Back at the Shen Mansion, it was already late at night.

Shen Mingzhen took a bath, and after taking a bath, she lay on the bed and couldn't fall asleep for a long time.

Often, as soon as I fall asleep, I am troubled by inexplicable anxiety and have to wake up.

If you don't rest at night, it's easier to do things in a hundred days

She simply asked Shisu to light a sleeping incense for herself.

Finally fell asleep.

The next day, when she woke up, she heard the old lady's summons.

Shen Mingzhen said that the last one arrived, and when she arrived, the room was already full of people. Old Madam Shen sat on the chair in the middle, and Mrs. Sun knelt on the ground and sobbed silently.

She leaned over and saluted, "Greetings to grandmother." ”

The old lady hummed faintly.

Shen Mingzhen went to see her mother.

Sun was wearing a white pear flower skirt and was dressed beautifully. Duan is standing there, making people feel pitiful and thin, and sympathizing for no reason.

"Mother, what's the matter?"

Mrs. Sun shook her head, and there was a decadent look on her face: "Girl, it was my mother who did it wrong in the past, and you learned badly if you taught it for no reason."

When my mother woke up from a dream, she realized that she was wrong. You must remember that in the future, you must honor your grandmother, take good care of your younger brothers and sisters, be orderly among the young and the elderly, respect the old and love the young. ”

……

She didn't want to hear what her mother said next.

Shen Mingzhen couldn't understand what the old lady had to do with her mother, and she would ask her to surrender her identity like this and admit her mistakes in public.

She turned to look at Old Madam Shen: "Grandmother, mother, what mistake did she make to ask you to humiliate her like this?" ”

The old lady glanced at her: "You didn't listen to your mother's words, did you?" She just told you to respect the old and love the young, are you so respectful and love the young?

It's not her fault that she can teach your daughter who is rude?

She has been married into my Shen family for many years, and she has not been able to give birth to a sister-in-law who inherits the family business for my Shen family, is it not her fault?

She has been married into the Shen Mansion for many years, and she has not been able to love your father like lacquer, but she looks at each other with disgust, is it not her fault? ”

"So, how is Grandmother going to discipline Mother?"

"What else?" The old lady looked at her twice: "I used to think you were young and cute, but the older you get, the more unorthodox you become." Your mother has been doing nothing for so many years.

Today I find out your fault, you and your mother change one by one, if the change is not good, you will get out of the door of my Shen family, and the Shen family will not have your mother and daughter from now on. ”

"Now, kneel like your mother and admit my mistakes."

Shen Mingzhen's eyes narrowed into a slit.

Soldiers can be killed, but not humiliated.

The old lady doesn't even want to maintain the superficial relationship.

Very good.

Shen Mingzhen continued to bow down, threw out a silver needle from her sleeve, and plunged it straight into the old lady Shen's sleeping hole.

She pretended to be surprised, walked forward to help the old lady, and silently put the silver needle back.

Aunt Zhu hurriedly called her: "Shen Mingzhen, your grandmother must have been dizzy by you and your mother, and you can't come over to treat your grandmother." ”

"I'm not good at medicine, and I haven't learned it yet, so I'm afraid I won't be able to solve problems for Aunt Zhu and my grandmother."

Shen Mingzhen picked up her mother and walked out with everyone on her back.

Mrs. Sun's spirit was not very good, she touched and walked for a while, looked at her for a while and stopped, and finally couldn't help but speak: "Mingzhen, I fell out with your grandmother and fell out, you are the daughter of the Shen family no matter what." In the future, your grandmother will still be in charge of your marriage. You ......"

"So you have to obey your grandmother for the rest of your life?

Mother, I can't see you being wronged, let alone being wronged. Besides, there are few people in this house who exist.

Father needs you.

Aunt Zhu doesn't have the ability to take charge of the feed.

The old lady was old, dizzy, and couldn't read the account book for a long time.

Could it be that the Zhang of the Shen family needs a subordinate to intervene in the management? ”

Mrs. Sun thought about it, it's this reason.

She was also in the middle of the night, when she heard that Shen Mingzhen's shop was burned down and owed more than 300 taels of silver to the jewelry store next door.

She thought that as long as Shen Mingzhen treated the old lady well, it was impossible for the Shen family not to help her repay the debt.

But she begged the old lady for a long time, but the old lady didn't say a word.

She realized that she had found the wrong person.

The old lady didn't care about Shen Mingzhen at all, she only cared about whether she had the absolute right to speak in the Shen family, and whether she was the daughter of the Shen family.

Mrs. Sun frowned: "However, your shop has been burned." I still owe so much silver......"

She gritted her teeth: "Mother still has a lot of gold and silver jewelry in the dowry, so I will use it as a ...... to help you pay off."

