The banquet was placed in the waterside pavilion in the garden. Half of the waterside pavilion was built on the shore and half in the water. It was surrounded by low carved railings near the water.
When the two elders of the Gu family entered the pavilion, lanterns were lit at the four corners. Cups, chopsticks, and wine utensils were placed on the round table, and three tables full of people were already seated.
The maids made tea and warmed the wine.
Zhao Huayang was wearing a white collared middle coat embroidered with green calyx plum blossoms, which gave off a charming charm. Even Mr. Gu couldn't help but look at it a few more times.
Food and drinks are served, including jade processing, sweet-scented osmanthus sugar, honey-glazed short ribs, sauce-flavored duck legs...the six cold dishes alone are exquisitely prepared.
Mr. Gu coughed and raised his glasses to start the banquet before everyone moved their chopsticks.
After the food was over and the wine was over, Zhao Huayang glanced at Nanny Tan, who quietly left without anyone noticing.
Zhao Huayang picked up the wine glass and stood up, saying loudly: "Master, madam, today is full of flowers and the moon is full, I would like to give you a drink from my wife."
Mr. Gu and Mrs. Wei took the cup, put it to their lips and took a sip. The former said in a deep voice: "The second brother's family is interested."
Zhao Huayang smiled coldly, "Brother, sister-in-law has worked hard. I respect my brother and sister-in-law for this cup."
Gu Shilang, Zhou was holding the cup, thinking that Zhao Huayang knew the rules so well, the sun was coming out from the west.
Zhao Huayang saw the expressions of the two of them, snorted sarcastically, and suddenly slammed the cup in his hand to the ground.
Without waiting for everyone's hearts and souls, a sharp shout rang out.
"Come here, bring your humble maid."
After a while, two stout women came forward with a little maid in green clothes. Everyone took a closer look. Isn't this Ah Lu, the rough maid in the kitchen
"You're from the second family, what are you doing?" Wei's face darkened.
Zhao Huayang walked to the middle, looked around, and his eyes fell on Zhou's face, "Forgive me, madam, while everyone is here today, my wife has an old case that she wants to bring to trial."
"What old case?"
Mr. Wei put down the cup in a rare move, "We can't wait until today."
"Can't wait, don't want to wait."
Zhao Huayang said arrogantly: "Don't you, madam, want to know which of your two direct grandchildren was killed by a slut?"
As soon as these words came out, the waterside pavilion fell into dead silence. The maid and mother-in-law on the side held their breath and concentrated, not even daring to make a sound.
Mrs. Zhang stood up tremblingly, and knelt down with her thin body, "Please, sir, my wife will make the decision for me."
Aunt Liu's eyes flashed with tears, and she knelt down as well.
Heirs have always been the lifeblood of a family. Mr. Gu's eyes darkened and he said sternly: "Let her speak."
Zhao Huayang looked down from a high position and looked at Ah Lu who was shivering on the ground.
"There is an old woman living in an alley at Beikou in the suburbs of Beijing. As long as you tell me everything you know, I guarantee that the old woman will have food and drink, and live a more comfortable life than the grandmother in charge. If there is a lie, Hum…”
"Master, Madam, Princess, the abortion pill was given by the slave when no one was prepared."
Everyone exclaimed and their expressions changed.
"Where did this thing come from?" Zhao Huayang asked sharply.
"It's the slave's grandmother, oh, the old woman from Beikou Alley bought it."
"Who gave the money?"
“…”
"Say!" Mr. Gu stood up and slapped the case.
Ah Lu was trembling with fear and blurted out without any consideration, "Sir, I'm from Pan Liang's family."
"ah… "
Everyone exclaimed and looked at the woman behind Zhou.
Ever since Ah Lu came into Pan Liang's house, he knew something bad was going to happen and felt like he was beating a drum. When she heard her name, she pinched her thighs hard and knelt down in tears.
"Master, madam, you have to make the decision for me. This girl was instigated by others. She sprayed feces all over her mouth and put the shit basin on my head."
When everyone heard this, they looked at Zhao Huayang again as if they had made an agreement.
Zhao Huayang smiled coldly, "Hey, it sounds like I'm stirring up trouble behind the scenes."
"I don't dare, I don't dare." Pan Liang's family cried with snot and tears.
Mrs. Wei's eyes were wandering on Mr. Zhou's face, and the tea cup in her hand was firmly placed on the golden nanmu table, making a heavy and crisp sound.
"My second brother, you have to pay attention to evidence in everything. You were also present for the first few maids."
Who doesn't know that the two bowls of abortion pills were found from the second mistress's room? For this purpose, three or five maids were sold out of the second mistress's courtyard.
"Is that the evidence?"
Zhao Huayang laughed twice. The laughter was sharp and sharp, and it hurt people's eardrums.
"Mother Tan, bring me the title deed of Beikou Hutong."
Grandma Tan took out the land deed from her pocket and presented it to Mrs. Wei, who was secretly surprised. A house with two entrances costs five hundred taels of silver. How can a maid prostitute herself get so much money
Seeing that the situation was not good, Pan Liang's family screamed: "Master, madam, this is unfair. This slave has never given her a land deed. This is a frame-up!"
"What a frame-up!"
Zhao Huayang swept towards Mrs. Zhou, "I really can't help but shed tears when I see the coffin. Someone, bring up this bastard's son."
