Legend of Concubine's Daughter Minglan-Part Two

C223. Dealing with a Series of Disgusting Things (2)

Cuiwei truly was right about Wang Wu's wife. The latter was a clever woman indeed.

Wang Wu's wife was capable of doing her job well and sparing the time to pick quarrels with Mama Lai. Moreover, she could also handle those conflicts appropriately. Some sensible servants in the mansion gradually changed their attitude too. Before they had tried their best to avoid Mama Lai, now they decided not to tolerate this woman. Every time Mama Lai created a disturbance, there would be a bunch of people sneering at Mama Lai together. Most of the time, they would mention Mama Lai's husband who was addicted to alcohol and gambling, her daughter who had married to a useless old fat man, and other endless jokes about Mama Lai.

Every time Mama Lai heard of that, she would tremble with anger. However, she could do anything about it since she was outnumbered by her enemies even if she got Mama Diao as her helper. She had tried to roar and cry, but her voice had been drown out. She had tried to fight them, but she had only ended up in a mess with her hair dishevelled and her face getting dirty. What's more, Mama Lai was an aged woman after all. Most of the time, Mama Lai only became purple with rage and choked with her hands and feet shivering.

Every time something like that happened, Minglan would let everyone know that she had invited good doctors for Mama Lai and bought the medicine of the best quality which cost a great amount of money. After that, Minglan would scolded the other servants who had quarreled with Mama Lai and gave some modest punishments to the servants who had gone too far as a kindly warning.

Once Mama Lai got better, she would experience the cases mentioned above again.

The third time Minglan came to give obeisance to Old Madam Qin, the latter couldn't help but ask, "How's Mama Lai doing in your mansion?"

"Great." Minglan gave out a beaming smile and said, "Mama Lai has worked for you before. I trust her a lot."

"But I have heard that... she always wrangles with others, is that true?" Old Madam Qin hesitated and asked.

Minglan smiled and answered, "Who told you that?! Mama Lai was only being strict to the maids. Sometimes she would scold them with a few harsh words. That's all." After saying that, Minglan suddenly added, "But, there really is something happening to Mama Lai."

With Old Madam Qin's eyes brightened right away, she said calmly, "What happened?"

Minglan said in a low voice worriedly, "I haven't taken good care of Mama Lai. I always asked her to manage lots of thing regardless how old she is. That must be the reason why she got sick. I have already invited doctors for her for twice. The first time I invited Zhang Shiji, the famous doctor from Tawny Lily Clinic. The second time Little Madam Zheng introduced doctor Li Chong to me. Both doctors said that Mama Lai was worn out by the heavy load of jobs, not to mention those maids have annoyed her. Alas... How could they do that to Mama Lai? If anything happens to her, I, I'll be too ashamed to face you, Old Madam." Minglan kept apologizing in a low voice.

A shocked look flashed across Old Madam Qin's face. In the meantime, Madam Shao tried to comfort Minglan who still seemed in self-accusation, "Sister-in-law, don't take it too personally. I know the two doctors you have just mentioned about, they are all great doctors. Mama Lai really is a lucky enough to have you as her madam. What's more, all the Mamas in charge have suffered wrong more or less. I have also been bullied by those servants before, even though my mother-in-law has taken good care of me and my sisters-in-law have done me lots of favors."

Old Madam Qin smiled with a kind look, saying, "Your sister-in-law is right. Don't take it too personally." After Old Madam Qin had consoled Minglan with nice words, she asked tentatively, "If you find Mama Lai a useless servant, I can send you a few more..."