Another four or five days passed.

In the past few days, the fifth princess has also come to visit the two, and has also sent a lot of supplements from the tribute.

Shen Shu also came once, but he only came to greet him as usual.

Naturally, he also brought the results of the interrogation about Min Niang, and Min Niang just told the appearance of the man who connected with her. He just gave Min Niang fifty taels of silver, and asked her to torture Shi Qingqian to death, and he would never let her return to the capital.

He also said that after the deed was completed, another hundred taels would be sent as a bounty.

As for the identity of that person, Min Niang didn't know.

After Shi Qingqian heard these words, he found that the person who did this matter was really leaky, and it was so difficult to trace it afterwards.

After thinking about it, she decided that she could only break through from Shi Peng and the second aunt, mother and daughter.

However, their mother and daughter were confined by Shi Ke, and there was no opportunity to communicate with the outside world during this time, so they were not worried that they would find a way out for themselves, so the matter of asking Shi Peng and the second aunt was put aside for the time being.

The most important thing at the moment is not to find the real culprit behind the scenes, but to stay in Jing'an.

Early this morning, Shi Yuan and Shi Ke took the carriage that entered the palace together, and another extremely luxurious and gorgeous carriage stopped at the door of the Hou Mansion.

When the little maid ran to report the news, Shi Qingqi, Jing'an, and the eldest lady were drinking tea together in the garden, only to see that the little maid was out of breath and out of breath when he spoke: "Big, big lady...... Mrs. Zhong from the county lord's mansion is here......"

"She!?" Jing'an was incredulous at first, she didn't welcome this woman from the bottom of her heart, knowing that she was here to capture herself, but she still asked: "What is she here for!" ”

Shi Qingqian glanced at the eldest lady uneasily, if that woman was really as arrogant as everyone said, she was afraid that someone as gentle as her mother would be looked down upon by her.

The eldest lady did not change her face, and said calmly: "Invite Mrs. Zhong in." ”

As soon as the words fell, a sharp woman's voice came from the corner of the garden courtyard wall: "I don't think this dignified Hou Mansion is very good." ”

There was originally a distance from the main entrance to the garden, but as soon as the lady finished speaking to let her in, Mrs. Zhong appeared in the garden, and it was obvious that she did not wait for the master to speak, so she broke in without reason.

"Naturally, there is no need for the county lord's mansion to be splendid." The eldest lady stood up and quietly escorted the two children behind her.

Looking at Mrs. Zhong's menacing appearance, the subordinates around the eldest lady also unconsciously moved to her side and back, as if the two camps were tense, and the atmosphere was tense to the extreme.

Mrs. Zhong smiled, swaggered over with a group of entourage, picked up the pastries placed on the table, chewed them twice in her mouth, and spit them out.

"The Hou Mansion just gives people this kind of food?" As Mrs. Zhong spoke, she sat down in the place where Mrs. Fang Cai had sit.

Shi Qingqian grabbed the sleeve of the eldest lady and poked his head in the direction of Mrs. Zhong.

Looking at her appearance, I don't know that she is not only the mother of a county lord, but the mother of the emperor.

I saw that the legendary Mrs. Zhong was wearing a mustard green armor, a wide long skirt dragged behind her, and a variety of ornaments were neglected on her head with a bun, including a few red gold uranium droplets inlaid with beeswax, and a red gold lazurite hairpin, in short, she brought all the places where she could bring hair accessories.

Shi Qingqian secretly rolled his eyes, and said in his heart that Mrs. Zhong brought so many things, and she didn't feel that her head was sinking.

Regarding Mrs. Zhong's unreasonable behavior, the eldest lady didn't intend to waste time on this kind of thing, so she asked, "Mrs. Zhong came here this time to take the county lord of Jing'an back to the county lord's mansion?" ”

"Not bad." Mrs. Zhong finally found Jing'an hiding behind the eldest lady in the crowd, her face turned a little hideous, she looked at Jing'an, and said sharply: "You come over to me!" Who is your mother, hiding behind other women! ”

On weekdays at home, Mrs. Zhong also treats Jing'an like this, Jing'an has long been used to it, but she really doesn't want to go with her.

In these days in the Hou Mansion, she played with Shi Qingqian every day, and when she was tired of playing, she also ate pastries made by the eldest lady herself. Jing'an knew what people outside said about her mother-in-law, and naturally she also knew that Mrs. Zhong didn't care about her, she thought, if no one picked her up, and the people in the Hou Mansion didn't rush her, she might as well stay in the Hou Mansion, even if she was a subordinate, it would be happier than in her own smoky county lord's mansion.

Thinking like this, Jing'an's movements hesitated. She really didn't want to leave.

Seeing this, Mrs. Zhong's eyes narrowed slightly, and her mouth was full of disdain and contempt: "Heh, what kind of ecstasy soup did this Hou Mansion feed you, and you don't want the glory and wealth in the county lord's mansion?" ”

"And not everyone values money more than life...... "Jing'an hid behind the eldest lady and whispered.

Mrs. Zhong obviously didn't hear Jing'an's words, she thought she was simply unwilling to go, and she was still behind the eldest lady at this time.

She looked around at the famous Hou Mansion and found that this garden was less than two-thirds the size of her County Lord's Mansion. I thought in my heart that this self-built and regulated mansion was not as good as the emperor's own gift.

Mrs. Zhong's original name was Mo Hui'er, but unfortunately she couldn't get the word 'Hui' in her name. As the Queen's sister, in the Queen. Before entering the palace, her life was also hard, and she lived under the oppression of the sister who came out every day, until the clan sister became the queen, and there was only Mo Hui'er in their family who was not yet married, and she was taken to the capital by the queen and forcibly assigned to Vice General Zhong.

Of course, she has no love for the lieutenant general, but as long as her husband is added to the rank and she can enjoy the happiness herself, she has no other requirements.

Therefore, no one would understand the extreme ecstasy in her heart when the news of Jing'an's appointment as the county lord came from the holy decree after Vice Admiral Zhong's death.

It is precisely because of this that she can be that Mrs. Zhong with peace of mind.

Mrs. Zhong believes that everything she has experienced is 'bitter and sweet'.

"Mrs. Shi, it's not in accordance with the rules to put other people's children under house arrest by your side, right?" When Mrs. Zhong spoke, she was unfocused, completely forgetting whose territory she was on at this time.

When Shi Qingqian heard this, she was furious immediately, she would never allow such a woman to slander her mother: "You are called house arrest ......"

However, before she finished speaking, she was pressed by the eldest lady on the shoulder.

The eldest lady did not change her previous dignity, and said calmly: "Your own child is unwilling to go home with you, Mrs. Zhong didn't find the reason from herself first, but blamed others." ”

Mrs. Zhong smiled, eager to look at people with her nostrils, her eyes looked at the eldest lady proudly, but finally stopped at Shi Qingqian's body, "Yo, isn't this the famous Miss Shi Jiaqi?" ”

She stood up and took two steps, "You took the county lord out, and the county lord who killed him was kidnapped?" ”

I don't know where she heard the news, but it's not bad, Shi Qingqian has been haunted by it at this time.

"Come on, catch this little girl who hurt the county lord for me!"

Madame Zhong gave an order, and the two domineering little maids behind her walked up.

"Mother's ......" Shi Qingqian was a little scared, but the eldest lady did not panic at all, as soon as she stretched out her arm, she blocked her completely.

"I see who dares!" The tone of the eldest lady was unprecedentedly harsh.