Chapter Twenty-Four: The Family Temple Becomes a Demon
Lao Jian'anhou's death day was on July 28, and in previous years, Mrs. Zhen first went to Putuo Temple to pray for safety, and then went to the family temple with her two sons to prepare in advance.
This year, because of the earth's movement, the Yuanzhi abbot of Putuo Temple began from the fifteenth, and personally wrote the tablet for the people who died in the ground, and did seven days of rituals. The families of the powerful families in Beijing naturally wanted to join in the fun, so it was not until July 26 that they came to the family temple with Zuo Congyun, Jintong and Zheng Yu, who rushed back from Qiulu Academy.
This temple was originally the practice place of an old aunt and grandmother of the Zheng family, and the old Jian'an Hou was implicated in the "rebellion of the Ji family", and left his last words before his tragic death in prison: I am consciously sorry for the ancestors of the Zheng family, and after death, the ranking should not be placed in the family ancestral hall, but placed in the family temple outside the city.
Zheng Qiyan did not return to southern Xinjiang, and Zheng Qishuo went to Shuzhong to deal with salt affairs. Jintong's new daughter-in-law can't help much, and Mrs. Zhen is getting old and her health is getting worse and worse. Therefore, all the sacrificial supplies were basically arranged by Zuo Congyun and Zheng Yu.
Time is in a hurry, this year's sacrifice is much simpler than in previous years, Mrs. Zhen felt guilty, so she thought about staying and copying scriptures for a few days to pray for peace, and a few juniors naturally accompanied her.
On this day, a few people listened to Master Jing'an's explanation of Buddhism, but they heard a loud noise, and after a while, Hui Yan came over and said: "The entire roof of the courtyard where Aunt Shen lives has collapsed, fortunately, a few people are just a little frightened, how does the master arrange?" β
Mrs. Zhen twisted the Buddha beads and did not move like a mountain, and Jintong and Zuo Congyun exchanged a look of "Shen Miaolian is really a demon", and they were all silent.
Master Jing'an calmly twisted the Buddha beads in his hand: "Amitabha, after the earth moved, didn't you already send someone to check it?" I didn't notice anything wrong at the beginning, why did the yard collapse today? β
Hui Yan replied with some grievances: "Xiao Ni doesn't know. β
Old Madam Zhen said with a mocking face: "Call the Shen family over!" Then he turned his head and said to Jintong: "The seventh daughter-in-law! This yard is collapsing for us to see. β
Jintong smiled and flattered: "Mother's eyes! β
After a full two quarters of an hour, I saw Shen Miaolian, supported by Mama Jin, Xiaozhu and others, and slowly moved step by step in shock.
Jin Tong looked disgusted: "Can't you use dim sum?" Even if the whole head is broken and the blood flows, it's better to get some gray or something, right? β
Old Madam Zhen and Zuo Congyun glanced at Jintong in unison, and the old lady tapped Jintong with her hand: "You talk a lot!" β
They didn't lower their voices, Shen Miaolian's master and servant heard it clearly, and Mama Jin hurriedly went to kneel on the ground and explained to Mrs. Zhen: "Old lady, Aunt Shen is afraid that she will be disrespectful to you if she is not in good clothes, so she has sorted it out." β
He turned to Jintong again and asked Jintong with an expression that we have wronged you for being a big bad person who brutalized the concubine room: "How can the Seventh Lady be so ruthless, since Aunt Shen came to the family temple, she prayed sincerely every day and copied the scriptures, and everyone lost a lot of weight!" Madame questioned Aunt Shen so much, but she was worthy of her conscience! β
Jin Tong retorted with a righteous face: "Mrs. Ben is ruthless? Mrs. Ben is afraid that Aunt Shen will not be used to coming to the family temple, and she will not be able to concentrate on praying for the seventh master. Thinking that a few of you are used to serving Aunt Shen, I specially sent the five of you to take good care of Aunt Shen. And every month you send clothes and food to me, you are good, take care of her to lose weight, dare to blame Mrs. Ben? He changed his puzzled expression and asked Mama Jin: "You just said, what does Mrs. Ben question Aunt Shen?" β
Mama Jin choked in one breath, and Shen Miaolian pounced on Mrs. Zhen with rain: "Old lady, since the concubine came to the family temple, she only copied the scriptures and prayed for blessings every day, I really don't know how to offend Mrs. This courtyard collapsed strangely, begging the old lady to save the concubine! Find out the truth! Then he only kowtowed and wept.
Mrs. Zhen said in her heart: Isn't the truth that you sawed off the beams of the house and collapsed them yourself? She was stupid to check the evidence that Shen Miaolian and the others were ready to frame Jintong! If it weren't for the Shen family's face, she would have killed this prodigal hoof who was making waves.
Everyone knows it: the truth naturally can't be said, the big guys are all face-saving people, and they can't tell if they see through it!
Old Madam Zhen cooperated with the act and asked Jintong: "Seventh daughter-in-law, see for yourself how this matter is handled!" β
"Mother, why don't you help your daughter-in-law, the daughter-in-law has heavy hands, I'm afraid it will pollute the sacred place of the family temple!"
