Zhou Guanning already regretted the words as soon as she uttered them, and seeing that her mother had guessed the truth all at once, her eyes flickered slightly, and she dared not look at her again.
There was something Wen didn't understand, and his face was full of shock.
She couldn't believe that her well-behaved daughter would do such a thing, and thinking of the price her husband had paid to keep her, she couldn't bear it anymore, raised her hand violently, and slapped her hard.
"Mother..." Zhou Guanning held the beaten half of her face, tears welling up in her eyes.
"How could you do such a thing! Do you know that because of you, your father's future will be ruined! But now, you are telling me that you did it voluntarily!" Wen Shi was trembling with anger. , even the voice trembled.
She gave birth to three children, and her daughter was frail since she was a child, and she was well-behaved and quiet, so the whole family held her in their palms and loved her, and would never allow her to be wronged in the slightest.
Today is also the first time in her life that she will do anything to her beloved daughter, especially when she thinks that her husband will spend the rest of his official career in exchange for a stable life for the rest of her daughter's life, she feels pain and hatred in her heart.
"So, so..." The man's deep and deep voice came from behind Zhou Wanning with obvious disappointment. She turned around abruptly, and saw Zhou Mao standing not far behind, with a gentle and loving face in the past. Now full of pain and disappointment.
"Father, Daddy..." Panic that she had never experienced before hit her, and she stammered with a pale and pretty face.
Zhou Mao stared at her closely for a long time, then smiled miserably, and said in a hoarse voice, "It's my father's fault. Being a father didn't teach you the responsibility of being a child and a wife. Favoring and not teaching, finally led to today's situation. end!"
"Awan, you have made a joke of everything that my father has done these days. You have made my father no longer have the face to stand in the capital and face..." Thinking of Murong Tao, who was finally ruined by him all his life, his throat twitched. Choking, unable to say a word.
"Daddy..." Zhou Wanning's face was pale, her heart seemed to be tightly held, she reached out tremblingly, trying to pull his cuff.
However, Zhou Mao brushed her away, closed his eyes in pain, took a few deep breaths, and finally squeezed out a sentence from his throat: "From now on, you can do it yourself!"
After speaking, he didn't want to look at her anymore, and stumbled out of the waterside pavilion, walking faster and faster, but in an instant, the figure disappeared in front of Zhou Wanning's eyes.
"Husband..." Wen didn't expect that her mother and daughter's words would be heard seriously by her husband. Zhou Mao's words of "favor but not teach" were self-blaming, but it was as if he had slapped her face to face. slap.
It is a woman's responsibility to care for a husband and raise a child, and the upbringing of a daughter should be attributed to the mother, so how can it be completely the father's fault.
"Mother, daddy, daddy..." Zhou Guanning was terrified to see his daddy who loved him the most, so that he could do it for himself, and looked at Wen's at a loss, pleading in his eyes.
At this time, Wen's heart and eyes were full of Zhou Mao's sad and disappointed expression before he left, and he always felt that such disappointment was not only for his daughter, but also for himself, his wife who failed to raise her daughter well.
In more than 20 years of husband and wife, he never said a serious word to her, let alone showed such an expression of extreme disappointment in front of her, teaching her how not to be frightened, and even temporarily ignore her most beloved daughter.
"In the future, you should live well with His Highness Prince Ping, and don't think about other things that you shouldn't think about. Your father was heartbroken by you this time, I'm afraid..." She couldn't go on speaking anymore, she took a deep look at her daughter, and turned around. He turned around and chased after Zhou Mao's figure.
"Mother..." Zhou Guanning panicked even more when she saw her mother abandoning her to leave. She wanted to reach out to hold her, but her fingertips could only touch the corner of her clothes. She watched helplessly as she got closer and closer to him. Far.
A feeling of being abandoned by the closest person suddenly hit her heart, she clutched her chest tightly, her face pale as paper.
"Mother-in-law, why did you go back so soon?" Prince Ping originally wanted to accompany Zhou Mao to visit Zhou Wanning, but thinking of her indifference to him during these days, he didn't dare anymore, so he just let people lead him. Zhou Mao went to Shuixie.
He never thought that after only a short while, Zhou Mao walked away quickly with an ugly face, he couldn't make it, and was full of suspicion.
Just when he felt puzzled, he saw Wen's coming in a hurry, so he went up to ask.
Wen's did not expect to meet him here, subconsciously looked at the daughter in the waterside pavilion in the distance, and suddenly felt lucky in her heart.
Fortunately, King Ping was not with her husband just now, otherwise, if he heard what his daughter said, her daughter's life would be even more difficult in the future.
"I suddenly remembered that there are very important matters in the mansion, so..." She replied with a forced smile, making random reasons.
King Ping is not a fool, how can he not see that she is lying, but he is an elder, he can't say much, he said with a smile: "So that's the case, then I will send it to my mother-in-law?"
