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　　Chapter 7 Dealing with anger

　　She didn't know whether it was the past life or not, but she knew that she was about to be out of luck.

　　The sky lightened a bit. The living room in Plum Flower Pavilion was already half filled with people.

　　Sitting on the top was the imposing looking old madam. The gaze that fell on Shu Huan seemed quite unfriendly. After looking at her for a moment, she commanded, "Kneel!"

　　The women who time-traveled had backbone and self-respect. Shu Huan also wanted to be tough and have self-respect for once, but others wouldn't allow it. She only hesitated for a moment when a maid suddenly hit the back of her knee, so she couldn't help but kneel on the ground. Her knees fell heavily on the tiles. It was so painful that her mouth twitched.

　　If she had known it would be like this, she would've been decisive and knelt. At least, she could carefully kneel.

　　This old lady was probably the old madam that the people mentioned many times. It could be seen that she was accustomed to being imposing and wasn't simple and kind as ordinary old ladies. Her general facial appearance possessed a majestic aura. At this time, after Shu Huan knelt, she ignored her, turned and began to scold concubine Yun.

　　"You had always been cautious and sensible. Why did become muddle-headed now? You still hid the such a big matter as fire for someone? If it wasn't because I wasn't blind yet and saw that some maids were gossiping early in the morning and asked one about it, I would presumably still be kept in the dark at this moment!"

　　Concubine Yun also panicked and knelt on the ground. "Yan knows that Yan was wrong. Asking old madam for punishment."

　　Old madam ignored her and began to scold the maids, "I let you lock the person up and keep watch over her, didn't you listen? Or were you taking into account that she is your second young mistress, have a high status and thus couldn't suffer? So, you took this old lady's words as garbage?"

　　These words were a bit too much. All of the maids that had their head lowered and were listening outside also knelt on the ground.

　　"Beat them as punishment!" The old madam was angry and stood up with the heavy crutch in her hand. "Call two servants and drag down all the maids in this yard. Each will receive twenty planks as punishment!"

　　The maids were scared by this anger and roared for forgiveness. They cried that there would be no next time.

　　Shu Huan's face also paled instantly. Was this punishment a warning for her?

　　She quickly raised her eyes and looked at Gu Xiran who sat below the old madam. She saw that his lips were in a thin line. Displeasure flashed in his eyes. However, the next moment, he lowered his eyes and didn't seem to have the intention to plead for the people. She could only bite her lips and pleaded, "Old madam, don't be angry. This is my fault…"

　　She hadn't finish speaking when she was stopped by old madam, "You little thing that doesn't know the rules! I'm punis.h.i.+ng the maids here; do you have the right to b.u.t.t in?"

　　Shu Huan shut up.

　　Gu family's daughter-in-law Lin s.h.i.+ had followed old madam to here. She was at a side and didn't spoke a word. Now that she saw that old madam was furious, she quickly went over to support her, "Old madam, sit down and take it slowly. It's not worth it to get angry and cause damage to your body with these small matters."