The main room was crying and complaining gloomily, but the atmosphere in the fourth room was not much better—
Qiu Yilan was sent to the yard by Mrs. Zhuang to have the fetus because she had "movement". I don't know if it was because of her status as a legitimate daughter-in-law and her pregnancy, but Mrs. Zhuang was very concerned about her and had many words of comfort and relief.
However, everyone around Qiu Yilan was not in a good mood, especially Zhou's mother, who was usually the most respectable. She was scolded by Mrs. Zhuang in public: "You young lady don't know how to deal with it. At your age, you are always in the backyard." The waiter in the room is said to have served Princess Ruan. Don’t you know anything? Why is the old man so stupid that he sent your young lady to squeeze in the big room even though she knew she was pregnant, and you didn’t know how to stop her? point?!"
Mother Zhou was so embarrassed that she blushed and just apologized.
In the end, it was Qiu Yilan who repeatedly interceded with her to silence Mrs. Zhuang, but she still ordered her mother to stay and sit in charge: "Don't let messy things disturb Yilan's pregnancy again! Who can send people to bother her again?" , Even the old lady, don’t pay attention to it. If you can’t bear it, just send someone to call me and I’ll go talk!”
Qiu Yilan really didn't know how she felt about thanking her mother-in-law for her concern. She went back to the inner room to cheer up her mother and comforted her mother. She was extremely looking forward to her husband coming back soon!
However, she didn't know that she was already well - because Mrs. Zhuang returned to the main hall of the fourth room after taking care of the trivial matters for her daughter-in-law. Sheng Shishui, who was finally allowed to come forward to see her by her mother-in-law, hugged her nephew and took her daughter in her arms. After kowtowing respectfully, Mrs. Zhuang didn't even raise her eyelids and just ordered: "Bring my grandson up to see me!"
The unnamed baby boy was picked up by the healthy woman and carried to the hall. Mrs. Zhuang looked at it and smiled slightly: "This child doesn't look like his mother, but looks very much like the nineteen-year-old boy!"
"People say that my nephew is like my uncle." Sheng Shishui, who was still kneeling, smiled with a smile on his face and tried to please her. "My wife also thinks that although my nephew is young, his eyes are smart and smart. He will be as capable in both civil and military affairs as his nineteenth brother. Both talented and beautiful!" Because of her life experience, she has been living under the influence of others since she was a child. She is very good at reading people's faces. Although this sentence is ordinary, it praises her nephew and Jiang Yashuang together.
According to common sense, the people who hurt Mrs. Zhuang the most right now should be Jiang Yashuang and her grandson who is still in her arms. These words should be very useful to her. Even if Sheng Shishui is Jiang Yazhu's wife, why should he wake her up and talk, right
But Mrs. Zhuang just said a faint "Hmm", took off the bracelet on her wrist to tease her grandson, and talked about Jiang Qizheng and Jiang Yashuang's appearance in their babies. She had no intention of calling Sheng Shishui to get up.
She didn't say anything, so Sheng Shishui could only kneel down.
It's just that Sheng Shishui could bear it, but her daughter Jiang Huihuan couldn't bear it at her young age. Although her mother winked frequently, Jiang Huihuan endured it for a while, then got up, pouted and sat on the kowtow mat, looking at Mrs. Zhuang with aggrieved face. When her father Jiang Yazhu was busy, Jiang Huihuan When she comes to this hand and begs for a hug, she always succeeds, but at this moment she also hopes that Mrs. Zhuang can put down her cousin and give her a hug.
But when Mrs. Zhuang caught a glimpse from the corner of her eye, she sneered: "It turns out that I haven't returned to Beijing for more than ten years, and now the etiquette for grandchildren to greet their grandmother is to sit down?"
Sheng Shishui quickly pressed Jiang Huihuan down: "How did the wet nurse teach you the rules?! Why don't you kowtow to your grandmother to say hello!"
As the eldest daughter, Jiang Huihuan has no younger brothers or sisters to share her favors. She has never experienced grievance before, so how can she endure Mrs. Zhuang's obvious differential treatment? Immediately he started crying: "I don't! I have been kneeling for a long time! I also want my grandmother to hold me!"
"Why are you making such a fuss!" Seeing this, Mrs. Zhuang's eyes flashed with a stern expression, and she ordered calmly, "Since her wet nurse can't even teach her how to kneel down, it shows that she can't teach anything else! Since she is the granddaughter in my name, she is a must. I’ll give you the rules! Mother Chang, from now on, you should teach her a lesson!”
