It had already snowed twice in Jing City in early November, neither of which was very heavy. Even though it was freezing cold and the snow was difficult to melt, only the tiles were covered with snow, which was like a few brushstrokes on a scroll.
When Chu Yitong, who had recently been the eighth madame of the Jiang Family, saw that her husband Jiang Yadan looked tired, she gently invited him into the inner room to take a nap. But she excused herself from disturbing him and took her wet nurse Zhu to the study to talk, “The fourteenth junior young master is the first trueborn son. While I don’t have to worry about him as he is brought up by my nineteenth brother-in-law and his wife, I can’t forget to send him presents in the holidays. If there is something good here, we should leave one for him. Please remember this for me.”
Zhu nodded, “Your Grace, please set assured. I will...”
“Just call me madame!” Chu Yitong said calmly, “See, my nin
Qiu Yelan looked at her husband. And when she saw Jiang Yashuang nod slightly, she bowed and said, “I will go and see my grandmother and my youngest grand aunt.”When a husband died, it was the rule that the wife had to keep staying in the funeral hall.But since Madame Ou was so old and grieving for the death of her companion, no one dared to let her go and kneel there for a few days. So, Marquess Qin personally stepped in and persuaded her to rest in the back room where Madame Tao would accompany her.When Qiu Yelan reached the door, she was greeted with a silent gesture from Mom Hu, who was on guard here. Mom Hu gestured that she should not go in yet.After waiting for a while, Madame Tao came out alone. She saw her with a slight nod and pointed to the compartment not far away.Qiu Yelan saw that her back was slightly hunched. So, she went forward to support her. After they entered the room together, Madame T
Madame Tao, who was still in the room, saw Qiu Yelan coming back and got slightly surprised, "Anything wrong?""Before I arrived, I met two people one after another on the road. They each told me something so I came here for advice!" Qiu Yelan explained, "I first met Huizhi in a narrow alley. She mentioned what happened in the imperial garden and said that it was definitely not done by her or the first branch. She felt wronged and even wanted to die! And then I met Aunt Tianhe. She said that Huizhi told her the same thing. Since Huizhi will enter the palace and the youngest grand uncle asked Empress to take care of her before his death, why did she say this? Aunt Tianhe didn't understand so she hoped that I could let you ask my grandfather!"Madame Tao snorted and said, "I know what she is thinking! Why is she so impatient when your youngest grand uncle just passed away? Huizhi should keep filial piety to her grandmother before she enters the palace.
Fortunately, they arrived just in time. When they arrived at the lake in a hurry, they saw two maids tugging at Jiang Huizhi's sleeves and trying their best to stop her.Seeing this, Madame Zhuang Junior and Qiu Yelan rushed up to pull Jiang Huizhi and scolded, "It's such a cold day. You said you wanted to get some fresh air. Why are you coming to the lake?"Qiu Yelan took out her own handkerchief and wiped her niece's face, saying warmly, ''You've been blowing the cold wind for a while. If you don't go back inside, you'll be sick! There are many things going on at home nowadays. And we are already busy. We're still counting on you to help out. Don't you dare duck out of it!"The two aunts had an unspoken message in their minds so they never mentioned that Jiang Huizhi tried to suicide. They pretended that she had come for fun. They said so while dragging her away. Jiang Huizhi was a weak girl, and now she was as thin as a stick because
Qiu Yelan didn't show mercy on Jiang Huizhi when knocking her out. Jiang Huizhi was in a coma and completely woke up two days later. At this time, praises for her pure filial piety had existed everywhere. Jiang Jingzhi, her eldest younger brother of a concubine, came to tell her the messages and advised her, "After the second great grand uncle knew it, he praised you a lot. The bird's nest you just ate was specially sent by my third great grand aunt. Now the elders all believe the rumors. It's not worth it to tell the truth instead!"After weighing carefully, Jiang Huizhi understood that Jiang Jingzhi's words were right. She gnashed her teeth for a while and sneered, "At least I have earned a reputation of filial piety! I didn't harm the Empress this time, but I can do it again next time... There will be ample time. We'll see!"However, the sister and the brother didn't know some other things. These two days Qiu Yelan finally found Jiang Tianhe and met her
The Jiang Family had had great influence in the imperial court for many years. The family had both good and bad children. Even in daylight, except for someone with a visiting card, no one dared to linger in front of the gate, let alone at midnight.Just in two seconds…The bodyguards around the sedan already pulled their arrows and swords out of their scabbards. The flickering cold light pointed directly at the shadow that ordinary people could easily ignore on the street corner. They would kill him or her immediately when something was wrong!At the same time, the gate of the Marquess's Mansion opened with a bang and two teams of fully armed bodyguards rushed out to surround the sedan, using their bodies as a barrier to protect the sedan and escorting it into the mansion quickly!"Keep one alive and find out his or her identity!" Marquess Qin got off the sedan behind the screen wall and gave an order without looking back, and then
Both Jiang Yashuang and Qiu Yelan knew that although Qiu Qian grabbed the antidote from the first branch, the third branch was also suspected. Even if Madame He was seen as a bad housekeeper and made some changes during this time, it couldn't be rendered into such a bad situation in such a short period as He Shuijin laid a solid foundation for her before she left only a few months ago.As the Jiang Family didn't divide up family property or live apart, the spending of food and clothing of each branch went into public accounts, for which the third branch Madame He was responsible. If she was useless, then the problems would not only emerge in the bodyguards but also in the management of the mansion, including the shares of each branch. So, the fourth branch could find the problems and take precautions even though they never got involved in the housekeeping matters.But the monthly shares were as usual in these months. How could the third branch not be
Watching Mr. Jiang's receding figure, Jiang Yashuang turned his head and looked at his wife and said, "My grandfather...""The good thing is that Lang'er is fine." Qiu Yelan, with her eyes drifting, said lightly, "Even though we can spare the real culprit, we still need to find out who he is. Otherwise, who knows whether he will hurt us again or not?"She didn't care about the promise she made to He Shuijin because it was a matter of her son's life and death, and said, "The reason why He Shuijin insisted on staying at the eighth sister-in-law's mountain villa on purpose and refused to leave was that her first child was murdered by Madame He. This time when she found she was pregnant again, she was afraid that her child would be murdered again. So, she took advantage of the opportunity when mother was in Jing City. She offered to go there to find out the truth in the name of justice for the eighth sister-in-law and An."Jiang Yashuang said with
"The owner of the shop was used to be a guy in Qingfeng Ji." Mr. Jiang said in a weird tone, "When Qingfeng Ji was sealed up, all the crucial guys were arrested because it was famous all over the country. Those guys who were not important were released after being arrested for some time."After all, the subbranches of Qingfeng Ji were all over the country. The families and connections of regular employees added up to tens of thousands. So, it was impossible to kill all those people. Especially since many of them were skilled, it would be a pity not to reuse them.Therefore, except for important people, those who were not close to the Gus and were quite talented were released after being fined.The owner of this preserved fruit shop was one of them.There were a lot of people in the group so the maids couldn't know everyone. The people Qiu Yelan sent out to buy the preserved fruit had no idea who owned the shop. He just heard