While they were talking, two guards escorted a man forward. When the man saw my mother, he looked sad and said, "Mom, let's do it. Your grandson is in the hands of others."
Pan Liangjia's body swayed, his face turned gray.
The two guards were wearing the clothes of the palace, and they looked like they were from the palace of Prince Qi. In this way, her grandson was captured by the Lao Qi Palace.
It's over, everything is over. Only by accepting this can you...
"Name the person who instigated it, and I'll keep your whole family safe. Otherwise... just wait until you see the corpse." Zhao Huayang saw through the old woman's thoughts at a glance, and coldly threw out his trump card.
As if someone had pinched his throat and couldn't even breathe, Pan Liang's body slumped and he choked out a sentence from his throat, "Grandma, I can't help you."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou's body tilted and she leaned back straight.
"Grandma..."
"Mother… "
There was chaos in the waterside pavilion.
Zhao Huayang straightened his back and sneered at the livid-faced Gu Shilang: "The eldest brother has exterminated my second wife's children, but he wants to bring all the Gu family's property into the arms of your first wife. You... are so cruel. ”
"You are full of nonsense."
Gu Shilang had a handsome face, one patch of blue and one patch of purple, and looked at Zhao Huayang with sinister eyes. Their eyes met in the air, and neither of them gave an inch.
Zhao Huayang's heart trembled, and his smile became even colder, "Big brother, my father has put a lot of thought into this position of Minister of War. Why, now he has turned his back on you. My father said that he can help you up." , can also make you fall.”
Gu Shilang was furious, his chest was rising and falling, but he could only grit his teeth and endure it.
Zhao Huayang slowly turned his face, "Gu Songtao, open your eyes and see clearly, who is the person who exterminated your heir?"
Second Master Gu seemed as if he hadn't heard anything, with a look of dementia on his face, and his eyes were empty and he didn't know where to look.
Mrs. Zhou woke up faintly. Under the dim light, the man was sitting in front of the bed, looking at her coldly with malicious eyes.
When Gu Shilang saw that the woman was weak, he became even more angry. He had been sleeping with her for more than twenty years, but he never thought that there was a wolf sleeping next to her bed.
"Do you have anything to say?"
The voice was cold, without even a trace of warmth. Hatred welled up in Zhou's heart, "Yes, it was my hand that moved it, so what?"
so what
The last bit of Gu Shilang's patience was exhausted. With a flick of his long sleeves, a set of blue and white tea cups on the huanghuali wood table shattered.
"Ms. Zhou, you are so bold."
Gu Shilang was furious, "It's not good for you to target anyone, but you want to target her. Don't you know that the future of your men depends on the old Prince Qi's palace?"
Mrs. Zhou struggled to get up from the bed, "Uncle, she has climbed up to the tip of my hair and treats me badly every day. I am doing this for our big house."
Gu Shilang shouted coldly: "You keep saying it's for the sake of the eldest family. Why did you kill Liu's child? She is pregnant with my seed."
Zhou's heart was filled with grief, "Who knows whose seed is being carried in an outside room."
"Shut up."
Gu Shilang said sternly: "It's my fault that I was too good to you in the past, but now it seems that you are simply stupid. If it weren't for the sake of our three children, I would have divorced you, a stupid woman."
Divorce her, he wants to divorce her.
Mrs. Zhou threw herself into Gu Shilang's arms, grabbed him by the front and shook him desperately.
"Gu Songhan, I fought hard for you, I wholeheartedly worked for you, but you still said such things."
Gu Shilang was disgusted with being entangled, so he pushed the woman hard.
"Why are you crazy?"
Zhou was thrown onto the bed, with a deathly look in her eyes.
Gu Shilang straightened his clothes and said coldly: "Turn back, go and help your siblings, hand over the power of the housekeeper, and live a peaceful life."
"I won't go."
"If you don't go, just pack up and get out of here."
Gu Shilang was so angry that his brain was bleeding. He left this sentence and walked out.
"Don't think that I don't know your good deeds, and I'm so angry. I came in vertically and left your Gu family horizontally. If you want me to get out, there is no way. But you, hum... I want to see this. If a scandal spreads, how can you gain a foothold in Beijing?"
After a pause, Gu Shilang gritted his teeth and said, "Come here, watch her. Don't leave the room."
If you want to use that to threaten him, huh, he, Gu Shilang, is not a big threat to others.
"Split the family?"
In the Shou'an Hall, Mrs. Wei was stroking her heart, staring at Zhao Huayang's back with a ruthless look in her eyes.
"Now that the big house and the second house are in such trouble, how can we still have the nerve to stay under the same roof? It's better to separate happily."
"I'm not dead yet. It's not your turn to talk about the separation of the family." Wei, who had always been good-tempered, could no longer hold back her anger.
Since ancient times, when the elders are present, there is no separation of families. She is cursing the two old people to die.
"Since the wife doesn't separate the family, the sister-in-law has lost her moral character and the power of the housekeeper should be handed over. It's time for the servants in the house to beat her. Also, I can't tolerate that little bitch, my aunt." Zhao Huayang He slowly turned around and stroked the bun behind his ear, "Madam, I am not an unreasonable person. I can kill people with just a nod. As long as my sister-in-law bends over for me and doesn't accompany me, this matter will be over." ”