“Second Aunt was not killed by Second Uncle?” Sheng Weiqiao had just fled from Xiezhu Pavilion before. Therefore, she naturally didn’t make it easy for Sheng Shuihe, who had come to her room.
However, Sheng Weirao was currently living in Zhuying Mini Villa. Sheng Weiqiao worried that if she squabbled with Sheng Shuihe, her cousin would be disturbed. Therefore, she didn’t make any trouble for him. She implied Gongsun Yingjiang to stop Sheng Weiwu, who couldn’t help herself but punch Sheng Shuihe. After inviting him to the stone table under the pergola in the backyard, she still called Lvjin to make tea for him, although she kept a poker face in this process.
She had planned to ignore Sheng Shuihe for a while. But who knew that after they were seated, Lvjin and Lvqi had been asked to leave. When Sheng Weirao had just taken up the tea bowl and was about to make a gesture of concentrating on tasting tea, she suddenly heard Sheng Shuihe mention lightly. Then she
When the backyard of Zhuying Mini Villa was of heavy atmosphere, in Jinxue House, the bed of Senior Master Sheng was also shrouded in tension!“Although we can’t figure out the death of Second Sister-in-Law, we can now confirm that Second Brother is innocent.” After a long term of silence, Sheng Lanci, the beloved son of Senior Master Sheng, finally broke the ice. “We should have brought him back immediately, but currently, it has made a big scene already, and the entire county is keeping an eye on us. If we make Yamen release him at this point, I’m afraid that others will think that we’ve bribed the officials. In my humble opinion, we should keep Second Brother there for several days and wait for the truth to come out and prove his innocence so that he could come back rightfully…. What do you think, father?”The whole Sheng Family used to think that it must be Sheng Lansi who had got bored with Madam Bai and killed her. Sheng Weirao and Old Madam Ming, the
“Sister Rao is pregnant?!” When Madam Feng told Old Madam Ming about this in private, Sheng Shuihe also told Sheng Weiqiao the whole story in a few words. She felt dizzy, “What shall we do now?!”Sheng Shuihe cupped his chin with his hands folded on the stone table. He looked at her with interest, “Mom thought that we should ask Doctor Hang to prescribe aborticide and let Third Sister have an abortion. Anyway, Third Sister is still young. After three or five years, no one will know.”“But Sister Rao… refused?” Sheng Weiqiao was distraught, and she had to bite her lips hard to hold back the tears. She whispered, “Why?”She thought Sheng Weirao would not refuse this proposal before.Sheng Weirao had not been betrothed yet. Even if people became open-minded now, being pregnant before marriage would definitely be despised by people. Besides, there was no love between the child’s father and Sheng Weirao. If she were to give birth to the
“Mother, listen to me!” Sheng Weiqiao, who had never seen Madam Feng put on such a face, got daunted and wasted no time to explain, “It was the son of a mistress….”“Shut up!!!” Madam Feng was actually a gentle type, and she was especially patient with her only daughter, but recently, Sheng Family, especially the back yard, had never been free of troubles!As the hostess of Sheng Family, since Madam Bai’s death yesterday, she had got even more occupied. What was worse, her parents-in-law, brother-in-law, and nieces kept causing her troubles one after another!However patient she was, Madam Feng somewhat reached her limit!Having reported Sheng Weirao’s pregnancy to her mother-in-law Old Madam Ming, with Old Madam Ming’s order, she came to Zhuying Mini Villa for Sheng Weirao. She spent much time talking with her, but the niece just remained stubborn!Being weary and stressed, Madam Feng struggled to refrain her temper.
