Chapter fifty-seven, there are men in the back garden, and there are private tokens
In a flower hall of the Marquis of Zhengyuan's Mansion, most of the female relatives from the Yu family were there. Mrs. Yu couldn't get up to entertain guests because she was ill. Now the guests are the Ning family from the second room and the Liu family from the third room.
Yesterday, Yu Lanyan's incident was publicized, and the wives of the Yu family had great opinions on the Ning family. After meeting today, their expressions were also very cold.
If everyone hadn't known that Ning and Concubine Ning in the palace were sisters of the same clan and had a very good relationship, they would have had to question Ning face to face on how to discipline her daughter, which would have brought a bad reputation to the daughters of the Yu clan.
But thinking that the masters of each family agreed that Yu Lanyan would be exterminated in public after the funeral, he calmed down a little.
On the other hand, Mrs. Xuanpinghou and the others did not dare to offend her. When they saw Mrs. Xuanpinghou, they had to force out a smile to face Ning.
With the Qian family here, at least on the surface, everyone seemed to be in a friendly mood, and they didn't deliberately stir up trouble with Yu Lanyan. Even the old ladies just sat together and didn't pay much attention to the Ning family.
Mrs. Ning pinched the handkerchief in her hand and felt angry and resentful!
One moment he was in heaven and another moment he was in hell. From heaven to hell, Ning didn't expect that it would happen so quickly.
The night before Yu Lanxuan's wedding, Ning, like Yu Lanyan, was so excited that she didn't sleep well for half the night. Although Yu Lanxuan's self-immolation was unexpected, at least the matter was concealed. Yan'er also married to Xin Kangbo Mansion and watched the sedan go out.
Ning's high-spirited mood was relieved.
Even if a daughter marries into the Xinkangbo Mansion, even if she has a bad reputation, as long as the Xinkangbo Mansion doesn't say anything, what can others say? As for the child, it doesn't matter if she is born two months early.
There is only the last sickly child left in the Dafang lineage. Mrs. Yu has written to her and will be back in the next few days. As soon as he reaches the city gate, the people waiting there will kill him. From then on
The title belongs to my family, I have become a Marquis, and everything belongs to me.
What Ning didn't expect was that something went wrong with the sedan chair on the way. The sedan fell to the ground and Yu Lanyan fell out of the sedan. The secret of the pregnancy could not be kept. In the end, an imperial doctor diagnosed her and confirmed it. Even if Ning and Xinkang
No matter how round the uncle's house is, it will never be round again.
Knowing that something serious was going on, Ning immediately gave gifts to several elders of the Yu clan, just to make the big thing a trivial matter. Unexpectedly, the Xuanping Marquis Mansion actually insisted on exterminating her daughter from the clan. If her daughter was
Apart from the family, the daughter can only be a concubine in the future, and a lowly concubine, the lowest kind.
"Cousin!" Sensing Ning's uneasiness, Qian gave her a soothing look.
Ning looked at Qian with gratitude and nodded, then subconsciously raised her head and looked out the door. Now that she had come up with this idea, her cousin also thought it was great. As long as something happened to Yu Xijiao, Marquis Xuanping could no longer force him.
Let his daughter be exterminated from the clan to force Marquis Xuanping to relent, otherwise Marquis Xuanping's own daughter is also unchaste and should be exterminated.
A maid hurriedly ran in and said loudly before she was inside: "Madam, madam...it's not good, we caught a man."
In one sentence, everyone in the room turned their heads.
Ning and Qian looked at each other, this is coming!
After calming down, Mrs. Qian took two steps forward and her face darkened: "What's all the fuss about? Not only are women here today, but there are also male guests. Why can't there be men?"
"Madam, no, it's a young man... who sneaked in and hid in the peach courtyard of the backyard. He was discovered by the gatekeeper of the backyard." The woman ran too fast and took a few big breaths at this time and said, "
If...if he hadn't been sneaking around, as if waiting for someone, the woman in the backyard wouldn't have noticed."
"Private meeting in the backyard?" A lady couldn't help but said, giving Ning a mocking sideways look, "Mrs. Ning, how come you can come to the backyard of the Marquis of Zhengyuan Mansion, and whoever you want can come."
"No, let me ask you carefully, who is in the private meeting this time?" Another lady pointed at Sang and scolded Huai.
"Didn't you find out clearly? There is no one in the house now... who can have a private meeting."
Listening to what these ladies said, Ning's fingers trembled with anger, how dare these people allude to Yan'er with every word.
They are just some low-income people who rely on the Xuanping Marquis Mansion and the Zhengyuan Marquis Mansion to make a living. How can they have the courage to say such things?
The hatred in her heart could not be shown on her face, but a trace of resentment flashed in her eyes. When she becomes the wife of Zhengyuan Hou Mansion, she will definitely trample all these people under her feet.
"Where is he now?" Qian glanced at the ladies present in displeasure and coughed.
Seeing her opening her mouth, the other ladies of the Yu family did not dare to mock the Ning family casually anymore. They all looked at the maid who reported the message, waiting for her reply.
"I've been brought here. Just wait outside and ask Madam to interrogate you." The maid said.
"Bring people in." Ning said.
The maid went down as ordered, and soon she and two other women came in embarrassedly escorting a man.
