Shen Bai looked at the two people who insisted on their own words, and felt very uncomfortable in his heart.

Aunt Liu knew that Shen Nianchu occupied a very important position in Shen Bai's heart, and just relying on the words of a few people would definitely not make Shen Bai give up Shen Nianchu.

She motioned for Ju Lan to help her up, Shen Bai looked at Aunt Liu, who was weak and trembling, felt guilty, and hurriedly wanted to come over to help her. Aunt Liu gently brushed away Shen Bai's hand and knelt in front of him.

"Master, Mei'er knows that Nian Chu didn't mean it, it's my fault, I didn't observe it well when I went down the stairs, which led to today's incident, please punish Mei'er." Aunt Liu's eyes were full of tears, and her pitiful appearance moved everyone present.

Shen Qian seized this opportunity and stepped forward and knelt in front of Shen Bai: "Daddy, you see that Aunt Liu is like this, and she is still protecting the second sister, but the second sister still has no attitude of admitting her mistakes, which shows how vicious this person is in his heart." ”

Shen Nianchu looked at all this in front of him blankly, thinking about why this situation happened, obviously Aunt Liu was very good to herself, why did she frame herself here.

Cui'er looked at Shen Nianchu in a daze, and hurriedly pulled Shen Nianchu's sleeve: "Second Miss, kneel down and admit your mistake." ”

"Admit mistakes? Why should I admit my mistake? I was... Before he finished speaking, Shen Nianchu was slapped hard by Shen Bai.

"Rebel, your aunt is like this, and you still say that you are right?" Shen Bai yelled angrily, and the whole room was shocked, they had never seen Shen Bai have such a big fire.

Shen Nianchu was a little dizzy by Shen Bai's slap, and she was half lying on the ground, and her heart was very uncomfortable at this moment. Her father treated her like this, and he didn't believe her.

"I'm not wrong, I don't admit it." There was blood on the corner of Shen Nianchu's mouth, and her eyes were staring straight at Shen Bai, she really didn't understand why her father didn't believe her so much.

"You!" Shen Bai raised his hand angrily, ready to fight again.

"Stop!" The old lady couldn't stand it anymore, and stopped Shen Bai's movements with a loud voice. Shen Bai shook his hand angrily, walked over and helped Aunt Liu on the ground, and stopped talking.

The old lady looked at Shen Nianchu's red and swollen cheeks and felt very distressed, but she also understood that she couldn't help Shen Nianchu now, if she helped, it would be difficult to manage the backyard in the future. Moreover, now that there are two witnesses, how can I say it.

"Come on, leave the second lady behind, you are not allowed to come out without permission." The old lady said.

"Grandmother, I don't." Shen Nianchu looked at the old lady with some disbelief, she thought that the old lady would help her, but she didn't expect that she would be grounded.

"Chu'er, you go back first, don't go out these days." The old lady turned her back and didn't look at Shen Nianchu's red eyes, looking really uncomfortable in her heart.

"Wait, she did something wrong and should be punished. You will be punished to kneel in the courtyard for these days, and you will kneel for three hours before you can get up. Shen Bai didn't look at Shen Nianchu, and said to the old lady.

"Master, this, isn't this too heavy." The eldest lady said with some reluctance.

"How do you remember the lesson if you don't pay attention to it? Look at her, does she have an attitude of admitting mistakes? Shen Bai said angrily.

"But, but she's just a child, and your punishment is really too heavy." The eldest lady looked at Shen Nianchu, whose face was pale, and she couldn't bear it.

"Then kneel for an hour." Shen Bai looked at Shen Nianchu, who bowed his head and was silent, and he was also a little unbearable, but when he thought that she was so stubborn, he put all his patience behind.

Before Shen Nianchu could recover from the beating he had just received, he heard his father say that he would be punished for kneeling in the courtyard. The eldest lady asked the maid ring beside her to go over to help her, and the maid walked to Shen Nianchu's side: "Second Miss, the slave will send you back." ”

At this moment, Shen Nianchu's mind was in a mess, her cheeks were very painful, her father's every move made her heart very uncomfortable, and the aunt she regarded as the latest was also so harmful to herself, she really couldn't figure out why.

With the support of Yahuan, Shen Nianchu staggered to his feet. Cui'er hurriedly walked up to help her, Shen Nianchu didn't say a word, and walked back towards his yard.

Looking at Shen Nianchu's back far away, the room was silent, and after a while, the old lady sighed and asked everyone to go back to the courtyard and stop talking about it.

