Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 1259 - 395: Protecting, One Family_3

Chapter 1259: Chapter 395: Protecting, One Family_3

"Sir Hu, by saying this, do you mean to suggest that all the fault lies with my daughter and your daughter bears no responsibility whatsoever?"

Upon hearing this tone, it seemed Sir Hu realized something, and his complexion turned a few shades colder, "My daughter certainly is at fault, but doesn’t your daughter’s mistake seem to be even greater?"

Mo Qingze’s expression remained unchanged as he calmly said, "Had your daughter not started with offensive words, mine would not have resorted to violence. In the end, this whole affair was caused by your daughter."

Sir Hu’s face changed, and he cursed inwardly with great severity: Truly, like father, like daughter, their words echo each other. Are they both blind, unable to see that his daughter was beaten until she could barely open her eyes?

At this moment, Cui Qingrou spoke up again, "We can understand that Sir Hu is deeply concerned about his beloved daughter! However, this incident indeed originated from your daughter, and Yanyan, letting bygones be bygones, was willing to attend to her wounds personally, which is already stepping back. Yet Sir Hu keeps pushing, refusing to let go, which isn’t quite proper."

At these words, not only was Sir Hu stunned, Mo Yan and her father Mo Qingze were also deeply shaken, their gazes softening as they looked at Cui Qingrou.

Even though she hadn’t officially entered the Mo Family by marriage ceremony, Cui Qingrou could have remained indifferent to this matter, and no one could fault her. And yet, she chose to step forward, unhesitatingly siding with the Mo family, wholeheartedly defending Xin Er.

After all, Xin Er was at fault for hitting someone; doing so inevitably made others think she couldn’t distinguish right from wrong, which could harm her own reputation. Moreover, as a member of the Cui family, it also raised questions about the upbringing of her family.

The father and daughter harbored no suspicions about Cui Qingrou’s intentions, because there was simply no need for her to have any ulterior motives!

Sir Hu’s eyes twitched severely, completely unprepared for the possibility that a young lady raised by the First World Family of Jing City could fail to distinguish right from wrong, blindly favoring her own people even more outrageously than Princess Hejia.

Madam Hu, on the other hand, was infuriated. Entrusting her daughter to the care of the maids, she confronted Cui Qingrou with a sneer, "Indeed, a young lady brought up by the First World Family, having such a compassionate heart toward a stepdaughter is not something just anyone can possess."

Underneath the bridal veil, Cui Qingrou’s face hadn’t changed at all. The words she spoke, however, were enough to make Madam Hu boil with rage, "After today’s marriage ceremony, I will be a wife of the Mo family, the mother of these children. Isn’t it only natural for a mother to love her own children? I’ve heard that Sir Hu has a few concubines and has fathered several children with them. Doesn’t Madam Hu treat them as her own children on normal days? Or if not as her own, then as what exactly?"

In Great Chu, where legitimate children are valued over illegitimate ones, although a child born out of wedlock might not hold as high a status as a legitimate child, they are still officially recognized as the children of the legitimate mother. Even if they are not treated entirely equally, at least on the surface, they should appear to be so.

Cui Qingrou’s soon-to-be wife of the Mo Family highlighted her virtuous and compassionate nature with these words. Madam Hu had intended to provoke her with insidious remarks, but it backfired, reducing her to a position lacking virtue and kindness.

Madam Hu was left speechless, her rage mounting as she glared at Cui Qingrou, who couldn’t see her expression under the veil, as if flames were about to burst from her eyes.

Cui Qingrou paid no mind to nearly crazed Madam Hu. Glancing around at the sounds that came from all directions, her genteel voice suddenly rose, resonating powerfully, "As a wife of the Mo Family, I shall surely treat these three children as my own! From this day forward, they will be nieces and nephews of the Cui Family. If I ever hear such nonsense as what Miss Hu said today, it will be seen as opposing me, as opposing the Cui Family!"

As her voice fell, silence enveloped the area, and countless gazes fell straight upon Cui Qingrou, clad in her wedding garment. Only at this moment did they truly believe that this lady from the Cui Family was genuinely predisposed to protect her stepdaughter, not merely putting on an act for onlookers.

With this declaration, who would dare to repeat the kind of charge made by the Hu Family girl about the mother of the Mo Family’s children in the future?

Xin Er, who did not want her sister to face censure because of her own impulsive actions, had just broken free from Shengsheng and Second Young Lady Han’s restraint and arrived at the doorway when she happened to hear Cui Qingrou’s words. If she had felt distrust and wariness towards her soon-to-be stepmother before, at this moment, she truly accepted this gentle woman.

With Cui Qingrou publicly setting forth her position, the Hu Family knew they wouldn’t gain any advantage today. Sir Hu might have the courage to confront the Mo Family outright, but he did not have the guts to cross the Cui Family. Should it come to that, there was no need for Grand Master Cui to speak, as there would be plenty of people willing to stand up for the Cui Family and unseat him.