"You, what are you talking about!" The second master's face changed greatly, not so much that he was questioning Du Mingxin, but that he shouted out the panic in his heart.

Before Shen's death, all three of his daughters had been born. After returning to Kaifeng, he handed over the power of the family to the Liu family, and he spent his days thinking about two things: studying and giving birth to a son.

In the ten years of Kaifeng, he has accepted no less than ten women, but he has never seen a single one pregnant. He was also worried that it was his own problem, but looking at his three daughters who were growing up, he dispelled this idea again.

But if it is the Liu family who does it...... The second master shuddered. At that time, the family's diet, daily life, and medical advice were all in charge of Liu's family, and she often ordered people to boil some decoction and medicine for those girls who had sex to drink, which was called fertility and maintenance. But if those are the medicine of the tiger and the wolf......

"Someone! Go and call Du Mingyan to me! The second old man roared angrily.

The subordinates who were waiting outside heard that the old man was angry, and trotted to invite Du Mingyan over.

Du Mingxin was a little impatient, can he ask Du Mingyan to come over? Not to mention that the Liu family may not necessarily tell this kind of private matter to her daughter, even if Du Mingyan knows the inside story, can she still report the Liu family?

"Father, you might as well go to the study and explain this matter to your eldest sister." Du Mingxin wanted to drive the two to the study. She tried her best to avoid meeting Du Mingyan before getting married, seeing each other more times, and being idle one more time.

"Don't talk!" The second old man shouted.

For a while, Du Mingyan came in with the curtain, swept Du Mingxin with her residual vision, went straight over to greet the second master, and said lightly: "I don't know what happened when my father asked me to come over?" ”

"When I was in Kaifeng, did the Liu family put something in the family's diet and decoction, so that those people in the house could not give birth to children?" The second old man's eyes were round, and he really looked fierce.

Du Mingyan glanced at Du Mingxin and sneered: "Who chewed the root of his tongue in front of his father?" I don't know where to start! If it was really Aunt Geng's hands and feet, why could Aunt Geng still be pregnant today? ”

"Do you have such an attitude towards Lao Tzu?" The second old man pointed at Du Mingyan and scolded, "You kneel down and talk back to me!" ”

Du Mingyan knelt down happily, raised her head and said, "I still say the same thing when I kneel, why is Aunt Geng still pregnant?" ”

"At the beginning, there were a lot of people in the family! I haven't entered the Geng family's courtyard at all, and she is an old person of the Shen family, so I get tired of seeing it! "It's okay that the second master has two points of urgency, so he didn't ask Du Mingyan to block the words.

Du Mingxin listened from the sidelines and quietly clenched his fists. Father, you are so cold, if I help you rise to the top and marry like a beautiful flower, won't it chill my mother's heart?

Du Mingyan also sneered: "Since you didn't like it at the beginning, why don't you get tired of watching it today?" She sneered lightly, "If it is really a person who has ascended to heaven, now the old aunt who has a little bit of contact with the Shen family has also become a fragrant bait!" ”

The second old man was stabbed by her and kicked her to the ground, and roared out of the house angrily: "Go and tell the little guy in the outer courtyard, hurry up and I'll set the car, I'm going to Zhuangzi!" ”

When Du Mingyan heard this, she hurriedly got up from the ground to chase after her, but when she opened the curtain, she found that her father had gone far away. She threw down the curtain in hatred, turned to look at Du Mingxin, and her eyes were split.

"If there is anything wrong with my aunt today, you and I will be mortal enemies for life!"

Du Mingxin didn't look at her, and said coldly: "It's a lifelong mortal enemy, and it's just for the sake of the Buddha to keep you." ”

She turned her head and ordered, "Spring grass, summer leaves, send off!" Then he raised his feet and went into the inner room, grabbed a handful of agarwood and put it into the red copper incense burner, took a few deep breaths, and then calmed down and continued to embroider the red peony on the pillowcase.

When it was nightfall, the second master did not come back. Mrs. Du was smoking a hookah in the main room, and the eldest lady persuaded: "Now that the city gates are closed, the second uncle is estimated to not be able to come back today, mother, you should rest early." ”

Mrs. Du knocked the cigarette pot on the kang table, and said in a wretched voice: "What a big thing, it's worth running over by yourself!" Finally, the emperor gave him an official position, and according to his strength of fishing for three days and drying nets for two days, sooner or later he would have to lose it! ”

"Look at what you said!" The eldest lady smiled sourly, "The second uncle is the father-in-law of King Jin and King Ning at the moment, even if he doesn't go to the yamen every day, for the sake of the two princes, who can say anything about him!" ”

Mrs. Du didn't say anything more. It wasn't until noon the next day that the second master came back.

The second master went straight back to his yard with red eyes to rest, and the little guys who followed him were also listless, as if they had stayed up all night.

Du Mingyan sent someone to the outer courtyard to inquire, and heard the little guys talking: "...... stripped naked and whipped with a whip, and the whip was broken twice! The second master also asked someone to soak a bucket of salt water and splash it on the woman! Even men can't stand it! ”

"And what about later? Just fought all night? The little guy who had not left his head on the side asked curiously while munching on melon seeds.

"You should be watching a play!" An older guy punched him on the door of the head, "If you go, I'll keep it for you, I'll be scared to pee your pants!" That woman howls alone can scare you into crying dad and mother! ”

"The second master is amazing! Aren't you a reader, you can't see that there is still this hand! ”

"That's hateful to the root of my teeth! It's a pity, if the eldest girl gets a foothold in King Ning's Mansion, I'm afraid there won't be this disaster......"

"Maybe people's lives are hard, but they can survive until then......"

"Where can I survive! When we left, there was already less air in and more gas out! ”

The maid who inquired about the news went back and relayed it to Du Mingyan tremblingly, but she didn't expect her to be unexpectedly calm.

Mother, if you can't get through it, go first...... Wait for me to avenge you in the future!

Du Mingyan wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and instructed the maids to clean up the things in their own houses, and take everything they could. Because she was going to be a concubine, the eldest lady was strapped for money and hated her mother and daughter deeply, so she did not prepare any dowry for her, but only sent three or five sets of new clothes.

Du Mingyan didn't fight for anything more, and packed out three cages. On an evening in early May, wearing a rose-red wedding dress, he sat in a two-person sedan chair sent by Ning Wangfu. He quietly came out from the side door of the Du family, and entered through the side door of King Ning's mansion.

Chen Ting and Princess Zheng sat on it and received tea from Du Mingyan. Quietly looking at the unfamiliar environment around her, Du Mingyan's heart was at a loss. Is this a green cloud road, or an abyss from which there will be no return?

Two days later, the Du family's Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing came to report that Liu had died of his injuries and had breathed in his dilapidated hut at night.