The next morning, Meng Yan came to greet her mother, and Mrs. Meng told her daughter about the incident as a case of house fighting, she just wanted her daughter to have more knowledge, but what she didn't expect was that what she still felt frightening to her was what kind of shock it caused in Meng Yan's ears.

The fear of the back house haunted this girl's heart more and more.

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If the impression of the new princess in the Yancheng ladies circle before is only on the side, most of them only have one or two sides, and it is often impossible to accurately judge a person based on only one or two sides, especially those who are beautiful, who have been taught by their grandmother since they were children, and learned to disguise themselves prematurely.

Although it is generally believed that this princess Ding is not a simple person, but how high it is, outsiders still do not know, and this time the people who have paid attention to the backyard of the Dingwang Mansion have re-evaluated the new princess Ding.

The most direct expression is that the invitation posts sent to the Dingwang Mansion suddenly increased, in addition to the wedding banquet that must be sent to the post, birthday banquet, full moon wine and other banquets, tea tasting parties between noble ladies, flower viewing banquets and other banquets that non-close friends can not participate in Many people also invited Princess Ding.

Some people with lower backgrounds who knew that they were not qualified to invite took other paths to invite the Meng family, and even Mrs. Quan, who often came and went to Dingwang's Mansion during this time, received a lot of posts that they would not normally invite.

When the Meng family was in the scenery, Mrs. Meng did not participate in all kinds of banquets, and she was already tired, so unless she had to go, she generally did not participate, but Mrs. Quan Si was not tired of it, and their family had a lot of shops, and making more noble ladies was of great help to the business.

On this day, Mrs. Quan Si participated in a full moon wine, and immediately after coming back, she went to Mrs. Meng's house to see Mrs. Meng, and nervously asked Mrs. Meng to withdraw from all the maids around her before speaking. The voice was so low that it was almost a whisper.

She said: "I went to participate in the full moon wine of the son of the scholar of Liu University today, this Liu University student is more than fifty years old, and his wife is the continuation of the string. I'm almost forty years old, so I'm an old man. Therefore, it attaches great importance to inviting many big officials and nobles, and the relationship between Liu University and the Hu family has always been close, so several wives of the Hu family and several young ladies who have not yet come out of the cabinet have participated...... Even Mrs. Hu and Mrs. Hu, who have not appeared together very recently, also attended together, which gave Liu University a lot of face. ”

These Mrs. Meng know, not to mention that she is a person who pays special attention to the Hu family, even those who are a little closer to the Hu family know that the eldest lady of the Hu family and the third lady are obviously at odds, so that they can hardly even care about face. However, in wealthy families, it is normal for concubines to be discordant, and not many people care.

However, it was more of a matter for the Hu family, and Mrs. Meng still pricked up her ears, for fear of missing a word and a half.

Mrs. Quansi's next words were the point, and her voice was lower, "I wanted to clean my hands halfway, but when I came back, I ran into Miss Hu Qi fainting, so I naturally went up to help, which is terrible." Miss Hu Qi's lower skirt was all wet, and it was all blood, and then the people from the Hu and Liu families quickly came to take Miss Hu Qi away...... Later, Mrs. Liu said that it was Miss Hu Qi who suddenly came. Thank you for my help, it's just a matter of the lady's reputation, so don't tell me about it...... But I think it's better to tell my sister about it, at this time in late autumn, she is dressed very thickly, how can a little girl have so much sunflower water, Miss Hu Qi is obviously slippery. ”

"Slipped?" Mrs. Meng almost screamed, Miss Meng Qi seemed to be a year younger than her daughter, how could she ...... It's terrible, how can this kind of thing happen to everyone who is raised in the boudoir. Especially the Hu family must have known nothing before, otherwise they would not have let Miss Hu Qi come out. It is very likely that the child's father is a close person with the Hu family and can freely enter and leave the Hu family's house. But even so, it is not easy to avoid everyone's eyes and ears, even if Miss Hu Qi is young and ignorant and is confused, that man will never think that the raw rice is cooked and cooked, and the Hu family will marry his daughter to him, right? The more high-ranking the family, the more taboo this is, and the Hu family would rather strangle their daughter than be talked about.

