first princess

Chapter 248
The old matriarch frowned resentfully, "Yan'er's death hit Youru too hard, so she resented Qian'er a little bit. So, I will talk to her later, and you should do ideological work on Xi'er's side, so that Don't take it to heart."

Gong's mother turned pale with shock, "Old Madam, the concubine has hurt Madam a lot, so...forget it?"

"What do you want?" The old lady frowned again.

Gong's mother said: "At least take Madam back to the mansion! Only when the princess and Madam live together peacefully can the rumors be dispelled!"

The old matriarch shook her head, "I have no control over this."

Mama Gong left dejectedly.As soon as she left, the old matriarch asked Ping'er to call Leng Youru.Leng Youru was more than four months pregnant, her belly was very big and round, and she could still see a slight bulge in her autumn clothes, she let go of her hand touching her belly, saluted the old lady, and said softly: "Mother. "

The old matriarch added her own understanding to Gong's mother's words, and said it in a way that she thought was tactful, "You Ru, I know you blame Shangguan Qian for raising Xiao Yu and Xiao Xi for her for so many years, and she came back suddenly You feel bad for stealing some of the prince's favor, but let me tell you, you are the most important in the prince's heart, there is really no need for you to get angry with Shangguan Qian, and besides, she has not lived for a few years, so just Let her live out her old age in peace."

Leng Youru frowned slightly, "I don't understand what mother said."

The old lady said earnestly: "Stop spreading those rumors, Xiaoyu also respects you. Although you are not your own mother and child, you are separated by a layer, but compared with most adoptive mothers and children, your relationship is already gone. Very good. You gave birth to a child, whether it is a son or a daughter, our whole family will like it, and Xiaoyu will work hard to take care of them, you..."

Before the old lady could finish her sentence, Leng Youru's face turned pale with anger, and she left Tian'anju with her sleeves shaken.This was the first time in more than 20 years that she did not give the old lady face.Once back to Qingyouyuan, Leng Youru said coldly: "Go pick up Brother Hao from school, and go back to Leng's house!"

Cen'er didn't dare to be negligent, so she went to the school to pick up Brother Hao, then packed some underwear and daily necessities, asked two maids to carry them, and walked towards the gate.

Zhuge Liuyun was originally working in the study, when he learned that Leng Youru had brought his salute and Brother Hao to leave the house, he was so frightened that he lost his pen and rushed towards the door.

"Leng Youru, stop!" Seeing that Leng Youru was about to step into the carriage, Zhuge Liuyun roared anxiously.

Leng Youru subconsciously paused her steps, but when she realized who that person was, she suddenly increased her pace and got on the carriage.

Zhuge Liuyun was going mad with anger, he walked to the side of the carriage in three steps, opened the small curtain and said, "You you...what are you doing?"

Leng Youru imitated him indifferently, "I, I, I want to go home." Cen'er and the maids hid their faces and laughed.

Zhuge Liuyun's face turned pale, and he clasped the window frame with his big palms and said, "Home? This is your home! Come down for me!"

"Don't disgust me, I just ate!"

"You...you..." Zhuge Liuyun's lungs were about to explode, remembering that she was a pregnant woman, an advanced pregnant woman, and he couldn't bear the stimulation, so he endured it! "You... If you have something to say, just tell me what wronged you have suffered, and I will solve it for you."

"Hmph!" Leng Youru turned her face away.

Zhuge Liuyun swallowed his saliva, "Brother Hao's father is still in the mansion, if you take him away like this, Mu Hua will feel uncomfortable, so will Brother Hao, right?"

Brother Hao poked his head out, "I don't feel bad, father can go to Lengfu to see me!"

Zhuge Liuyun choked, his eyes nearly popped out, you heartless little thing!
Brother Hao hugged Leng Youru's neck, and under Zhuge Liuyun's eyes that wanted to kill someone, he smiled and kissed Leng Youru, and then sat back in the carriage angrily.

"Mu-Cheng-Hao--" Zhuge Liuyun almost ran away.

Snapped!Leng Youru pulled down the window panel and pinched Zhuge Liuyun's fingers inside, Zhuge Liuyun jumped up in pain, "Leng Youru!"

Leng Youru pushed up the window panel and pushed his fingers out.Zhuge Liuyun was stunned, the carriage had already started running.Zhuge Liuyun paced back and forth angrily, and told the head of the guard: "You follow from a distance, and the princess will come back when she arrives at Leng's house safely."

