In fact, there is no need for Queen Qiu to think of ways to remind her—
As early as the evening of the previous day, in the back hall of Shen's mansion, Shen Zangfeng stretched out his fingers for his daughter Shen Shuyu to hold and play with while listening to Wei Changying describe the scene in Weiyang Palace. After listening, he said without thinking: "While Zheng Sanya hasn't returned yet, let's finalize the truth about Zheng Cuiye's death - no matter who did it, it can't have anything to do with our family or the Liu family! It can't have anything to do with any noble clan!"
"But Zheng Cuiye died in the Liu family's Zhuangzi." Wei Changying said thoughtfully, "Although Mrs. Zhou insisted that the Liu family had a lot of property, she did not send anyone to inspect the Zhuangzi. It doesn’t matter, but it’s okay to fool people like Wang and Zhao. How can we let people like Zheng Sanya give up?”
Shen Zangfeng said with a faint smile: "So what? Liu Ruowo risked his life to save him, but he is still bedridden. He is seeking medical treatment in Fengzhou, and his two sons are still young. Liu Xixun and others here in the imperial capital They all went out with him - Duke Lu's house is full of women and children, so who is weak and pitiful? Zheng Sanya doesn't want to give up. He thinks he can win when the emperor picks him up
Wei Changying thought: "If Liu Ruowo's injury worsens-"
"Since Madam Zhou is determined not to recognize my sister-in-law, she naturally has to explain to Liu Ruowo." Shen Zangfeng said thoughtfully, "The Liu family should be the most anxious about this matter now, and they should use Liu Ruowo's injury to put pressure. The family will definitely not use it. And the reason why our family was dragged into the water is simply because Liu Ruoye slandered you... Besides, Liu Ruoye is indeed the daughter of the Liu family and Liu Ruowo's sister, so the Liu family must do something now! Two things: let the news of Liu Ruowo’s injury worsen; and get rid of Liu Ruoye in advance!”
"So our family has nothing to do?" Guard Chief Ying thought for a while and said, "At most, we can help the Liu family?"
Shen Zangfeng nodded slightly: "It's late today. I guess Mrs. Zhou will come to our house to visit you tomorrow."
"Now that Your Majesty and the others are not in the capital, the ones who need to be on guard most are Bo Xi and Liu Rong." Wei Changying said thoughtfully, "I don't know if these two will come tomorrow."
"Just let me greet these two when they come." Shen Zangfeng said to his daughter, a little dumbfounded, "Isn't there a teething stick hanging on your chest? Why are you biting your father's finger?"
Wei Changying lowered his head and saw that it was not Shen Shunui who had just grabbed his father Shen Zangfeng's finger and was making noises with force. She did not know when she opened her small mouth and bit and grinded her teeth on her father's finger - but it was specially given to her. The suet-fat jade molar stick used to grind her teeth was hanging on her chest!
"How old is she? How much strength can she have? How many times does she bite you? What's the matter?" Anyway, it wasn't his own finger that he bit, so Wei Changying pampered his daughter with peace of mind, "Just wait until she gets tired of biting you!" He said He carefully placed Shen Shuyao on Shen Zangfeng's lap, so as not to disturb his daughter's interest in grinding her teeth...
The corner of Shen Zangfeng's mouth twitched, and he put on a smile. He was about to coax his daughter to let go, but he lowered his head. Shen Shu'ei suddenly stretched out her arm, grabbed his short beard under the chin, and laughed happily!
"Does a daughter really care about others more than a son?" Shen Zangfeng wanted to pull her hand away but was afraid of hurting her. He let her hold her hand, and his jaw hurt a lot. He took a breath and complained, "Why do I feel that Guang'er and Xie My son is better than my daughter?”
"That's because you weren't there when they were naughty." Wei Changying snorted, "You forgot that my mother said before that Guang'er scratched his father's beard many times when he was a child, and he always liked to destroy the precious things that his mother liked. Flowers! When Xie'er was here, my eldest sister and my hairpins and sideburns suffered a lot from him! Now that I'm here to torture you, this is what you deserve!"
Shen Zangfeng sighed and hugged his daughter: "Yes, yes, this is what it should be... Hiss! Why is my daughter so strong?"
