Come back in the evening, what are you doing here?

Jiang Shu was stunned for a while, and then understood that his skin was red after he came over.

"Madam, we have to prepare well, tonight with the marquis, it's a big joy." Tan Yu's face was excited, even more excited than Jiang Shu.

Luo Yu angrily pinched the soft flesh on her waist and said, "If you shout louder, the whole Hou Mansion will hear it." ”

"Whoa...... I was wrong, I was wrong. Tan Yu said in pain.

"Puff-" Jiang Shu was amused by the two of them, and his nervous heart eased a little.

Shen Changze returned to Lanyun Courtyard and looked at the open door with inexplicable heavy footsteps.

"Daddy." Yan Yang, who was playing in the courtyard, saw him.

"What are you doing?" Shen Changze walked over and found the brother and sister squatting under the tree to dig out ants.

"Daddy, look, there are a lot of ants." Yan Yang excitedly dug the anthill with the branches, and the ant colony scurried like headless flies.

After being dumbfounded for a long time, Shen Changze suddenly realized that it was time to find something serious for Yan Yang to do.

The eldest son of the dignified marquis can't develop a lazy and unscrupulous business.

Thinking of this, Shen Changze raised his feet and entered the house.

Cheng Jinchu was wiping her red tassel gun, and when she heard the sound, she didn't get up to greet her as usual.

"Why did you suddenly pick up the gun?" Shen Changze poured himself a cup of tea.

Cheng Jinchu stared at the tip of the bright gun obsessively, and said with a little sentimentality: "I miss the time when we were at the border." ”

Shen Changze, who was drinking water, was stunned: "But you've been tired lately?" If you are tired, you will rest for two days, and the affairs of the house will not be in a hurry. ”

Cheng Jinchu didn't speak.

Shen Changze said: "There is something I want to discuss with you. ”

"Yan Yang is already five years old, it's time to enter school, and I plan to send him to the clan school in a few days."

When it comes to children, Cheng Jinchu is quite concerned: "But when he first arrived in Beijing, he was not familiar with the place......

"He is the eldest son of the Hou Mansion, and he must not be cultivated into a mediocre and incompetent person. You have seen the poverty and cruelty at the border with your own eyes, I don't want him to take this dangerous road, I want him to enter the office. Shen Changze's face was solemn.

If you enter the office, you have to study hard, and the ten-year cold window is not just talking.

Cheng Jinchu bit his lip: "But the title of the gold list is so easy, what if Yan Yang is not the material for reading?"

She hoped that Yan Yang would have a good future, but she was a little distressed when she went to study at such a young age.

"Yes or no, you will know after a few years of reading, and you must always be literate and reasonable." Shen Changze was unusually insistent.

The Jiang family has thousands of family fortunes, Jiang Ning has to go to the academy to study, how can Yan Yang be lazy?

It is not easy to support the Hou Mansion, but it is very simple to defeat, just do nothing.

"If you are really good for Yan Yang, you should urge him with your ears, instead of doting on him. Mothers are many losers, you know. ”

Cheng Jinchu looked at Yan Yang, who was pouting and digging holes in the courtyard, recalled her father's tragic death, and finally nodded.

The husband was right, she couldn't let Yan Yang go their way anymore. The hard work of reading in the cold window is not worth mentioning compared to the death on the battlefield.

At night, Shen Changze was pestered by two children to tell stories after bathing.

After talking absentmindedly for half an hour, after finally putting the child to sleep, Shen Changze got up impatiently.

"It's so late, where is my husband going?" Cheng Jinchu looked at him suspiciously.

Shen Changze coughed: "I'm staying in the Listening Bamboo Tower tonight, you can rest early." ”

Cheng Jinchu watched him leave in a daze, his heart sore and astringent.

From the very beginning, she knew that Shen Changze did not belong to her alone, but when it came time to share it with others, she still found it difficult to accept it.

Tonight, destined to be sleepless.