Shen Mingzhen: "Mother, don't worry, it's most important to find the talent who burns the shop right now." ”

She hurriedly said goodbye to her mother.

Decided to go out of the house to find the official who helped her find the arson yesterday. When he walked to the door, he was blocked by the doorman.

The subordinate looked at her with an embarrassed expression: "Miss, Old Madam Shen gave us an order last night, saying that you can't be let out no matter what."

If you are let out, the villain's job will be lost. ”

With that, he blocked the bench in the doorway. Look at her flattering smile.

Shen Mingzhen turned and left.

I understood that Old Madam Shen and Aunt Zhu had ulterior motives.

I went to her shop last night. knew that something had happened to her shop, but he didn't let her go out.

It's just vicious.

She went back to her yard and told her men to smash the wall that connected to the street: "You are here to guard, and I will come back tonight." ”

Master and Master were still waiting for her in the inn.

Seeing her coming, the master pulled her and shouted: "Your master and I didn't sleep all night, and we went to investigate all night to get clues." Eventually, the man's clothes were found. ”

Probably because the fire was set in such a hurry that the strips of cloth on the clothes of the fire-resistant people were forgotten in the corners.

On the dark blue cloth, one side is blackened by fire, and the other side is greasy, and most of the putty in the cover.

Shen Mingzhen looked at the strip of cloth becoming more and more familiar, recalled it for a while, and finally remembered that it was the fabric often worn by the people in Aunt Zhu's garden.

Shi Niang pulled him: "Your master and I found a large piece of putty in the alley in the west of the city. ”

lives in the west of the city, and is a descendant of the Shen Mansion.

Shen Mingzhen thought about it and decided to go back to the house and ask.

She drank a cup of tea in the courtyard and asked Shisu: "You go and ask, who lives in the west of the city in Aunt Zhu's courtyard." ”

Shisu only came back in the evening: "There is a man who burns the fire, and his mother lives in the west of the city." It was said that her mother had been sick for the past few days, so she had taken a few days off.

The slave maid heard, "He hasn't been in Aunt Zhu's yard for several days."

Shen Mingzhen hurriedly took Zi Su to find it. Master and Mrs. were afraid that something would happen to her, so she specially asked her senior brother to accompany him.

The elder brother's name is Hu Lewei, a child adopted by the master since childhood, and he has been working with the master in the Tai Hospital for the past few years.

Hu Le is white and pure, and he is a full head and a half taller than her. The smile is also very calm, and when I look at her quietly, I inexplicably think of the words gentle gentleman.

Hu Lewei also spoke softly: "Senior sister, I'll accompany you." You're a weak woman, it's not good if you're bullied. Don't be afraid, senior brother will follow you, senior brother will protect you safely. ”

It's reassuring.

While Shen Mingzhen was waiting, Hu Lewei hired a carriage for her, and thoughtfully lifted the curtain and waited for Shen Mingzhen to go in first.

The two of them sat down, and Hu Lewei took out the rope in the package: "Senior sister, don't worry, when you get to where he is in a while, the senior brother will use the rope to lassoate him." ”

Anyway, he gave her a firework.

"At that time, as long as the junior sister sets off this firework, the master and the senior sister will bring the officers and soldiers to help us."

Shen Mingzhen responded with a smile.

It was half an hour to walk on the road, and Hu Le was afraid that she and Zisu would be hungry, so he also brought a flower cake made by himself: "If my sister is hungry, you can eat some of this to relieve your fatigue." This is what I did with Hu Xi, a kid, and he used to say that when he learned how to cook, he must bring it to his favorite sister Mingzhen.

Unexpectedly, this kid didn't give it to her senior sister, but asked me, the senior brother, to take advantage of it. ”

Shen Mingzhen knew that Hu Lewei was making herself laugh.

It was only noon when the group arrived, and the little maid in Aunt Zhu's yard was eating.

He was sitting on the threshold eating a bowl of noodles.

Zi Su stepped forward to say hello: "Hey, aren't you Zhang Xiaosan, you don't serve in Aunt Zhu's yard, why do you eat here." ”

When Zhang Xiaosan saw Zisu coming, he paused for a moment, and deliberately looked behind Zisu.

Seeing that there was no one, he greeted Shisu: "Why did Sister Shisu come to my house, did you eat it, my mother just made shredded chicken noodles, but it is fragrant." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, his neck was wrapped in a rope by Hu Lewei.

Hu Lewei tied Zhang Xiaosan's legs and nodded at Shen Mingzhen.

The fireworks were placed in the air, brilliant and colorful.

When the bitter master came, Zhang Xiaosan knew that he couldn't escape, so he quickly knelt down: "Miss save me, it's really my mother's health is not good, she is dying, and the family is in urgent need of money." Aunt Zhu said that as long as I did this errand, she would give me ten taels of silver and ask me to take it to my mother for treatment.

