"I don't know if there is something wrong with my mother asking my daughter-in-law to come?"
After Shen Yiyao bowed, she stood about two meters away from the bed.
"You mean I can't call you when I'm fine?"
Since that fainting, the old lady's speech has become a little vague, but she can still hear it a little more clearly. Even if it is a little vague, she can understand the meaning of the past.
Seeing that the old lady was talking so aggressively, Mrs. Pei hurriedly filled the field with a smile on her face: "Your mother doesn't mean that, she feels sorry for you all day long. Isn't that right, everyone is pointing at you. !"
When the old lady heard her sister-in-law misinterpret her meaning, she almost exploded.
Just as she was about to say something, Mrs. Pei secretly pinched her, then she remembered that she was asking someone to do something, and shut her mouth angrily.
Yan Yan was a little impatient, but she wanted to laugh at this moment, so she simply asked the maid to move two embroidered piers, and sat to see which drama these two were singing. Shen Yiyao also asked her to pull her and sit down.
Mrs. Pei smiled and chatted with Shen Yiyao some gossip. She praised Yan Yan for her good looks, and asked when it was the wedding date. She talked a lot, and then she started to sigh and wipe her tears to talk about the recent events at home. thing to come.
In fact, Shen Yiyao generally knew what happened in the Pei family. It's just that as a junior, she can't question anything, she can only pretend that she doesn't know. Mrs. Pei was willing to say it, so she sat on the side and listened quietly.
At the end, Mrs. Pei became excited, "Auntie knows that this offends people. If they want what they want, they can say it directly. widowed mother."
Mrs. Pei kept wiping her tears with the handkerchief. Shen Yiyao sat beside her with a low brow and pleasing to the eyes, but said nothing, not even a word of comfort.
While crying, Mrs. Pei looked at the old lady with her eyes.
The old lady glanced at her, she had already said that this trick would not work, her sister-in-law had to 'move with affection', so she would be shriveled now.
She looked at Shen Yiyao and opened her mouth, "It's not someone else, it's your aunt, your uncle just passed away, and now there is a difficult situation in the house, you go back to your parents' house and let Duke Zhen take care of it. How dare you do such a coercive thing at the emperor's feet."
Shen Yiyao paused, she raised her head, first expressed her sympathy with a worried face, and then asked about the specific situation in detail, and then came up with an idea.
"I think my aunt can take the dead cat to Shuntian. My mother-in-law is right. Who is so big but dares to do this coercion at the feet of the emperor."
"I can't, I can't!" After waving her hands repeatedly, Madam Pei sighed: "Whoever dares to do this is definitely not an ordinary family. Now that your uncle is dead, and the family has no one to rely on, how can you dare to make a mess of things? tidy."
"But isn't it impossible to clean up now?"
It was Yan Yan who said this.
What are you doing so early
Now that I have a tacit understanding with others, I will honestly stay at home behind closed doors, and the women will tear each other up, and it will be related to the matter of the court.
Yan Yan knew without thinking that the person behind Wu Shangshu must have acted. Wu Shangshu, as one of the most senior officials in the six departments, could be the person behind him, and one can imagine that he is not a simple person.
Mrs. Pei's face turned pale when she said this, and she hesitated to say that the woman in the family had a right or wrong, but the Wu family was really deceiving people too much!
In fact, Mrs. Pei also has grievances against Weiyuan Hou's mansion. If it weren't for the two girls from the Yan family, things would not have developed to the current situation. But who would have thought that what was just a momentary dispute between a few girls would actually lead to a major case that shook the entire capital, and even Wu Shangshu, a senior official from six departments, was implicated and dismounted.
Naturally, she wouldn't complain about what Pei Jiayu had done. In her perception, the Pei family was just a victim of the Wu family's competition with Duke Zhen Guo and the Marquis of Weiyuan. Therefore, she had never thought of coming to Weiyuan Hou's mansion before, but this time she was forced to do nothing.
"Your aunt asked you for help. What are you trying to do? If you can report to Shuntian Mansion, why would you tell me?" The old lady's tone was very bad.