Shen Bai helped Aunt Liu to fall asleep on the bed, and looked at Aunt Liu gently: "Mei'er, I have wronged you." We'll have it, kids. At this moment, Aunt Liu knew that her good days were coming.

Shen Nianchu staggered back to his courtyard, and the government soldiers surrounded the courtyard. Zhilan looked at Shen Nianchu, whose cheeks were red and swollen, and said very distressedly: "Second Miss, what's wrong with you?" ”

Shen Nianchu didn't reply, and Zhilan was about to help Shen Nianchu back to the room. Mother Gui walked to the courtyard with her two mothers: "Second Miss, the master said, let you kneel for 1 hour every day, starting today." ”

"Why do you want our young lady to kneel?" Zhilan asked inexplicably, and was about to reason with her mother.

"Ignorant girl, how can you question the orders of the masters? While staying away. A mother came up and pushed Zhilan.

"You" Zhilan was so angry that she wanted to find them a theory.

"Zhilan, you stand down." Shen Nianchu, who had never spoken, spoke.

"But, Second Miss, you, why are you kneeling like this?" Zhilan said worriedly.

"It's fine. Mother Gui, you look at the hour, I will kneel. Shen Nianchu tidied up her clothes and knelt down slowly, the hard and cold ground made her feel very uncomfortable, but the discomfort in her body could not compare to the discomfort in her heart.

Zhilan saw Shen Nianchu kneeling, and she had no idea for a while, so she also knelt down.

"Zhilan, you." Shen Nianchu wanted to let Zhilan get up, but Zhilan was unwilling: "Since the second miss is punished for kneeling, then Zhilan will also accompany the second miss to kneel." ”

Mother Gui watched Zhilan kneel down and didn't say anything. The mothers on the side didn't dare to make a mistake, so they could only let them kneel all the time. Cui'er hesitated for a moment, then knelt down.

For the first time, Shen Nianchu felt that time was passing very slowly, and the burning incense seemed to be against her, burning very slowly. People passing by outside the courtyard looked at Shen Nianchu, who was kneeling, and they were all discussing today's things in a whisper.

"The hour has come." Mother Gui glanced at Xiang and said.

Finally the world arrived, Shen Nianchu suddenly lost his center of gravity and fell in the direction of Zhilan.

"Second Miss, Second Miss." Zhilan anxiously helped the second miss, and there was reluctance in Gui's mother's eyes, she stepped forward and helped Shen Nianchu up.

"Second Miss, please be considerate of the old lady. She was also helpless. There are too many witnesses for today's events. Mother Gui was worried that Shen Nianchu would resent the old lady, so she secretly explained the old lady's behavior to Shen Nianchu.

"Thank you, Mother Gui, I know that my grandmother is here to protect me." Shen Nianchu was a little weak at the moment, and his speech was not very clear.

"This is Jinchuang Medicine, you can help the second lady apply it." Mother Gui took out the Jinchuang medicine that had been prepared for a long time, handed it to Zhilan, and asked them to take care of Shen Nianchu, and after saying that she would come over tomorrow, she left with the others.

Zhilan and Cui'er helped Shen Nianchu up and walked slowly to the back room, Shen Nianchu was half-lying on the bed and was silent, Zhilan ran out to fetch water, ready to put a warm compress on Shen Nianchu's knees. For a while, only Cui'er and Shen Nianchu were left in the room.

Cui'er stood aside, looking at Shen Nianchu, who was silent with her eyes closed, not knowing how to speak. After a while, Cui'er knelt directly on the ground, Shen Nianchu was startled by this voice, raised his eyes to look over, and saw Cui'er said with tears on her face: "Second Miss, it's all the slave's fault, the slave and maid failed to help you, and you were bullied by them, please punish the slave and maid." ”

"This has nothing to do with you, you get up." Shen Nianchu knew that Cui'er was the person next to her, and if she helped her speak, she was afraid that no one would believe her, not to mention that she hadn't seen the whole situation in the first place, so she couldn't blame her.

"Second Miss, aren't you angry with the slave?" Cui'er looked at Shen Nianchu cautiously.

"This matter is because I am defenseless to let others take advantage of it, and I blame myself for being too gullible to others." Shen Nianchu said helplessly.

"Second Miss, the slave is really sorry for you," Cui'er thanked Shen Nianchu for not blaming her, and kowtowed to express her heart.

"You go out, I want to be quiet." Shen Nianchu waved his hand and let Cui'er leave.

Shen Nianchu was the only one left in the room, and she slowly fell asleep in an anxious mood. When she fell asleep, she had a dream in which all the people accused her of being a poisonous woman, and that she had done something to her children. Shen Nianchu kept waving his hand to drive them away, but there were more and more people accusing them.

