Chapter 70 Discredit
The next scene on stage was clearly not much different from the original plot, but I don't know which details were changed, which made the women feel weird.
Originally, all the female members of the family viewed the opera from Ning Feng's perspective.
They all felt that Wen Lan was of humble origins, a merchant family, and was indeed not worthy of the Ning family, who had won the third place in the imperial examination.
But now......
For some reason, they strangely felt that Wen Lan was a little pitiful???
Ning Feng seems... a little, a little too ruthless?
"Bah! You're a slut who stinks of money!"
"How could my son be so heartless and ungrateful? How dare you bring up the little change from your Wen family and talk about it over and over again! All you talk about is money. You are indeed a lowly fellow from a merchant family. Where are your manners and upbringing?"
"You live in my son's house, eat my son's rice, and use my son's things. It's you who shamelessly wants to stay in the Ning family, but it's not me, an old woman, who forces you to stay."
"Now that you have contracted tuberculosis, you still want to rely on my son?"
"If you are truly virtuous, you shouldn't cause trouble to your husband's family. Find a place to bury it properly, and don't come to the Ning family to pollute our eyes!"
"It's really bad luck to kick this abandoned woman out of my house."
The old woman on the stage stood with her hands on her hips and cursed, ordering her servants to throw the seriously ill Wen Lan directly onto the street.
Passersby were wearing thick cotton jackets and hats. It was the cold December and white snowflakes were falling from the sky. Passersby would glance at Wen Lan, who was wearing thin clothes, from time to time.
Wen Lan, wearing a single piece of clothing that had turned yellow from washing, shivered as she huddled in a corner. Her lips were pale and she kept coughing.
Two lines of tears slid down Wen Lan's face.
The officials' wives who saw this scene all had red eyes and wiped the tears from their eyes with sympathy.
It was really strange. They had never seen Wen Lan kicked out of the house before.
I have never felt so sorry for Wen Lan...
"Father, Mother......"
Wen Lan leaned in the corner, dying.
She kept coughing, coughing up a few traces of blood. She looked at the blood in her palm and suddenly trembled with grief: "Is it really because Lan'er is not good enough that she was kicked out?"
"But, but Lan'er has tried her best to be a good daughter-in-law."
"It's Ning Lang instead."
"Ning Lang... when he saved me on the mountain, he was clearly a gentleman, a good man who knew reason and propriety. Why did he abandon me now?"
Wen Lan fell in the snow, looking up at the sky with her eyes open, tears streaming from her eyes.
The women in the audience also cried for unknown reasons.
Qin Shuyu pursed her lips tightly and glanced around calmly. She found that all the noble ladies in the capital were involved in the plot and felt sympathy and touched for Wen Lan.
Poor?
Do they all feel sorry for Wen Lan?
turn out to be........
They can empathize...
"Da da da--"
The sound of horse hooves attracted the attention of all the female members of the Marquis's mansion.
On the stage at this moment.
A handsome and upright young man rushed over on a horse and immediately locked onto the barely breathing Wen Lan.
His eyes were filled with distress and worry. He immediately dismounted, took off his cloak and covered Wen Lan with it, picked her up and ran to the clinic: "Miss Wen? Miss Wen!"
"I'm late. It's my fault...I didn't dare to face you at the beginning."
"sorry."
"Are you cold? I'll take you to the clinic right now. Don't be afraid. I'm here. No matter what disease you have, I will cure you."
Wen Lan opened her eyes dazedly and looked at a face that was very close to her: "Ahem, ahem, who are you?"
"Xu Zhao, I'm Xu Zhao."
"Xu Zhao... Do we know each other?"
The man hugged the cold person in his arms tightly, nodded with red eyes, "Seven years ago in Xujia Village, the carriage you were riding in overturned the mountain, and you were injured and fainted at the foot of the mountain. I brought you home, bandaged your wounds, and then put you back to where you were."
"Miss Wen, I was penniless and my family was poor, and you were the daughter of a wealthy local businessman. There is a huge difference between our social statuses. How dare I show up and use this incident to tarnish your reputation?"
"But I didn't expect...I didn't expect Ning Feng to go to the Wen family, impersonate me, and claim the favor!"
What?
Wen Lan was struck by lightning.
She grabbed the man's sleeve tightly and asked tremblingly, "Back then, the person who saved me at the foot of the mountain was you...it was you, not Ning Lang? Did Ning Lang pretend to be the one who showed your kindness to the Wen family?"
Xu Zhao nodded, deep regret flashing in his eyes.
He touched Wen Lan's hair lovingly and shouted over and over again to wake Wen Lan up.
Before, he was of humble status and had too many concerns. In addition, the Wen family had a very high opinion of Ning Feng at that time, and Wen Lan also had feelings for Ning Feng. He hid in the dark like a mouse and did not dare to expose it.
he thinks,
As long as Miss Wen is happy, he will pretend that he knows nothing.
But I never expected it!
In the past two years, Ning Feng had treated Miss Wen so badly! He even divorced her and kicked her out after learning that she had tuberculosis!
Xu Zhao no longer wanted to endure it. After learning about Wen Lan's fate, he rushed out of the house and took Wen Lan to find the best doctor. If the doctor was not good, he would use his connections to find an imperial physician.
This plot with twists and turns shocked everyone present!
The women in the Marquis's Mansion: "!!!"
Miss Lu from Xiangfu: "!!!"
Xie Yuchuan and the other men: "!!!"
Everyone was stunned and in disbelief, feeling that their worldviews had been severely impacted.
"This, this, this... this, why is this different from the "Wen Wan Lan Ning" I watched before? How come there is another Mr. Xu? Who is he to be able to hire a royal doctor?"
"Yes, didn't he say that he was of low status before, so he didn't dare to tarnish Miss Wen's reputation, so Ning Feng found an opportunity to impersonate him? What about now? How is he now?"
"Oh my god! Ning Feng is such a greedy person for fame and fortune? How could it be possible!!"
"Oh, sister, how could this not happen? Think about it, Ning Feng was just a poor scholar with a seriously ill old mother at home. If he wanted to turn things around, wouldn't he need money?"
"At that time, Wen Lan was the daughter of a wealthy local businessman. Marrying Wen Lan was equivalent to owning half of the Wen family's wealth... Yes, yes! He pretended to be a fake just for the Wen family's money!"
"So that's how it is? But, but isn't this a bit of a discredit to Ning Feng? How could a man who can get the third place in the imperial examination have such a character?"
"........."