She has a slender waist and delicate bones, and is able to seduce the ascetic horse.

Chapter 218 Spring and Autumn Brushwork
Mrs. Meng arrived late, and as soon as she entered the door, she heard Chen Yuanli's pleading.

After hearing clearly that Shen Jiaojiao wanted to make peace with Chen Yuanli, Mrs. Meng's face was filled with joy and she immediately agreed.

"Heli? Just right."

While talking, he walked up to Shen Jiaojiao and looked at her with a cold face.

"Since you are willing to make peace with Yuan Li, that would be the best."

Suddenly, there was a loud noise from above.

Everyone was startled and turned to look in the direction of Mr. Meng.

Mr. Meng took back his big palm that was slapped on the desk, stood up, and angrily shouted: "What nonsense are you talking about? What do you mean by the best?"

This was said to Mrs. Meng.

Not to be outdone, Mrs. Meng stared back, "How is this nonsense? If Shen Jiaojiao hadn't been unwilling to cancel the engagement, how could there have been so many things happening today?"

Both the words and the words are full of blame.

"Stop talking nonsense like this!" Mr. Meng shouted at Mrs. Meng, and then glanced at Shen Jiaojiao worriedly.

Shen Jiaojiao lowered her head and remained silent.

Seeing that she remained silent, Mrs. Meng became even more angry and vented her anger on her.

"If you hadn't made the decision to raise Aunt Zhou as a concubine, how could Wan'er be jealous of Aunt Zhou? She would have caused one disaster after another!
"I even suspect that you deliberately selected two beautiful maids to provoke Wan'er to snatch them. In the end, you really caused trouble for Wan'er.

"Furthermore, if Aunt Zhou hadn't climbed onto the bed in Hanlianyuan, Wan'er wouldn't have done such a thing no matter how jealous she was in her heart!"

Some powerful words shocked everyone to the spot.

Shen Jiaojiao laughed dumbly and looked at Mrs. Meng with disappointment in her eyes.

Is this to put all the blame on her?

She is truly a good mother to Meng Wan!
She clenched her fists and couldn't bear it anymore.

"Isn't your statement biased? Who knows that it's Meng Wan..."

Before she finished speaking, Chen Yuanli stood up and stood between the two of them to defend her.

"Mother-in-law, Jiaojiao is not this kind of person. Please don't make groundless speculations about her."

With that said, he took over the matter of taking concubines.

"I, Chen Yuanli, am worthy of anyone, but the only one I'm sorry for is Jiaojiao. I blame me for having a two-room concubine half a year after we got married, which caused her to be laughed at..."

Mrs. Meng sneered, folded her hands on her chest, and looked at Chen Yuanli leisurely.

He seemed to be watching what kind words he could say.

Chen Yuanli originally thought that if he stood up to defend Shen Jiaojiao at this time, he would gain her favor.

Unexpectedly, not only did she not get a good word, but she was resented by Mrs. Meng.

At this moment, he could only bite the bullet and finish his words.

"It's not that Jiaojiao doesn't want to cancel the engagement, it's that I personally promised Jiaojiao that I would treat her well, but in the end... I failed her."

What he said was sincere.

Shen Jiaojiao didn't appreciate it, she opened her red lips lightly and uttered a cold word.

"Who wants you to pretend to be kind?"

Chen Yuanli choked, "Jiaojiao..."

"Don't call me that, I feel sick." She waved her hands as if to ward off flies.

Chen Yuanli was as embarrassed as if he had eaten the fly.

Shen Jiaojiao was too lazy to pay attention to him, turned to face Mrs. Meng, and said with a smile: "Instead of blaming me, my adoptive mother should blame Meng Wan for getting used to it in the market and becoming an inhumane rotten person."

Mrs. Meng was so angry that she staggered.

Fortunately, the person standing behind was Mr. Meng, so she did not fall.

