The banquet in Zhan's mansion was dispersed, Shen Wanzhen took his subordinates to check the cups, plates and dishes, except for the broken ones, not a single one was lost, but a few valuable objects in the hall were lost, and the flower hall furnishings were taken care of by the two girls, who lost who was with them, but the two maids who were in charge of this matter felt deeply aggrieved, "They are all close relatives of the Bofu, and the slaves and maids did not dare to stop them when they saw it." ”

If you want these two girls to accompany you, you can't afford to accompany them, since they are people who can't be provoked by their mothers-in-law, the two of them came forward to stop them, aren't they uncomfortable? Shen Wanzhen is sympathetic to her subordinates, it is not easy for her to be the master, not to mention the maids, seeing that the two maids are pitiful, they can't bear to be punished, and ordered: "Pull up a list of lost things, write down the items clearly, and hand them to me." ”

Shen Wanzhen took the list of written Lang and went to the room to go back to her mother-in-law, Mrs. Zhan sent away these relatives, and when she returned to the room, she felt a pain in her head, and her hair was scattered, leaning on the pillow, and asked the maid Moyu to press her head, and when Shen Wanzhen went in, Moyu knelt on the kang and pressed the top of Mrs. Zhan's head.

"Mother is not feeling well." Shen Wanzhen is a little blessed.

"It's not that they made trouble, it's all difficult, and they were finally sent away." Madame Zhan looked very tired.

"Mother, I lost a few valuable ornaments in the hall, and when I saw that I took them, the maid didn't dare to stop them." Shen Wanzhen said, took out the written slip from her sleeve, and presented it to Mrs. Zhan.

Mrs. Zhan glanced at it a few times, helpless, "I lost a few things that year, forget it, I'd rather lose some silver money and shout to be embarrassed." ”

Shen Wanzhen said with a smile; "The emperor also has three straw sandal relatives, there are many people in the clan, and there are no such people."

"There are a lot of people today, and it's a small thing to lose something, so it's good that nothing big happens." Mrs. Zhan pointed to her temples, Moyu's fingers gently rubbed it, Mrs. Zhan's expression relaxed, and she felt a lot more comfortable.

"I heard that Shang Xiang's girl sprinkled salt in her meal yesterday? Is there such a thing? ”

It's only been less than a day, and Mrs. Zhan has learned that she doesn't look at Mrs. Zhan's family affairs as if she is abandoned, but anything can enter her ears.

"Yes, Shang Xiang is locked up." Shen Wanzhen knew that between the concubine and the maid who were pregnant with the heir of the Zhan family, Mrs. Zhan would undoubtedly go to the concubine, and she didn't mention that Aunt Ying's master and servant ate the dog, and said that the aunt's concubine was not good in front of Mrs. Zhan, which would cause her to be disgusted, thinking that it was the woman's jealousy and narrow-mindedness, anyway, if she didn't say it, there were so many fast-talking people in the house, and she would learn from Mrs. Zhan.

"I'll just tell you why I suddenly ate a warm pot yesterday." Mrs. Zhan just asked about trivial family matters, and the banquet guests ate pots, she didn't think about it, thinking that Shen Wanzhen was young and didn't go through a big battle, what kind of pot to eat in the limelight.

"Daughter-in-law, you should deal with it decently, round things up, do a good job, you are idle, and the housework in the inner house will help your sister-in-law more." Mrs. Zhan had another thought, her son snubbed her daughter-in-law, if Shen Wanzhen was idle all day, after a long time, she was afraid of resentment, helping with family affairs, and the eldest daughter-in-law could spare time to take care of her grandson.

"Yes, mother, there are many relatives who come today, I will go to all parts of the house to take a look, inspect the circle, and my daughter-in-law will retire."

Coming out of the upper room, Shen Wanzhen sat in a soft sedan chair and called Cheng Xing's family and Renyi's family to inspect everywhere.