It was a young man who looked pretty good, like a scholar. He came in with two women twisting his hands and holding his head down. While struggling, he continued to say: "You let me go, but you still won't let me go."
, do you know this is an insulting article?"
When he was escorted in, he was stunned for a moment when he saw the house full of ladies. Then he pushed away the two ladies who were pressing his hands, and saluted the Ning family and Qian family who were in front of him: "Have you seen any of them?"
lady."
"Who are you, and why did you sneak into the backyard of my Zhengyuan Marquis Mansion? If you can't explain clearly, you will have to submit yourself to the official." Ning looked at the man up and down and reprimanded him coldly.
The man's face turned pale, but he didn't say anything. He just looked at Ningshi warily.
"The person who came to Zhengyuan Hou Mansion today is rich and noble, and there will be noble people coming soon. Are you an assassin?" Qian also looked at the man a few times, and suddenly sneered.
After saying that, he didn't even look at the man, and just called to people: "Send the man directly to the Yamen, saying that he wants to assassinate the Marquis Xuanping."
This was done without saying a word, without any intention of asking anything, and just sent him to the Yamen. Being punished as an assassin would really cost him his life.
Seeing that the mother-in-law was really coming to pull him out, the man panicked and said hurriedly: "I... what I want to see is Miss Yu San from the Xuanping Hou Mansion."
"What?"
"who?"
"Which one?" Several ladies still didn't know about Yu Xijiao's return from Jiangnan. After being stunned for a moment, they asked in surprise.
Some of them understood, pulled their clothes and pointed to the south: "The one in Jiangnan."
"Yes, I came from Jiangnan. I just came here a few days ago. I also entered Beijing with Miss Yu San. We walked together along the way. When I passed the government today, Miss Yu San made an appointment with me. Originally, I was going to Xuanping
It belongs to the Hou Mansion, but Miss Yu San said that she will continue to conquer the Hou Mansion today."
The man hurriedly defended.
"You guys went together all the way to Beijing, or was it Jiaoer who asked you out? Why did Jiaoer ask you here?" Qian said angrily.
"Well... I really don't know. We... haven't seen each other for a long time these days." The man lowered his head, looking a little uneasy, and reached out to hold the bottom of his sleeve.
The scene was in an uproar. It was because the two people had an affair, so they... secretly met again after so many days?
For a moment, everyone looked at each other, and then a shameless Yu Lanyan appeared. Could it be that something is going to happen in the Xuanping Hou Mansion now? Compared with Yu Lanyan, Yu Xijiao is the granddaughter of the eldest princess Anhe. Madams present, you
Look at me, I look at you, I don’t know what to do for a moment?
"What do you mean, you mean you and Jiao'er... have an affair?" Qian was furious.
"I'm not...it's just the two of us..." The man hurriedly defended, looked at the ladies present, and finally landed on Mr. Qian. He suddenly knelt down and kowtowed to Ms. Qian: "Madam, you should
Is she Mrs. Xuanpinghou? I hope Madam will fulfill her wish!"
Seeing that he actually asked for marriage in person, this affair really came to fruition.
Qian's face turned livid with anger and she couldn't say a word. She pointed at the man and almost fainted while covering her chest with her hand. Aunt Xi, who was standing behind her, hurriedly stretched out her hand to support her.
The ladies present didn't know what to say for a moment.
"Look what's in his sleeves?" Ning suddenly stretched out her hand and pointed at the man's sleeves.
A woman went over and pinched the man's sleeve, and took a hairpin from his cuff, a white jade hairpin.
The mother-in-law respectfully handed it to Qian, who reached out to take it. After seeing it clearly, her voice was trembling and she couldn't control herself: "This... this is really... this is Jiao'er's hairpin. She... she just got it this morning.
After replacing it, I saw her hairpin in the morning...in the morning, she...how...how could she..."
"Return the hairpin to me. Miss Yu San specially sent someone to give it to me. It is a token of our love... Madam, please return the hairpin to me." The man struggled hard to take the hairpin back.
, but several women held him down hard.
"Did Jiao'er send someone to you today?" Qian asked after calming down.
"Yes... Miss Yu San sent someone to give it to me. This morning... a maid found me and brought it to me. She asked me to wait at the gate of the backyard of Zhengyuan Hou Mansion today and arranged for me to sneak in and hide.
Get up and say Miss Yu San will come over... Madam, please return it to me soon." The man wanted to extend his hand, but his face turned red and his neck became thick.
There was a secret meeting at the backyard gate, and this hairpin is the conclusive evidence.
The scene was so quiet that one could hear Qian's heavy breathing...
"Madam...servant...servant, I saw Miss Yu going to the back door earlier." A timid voice of a woman broke the silence in the room.
It was a rough lady who helped escort her here.
"Say it!" Mrs. Qian put her hand to cover her chest. She could see that she was angry and resentful. No one could stand it if something like this happened.
"Madam, why should a mother-in-law say it? Let me say it first... I wonder if that's okay?" The mother-in-law was about to speak when she suddenly heard a gentle voice coming from the door.
The crowd moved to both sides. Yu Xijiao, who was wearing a curtain hat and covering her face, held Qingyue's hand and walked forward slowly. Although her face could not be seen, she looked very calm...