Transmigration: The Little Chef Calls The Shots-Chapter 1366 - 196, guarding_4

Wu Zhengqing gave him a cold look and flung off his plump arm, throwing out a sentence, "You think I want to follow you? If it wasn’t for the fact that your affair is being sung about all over the streets, I wouldn’t bother!"

Wu Jiangtao had been staying in the brothel; how could he have heard any of this? It wasn’t that the women there hadn’t heard of it, but everybody guessed that the nursery rhyme being sung was about the Wu family of Jiangnan, so none of them had mentioned it in front of him.

"That woman, she’s dead! Allegedly, she drowned herself in the lake, and her fiancé has already taken the case to the Yamen, claiming she was taken and murdered after her virtue was stolen."

Listening to Wu Zhengqing’s words, Wu Jiangtao blinked blankly and quickly clarified, "No, no, I didn’t kill her! She must have jumped into the lake and committed suicide on her own! Her fiancé? Right, the one who ruined her must definitely be her fiancé!"

Having understood the situation, Wu Zhengqing felt somewhat relieved. Initially, when he heard the nursery rhyme being spread outside, he didn’t take it seriously, but later on, when a messenger from the Second Prince arrived saying their family might be facing a big trouble, he then believed it.

But now Wu Zhengqing was no longer afraid; as long as the woman was alive when Wu Jiangtao left, and it wasn’t Wu Jiangtao who killed her, it would be figured out. As to whether or not she committed suicide out of shame, that had nothing to do with their Wu Family. Why didn’t she agree to become a concubine? Had she become one, wouldn’t all these troubles be avoided?

While no longer worried, Wu Zhengqing still planned to personally visit the Second Prince to explain the matter clearly; otherwise their family’s reputation could be destroyed later over this incident.

Just as he stood up to head to the residence of the Second Prince, Lady Du stormed in like a madwoman with Wu Hanyu, who was crying pitifully like a pear blossom bathed in the rain.

The Door-keeping Servant timidly bowed his head until Wu Zhengqing waved him off and he hurriedly left.

"What’s the matter? Have you forgotten the rules of the house? Bursting out like this without any decorum, do you think you are still an unmarried young lady from a small household? You may be shameless, but the Wu family still needs to maintain its dignity!"

He rebuked Lady Du mercilessly, not feeling any psychological pressure at all, as if the woman standing before him was not his stepmother, but a maid who served him by washing his feet.

Wu Jiangtao had also gotten up from the floor, casually picking up the stool that had just been smashed and sitting on it, his tone cold, "Where does she have any face left? That day, when she was cursing in the streets with Lady Jiang, that shrew, she had already lost all her face!"

Lady Du’s face tightened, and she instinctively said, "That day wasn’t it you guys who asked me to go..."

"You went just because you were asked?" Wu Jiangtao laughed coldly, his eyes full of contempt, "Are you stupid or what? If you’re told to eat shit, will you eat it? If you’re told to sell yourself in the brothel, will you go?"

"Big Brother! How can you speak to my mother like that? After all, she is also your step..."

Slap!

Wu Jiangtao leapt up from the stool, quickly moving to Wu Hanyu and slapping her across the face, "You little brat! When is it your turn to speak here? Get out of my sight!"

Wu Hanyu covered her swollen left cheek, timidly lowering her head, not daring to say another word, as tears uncontrollably streamed down.

Lady Du, belatedly shielding her daughter, her eyes nearly shooting fire, but upon seeing the even more irate Wu Jiangtao and the silently more sinister Wu Zhengqing, the fire in her eyes abruptly extinguished.