then it would become him, Li Muchen, and her, Mrs. Lu, bullying servants by abusing their power.
Luckily for her, Jiang Ting is not an ordinary person.
"Oh?" After Aunt Li finished her weeping accusation, Jiang Ting didn’t even lift her eyelids, "You mean to say, I had nothing better to do but to purposefully go to someone else’s house to hit their servants?"
Aunt Li’s nose twitched, "We didn’t say that. What you think and what you did, you know it yourself!"
"Heh." Seeing this, Jiang Ting let out a cold laugh. She even couldn’t be bothered to argue with someone like this, and simply pulled out her phone to play the recording she’d made earlier.
Having been served by servants since she was little, Jiang Ting knew exactly what these old aunties were like.
Besides, she’s lost count of how many palace and residence dramas she’s watched. The moment she heard them gossiping while going upstairs, she immediately took out her phone to record them, and she had made sure she got the recording before she took any action.
It was meticulously done.
As the play button was pressed, the murmurings of the two aunties from earlier started to emit from the phone.
"Besides, it’s just that little girl Lu Sheng having a bit of a fever... Was there really a need for their whole family to rush over here in the dead of night?"
"That girl Lu Sheng is not your ordinary delicate... It’s really unbearable to watch, at our village, she would have been ridiculed to death..."
"This little girl is just a bastard, and her mom is a homewrecker who hooked up with someone else’s husband... How could the young master fancy such a lowly bastard..." 𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙥𝒖𝒃.𝙘𝙤𝒎
"Although the bastard has a lowly mom, she at least has a wealthy dad. If your Lingling had a rich dad, she would’ve already married into a wealthy family as a madam..."
Hearing their own voices coming out from the phone, Aunt Li and Aunt Wang’s faces turned pale on the spot.
They couldn’t have imagined that in such a short amount of time, Jiang Ting had actually recorded them.
Jiang Ting had not even deigned to argue with such servants.
But turning her head and seeing the butler of the Li Family and other servants had come upstairs after hearing the commotion, she put away her phone and coldly said, "You didn’t expect this, did you? I recorded everything you two said just now."
"I’m telling you, Shengsheng is our Lu Family’s treasure. So precious that even if she’s just having a fever and getting an IV, we would all rush over here in the middle of the night because we’re worried."
"You are paid to work here as servants. If you don’t want to work, you can pack up and leave. Don’t be courteous to our faces and then turn around and mutter curses."
"And you, outdated old fogies halfway into the grave, do you even know that it’s your village’s gossipy women who like to wag their tongues?"
"Our Shengsheng and Li Muchen are young and in love; they can be as sweet to each other as they want. Shengsheng’s brothers also love to hold and cling to her at home, what’s it to you?"
"Just as a side note, stop saying here that all the precious daughters in Jiang City want to marry your young master now that his leg is healed. Why don’t you ask who it was that cured your young master’s leg?"
"Calling people ’lowly bastard’ all the time, I think you two are the ones with foul mouths who deserve a slap. Let me tell you, if you don’t know the truth, you’d better keep your mouth shut and show some respect to your future Young Madam."
"If I hear anyone from the Li Family saying bad things about my girl again, I won’t let you off so easily!"