Sheng Shishui was shocked. These mothers brought back by Mrs. Zhuang were so cruel and ruthless. This news had spread throughout the Duke's Mansion. How could she not have heard about it? Jiang Huihuan is only three years old this year. How can he withstand the torment of these mothers? It’s not unusual for children to die young these days!
"Mother! This is all because of my daughter-in-law's fault. I beg my mother..."
Mrs. Zhuang interrupted her indifferently: "You don't need to beg! I will teach this daughter well for you!"
After finishing, he waved his hand and said, "I'm tired, just go down!"
... Sheng Shishui was driven out of the house in despair. He didn't even bother to go back to his house, so he hurried to the yard of Qiu Yilan and his wife, hoping to ask his sister-in-law for help. As a result, he was stopped by his mother when he arrived at the door: "My wife has told me that the Nineteenth Young Lady needs to have a baby now, and no one is allowed to disturb her!"
After pleading to no avail, Sheng Shishui went to find Mrs. Tao again, but after waiting outside the old lady's courtyard for a long time, only Mrs. Hu came out and told her: "The old lady is not doing well, and I'm afraid she can't do anything now... 21 Grandsons After all, the young lady is your eldest daughter. I think the fourth lady just hopes that she can understand the rules. Please relax..."
Saying it is the same as not saying it.
"It's my husband's life experience that makes you brood, but how innocent is Huan'er?" Sheng Shishui didn't know how she got back, sitting in a familiar inner room, but didn't hear her nephew's babbling and her daughter's innocent words. She felt unprecedentedly deserted and resentful, "As my concubine, I never expected to be treated like your legitimate daughter-in-law. Isn't this considered a humble little one today? Do you have to have our family die before you can be satisfied?! "
But she had wronged Mrs. Zhuang.
Because Mrs. Zhuang is now telling Mother Chang: "Give that little thing some rules, but be careful and don't let her get into trouble!"
Chang's mother knew very well that Mrs. Zhuang had always regarded Jiang Yazhu as a thorn in her side, and of course she would not have any love for Jiang Yazhu's daughter, so she asked with a smile: "Madam, do you still want her to be useful?"
"If you mention her when Nineteen comes back, send her back immediately! It's so easy for us to come back. There are so many things to do. How can we take this little thing with us for how long?" Mrs. Zhuang said nonchalantly, "Keeping her here is just to show off that scoundrel, and also to make that scoundrel owe Nineteen a little more!"
"yes!"
"After more than ten years of separation, I didn't expect to have the chance to see my daughter with my own eyes!" She hated Mrs. Jiangya Zhuzhuang deeply, and even the young Jiang Huihuan couldn't let Mrs. Zhuang have any sympathy. But thinking of her biological daughter, Zhuang The madam was heartbroken, and her tears fell on her grandson's swaddling clothes. She was choked with sobs and could not speak, "I would have known what I would have done to send the two children back? Although it is bitter and cold in northern Xinjiang, the Ah Xing brothers and sisters are different. Does it grow there?"
Chang's mother and others hurriedly tried to persuade her: "You haven't thought about food and tea since you heard the news. I'm afraid this bumpy road will hurt your vitality! If you don't show your condolences at this meeting, what will you do if you call him the Eighth Young Master or the Nineteenth Young Master in the future? That's it. The grandson in your arms, without Your Highness, I will have to rely on you in the future! You must not cry anymore! Take care of yourself!"
Mrs. Zhuang nodded and wiped her tears, and suddenly asked: "It is said that the child left by the eighth daughter-in-law was raised by the nineteenth daughter-in-law? I forgot to ask just now... After all, the nineteenth daughter-in-law's mother and concubine passed away early, and there were no caring elders in her natal family. , the dowry is not appropriate enough, she has no time to mention her nephew to me because of her pregnancy, but there is no one around her to mention it? "
Because Qiu Yilan is the direct daughter-in-law, she has no conflict with Chang’s mother and others, and it is said that she is very popular with Jiang Yashuang. Chang’s mother and others helped to speak: “Maybe we just arrived, and the Nineteenth Young Lady is afraid that you will be too tired. "
When they said this, it seemed that Sheng Shishui was selfish: he brought his nephew over as soon as he came up, and only used his nephew to soften his mother-in-law's attitude, without considering her mother-in-law's tiredness at all - but who said Sheng Shishui was the concubine's daughter-in-law, and her husband was still the husband? What about what the lady hates
Mrs. Zhuang frowned and snorted coldly: "Old Madam found a good wife for that scoundrel! She looks thoughtful!"
