Back at the county governor's mansion, Chen Xingniang was restless,
All the maids thought it was caused by the Zhong family's troubles, and they all bowed their heads and dared not say a word.
Chen Zhen has been an official abroad for many years, and when he rarely goes back, the servants in the house protect the courtyard. When they mention Yunzhou, they only say that it is an old house. The servant's service was a little unsatisfactory, and she didn't know how to beat and scold her reputation, and only secretly made bad and tossing people.
Seeing that the married Chen Xingniang came back, no one in the Chen family dared to touch the bad luck.
The sky was getting hotter, the cicadas on the trees kept chirping, and Chen Xingniang was restless, so she ordered someone to take a pole to stick it.
A woman hurried over, wiping her tears and persuading, "You are a widow, how can you wear bright colors?"
"Zhong Hu is dead? He doesn't know where to be happy?" Chen Xingniang was disdainful.
The woman was so frightened that she hurriedly covered her mouth with a handkerchief, and rebuked in a low voice, "You can say that, now that the household registration in the government's yamen has been eliminated, Zhong Hu is a complete dead person, why don't you die? Remarry!"
After speaking, he looked around and saw that the maids were all resigned and backed away, so he gave Chen Xingniang a lesson with confidence: "Although the governor of the county has only raised your one daughter, you know his temper."
-What kind of children's marriage is not as important as his face.
As soon as Chen Zhen was worried, when he was the son-in-law of Hanlin in the capital, he dared to neglect Xingniang. When he heard that his daughter was beaten and the doctors came to the door, Chen Zhen was already very angry. As for what happened later, it just happened to bump into his hand. excuse.
Just like the servants of the Chen family were muttering in their hearts, whether the uncle was the one who murdered the young lady, and Chen Zhen's concubine was not sure whether Zhong Hu was sent to kill by Chen Zhen.
Such an ungrateful and disrespectful son-in-law, in Chen Zhen's opinion, was obviously wasting his daughter in vain. It is better to bring Chen Xingniang back to marry him.
Without the reputation of divorce, Zhong Hu can only die.
This woman doesn't know if Chen Zhen has the ability to kill people in the capital. She just thinks this guess is very likely, and she becomes more and more uneasy. She doesn't dare to tell the truth about her guess, so she can only teach Chen Xingniang: If you think the county governor is angry for his beloved daughter, you have to make it the real thing, otherwise how can you marry again?"
While talking, she shed tears, which stunned Chen Xingniang.
"Auntie, why are you crying? What is there to regret about that short-lived ghost Zhong Hu?"
When Chen Xingniang thought of Zhong Hu, she felt disgusted. Zhong Hu suddenly turned her face and kicked her to vomit blood. It was impossible for Chen Xingniang to know that Zhong Hu from the previous life was reborn.
For such a person, she is under the name of the second marriage, and she is criticized by others, and she would rather Zhong Hu be dead.
"If it doesn't help you marry back to Yunzhou, the scholars there probably don't care about remarriage." The woman felt that she had seen through those poor scholars, "Like the Zhong family, the poor return to the poor, and the stinky problems are still there. A bunch of them, a scholar from the family, and he feels that he is a thing, the Chen family is so high, marrying a concubine to him is a pie from the sky..."
"Auntie!"
Chen Xingniang hung her face and shouted in displeasure.
She was married off by pretending to be the daughter-in-law of Chen Junshou. The Zhong family is useless and can't tell the truth, but the servants of Chen's dowry know that Chen Xingniang will stare at those people. If she dares to reveal her secret, she will be drugged. Drag it out to sell, and over time, even when she returns home, she doesn't see anyone talking about her identity.
"What are you afraid of? You can't inherit the family business. The matter is exposed, does the Zhong family still have the ability to sue?" The woman was getting angry.
Chen Xingniang didn't want to entangle her with this issue, so she had to avoid losing her temper: "I won't marry back to Yunzhou, what's good there, barbarian land, full of aliens!"
Chen Xingniang had never been to Yunzhou in her life, she took it for granted.
The woman was angry and anxious: "What did you say, Yunzhou County is very prosperous..."
"It's up to me and my aunt to decide this matter." Chen Xingniang interrupted her impatiently.
The woman was speechless, how could she not know what Chen Zhen was thinking? Yunzhou is remote, and most of the officials there have been demoted.
The woman was still upset, and Chen Xingniang couldn't wait to ask: "Auntie, do you know about my brother who is said to be lost in Yunzhou?" The woman was stunned.
She is not young anymore, and among Chen Zhen's several concubines, she is also the most unattractive one, but she has been with Chen Zhen for the longest time, and Chen Xingniang feels that she is the one who is most likely to know something.
The other one might be Mr. Song, but Chen Xingniang didn't dare to ask.
Sure enough, the woman frowned deeply: "For no reason, what are you talking about?"