The old lady Pei didn't know, but the old lady herself knew that she and Shen Yiyao were completely in love with each other now, and sometimes she couldn't even make a face. Before Mrs. Pei instigated her to come to Shen Yiyao, she already had a measure in her heart: Shen Yiyao's slick learning is no longer what she used to be. . As for whether Shen Yiyao has any resentment in her heart, it has nothing to do with her what she thinks, anyway, the relationship is already like this.
I have never seen this attitude of asking for help, and Shen Yiyao could almost see the old lady's mentality of breaking the pot.
"Mother-in-law and aunt look down on Yiyao too much, and Yiyao is just a back house woman, how can she intervene in this kind of thing." Her tone was still soft, but her words were not soft at all, "Please forgive me. Auntie forgive me, my daughter-in-law is really helpless."
The old lady didn't seem to hear the refusal in her words, and said again: "I didn't say that you should do it yourself. You go back to your parents' house and let Duke Zhen Guo do it."
One by one, 'Let the Duke of Zhenguo' say it as if the Duke of Zhenguo is a laborer who relies on his strength to eat on the street, and anyone who comes can call him.
Yan Yan originally reported her attitude of watching the play, but now she frowned, "Grandmother said it lightly, since it's so cheap, why not do it yourself!"
"You girl, I'm talking to your mother, what are you talking about, do you still have any respect for the elders!"
Yan Yan didn't want to talk to the old lady in front of outsiders, so she took Shen Yiyao and went out: "Mom, go, we can't help with this, and neither can grandpa."
The old lady's face suddenly darkened.
Mrs. Pei hurriedly stood up, took Shen Yiyao's hand, and said repeatedly: "Nephew and daughter-in-law, don't listen to your mother-in-law, she is ill and her brain is twisted. You also know that people who are sick are always temperamental. You are more irritable than ordinary people, you don't care about the villain, don't care about her."
The old lady was eliminated by this pass, she was so angry that she could hardly breathe.
"If you don't look at it, it's just that our master is Ting'er's uncle. As the saying goes, 'the biggest is nothing but uncle'. It depends on this relationship. You have to help. Your uncle is gone. If it goes on like this, our Pei family may be lost. It's all gone."
Mrs. Pei seemed to be really anxious. She held Shen Yiyao's hand like this for most of her age and cried bitterly.
Shen Yiyao's face was embarrassed: "Auntie, Yiyao is really powerless, it's not shirk."
"You must have a way. Your Shen family is a famous family for generations, and you have spoken in front of His Majesty. As long as the Duke of Zhen Guo says a word, our family will be fine. Nephew and daughter-in-law, even if your aunt begs you, why don't I Kneel down to you—"
Saying that, Madam Pei knelt down to the ground. Shen Yiyao paled in surprise, Yan Yan hurriedly stepped forward to help her, and abruptly helped Madam Pei up.
"Auntie, don't you ruin my mother's birthday by doing this!"
Yan Yan sneered with the corners of her mouth twitching: "Let me tell you, it seems that you still haven't figured out the situation. Why did the Wu family marry your daughter, your family should be very clear, since you know that this matter is very troublesome, why is it? I can't help myself and spread it out! Well, let's not talk about it. Fraud has been a major event in the past dynasties. Have you ever wondered why my uncle and grandfather were only dismissed from office and exiled? You must think it was someone Protect him, since someone protects him, who is this person? You must think it's Wu Shangshu!"
"You must know that under the circumstances at the time, Wu Shangshu was worried about himself. Even if he had the ability, he would not do too much to avoid suspicion, so one can imagine that there must be someone behind Wu Yi to help him! Who are the people behind? There are probably not many in the whole world. And those people, do you think our town government may be able to provoke them?"
Even if you can afford it, you can't provoke it for you. Whoever has nothing to do is to infect themselves with lice! Besides, how old are you? If you want to use someone, you know how to pretend to be pitiful. By the way, there is another person who uses his identity to overwhelm people!
Yan Yan didn't forget that the people she hated the most were all related to the Pei family, first of all, Aunt Pei, who didn't know whether to live or die in Qingpu Nunnery, then Yan Qian, and the Pei Yan family who was relying on the old and selling the old.
Madam Pei's body went soft and collapsed to the ground, her face ashen.