"No need, no need, you, your father-in-law is here, I'll go back with him." Wen's heart has a ghost in his heart, so how dare he hold it up in front of him.
King Ping was not reluctant, until Wen's slightly flustered figure disappeared, he looked at the lonely and slender figure in the waterside pavilion, with deep eyes, and invited the maid who was waiting in the distance to ask what happened in the waterside pavilion just now.
"The concubine asked the servants to leave, so the servants didn't know what happened. They just saw Mrs. Zhou beating the concubine suddenly. Later, Lord Zhou also came over and left after saying a few words." The maid answered truthfully.
King Ping frowned even tighter. The father-in-law and mother-in-law love his wife the most, how could he be willing to move her finger? What happened to make the always gentle mother-in-law touch his wife.
After thinking about it, he couldn't get an answer, he just stared blankly at the figure in the waterside pavilion, and after an unknown amount of time, he sighed softly.
However, Zhou Mao locked himself in the study as soon as he returned to the mansion, and no one saw him, which also made Zhou Chang and Zhou Zhuo brothers look at each other, not knowing what happened.
Wen shi knocked on the door outside for almost a quarter of an hour, but he still couldn't get any response. His face became more and more ugly, and the tears in his eyes became more and more obvious, which made the Zhou brothers more and more uneasy.
"Mother, what happened? Why did Dad lock himself in the study as soon as he came back? Didn't you go to Prince Ping's mansion to see your sister?" Zhou Zhuo was impatient, so he couldn't bear it.
Wen's family has never been treated like this by her husband. When her son asked her, she couldn't help but shed tears.
She quickly lowered her head to wipe away her tears, and said in a hoarse voice: "It's okay, your father... Let him be quiet for a while."
Seeing that she refused to speak, Zhou Zhuo became even more anxious, and was about to ask, when Zhou Chang tugged on his cuff, motioning him to keep quiet.
Zhou Zhuo's lips moved, but he didn't say anything after all.
"Mother, let's sit in the house for a while! Daddy is inside, we can't just wait outside, right?" Zhou Chang persuaded softly.
Wen nodded with red eyes, and was supported by the two brothers to leave. After walking a few steps, she turned her head unwillingly. Seeing that the door was still tightly closed, and the people inside had no intention of coming out, she finally gave up. .
The footsteps outside the door gradually faded away until they could no longer be heard. Zhou Mao sat motionless in front of the desk, as if the words heard by the water pavilion in Prince Ping's mansion were still echoing in his ears, but in his mind was The scene of Murong Tao being seriously injured and disabled flashed, and gradually, his body was shaking non-stop, the shaking became more and more severe, and it seemed that a chill rose from the soles of his feet and quickly spread to his limbs.
He was wrong, he was wrong, everything was wrong, terribly wrong!
But, it was too late, he ruined that child's life!
The chill in his body became more and more intense. He poured himself a cup of hot tea tremblingly, but because his hands were shaking too much, he couldn't hold the cup of tea steadily. The tea shook a few times and splashed the letters on the desk.
He wiped the tea stain with trembling hands, suddenly thought of something, took a breath, got up suddenly, staggered towards the door, and shouted loudly: "Chang'er, Chang'er!!"
"Master!" The servant who heard the call hurried over.
"Go and call the eldest son, quick! Quick!!"
Seeing his eagerness, the servants didn't dare to delay, so they rushed to call Zhou Chang.
Zhou Chang, who was helping Wen to sit down, didn't have time to ask his mother what happened in Prince Ping's mansion, when he saw the young servant waiting in his father's study come to invite him, saying that the master was calling for the eldest son urgently.
"Your father told you, go quickly!" Before he said anything, Wen pushed him out the door and said hurriedly.
When Zhou Chang rushed to Zhou Mao's study, Zhou Mao grabbed his sleeve and said in a trembling voice, "Quick, hurry up and stop the plan, hurry up!!"
"Father?" Zhou Chang didn't think that he called him here because of this matter, so he didn't understand his intention for a moment.
Zhou Mao didn't have the time to talk to him in detail, but when he saw that he was not moving, he sternly shouted: "Go!!"
"Yes, baby, let's go now!" Zhou Chang didn't dare to go against his will, and hurried out the door.
After seeing the eldest son leave, Zhou Mao's legs went limp, one of them couldn't stand steadily, and fell to the ground.
"Husband, husband?" Wen, who followed the eldest son worriedly, saw him like this, stepped in quickly, and helped him up with all his strength.
"Husband, all my mistakes are my words. It is because I did not raise my daughter well that it caused her..." Wen Shi has never seen him in such a decadent appearance. Under the double pressure, her husband was never more than half afraid.
She watched him step by step from an eighth-rank official to the current fourth-rank official, and for the sake of his daughter, he was willing to stop for the rest of his life. But even though he knew that his future was limited and his lifelong ambitions were difficult to fulfill, he never regretted it.
But now, she saw regret on his face, which was a painful regret.