The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law
Chapter 921 - 915: No Need for a Reason to Beat You

Chapter 921: Chapter 915: No Need for a Reason to Beat You

"This... I can’t say now," said Gu Youyou. "Aunt, it’s better not to ask about this matter. What I can tell you, I naturally will. This matter, for the time being, can’t be mentioned, but I will definitely tell you later."

"You... you really are!" Madam Lin felt that maybe she was too old, and her heart was tired.

Considering that the Empress in the palace was still waiting for her, she didn’t have the time to interrogate her.

Forget it, let’s see what the Empress says first.

"I’ll deal with you when I get back," Madam Lin said with a stern face.

Listenting to this, Gu Youyou felt baffled and asked the maid beside her.

"Where is my aunt going?"

The maid said, "Someone from the palace has come to say that Her Majesty the Empress has invited Madam to the palace for a chat."

Gu Youyou looked up at the sky outside the window. It was almost mid-afternoon. Going back and forth, wouldn’t it be time for the palace curfew after just a few words?

The Empress is so eager to have my aunt go... Gu Youyou felt a sudden thump in her heart, sensing that something was amiss and that she should remind her aunt to be cautious.

But Madam Lin was already far away.

...

"You shameless woman, dare to deceive me!" In the Kunning Palace, just after Madam Lin paid her respects to the Empress, she was met with a slap in the face from her.

Madam Lin stood there, stunned, clueless about the reason for this.

"Her Majesty the Empress?" Madam Lin’s face was full of shock.

To talk about the old days in the Ducal Residence, they were only related through a connection two generations back. The Empress Jin Yushu was the legitimate eldest daughter of the Ducal Residence, the most honored miss.

Although Jin Yuan was also a daughter born in the main line of the family, she was from a collateral branch.

Their relationship wasn’t as good as it appeared to outsiders; Jin Yushu was so much older than her that when Jin Yuan got married, she was still an ignorant little girl. How could she have had a profound relationship with her elder sister?

But even so, Jin Yushu had never hit her before. Because her husband, Lin Xingyi’s official post kept rising higher and higher, and he was deeply trusted by the Emperor, their cousin relationship became better over time.

Madam Lin was after all a legitimate daughter, and since marrying into the Lin Family, she had never been bullied. Growing up, this was the first time she had been slapped, and for such a bewildering reason—she was struck without an explanation. Her eyes reddened in the moment, as she suppressed her rising anger.

"Her Majesty the Empress is entitled to discipline, and no one dares to utter a word against it. Though I also come from the same Ducal Residence as Her Majesty, we are still related by marriage, and I am still a first-grade granted Madam. If Her Majesty is going to hit me, shouldn’t there be a reason given?"

The Empress’s face turned to iron, not feeling the slightest bit improper about having hit her.

She said, "I am the older sister, disciplining a disobedient younger sister, do I need to explain it to you?"

Madam Lin took several deep breaths, continuing to contain her anger.

She said, "If the older sister disciplines the younger sister, naturally there’s no need for an explanation. Is it that Her Majesty has summoned me here today for a family matter?"

"Humph!" The Empress snorted coldly, sitting down on her phoenix seat, looking down imperiously at Madam Lin below, and said, "You were born a daughter of the Ducal Residence. Even though you have married into the Lin Family and become a wife of the Lin Family, you cannot fail to put the interests of the Ducal Residence first. I would have thought that your uncle had made everything clear to you, yet it seems the Ducal Residence has raised an ingrate—you forget your own family the moment you marry off.

Don’t forget, if you were not a miss of the Ducal Residence, you would have had no standing to marry into the Lin Family at all. Everything you have now is given to you by the Ducal Residence."

The more Madam Lin listened, the more baffled she became. Setting aside the fact that the Empress had slapped her for no apparent reason, she urgently asked, "I beg Her Majesty the Empress not to speak in riddles anymore. What exactly has happened?"