The Concubine's Survival Manual

Chapter 269

Mrs. Xu returned to Pingguo Mansion early the next morning.

Even though Qin Niangzi was already mentally prepared, for the rest of the Pingguo Mansion, Mrs. Xu's return was too sudden.Mrs. Tai was quite surprised, "I thought you were going to stay until the Mid-Autumn Festival and come back this time."

After half a year of almost full-time recuperation, Mrs. Xu's complexion has improved a lot. Not only is there blood on the face of this noble lady who is only about to know her destiny, even the lines between the corners of her eyes and eyebrows are lighter. To Mrs. Tai's question, she just smiled and said, "Didn't it suddenly occur to me yesterday that my father's [-]th birthday is coming, even though my elder brother is not in the capital, it is not good to stay in Xiaotangshan ostentatiously, pretending to turn a deaf ear I had no choice but to send someone to deliver a letter to Feng Jia, asking him to pick me up."

After all, it was Mrs. Xu, this excuse was casual and decent, and it seemed to be a powerful and unconstrained style.Even Mrs. Yi's old ways can't find fault, but there is a trace of dissatisfaction and authenticity, "Yesterday, Feng Jia went out overnight, I thought there was something important, it turned out that it was Qin's whim."

While talking, he laughed again, covering up the scene in a harmonious way,

Seven Lady couldn't help exchanging glances with Xu Fengjia, and before she had time to speak, Lord Pingguo had already asked Madam Xu, "Even if you don't come back, I plan to ask you, my uncle is not in the capital, and the [-]-year-old is still alive." Do you want to do it? Since you are back, let's go to Qin's house tomorrow?"

Mrs. Xu said with a smile, "Okay, by the way, bring Shiro and Wulang to meet the second uncle." She glanced at Qinianzi and smiled.

Qin Niangzi understood, and after finishing the housework, she carried a small box into Qingpingyuan, "I haven't greeted my mother for a long time."

Because Xu Fengjia still has official duties after all, it is impossible to focus on a little family matter every day, accompany Mrs. Xu into the house and have a conversation in Leshanju, and then Mrs. Xu has already sent her to the Thousand Households Office.

Mrs. Xu looked at Qin Niangzi with a little emotion in her eyes. She took a few deep breaths, and the first sentence was to ask, "Does your mother know about this?"

Qin Niangzi replied without hesitation, "Although I know something about it, I have to ask my mother first before I can tell what's going on."

This daughter-in-law is getting her own ideas more and more... Mrs. Xu couldn't help narrowing her eyes slightly, feeling a little unhappy.

Qin Niangzi disclosed this matter to her natal family in advance, naturally to put invisible pressure on her husband's family, forcing Mrs. Xu not to cover up this matter.Although there is nothing wrong with the way it is done, it made Mrs. Xu feel a little bit unhappy.

However, Qin Niangzi was calm and relaxed, sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai: The sky is high and the emperor is far away. Madam and Fifth Household chat, so she doesn't need to look at Madam Xu's face on many things.

The relationship between people is sometimes so subtle. When Mrs. Xu was a daughter-in-law, her mother-in-law suffered countless dark losses. Now that she is a mother-in-law, she feels a little bit uncomfortable when she meets a lady who is neither humble nor overbearing. Comfortable.It's just that she is a sophisticated person after all, after a moment of silence, she calmed down and said, "Forget it, after all, I'm not in the capital, and you don't have a place to discuss many things."

It was he who found the next step for Qin Niangzi, and then said, "Feng Jia was talking nonsense last night, which made me confused, please tell me the matter carefully again."

Qin Niangzi used physical evidence to tell how she got Yu An's clues from Mr. Zhong, and found the old mother and Xiao Songhua from Yu An's memories. After removing the suspicion of the old mother, she tried her best to investigate Xiao Songhua's details. Through Feng Jin, he found the position of Xiao Songhua's brother-in-law's family without knowing it.Then they tortured Xiao Songhua and Qiu Zhi, obtained two precious confessions, and got the precious clue of genealogy, which can directly prove the connection between Qiu Zhi and Wu Xun's family.

She gave it easily, and she had physical evidence as proof, oral confession as evidence, and she spoke in an orderly manner, which made Mrs. Xu's complexion change. It took a long time to recover and said with emotion, "What happened in August last year It was originally a turmoil, but from this point of view, it is a very good thing. If your fifth sister-in-law hadn't thought of embarrassing you, she wouldn't have exposed Wu Xun's wife under the sun. This negligence has already revealed her flaws .”

She is worthy of being the mistress of the house for many years, but only from Seventh Lady's narration, she has grasped the reason for Fifth Young Madam's failure.Qin Niangzi raised half of her eyebrows in surprise, and looked at Mrs. Xu. Mrs. Xu said with a smile, "Fengjia told me everything after you took over the housework last night."