The most important thing is that since the last time she calculated her daughter, the Hu family has increased the upbringing of the girls, and every girl is accompanied by a strict grandmother, once the girl has a business trip, the parallax is punished by the people who follow the girl, from the discipline of the grandmother, down to the maid who sprinkles and sweeps, no one can escape.

She was very suspicious that under such a tight defense, Miss Hu Qi had the opportunity to contact and commit adultery with a foreign man alone, could it be that the Hu family was her own person? I remember more than 20 years ago, there was an official eunuch family that was a brother out of a brother forced to rape a sister, the head of the family still wanted to conceal it, strangled his daughter as a sudden evil death, but the daughter's personal maid was afraid of being wiped out, so she secretly passed a letter of informing, and met a righteous imperial history, and the case was revealed, such a contrary case actually appeared in the official eunuch's house, and the whole Yancheng was in an uproar, and the person who came out of the elder brother was sentenced to beheading, and the head of the family was sentenced to exile together with the family members who participated in the concealment, and was exiled to the wilderness。

Doubting the possible surnames of this, Mrs. Meng couldn't help but say, "Are you sure?"

"This ...... I can't say for sure. Mrs. Quan Si hesitated, " Maybe it was a sudden illness, once I saw a coachman sitting under the teahouse drinking tea, suddenly he fell down with his stomach, and there was a lot of blood in the lower body, I heard that he accidentally fell down and was trampled by the horse on the way to the car, and he didn't feel pain at the time, and thought he was lucky, but he heard the doctor say that the stomach was trampled on somewhere, just like rotten fruit, some fruits are rotten, but the peel is still good, the appearance can not be seen, but a little touch will rot into water, maybe people's heart, liver, spleen and stomach are the same......"

"Don't say it. Mrs. Meng imagined it for a moment, only to feel a little nauseous, something in her stomach was surging up, and it took a long time to suppress it, and instructed Mrs. Quan, "You go and inquire again." ”

"It's not going to be done, and if you ask again, it's conspicuous. Mrs. Quan Si hurriedly waved her hand, "If it were someone else, I wouldn't have revealed this matter if I said anything, Mrs. Liu told me not to say it, but ...... My sister is not the kind of woman who likes to chew the root of her tongue and have nothing to do, so I told my sister about it, in fact, there were a lot of maids and women I saw at that time, and there were many people, and it was difficult to hide it...... All my talents, my sister must not say that I said it. Maybe this Miss Hu Qi really has some disease, and random faxing will kill her. ”

"Sister, don't worry, I will never spread this kind of thing. Thank you sister for telling me. Seeing Mrs. Quan's nervous appearance, Mrs. Meng knew that she was afraid of offending people. The woman likes to inquire, but she never likes people who gossip, the reason why Mrs. Quan Si can mix well in many noble women's circles is because of her strict mouth, if it is not for the Meng family that brings her benefits this time, she will not say anything.

After Mrs. Quan Si left, Mrs. Meng immediately instructed the maid to prepare a sedan chair to go to Dingwangfu, but the sedan chair did not go out, and she ran into Dingwangfu and sent a maid to pass the word. said that the princess had something to do, please Mrs. don't have to go to the house today.

Mrs. Meng was stunned, how did Fu'er know that she was going to Dingwang's Mansion? She only wanted to go after listening to Mrs. Quan's words, and temporarily decided not to even know about her personal maid, the messenger was a maid with a raw face, and only respectfully said that she was only ordered to pass the word, but the others did not know.

Mrs. Meng could only suppress the doubts all over her body, and did not show them in front of the maid mother-in-law, but really made an appointment with the princess, and said polite words to the maid. Then let the maid bring two snacks back and say that the princess likes to eat them on weekdays.

Hu family

Mrs. Hu is simply heartbreaking.

Her youngest daughter, her always well-behaved little daughter, actually had a secret knot, and slipped when she went to someone else's house for a banquet. This daughter is a waste.

