Chapter 068 Disposition, Fate and Helplessness
The moon is dark and the wind is high, and there is still a hustle and bustle in Bianjing City at night.
The prodigal sons of the wealthy families are still pushing cups and changing lamps in restaurants and brothels, hugging thousands of charming beauties and talking about them.
But the Sheng family, which is located in Jiying Lane in the west of the city, is shrouded in a layer of clouds at this moment.
As the head of the family, Sheng Hong, forcibly suppressed the anger of thunder, ran back to the ancestral hall, looked at the daughter who knelt on the futon, and looked at his favorite daughter in the past with a blank face, and his feelings were extremely complicated.
"Daddy!" Mo Lan was very surprised, there was no previous composure on her pretty face, and she was full of panic.
"Mo'er, do you have anything else to say to Daddy?" Sheng Hong's tone was a little choked, looking at Mo Lan's eyes, there seemed to be tears flashing in his eyes.
Mo Lan turned her head sideways, although she was flustered, she still held her mouth: "What did Daddy say?" The daughter is stupid, and she asks her father to make it clear. ”
"Mo'er!" Sheng Hong tilted his head and closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and looked at Mo Lan again: "Are you sure there is nothing to hide from me?" ”
"What did Daddy say! Why can't my daughter understand! Looking at Mo Lan, who turned her head sideways, pinched a handkerchief and gently wiped her cheeks, and even her movements and expression were the same as Lin Yushuang's, Sheng Hong suddenly felt extremely heartbroken.
"Someone!" Sheng Hong closed his eyes and faced the ancestors of the Sheng family on the stage, and the tears in his eyes finally couldn't stop flowing! Even if you kneel on the futon.
I saw a few sturdy servant women walking into the ancestral hall quickly, without saying a word, they walked straight to Mo Lan's side, and without waiting for Mo Lan to say anything, they grabbed her hands and feet, plugged her mouth and nose, and carried her straight out of the main hall.
Sheng Hong, who knelt in front of the ancestors and ancestors, was already in tears, "The ancestors and the ancestors are above, Sheng Hong is not filial, and the goddaughter has no way, so he ······ ······"
Sheng Hong wanted to confess his sins in front of his ancestors and ancestors, but when the words came to his lips, he couldn't say anything.
That's his daughter! His favorite daughter.
After a while, Dong Rong walked into the ancestral hall with a sad face and came behind Sheng Hong.
"Lord, there is a result!" Dong Rong bowed, his voice was extremely low, and his face was full of solemnity.
Sheng Hong immediately stood up, and the three stable women with experience in delivering babies had been waiting outside the house for a long time.
"How's it going?" As soon as he went out, Sheng Hong couldn't wait to ask, still holding the last glimmer of hope in his heart.
"Back to the lord, according to the experience of the slave maid for many years, the fourth girl is indeed not perfect, and it seems that she is pregnant."
Sheng Hong asked excitedly, "Are you sure you're not mistaken?" ”
"The slave can only be sure that the fourth girl is not perfect, as for whether she is pregnant, she has to ask Lang Zhong to determine!" The mother-in-law was taken aback by Sheng Hong's expression and tone, and the three of them immediately knelt on the ground and hurriedly answered.
"Where's you?" Sheng Hong looked at the other two.
The answers of the two were exactly the same as the first person, and the last glimmer of hope in Sheng Hong's heart was completely shattered.
There was only one thought left in my mind: Mo Lan was really pregnant!
"Evil obstacles, so far, you still don't tell the truth?"
Sheng Hong pointed to Mo Lan, who was pressed down in front of the ranking of the ancestors of the Sheng family, and shouted sharply, and Dong Rong next to him held a dark brown solid wood made of it after drying in the shade, and it was as thick as a baby's arm, and raised it high, looking at Sheng Hong.
As long as Sheng Hong gave an order, the wooden stick in Dong Rong's hand would hit Mo Lan's buttocks hard.
The surrounding area of the ancestral hall has already been ordered by Sheng Hong, and the water around the people is impassable, and no one is allowed to approach without Sheng Hong's order.
"Daddy! Daughter is wrong! My daughter knows it's wrong! Fang was forcibly stripped of his pants by a few grandmothers for inspection, and the last trace of luck in Mo Lan's heart was completely shattered, and the conversation between Fang and those mothers-in-law outside Sheng Hong, Mo Lan also heard it clearly, and naturally knew the reason.
It must have been when Wang Cai re-called her pulse, and diagnosed the fact that she was no longer a virgin and was pregnant.
Mo Lan is not a hard bone in the end, even if she burst into tears, she begged for mercy pitifully: "A daughter shouldn't deceive her father!" The daughter knows that she is wrong, father! ”
"Say! Who is the adulterer! Sheng Hong's eyes were full of flames, he glared at Mo Lan angrily, gritted his teeth, and his cheeks were bitten and bulged.
