The eldest lady and the second lady also suppressed their emotions and bowed to Mrs. Zhe respectfully, "It's because the daughter-in-law is unfilial and disturbed her mother from worshiping the Buddha."

In the Daqing Dynasty, the country was governed by filial piety. In addition to pampering Zhe Jing, Mrs. Zhe really couldn't fault her in her dealings with others. The first lady and the second wife were also respectful and filial to the old lady from the bottom of their hearts.

The old lady with a cane waved her hands, sighed, and looked at Zhe Jing with disappointment, who refused to admit her fault, "It's all me who spoiled Jing'er. You are sisters-in-law. If there is anything wrong with Jing'er, you can just point it out."

, it’s better to change now than to suffer a loss and learn a lesson later.”

The eldest lady and the second lady looked at each other. Their mother-in-law had said this many times, but if their sister-in-law really taught her the rules, her mother-in-law would probably be the first to be unhappy.

Perhaps it was the old lady who had never been harsher before. Zhe Jing reluctantly apologized and went to the ancestral hall angrily. As for whether she knelt down to reflect or went to the ancestral hall to hide in peace, there was no way of knowing.

…

A north wind blew at night, and then snowflakes fell.

The lights were still on in the stove. Cui Ya added a piece of firewood to the stove and then whispered: "Why does Miss Tian have to take a bath every night in such a cold weather?"

Cui Ya was sold by her family when she was ten years old. The five taels of silver she sold were used to treat her eldest brother who broke his leg and give him medicine. Cui Ya remembers that at home, he could not take two baths in one winter because it was too cold.

Who wants to take a bath? If he accidentally catches a cold, he might die of the disease, and the family doesn’t have any extra money to buy medicine.

Later, she was sold to the Wang family, a rice merchant, as a maid, and she was washed once a month.

"Don't say what you shouldn't say. We, as people nowadays, just do our duty. Don't ask about the master's matters and you shouldn't ask." Chef Xiao likes Cui Ya's temperament. She is obedient even though she doesn't do much, so she asks her to

She does whatever she wants and won't be lazy, otherwise Chef Xiao wouldn't have taught her the rules just now.

Cui Ya nodded with a dull expression, "I remember."

After waiting for a quarter of an hour for the water to boil, Chef Xiao quickly poured the hot water into the two wooden buckets, closed the lids, and then shouted to the outside, "He Huyuan, the hot water is ready."

It’s burned.”

The two large buckets of hot water seemed weightless in He Sheng's place. Carrying one bucket in each hand, he still walked quickly and left the kitchen in the blink of an eye.

He Nuan had just prepared his clothes, opened the door and asked He Sheng to bring the hot water in, "Brother, have you found out?"

"Ms. Xiao was in the Wen family's village before. The second lady of the Wen family lived in the village..." He Sheng quickly explained the investigation.

It is estimated that people in the capital have almost forgotten about the second young lady of the Wen family. After all, she has been crazy for seven or eight years, so the Wen family had to send her to Zhuangzi to raise her. Chef Xiao and several maids and women went to Zhuangzi with them.

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Although she is the second young lady of the Wen family, she is a lunatic after all. Over time, the Wen family has ensured that the second young lady Wen can eat and drink. The soup manager at Zhuangzi can be regarded as a husband based on his wife. His wife is the son of the Wen family, and his parents are

I and my brothers are all working as servants in the Wen family, otherwise Tang Maocai would not be able to be the steward.

Tang Maocai was right about Zhuangzi. Mrs. Tang disliked the inconvenience of life in Zhuangzi and spent most of the year living in the Wen family's house in the back alley. Soon Tang Maocai became lustful and fell in love with Chef Xiao.

"Chef Xiao seems to be a cautious person. Doesn't she have any connections in the Wen family?" Zhan Feiyu took the words, his eyes sparkling with gossip. In a big family like the Wen family, let alone a cook.

, even the mother-in-law who poured Yexiang has some connections, not to mention that it is obviously Tang Maocai who is not responsible for this matter.

"The doctor said that Miss Wen's second Miss's madness is getting more and more serious. Chef Xiao probably took the opportunity to escape because she didn't want to cause trouble." What He Sheng found out was that Chef Xiao deliberately revealed the news that Tang Maocai was interested in him.

Mrs. Tang knew about it, so Mrs. Tang set up a trap to frame Chef Xiao, got her deed of betrayal, and drove her out of Zhuangzi.

The Wen family may not care about this crazy daughter, which is a stain on the Wen family, but Miss Wen is really dead, and the servants who served her may be punished by the master. In order to avoid disaster, Chef Xiao did this

Only then did he leave Zhuangzi by being betrayed.

"Yufeng Tower seems to be the property of the Wen family." Zhan Feiyu paused, looked at He Sheng and spoke again: "Is Second Miss Wen a concubine?"

Mrs. Wen was a tactful person. When Miss Wen was alive, she despised her for bringing the Wen family into disrepute. She ignored her and left her to die in Zhuangzi.

But the person died, and Mrs. Wen stepped on the body of Miss Wen Er to show her loving and generous side as a legitimate mother. She would definitely let Miss Wen be buried in glory, and then severely punish the servants who served her. Wen Er

The blame for the lady's death was placed on the servants.

A quarter of an hour later, while soaking in the warm bathtub, Zhan Feiyu closed his eyes and thought about the Wen family again, "If Mrs. Wen has such a vicious and cruel temper, Miss Wen might have been driven crazy."

"The eldest Miss of the Wen family is the most talented girl in the capital. After the second Miss Wen was frightened and went crazy in her early years, it was the eldest Miss of the Wen family who sent people to take care of her. I heard that the old lady of the Wen family disliked this granddaughter who was a commoner and had lost the face of the Wen family.

He wanted to make her die of illness, but the eldest lady of the Wen family stopped her and sent her to Zhuangzi with great fanfare, so Mrs. Wen had to stop her thoughts."

He Nuan feels terrible when she thinks about it now. She has had human lives on her hands, but they were all the lives of enemies. But in the back houses of these big families, killing a servant, not to mention killing one of her own family members, is normal.

, human life is like grass.

"A Nuan, you said that Chef Xiao was bought by me, will the Wen family come to ask for her?" Zhan Feiyu opened his eyes, his face flushed by the heat showed excitement, "If Miss Wen Er,

The madness is man-made, Chef Xiao is afraid that she knows something, she is afraid that she will be silenced so she escapes, but the Wen family is afraid that they will not let her go."

"Then Miss?" He Nuan really didn't expect this. Zhe Jing made a big fuss in Yaxing during the day. I think she knew about it when she came to the Wen family. In this way, she must also know the whereabouts of Chef Xiao.

Zhan Feiyu thought about it and said, "If Chef Xiao is innocent, it's okay to keep her. If she is an accomplice, let the Wen family take her back."

"Yes." He Nuan agreed, recalling the brief contact with Chef Xiao, He Nuan could not tell whether she was an accomplice or not.
Chapter completed!