Next to Mrs. Zhan is the third room, when the third room boundary, the next person said that the third young lady Cao fell asleep, Shen Wanzhen asked a few words, did not alarm the Cao family, and passed.

Took people to take a detour to the big house, Shen Wanzhen sat in the warm sedan chair and didn't come down, Cheng Xing's family and Renyi's family went over, saw that the courtyard door was closed, it was dark in the upper house, the candles were extinguished, walked back to the sedan chair, and replied: "Second young lady, the big room has been blackened, and the servants and others didn't dare to knock on the door." ”

"Don't bother her, I think the young lady is tired and rests." Having said that, Shen Wanzhen was a little puzzled in her heart, Zhao's festival has been busy these days, going to bed late and getting up early, it is very hard, it is said that you can't rest assured that you can't go to bed early, probably after working hard for days, your body can't support it, so you settled it early.

When the group walked to the Zhan Mansion Garden, it was already handover, the garden was silent, and the mother-in-law who patrolled the night had probably passed early.

Shen Wanzhen asked people to look around to see if there were any fires accidentally left by the fireworks, the wild grass was dry in winter, so as not to ignite, this large garden, that place was led, it was really difficult to save.

While walking and looking, quite delayed work, until the southeast of the garden, not far in front is a rockery stacked with strange stones, at this moment, most of the Bofu extinguished the candles, and the surroundings were silent.

The curtain of the warm sedan car was rolled up, and Shen Wanzhen looked around, afraid that the subordinates would miss something.

At this time, there was a sudden sound in the silence, 'woo', everyone was startled, held their minds, the sound seemed to come from behind the rockery, and several stout mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law shouted, "Who's inside, come out quickly." ”

There was no movement behind the rockery, and after a pause, there was a 'woo' sound, as if it was made by covering the mouth.

Everyone looked at each other, and suddenly, with a sharp voice, "Help ......" shouted half a sentence, as if they were blocked by something.

There was a sudden sound in the silence, a little creepy, Shen Wanzhen glanced at the dark place behind the rockery, stuck her head out of the sedan window, and said in a deep voice: "Let's go and have a look." ”

Listening to the master's instructions, several powerful mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law went around the back of the rockery, dragged two people out after a while, and scolded: "Hurry up, go see the young lady." ”

Pushing and shoving the two people in front of the warm sedan chair where Shen Wanzhen was sitting, Cheng Xingjia replied: "Catch a man and a woman, and when the slave and maid go in, the two of them are in the rockery cave, doing that ugly thing." ”

"The lantern shines, let me see, who is it?" Shen Wanzhen identified a man and a woman in the shadows, the woman was so ashamed that she hid her face and cried, not being stopped, she was about to hit her head on the stone, the man was holding his pants, and was pushed by everyone and knelt in front of Shen Wanzhen's sedan chair.

The maid raised the horn lamp, and Shen Wanzhen saw clearly that the man looked like a little maid in the house, looking at the woman, her clothes were torn, barely covering her shame, her hair was messy and hanging down, hiding her face and crying, Shen Wanzhen didn't see her face clearly, "You are in that room?" A tryst with a man here in the middle of the night? Is it you and me, or ....... Looking at this woman's situation, it was in vain to ask, and it must have been forced, but Shen Wanzhen asked more out of caution.

When the woman saw this, she hid her face and wept aloud, and she wept and counted, and she cried so much that she could not speak clearly, and she spoke slurredly.

The Cheng family explained again: "This woman is the girl Qiao'er in the big brother's house, and this man is the little girl Chunwang with the uncle, the two of them cheated and did unsightly things, when the slaves and maids went in, this little girl Chunwang was pressing this Qiao'er girl under him, and he was rushed by the slaves and maids. ”

Qiao'er cried anxiously, "The slave and maid were deceived by this guy, and as soon as he came up, he forced the slave and maid to be rude, but the slave and maid struggled, not reluctantly." Feeling ashamed, he turned around and rushed towards the rockery, about to hit the rocks.

"Stop." Cheng Xingjia screamed, this is going to kill someone.