Although the daughter was a slippery fetus on the way to the clean room and was not in front of many guests, there were many maids and daughters-in-law of the Liu family who knew at that time, as well as the Liu family and the doctor invited by the Liu family, and maybe one or two guests saw that there were so many mouths, how could they be sealed?

After the slippery tire, the daughter has been in a coma, and the doctor said that it is very dangerous and cannot move. But after the husband learned the news, he didn't care whether his daughter was alive or dead, and he must take her home. She had no choice but to do so.

Compared with Mrs. Hu's heart-rending pain, Hu Shilang was more angry. The eldest daughter had already made him sad once, but now the younger daughter poked out a basket no less than the eldest daughter, and it was rumored that he, the squire, was still standing in the court? The daughter was still in a coma, and he couldn't ask anything for a while, out of a man's nervousness about his reputation, after returning home, he first locked himself in the study and thought about it alone for a long time.

In the end, he ordered someone to find his wife, who was still in front of his youngest daughter's bed.

Hu Shilang's study has always not allowed women to enter, he feels unlucky, but this time he can't care so much, he only stared at Mrs. Hu fiercely and said, "What the hell is going on? How do you educate your daughter?"

Mrs. Hu is full of grievances, she really doesn't know, but now it's a joke to say that she doesn't know, after the eldest daughter's accident, her husband told her to take care of this family and don't care, as long as she manages a pair of daughters, the eldest daughter is now equivalent to being under house arrest, only calling herself sick, not only can she not go out but also walk between the rooms.

The eldest daughter's affairs can be hidden from outsiders, but they can't be hidden from the family, especially the second and third rooms, but each room has daughters, and it is rumored that the reputation of the Hu family girl is not good, so it is not widely spread.

was threatened by his wife, but also a little out of distress for his daughter, thinking about the sons of the third room, the third brother has never paid attention to his daughter, since the third brother and sister have the handle in the hands of his wife, then it is logical to replace the daughter of the third room, and he will not come forward, this is a matter between women, and he will find a way to compensate the third brother more afterwards.

The incident happened suddenly, he was anxious to solve this matter, and he didn't think about it so much, only to find out afterwards that not only the third room, but even the second room and other close relatives in the clan were jealous of him, and he was on guard everywhere, and the time he needed to help was better, but if he needed help, he had to pay the price for others to be willing.

Only then did he realize that this matter was not a daughter's problem, but it chilled other people's hearts, today he can push his younger brother's daughter to die in order to cover up his daughter's ugliness, and he will not push his younger brother to die when he has more important things in the future?

This matter is done quietly, the other two rooms know more, and even other relatives and friends in the clan only force his niece to marry the notorious son of the capital for some kind of selfish interests, and ruined his niece's life, he can't justify it, the third brother's family outside all said that this family is the eldest brother's master, they don't know the character of Hong Ergongzi in advance, although others don't believe that Sanfang is really so ignorant, but only when they have suffering, it must be good to think that the family is the master of the big house, if the third room knows that he is still married, he must be threatened and lured by the big house。

The impact of this incident on his reputation was far more important than expected, and he had a rather unpleasant life these days, which was why the full moon wine of the son of the scholar Liu urged his wife to bring his daughter and several younger siblings and nieces to attend, and other rumors that broke the discord within the Hu family. Who would have thought that would happen.

"Sir, it's all my fault. Mrs. Hu felt aggrieved but didn't dare to cry out for injustice, only insisting that it was her own fault.

Probably this attitude satisfied Hu Shilang. His face softened a little, and he said, "Now is not the time to pursue mistakes. I thought about it, the top priority is to hide this matter, you now bring a generous gift to the Liu family, in addition to thanking them for their help and asking them to go to keep it a secret, and then inquire in detail, there are those maids and women who have seen their daughter's accident, especially if outsiders see it, don't let people spread it.