She didn't even dare to think about the few people who even Duke Zhen could not afford to offend...
"You damn girl, if you don't want to help, you won't help. Where did you get so many sets!" The old lady scolded, and hurriedly called for the maid to help her sister-in-law up.
Taking advantage of the gap, Yan Yan took Shen Yiyao and left.
When I went out, I bumped into Yan Ting at the door, and I don't know how much Yan Ting heard.
He glanced at Shen Yiyao with complicated eyes, and then brushed his body and went inside. From this place, he could hear Old Madam Pei's cries as if the whole family had died, and Old Madam and Yan Ting whispering persuasion.
"Mom, go."
Shen Yiyao nodded.
The mother and daughter did not stop, leaving the cry inside far behind.
Mrs. Pei couldn't stop crying, and the old lady wiped two tears and said, "Second child, do you think that the dead girl is telling the truth? Is the Pei family really provoking someone who can't be offended?"
Yan Ting's face was clear, and he was silent for a while, then nodded.
It was only after he left that he remembered that his mother couldn't stand the excitement now. He was afraid that what his aunt said would make her condition worse, so he turned back. He didn't expect to see the scene just now.
The old lady also became anxious, "What can I do with this? What can I do with this?!"
She is really worried. The Pei family is now the blood of her brother's house. If something really happened, how could she be worthy of her brother who was dying!
Thinking of her brother who died outside and was alone, waiting for his descendants to pick him up, the old lady felt an unstoppable colic in her heart.
She covered her heart, her mouth was big, and she seemed to be out of breath, and her face flushed red.
Seeing this, Yan Ting was horrified, and hurriedly took the medicine from the cabinet and served the old lady to take it. After that, the water was poured again, and the air was smooth again, and the old lady recovered.
The old lady was stunned for a moment, then she covered her old face and started crying, crying for her poor brother!
"This is how to do ah… "
The old lady's hands were full of blue veins, she was skinny and skinny, and the wrinkles and ravines on her face were crisscrossed. I don't know when, the old lady who was pampered and pampered in the past disappeared and became old, like an old woman entering the twilight.
Yan Ting couldn't bear to see it, so he couldn't help saying: "Mother, don't worry, my son will find a way."
"What can you do, even Duke Zhen can't afford it, my son, how can you afford it! This is to make our Pei family doomed!"
"Mother, you forgot, my son also has a backer. Don't panic. My son goes out to find out who the Pei family has offended, and see if you can think of a way."
The old lady remembered that her son was from Concubine Xu's side. Duke Zhen Guo couldn't provoke him. Maybe Concubine Xu could provoke him? This thought made her as if she had caught a life-saving straw. She squeezed Yan Ting's hand tightly, and kept saying that Yan Ting must find a way to come out, but she couldn't let the Pei family shut the door.
Yan Ting looked at the anxious old lady, not even speaking clearly.
He closed his eyes suddenly and nodded slowly.
…
So how can it be easy to walk out of the difficult step
Yan Ting was in between contradictions and struggles, and a major event happened the next day.
The Pei family is dead.
The one who died was the third master of the third house of the Pei family.
Early in the morning, screams swirled in the sky above the three-bedroom hospital.
Pei's family swarmed and found that the third master Pei had died in the study.
On the book table, under the inkstone stage, a piece of handwriting was pressed. On it was the handwriting of the third master Pei, and only two lines of words were written.
That is to say, Third Master Pei is seeking short-sightedness
The whole Pei family doesn't believe it. You must know that yesterday, the third master Pei had a lot of trouble with the second master of the second room over the separation of the family. The two brothers almost didn't fight each other because of a disagreement.
All eyes turned to Pei Er.
Pei Er's eyes are cloudy, and he looks like a wine-colored heart.
In fact, this is indeed the case. Of Pei Nan's three sons, Pei Er is the least promising, and has everything to eat, drink, prostitute, and gamble. In the past, I was worried about the presence of my father, but I was still a little restrained. Since Pei Nan was dismissed from office and exiled, he has been like a wild horse running away from rein.
