Liu Qiqiao felt uneasy, Mrs. Shen kept crying sadly, Mrs. Shen occasionally sighed, and the air in the room suddenly became thinner. Three or five maidservants, none of them dared to speak out, just at this moment. , Someone came in and reported back, saying that it was the second young master Shen Yuyuan who had come.
Madam Shen wiped her tears on one side, very unhappy: "What is he here for?"
Mrs. Shen said: "I called him, let him in!" The last sentence was addressed to the person who was talking back and forth.
The man agreed, went out, and after a while, someone came in, walking vigorously, and all the women in the room looked over.
Shen Yuyuan, the second young master of the Shen family, also looks like a jade tree facing the wind. Xu is always taking care of the Shen family farm in the countryside. He is quite exhausted. Because of the wind and sun, his skin is a little dark and his behavior is not like the eldest master Shen Yunong. Refined and unrestrained, but rather rough, he walked in, and only slightly bowed: "Yuyuan has seen the old lady, ma'am!" When he raised his head, he saw the woman sitting next to Mrs. Shen with a slight face. , Seeing that he was dressed as an aunt, he was too busy to look at it.
Mrs. Shen asked Mother Zhou to bring a stool to Shen Yuyuan and let him sit down, "Yuyuan, what happened to what I asked you to ask?"
"That..." Shen Yuyuan covered her lips and coughed lightly. The old lady Shen knowingly winked at Mother Zhou. With a wave of her hand, the few servants in the room quietly stepped back.
Liu Qiqiao twisted her body, not knowing if she wanted to avoid it, but Mrs. Shen did not let go of her hand, only patted her, and whispered: "It's Yu Nong's business, you are here too. Listen!"
Liu Qiqiao continued to sit down.
Shen Yuyuan was talking, and Liu Qiqiao listened to his voice loud and confident, and couldn't help but look at it.
The dark-skinned Shen Yuyuan had thick eyebrows and big eyes. He was very tall, even sitting there, and he appeared to be straight. His legs were strong and powerful, but too long, as if there was a feeling of nowhere to be placed, but he stretched out crampedly.
He was talking, feeling that Liu Qiqiao was looking at him. He glanced at Liu Qiqiao subconsciously. He was still speaking, but he was not so fluent. "Although there is no final verdict, the charges have been passed on. When I came out, I worked up and down these days and ran around. The butler also introduced me to a few adults, but they said that it was powerless. The zigzag had been handed to the emperor..."
Mrs. Shen sneered a few times and said: "Our Shen family is just a merchant, and my Nong'er is just an ordinary citizen. Is there any serious crime that should have disturbed the emperor?"
She looked over and saw Shen Yuyuan looking at Liu Qiqiao. She coughed, and Shen Yuyuan returned to his senses and said hurriedly: "The grandson just listened to them saying that. As for the crime, I am listening to the outside world..." After some consideration, Fang said: “There are also life lawsuits, private recruitment group practice, and the housekeeper admits it, but it’s not a matter of this time. In order to take care of the family’s several transactions, the Shen family recruited people to be the housekeeper. The shifts were arranged for them, and the positions were different. These were all rumored that our Shen family was wealthy and had bad intentions..."
Mrs. Shen sneered twice: "What are our intentions..." But after thinking about it, she couldn't help sweating her back: "Anything else?"
Shen Yuyuan lowered his head, raised his head again, and no longer stammered: "There are also people who have made up stories and ballads, saying that our Shen family eats, wears, and uses, even if it is in the palace, it is not comparable, that's all..."
Old Mrs. Shen’s eyes darkened a few times, and everyone’s mouths were shining. The Shen Mansion has been low-key enough in recent years. She doesn’t want to, but is still arranged and framed. “We don’t steal or rob, we are doing a serious business, but we still suffer. People are framed, there is no justice in this!"
Shen Yuyuan was silent for a moment, and then said: "I still found out that the collection of these crimes depends on King Ye. I heard that it was he who deliberately revealed his mouth at the family banquet set up by the emperor and said something to the people. When it comes out, even the arrangement of the royal family is not as easy as our Shen family. Therefore, Long Yan was furious in court, and we must thoroughly investigate our Shen family!"
"Wang Ye?" Mrs. Shen said suspiciously.
"Yes!" Shen Yuyuan said.
Shen Yuyuan said: "My brother heard me say this. He only said that King Ye had been with his brother before, and he relied on Huangfu Shangshu's recommendation. However, my brother said that our Shen family has always focused on doing business and did not want to participate in political affairs. Did you offend King Ye for this? This... My brother also said, I don’t know."
When Mrs. Shen heard this, she faintly understood. She also knew something about it. That day, Shen Yunong drank a bit high, and when she came back, she went to her room to ask for peace. She said at the time that King Ye wants to fix it with him. , He refused, because the ancestral precepts of the Shen family had a precept not to participate in political affairs.
Is it possible that King Ye blamed the Shen family for this, but he wouldn't want to kill them all...
Mrs. Shen said to Shen Yuyuan, "Have you seen Yu Nong?"
