In the backyard of Ding's house, in the upper room, in the afternoon.
The old lady Xue rubbed her eyebrows: "Ge? What is she doing here!"
The maid knew that Mrs. Xue had never liked the arrogant Ge family, so she cautiously replied: "Aunt Ge said that about the second young master, she had an idea and wanted to ask the old lady to give him a slap."
"Everyone in the family has discussed it, and we have no choice but to let Yan'er suffer the loss and hire that bitch. How can an aunt like her have any ideas?!" Mrs. Xue sneered.
His grandson knew that Ding Qingyan, who was born in an official family and had the appearance of a handsome and talented man, had deceived ignorant girls outside more than once.
It's just that Mrs. Xue's second son passed away early, and Ding Qingyan was sweet-tongued and good at coaxing people. Mrs. Xue could not help but feel extra pity for her grandson. Ding Hanlin tried to use cruel methods to discipline his nephew several times, but Mrs. Xue scolded him. As time went by, he became more and more bold. Big, tired of the people in the hook, Xiaojiabiyu actually stretched out his hand to all the ladies.
Even for all the ladies, Yang Yoshi was not the only one who suffered. It was just that the other families didn't make a fuss and just had an affair with the Ding family quietly. With such a criminal record, no one would believe him even if he wanted to.
Seeing that Mrs. Xue's tone was impatient, the maid did not dare to say anything. She was about to quietly retreat back to Geshi, but she was stopped by Mrs. Xue's confidant, Mother Nan.
Nan's mother advised: "Anyway, the old lady can't sleep now, why not call her in and ask. If there is really a way to prevent the second young master from marrying a girl who is a water, sex, poplar, and flower, wouldn't it be good? What if it was her idea? No, the old lady should give her a lesson, lest Aunt Ge act more frivolously and lose the dignity of our family. "
This is a punching bag delivered to your door!
After hearing this, Mrs. Xue nodded: "Then ask her to come in!"
After a while, Ge Shi entered the door - she was only twenty years old, with a beautiful appearance and a enchanting figure. She bowed to Mrs. If you follow the Yang family's plan and marry Miss Yang, you will inevitably be criticized in the future, which is really unfair. "
Mrs. Xue originally planned to call her in to vent her anger, but as soon as she came up to speak for her most beloved grandson, Ding Qingyan, her face softened slightly and she said, "Didn't you say you had an idea?"
"Let's just say that the Fourth Miss Yang deceived the Second Young Master." Ge Shi nodded, "The Second Young Master thought she was just a maid of the Yang family, and she was not a young lady of the Yang family anyway. If she had deceived the Second Young Master, why would our family marry her? She? It’s okay to be a concubine at most!”
Mrs. Xue and Mama Nan looked at each other, both looking thoughtful: "But when Yan'er was found by the Yang family, she already knew the identity of Yang Yoshi."
"Didn't the second young master get beaten a few times by Yang Yiyong?" Ge Shi said confidently, "The Yang family wants to drag our second young master to the top of the vat, and beat the second young master until he is out of the house!"
Mrs. Xue frowned and thought deeply for a long time, then said noncommittally: "I understand, you can go down."
Ge Shi agreed and resigned.
When she was about to walk to the door, Mrs. Xue suddenly asked: "Who taught you this?"
"No!" Ge said immediately, "I thought of it myself!"
Mrs. Xue sneered: "You usually never take care of Yan'er, why are you so enthusiastic this time?"
Geshi secretly praised that the person who bribed him had a plan, and the old lady was indeed suspicious.
But she had already been reminded that her flaw would not be seen at this moment. She turned around and bowed down in fear, and said tremblingly: "In the past, I didn't dare to interfere with the Second Young Master's affairs because the Second Young Master is old and I am not the Second Young Master." My aunt is afraid of causing gossip, so she doesn’t pay much attention to the second young master. Now that I have entered the Ding family, how can I not be concerned about the Ding family’s affairs?”
Mrs. Xue stared at her for a moment and hummed: "That's nice! I'll give you another chance - why don't you tell the truth?!"