"Yes!" The chief guard led nine guards and rode on horses to chase after Leng Youru's carriage.

Brother Hao didn't take a nap, he fell asleep on Leng Youru's lap after the carriage shook a few times.

Cen'er glanced at him, no longer had any scruples, and scolded disdainfully, "Shangguan Qian is really a good trick! Spreading rumors to slander herself, making herself a complete victim! In this way, the old lady will completely stand She's over there! According to the servant girl, Princess, you really shouldn't have left the palace. Maybe you just left before she moved into your yard! How can such a shameless woman be so cheap? lost her?"

Leng Youru closed her eyes, "Check it out, who is spreading the rumors?"

"So...the concubine returned to her mother's house?" Shui Linglong asked in disbelief after hearing Anping's report.

Anping scratched his head, "Yeah, the old matriarch didn't know what he said to the princess. The princess was fine when she went in, but when she came out, she put on a serious face. Then, the princess picked up her cousin from school in advance, and the group The man left the palace in a hurry, the prince wanted to stop him, but unfortunately he didn't, so the prince sent ten guards to follow him from a distance."

Leng Youru is a person with very clear goals, she will never be lenient when it is time to harm others, and she will not cause trouble when it is time to raise a baby. It is the first time in Shui Linglong's knowledge that she openly disobeyed her elders and left the house angrily.Not knowing what came to her mind, Shui Linglong said, "Go to the gatehouse and the gatehouse at the side door to get the entry and exit registration form for this month."

"it is good."

After Anping left, Shui Linglong planned to go back to Mohe Courtyard, after thinking about it, she changed her way to Tian'anju, and as expected, she bumped into the gloomy-faced Mama Gong on the small road.

"Mother Gong." Shui Linglong stopped her.

This time, Mama Gong didn't bump into the tree again, she stopped quickly, and when she saw who was coming, she held down her displeasure and saluted, "Concubine Shi Zi."

Shui Linglong held the corner of her mouth, and seemed to have a smile on her face, "Mother Gong, you don't seem very happy, what happened?"

Mama Gong's mouth broke, and she immediately spit out the bitterness in her heart: "Concubine Shizi, don't blame the slaves for their carelessness, the situation in this mansion is much more complicated than you expected! Knowing people, knowing faces but not knowing hearts, has grown a beautiful The face actually has a heart of snakes and scorpions, Shi Zifei, you have to put up all your energy to deal with it!"

Shui Linglong smiled, "Why did Gong's mother say that? Who do I have to guard against in the house?"

Gong's mother snorted, "Isn't that the princess! She intentionally spread rumors to slander the wife, and then made the prince so fascinated that he was not allowed to get along with the wife. The wife and the prince are husband and wife. How can there be any reason why they live in the same city but don't see each other?"

"Is it the princess... who spread the rumors? No way, she was so angry that she went back to her mother's house."

"That was deliberately done for others to see, so as to clear up the suspicion!"

Shui Linglong looked at Mama Gong's gritted teeth, and couldn't help being surprised. She once suspected that this was a trick by Mama Gong, the purpose of which was to help Shangguanqian return home, but if Mama Gong really did it, Mama Gong shouldn't be a bit guilty just now. None.Shangguan Qian was unlikely, she couldn't even get out of bed, so how could she go outside to spread rumors?

Shui Linglong can now be sure that someone pretended to be Shangguan Qian, and she intuitively told her that this person was in the General's Mansion if he was not in the Prince's Mansion.After seeing off Mama Gong, Shui Linglong called Zhi Fan and Liu Lu, "Secretly check what unusual things happened in the mansion within a month, for example, who suddenly got sick and asked for leave, who suddenly had generous hands and feet, who went Take a closer look at the places you don't usually go to...including their clothing and jewelry."

Zhi Fan and Liu Lu solemnly agreed, and just as they were about to leave, Shui Linglong narrowed her eyes and said, "Mrs. Mu was slightly injured in order to save my sister, so I gave you the Dieda wine prepared by the eldest son himself. Mrs. Mu sent it."

Zhi Fan was taken aback, "Does Miss doubt Mrs. Mu?"

