CHAPTER 2053: CHAPTER 2005: THE MU RESIDENCE’S SECOND BRANCH MOVES TO FUNAN

A woman who plotted endlessly probably never calculated that her fate would be like this, without even a thin coffin.

By the time the news reached the first branch of the Mu Family, the Second Madam had already been buried for two days.

As for this outcome, Commandery Princess Dongyang was clapping her hands in approval, attempting to harm her only to end up harming herself first.

Upon hearing such good news, Commandery Princess Dongyang naturally wanted to share it with Yang Chuxia, so she brought Chengcheng to Prince An’s Mansion.

"Pfft... are you serious?" Yang Chuxia spit out a mouthful of water in disbelief, the Second Madam Mu was dead! When did this happen, how come she didn’t know?

"Of course it’s true!" said Dongyang, "Not long after they moved out of the Mu Residence, her two sons were killed by someone, probably because of their many wrongdoings. I suppose she was severely shocked, and once her sons died, she went insane, an insanity that’s beyond normal. No one knows where she got this problem, but she liked to run around naked. Our good Second Uncle, finding her disgraceful, just gave her a bowl of medicine to drink, and she died within an hour."

"Oh my, the Second Old Master really is heartless, losing his sons was already tragic enough, and yet he still harmed his own wife, a person who shared his pillow."

"Isn’t that so, and he even fed her the medicine himself." Dongyang shivered at the thought. "And you don’t know, after killing her, they didn’t even give her a coffin, just rolled her up in a tattered mat and buried her, not even allowing her to be buried with her two sons."

"Mu Shaoling must be careful then, for his heart is so ruthless. Since you kicked him out of the Mu Residence, who knows if he will let it go."

"Hmm, Mu Shaoling is well aware of it." Dongyang cracked a couple of melon seeds and continued, "But I heard from my father-in-law that he’s planning to take his family to Funan. I think it’s good that they’re leaving, not being under our watchful eyes, my father-in-law won’t feel guilty anymore. He always regrets not letting them stay."

"Snort, it was me who drove them out, acting as if they died because of me."

Yang Chuxia laughed, "Mu Old Master surely didn’t mean that, he’s just feeling a bit guilty. Besides, that’s his biological brother. No matter how much the two families fight, there’s still affection there. If the second branch was doing well, he might not think much of it, but seeing them fall into ruin bothers him. Just have Mu Shaoling comfort him."

"Hmm, I’ll talk to him later."

However, this time Yang Chuxia seemed to have overthought; the Second Old Master didn’t dwell much on it. Not even ten days after the Second Madam’s death, he took his family off to Funan.

Originally, he was unwilling, for the Mu Family was vast, yet this branch had nothing to inherit, it was a constant frustration.

But on the night after they sent off the Second Madam, he inexplicably visited her courtyard, where he found a slip of paper, "Payment for two lives, total forty thousand, deposit ten thousand, remaining thirty thousand to be paid upon completion."

Seeing this note, the Second Old Master’s mind went blank for a moment. Thinking of the way his two sons died, something began to click.

It was his wife who bought the hit, but it wasn’t executed, or perhaps the other party turned against her, buying the lives of his two sons instead.

There was no need to think hard about who his wife bore a grudge against, which made it obvious who bought his sons’ lives.

The Second Old Master was filled with rage, wishing he could storm into the Mu Residence and carry out a massacre.