"You, you, you!" Mrs. Meng pointed at Shen Jiaojiao, too angry to speak. "What am I? Could it be that I forced Meng Wan to do this?" Shen Jiaojiao looked indifferent, with the same alienation between her eyebrows as Meng Hui.

She even patiently broke down each incident and told it bit by bit.

"Yes, I did choose two beautiful maids, but it was Meng Wan who insisted on snatching them away, and you forced me to nod in agreement. How can you blame me for this?
"As for why Chen Yuanli and Aunt Zhou got involved...isn't it Meng Wan's own responsibility? If she hadn't driven Chen Yuanli to the study, how could this have happened?

"It's even more nonsense that you blame me for treating Aunt Zhou as aunt.

"It was clearly Meng Wan who harmed Aunt Zhou and gave Chen Yuanli an excuse to take her as his concubine. Please stop playing around with those Chunqiu brushstrokes."

Mrs. Meng was choked and speechless by these words.

He pointed at Shen Jiaojiao 'you' for a long time, but in the end he just grabbed her attitude and spoke.

"What's your attitude? Do you really care about my stepmother?"

"Then the adoptive mother regards me as her adopted daughter?"

"Rebellion! I really rebelled against you!" Mrs. Meng turned pale with anger.

Shen Jiaojiao spread her hands and said sarcastically: "Even the newly recognized stepmother Jiang is willing to defend me in front of everyone. How exactly do you look like a mother?"

Mr. Meng was confused when he heard this, and stepped forward to hold his adopted daughter's arm.

"Wait a minute, who did you call Stepmother Jiang?"

"The adoptive father doesn't know yet?" she asked in surprise.

Mr. Meng turned around and glanced at Mrs. Meng. When he saw that she turned her face away with a guilty conscience, his expression suddenly darkened.

"I don't know, tell me, what's going on?"

Shen Jiaojiao shook her head and smiled bitterly, "It seems that the adoptive mother didn't say anything to you."

Then she told the whole story.

Hearing that Mrs. Meng easily agreed to Mrs. Jiang's request to marry Shen Jiaojiao, Mr. Meng's entire face was as dark as ink, and his chest heaved violently with anger.

"I really don't understand, madam, what are you thinking?! Why do you want to push Jiaojiao to others?"

The Meng family had always been harmonious and rarely blushed.

Mrs. Meng had long developed a habit of telling the truth, but when she was suddenly questioned sternly by Master Meng, she became angry.

"Who asked her to ridicule Wan'er for not being able to guard Yuan Li? Is it wrong for me to protect Wan'er?!" Mrs. Meng said, squeezing her neck.

Mr. Meng was angry, "Wan'er, Wan'er, Wan'er! Do you only have Wan'er in your eyes? Jiaojiao is not your daughter anymore?"

"No!" Mrs. Meng denied loudly.

Shen Jiaojiao's whole body trembled, and her face suddenly turned pale.

Those two striking words destroyed the remaining attachment to her adoptive mother in her heart.

She clenched her fists, and the stinging pain from her palms made her eyes, which were already red from holding back, quickly filled with tears and washed them down.

it is good!very good!

Even if her adoptive mother doesn't recognize her, she doesn't have to worry about it anymore!
She raised her hand to wipe her face, turned and left.

The quarrel between her adoptive father and mother, and Chen Yuanli's pursuit to comfort her, were all forgotten by her, and she no longer wanted to interfere with anything in the main courtyard.

When she returned to the Pearl Courtyard, she cried heartily.

Keying stayed by her side silently and handed her a clean handkerchief.

Soon, Ke Xin also came after hearing the inquiry.

They didn't know what happened in the main courtyard, and they didn't dare to speak to comfort rashly. They waited until Shen Jiaojiao stopped crying before speaking cautiously.

"Miss, what's wrong?"

Shen Jiaojiao pursed her lips and said with a hint of crying in her voice, "From now on, I will never save face for Meng Wan."

(End of this chapter)