Chapter 2: The Truth
Shuying got Cen Erniang's instructions and sent the confession of Yang Eryi and his wife hidden in her sleeve pocket to Cen Erye's study.
Second Master Cen fainted in the examination room yesterday and was carried back, only resting for one night, and today he insisted on sitting in the study to review his strategy despite the persuasion of Chang Sui Yumo and his wife Lin.
It's just that he was quite worried about the results of the year-end exams for the resumption of school, and he only reviewed a few policy essays, and he could no longer concentrate.
Yesterday, he fainted to death in the middle of the exam, and nearly half of the exam questions were still unanswered...... Most of the time you can only get by. If there is an error in the previous question, I am afraid that it will be ......
Second Master Cen was full of sorrow, put aside the strategy, picked up the "Dajing Law Codex" that had been revised and published only half a year ago at the beginning of the case, and read it repeatedly. Only by reading the "Code of Laws" and looking at the laws and regulations in the book that he could not be more than correct and disciplined, did his anxious heart get a moment of peace.
When Shuying pushed open the door of the study and came in, Second Master Cen happened to turn to page 138 of the "Legal Code", and his gaze changed unpredictably as his fingers stayed on the fifth article of the fourteenth article, "Xiucai Returns to the Farm".
After Shuying entered the house, she first respectfully asked Cen Erye to say goodbye, and then told Sù Cen Erye, the second girl checked for more than a month, and finally found out the spy that the third old lady Gao had placed in the second room. This time, she brought the confession of Yang Er and his wife to Cen Erye.
Second Master Cen pulled his gaze from the book, landed on Shu Ying, coughed, and said lightly: "Put the confession on my table." Cough...... Cough! With that, he coughed twice.
Shuying walked a few steps lightly, came to Er Ye Cen's desk, took out two confessions from the sleeve pocket of his right hand with his left hand, and slowly put them in front of Second Master Cen. Before she put down her confession, she glanced at Er Chai's book and saw that the full text of the ordinance of "Xiucai Returns to Farming" was; Those who are ranked last in the year-end examination will be stripped of their clothes, removed from their school status, deposed as the people, and returned to the peasants. Those who return to the peasants from this point of view are not allowed to re-evaluate their merits for the rest of their lives, let alone enter the court as officials.
She has followed Cen Erniang to read and write since she was a child, has an outstanding memory, and almost never forgets it, swept the "Xiucai Returns to Farming" order, and was secretly frightened: Why is the second master in a daze with this order? And the face is so solemn! Thinking of the incident when Second Master Cen fainted in the examination room yesterday, as well as the twists and turns of Second Master Cen's scientific examination over the years, her heart couldn't help beating wildly: Could it be ......
Seeing that Shuying put down his confession, Second Master Cen did not retreat, but instead stood in place in a daze, he coughed lightly, "You go down first, persuade Erniang, and let her not act rashly for the time being." After I read the confession and understand the beginning and end of the matter, I will discuss with her and act. ”
"Obey the orders of the second master, and the slave will retire." Shuying pressed her beating heart, tried to shake off the terrible guess in her heart, and controlled her pace with self-control beyond ordinary people, so that she would not run wildly.
However, her hurried pace still caused Yumo to look at her twice: What happened to the big girl next to the second girl today, why is she so panicked? He was only curious for a moment, and then looked at Second Master Cen silently and disapprovingly: Hey, Second Master really didn't listen to persuasion, he was sick like this, and he didn't leave his hand to return the book.
Two quarters of an hour later, Yumo was frightened by the increasingly solemn atmosphere in the study and the increasingly cold face of Second Master Cen, and she didn't know what the second girl asked Shuying to bring to the second master, so that the second master showed such a terrible expression.
Yumo was a little curious, and once again regretted that he didn't know the big characters. If he was literate, he would know what was going on.
That's right! What confession did Fang Shuying say? Did someone make a mistake? I don't know who it is...... Yumo's face was serious, but his thoughts were like wild horses on the loose, drifting farther and farther.
"Damn! The poisonous woman! Second Master Cen slammed the table and got up, because he stood too fast, the nerve that he was sitting on was numb, causing him to sit down on the chair, panting heavily, coughing, and scolding angrily: "That old witch...... Ahem...... It's too much of a deception! ”
Yumo suddenly stepped forward to support Second Master Cen with one hand, and gently beat his back with the other, from top to bottom, to give him relief, "Second Master, don't be angry, it's not cost-effective to get angry......
"Get out!" Under the anger of Second Master Cen, his strength exploded, pushed away Yumo, and said sharply: "Go and invite the second girl over!" Just go! ”
"The little one is going! You're out of gas! Yumo ran out of the study and went straight to the plum garden.
When Yumo went to Meiyuan to visit Cen Erniang, Cen Erniang had just asked the little maid Lingfeng to send away Dr. Qin, who was treating Lin, and she coerced and lured, and finally defrauded Dr. Qin of a big secret.
It turned out that Lao Beng, the aunt of the big house, was diagnosed as pregnant by Dr. Qin three months ago. And from the news that Shuying will learn from the second sister-in-law of Chai Fang Yang, it can be seen that the baby conceived by her eldest aunt is likely to be a young master.
