Chapter 472
Chapter 472
Qi Yueniang looked worried. She came to Song Guanzhou, took her hand and said, "Your second sister-in-law said that she was sick and lazy. I don't have anyone to accompany me, so I came to look for you, my sister-in-law, and I will go with you."
Such a rush, I'm afraid it must be a big deal.
Song Guanzhou did not want to ask more questions. He told the maids a few words and followed Qi Yueniang out. Qi Yueniang and Xu Lingqiao looked very apologetic, "My dear sister, you are not married yet, so we won't ask you to take care of these trivial matters in the house. You can rest here with Guanzhou for a while. Guanzhou and I will be back soon."
Xu Lingqiao readily agreed.
The maids and the others put a raincoat on Song Guanzhou, but Song Guanzhou stopped them, saying, "This little bit of rain won't cause any trouble."
Her determination to get wet in the rain remains undiminished.
Xu Lingqiao ignored him and only taught him earnestly, "You just had the board on your leg removed, so you still have to be careful."
She ordered Honeysuckle and Lotus to go with her, "If your young lady gets angry and doesn't listen to reason, the three of you can hold her down. Carry her back by yourselves, and I will let my brother-in-law decide."
Qi Yueniang saw this and asked, "If the planks are removed, is it possible to walk?"
Song Guanzhou immediately paced back and forth for a while, "Don't worry, sister-in-law, I'll be walking briskly."
Oh my god!
Several maids stopped the young lady who was about to jump up and down. Qi Yueniang cried out, "You better take it easy. After being beaten, do you still need to use crutches?"
"To reply to my sister-in-law, there is no need for that."
Qi Yueniang turned around and hurriedly told Lanxiang, "Go and ask Liu Er and the others to prepare a chase, so that your young mistress can walk less."
She now knew how lively her fourth brother's wife was. Before Lanxiang went out, A'lu came to the door wearing a straw raincoat and a bamboo hat and bumped into them.
"Sister Lanxiang is waiting here. I will go and call her."
Not long after, Aru called for a blue-topped double sedan chair. The maids and old women helped Qi Yueniang and Song Guanzhou get on the sedan chair and headed straight to the second room.
Qi Yue Niang told her everything on the way.
"Sister Shuyu was so angry that she wanted to cut her hair and become a nun. Second uncle is not here, and Brother Hua has also gone to Zhaozhou. The several illegitimate brothers in the mansion can't do anything, so they let the ruffians come to the door."
Song Guanzhou smacked his lips, "What on earth is going on?"
Qi Yueniang sighed, "It's ridiculous to talk about this. Because Shuyu and we were at Longen Temple together, and we were thinking of going to the river to release a worry-free lantern on the day of Qiqiao. It went smoothly on the way there, but we were hit by a crowd on the way back. The maids and sedan bearers in the mansion protected Shuyu and hid under an unused thatched hut, waiting for the crowd to disperse before taking the sedan back to the mansion."
"That's a good idea."
Song Guanzhou knew that Pei Shuyu liked to show off when she went out. Others would bring one maid, but she would bring two. Others would ride in a car, but she preferred to ride in a sedan chair. It was not surprising that the maids and maids would follow in the sedan chair.
"Originally, there was nothing wrong, but there were so many people that they could not help but crowd in here. When the maids and servants were protecting her, they dropped the gold and jade fishtail hairpin she wore when she was a child. Her nickname was engraved on it."
The second wife is generous with her money, and this gold and jade hairpin is worth a lot of money.
"Was it picked up by someone else?"
Qi Yueniang was so angry that she slapped her knees. "That's right! If a small family picked up such valuable items and couldn't find the Pei Mansion, they would just throw them into the pawnshop and pawn them for life. But--"
Song Guanzhou looked at Qi Yueniang's angry state and couldn't help but become curious.
"He was picked up by a scholar who failed the imperial examination. It happened that the scholar and Mei Jia Da Lang were drinking a few bottles of wine in the capital, and he let the secret slip. Knowing that Mei Jia Da Lang was our second aunt's nephew, he tried to get close to her. Mei Jia Da Lang didn't like his contempt for the poor and love for the rich, so he rarely interacted with him, which made the scholar malicious."
"He is just an ordinary scholar and can't make any waves."
Qi Yueniang sighed, "It's just that those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes. This scholar failed the exam, but he never left. He just wanted to find some opportunities in the capital. On the day of Qiqiao, many women were lighting lanterns by the river, and it was not just Sister Shuyu. Who would have thought that this rascal would take the hairpin, speak sweetly and inquire about it, and then write a couplet of boudoir poems, which were sung all over the capital——"
Hearing this, Song Guanzhou couldn't help but widen his eyes, "A poem from the boudoir?"
Isn't this a dirty rumor about Pei Shuyu?
Qi Yueniang gnashed her teeth in anger, "That's exactly what happened. Father is not at home right now, and my second brother is like a wild horse without a bridle, not coming home for a few days. Suddenly something happened, and we women are the only ones left to hold the fort."
At the beginning of August, Pei Jian sent people to pack up and started his journey which had been delayed for more than a month. He took Linchuan, Xiangguo and two maids with him to Jiangzhou.
Seeing that they were about to reach the second room, Qi Yueniang swallowed her saliva and continued, "It would be fine if he made such a fuss, Second Aunt could have found someone to punish him or sent him to the authorities. But this bastard had already sketched the design of the hairpin, wrote a letter, and sent someone to deliver it to Mei's second son day and night. Mei's second son was very proud, and when he saw the letter saying that he and Shuyu were in love, he only asked his cousin to show some leniency and help them get together."
Because the letter was written in great detail, it also fabricated the story of the two people's secret meetings.
When Erlang of the Mei family saw this, he was so angry that he turned around and told his parents that he wanted to cancel the engagement. Mei's uncle naturally didn't believe him and wanted to send someone to Pei's house to ask for clarification. Erlang was so angry that he secretly wrote a letter and gave it to the servant, who took it to the second room and said that he was marrying his cousin and his lover, and the marriage was off.
Song Guanzhou was dumbfounded when he heard this. "When did you receive the letter?"
"Yesterday."
Song Guanzhou was a little confused. He received the letter yesterday, but why did they make a fuss today? He heard Qi Yueniang helplessly continue to say, "That bastard uncle is an eighth-rank guard captain. The uncle and nephew actually hired a matchmaker and called on people to play music and sing to show off their power and go outside the second house to ask for marriage."
What the hell?
"That bastard knelt in front of the second wife, pretending to be asking for forgiveness. The neighbors heard what the captain of the guard said. On the surface, he scolded his nephew for being useless, but in fact he was forcing the second wife to recognize this son-in-law. The second aunt had no choice but to open the corner door to let him in. The bastard came up to her without saying a word, kneeled in front of her and called her mother-in-law--"
Oh my god!
Song Guanzhou held his forehead and sighed, "With Second Aunt's temper, I'm afraid she was so angry that she couldn't speak at that time."
"Fainted."
When Pei Shuyu heard this, she was already furious because of her second cousin's slander for no reason. When she heard this bastard coming to her house, she knew that she was framed. She was so angry that she wanted to commit suicide immediately to prove her innocence.
Gu Miaofeng helped her mother-in-law and tried to stop her sister-in-law.
It was so chaotic that he was overwhelmed. He could only send someone to the mansion to ask the prince to make the decision. Unfortunately, there was no man in the mansion at the moment. Even Xu Lingbai and Xiao Bei, who were the guests, had gone to the suburbs to visit Mr. Jiang Qu.
Heavenly Bodhisattva!
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