"... I'm... I'm..." Ge Shi estimated the heat, with a timid look on his face, and said calmly, "I heard that the master is going to renew his marriage in the near future... "
"Do you really think that you will be corrected after you have been in charge of the Lu family for two years?" Mrs. Xue finally lost her suspicion and said coldly, "Go back and behave yourself. My wife, the Ding family, has always been virtuous. Don't make any mistakes. , who has the patience to argue with a concubine like you!"
Ge Shi heard that Mrs. Xue was promising herself that as long as she didn't cause trouble, Ding Hanlin's step-in-law would protect her from being bullied in the future, so she showed great joy and said thank you: "I thank you, Mrs. Madam for your advice!" I will definitely remember the old lady’s teachings when I return!”
That’s weird! I turned around and took my private room to entrust someone with me. The new lady must not be allowed in!
Ruan Qingyan looked at the money and silk in the hall. Not only did he return the share he gave to Ge family intact, but he also added a lot of gold, silver and jewelry. After hearing the servant explain Ge's request, he couldn't help but laugh and cry: "This is something she You should beg Miss He, what should I do?”
Dongran said with a smile: "Miss He's name is too great. This Ge family is afraid of being known. After all, the old lady of the Ding family doesn't like her. If she knew that she was big-hearted, she would definitely drive her out of the house. So she How dare you? This time we took the initiative to interact with her without the old lady noticing, and she immediately became interested."
"It's decisive." Ruan Qingyan smiled, "When the Ding and Yang families really start fighting, find someone to send these things to Miss He, just as an errand for her. Whether Miss He will pick it up? Then it depends on Ge’s own life.”
The leg ran away the next day - if the Ding family followed Ding Hanlin's wishes, it was a man's daring to act, and Yang Yoshi's identity was not an insult to Ding Qingyan - to be honest, Ding Hanlin couldn't stand the old lady Xue. The spoiled nephew felt that Yang Yoshi was the one who was wronged because of his character.
However, Mrs. Xue was determined not to do it: "If Qingyan admits that he is having an affair with Yang Yi, even if he marries someone, how can he continue to gain a foothold in the capital in such a stormy city? He has no fame and cannot be an official. Do you want him to be an official? If you want to hide, you can only go back to your hometown - our ancestral home is far away from Beijing, so don't worry about him going there like this?"
Ding Hanlin said cautiously: "The child must arrange a suitable person for him."
"What about me?!" Old Madam Xue raised her voice, "I'm so old, God knows when my eyes will close and my whole life will pass! I like this kid, don't you know?! Once he leaves like this, everything will go by. I can’t see him even once before I die, do you want me to die in peace?”
Ding Hanlin forced a smile: "Mom, you are in good health! How can you say this now?"
"I don't care, I want a good granddaughter-in-law! Then Yang Yoshi can't stand Yan'er's seduction in the boudoir. Who knows if he will be seduced by others after passing the door?" Mrs. Xue said arrogantly, "Besides, I watched Yan'er grow up, and I can't bear to see him leave! We cannot be related to the Yang family under any circumstances!"
"But Yang Yoshi is already pregnant. If Qingyan doesn't marry her, how can she survive? The Yang family won't agree." Ding Hanlin said helplessly, "This is too sinful."
Mrs. Xue glared at him fiercely: "That's because the Yang family is not strict with their children! What does it have to do with our family? Why don't other girls have an affair with Yan'er?! Anyway, I won't agree, so you can handle this matter - give them more The family has a lot of money, even if you speak for their family in front of the court or your uncle, there is no way to marry their daughter! "
Knowing that Ding Hanlin was a kind-hearted person, he was afraid that he would not be able to withstand the Yang family's persecution and pleading, so he announced, "How dare you let Yan'er marry Yang Yishui? Whenever she comes, I will die for you!"
His biological mother used her trump card, and no matter how sympathetic Ding Hanlin was to the Yang family, he had no choice but to cheat - after all, filial piety comes first these days.
His cheating was like a bolt from the blue to the Yang family!
