Cao Xiwan winked. Madam Yang held back her laughter and stood up to politely decline: "I just ate it. I won't go to the main room. I bothered my mother to reply to my wife."
Mrs. Yang was surprised when she sent her mother-in-law away. Cao Xiwan had urged her to send a girl away early and ordered half a table for her to eat in a restaurant outside.
She clearly knew that Mrs. Liu Qianhu was coming to Chen's house as a guest, and her aunt wanted the whole family to go to the main house for dinner?
"No, I just have money and want to spend it." She smiled, "When I live in your house, of course I have to please you, the host's wife."
However, Chen Ming was too talkative. He held the bowl and chirped: "My uncle must have something to do with you."
"You want to steal my secret treasure?" she thought deeply.
"...My uncle wouldn't dare, and neither would Liu Qianhu. They are afraid that you are here to check on them and want to give you a gift." Chen Ming smiled ghostly.
Madam Yang gave Cao Xiwan a piece of food, but she was also suspicious.
So Mrs. Cao said she was coming to stay for a few days, and Chen Ming told her to get out, but she laughed: "It's just right, I have it, and I usually lack a companion to talk to."
She kept Lady Cao, had the guest room cleaned, and went to the main house to report to her uncle and aunt.
The aunt was still hesitant. When her uncle in the main room came back from the Yamen and heard about this, he looked frightened and repeatedly told her to entertain her well and not to neglect her.
She also figured out that maybe this was the rule in Jinyi Yamen? It was okay for Shangguan to send his servants out to check on his confidants. Chen Ming and his uncle often mentioned that Jinyiwei has been looking for traitors and killed many of his own people these days.
"The Marquis asked me if I bet on the secret treasure. He must be coveting my treasure." Cao Xiwan told Chen Ming at the dinner table not to reveal the secret, "I told the Marquis that Shi Mingniang is a scoundrel.
"
Chen Ming was speechless. How unlucky was Shi Mingniang to have a duel with you? He could only say:
"...The Marquis is the Marquis. My uncle and the others probably want to ask you about what's going on in the Hou's mansion. I saw that the Marquis was poisoned today. But the palace summoned the Marquis again and again. The Liu family heard that you are here
By the way, I'll probably ask Mrs. Liu to come over and inquire."
"Liu Qianhu? He should ask Mrs. Six."
"Come on, I expected that Mrs. Six would probably say, let him ask you."
Within two days, there was an early winter light snow in the city. Song Chengming, the Marquis of Nankang, returned to the Marquis Mansion from the palace. Perhaps he caught a cold and suddenly fell ill.
The whole house was alarmed.
When Qin Meng heard the news, he immediately sent someone to find Cao Xiwan. Now everyone knew that she had taken leave of absence from the palace and was living in the Chen family.
But Luo's mother had doubts in her heart and tried to dissuade her: "It's not appropriate. Chen Ming will come tomorrow. It's impossible for her not to know about this disease. Besides, if Mr. Hou really got along with her, why didn't he call her? Mr. Hou, could he?"
Don’t you know she’s at Chen’s house?”
Qin Meng was startled and stopped in the corridor. He saw the green wall of the inner house of the Marquis Mansion.
——Master Hou is very scheming, is he too underestimated?
Madam Cao also reminded him: "If the imperial doctor can't tell, or it's a very rare disease, I suspect it's a disease. But there's another possibility. Mr. Hou is fine at all. He's pretending to be sick to test who is around him."
spy."
When Qing Niangzi said this, she smiled strangely.
In other words, the Marquis may be using Qin Meng to spread false news and test whether Lady Qing is a traitor.
When Luo's mother heard Qin Meng talk about this, she thought for a while: "Maybe it is indeed the case."
Based on Qin Meng's understanding of Lady Qing, he suddenly felt relieved.
"If the Marquis is pretending to be ill, that's fine. Shangguan has the means, so we can relax. It's just——"
On the other hand, if the Marquis is a puppet of what Lady Qing said is a disease, it is actually not good. If the Marquis is not in a hurry, the worst thing Lady Qing can do is ignore it and make the Marquis seriously ill.