Mo Lan was so frightened by Sheng Hong's hideous expression that she couldn't hide her words anymore, and explained everything like pouring beans: "Yes... It's Liang Jia Liulang! ”
"Liang Han?" Sheng Hong confirmed with Mo Lan again.
Mo Lan nodded immediately, not daring to hide it in the slightest.
Sheng Hong closed his eyes and took a deep breath, turned his back, faced the ranking of the ancestors of the Sheng family, knelt on the futon, and asked, "In front of the ancestors and ancestors, explain your affairs clearly from beginning to end!" If there is half a deception, I will treat it as if I never gave birth to a daughter like you! ”
Sheng Hong still said ruthless words in the end, where did Mo Lan dare to deceive half a sentence, and immediately conspired with her and Lin Yushuang, bought the people up and down the mansion, and bought the people on the Liang family's side, deliberately created an opportunity for her and Liang Han to meet by chance, and then hooked up together from beginning to end, and then repeatedly used the excuse of going to Sanqingguan to enter the incense with Liang Han for a tryst, and secretly communicated with the song······
The more I listened to Sheng Hong, the more frightened I became, the Sheng family was like a sieve, leaking air everywhere, and his daughter had hooked up with a foreign man for several months, but the family didn't hear the slightest rumor, so many people, no one noticed it.
After Mo Lan finished explaining, the entire Sheng family fell into the chicken, fly and dog jump again, from Shanyueju to Linqi Pavilion, from the back house to serve the female envoy, to the family in the front yard, and the doorkeeper, but everything that had anything to do with this matter was picked up by Suo, and Sheng Hong personally inquired one by one, and took out all his skills when he was a general judge in Yangzhou and a magistrate in Lingzhou.
It was not until the middle of the moon that the interrogation came to an end.
However, this time, Lin Yushuang's methods that he had tried in the past had no effect.
In Shou'an Hall, Minglan was waiting for Mrs. Sheng to take the decoction, Mo Lan's matter, no one can hide it from Mrs. Sheng, after Mrs. Sheng listened, she angrily threw a set of teacups directly, and was almost so angry that she was angry.
"Grandmother! At this point, it's useless for you to regenerate your anger! Looking at the old lady who was still puffing up, Minglan could only comfort softly.
"Humph!" Old Mrs. Sheng felt angry when she thought of it, squeezed her fist and hammered the low table on the soft collapse, and said coldly: "You can do such a shameless thing, and you have the same virtue as her little lady!" ”
Thinking of Lin Yushuang, Mrs. Sheng was so angry, and at the same time she couldn't help but feel a little guilty in her heart, after all, Lin Yushuang came to the Sheng family to defect to her, thinking of Lin Yushuang's mother, the old lady's old friend who didn't have much friendship, and also saw Lin Yushuang pitiful, Mrs. Sheng took in Lin Yushuang as soon as her heart softened, kept her by her side, and looked at others for her and chose a husband.
But he didn't want Lin Yushuang to be an ambitious person, and he looked down on the innocent children of good families that Mrs. Sheng selected for him, and the good character of the showman, he actually hooked up with Mrs. Sheng behind his back and Sheng Hong's secret song, and when Mrs. Sheng knew, Lin Yushuang was already pregnant with Changfeng.
This is also one of the reasons why Mrs. Sheng and Wang Ruofu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have a bad relationship, the old lady felt guilty, so she hid in Shou'an Hall, closed the door and lived her own life, and basically did not ask about the big and small things in the family, all by Sheng Hong's family.
Unexpectedly, now more than 20 years have passed, Mo Lan has repeated the mistakes of Lin Yushuang and followed Lin Yushuang's old path, the key is that she will do this, the reputation of the remaining female dependents of the Sheng family will inevitably be implicated, if it is spread out, I am afraid that Hualan will be returned by the Yuan family, Rulan will never marry again, as for Minglan , it will be difficult to raise her head outside in the future.
"Qi hurts the body, although the bones of your old body are not bad, but if you move too much, it will inevitably hurt your liver, these five internal organs and six organs are one, and it is not worth it to move the whole body!"
Wang Zhong let go of the hand that gave the old lady the pulse, gave Minglan a reassuring look, and then comforted softly.
"Grandmother, the official is right! Nothing is as important as your body! Minglan also followed to comfort her.
As for Chang Dong, he had already been sent back to find Wei Shuyi, this kind of thing, Chang Dong still doesn't know about this kind of thing, so as not to accidentally leak his mouth one day.
"Old lady, the lord is here!" But at this moment, a female envoy hurriedly walked in and went back and forth.
"He still knows coming!" Old lady Sheng even held a grudge against Sheng Hong, but she still instructed the female envoys to let them invite Sheng Hong in.