The couple discussed while teasing their little daughter, and the atmosphere was still very relaxed. The Liu Mansion was now filled with dark clouds - several ladies returned to the mansion and gathered in Mrs. Zhou's house, refusing to leave: "What on earth is going on? Why did an inexplicable person live in the Zhuangzi in your room?" Yuanzhi? You keep saying that the 23rd brother sent him there personally?"
These ladies, including Mrs. Gu, are all still very young - when the imperial capital fell, almost all the Liu family's female relatives in the imperial capital were gone. Therefore, among the current female relatives, even if the husband is not young, because it is a second marriage, Not getting any older.
Since all of them have just passed through the family in the past two years - and most of them are ladies who have not lived in the imperial capital before - of course they don't know Liu Ruoye. Therefore, like Queen Qiu, they regarded Liu Ruoye as Liu Ruowo's adopted concubine. Mrs. Gu was worried: "Could she really be the daughter of a distant branch?"
It's not a big deal for Liu Ruowo to raise a concubine in private. Now it's not impossible to think of something to do if this concubine is involved in the death of the beloved daughter of the country. But if it is an adultery between a brother and a brother - even if the woman said that she had been out of love a long time ago. Married to the distant branch of the fifth server, but these days, the same surname is still not married! This is pure incest! A scandal involving the entire Donghu Liu family!
When Mrs. Gu asked this question, the other sisters-in-law became nervous, waiting for Mrs. Zhou's answer.
Now that things have come to a point, Mrs. Zhou can no longer hide it. She said bluntly: "If she's a daughter from a distant branch, she's from our sect!"
Mrs. Gu and others were surprised: "What?!"
"My husband's sister-in-law is the one who was born to my father's second wife, Mrs. Zhang. Have you all heard of it? She was the eleventh lady of our generation in the past." Mrs. Zhou hummed, "She killed seven of the Wei family back then. Miss, the Wei family sent Wei Xinyong to force Emperor Wei Ai into the palace and deposed the prince Shen Xun who was born after the deposed Gu family! After a private fight, she and her mother Zhang were handed over to Shen Xun for disposal! The previous dynasty also happened, and all the sisters-in-law and sisters-in-law should have heard of Shen Xun... What do you think would happen if he fell into his hands? "
Mrs. Gu and others were stunned!
After a long while, Mrs. Gu said calmly: "But isn't Shen Xun dead long ago?"
"She took advantage of the chaos to escape, and then lived in the streets. She only found her husband last year or the year before last. He was such a biological sister and couldn't bear to let her live. So he concealed his identity and placed her in that village!" Mrs. Zhou sighed! He said, "Now she has caused so much trouble to our family, but what should we do?"
"Now we're in big trouble!" Mrs. Gu gasped, "I saw you were so rude to Wang and the others, and I thought this matter really had nothing to do with our family! Isn't it too shameful for the twenty-third brother? Even if he is his biological sister, she has been living abroad for so many years and her experience is so complicated. He can't bear to think of settling her down for the rest of his life, so he can at least say hello to the clan without saying anything! Tell us now, what should we do now?”
Another sister-in-law also complained repeatedly: "Why do you want to place it in the Liu family's village? Even if it is the private property of your house, this is too confusing, right? You can't find a servant's village to settle it, and then you can still Someone is jacking up the tank!"
"She has been living outside for many years. Now, although the 23rd brother has given her a place to stay, who knows that she, the former Eleventh Miss, is watching us come and go openly... Could it be that Miss Zheng's death was her revenge on our family? Right?" Another sister-in-law frowned.
Mrs. Gu was very unhappy. Originally, Liu Xixun and Liu Ruowo had a delicate relationship. As their wives, Mrs. Gu and Mrs. Zhou had always been wary of each other. Now after hearing what Mrs. Zhou said, Mrs. Gu suddenly felt that her side Being plotted: "Just now you were still holding on to that Wang family's bad talk, and now things have become so troubled that our Liu family has been dragged into the water... The family has never treated you badly, what do you mean by doing this?! "
"Hey! Sister-in-law sixteen, don't be angry! If I am not so kind, why should I tell you this?" Mrs. Zhou frowned and said, "To be honest, I don't want her to come back! But! What can I do if my husband misses the old relationship so much - but I think she will not murder Zheng Cuiye. Otherwise, if our family is in trouble, how can she survive? Could it be that she wants to live in the world again? That's why she said Mrs. Wei? I think it’s 100% correct to harm Zheng Cuiye!”