"Don't come here." Shen Nianchu was awakened.

Zhilan knelt on the side and asked cautiously, "Second Miss, did you have a nightmare?" ”

Shen Nianchu glanced at the surrounding environment, those terrifying people were gone, and some were just quiet at night. She let out a long sigh and sat up slowly, pulling at her injured knee as she got up, and she exclaimed, "It hurts." ”

Zhilan hurriedly helped Shen Nianchu to do a good job, and carefully pulled the trouser tube up, leaking out the broken knee. The ointment given by Gui's mother was applied to it, and when it was just applied, Shen Nianchu only felt a burst of pain, but the pain was relieved after a while.

Zhilan asked while rubbing the medicine: "Second Miss, what's the matter, why was she punished for going out this time?" ”

Shen Nianchu said with a gloomy face: "I don't know, they said that I pushed Aunt Liu." ”

"How? The relationship between the second lady and Aunt Liu is so good, how can they believe the words of others? Zhilan stared at Shen Nianchu with a pair of big eyes and disbelieving.

Shen Nianchu smiled bitterly twice: "Yes, we have such a good relationship, how could I harm her?" But who believes me? ”

"Don't you believe me?" Zhilan felt regretful after speaking, Shen Nianchu's face was full of tears at this moment, her punishment today must have been agreed to by the master.

"Nobody believes me." Shen Nianchu wiped the tears from his face.

"Zhilanxin, Second Miss is not that kind of person." Zhilan looked up at Shen Nianchu and said very firmly.

Shen Nianchu didn't speak again, but just shook Zhilan's hand gratefully. Shen Nianchu, who had taken the medicine, fell asleep again, and he will continue to be punished tomorrow, if he doesn't rest well, I'm afraid it will be very difficult.

Following

Early in the morning, Gui's mother brought her two mothers over to guard Shen Nianchu's punishment, Shen Nianchu didn't have the sadness of yesterday, and knelt on the ground with a calm face, and Zhilan and Cui'er also knelt next to her as usual. An hour later, Gui's mother asked Shen Nianchu to get up, and then left with her two mothers.

Shen Nianchu was confined to his feet, and his eating degree was also reduced, Xu is people in the mansion were used to seeing the wind and the rudder, and they knew that the second lady was not favored, so they began to treat Shen Nianchu harshly.

"It's excessive, and it's leftovers again. How do you want to eat the second lady? Zhilan took the cold leftovers back to the courtyard.

"It's okay, you can't starve to death." Although Shen Nianchu felt uncomfortable, she also understood that if she didn't eat, she wouldn't even have a chance to live, and what she wanted to do now was to live, and then leave this place that made her uncomfortable.

"Second Miss, the slave has something to tell you." Cui'er was on the sidelines.

Shen Nianchu glanced at her: "Say it." ”

"Today, today's slave and maid want a good maid from outside the courtyard to the slave and maid, saying yes." Cui'er didn't know whether to tell Shen Nianchu what was happening outside.

"It's okay, you can say it. I'm like this now, and I don't have to worry about anything. Shen Nianchu was eating with chopsticks, and she was full of hope that she could escape from this place.

"There are rumors outside that you are jealous that your soon-to-be-born child will take away your favor, so you deliberately designed to make Aunt Liu fall down the stairs. caused Aunt Liu to lose her child! Anyway, she said what she had heard in the morning.

Shen Nianchu's hand holding out the vegetables stopped in mid-air, and he didn't know whether to eat or not for a while, and now that there is such a scandal, I am afraid that even if I can escape, I will not have a good reputation.

"How can these people spread such nonsense? Isn't this ruining the reputation of the second lady? Zhilan was a little anxious, seeing that the beauty contest was about to start, how could this be good.

"Eat." Shen Nianchu was silent for a while, and let them continue to eat.

Seeing that Shen Nianchu didn't talk about this topic, the two could only accompany Shen Nianchu to eat.

Old Lady's House

"Who the hell is spreading such a thing!" The old lady was furious, she originally wanted to suppress this matter, but she didn't expect that the whole country was talking about it.

"Mother, the child has gone to investigate. There will be results. It's just that I'm afraid it's a beauty election, and Chu'er won't be able to go. Shen Bai sat aside and said.

"It's still a trivial matter if she can't go, where will there be good people who want her in the future?" The old lady was worried that Shen Nianchu would not be able to marry because of this matter.

"If not, let her go to the temple. Externally, it is to recuperate for a period of time, so that it is good to block everyone's mouths. Aunt Zhang gave them ideas on the side.