After a while, Sheng Hong, who looked tired, came to Mrs. Sheng and hurriedly saluted: "My son visits his mother, is his mother in good health?" ”
"You still have the face!" Mrs. Sheng was angry, and when she saw Sheng Hong, she was accusing her head and covering her face.
The tears in Sheng Hong's eyes have long been wiped away, but the tiredness and helplessness in his eyes can't be hidden: "The son has no way to teach his daughter, and the harmful mother is angry, and the son is to blame!" ”
"The eldest lady woke up, woke up dizzy, Rulan was going to jump into the lake for a while, and rushed to the ancestral hall with a knife for a while, desperately with your precious daughter on the tip of her heart, Hua Lan had to take care of the eldest lady while crying, and she didn't even dare to go back to Yuan's house!"
Listening to Mrs. Sheng's words, Sheng Hong's heart was full of guilt.
"Every time their mother and daughter make a mistake, but every time you favor them, you are raised high and gently put down every time, even if they don't know the height of the sky, they dare to do such a shameless thing!"
"The mother taught her that it was her son's fault!" Sheng Hong's attitude of admitting his mistake was still very sincere.
"Mo Lan should have been a good girl, she was taught by Lin Yushuang to be what she is now, and the path she is taking now is the ······ that Lin Yushuang walked and succeeded."
The old lady brought up the old things again, how could Sheng Hong's heart feel good, although her heart was also mixed, but her face was still respectful and regretful.
Old Mrs. Sheng took a deep breath: "Mo Lan is a girl, if she marries in the future, she may be better off leaving Lin Yushuang, but Changfeng is the son of the Sheng family, if Changfeng is taught badly, can our Sheng family still be good?" ”
"Last time, after he fell off the list, he talked nonsense in the restaurant outside, offended the official family, and caused you to be detained in the palace, have you forgotten!"
Mrs. Sheng woke up Sheng Hong with a word, and immediately she didn't even bother to salute, and hurriedly left!
Not long after, it came that Lin Yushuang was dragged to the ancestral hall by the order of the lord, Dong Rong took it personally, beat him hard, and was directly beaten to faint, and the news that he was sent by the lord to Zhuangzi overnight to be imprisoned spread to Shou'an Hall.
Mo Lan was not beaten, but was confined to Shanyue Ju, but the child in her womb could not be kept, and the reputation of the Sheng family could not be lost because of a child who had not yet developed.
But when it comes to the future of the family, Sheng Hong rarely hesitates, so he immediately found Wang Chong and asked for a prescription for abortion, and poured it into Mo Lan that night.
Early the next morning, Wang Ruofu changed his clothes, specially dressed up, dressed quite ceremoniously, went out in a carriage, and went straight to the Yongchang Marquis's mansion.
Wang Ruofu can be said to have mustered up the courage to give up his face, but when he came back, he was depressed, and his face was still sad.
"When I arrived at the Liang family, I just opened my mouth, and I was scolded back by Mrs. Wu, Mrs. Wu said, although his family Liulang is a bastard, he is also the brother of the Yongchang Marquis Mansion, and he will definitely not marry Mo Lan!"
Wang Ruofu said with a sad and indignant face: "Mrs. Wu said, if you want Mo Lan to marry into the Liang family, when his family Liulang becomes a relative and has a big lady, let us send Mo Lan over as a side house when the time comes!" ”
"His Wu family is inevitably too deceitful!" Sheng Hong slapped the case angrily and scolded excitedly.
"Mother, is there really no room for turnaround?" Hua Lan wiped away her tears and said with a pair of red eyes.
"Mrs. Wu has talked about this, how else can she turn around?" Wang Ruofu is also very helpless, as Mrs. Wu said, when encountering such a thing, it is like swallowing a fly that has just flown out of the pit, and you can't spit it out, and you can't swallow it, and it's disgusting to yourself.
The person Wang Ruofu hates the most in his life is Lin Yushuang, and the person he hates the most is Mo Lan except Lin Yushuang, but now he wants to pull down his face and beg for Mo Lan's affairs, which is how Wang Ruofu can be happy.
"Father!" Hua Lan couldn't help but look at Sheng Hong.
But what can Sheng Hong do, the Liang family is unwilling to marry Mo Lan, should he let him impeach the Marquis of Yongchang, or make the adultery between Liang Han and Mo Lan public?
"The eldest lady, do you want to go to the Yongchang Marquis Mansion another day?" Sheng Hong could only look at Wang Ruofu again.
Wang Ruofu said helplessly: "Mrs. Wu has talked about this, the officials think, what difference can I make if I go again?" Or did the officials want me to kneel in front of Mrs. Wu, kowtow to her, and beg her bitterly to let her Liulang marry Mo Lan? ”
Sheng Hong was speechless by Wang Ruofu.
(End of chapter)