She paused, then praised, "You did a good job!"

Without waiting for Qin Niangzi to reply, she continued, "Including this matter, you did a good job asking Feng Jia not to talk about his injury and the 10 taels of silver. Lord Pingguo is not stupid. On the contrary, he is fair, and he will not pretend to be confused about what he should understand."

Qin Niangzi tentatively asked Mrs. Xu, "Then let mother tell father about this matter, will it be more..."

Mrs. Xu interrupted her without thinking, "I think it's better for you to tell Duke Ping personally about this matter!"

Seventh Lady was surprised at once.

She asked Xu Fengjia to tell Mrs. Xu about this matter, more or less she meant to ask Mrs. Xu to come forward and explain the whole story to Duke Ping.After all, the two have been married for many years, and Mrs. Xu can say many things without any scruples, but she and Xu Fengjia can't even mention them.

Mrs. Xu stared deeply at Qin Niangzi, and she said softly, "I heard that because of Yu Qiao's incident, Mr. Pingguo likes Mrs. Zhang again, but the more he looks at you, the more he looks at you. This is also true. If you don't like it, it's not pleasing to the eye, and now it's even connected to the room, so I plan to take care of it for you?"

Qin Niangzi showed embarrassment, "Father can't understand Xiaoqi's soft-heartedness and unwillingness to risk human life... and also thinks that Shengluan has been back to Beijing for a year and a half, and there is no news of Liufang giving birth..."

"Isn't it the wind that Mrs. Tai was blowing in his ears?" Mrs. Xu said coldly, "Since Wufang got Hexian, how many years has he not had a child? Not to mention that our sixth room has already had two heirs, Shiro and Goro. What your father is most afraid of in this life is that Feng Jia will use his status as the eldest son to squeeze out his brothers, Feng Jia did a very bad job of running on Mrs Zhang that night, I have already told him."

It was precisely because Xu Fengjia refused to budge that night that she lost even more in front of Ping Guogong. Seventh Lady would not understand this truth. She bowed her head and took a sip of tea, but did not speak.

When the mother-in-law is scolding her son, the daughter-in-law must not follow suit. She has already understood this truth very well in her previous life.

Perhaps because of thinking about the past for many years, Mrs. Xu's eyes flashed a trace of cruelty, and she said indifferently, "The more this is the case, the more I want him to know how difficult it is for our sixth room to be in the Duke's mansion. Several How big a threat is my brother to Fengjia... Hmph, the arrow in the South China Sea will not be shot back into the heart of the perpetrator until today! You, the daughter-in-law, should tell him and tell him about this matter. It is the greatest humiliation! Only this kind of humiliation will make him remember it in his heart!"

Seventh Lady hesitated to speak, but finally said in a low voice, "Yes, then Xiao Qi..."

"It's better to hit the sun than choose the day," Mrs. Xu said with a rigid expression, "When Feng Jia comes back, you all go directly to Menghuaxuan, spread the evidence in front of him, and see what your father-in-law has to say!"

After thinking about it for so many years, Mrs. Xu is not without resentment.

Compared with the eldest wife, Mrs. Xu's smartest point is that she hides her resentment until today.

Unknowingly, goosebumps appeared on Seventh Lady's back. She suppressed the excitement in her heart, nodded lightly, and said in a low voice, "Xiaoqi will not let mother down."

Mrs. Xu showed a friendly smile to Qin Niangzi again, and she patted Qin Niangzi on the back of her hand, "Fengjia told me everything...you are fine, it is really his luck to marry you in."

Although the two have conflicts, as long as Xu Fengjia is there and there is no conflict between them, they will be eternal allies.

Seventh Lady smiled with her lips parted, and then asked Mrs. Xu, "Should I let out a little bit of information on Yu An's side, lest my father have to confront him..."

Mrs. Xu pondered for a moment, then nodded resolutely, "I think it's best for you to say where Yu An is."

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Xu Fengjia had made all plans and would not be able to return from the institute until the afternoon.When Qiniangzi came out of Qingping Garden, it was already lunch time, so she simply went back to Mingde Hall to have lunch before entering Lutianyin.

Yu An had just had lunch, and was learning Huaiyang dialect with the little girl under the eaves. While listening to the little girl, she smiled and said, "It turns out that the two mothers of the third aunt's house talked like nine-headed birds. It's the same call, chirping."

Seeing Qiniangzi coming, she jumped up to say hello, "Why is sister-in-law coming in at this time?"

This is the real caring person, Qi Niangzi couldn't help nodding secretly, she smiled and said, "I just came to talk to you-don't worry, when it comes to June, I originally planned to let you and those two mothers learn from each other." Learn the rules of Yangzhou."

Yu An blushed immediately, she waved her hand, waved the little girl away, let Qin Niangzi into the room, and said in a low voice, "I just got bored, let her come and talk. If you want to talk about what to learn, but Nothing."