Jiang Shu leaned on the beauty couch and read a book, but he didn't hear anyone enter the house.

"What are you reading?"

Jiang Shu looked up from the book in amazement, and saw the handsome and tall Shen Changze walking slowly towards her.

"The Story of a Small Window." Her hand holding the scroll trembled a little, and her heart jumped.

Shen Changze didn't notice her abnormality, and sat down on the edge of the couch and praised: "It's a good book." ”

When he saw the book, he thought of Yan Yang, so he gossiped: "I plan to send Yan Yang to the clan in a few days." ”

Thinking of Yan Yang's age, Jiang Shu nodded: "It's time to be enlightened." ”

Even if the children of the big families do not gain fame, they should also be wise and self-cultivation.

The two chatted for a while, Jiang Shu relaxed, and Shen Changze looked at her beautiful complexion, only to feel that his blood was surging.

Beautiful scenery, a moment of spring night.

Shen Changze was just about to make a move, but Tan Yu suddenly slapped the door outside: "Master Hou, madam, something happened!" ”

Jiang Shu and Shen Changze were shocked at the same time.

Embarrassed, Jiang Shu took his coat and put it on and opened the door: "What's wrong?"

Tan Yu hurriedly said: "In the courtyard, Mrs. Liu hanged herself." ”

What? Killed?

Shen Changze's eyes lit up and he walked downstairs quickly, followed by Jiang Shu.

When he passed by before hitting the Cloud Courtyard, he happened to meet Cheng Jinchu who came out of it.

"Husband." Cheng Jinchu was stunned, and there was a bit of tremor in his voice.

"Go see what's going on." Shen Changze stepped forward to hold her hand and walked away.

Jiang Shu, who was one step behind, clenched his palms and silently followed.

"As long as she is here, Lord Hou is like he can't see his wife." Tanyu, who was carrying the lantern, muttered dissatisfiedly.

Yu scolded in a low voice: "Okay, when is it, don't mess with Mrs. Block." ”

Jiang Shu pursed his lips and didn't speak, but his heart twisted.

Not long after they arrived at the lower courtyard, Shen's mother also rushed over.

Mrs. Liu was lying on the ground, no longer breathing.

"What's going on? How did someone die in a good way?" Shen's mother was anxious and angry.

An informed subordinate replied: "Mrs. Hui, Mrs. Liu said that she has no husband, no children and nowhere to go, so she ...... Hanged himself. ”

Hearing the cause of Mrs. Liu's death, Cheng Jinchu stood unsteadily and shook.

Shen Changze glanced at her, saw that her face was pale, and knew that this matter had something to do with her.

"Alas, Mrs. Liu is lonely, and she doesn't know where she will die if she leaves the Hou Mansion, so it's okay, at least the Hou Mansion will collect her body."

"Poor ......"

The subordinates sighed in a low voice, for Mrs. Liu and for themselves.

"What does it mean to have nowhere to go?" Jiang Shu was confused when he heard it.

The housekeeper glanced at Cheng Jinchu and Shen Changze, and said boldly: "Today, Mrs. Jin summoned the whole mansion and said that there were too many people in the mansion, and some people were dismissed by the return deed, and Mrs. Liu was also among them. ”

Jiang Shu understood in an instant.

Mrs. Liu has been a slave in the Hou Mansion for decades, and is nearly seventy years old, and her health is not as good as before after she was sick a few years ago, and she is half blind in her eyes, so she can only do some chores such as burning the fire and washing dishes.

For her, being dismissed from the house was tantamount to forcing her to die.

"I just saw that she was old and wanted to let her go home to raise her, I didn't know she didn't have a family." Cheng Jinchu explained with a worried face.

Shen Changze twisted his eyebrows when he listened, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

He knew that Cheng Jinchu was for the Hou Mansion, but now there was a fatality. If it is not handled well, the Hou Mansion will definitely end up with a reputation for treating people harshly and disregarding people's lives.