Most of the civil turmoil in the Pei family these days is because of him. He owed a lot of money to the casino, and the debt collectors from the casino came to collect the debt and pressed the IOU printed by Pei's second hand, which shocked everyone in the Pei family. It turned out that Pei Er actually borrowed a total of 10,000 taels of silver from the casino. Because he has been in arrears, he has to pay back nearly 30,000 taels.
Thirty thousand two? !
It's natural to change the previous Pei family, but after Pei Shilang's exile and the recent years of sitting in the air, it is estimated that he needs to smash the pot and sell iron to make enough. This is why Pei San wants to split up the family. Now that he is at the end of the road, he can't drag the whole family to accompany him to death.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Pei Er waved his hands in a panic, "Everything you do, look at me! He is my brother, even if he makes trouble with me, I can't do this to him. Not to mention yesterday I I've been in my yard all the time, and I've never been here in the third room!"
This is also true, Pei Er has always been stern and timid, otherwise Pei San, who is a younger brother, can't make trouble on his head.
Mrs. Pei also testified to her husband, "Yesterday, the third master and the second master had a commotion, and then the second master never went out. It was originally in the main room, but after a few words with me, I went to Aunt Rong's place."
Aunt Rong also nodded and said yes, saying that the second master had never left her place. He had just gotten up from the bed when he came here before. The two maids in Aunt Rong's room also came out to testify, and they really had nothing to do with the second master.
So who is the murderer
Pei Er seemed to think of something, and suddenly trembled, his upper and lower teeth were fighting, "Could it be the one who sent the dead cat..."
After a while of silence, the cries and screams suddenly sounded, and everyone's faces were ashen, shaking as if they were chaff.
"This is going to kill the entire family of our Pei family!"
Madam Pei let out a cry of blood and mourning, rolled her eyes and fainted.
…
Madam Pei once again set foot on the gate of Weiyuan Hou's mansion.
She cried all the way and rushed into Rong'an Hall with an unstoppable force. In front of the old lady, she threw herself to the ground and knelt down.
"Sister-in-law, San'er is dead, and our Pei family is going to die..."
The old lady couldn't be stimulated and fainted again. When she woke up, she couldn't even utter a word. She could only look at Yan Ting and cry with her old eyes open.
"Mother, don't worry, I will find a way to save the Pei family."
***
"You came?"
Yan Ting froze and nodded,
Words cannot describe how he feels now.
He was never a noble person, and now he has to face things for others that he never wanted to face. In fact, it's not anyone else. If he thinks about it, it doesn't matter if the uncle's family doesn't want it, and it has nothing to do with him if he dies. But he knows his mother's heart, even if Yan Ting can be disloyal to everyone in the world, only his mother, he can't turn a blind eye.
"It's a rare visitor, why does Weiyuanhou think of me as a little guy today!"
Yan Ting took a short breath, "You don't need to provoke me with words, I'm here to tell you something!"
Sitting behind the desk, Xu Xiangrong was dressed in an indigo brocade robe with dark patterns and a white jade crown on his head, which was reserved and noble. His face is ordinary, but his aura is extraordinary, just sitting there, people dare not ignore him.
He raised his hand slightly, with a graceful posture, "Sit down and talk."
Yan Ting sat on a square chair against the wall on the left side of the desk, and a servant came up and served tea. Xu Xiangrong picked up the tea bowl and gently flicked the tea powder with the lid of the bowl, the smoke lingered, making his face indistinct.
"Are you looking for something at Pei's house?"
Xu Xiangrong was stunned for a moment, then chuckled. He put down the tea cup and nodded frankly, "Yes."
"What do you need, I can go and tell the Pei family, let them take the initiative to hand it over, can you let them go?" Yan Ting's face was stiff, and he said it with difficulty.
"why?"
"Don't say you don't know that Pei's family is my uncle's family!" For some reason, Yan Ting's tone was a little rushed.
"The Pei family is your uncle's family?"
First of all, Xu Xiangrong really didn't know, and then he heard that Yan Ting came out to run for Pei Nan's affairs, and then he knew there was such a relationship.
This made him overjoyed.
"Let's not say that I never cared about these little things, I ordered the people below to do them. Even so, why should I let the Pei family go because of these? You must know that because of these ignorant ants, I hurt Wu Yi, You don't know what Wu Yi means to us, right?"