"You will know how to learn, and I will let go of half of my sister-in-law." Seventh Lady didn't mean to make fun of Yu An at all, she said seriously, "Don't be like Yu Qiao..."

Thinking of Yu Qiao, she thought of the clues that the second lady revealed yesterday. Seventh lady couldn't help feeling mixed feelings in her heart. She sighed, then cut off the topic, and said in a low voice, "I'm looking for you this time because I actually have something to do."

He told Yu An half-heartedly that Ping Guogong might ask her to interrogate the ins and outs of the matter tonight. No matter, just say that you listened to what Mr. Zhong said, recalled this passage, and told me, and the matter is over."

Even though it was midsummer, Yu An's face turned pale, and her lips trembled slightly, "Sister-in-law, could it be———"

Qin Niangzi's face sank like water, she nodded slowly, "I'm afraid the real culprit has been found."

However, this matter is a scandal of the Xu family after all. Without the order of Duke Ping, she would not rashly tell Yu An about the murderer. Yu An also understood this truth. She bit her lip and swallowed a few times. , and said with a sigh, "Okay, I understand what my sister-in-law means. If my father asks me, Yu An knows what to say."

Qin Niangzi nodded, and looked through Yu An's glass to the opposite side of the courtyard, which was originally the small hall where Yu Qiao lived.

There are three entrances to this small courtyard. Looking out from Yu An, you can just see the rear window of Yu Qiaotang’s room—through the glass, you can vaguely see a few poetry collections on the bookshelves in the main room, but they are already full. Dust, with the rotation of the sun, you can still vaguely see the dust in the house, and it is slowly dancing to its own rhythm.

Her gaze became resentful, and it took a long time before she heard Yu An's question.

"...Sister-in-law..."

Qin Niangzi came back to her senses immediately, she was a little embarrassed, "What is Yu An talking about, I can't understand for a while?"

Yu An repeated it softly, "Look at sister-in-law's demeanor, this time, she seems to have something else on her mind..."

In Xu's family, I'm afraid I can only talk to Xu Fengjia or Yu An about this matter.

Seventh Lady couldn't help sighing, she gently carved the grilles on the glass with her nails, and said in a low voice, "A friend told me that she saw a girl outside the donkey meat alley, she looked very much like your second sister ..."

Yu An's complexion changed drastically, she stared blankly at Qiniangzi, as if she hadn't understood the meaning of Qiniangzi's words, and after a while, she said bluntly, "So, so she hasn't left the capital yet... ..."

Qin Niangzi glanced at Yu An, and her heart suddenly moved.

In Yu An's expression, there seemed to be a trace of undue fear mixed in...

Countless conjectures welled up in her mind, and after a while, she said casually, "Say, should I tell my father about this?"

"Sister-in-law!" Yu An pressed Qinianzi's hand.

She seemed to realize that she was too excited very quickly, so she immediately withdrew her hand, bit her lip and lowered her head, not daring to look at Qin Niangzi.

Qiniangzi's heart sank, and she suddenly realized: she was afraid that things would leak out, so she hurriedly moved the two little girls out of Lutianyin.From the beginning to the end, no one thought of interrogating the two sisters, and they all felt that since even the personal servant girl didn't know any clues, it was even less likely for the two sisters to know anything.

Now it seems that this idea is of course too taken for granted.

She remained calm, just looked at Yu An without speaking, her eyes were as cold as the stream in the twelfth lunar month.

With Yu An's intelligence, how could he not understand Qiniangzi's delicacy.

It wasn't long before she couldn't sit still by herself.

"Second sister is..." Yu An hesitated, looked at Qinianzi again, and held her hand as if begging for mercy. "If Yu An's guess is correct, the second sister may be with Cui Zixiu..."

It really is Cui Zixiu!

Seventh Lady only felt dizzy, she suddenly raised her hand and shouted softly, "I don't want to hear it!"

The room fell silent all of a sudden, Yu An looked at his toes and did not speak again.

After a while, Seventh Lady finally let go of her hand. She looked at Yu An seriously, and said word by word, "Yu An, did you already know that your second sister and Cui Zixiu had a private relationship?"

There was a burst of red and white on Yu An's face, she nodded again, her tone calmed down instead. "That was last year, when we went to Quan's house to watch a play together, I was looking for my second sister, and accidentally found her in the small courtyard. I knew it shouldn't be, but I followed quietly...Through the window, I saw I saw that she was talking to Cui Zixiu."

There was a tinge of self-defense in her again. "Second sister, she has never been so happy. Even Cui Zixiu looked at her with gentle eyes. I thought, I thought that if I told this kind of thing, my second sister would be dealt with severely. I hate it. I didn't expect her to be so bold..."

(End of this chapter)