Shui Linglong didn't answer, but knocked on the table with her index finger, which was a movement she would only make every time she was thinking about important issues.The two didn't dare to be negligent, and went after assigning tasks to each other.

At night, when Zhuge Yu came back from court, Shui Linglong told Zhuge Yu about the affairs in the palace, Zhuge Yu's eyes froze and he went to the palace.

There are many maids and wives in the house, and they secretly checked one by one, Zhi Fan and Liu Lu were so busy that they didn't even bother to eat dinner, and they stayed busy until midnight.

That night, the little maid of the General's Mansion hurriedly brought the news that a group of hooligans surrounded the General's Mansion, threw rotten eggs and rotten vegetables into the mansion, cursed Shangguan Qian's flirtatious prince, and wrote a sentence on the wall with paint. Another unsightly sentence, roughly meant to warn her to keep her own place and stop provoking people who shouldn't be provoked.And who this person shouldn't be provoked is clearly revealed.

Zhuge Liuyun couldn't sit still anymore, he had already finished washing and was about to go to bed, he dressed up and went to Leng's house to find out the situation, unexpectedly, the Leng's house didn't even open the door for him.Leng Chengkun personally sat in the town, lined up the eighteen hidden guards of the Leng residence, and formed a formation with knives and guns.If Zhuge Liuyun insisted on breaking through the defense, he had to fight with weapons.But when Leng's family and Zhuge's family were really going to fight with weapons, they announced to everyone that the two families were torn apart, and in the end, Zhuge Liuyun returned to the mansion in disgrace.

After getting off the carriage, Xun Feng called him from behind. He turned his head, his frowning brows slightly relaxed, "It's Hua'er, why are you coming back so late? Is Tianxia No. [-] Street busy?"

Seeing his displeased look, Xun Feng asked in surprise, "Father, what's wrong with you?"

Zhuge Liuyun cleared his throat, "It's nothing, your mother and concubine went back to her mother's house to recuperate for a few days, I just went to see her."

Xun Feng raised his eyebrows, and said with a slight smile: "Today, I am drawing up the list of relief supplies and the specific matters of escorting. I mean, instead of going the way of the imperial court, send a special person to the disaster area to distribute, so as to ensure that all the relief supplies can be delivered. into the hands of the victims."

Zhuge Liuyun obviously had no interest, waved his hand, and said casually: "You have been in charge of Tianxia No. [-] Street for two years, and you have never had any troubles. You can handle the relief supplies."

Xun Feng's pupils moved, and he said with a smile: "But you need to stamp it. I'm going to send it tomorrow morning. It's so late that I don't want to disturb my sister-in-law."

There are two types of royal seals, the mother seal and the son seal. The mother seal is more authoritative than the son seal, but generally Zhuge Liuyun will not refute the decision made by Shui Linglong. In the past, Xun Feng tried to find Shui Linglong to stamp it, but this time he came back late So I went to Zhuge Liuyun.

Zhuge Liuyun pressed his forehead, a little tired, "You follow me."

Shui Linglong came out of Zhifan's room, and Anping came with the concierge's records for nearly a month, "Concubine Shizi, I have just looked at it, and removed everything except the dining room and handyman's room, Tian'anju, main courtyard, and Mohe courtyard. The entry and exit records outside are circled with cinnabar, please take a look."

Shui Linglong glanced at him approvingly, "You have a heart."

Each house and courtyard has its own pair of cards. It is not impossible to take the pair of cards out of the house to buy rouge, gouache or silk, or even simply go shopping and visit the lake. For example, in September, King An took Qiao Hui out eight times , Zhen went out of the house alone eleven times.Shui Linglong flipped through the pages, and when she glanced over a name, she couldn't move her eyes away.She stretched out her pale fingertips and slowly drifted away from the name, and some pictures that were once neglected but now gradually became clear appeared in her mind.

After thinking about it, Zhi Fan and Liu Lu came back, Liu Lu focused on checking the dining room, and reported: "There is nothing unusual about the dining room, but the second room has been running to the dining room recently, probably because the second young lady is pregnant."

Shui Linglong blinked slowly, looked at Zhi Fan, "What did you find out?"

Zhi Fan replied: "It's very strange that Fengyuan is there. Aunt Dong Jia actually went there, saying that the county king ordered to send some supper to my uncle. The maidservant remembers one time when she sent supper to Fengyuan, and accidentally saw the The dishes are placed, the servants' rights are supposed to be the uncle's own in the dining room, but now that I think about it, it is very likely that the second room gave it to me."