At this time, Ding Hanlin also heard something. The sixth and seventh girls of the Yang family went to see the fourth girl Yang Yishui the day before. After drinking the tea prepared by Yang Yishui, they were poisoned and vomited blood. Someone from the third room arrived. He suspected that Yang Yishui was angry that his future was ruined, and he was jealous of his two cousins who killed him. Now the third room is having a fierce quarrel with the eldest room and insists on dividing the family.
Now Ding Hanlin, who was originally forced by Mrs. Xue and was not willing to cheat, also felt that Yang Yoshi, a vicious person, had better not let his nephew marry...
So when the Ding and Yang families were fighting to the death, Ruan Qingyan, who was relieved, invited Lian Ding, each took a dowry list, and Shi Shiran knocked on the door of Xihe Prince's Mansion!
"Dowry?!" Qiu Mengmin and his wife's expressions changed. "Are you two too impatient? Yilan is still observing her mother's filial piety, and it's not time to go out yet. Are you still afraid that when she goes out, we will If you have wronged her, you will naturally give her what you deserve, but you don’t have to worry about it!”
Lian Ding knew that the city was not as good as Ruan Qingyan, and when he came here today, Lian Chen told him to let Ruan Qingyan take the lead as much as possible. He would be responsible for beating the drums. He would only drink tea and not talk.
Ruan Qingyan said calmly: "Originally, I would not speculate on the prince and princess like this. Otherwise, why would you come here now? It's just that two days ago, Lord Ling Xiaohou bought a bird from a famous kiln of the former dynasty in the market at a high price. The official mentioned the colorful chicken head pot with dotted beads and threads by chance to the housekeeper Ruan An. Ruan An mentioned that when his aunt came out of the palace, there was a similar one in the dowry. As a result, the official mentioned it to Mr. Ling Xiaohou. The young Marquis asked the seller casually, and it turned out that he had sold it from his house! That’s why he invited the cousin of the Lian family to come over and wanted to ask the prince and the princess if they had taken the cousin’s things by mistake.”
Qiu Mengmin looked very unhappy: "Princess?"
"Perhaps there were a lot of things going on in our house a few days ago, and Hongzhi had no experience as a housekeeper for the first time, so he actually asked his servants to steal things." When Princess Yang saw Qiu Mengmin, she asked herself without saying anything, as if he had no responsibility. Feeling unhappy, he immediately dragged Qiu Hongzhi out.
"That should be it." Qiu Mengmin frowned and said, "Quinzi always concentrates on studying and doesn't care about worldly affairs. The king and the princess fell ill on the bed a few days ago, and he only came out to preside over it for a few days. After all, the young man has little experience, and Quan Zi is far less capable than Ruan Hanlin. It is inevitable that there will be some omissions..."
After pondering for a while, he asked, "I wonder how much it cost Mr. Ling Xiaohou to buy that colorful chicken head pot with dotted beads and thread? Since it belongs to Ruan and my sister, I should buy it back and return it to Yilan."
Ruan Qingyan's official title at this time was Hanlin Editor, the seventh rank. Because of the nobility of Hanlin officials, outsiders would call Hanlin officials, no matter how high or low, unless there was a formal occasion and no Hanlin official was present. At first glance, Ruan Qingyan seemed to be the same as Ding Yiming, who presided over the Hanlin Academy. Same level.
"It's not urgent." Ruan Qingyan said with a faint smile, "After Ling Xiaohou knew that it was something left by his aunt to his cousin, he had already given the pot to his subordinate. It's just..." He said slowly, "The seller didn't come recently. It was collected from the house at the beginning of the year! I remember that both the prince and the princess were in good health at that time, right?"
Qiu Mengmin said calmly: "It was the court meeting in those days. My husband and I were worried and our servants were not strict, which made Ruan Hanlin laugh."
"Then why is my aunt's dowry hairpin with a green phoenix title missing?" He finished his words. After receiving Ruan Qingyan's look, Lian Ding put down his tea bowl and took out a colorful, exquisite and graceful hairpin from his sleeve. , said with some dissatisfaction, "This was a reward from the late emperor to my great-grandfather. Because my aunt married into your house, she made it special... Why did it appear on the head of a prostitute?!"