Afraid that Shen Xinyan might misunderstand, she immediately said: "My child, the child does not belong to the Duke."
Shen Xinyan's eyes widened even wider.
"It's not the Duke's, whose is it? You actually did such a thing?"
Lian Xiang kowtowed again in a 'dong dong dong': "I beg Madam to be merciful, I, I can't do anything about it."
"There is no way? Could it be that someone still dares to force you?" Shen Xinyan was furious.
"The only one in my heart is Madam, you are the only one in my heart, but others don't look down on me at all, let alone touch me. Although I am called Tongfang, I have been innocent for many years."
"I'm human too! I'm also afraid that I will end up alone and have no one to rely on."
"Are you afraid that you have no one to rely on, so you have an affair with someone before you get pregnant? What is the reason for this? If all the housewives in the world are like you, what is it like?!"
"Besides, since you are innocent and you don't want to stay in the mansion, you can ask the Duke to let you go. Why do you have to do such a scandal to embarrass him!" Shen Xinyan became more and more angry, and asked sharply.
Lianxiang's face turned pale, and she smiled desolately when she heard the words: "Madam is right, everything is Lianxiang's shamelessness. It's just that Madam didn't know that when His Royal Highness gave me to the Duke, the Duke had clearly stated that he didn't take a fancy to me. , so he would never touch me, and gave me two choices."
"One is that he will prepare a dowry for me to choose another husband; the other is that he will allow me to stay, but this life is just a girl, nothing else. I have extravagant hopes, thinking that one day I will be Impressed him, so I chose to stay."
"I already made my choice back then, how dare I, how dare I ask the Duke."
Shen Xinyan laughed angrily at her: "You don't have the guts to ask the Duke to let you go, but you have the guts to do such a thing?"
"You are not the Duke of the country, how do you know that he will not let you choose again."
"The Duke said back then that there is only one chance, so don't regret choosing it." Lianxiang explained in a low voice.
Shen Xinyan didn't know what to say.
At this moment, she suddenly understood where Tongfang, who had disappeared beside Wei Junhang for two lifetimes, had gone. Presumably, she chose to stay because of unwillingness at the beginning, and she regretted it after a while, so she asked Wei Junhang for help. Got a chance to choose again.
After all, women's youth is limited, and they can't hopelessly guard a person who does not belong to them, wasting a good time in vain.
And this Lianxiang is probably the stupidest and most self-righteous one, who did not take the usual path, but made such a big detour.
"You have been by the Duke's side for so many years, but you don't understand his temperament at all. If you want to leave, is it possible that he will not let you go because of a casual sentence back then?"
Lianxiang's eyes widened.
"Now you think you are smart, and you have made the simplest thing so complicated, even if people want to fulfill you, I'm afraid it will be difficult."
Lian Xiang slumped on the ground with a pale face.
The next moment, she cried and knelt down in front of Shen Xinyan, grabbed her skirt and said, "Madam, please help me, Madam, please help me..."
Shen Xinyan's head grew dizzy from her crying and begging like this. She rubbed her forehead, feeling helpless and annoyed: "You can talk after you get up."
"Okay, okay, I, I get up, get up..." Lian Xiang stopped crying, quickly wiped away her tears, and stood up trembling.
"You have to know that you are an adulterous back house. As the mistress, you absolutely cannot allow such a thing to happen, not to mention that you are still the prince's liaison girl in name. If you do this, you will make him face Shame on me, how can I pretend nothing happened?"
"If you set a precedent today, if someone follows suit in the future, wouldn't the Duke's Mansion become a joke?" Shen Xin said seriously with a straight face.
"Ma'am, I..." Lian Xiang wanted to explain something, but Shen Xinyan interrupted her, and continued, "Tell me, who is the child in your belly? Does he know that you are pregnant with his flesh and blood?"
Lianxiang was a little hesitant, unable to make up her mind whether she should tell the truth.
"What? You still want to protect him now? If you dare to do something, you have to be brave. As a man, if you don't even have this responsibility, what's the use of him!"
Lianxiang bit her lips lightly, and after a while she stammered, "It's Lao Zhuangtou's son, Daniu."
Shen Xinyan frowned: "He is working in Zhuangzi, and you are in the mansion, how did you get mixed up?"
"I have known him for many years. Since last year, he has been in charge of sending the farm's harvest to the mansion, so, so..."
"So it's convenient for you to do those things in the inner court?" Shen Xinyan's face was quite ugly.
She was in charge of the inner courtyard, and she actually let them do this kind of thing under her nose. After careful investigation, she could hardly absolve herself of responsibility.
"No, no, I, we are not, we are not in the mansion...we are, we are outside, outside." Lian Xiang stammered to explain.
There are people everywhere in the house, and the madam is strict in running the house, even if she is so courageous, she wouldn't even dare!
"I know about this, you go back first, without me from now on, you are not allowed to leave the house for half a step, do you know?" Shen Xinyan said seriously.
"Ma'am..." Lianxiang wanted to say something, but was frightened back by her cold face, and left in a daze.
Shen Xinyan stroked her forehead with a headache, leaned back on the chair and let out a long sigh, but couldn't think of a way out for a while.