"My daughter saw a person in Tiancuiyuan today, and her appearance was somewhat similar to her father. Even if there are people who look similar in this world, I feel—" Chen Xingniang insisted, "that is the elder brother who was rumored to be lost in Yunzhou."
"That child is a fool." The woman was surprised.
"Fools can be cured too!"
"This… "
Chen Xingniang pestered her biological mother, first begging for a while, and then persuading: "Father now has only one son and one daughter, and younger brother Ji is only four years old, who knows what he will be like when he grows up, his biological mother Wang Yiniang is used to pretending, and in the future the Chen family If it falls into their hands, what are you going to do, Auntie? If you can get that brother back, it would be nice to block Auntie Wang."
Chen Xingniang's real calculus was such a Chen family. She matched it and sent it to the elder brother. No matter who married her in the future, with this kind of affection, wouldn't she be able to live better.
Going a step further, she saw that Chen He was well-dressed and ostentatious. No matter what, she was a good backer. Maybe she could find a better family for her.
The woman hesitated for a moment: "That young man, really... look alike?"
"Is this still fake?"
"No..." The woman shook her head and said in a low voice, "Why do you think your father hasn't returned to Yunzhou for many years? Before you were born, the wife was still alive! As a result, the master never returned to Yunzhou until he died. take a look."
"What does that say?"
The woman looked left and right, and then pressed into Chen Xingniang's ears and said, "Someone must have done something wrong. Before Madam got married, there were rumors that her reputation was ruined."
"Ah?" Chen Xingniang was shocked.
"It's rumored that someone with nose and eyes has lost all face, and the master is not happy and wants to withdraw from the relationship, but Mrs. Tai is resolute, and the other party is also the daughter of an aristocratic family. How can the two surnames be so easy to do, just delay it like this. become a parent."
When the woman talked about the old events many years ago, she was also very tangled: "You know what kind of temper the master is, he went to bed in the study and ignored the madam, but the madam was unhappy. He was in a stalemate, and he didn't know who it was. The drug was secretly administered, and it happened, the master left Yunzhou the next day in a fit of anger, and never went back."
Chen Xingniang listened to it for a long time, and felt that it was not a big deal at all: "It's just a drug to cheer up—"
The woman hesitated.
"Auntie, what else did you say?"
"You... Master thinks this medicine is strange. After receiving a letter from Yunzhou saying that his wife is pregnant, he is even more certain. He thinks that the child is not his, but a wild seed that his wife conceived before entering the door, and the medicine is also given by his wife. It is especially heavy, and it becomes a thing that makes people dizzy."
"This is real?"
Chen Xingniang only knew that she had an older brother, but today she found out that there are so many inside stories.
"How can I know if it's true or not?" The woman thought for a long time before muttering, "Mrs. Tai raised that child back then, and it was considered meticulous. I think these are all rumors, not true. It's that child, and the truth will be clearer."
Chen Xingniang felt a little tongue-tied, and felt a little pity for the unfortunate experience of her first-class mother, but then she felt that Chen Zhen was too embarrassed and had tossed out these things.
"Okay, it's getting late, you should rest early."
The woman got up, and in the end did not forget to persuade Chen Xingniang to give up her thoughts: "If what happened back then was true, the master would wear a green hat on his head, if it was false, the master would be blind to blame the lady, it's always a shameless thing, he doesn't want this son. You will recognize it, and you don't have to waste this time!"
Chen Xingniang agreed, but she didn't take it seriously: Auntie didn't see the person's posture, I was afraid that my father would flatter him!
Faceless, in the face of benefits, can Chen Zhen really refuse
The woman knew that it was useless to persuade her, so she could only walk away worried.
She is the daughter of the steward of the Chen family, and she was a maid when she was not a concubine. All these are her memories of old years. At the beginning, she had a vague guess, but it was too shocking, and no one believed it.
- Before the wife was married to Chen's family, she ruined her reputation, and then drugged her and messed up the house the next day, all of which were done by the second house. I don't know if it was Master Millet's father or Master Millet's mother. family ancestry.
If the husband and wife in the long house are not in harmony, they even hate each other, and they have no direct son. Who will the ancestral property belong to in the future
The concubine knows that Chen Zhen loves face, not to mention his own brother.
It's just that the second lady didn't expect that it would happen just once that the eldest room had a child, and the child might look similar to the Chen family. The man of the Chen family, otherwise he can look like this - let's stop.
I couldn't tell how stupid the kid named Chen He was.
The woman even felt that Chen Zhen had figured out this matter many years later.
Otherwise, the son Chen Ji, whom Chen Zhen had finally raised for so many years, didn't inform the people in his hometown in Yunzhou at all.
- Calculations are too clever, and a fire burns the Chen family clean.
Those who want to seize the ancestral property have turned into ashes, and those who are connected with each other are lonely.
The past has become a cloud of smoke, and now a silly child who was lost in the past came out. Is this a blessing in disguise? In the hot summer, Chen Xingniang's aunt actually broke out in a cold sweat.