Everyone didn't expect her to have this hand, they all stood and looked, she might as well rush over, didn't react for a while, the loss of Renyi's house was close to the rockery, when she hadn't bumped into it, she grabbed it, and several mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law hugged her to death, not daring to let go, afraid that as soon as she let go, she would look for a short time.

"Tie them up." Shen Wanzhen saw that Qiao'er had the heart of death, and was afraid that she would not be able to see it, so she looked for a short time, so she tied her up with the little guy named Chunwang.

got up the sedan chair, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law pressed the two to follow behind Shen Wanzhen's sedan chair and brought them back to the second room.

Shen Wanzhen sat in the warm sedan chair and pondered, at first glance she heard the name Qiao'er, as if she had heard it there, and she was blindfolded all of a sudden, and she couldn't remember, she heard Cheng Xing's family say that she was the girl of the big house, and suddenly, she remembered that day when she came out of the big house, Zhao whispered in the house, she overheard that Zhao's words had mentioned Qiao'er, and she seemed to be very disgusted, it seems that this Qiao'er girl is not an ordinary maid.

Back in the second room, Shen Wanzhen sat down in the hall and ordered, "Bring the two up." ”

This man and woman were brought up, originally there was nothing to ask about this kind of adultery, but Shen Wanzhen always felt strange.

This Qiao'er is the maid of the sister-in-law, although she is in the dark, she can vaguely see her graceful figure, and when she heard Zhao mention her name that day, she seemed to grit her teeth and said it, so she couldn't help but ask clearly.

The ropes tied to the two of them were not loosened, and they were pushed by everyone and knelt down in the hall.

That little guy Chunwang looked indifferent, and Qiao'er pear blossoms brought rain, and I felt pity.

Under the lamp, Shen Wanzhen saw clearly, but this girl was pure in appearance, and there were few masters who were so beautiful.

Shen Wanzhen first asked Qiao'er: "Why did you come to the garden at night?" ”

When Qiao'er heard this, she whimpered, and then cried bitterly, crying and saying, "Aunt An's maid called the slave maid to the garden, saying that Aunt An and the slave maid have something to do. "Say it, cry so much.

"Aunt An" Wanzhen repeated, this matter is even more strange, adultery also dragged Aunt An, Shen Wanzhen suddenly thought about it a little.

"It's Sister Mingyue in Aunt An's house who said that Aunt An is waiting for slaves in the garden." Qiao'er said it, and cried again, not like lying.

Shen Wanzhen looked at Chunwang and said coldly: "Won't it be Aunt An who wants you to go?" ”

"Exactly, the second young lady, it was Aunt An who asked the slave to go, the slave fell in love with Miss Qiao'er, made the silver dotted, and begged Aunt An to ask the slave to be a daughter-in-law for the slave in front of the young lady, tonight Aunt An asked the maid to tell the slave that it was done, and the girl Qiao'er was waiting for the slave in the garden, who knew that the slave went, Qiao'er was thin-skinned, desperate, kicked and beat me, and the slave didn't know if she was really unwilling, thinking she was hypocritical, and the girl's family was shy."

Shen Wanzhen understood, in the final analysis, both of them were coaxed by Aunt An, so why did this Aunt An do such a thing? What is the reason for this?

The matter has been asked clearly, Shen Wanzhen said downward: "Cheng Xing's family, take it down and take care of it, if people can't think about it, they will run away and die." ”

The two were escorted down.

Shen Wanzhen went through the things before and after in her mind, An is the uncle's favorite concubine, looking at Zhao's attitude towards Qiao'er, it is difficult for the uncle to fall in love with Qiao'er, if so, it is easy to explain.

The uncle has always favored the concubine An, and now the uncle has moved his mind to Qiao'er, An's jealousy, so he designed to break Qiao'er's body, and the uncle will not touch the woman who has soiled the body, it is reasonable, no matter how you say it, it can be rounded.