"Could it be that you're going to hit the board again and bleed into a river?" Mrs. Zhen teased Jintong: "You can do it yourself!" It's good if you don't see blood, the old body is too lazy to help you! β
"Okay! Daughter-in-law obeys! Jin Tong stretched out his foot and kicked Shen Miaolian, who was crying with Old Madam Zhen's thigh: "Aunt Shen, Mrs. Ben knows that you are just a weak woman who can't take care of herself, admires the seventh master, and can't help herself, so she flatters him with gains and losses, right?" β
Shen Miaolian wiped her tears pitifully: "I hope that Mrs. will not blame, understand the infatuation of the concubine, and spare the concubine's life!" β
"So in order to keep the heart of the seventh master, you have no choice but to do it to Mrs. Ben! Love is deep, killing someone for love or something can prove your unforgettable, and Mrs. Ben can also understand you! Alas! It's only to blame Mrs. Ben for being too smart and cherishing her own life, so she saw through your tricks, cut off your arm in the house, and threw you to the family temple to copy the scriptures! Therefore, you can't sit still again, and you devise a bitter plan, bite Mrs. Ben back, and slander Mrs. Ben to kill you! Yes and no? β
Shen Miaolian shouted like snow in June: "Madam, you know that the concubine and the seventh master are in love, so you slander the concubine like this, and the concubine refuses to accept it?" He kneeled to Mrs. Zhen again: "Old lady, please be the master of the concubine!" β
Old Madam Zhen brushed Shen Miaolian away, patted her skirt again, and ignored Shen Miaolian.
"Aunt Shen is so sick that her head is confused! Mama Cai, invite a few of them to 'Siguozhai' to reflect and reflect! If Aunt Shen collapses the house again, she will simply let the beams smash her waist, the flowers will bloom all over the ground, and the lower half of her body will be paralyzed and she will not be able to get up from the bed. If Aunt Shen pretends to be sick, she will simply be bedridden, with a yellow face and thin muscles, and she will be haggard, and she will die again for a year and a half, and taste the taste of illness! If Aunt Shen pretended to be poisoned by me, she would simply use the lead, I heard that the death was extremely ugly, the dosage was well controlled, and she would die of pain for ten days and a half months. That's pretty much it, and Mrs. Ben can't think of other tricks for the time being! By the way, the torture room changes people every five days, and those two people always look too disgusting, and Mrs. Ben can't do that lack of morality! β
Jintong first used it as a gold medal promotion in his last life, and then started a live broadcast as a small Internet celebrity, so let's get up, how can Shen Miaolian say it?
She could only pounce on Jintong like crazy: "Madam! You slandered me and framed me like this, are you really not afraid that the Seventh Master will come back to settle accounts with you? β
Jintong crossed her waist and kicked her away neatly, and sneered: "Aunt Shen, you are really stupid and naΓ―ve!" Why does Mrs. Ben know that you are not Zheng Yu's biological mother? Who acquiesced in Mrs. Ben's sending you to the family temple? Can't you guess it yet? "Killing people is just cheap, she is a hundred, and punishing the heart can make people's life worse than death.
Shen Miaolian's expression changed drastically, and she looked around in disbelief, trying to see something from everyone's expressions.
Mrs. Zhen and Zuo Congyun always knew that Jintong was eccentric, so they only watched the play on the side, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law calmly tasted tea. They all came out of the courtyard of the deep house, no one was a little white flower, Shen Miaolian's little tricks, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were tired of seeing it for a long time, so they just didn't attack her because of their feelings. Now to see Jintong so arrogantly and unilaterally abuse her, it is really refreshing.
Zheng Yu only heard Shen Miaolian tell him countless times: how the Seventh Lady is so high-flying, dustless under her eyes, stupid and jealous, and embarrassed her several times, making her live on thin ice in the Pingning Marquis Mansion, trembling.
Now that I look at it, I only feel that Jintongkou Ruohanghe is the first to say the truth, and he is very cruel and clear, and he is by no means such a brainless person, which is really interesting. Seeing that his grandmother and mother were both looking lively, he watched the changes and did not say a word. He knows his life experience, and he can't get used to seeing this aunt bring his own sister so badly, and now Jintong severely punishes Shen Miaolian, and he is happy to see it.
Shen Miaolian pounced on Zheng Yu: "Brother Yu'er, for Sister Yu'er's sake, you save the concubine!" Madame is going to kill me! β
Zheng Yu's expression was indifferent: "Aunt Shen said carefully, if the seventh uncle really wants to kill you, how can you be allowed to make a big fuss here?" Besides, is Aunt Shen so reluctant to copy scriptures and pray for Uncle Seven? β
Shen Miaolian pointed at Jintong and shouted wildly: "She wants to kill me!" She's going to kill me! Do you just ignore it? β
Old Madam Zhen looked calm and couldn't hear because I was old, Zuo Congyun's eyes were as disgusted as ever, even Zheng Yu, as her name suggests, turned a blind eye to her like an elm pimple.
Shen Miaolian was flustered in her heart, how long has it been? How did it come to this? What happened inside the Pingning Marquis's Mansion? What exactly was she missing? What was overlooked? Why things were completely different from what she imagined, she was at a loss, she felt that her eyes were black, and she couldn't help but sit on the ground.
Jin Tong looked at her with a smile: "Aunt Shen, life is precious!" Can't you live well? Do you have to force Mrs. Ben to really kill you? Then he waved his hand: "Hurry up and bring people down, it's very noisy!" β
Mama Cai had already brought more than a dozen family members, tied up Shen Miaolian's six mouths, and pushed them out.
Shen Miaolian watched as Jin Tong gave her a look of contempt with three points of coldness, three points of sarcasm, four points of ridicule, and ninety points of contempt. Then the three of their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law and Zheng Yu, as if nothing had happened, calmly listened to Master Jing'an's explanation of Buddhism.
She never imagined that the scene she carefully planned to perform would not only become a play, but also a joke. What is the current situation?