I went to burn the shop, only to know that it was Miss's shop, I really didn't mean it, Miss spare. ”

Zi Su kicked him: "Didn't you just say that your mother made you good chicken noodles, why did you just say that your old lady was sick and couldn't get up, how can you change your face faster than turning a book." ”

Zhang Xiaosan scratched his head and stopped talking.

Hu Lewei tied Zhang Xiaosan to the pillar at the door and told Shen Mingzhen to take care of him. lifted his robe and entered Zhang Xiaosan's house.

There was no one in Zhang Xiaosan's house at all, and under the broken and dirty bed board, there was still half a crockpot of oil and a fire fold.

The color of the oil is black, and it is the best melon seed oil, which is exactly the same as the oil in the shop where Shen Mingzhen was burned.

Master, Master, Sister, and officers and soldiers quickly rushed over.

The officers and soldiers went up to interrogate Zhang Xiaosan: "Who told you to prevent fire?" ”

Zhang Xiaosan's eyes were purring, and his mouth changed hexagrams: "I just set the fire when I saw that the eldest lady was not pleasing to the eye." ”

The officers and soldiers squatted on the ground and calculated the accounts for Zhang Xiaosan: "The fire you set burned a guest room in the jewelry store next door, and burned most of the backyard of Shen Mingzhen's shop. It is estimated that you will not be able to pay back this money for a while, so you will have to spend the rest of your life in a prison cell. ”

"What's that, it's not the first time I've been in a cell."

"It's a pity that the rest of your life is too short." The officers and soldiers sighed: "There are too many silver taels involved this time, and when this case is quickly tried, I will have to kill you to make the people angry." You maliciously prevent fire, implicated for no reason, this time you will probably be sentenced to a long time.

If nothing else, they will be beheaded after the fall.

Do you know Ling Chi, take a knife and scrape it on your body one by one, until you scrape more than 3,000 knives, and you will die of excessive blood loss for two days and two nights. ”

The officers and soldiers looked mighty, and they even coaxed and deceived when they spoke, and Zhang Xiaosan couldn't stand it: "Really? ”

"What am I lying to you for, if you don't believe it, you can try it."

Zhang Xiaosan was stunned and confessed.

He said that since he was a child, he came out to work as an errand boy and was used to living a hard life.

He worked as an errand in Aunt Zhu's yard, and he has been living a life of sweeping the floor day and night, working day and night, and sleeping in a large bunk at night, with a hard bed board and very uncomfortable.

He didn't want to live like this for long.

A few days ago, Aunt Zhu found him and told him that there was a deal, and as long as he made it, she would give him a sum of silver and tell him to leave the capital and live the life he wanted.

In order to prevent the matter from being exposed, Aunt Zhu had already given Zhang Xiaosan thirty taels of silver last night.

Unexpectedly, the carriage hired by Zhang Xiaosan came to pull him the next evening, and he waited in the courtyard of his hometown.

At this time, he was approached by Shen Mingzhen and Hu Lewei.

Relying on the relationship of Imperial Physician Hu, Zhang Xiaosan's complaint was quickly signed and sealed, and even the seal of the government was stamped on it.

The officers and soldiers asked Shen Mingzhen: "Will the Shen family solve this matter privately by themselves, or will they send people to the government and do it openly?" ”

Shen Mingzhen thought about it, if she did it privately, Aunt Zhu and the old lady were afraid that they would not compensate for their losses.

Only by driving them to a dead end will they pay attention.

"Let's get things done." She said.

The officers and soldiers responded, and glanced at Imperial Physician Hu: "Miss Shen, don't worry, the officials will definitely help you do this beautifully." You go back and prepare, if nothing happens, the day after tomorrow or the Great Heavenly Mansion will summon you and the rest of the Shen family. ”

Shen Mingzhen bowed her knees and thanked her, and was about to ask Zi Su to take out the silver to honor the officers and soldiers.

Hu Lewei on the side almost sent over what had been prepared for the officers and soldiers.

A piece of silver leaves per person, plus a bag of snacks, a bag of tea, and a box of bath beans.

Hu Lewei looked at her: "You are my junior sister, we are a family, if the junior sister wants to see me, then the senior brother will not recognize you as a junior sister." ”

Hu Lewei has no father or mother since he was a child, and grew up under the teaching of Imperial Physician Hu, so he followed Imperial Physician Hu's surname Hu.

Shen Mingzhen saw him twice when he was a child, and he was still dark and thin at that time.

Unexpectedly, after so many years, he has grown into a gentleman as gentle as jade.

She accepted Hu Le's kindness: "Thank you, senior brother." ”