"No matter how thoughtful you are, what else can she do to blame if you are here now?" Chang's mother smiled, "I'll give my grandson to this old slave. You really don't look good. After all, we came back this time to take a detour, and we were in a hurry. "
"How can we do it without taking a detour?" Mrs. Zhuang sneered, "The old man is wholeheartedly interested in the big house. Even if there is an urgent letter from my husband 800 miles away, who knows whether he will send someone to stop me on the road and force me to go back to Northern Xinjiang. Should I take care of my daughter’s funeral in person?”
Then he said, "Look, I have two daughters-in-law, and my grandson is also on my lap. Where is my nineteen-year-old son? He has to do some errands in the court and he can't get away for the time being. He has to go to work tonight or tomorrow." Come back... Jiang Tian'ao, the prime minister, is staying at home today, not to mention my son. He must have been sent out by the old master to block me and won't be able to come back for a while!"
With that said, he finally handed the grandson to Mother Chang. Looking at the baby's white and tender little face, she felt sad again, "If I had known that Zheng'er was so unlucky, why would I have come back when she descended? I was so sorry. I owe it to the children!”
"Ma'am, please take care!" Chang's mother quickly changed the subject, "Over there in the main room, Mrs. Dou doesn't know how injured she is, and she doesn't know how to deal with the aftermath?"
Mrs. Zhuang would actually hide a hammer and attack the big house. This was something that they, the old people who had been serving her for many years, did not expect. Otherwise, how could they not have stopped her
Now, although Qiu Yilan moved the fetal energy and returned to the fourth room, the matter will definitely not end like this - I don't know how the Qin Guild will deal with it
Mrs. Zhuang was calm and composed: "Isn't she not dead yet? Even if she is dead, my husband and I have been together for many years, and our relationship is extraordinary. Not to mention that Nineteen is extremely dignified in front of the old man. If the old man allows me to give birth to the Dou family for this reason, How can my husband and the eldest brother and the third wife spare their lives! If the old man really loves those two people, why should he keep me alive? If he doesn’t love those two people enough, why should he force me to death
Chang's mother worriedly said: "I'm afraid that even if the old man doesn't criticize you harshly, I'm afraid that the grievances of Her Royal Highness the Princess... won't be told to us!"
The death of a Dou family member would give the fourth family no reason to continue to investigate Jiang Qizheng's death. From the perspective of Qin Guogong, it is still a good deal - anyway, the Dou family is not his flesh and blood, so he does not feel sorry for it, and the Dou family has suffered a tragedy. He can't even explain to his in-laws. Neither is needed.
But this is a loss-making deal for the fourth house. Mrs. Dou is just the mistress of the first house, so what about the third house
Furthermore, Mrs. Dou is Jiang Qizheng’s elder. Strictly speaking, the fourth house is still in debt to the first house!
"How could I have wronged my son?" Mrs. Zhuang sneered and glanced around. Mother Chang hurriedly handed the swaddle in her arms to others to carry behind her. After the scene was cleared and only her confidants were left, Mrs. Zhuang lowered her voice and said, "Among the disciples of the first and third houses, the only ones with the ability to lead an army are Jiang Yayue and Jiang Yaqing—as long as these two people die, If they want to regain military power, they can only support outsiders! Whoever they support will be killed by us to see who dares to collude with them!"
Seeing the astonishment of Chang's mother and others, Mrs. Zhuang narrowed her eyes and finally told them why she was so impulsive that she hid the murder weapon as soon as she entered the door and killed her cruelly. A trustworthy army was sent to Shazhou to kill those two beasts to avenge Zheng'er!"
"It's just that although the soldiers and horses will pass through Beihu's territory and enter Western Xinjiang, they will inevitably leave clues after traveling thousands of miles! So we have to keep making trouble here! In order to attract the attention and energy of the old man, let The old man has no time to care about the news in other places... He also made him think that it was me who caused the grievances our fourth room had against Zheng'er... "
Mrs. Zhuang's eyes flashed with overwhelming hatred, "I thought that Mrs. Dou's dowry was not respectful enough to my Dan'er. Even if she hid in front of Mrs. Dou, I would drag her out and beat her to death in front of Mrs. Dou! Not to mention my Zheng. My son was actually killed! How can we be parents if we don’t kill those two things?”