Yan Ting's face suddenly turned ugly.
The air was stagnant for a moment, Yan Ting was extremely embarrassed, and was about to get up when Xu Xiangrong's voice changed, "It's not impossible to let them go, but I need a reason that I can convince myself. Can you give me this reason? "
He smirked, looking at Yan Ting's eyes full of inevitable wins.
"You despicable..."
Xu Xiangrong waved his hand in a comfortable manner and interrupted, "I thought you should have known long ago that I have always been despicable. What I want, even if I use all means, I must get it!"
He stood up, walked over to Yan Ting, and said in a low voice, "You know what? You avoided me for a while, which made me very unhappy!"
He leaned down halfway and reached out to touch Yan Ting's face.
Yan Ting avoided it reflexively, but unfortunately he was below, Xu Xiangrong was above, and he was trapped in this place, how could he avoid it. Xu Xiangrong's hand still touched his face, and he rubbed lightly on it, Yan Ting felt nauseated.
"you lost weight… "
…
Yan Ting did not leave the private house until it was dark.
Just as he was about to mount, a servant came over and handed him a cloak.
"Master Yan, the cloak that Shizi asked Xiao to bring to you is cold and windy. Shizi asked Xiao to prepare a carriage. Would you like to go in a carriage?"
Yan Ting's movements were stagnant, and his full of shame and anger almost did not drown him.
He ignored the man, got on the horse and galloped away, and there was embarrassment in his behavior that he didn't even notice.
Aunt Lan hadn't seen Yan Ting for a long time.
Today, she is like an invisible person in Weiyuan Hou's mansion. In addition to taking the five young masters all day long, she stays at home.
She is like duckweed, helpless. I suffered a big loss from my wife, and then I knew who could be offended and who could not be offended. Madam never paid any attention to her, and she could only hold on to Yan Ting, hoping to find a place to stay.
A woman who treats people with color naturally knows how to please a man. Yan Ting is busy these days, so she makes soup every day and sends it to him. There has been no movement here from Lord Hou, and she is getting nervous. Today, I found out about Lord Hou. When I came back to the study, I brought a soup maker.
The servants knew that Concubine Lan got face in front of Hou Ye, and did not stop her.
Aunt Lan wore a submissive smile, and just walked in, an inkstone smashed under her feet, splashing thick black ink all over her.
"Master Yan-"
"roll!"
Aunt Lan was so frightened that she stumbled and fell into Man'er's arms behind her. The two of them didn't even dare to lift their heads, and walked away with each other's support.
…
The next day, Yan Ting went to Pei's house in person.
After seeing Mrs. Pei, I asked her for something.
Mrs. Pei ordered the whole family to rummage through boxes and cabinets before they found it for him.
If she had known that she was looking for this thing, she would have taken it out long ago.
But who would have thought that what that person wanted was a Buddhist scripture? !
Yan Ting didn't know what was in this unremarkable Buddhist scripture. He even took it in his hand and turned it over twice, but found nothing. Since the man told himself it was this, he brought it to him.
It turned out that Pei Nan was quite a scheming person. This time, he was brought out to face the crime and ended up being dismissed from office and exiled. The reason why Wu Shangshu will protect him is because he once revealed that he has the opponent's handle in his hands.
Including the next two marriages, it was just for An Yuan's heart in Pei Nan's exile.
On this side, the Wu family stabilized Pei Nan, and on the other hand, they also sent people to approach Pei Nan to tell him what he said.
Before the Wu family started to find this thing, they broke the previous incident. Wu Yi was sacked, which naturally made Xu Xiangrong aware of it.
Xu Xiangrong has always acted differently from ordinary people.
Others pay attention to the gentleman's righteousness, what he can do and what he can not do. For him, as long as he can achieve his goal, it doesn't matter whether his means are inferior or not. If it wasn't to force Yan Ting, he would have obtained this thing long ago, and the tragic death of Pei San would not have happened again.
After the Pei family handed over the things, no other incident happened in the family. The Pei family was both happy and sad, unable to speak.
After that, the father and son of the Pei family helped Ling to return to Beijing. The Pei family held a funeral for Pei Nan, and they used the excuse of Fu Ling to return to their hometown.