Mrs. Hu was not very reluctant. She is not very familiar with Mrs. Liu, especially Mrs. Liu, who is still a continuation of the string, and the rank of the lady in the city is also quite distinct, not that the continuation of the string must be inferior, mainly depends on the attitude of the husband's family, the original adult son-in-law can clearly inherit the family business and the status of the continuation of the string without children will be very low, and the status of the original partner who can have children after entering the door is actually not much different from the original match, Mrs. Liu was in the former embarrassing state before, who would have expected that she would be able to give birth to a son when she was old, and some people still muttered about it. It shouldn't have been born by a concubine, Mrs. Liu pretended to be and hugged her when she gave birth, right? I think it's to put an end to this kind of rumor. When Mrs. Liu had a big belly, she made a lot of noise, saying that she was giving birth at an advanced age, and the fetal direction was not good, so she invited the doctor to come over from time to time to diagnose the pulse and protect the fetus. The official position of Liu University students is not enough to buy all the imperial doctors to help lie, not to mention that there are many stable women. With so many pairs of eyes staring, it is impossible to buy everyone.

Mrs. Hu was still a little disdainful of this. thinks that Mrs. Liu is a childish family, but she just makes such a big move when she has a body, for fear that people will not know, so she has some disagreements with Mrs. Liu, and now that her daughter has such an ugly thing, she can't wait to hide at home for the rest of her life without seeing anyone, in fact, this kind of thing makes Hu Shilang and Liu University students directly say that it may be good, even if Mrs. Liu gives birth to a son, she will not dare to disobey her husband, and what Liu University students say must be more effective than what they say.

"Why don't you go soon?" Seeing Mrs. Hu hesitate and not move, Hu Shilang's eyes immediately widened.

At this time, you can't provoke him, although Mrs. Hu is worried about her daughter and wants to stay at home, think about what Hu Shilang said is also reasonable, the most important thing at present is to make sure that there are no unfavorable rumors to spread, otherwise her daughter will only have a dead end.

After the relationship between the husband and wife broke down, Hu Shilang and Mrs. Hu were tired of each other, and they would never look at each other more when they had nothing to do, so Mrs. Hu didn't look back as soon as she turned around, and she didn't see a trace of ruthlessness flashing in her husband's eyes at all......

Inside the Liujia Flower Hall.

Mrs. Liu, who had just come out of confinement and made up for the pearl during the confinement period, was sitting in the flower hall listening to Mrs. Hu's complaints, showing sympathy, but she was very angry in her heart.

Her son's full moon wine, one of the happiest days of her life was mixed up by this ugly incident, and she had to clean up the mess for their Hu family, it was really a person who sat in trouble at home from the sky, and listened patiently to Mrs. Hu for a long time, she had to express her position and said hypocritical words, "Mrs. Hu rest assured, our family's descendants are the most rules, and they will not chew the root of their tongues, not to mention the friendship between our two masters, this matter will spread out to our family...... No good. ”

Mrs. Liu Shengsheng replaced the word shame with no benefit.

However, Mrs. Hu's face was completely uncontrollable, these few words, a shrewd enough woman's judgment attitude, although Mrs. Liu was polite, but obviously expressed her estrangement, I am afraid that the friendship between the two families in the future is really only about the friendship between men, women, it is better to have less contact.

Although she was assured by Mrs. Liu, Mrs. Hu was still not at ease and asked, "What other guests saw it at that time?"

When asked like this, Mrs. Liu's face was not very good-looking, and she hesitated for a moment before replying: "Is it near or far away?" It was too chaotic at the time, and I didn't pay attention to it, and not all of those maids and ladies knew the distinguished guests, and the scene was a little chaotic and far away...... Even if you see it, you probably don't know what's going on. ”

What I want is certain, not probable, Mrs. Hu shouted in her heart, but she didn't dare to say so, she only said: "I'm afraid that I don't know, so I guess and cause misunderstanding."

