Before news of Wei Changying's pregnancy came out, relatives and friends had already come to visit her. Now that it was reported that he was in poor health again, of course everyone should not be left behind - Shen Shujing acted the fastest and brought Ji Yiren back that night.
Naturally, Wei Changying would not hide his niece and adopted daughter. After learning the truth, Shen Shujing was quite speechless. She rarely blamed her cousin: "Why didn't you come to me when you got suspicious? I was talking to the Liu family at that time. The ladies are talking, aren’t they asking for justice on the spot?”
Shen Shuyan was so ashamed that she didn't dare to raise her head, and muttered: "At that time... I just felt... that I wanted to go home. I didn't think of anything else."
"It seems that the Fourth Miss is more affectionate with our wife." Mrs. Huang sighed in her heart to smooth things over.
Shen Shujing is right. It makes no sense for the Liu family to talk about this matter. If the person Shen Shuyan is crying about is Shen Shujing, then Shen Shujing will definitely want the Liu family to give an explanation - this matter is really not guilty at all. No, Wei Shanshi has officially decided whether to marry a girl from the Liu family. This is an issue that Shen Zangfeng and his wife have repeatedly confirmed at the beginning - how could Shen Zangfeng and his wife neglect such an important matter
Taking a step back, even if they were negligent, it was in Fengzhou. How could Mrs. Song not mention it
What's more, Wei Changxu and the Su family are not crazy. Both the Liu family and the Shen family are ranked among the top six families in the country like the Wei family. What they are looking for is the sect's legitimate daughter! Such a noble girl would not even bother to do this. Her status is no lower than that of Wei Shanshi. At the same time, if two families have wronged a girl from another family, it is all a matter of enmity - why would they do this? Wei Shanshi is their biological son!
So the story of what happened was already explained in private: because Wei Shanshi had reached the age to propose marriage at that time, the elders naturally had to look up to him. Then there was his step-grandmother. Xiao Liu mentioned that "there are several girls in the Liu family who are not well-known because they have been raised in Donghu, but they are still very good." Therefore, Wei Changxu and Su wanted to invite Xiao Mr. Liu gave me an interview... to see if there is anyone suitable for Wei Shanshi.
While the interview was still going on, and before the truth was revealed, Wei Zhang Ying asked Mrs. Pei to give a hint - the Shen family and the Liu family had similar family status, but Shen Shuyan's reputation was a few blocks ahead of the ladies of the Liu family, and the Wei family Of course I choose Shen Shuyan.
So when the young lady from the Liu family said that Shen Shuyan robbed the fiancé of the young lady from the Liu family, that was totally out of the question!
I really don’t know if those girls are so bold or because they are convinced of Shen Shuyan’s unwiseness
When Shen Shuyan came back like this, she looked completely clueless and ignorant - she missed the opportunity to seek justice on the spot, and she had no choice but to suffer the loss secretly!
Now he has to implicate Chief Wei Ying in pretending to be ill.
Shen Shujing felt aggrieved just thinking about it, but seeing that Shen Shuyan already knew she was wrong, she couldn't help but continue talking about her. She sighed and said, "Which ladies from the Liu family are they? Tell me their names. Even if I miss the opportunity to talk to their parents, if I meet them later, I will talk to them in private!”
Shen Shuyan fiddled with the corners of her clothes and whispered, "Sister, can you let me handle this matter myself?"
Shen Shujing looked at Wei Changying, who was embroidering children's clothes. Hearing this, she said, "She told me the same thing just now, saying that she messed up the matter herself. If you want to seek justice for yourself, I will accept it.”
Since Wei Changying agreed, Shen Shujing also wanted to give her cousin another chance. She just reminded: "These girls are very courageous and capable of making things out of nothing. You should be careful and don't call anyone again." I tricked you!"
Shen Shuyan responded obediently.
Wei Changying praised Ji Yi for his general knowledge and sent her down with Shen Shuyan, leaving Shen Shujing to talk.
"Aunt, what does the Liu family mean?" With her cousin no longer in front of her, Shen Shujing couldn't help but have some in-depth conversations with Wei Changying. She frowned and said, "It's obviously a matter of disappearing! Their girls By doing this, aren't you afraid that if Yan'er doesn't come back to you, but goes to the back hall to find me, it will cause trouble for the Liu family? This will ruin the reputation of the girls of their clan!"
Wei Changying put down the needle and thread, asked someone to take it down, and said with a smile: "Have you forgotten that someone from the Liu family has gone back now? Isn't there a reason why the girls in the Liu family do things unwisely? How did they get tricked this time? There is only one Yan'er in our family. I think the girls in the Liu family are the main ones they want to harm! Yan'er was just unlucky and was taken advantage of. From this point of view, some people in the Liu family should be the ones to be harmed. Thank you for Yan'er's unwiseness, otherwise Yan'er would have gone to you to make the decision, and the Liu family would have been miserable!"
Shen Shujing was stunned: "You mean...?"
"The former Miss Eleven of the Liu family, the one you should call Aunt Eleven, was taken back to live by Liu Ruowo not long ago." Wei Changying said lightly, "Liu Ruowo's current status in the clan, Just under Liu Shili, I wonder if they are still not satisfied with their status, so they are restless? "
"Aunt Eleven..." Shen Shujing frowned slightly. She was only five or six years younger than Liu Ruoye. She had already remembered this cousin's aunt when she was outstanding among the ladies of the imperial capital, so she was naturally familiar with her.