It would be easy for Lianxiang to walk away innocently, but she had an affair with a foreigner and lost her virginity, and because of this she became pregnant with the other's flesh and blood, the nature of the matter has changed.
Isn't this cuckolding Wei Junhang? No matter how good-tempered Wei Junhang is, he might not be able to bear it. After all, men in the world regard this as the greatest shame.
Not sure about Wei Junhang's attitude, she couldn't make a decision right away.
It's just that this matter can't be kept from him.
She sighed, once again irritated by Lianxiang's pig-headedness.
This is the simplest thing, but it has to be so complicated. Call her bold, she didn't even dare to go to Wei Junhang to beg for a favor; call her cowardly, she dared to do such a shocking thing without telling the world.
Although it was a headache, when Wei Junhang came back that night, she still truthfully told him about Lianxiang.
After hearing this, Wei Junhang's expression changed, his thick eyebrows were furrowed tightly, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Shen Yan couldn't figure out what he was thinking, and said after deliberation: "What does the Duke mean? How should we deal with this matter?"
"You don't need to worry about this matter, I will handle it." Wei Junhang replied.
"This... Although she made a big mistake, it's just... it's human life, you..." Shen Xinyan hesitated.
Wei Junhang said helplessly: "What do you think I want to do? Although she made a big mistake, it's not to the point of losing her life. Don't worry, I have my own ideas."
Hearing what he said, Shen Xinyan felt relieved, nodded and said: "If that's the case, then I'll listen to you."
After half a month, Lianxiang disappeared in the mansion without a sound.
Lianxiang's mother, Mrs. Zhang, thought this was a good opportunity, and went to the eldest princess crying, begging the eldest princess to make decisions for her hard-working daughter. She didn't mention Shen Xinyan in her words and deeds, but there were hints in every line It is because the Duke's wife is not forgiving that her hard-working daughter will be gone.
How can the eldest princess be led away by a mother-in-law? Hearing this, she just frowned, and lightly ordered the people around her to take her down.
When Shen Xinyan learned of this, she just sneered.
No matter how unprofitable that old lady is, she would never dare to provoke her as a servant. If she said that no one was behind her, she would never believe it.
After so many years, some people are still unwilling to give up and are always unwilling to recognize the status quo. Today's British government is no longer her world.
"That woman is really abominable. No one knows how she treats her daughter. When Lianxiang was a little girl, she was beaten or scolded. When Lianxiang became a little promising, she turned into a blood-sucking leech. Now Why are you crying for a miserable daughter, her daughter is miserable because of such a mother as her!" Chunliu couldn't help but be furious.
Shen Xinyan was not surprised when the eldest princess sent someone to invite her.
She also knew that the Eldest Princess would not listen to what the mother-in-law said, and she must be dissatisfied with herself in her heart.
For so many years, Wei Junhang had only one son, Wei Chenglin, besides her wife, there was nothing else around him. Earlier, there was an "Aunt Yan", but Yan died of illness.
No matter what, Lianxiang was given to Wei Junhang by her, even though she was only a liaison girl, she would not wrong his son in the end, maybe in the future she would be able to give birth to a boy and a half girl, at least it would be able to add a child to the second room.
But now, even Lianxiang is gone, and she, the wife of the first wife, has not been seen for so many years. No matter how reasonable the eldest princess is, I'm afraid she won't be very happy in her heart.
Therefore, when the Eldest Princess asked her about Lianxiang with a look of hesitation, Shen Xinyan told the truth without hesitation.
She won't take advantage of herself for other people's faults, she can't do such "magnanimity" and "kindness".
The eldest princess did not expect the situation to be so unbearable, her complexion changed slightly, and she frowned again when she heard that Wei Junhang had dealt with this matter, and said displeasedly: "As the mistress, this The matter of the inner house is your responsibility, how can you let Junhang deal with such a matter."
"It's my daughter-in-law's negligence, please punish her mother." Shen Xinyan lowered her eyebrows and admitted her mistake very simply.
She admitted her mistakes so straightforwardly, but blocked back all the words of the eldest princess who were full of lessons, but she was unhappy in the end, and said with a sullen face: "You really haven't fulfilled your responsibility as a wife, and there is no one around Juan Hang. Waiter, as a wife, is it possible that you will not pick some smart ones to put beside him? Brother Lin will not even have a brother to help him in the future, isn't this your fault?"
Apart from listening honestly, Shen Xinyan couldn't say any other rebuttals.
This is the way of the world, if a man has nothing to come out of, the strange thing is that the woman has no children, and having no children means cutting off the incense of her husband's family, which is a seven-way rule. There is also a jealousy, a woman who is jealous will mess up her family, and she can also give up.
She has sons and daughters under her knees, so naturally she can't be called childless, but she is the only one around Wei Junhang, so it must be reasonable to say that she is jealous.
Although the eldest princess did not say it clearly, she may not have such intentions.
Perhaps it was because of Lianxiang's matter that she touched the point of dissatisfaction with herself in her heart. I am afraid that her life will not be too easy for a long time to come.
She sighed helplessly.
I just don't know how many rooms I have to give this time. Seriously, or bring a concubine in
It's just that there is nothing she can say about it.