Mrs. Tong used great strength, pinching Su Yuanyuan's wrist bones painfully. Her eyes were fixed on Su Yuanyuan, filled with bloodshot, as if she would open her mouth and swallow Su Yuanyuan whole the next moment.
"Ah—ah—"
Mrs. Tong was so agitated that she couldn't utter a complete sentence. She just knew to roar at Su Yuanyuan.
"Let go of me! Let go of me..." Su Yuanyuan was so frightened that she was completely at a loss. Even in her previous life, she had never seen such a terrifying Mrs. Tong. She struggled desperately but couldn't break free from Mrs. Tong's grip at all.
Seeing this, the young novice monk beside them sensed something was wrong and stepped forward to try to separate Mrs. Tong and Su Yuanyuan. However, Mrs. Tong was too crazy. Even the combined strength of the two novice monks was useless.
Outside the hall, hearing Mrs. Tong's voice, Su Zeqian no longer cared about Mrs. Mo. He immediately turned around and rushed into the hall, only to see Mrs. Tong clutching Su Yuanyuan tightly.
Su Zeqian subconsciously thought that Su Yuanyuan had done something to Mrs. Tong. He took a big step forward, using his internal energy, and forcibly pulled Su Yuanyuan out of Mrs. Tong's hands, then gave her a hard push.
"You stupid girl, what did you do to my mother just now!"
He didn't hold back his strength. With this push, Su Yuanyuan stumbled and fell towards a wooden shelf filled with many long - burning lamps. The long - burning lamps on it were impacted by the external force and fell off the table, crashing down towards Su Yuanyuan below.
"Yuanbao!" Noticing that Su Yuanyuan was no longer beside her, Mrs. Mo, who had chased Su Zeqian into the main hall, looked up and saw this scene. Her heart almost stopped in fright.
However, she came in late and was some distance away from Su Yuanyuan. There was simply no time to save her.
Just at the critical moment, a black figure flashed by like the wind. It hooked Su Yuanyuan's waist and took her away from the wooden shelf, landing far on the other side of the main hall.
The next moment, the sound of the lamps shattering on the ground came from the hall.
The lamp oil spilled all over the ground, and the wicks fell to the ground, igniting the lamp oil on the floor. In an instant, a blaze of fire broke out.
The young novice monks were terrified. While shouting "Fire!", they stepped forward to put out the fire. The Hall of Everlasting Life instantly became chaotic.
It was imaginable that if the lamp oil had spilled on Su Yuanyuan and the fire on the wick...
Just thinking of such a scene, Mrs. Mo was so frightened that her legs went weak and she slumped to the ground, breaking out in a cold sweat.
But the next moment, regardless of everything, she got up from the ground and rushed forward on all fours, hugging Su Yuanyuan tightly into her arms.
"Yuanbao, thankfully my Yuanbao is okay..."
Su Yuanyuan was also lingering in fear.
When she hit the lamp stand just now, Xiao Ba had already warned her of the danger, but things happened too fast. It was too late to react. Fortunately, someone had taken her away from there, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable.
Thinking of this, mother and daughter, in great tacit understanding, turned their heads together to thank the person, but when they saw the person's appearance, they let out a surprised cry:
"Thank you, benefactor... Lord Cang?"
The familiar, coquettishly handsome face, the straight and peerless figure, and a pair of eyes that seemed to be able to see through people's hearts were none other than Cang Xuan.
Why was it him? Why was he here?
At this moment, Cang Xuan didn't pay attention to Mrs. Mo and Su Yuanyuan. Instead, he coldly stared at Su Zeqian in front of him and said, "Heir of the Marquis of Pingyang, do you know what you were doing just now?"
Actually, Su Zeqian had already regretted it after pushing the person away, but the situation was critical at that time. He only cared about Mrs. Tong and simply had no time to pull Su Yuanyuan.