But Shen Wanzhen always felt that something was not quite right there, a conspiracy that seemed to be adultery was actually □ coincidental, and she was bumped into by herself.

After thinking about it carefully, the whole thing should be like this, An's jealous uncle fell in love with Qiao'er, relying on the uncle's favor, he was confused and blinded, and he was so bold that he designed to frame the woman he fancied, and the three heads of the case were investigated to find out the truth, which is logical. An's is afraid that he is going to be in big trouble, and the man is ruthless and ruthless.

Shen Wanzhen only believed in one or two percent of this, and it was arranged by the Zhao family.

is undoubtedly a good plan, Chunwang is the person of the young lady, and the maid Mingyue of the An family who passed the word, if it is really the ghost of the Zhao family, then a good person has already been installed around the An family, I am afraid that the witnesses are not only Mingyue's girl, and they will stand up one by one to testify against Aunt An, then there will be no flaws to find.

It didn't take much time for the Cheng family to go, so they turned around, "Back to the second young lady, the person has been locked up, and someone is ordered to take care of it." ”

Shen Wanzhen snorted.

Cheng Xingjia's expression was a little hesitant, hesitated for a moment, approached, and whispered in his ear:

"Uncle Qiao's girl has long been worried about it, I heard that two days ago, the young lady was not in the room, the uncle forced the Qiao'er girl to do something, and was broken by the young lady, rushing to do a good thing, the uncle was very annoyed because of this, and did not go to the room of the young lady, and the two of them had a cold war."

The cunning of the Cheng family, without saying anything, only revealed the hidden secrets and discusses in it, and Shen Wanzhen understood that she was right.

The Cheng family's purpose is to please the second young lady, in this way, the second young lady has a number in her heart, and she is good to decide, and she is also led by the second young lady as a confidant.

Shen Wanzhen thought for a while, "Tonight, Ming'er will send the two of them to the big room, both of them are from the big house, please send the uncle and the young lady down." ”

"Aunt Cheng, I have been bothering for the past few days, and I know it in my heart."

The Cheng family glanced at the master, and said in his heart, that's right, the second young lady is a top smart woman, and she can see through it at all.

It was not early, and when the Cheng family went down, Shen Wanzhen ordered the courtyard door to be closed and prepared to be settled.

As soon as Xiuju came up with water, she heard the sound of 'knocking on the door' at the courtyard gate.

"It's coming, it's coming." The old woman at home hurriedly ran out.

'Bang, bang, bang' There were a few more hurried doors, as if someone couldn't wait to slap the door panel vigorously, "Who?" In the middle of the night, it was the one who poured ....... As soon as the door opened, the woman was stunned and busy with a smiling face, "It's the master who is here, and the old slave should be that frizzy little guy."

"The second master drank too much, and the uncle ordered it to be sent over." The two little guys pushed Zhan Shaoting to the mother-in-law, Zhan Shaoting was unstable on his feet, and the mother-in-law was so frightened that she hurriedly held on, "My master, I drank so much and hurt my body carefully." ”

The mother-in-law helped her grandfather and greeted her in the upper room, "That sister came out, help the handle, and the master is back." ”

"Let's go and see." Shen Xuanzhen borrowed the light in the foyer from the window to see clearly that Zhan Shaoting was drunk.

Xiuju and Qiao Shan ran out of the house and helped Zhan Shaoting into the main house with the mother-in-law, Zhan Shaoting entered the Xinuan Pavilion and saw Shen Wanzhen sitting in front of the dressing table, unhurriedly removing the hairpin ring on his head, he was eight points drunk, but he understood in his heart, but he couldn't walk steadily, Uncle Zhan Shaoxiang deliberately asked people to help him to go to the room, the meaning was very clear, and he wanted him to borrow the strength of wine to reconcile with Shen Wanzhen and his wife, and sit down as husband and wife, so as not to gossip outside.

Several people helped Zhan Shaoting to the kang, and Xiuju took a pillow for him to lean on, letting him lean on it.