In the ancestral hall, the brother was enjoying himself while the sister was freaking out. But in the major house of Sheng Family, Jinxue House, everyone seemed somber.“Haven’t Madam Wu pleaded guilty?” Senior Master Sheng asked wearily, “Are you sure it was her? She’s only a daughter of a scholar, at the bottom. And the scholar actually passed away a few years ago. How did a family like that… reach out to the second branch?”Madam Wu was the woman for whom Sheng Lanci wanted to divorce Madam Bai. After Yamen’s staff thought Sheng Lianlian suspicious, they tracked down the servants that Sheng Lianlian had contacted and finally found her.However, though Madam Wu was a woman, she was a tough one. Since she was put into prison at noon, she had experienced two rounds of torture, fettered and handcuffed. But she gritted her teeth and wouldn’t confess that she was the one who had plotted to murder Madam Bai and frame Sheng Lansi!Inste
“I bribed some servants from the second branch of Sheng Family. Nonetheless, the second branch was where Madam Bai has managed for years.” Madam Wu said calmly, “Madam Bai was a jealous and suspicious lady. She was strict in discipline. Although her servants acted cautiously around her, it was hard not to be caught by Madam Bai!”Hearing her words, everyone nodded slightly. Madam Bai was the second wife, but she served as the Second Madam in Sheng Family longer than Mrs. Ao, the first wife of Sheng Lansi. Besides, Madam Bai gave birth to a girl and a boy. Before her death, rumors had it that her status in the family was weakened, but she was still the absolute female master in the second branch.In contrast, it was already very impressive that Madam Wu, a 16-year old girl whose father was a scholar, had found several informants in the second branch without stepping into the gate of Sheng Family. If Madam Bai had not known anything about her scheme, it would
On her first day sitting on the pile of straw at the wing room of the ancestral hall, Sheng Weiqiao got one visitor, Sheng Shuihe, who brought her food and teased her a bit. She thought to herself confidently, “Grandmother and grandfather are both ill. Second Aunt just died recently, and Second Uncle is still in prison. It’s getting late now, and that’s why my parents didn’t visit me today! Nevertheless, when they come tomorrow, I’ll show them my anger!”Then, on the next day, Sheng Lanci and Madam Feng did not come by, which made Sheng Weiqiao even more furious!“I am their only daughter!”“Sheng Shuihe is their child too, but he is a boy. It is so outrageous to be ignored by my own parents like this!”“I have made up my mind!”“When they come and pick me up tomorrow, I will not go back!”“I’ll make them feel guilty so that they’ll realize my value!”On the third day, the only visitor she got
Sheng Lanci, who knew clearly his daughter’s temper, had prepared to comfort his furious sweetheart. However, Sheng Weiqiao didn’t lose her temper. Instead, she promised to be a good girl in the future. With tears in his eyes, Sheng Lanci said, “How much have you suffered these days! You are so obedient now!”After coaxing Sheng Weiqiao back to Zhuying Mini Villa, as his daughter washed up and dressed, he went back to the Spring House and asked Madam Feng with anger, “How can you put our sweetheart in the ancestral hall for half a month? Do you know how frightened she is?!”Madam Feng pounded the table and stood up, showing no weakness, “Don’t you feel humiliated?! If it were not that you went out to handle things about the second branch in a hurry, and I was afraid that she would be out of my supervision, I would not lock her in the ancestral hall. I only allowed Shuihe to visit her for fear that the boy from Xu Family would seduce her!”She w
“People from Ao Family are here?” Hearing this, Sheng Weiqiao was very surprised, “Is Ao Family the one where Eldest Brother’s mother grew up? Why did they come to our family?”What she said didn’t mean that she had a prejudice against Ao Family. Since Mrs. Ao divorced Sheng Lansi, though Ao Family kept contact with Sheng Family because of Sheng Weide, two families had become less close. Even on the Spring Festival or other festivals when two families exchanged gifts, servants dispatched would see Sheng Weide in Jinxue House or Spring House, never entering second branch’s house.It was unusual, and even their Senior Master came here. They came at the time when it was less than a month since Madam Bai died!Sheng Weiqiao doubted that they were intended for Madam Bai. That is to say, they intended to add insult to injuries on Sheng Weirao and Sheng Weixing!“The Senior Master of Ao Family had a chronic disease in the early years, and