Shen Yuyuan nodded: "I finally saw my brother today..."
Both Mrs. Shen and Mrs. Shen saw hope in their eyes, and Mrs. Shen hurriedly asked: "What does Nong'er say?"
Shen Yuyuan said: "I told my elder brother about these several crimes. He only said the words "the crime of wanting to be added", and the elder brother also said..."
"What else?" Mrs. Shen asked eagerly. Want to add to the crime! Yes, it is convenient to kill Shen Jia and Shen Yunong from the top.
"The elder brother said that he knew that his grandma was anxious and got angry for him. He is not filial. Please don't miss him anymore. The elder brother said that life and death are alive and wealth is in the sky. The adult’s usual teachings, even more hate not to leave a son and a half daughter, he..." Shen Yuyuan saw this, glanced at Liu Qiqiao, and then said: "My brother said that I really can’t blame the Shen family and grandma. Please grandma forgive him. , Don’t send auntie over! He said that death means death, so why bother to implicate innocent people..."
Hearing what Shen Yuyuan said from her son was similar to what Liu Qiqiao said. Mrs. Shen couldn't stand it anymore, sobbing again, and Mrs. Shen couldn't hold on any longer when she heard this. She sighed and leaned back. On the soft pillow, with a dazed expression, as if she was ten years old suddenly, Liu Qiqiao hurriedly got up, stroked her chest and back, and whispered anxiously: "Old lady, old lady..."
Mrs. Shen pushed away Liu Qiqiao's hand and shook her head gently, "I'm fine..."
Then he waved his hand again: "Go down..."
Liu Qiqiao stood up, then Shen Yuyuan also stood up, two one after another, backed out to the outside.
In the corridor outside, Lan Xiang was standing here, seeing Liu Qiqiao coming out and rushing to greet him. The two walked out together. The sun outside was too poisonous, so the two walked out along the porch. At this time, in the courtyard. , A vigorous figure was walking out, Lan Xiang turned to look, and whispered back, "I have been in the mansion for several years, this is the first time I have seen this second young master!"
Liu Qiqiao snorted and looked over. Across the railing, he saw Shen Yuyuan walking like the wind. He had already reached the gate a few steps, but he turned his head and looked at Liu Qiqiao.
Liu Qiqiao's heart palpitated, and he was too busy to turn away his face, his eyes were hot and frank, his face was just and awe-inspiring, completely different from Shen Yunong.
Liu Qiqiao asked in a low voice, "Is he always only in Zhuangzi? Why not come back to Shen Mansion?"
Lan Xiang shook his head: "I haven't come back, even if it's New Year's Day or something, I have never heard of him coming back. I heard that Madam refused to let him come back. Madam doesn't like him very much!"
"He was born by a concubine, not by his wife. Maybe this is the reason, right?" Liu Qiqiao guessed.
Lan Xiang nodded: "It might be the case. Didn't the wife throw something to break her head last time? It's also a poor person!"
Liu Qiqiao nodded and stopped asking. Although he glanced hurriedly just now, he saw a copper coin-sized scab on Shen Yuyuan's right forehead. It must have been made by the tea bowl that Mrs. Shen fell last time. hurt.
On the other side, the righteous man they were talking about had already walked out. Lan Xiang mixed with Liu Qiqiao, turned a corner door, and walked towards their yard.
On this side, Mrs. Shen's spirits were very bad. Mother Zhou came over and rubbed her forehead silently. Since the last time she passed out, the doctor warned that the old lady was in a hurry and could not be stimulated like this anymore. Mrs. Shen's appearance is very worrying.
Mrs. Shen held the veil while wiping tears, and said: "I don't believe what he said, I don't believe that our Shen family has so much money and can't save my son!"
Mrs. Shen thought in a daze. It didn't seem to be a matter of silver. She watched Mrs. Shen crying, and said, "Yunong is blaming me!"
"Blame you, why?" Madam Shen said, raising her face.
"Blame me for not saving him. He is so smart. I really shouldn't let Qiqiao go. His child must have expected my thoughts. Therefore, when Yuyuan went, he said this. Blame me, my grandson! He doesn't know, it's not that grandma didn't save him, it's really, there is nothing you can do..." Mrs. Shen said: "That day, Huangfu came, as long as I ask Haoyue to leave, I should have expected it. Yes, even Master Shang Shu thinks it's not saved, we can only waste our efforts..."
Madam Shen softened her body, rushed over, and fell on the bed of Mrs. Shen, "Mother, is it really hopeless?"
Mrs. Shen shook her head, trying to say something feebly, but Mrs. Shen immediately burst into tears, and he couldn't help but also heartache. Over the years, no matter what she experienced, she had never been so powerless before. Even in the past, her son suddenly She had never been so desperate before she passed away.
But when she also shed tears, she suddenly remembered something...
Back then, when Mrs. Shen was dead, apart from what he said, the Shen family was too prosperous and it was probably not a good thing. Once, he pulled Mrs. Shen and forcefully took out a kit from behind the pillow.