Mrs. Liu was very unimpressed, it was a good thing that there was a misunderstanding at this time, even if it was to spread the words that Miss Hu Qi was suffering from a serious illness or something like that, it was better than knowing the truth, but she didn't dare to take it, she could keep her mouth shut, but she couldn't guarantee that the guests wouldn't talk nonsense, she didn't have the face to say to the guests like this, there was no need for people to keep it secret, and besides, the people she saw in this kind of thing were really innocent, such as her, she didn't want to know, because once the secret was leaked, she would become a suspect.

The same goes for guests, especially those who are not familiar with each other, you can't tell the truth to others, but let people keep it secret, no one will be happy, if she tells this person's name to Mrs. Hu, and Mrs. Hu finds them, then she is not a person inside and out, and everyone would rather offend Mrs. Hu than get the innocent, otherwise it will be spread out, and everyone will have their own troubles, and she will be the target of everyone.

After thinking about it, Mrs. Liu said lightly: "Mrs. Hu, if you are really worried, I will ask the maid one by one later, and I will tell you when I ask it." ”

Mrs. Hu's face is extremely ugly, and if she wants to ask the maid and mother-in-law wantonly, it will increase the possibility of leaking secrets, she already knew that she would have such consequences when she came to negotiate with Mrs. Liu, from the beginning to the present, Mrs. Liu has an unconcealed disdain in her eyes, which is an embarrassment that she has never encountered in her life.

After the Liu family struggled for a long time, they couldn't get a satisfactory answer, and Mrs. Hu could only return disappointed.

However, when she arrived at the door of the house, she only heard a cry, she was frightened, and hurried to see the personal maid coming towards her, covering her face with a handkerchief and crying: "Madam, Miss Seven...... Miss Seven, she ......"

"What's wrong with her?" an ominous premonition rose in Mrs. Hu's heart.

"Miss, miss, she went. The maid burst into tears.

"How could it be?" Mrs. Hu could barely stand, and the grandmother behind her hurriedly held her up.

After being stunned for a moment, Mrs. Hu pushed away the support of the maid and ran to her daughter's yard at the fastest speed in her life......

Dingwang's mansion

"Swallowing gold and committing suicide. Su Yiqing listened to the report of the green vine, muttered in surprise, remembering that she had also seen Miss Hu Qi at the Hu family banquet, and she couldn't remember her face clearly, she was probably also an innocent and beautiful girl, but her flower-like age withered at the most brilliant age.

But after thinking about it carefully, she felt that something was wrong, ancient times were not the flood of modern detective dramas, which could make people learn a lot of crimes and murder methods, few people knew about the suicide method of swallowing gold in ancient times, the most common was taking poison, most of the poisons were also rat poison such as arsenic, or hanging and throwing into wells, and even the modern popular wrist cutting in ancient times was rarely known.

How did Miss Hu Qi know? Even if she learned by chance that she had just had an accident, she should be surrounded by a group of maids, and it would be difficult to find an opportunity to commit suicide.

Looking at the consequences again, the deceased is the greatest, and once a person dies, it will be a hundred, and it is shameful to slander the deceased at any time, as long as the Hu family announces that Miss Hu Qi died of a sudden illness, even if there is any speculation, it is a small range of gossip, at most it will affect the family affairs of the children of the Hu family, and it will not hinder the career of Hu Shilang and the men of the Hu family.

Miss Hu Qi was neither early nor late, but committed suicide while Mrs. Hu was out, and this time was really good.

Based on all the clues, Su Yiqing was almost certain that it was Hu Shilang's intention to let Miss Hu Qi die.

Hu Shilang wanted to smooth out the situation and calm the people as if nothing had happened, and he didn't even have the intention of seeking justice for his daughter, so he let Miss Hu Qi die, which was equivalent to annihilating the evidence for the child's father.

is ruthless but greatly protects the interests from damage, the daughter's reputation is ruined, and it is useless to survive, and the person who makes Miss Hu Qi's stomach is definitely not an ordinary person, it is difficult to deal with, rather than risking the reputation of the whole family, it is better to be so one-hundred.

I don't know why, Su Yiqing faintly felt that this was what Lian Yufeng wanted to achieve at the beginning. (To be continued)

PS: Yesterday and today are combined.