Being questioned like this by Cang Xuan, he looked at the fire that had been put out by the novice monks together and moved his lips: "I..."
Clenching his fists, Su Zeqian stubbornly said, "She attacked my mother first. It's not my fault. I was just protecting my mother."
"Rather than asking me, Lord Cang might as well ask the Lady of the Duke of Yong. Just now, she pushed my mother down and made her faint. Why did she even let her stupid daughter enter this main hall alone?"
"I don't know what this stupid girl did to my mother, which made my mother go crazy like this. If anything happens to my mother because of this, the Duke of Yong's Mansion must pay the price for today's incident!"
"What did you say?!" Another male voice rang out in the main hall.
Two figures rushed into the hall. It was Su Huaisheng and Wei Linlang who had been waiting for Mrs. Mo and Su Yuanyuan for a long time but didn't see them. They had heard from the young novice monk that something had happened in the Hall of Everlasting Life and had rushed over in a hurry.
As soon as they arrived, they heard Su Zeqian calling Su Yuanyuan a stupid girl again and again.
Su Huaisheng, who had always doted on his younger sister, couldn't bear it. Regardless of the obstruction, he rushed in front of Su Zeqian, grabbed his lapel, and said angrily with a flushed face:
"Calling her a stupid girl all the time. Is this the upbringing of a marquis's heir? Apologize to my sister!"
"I'm not wrong," Su Zeqian stubbornly said. "It's your Duke of Yong's Mansion that should apologize to my mother!"
"How do I know if your mother fainted on purpose and is trying to extort our Duke of Yong's Mansion?"
Wei Linlang snorted coldly from behind. "Isn't this the usual trick of your Marquis of Pingyang's Mansion? You're probably trying to stage another scene of splashing dirty water like in the Fine Food Tower. Humph, like mother, like daughter. Since you can raise a scheming person like Su Qingyu, the Lady of the Marquis of Pingyang must not be a reasonable person either."
"You can scold me, but you must not insult my mother!" Su Zeqian's eyes were red with anger.
The atmosphere in the Hall of Everlasting Life was tense, as if they were going to fight the next moment.
It had taken a lot of effort to put out the fire. The young novice monk didn't want them to conflict in the main hall again and hurriedly said, "Amitabha. All benefactors, calm down. There's a misunderstanding in this matter!"
However, everyone was angry at the moment and simply ignored him.
Fortunately, at this time, Master Kongwen, who had learned everything, also rushed over from the back hall in a hurry. Glancing at Cang Xuan from afar, Master Kongwen stood in the middle of the two parties, put his hands together, and said:
"Amitabha. I'm Kongwen, the abbot of Foxing Temple. I've just learned everything from my disciple. Since the incident happened suddenly, it's not easy to determine who is right and who is wrong. How about all benefactors listen to me?"
Master Kongwen's voice was like the sound of a great bell, making everyone's hearts tremble slightly, and their thoughts became clearer.
As the abbot of the Buddhist temple here, Master Kongwen's status carried a lot of weight. Moreover, this was his territory, so they had to give him some face.
Su Huaisheng snorted coldly, let go of Su Zeqian's lapel, and returned to Mrs. Mo's side with Wei Linlang. In the entire main hall, two distinct camps were formed.
Naturally, Cang Xuan stood on the side of the Duke of Yong's Mansion.
Master Kongwen said, "Good. Just now, my young disciple said that there was a misunderstanding in this matter. How about listening to what he has to say?"
Su Zeqian endured his anger and said, "What misunderstanding? Could it be that I saw wrong?"
"You did see wrong,"
A clear voice like a warbler rang out in the hall. Everyone looked over and saw Su Yuanyuan leave Mrs. Mo and take two steps forward.
"From beginning to end, you've been wrong. You've been incredibly and completely wrong."
Her eyes were firm, her expression calm and steady, and her speech was clear. She had nothing to do with the "stupid girl" that Su Zeqian had just mentioned.