"Even so, you have already made a fuss over Wang's words. If it turns out to be Mrs. Wei, then the fuss you made is just a joke. His Majesty may take advantage of this situation and show it to us!" Mrs. Gu said angrily, "Since my twenty-third brother has just rescued Jia, your room is safe for the time being, and you won't care about the other rooms, right?"
Seeing the unkind looks cast by the sisters-in-law, Mrs. Zhou hurriedly said: "How could it be? What does Zheng Cuiye have to do with our family? Why should we care if it was Mrs. Wei who did it? But if it was Mrs. Wei who did it Hands, the Shen family can’t watch this trouble, right?”
Mrs. Gu frowned and said, "That's true..."
Before she finished speaking, one of her sisters-in-law, Mrs. Qian, interrupted: "Mrs. Wei would do this kind of murder when she had nothing to do! She is the daughter of the Wei family in Fengzhou, how could she be so small-minded? But Zheng Cuiye died. It is very difficult for our family to clean up the situation in Liujiazhuang. We must find a way to solve this problem quickly, so as not to let the Zheng family catch the flaw and cause a huge defeat! "
This Mrs. Qian is Liu Bing'er's mother. Liu Bing'er has already decided to be the wife of the Shen family. Shen Shuming has no parents yet. Wei Changying and his wife have been kind to him in raising him. If a girl doesn't get married, her parents' family will offend her husband's elders. Does this mean Liu Bing'er will still have a good life in the future
"Since Sister-in-law Qian said that, it's okay for us not to mention it to the Shen family. It's just that this mistress is very valued by my husband. I denied that she was from the Liu family before, but I don't know how to explain it in front of my husband. It's over—" Mrs. Zhou held the handkerchief and said in embarrassment.
Mrs. Gu and Mrs. Qian exchanged glances, both looking a little hesitant - Mrs. Zhou's purpose was now obvious to the sisters-in-law. It was basically that she had wanted to eradicate Liu Ruoye for a long time, but it was not in Liu Ruowo's way. The attitude is that I don’t dare to do it myself!
At this time, Liu Ruoye caught up with the matter. Madam Zhou first concealed the true identity of this eldest sister-in-law from her sister-in-law, and caught the Wang family's slip of the tongue to make the matter bigger. Now the gentry will definitely unite, let alone the family, she will Tell everyone, besides working together to hide the matter, is there any other option now
Moreover, she just deliberately suspected that Wei Changying was involved in the plot to murder Zheng Cuiye, not to really go to Wei Changying to put pressure, but to wait for Madam Qian to object - this was tantamount to reminding Madam Qian that if the Liu family did not put Liu Ruo on their own If Yebu is eliminated and Wei Changying is dragged into the water, Liu Bing'er will most likely be implicated!
It concerns the future of her own flesh and blood, especially when Liu Bing'er had already had issues with Shen Shuyan before. How could Mrs. Qian dare to offend the Shen family again if she loved her daughter? !
"The twenty-three younger brothers and sisters are really smart!" Mrs. Qian said with a serious expression.
Mrs. Zhou was very sensible and did not dare to take advantage of her. She smiled and said, "I can't help it! Sister-in-law, think about it. Knowing that such a person is placed in Zhuangzi, she is usually very arrogant! She wants this and that from time to time. I'm worried every day! I'm afraid of offending my husband! If my sisters-in-law don't help me, it will really be... There are so many girls in our family, so my husband has made me a prince, and in the future, my brothers will also I want to be given a title and a title—but my family has such a shameless master. Where will our family’s face be put in the future?”
"Now the person is in Wang's hands." Seeing Mrs. Zhou like this, Mrs. Gu wanted to fall out, but it was not good, so she could only say with a stern face, "It's not easy to do it!"
"And even if the person dies, can it clear the relationship between our Liu family?" Mrs. Qian snorted, "You had the idea of cleaning up the family earlier, why didn't you come and tell us earlier?!"
I told you earlier—didn’t Liu Xixun take advantage of her husband? ! As for our side, my husband entrusted the person to me when he left. If I order someone to do it, can they get away? Otherwise, where else would I let you know!
Mrs. Zhou muttered in her heart and said with a smile: "I have an idea... but I can't bring it up..." (To be continued)