"You're not going to fight a lady? Excuse me? Have you missed exactly how many people I, personally, have left dead and dying on the battlefield?"

"Well you're a lady too, aren't you? Wasn't an insult! I'm not going to fight anyone in the middle of the feast."

"Should've thought of that before you decided to sneak alcohol into my wife's tea," she says coldly, and strides forward and kicks him in the kidney. 

Owww. Isn't anybody watching going to stop this from happening??? Clearly someone should be restraining Wei Ying!

If he slaps Wei-guniang he is going to be in so much more trouble than he already maybe is, but it's so tempting.

He kind of just wants to go home and sulk about his failed plan and not get kicked anymore. "Can someone tell Sect Leader Jiang to put an end to this already?" he yells.

Sect Leader Jiang drains a cup of something, stands up from a table, makes a rude gesture, says, "If Sect Leader Nie can't keep his disciples under control, I don't see why I should," and sits down again. 

He can barely restrain his shijie at the best of times, he's not going to suddenly master the skill on behalf of someone who maybe poisoned his nibling. 

Okay well FINE. He swings a fist at Wei YIng.

She grabs the fist and tosses him over her shoulder by it. 

Ow. Why does she keep THROWING him, that's not how fights are supposed to work!! He tries kicking out behind himself at her.

She dodges neatly out of the way, then waits for him to get up again and rams her foot into his side. 

Ow!!!

He continues trying to fight her, to knock her over. He was so put in command for a reason; he’s a strong fighter. Not as strong as Wei Ying.

Not remotely as strong as Wei Ying. 

She hasn't broken any bones, but he's bruised in more places than he's ever been bruised before and probably going to be pissing blood for a week, when Sect Leader Nie shows up. 

"What is going on?"

She straightens and points at her opponent/punching bag. 

"He made Lan Zhan drink alcohol without her knowledge by putting it in tea!" 

"It was an ACCIDENT! Sect Leader Nie, I wouldn't --"

"Bullshit it was an accident, you what, accidentally poured wine and tea into the same cups, accidentally handed them to a servant, and then accidentally told the servant to bring them to our table?"

Sect Leader Nie pinches the bridge of his nose. 

"There were extra cups on this table and I thought they should actually be given to someone, I didn't know what was in them!"

"That's not what you told me. Get your fucking story straight if you're going to lie to people, bitch." 

"Sect Leader Nie, she's clearly hysterical, I had no idea!"

"Wei-guniang, I apologize for my subordinate's behavior. Will you allow me to take over disciplinary action from here?" 

She purses her lips. "Fine. If only because I wanna go check on Lan Zhan." 

To the Nie she doesn't respect: "I'm going to keep an eye on you from here on out. And if I ever find out you've done anything to my wife or big brother again, I will make you wish I had finished beating you senseless and forgotten about you." 

And then she flounces off in the direction of the healers. 

And Sect Leader Nie grabs the man by his collar and drags him off for ANOTHER Discussion of appropriate behavior and probably also some form of punishment duty. 

Meanwhile, Meng Yao and his mother successfully carried Lan Zhan to the healers' tent. The healer examined her carefully, using her spiritual energy to check the alcohol in Lan-guniang's bloodstream, to scan over the fetus.

She announces that this small amount of wine on just this occasion will be harmless and the baby is unaffected. It's a complete mystery to her how Lan-guniang even managed to pass out after just this speck of alcohol, but she checked very thoroughly for poison or other illnesses. Nothing seems to be wrong.

A few minutes later, Lan Zhan wakes.

She sits up and blinks around at her surroundings. 

She is laid out on an unfamiliar cot inside the healer's tent. Meng Shi kneels patiently beside her and looks up the moment Lan-guniang stirs.

"Lan-guniang! You are awake, how do you feel?"