At least she's not a rebel.
When Luo's mother heard this, she was speechless. Qin Meng revealed a secret: "My master is coming to the capital."
Mother Luo understands this very well, Master Yuan Guang is also a famous poison master.
Because they speculated that Mr. Hou was pretending to be ill, several old guards relaxed and sat in the duty room. But what Luo's mother was puzzled about was: "Miss Qing went to live with the Chen family? Is she checking on Chen Qianhu?"
Father Chen was drinking tea and said with a smile: "Nowadays, there is a lot of noise. When Chen Qianhu saw the Qingluo female ghost entering the house, he was probably very frightened."
Qin Meng and Song Po also shook their heads. If Cao Xiwan took action, the Chen family wouldn't be able to kill him with one sword.
But when Qin Meng went out for his shift and stood beside the Marquis and pondered, he always felt strange. Ordinarily, Cao Xiwan would never listen to the Marquis and work for the Marquis like this.
The last time she came into the house and talked about the Marquis, she was asked by him to visit him. There was still a fierce light in her eyes. Qin Meng could see it clearly.
Baihuatang.
The Marquis stood up, and the girls waited on him to change into his regular clothes. Most of the time, he went to the outer study to handle official business, but his face turned dark.
Lou Shuluan wanted to persuade him to rest. Song Chengming held his wife's hand and felt her fingers were cold. He smiled and said, "You were tired yesterday. You took care of me for two days and two nights."
Mother Chen, who was holding her child on the side, was frightened when she heard these words.
Because last night she saw the wife holding the child with a gold needle in her hand.
But the child kept crying and the wife couldn't take care of it.
Mother Chen doesn’t understand the wife’s heart either.
The day before yesterday, my wife suddenly called someone to slap Wenxue, and then asked someone to lock Wenxue away.
Although Mother Chen knew that Wenxue was colluding with outsiders, her wife tacitly approved of it.
Mother Chen also speculated that the wife may not be the biological daughter of General Lou's family, but a child entrusted to General Lou to be raised by a nobleman. Mother Chen knew Wenxue's origin. Wenxue entered the family since she was a child and was originally the Duke of Liang.
Nanyu gave it to General Lou’s girl.
The people outside the house and Wenxue who delivered the news may be relatives of the wife.
Why did your wife lock up Wenxue?
She doesn't want to communicate with outsiders?
Mother Chen thought to herself that as long as the wife made up her mind, it was a good thing, but she was afraid that the wife would be soft-hearted later.
Mother Chen speculated about his wife, but Lou Shuluan called her privately and said: "I checked the belt of Mr. Hou, and there was a magic palace blue pearl in it. But mom, I also saw a piece of magic palace green pearl in the middle of the belt.
Silk book."
When the wife said this, her face turned pale.
When no one was around, the wife held the child and looked at Chen's mother: "I heard people say that Cheng Ming has great ambitions."
"Are you asking about Xue Chuan?" Mother Chen. This is nothing. The Marquis of Nankang wants to be the Duke of Nankang. Isn't this known to everyone?
Lou Shuluan nodded, then shook her head with tears in her eyes: "People outside said, let me restrain Cheng Ming, so that he can only stay in bed due to his serious illness. Then he persuaded the old lady to go to the palace, and I will be the housekeeper, so that the child can inherit the title.
"
This is what Feng Junqing meant.
"Madam, this must not be done-" Mother Chen was shocked and felt that her wife had been instigated by outsiders.
"Mom, I know that Cheng Ming married me to help me reach a higher level. I also want to be strong, and I don't want to be the wife of the princess. But... but, I didn't expect that he and I... would be like this in the future.
the result of."
The wife's eyes were frightened, and Mother Chen quickly took the child from the wife's hand: "Madam, what did you see in Mr. Marquis's belt?"
What secret does Nankang Hou have?
Mother Chen thought for a moment, could it be that Cao Xiwan had found out a long time ago and fell out with him?