Chapter 88 One Crisis Hasn't Been Resolved

Pan Yueqing lowered her eyebrows and smiled faintly. She straightened up, raised her eyes and met Pan Haiyun's still expressionless face, and stopped speaking. She just took three steps back and prepared to respond to Pan Haiyun's actions. Unexpectedly, the Old Madam Pan spoke first. Her eyes were sinister, and there was no sign of a grandmother's love for her granddaughter, "What do you mean by 'those who start a bad practice'! If you hadn't wrongly accused Miao'er at the end, she wouldn't have been taken away! It's all the fault of the Marquis of Pingnan! What does this have to do with our Miao'er?!"

"Yes, when he's needed, he's the eldest son - in - law, and when he's not, he's the Marquis of Pingnan," Pan Yueqing glanced sideways at the Old Madam Pan and sneered, "Back then, in order to get close to the marquis's mansion, you wrote Eldest Sister under my mother's name and married her off as if you were giving her away for free. Now it's all his fault? Old Madam, this is really like unloading the donkey once the mill is done!"

When Pan Haiyun heard Pan Yueqing's words, his anger increased from three parts to seven parts. He slapped the armrest immediately. But before he could speak, Pan Yueqing's dark eyes turned around and fell on Pan Haiyun. The coldness and mockery in her eyes were clearly revealed. She met Pan Haiyun's squinting gaze and smiled calmly, "Moreover, it's not me who said Pan Miaoqian was guilty. It was the Empress Dowager who determined her guilt. If there's any injustice, Old Madam, you can go and talk to the Empress Dowager yourself. Why are you getting angry with me? Or do you all think that Fourth Sister and I should have been taken away together with Pan Miaoqian to be considered appropriate?"

Pan Lianshan trembled and summoned up the courage to say, "It was originally Third Sister who wanted to harm Second Sister. There were both witnesses and evidence, so the crime was established! What does this have to do with me and Second Sister..."

Pan Yueqing raised her eyebrows. She didn't expect Pan Lianshan to speak up.

Pan Haiyun finally understood that Pan Yueqing wasn't trying to excuse herself but was warning him that this matter was firmly decided by the Empress Dowager's imperial edict. Now the biggest problem wasn't to pursue the matter but to solve it. Although the crime of witchcraft could be serious or minor, he would surely be implicated for his failure to educate his daughter properly.

"Shut up!" Liu Yingwei directly interrupted Pan Lianshan. Seeing that Pan Haiyun hadn't spoken, the anger in her eyes deepened. She was convinced that the Prime Minister would surely be on her side today. Especially when she said, "This isn't just a conflict between little sisters. It's clear that the Second Miss doesn't care about the master's future at all and doesn't take the lives of everyone in this family seriously!", Pan Haiyun's gloomy face showed no sign of relaxation.

She caressed her belly and glared angrily, "Is Fourth Miss also so disobedient now?!"

Pan Lianshan was so frightened by Liu Yingwei's harsh scolding that she was stunned. She instinctively raised her eyes to look at Liu Yingwei's face, and the next moment, she lowered her head, sobbed softly twice, gritted her teeth, and didn't dare to say another word.

Pan Yueqing's face turned cold. She stood in front of Pan Lianshan and blocked Liu Yingwei's sight. She looked at the silent Pan Haiyun, the equally angry Old Madam Pan, and finally met Liu Yingwei's angry expression with a blank face. She said in a deep voice, "You can't raise your children well and caused today's incident. You... and you!" Pan Yueqing raised her finger at Liu Yingwei, then turned her fingertip to point at the Old Madam Pan. As expected, she received a low curse of "presumptuous" from the Old Madam Pan.

"If you can't distinguish right from wrong, that's fine!" She smiled softly, turned around coldly, and lifted the curtain. Looking at Luoshui, who was waiting outside, she raised her eyebrows, "Prepare the carriage!"

"Where are you going?!" The Old Madam Pan looked at Pan Yueqing's tough figure and said through gritted teeth in a deep voice. In fact, she was afraid in her heart. She was worried that Pan Yueqing would use the Dingyuan Marquis's Mansion to intervene again. Unexpectedly, Pan Yueqing stood upright, turned around, her eyes filled with tears of anger, and sneered, "Since you all cherish Pan Miaoqian so much, then I'll go to the palace to confess my guilt to the Empress Dowager now. Let's see whether the future of the entire Pan family and Prime Minister is more affected by the crime of an illegitimate daughter or a legitimate daughter!"

"Enough!" Pan Haiyun took a deep breath and said. When he heard Pan Yueqing call him "Prime Minister", he couldn't deny that his heart ached sharply. He had been in the officialdom for many years. There was no reason for him to keep suffering losses in this inner courtyard. But unfortunately, the one who was causing trouble in the inner courtyard wasn't someone else but his own mother!

The Old Madam Pan was delighted when she saw Pan Haiyun, who had been silent, speak up. She secretly thought that her son was still on her side after all. She stood up with the help of her walking stick and looked at Pan Yueqing, her words still full of sarcasm, "You don't need to provoke me. A daughter like you is a disaster to the family!"

Pan Haiyun stood up with his hands behind his back and cast a fierce gaze at the Old Madam Pan. He said in a deep and dangerous voice, "Mother, have you said enough?"

The Old Madam Pan looked at Pan Haiyun's gaze in horror. Everyone else, including Pan Lianshan, was a bit dazed. And Pan Yueqing, with her back to the others, when she heard Pan Haiyun's words, the tears that had been in her eyes suddenly fell. She sneered, and a trace of warmth rose in her heart that felt like it was in an ice cave.

"What are you going to do?! You're my son! Are you going to be unfilial?!" The Old Madam Pan shouted harshly. Looking at Pan Haiyun like this, she felt more and more uneasy.

Pan Haiyun took a deep breath and softened his tone, "I wouldn't dare." He turned his back, looked at Pan Yueqing, who had turned around and was looking at everyone in the room. He first reached out and helped Pan Lianshan, who was kneeling on the ground, stand up. Then he met Pan Yueqing's calm gaze. He remembered the daughter who had come to him and told him to avoid risks in the imperial examination. At that time, she had cared so much for him as a father in her words. But now, she was so cold.

The indifference in his eyes melted like an ice lake at this moment. His lips trembling, he still reached out to Pan Yueqing, "Daddy... has made Yue'er feel wronged again."

Pan Yueqing turned her head away. She fully understood the hostility of the Old Madam Pan and Liu Yingwei towards her. In this family, the only person she regarded as a relative was her father, whom her mother had insisted on marrying. So, the cold words of others didn't hurt as much as Pan Haiyun's silence.

Pan Haiyun looked at Pan Yueqing's childish stubbornness but wasn't angry. So many things had happened during this period. Finally, today, he fully understood that this child only had him to rely on. But by the time he understood, she was almost at the age of coming of age and was growing up so fast.

"What kind of attitude is that..." The Old Madam Pan was really unhappy. She was used to having the final say in this house. Looking at Pan Yueqing's appearance, she ignored Pan Haiyun's intimidating look just now and was about to shout angrily. Pan Haiyun turned his head and glanced at the Old Madam Pan without speaking, expressing his dissatisfaction with his eyes.

When had the Old Madam Pan ever been disobeyed again and again like this? Her anger was surging, but before she could scold, Xijiang, who was standing at the door, hurriedly lifted the curtain and cried to the masters, "Concubine Li! Concubine Li was kneeling outside and couldn't hold on just now... and fainted!!"