"Get the decanting soup for you." Shen Wanzhen didn't look at him either, her back to him, her hand raised and pulled out the last step.

Zhan Shaoting was snubbed, drank too much wine, was angry, squinted at Shen Wanzhen's back, and sneered: "What a second young lady in charge." ”

"If you think I'm incompetent, I go back to my mother and take off my errand." Shen Wanzhen's attitude was lukewarm.

Zhan Shaoting snorted coldly, and at this time, Xiuju brought a bowl of decanting soup, Qiao Shan and Feng'er helped him up, and waited for him to drink.

"You all go down, and it will be enough for your young lady to serve me alone." Zhan Shaoting stared at Shen Wanzhen, since he entered the door, Shen Wanzhen's body did not move, and he didn't even turn his head, being so neglected by his wife aroused his anger.

Xiuju hesitated for a few moments, and didn't dare to disobey, so she reluctantly retreated.

The warm curtain in the inner room was lowered, "Pour me a glass of water, I'm thirsty." Zhan Shaoting was in trouble.

Shen Wanzhen was helpless, stood up, picked up the empty cup on the table, poured a glass of water, brought it over, and sent it forward, meaning to drink it.

Zhan Shaoting saw her reluctant posture, and was angry in his heart, and deliberately made things difficult, "Feed me, won't you wait for people?" Before you get married, no one told you how to wait for your future husband? ”

Shen Wanzhen was patient, brought the cup to his mouth, looked at him coldly, and was not prepared to talk to a drunken person.

Zhan Shaoting raised his hand, and with a 'snap', the cup flew out of Shen Wanzhen's hand, landed on the bluestone floor tiles, and shattered.

Shen Wanzhen glanced at him indifferently, and turned around to walk out of the house.

"Stand still." Zhan Shaoting's voice was implicitly angry.

Shen Wanzhen stood and turned around, "You're drunk, I'll talk about it tomorrow." ”

Shen Wanzhen looked at him indifferently, and the contempt between her eyebrows could be felt by Ren Zhan Shaoting's drunkenness.

Zhan Shaoting squeezed out a few words between his teeth with hatred, "Proud of yourself, you are just an old concubine who has been dismissed from the marriage and no one wants the five-rank small state official." ”

Shen Wanzhen stared at him, silent, her eyes calm and waveless.

Zhan Shaoting sneered twice, raised his head, and squinted, "Are you still thinking about your divorced fiancé, that little imperial history?" ”

Seeing that Shen Wanzhen still didn't react, she said disdainfully: "I have a little doubt that your body is still white." ”

This gratuitous insult made Shen Wanzhen angry, Shen Wanzhen swallowed a breath and pulled the corners of her lips, "Since the concubine is so unbearable, I don't want to tarnish the nobility of my husband, can we reconcile?" ”

Zhan Shaoting originally tilted his body and sat up straight, although he was drunk, he understood in his heart that it was

borrowed wine to pretend to be crazy and had a seizure.

"And leave? Hey! Did I hear me right? Zhan Shaoting laughed angrily.

"Yes, and leaving." Shen Wanzhen clearly and simply spit out what she had already wanted to say in her heart.

"Are you willing to be the young lady of the Bofu Mansion?" Zhan Shaoting stared straight at her, trying to find out the hypocritical pretense from her face.

Shen Wanzhen's face was flat, as if she was saying something else irrelevant, "Since you don't look down on me, why don't you leave happily?" You think about giving me an answer. Shen Wanzhen said, turned around and walked out.

Zhan Shaoting was stunned for a moment, and suddenly his sleeves swept across the kang table and pulled with a stroke.

Shen Wanzhen only listened to the crisp sound of things breaking behind her, and did not pause, reached out to lift the curtain, and calmly walked out.

The embroidered chrysanthemums at the door were all scared. "Call the red girl and the peony girl and wait for the second master." Shen Guanzhen didn't stop, walked out of the door of the hall, and went to the east ear room to settle.