Therefore, from the day she learned that her eldest aunt was pregnant, her grandmother Gao began to lay out and design their second room to plan for the grandchildren in her aunt's womb.
is worthy of her grandmother, who has stood for many years, and she weighs more than a thousand pounds as soon as she makes a move. Gao knew that her mother's status in the second room was the most special and prominent, so he wanted to get rid of her mother first and let the people in the second room break up. Maybe her grandmother also arranged a vicious stepmother for her, her eldest brother and third brother after getting rid of her mother, slowly ruining their reputation, and smearing her father by the way, and finally ruining their father and son.
In this way, all of her eccentric grandfather's qiē will fall into the hands of the big house.
Cen Erniang thought about this, and was afraid. She pondered it again and again, and found that her scheming grandmother was almost invulnerable. But Gao only missed one thing: her father loved her mother more than her life!
Fortunately, my father had a deep affection for my mother, and when he saw that his mother was critically ill, he insisted on taking care of his mother with his own hands, which allowed his mother to save her life.
Cen Erniang was once again glad that her parents had a deep love for plaice, otherwise, according to her grandmother's arrangement, within three years, the second room would be completely ruined. And their family of five, who love each other, will have their own miserable ends.
She was also glad that she noticed that her mother's condition was repeatedly strange, and sent someone to stare at the three daughters-in-law in her mother's room, and ambushed them for a long time, and finally caught the spy of Yang Er's sister-in-law.
Thinking of Yang's second sister-in-law, Cen Erniang felt a lot of emotion. This woman is really a cunning rabbit, and the secrets on her body are more and more amazing!
Before, she always felt that Yang Er's sister-in-law had reservations, so she sent Shuying to find out her words. Sure enough, as she expected, the second sister-in-law of Yang heard Shuying say that her gambler husband was instigated to go to the Jixiang Gambling House by the little girl Yin Zhu next to her eldest uncle, and knew that it was Yin Zhu and the people from the Jixiang Gambling House who gave Yang Er a trap, so that he tasted the sweetness first, and then tempted him to gamble more and more, and finally owed a huge gambling debt. Without the slightest reservation, she confessed all the secrets of the big house she knew.
It turned out that her dear grandmother, while plotting for her mother's life, was still coveting their second room property!
Yang's second sister-in-law was ordered by her grandmother to ask her mother where the title deed of the grange that her grandfather rewarded her father with when he won the first place in his father's policy half a year ago.
After Cen Erniang learned about this, she raised her lips and smiled lightly: Fortunately, the title deed was in her hands, so Yang Er's sister-in-law didn't ask for any useful news from her mother. Akari in the second room is her mother's house, but in fact, she is the real head of the family. Therefore, all the money and treasures in the second room and the deeds of the manor shop were all collected by her.
It's just that there are not many people who know this secret. So it's no wonder that her grandmother was looking in the wrong direction.
As soon as she thought of Gao's sinister intentions and vicious tricks, Cen Erniang was furious, and she wanted to rush to her grandfather immediately to expose the conspiracy of Dafang and her grandmother, so that they could steal chickens and rice.
It was so coincidental that she wanted to go to her father to get a confession and find her grandfather, so Yumo took her father's words and came to her.
Cen Erniang looked at the unknown Yumo and smiled: This is not what the book says, "The heart is a little clear".
The well-read Miss Cen Er was too out-of-the-box and had forgotten the correct use of this poem. However, at this time, she didn't have the heart to care about this.
"Yumo, is my father okay?" After Cen Erniang laughed so frightened that Yumo was shocked, she got up and took the lead, and walked towards Mo Changxuan, where Cen Erye was, followed by Yumo and Shuying.
The things involved this time are not only important, but also confidential, Cen Erniang was afraid of startling the snake, so she only took Shuying with her.
The second master looked at the paper presented by Miss Shuying, and was furious. Before the little one left, the second master was so angry that he coughed...... "Yumo followed closely behind Cen Erniang, walking forward, whispering back, accidentally said that he missed his mouth, and he wanted to slap himself twice.
Cen Erniang frowned when she heard this, and her steps were faster, "Why does my father not care for his body so much?" Are you staring at your father taking his medicine on time? ”
"The slave didn't dare to forget the second girl's instructions. They all served the second master and took the medicine on time. It's just that the illness is like a mountain, and the illness is like a thread...... "Yumo was afraid that Cen Erniang, who felt sorry for Second Master Cen, would be angry with him, so he took the words that Second Master Cen often talked about for a while.
"Oh." Cen Erniang's thoughts revolved around the news confessed by Yang Er's sister-in-law, and she didn't bother with Yumo, and almost walked towards Cen Erye's Mo Changxuan with the soles of her feet.
It was thanks to her father that Dafang and her grandmother's plans fell through. She had to catch her grandmother and her eldest aunt off guard before they found out.
As for her eldest uncle in the big room, who was full of fat brains and only knew indulgence, affection, voice, and sex, as well as the eldest son of the eldest uncle, who was sick and weak, and his cowardly eldest daughter-in-law who had no sense of zài, she didn't take them to heart at all. These three people did not pose the slightest threat to the second room.