Shui Linglong raised her eyebrows suspiciously, when did King An care so much about Xun Feng?

Inside the Bauhinia Courtyard, Dong Jialin vomited wildly into the spittoon, almost vomiting bile.Xing'er hurriedly handed over a glass of warm water, "Auntie, rinse your mouth."

Dong Jialin straightened up and took the water glass, but just as soon as she smelled the heat, she vomited again.

Xing'er was so frightened that she trembled all over, "Auntie...you...you...do you...do it matter?"

Dong Jialin rinsed her mouth, wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, and said with deep eyes: "What's the big deal? I just got sick from eating, just like Mrs. Mu."

Xing'er nodded tremblingly, without a trace of blood on her face.Ever since Dong Jialin threatened her, she has completely turned against Dong Jialin. Her wealth and life are firmly linked to Dong Jialin's, so she hopes from the bottom of her heart that Dong Jialin will have a bright future, but she looks at something too risky. ...

Dong Jialin is actually not much better than her, but at least she can control it, "Is everything taken care of?"

Myolie replied, "It's been dealt with."

Dong Jialin put down her veil, straightened her clothes in front of the bronze mirror, and walked out of the clean room with a normal expression. As soon as she sat down, Shui Linglong brought someone into the room. Dong Jialin and Xing'er were both surprised and looked at The menacing Shui Linglong.Shui Linglong didn't even bother to look at them, she just said: "Search for me!"

Dong Jialin turned pale in shock, "Concubine Shizi, what do you want to search? This is my room, how can you... search my things casually? Does the second wife know? Does the second young lady know?"

Shui Linglong ignored her at all, she just went to ask Qiao Hui, King An has never asked anyone to send supper to Fengyuan, and Qiao Hui has never offered to ask for black chicken soup, this Dong Jialin...is very problematic !
Ye Mao, Zhi Fan and Liu Lu led several maidservants from Mohe Court to carry out a series of intensive searches in Bauhinia Court. The huge movement disturbed Mrs. Zhen, Prince An and Qiao Hui. Shui Linglong expressed her incomprehension in her actions.

Mrs. Zhen frowned, and said in a strange way: "Linglong, although you are the head of the house, this is the second room after all. Before you come to search, don't you have to talk to Xiaohui first?" Using Qiao Hui as a raft is actually telling Shui Linglong, she is the one who is in charge of the second room, is it too arrogant for Shui Linglong to be so defiant and disrespectful to her elders?
Shui Linglong calmly said: "Second Aunt, what happened suddenly, I came here in a hurry because I was afraid that someone would destroy the evidence. Second Aunt, please forgive me if there is any inconsideration."

These words are useful, Zhen Shi didn't have to fight against Shui Linglong in the first place, since Shui Linglong gave her the steps, she has no reason not to be flattering, "Could it be that some unclean people came out of this Bauhinia Court and did unclean things ?”

Shui Linglong said in the usual tone, "You won't know until you finish searching."

Not long after, Liu Lu came out with a bundle, "Shi Zifei! This servant found this in the utility room!"

Everyone looked at Liu Lu regretfully, and then followed her words and noticed the things in her hand.Prince An and Qiao Hui looked at each other, not knowing what was going on.As soon as Zhen's smile faded away, she followed the trend and saw Liu Lu shaking off her burden, and a red skirt and a red gauze bamboo hat fell out. Zhen was puzzled, "Clothes? What's so strange about this?"

Dong Jialin and Xing'er followed, looked at the clothes on the ground, and subconsciously denied it, "This...it's not mine..."

Shui Linglong's eyes sharpened, and she said coldly: "Of course you won't admit that these are yours! Which thief would identify your stolen goods?"

The blood on Dong Jialin's face faded in an instant, "Stolen goods? I... I don't have any... Shi Zifei, I don't understand what you are talking about... These are really not mine..."

Shui Linglong interrupted her in a cold voice, "Who would it be if it wasn't yours? I sent people to find out who spread the rumors to slander Madam, and found a woman in red and a bamboo hat! If it wasn't for me After checking the entry and exit records of the concierge, I can't think of you at all! Now that the stolen goods have been stolen, do you still want to deny it?"

(End of this chapter)