Joyful Motherhood in a Rural Family-Chapter 1073 - 1072: All for Naught

Fuling, immersed in her fantasy, seemed to be sleepwalking.

She appeared to be sitting high on a throne, dressed in silk fabrics, her head adorned with a full set of pearls and jewels, with people surrounding and serving her. In her left hand was fine wine, in her right, delicious food, and kneeling before her was that little wench Liu Sisi!

Looking at the other woman trembling in fear yet forced to kneel there and serve her, she couldn’t help but pick up the cup of wine and splash it directly onto the other’s face!

"How was this wine poured? Too full! Take her out and punish her with 20 hits of the boards!" Fuling declared.

"Yes, Princess!"

The servants on both sides quickly kowtowed and then stepped forward to seize Liu Sisi.

They pressed her to the ground, and the sounds of sticks striking ceaselessly echoed.

Waiting until the beating sounds stopped, Liu Sisi, covered in blood, was carried in front of her and dumped down like a broken cloth doll.

Liu Sisi, disheveled and in chaos, had no choice but to prostrate humbly on the ground, kowtowing nonstop, begging for mercy: "Princess Fuling, spare my life! Princess Fuling, spare my life, please..."

"Rubbish! I am Liu Sisi right now! How dare you still use that name Fuling to insult me? Drag her away and give her ten more hits of the boards!"

Liu Sisi, terrified, her eyes almost popping out of their sockets, heard this and began begging desperately.

"Spare my life, oh Princess, spare my life! I shall not dare again, never again! Save me..."

...

This delightful scene was unfolding before Fuling’s eyes, her mouth bursting into loud laughter, her face twisted into a ferocious grin, appearing exceptionally chilling.

"Fuling, you have quite the nerve!"

The stern reprimand of Liu Sisi pierced through the heavy mists like a thunderclap exploding beside her ear.

Fuling shuddered all over; the deep-rooted fear of Liu Sisi in her memory made her involuntarily shiver and finally snap out of that golden, intoxicating reverie.

"Liu Sisi! You... you? Aren’t you already..."

Fuling gasped in shock, then remembered her current predicament, immediately her body went limp and she fell to her knees, prostrating herself on the ground: "Prin... Princess... Slave Fuling greets the Princess! Princess, I... The slave deserves to die, the slave deserves to die, please spare me! Princess..."

"So you do know that you deserve to die!"

Seeing Fuling clad in her clothes, Liu Sisi felt indescribable disgust.

Initially, it was just a piece of clothing, but the expression that had appeared on Fuling’s face had filled Liu with uncontainable fury: "I don’t want to say anything else; go to the criminal affairs office and receive twenty hits of the boards!"

Fuling’s head shot up in disbelief as she questioned: "Twenty hits of the boards?"

How similar this was to the dream?

Liu Sisi snorted coldly, "What? Do you think twenty hits of the boards are too few? Fine, then add another ten hits!"

For a servant like her who never aspired to better herself and spent all day lost in daydreams, especially one who had signed a dead contract and harbored ulterior motives, she could no longer be spared!

"No! That can’t be, how could you..."

Fuling’s entire body shook violently, and then she collapsed to the ground completely.

The penal office of the Marquis Mansion was specifically designed to discipline disobedient servants, and it was idle on normal days. Especially within Marquis Yongping’s Mansion, it was rarely used, but that didn’t stop the educating nannies from disciplining them during their training!

For ordinary people, ten hits with the boards would require a month or more to recuperate enough to walk. With her slight build, if indeed thirty hits with the boards were executed, would she still be alive?

This was clearly forcing her towards a dead end!

"Get out!"

Liu Sisi’s face was a mask of cold indifference, showing not the slightest hint of softening.

But Fuling suddenly snapped back to reality and hurried forward to clasp Liu Sisi’s legs: "Princess, Princess, please spare me this once! I was bewitched, I didn’t even know what I was doing just now! Please have mercy, Princess...!"

Her wailing voice immediately spread beyond the house, and Ms. Gao, who was idly lingering in the wing room, couldn’t help but listen intently when she heard the commotion.

This... it seems to be Fuling’s wailing?

She quickly got up and went outside to the room where the Princess usually stayed.

After she overheard Fuling’s pleas for mercy, she couldn’t help but feel a surge of joy, and quickly pulled aside the curtain and walked in.

But just as she was about to step through the door, she suddenly withdrew her foot.

The reason the Princess had driven her away initially was that she had recommended her own daughter to the Princess. In her view, it was very normal for a son to inherit his father’s business and a daughter to take up her mother’s occupation. She could not understand what taboo she had actually breached.

With that in mind, she suppressed the strong urge to see the Princess immediately, slowly let the curtain fall, and turned to walk back the way she had come.

Inside the house.

Liu Sisi could not help frowning repeatedly, especially when she saw that Fuling’s nails had added new scratches to her arms, which triggered a surge of revulsion within her.

She forcefully pried open Fuling’s fingers, one by one, showing no mercy: "It’s not that I am heartless, but my quarters here cannot accommodate a servant harboring crooked thoughts like you. If you go to the punishment department yourself, at least you can leave with some dignity. If I call someone in to take you away, I’m afraid you won’t even be able to leave a whole corpse behind!"

As she spoke, she couldn’t help but use brute force to yank at Fuling.

Fuling faltered and, torn away by Liu Sisi, suddenly fell to the ground.

Remembering everything from her dream just now, could it all have been in vain? No! She would not accept this!

Slowly lifting her head, her eyes burning crimson with intense murderous intent, she suddenly brandished a mad smile: "Fine! Princess Ruyu, if you are ruthless, don’t blame me for being unjust! Go to hell!"

It seemed that today’s events could not end well, it was either her death or my demise!

Fuling violently lunged forward, gripping Liu Sisi’s throat and shaking it with all her might.

Liu Sisi, caught off guard, was toppled to the ground, but she immediately began to fight back!

"You treacherous servant! How dare you..."

Her words were choked off by Fuling’s hands on her throat, unable to be spoken. The immense force caused stars to burst before her eyes, a buzzing in her ears, and she couldn’t help but strike at Fuling’s face.

Fuling, indifferent to the attacks, wore a terrifying smile on her face, and did not relax her grip on her neck for a second.

"Help... help... cough, cough..."

She felt her strength gradually draining from her body, the desperate flailing of her hands growing weaker, and amid the chaos, she seemed to grasp something cold. Clinging to the last vestige of lucidity in her mind, she mustered the last of her strength and pulled hard on the object...

Clang! Smack——

Ms. Gao’s departing footsteps were arrested by an unusual noise coming from behind her.

Something’s not right!

That sound... it seemed like the noise of a bronze basin toppling from its stand.

Could it be...

She could think of no one else, spinning around and dashing into the house.