However, due to the influence of his mother Liu Ruoyi, Shen Shujing sympathized with his tenth aunt Liu Ruoyu, and naturally had no good impression of Liu Ruoye, so he usually did not like to inquire about Liu Ruoye - but even so, he knew from the private discussions among the elders Although this Aunt Eleven is beautiful, she is a scheming figure.
But according to Shen Shujing, the eleventh aunt had a bad character. Later, she also suffered retribution because of Wei Changjuan's incident. She, a noble lady, was toyed with by Shen Xun, King Heng of the former Wei Dynasty for several years. Later, Shen Xun was Killed, she escaped by chance... and because of the situation, she was trapped in the den of a tiger and fell into a wolf's den. In the past few years from Hengdi to the imperial capital, she, a young and beautiful woman, had no protection from loyal guards or rescue from her family. Her experiences can be imagined. I know that there is also the revenge of my half-sister Liu Ruoyu, and the entanglement that follows her...
So a normal person would think that if Liu Ruoye finally returned to the imperial capital and got the protection of his brother, he must be cautious and not dare to mess around again
Shen Shujing asked in surprise: "Could it be my eleventh aunt who did what happened today?"
"The Liu family has been in peace all these years. After she came back, the girls were so bold and said that it had nothing to do with her... Anyway, I think it is very similar to what she did back then." Wei Changying said with a faint smile, "No matter what, after tomorrow Your aunt and uncle are here today. I would like to ask them to meet with Liu Shili’s stepwife and remind her to pay attention. Yan’er can’t really suffer like this?”
Shen Shujing asked, "Do you want me to help?"
Wei Changying smiled and said: "If you have time, you can go. What happened that day, even if you were not present, always happened in your house. If you ask the servants afterwards, they will know better than others. Say. I haven’t even met Liu Shili’s stepwife yet.”
It was around the time she said this last sentence that Liu Xixun's Xu Xian came to visit her the next day.
Liu Xixun's first wife Song Xiyue is Wei Changying's cousin, so the two families are considered relatives. As a stepmother, the first spouse's relatives also have to move around for the first spouse. It's just that Mrs. Gu, like Wei Changying, had just arrived in the imperial capital recently. She was busy settling in and hadn't had time to visit her at home. This time, it was better, she could just visit her in one visit.
This Mrs. Gu is the daughter of the Gu family in the imperial capital. She is Gu Yiran's cousin. Gu Yiran is the matchmaker.
In fact, Mrs. Gu was also there at Prince Ning's Mansion the day before - the ladies of the Liu family were brought to Prince Ning's Mansion by several wives of the Liu family, headed by her.
Mrs. Gu's greetings when she came that day were nothing unusual. She didn't seem to know that the ladies from the Liu family were privately troublesome for Shen Shuyan.
Wei Changying was sent back to Prince Ning's Mansion because Shen Shujing was sent last night, so now he had no choice but to tell her about this in person - Mrs. Gu was indeed very surprised and kept asking: "Such a thing could happen?"
Mrs. Huang was a little unhappy and said: "Mrs. Gu, what you said is that our madam is the elder of several young ladies. Secondly, we have never seen those young ladies in your family. As for arranging them ourselves?"
Mrs. Gu quickly apologized and said, "Auntie misunderstood, I didn't mean it that way." Then she said to Wei Changying, "Cousin Wei, listen to me, this is what happened: you know that I only married my husband a few years ago. Keng'er was still young at that time, and he was the only flesh and blood left by Sister Song. He was her husband's eldest son. How could I not raise him well? At that time, I was so busy that I didn't even care about my husband. Later, I I gave birth to a daughter... To be honest, I’m not really familiar with the teenage girl at home.”
The guard nodded and said: "For a family like ours, with a big business, the servants in our house are bustling with people. Even if they live across the door and are relatives, there is no special relationship. Who would always go and pry?"
"You are right." Mrs. Gu said with a wry smile, "No, I received a message from Queen Ning two days ago. The sisters-in-law of the clan came to tell me that the girls under their knees have reached the age and should be taken out. Seeing the world - how can I refuse this reason? Especially Queen Ning's good reputation, which we all knew before she came out of the cabinet. I went in and out the same way. When I came back, they greeted me and got into their carriage—I really didn’t know what was going on!”
Wei Changying looked at her and said: "Then you have to be careful - don't blame me for our friendship. Shili is my cousin-in-law. Gu Ziyang said that we were friends with my husband when we were young. We are not outsiders. I'll tell you the truth: I'm not actually sick, but Yan'er misunderstood your lady's words and thought that Wei Shanshi had proposed marriage to the Liu family, but later fell in love with her, so she regretted it. of… "
She raised her hand to stop Mrs. Gu's words and said, "Yan'er couldn't bear it, so she ran back crying and asked me for an explanation. You know that if this matter spreads, the truth will be on her side, but it also seems that Yan'er It was useless, so I pretended to be sick to smooth things over for her - but if the child wasn't too aggrieved and confused, she should actually go to the back hall to say goodbye to her eldest sister first, do you understand what I mean?"
A flash of annoyance flashed in Mrs. Gu's eyes, and she nodded heavily: "Thank you for your advice, cousin! After I go back, I will call all the people to ask for clarification - now that you have smoothed things over for the fourth lady in the house, this matter has been made public. I'm afraid it's hard to say anything, otherwise your hard work will be in vain - but in private, I will give you an explanation!"
The guard chief nodded and said, "Then, I'll wait for your news." (To be continued)