In the evening, Jiang Nuan came back from Cen's house.
"Miss, there is a quarrel ahead and the road is blocked. Let's take a detour to the back street?" the coachman asked for instructions.
Jiang Nuan looked outside and saw that it was indeed the case, so he said, "Then let's go around it!"
The front and back streets where their family lives are narrow. A maximum of two cars can pass parallelly on the front street, and the back street is even narrower.
Now a pushcart vendor got into an argument with a woman, and many people gathered around to try to stop the fight. Most of the street was blocked, so cars couldn't pass.
The carriage went around the back street. At this time, every family was preparing dinner, and there were very few people on the street.
As he was approaching, Huizi saw two people talking furtively at the back door. When he saw the carriage approaching, he hurriedly dispersed.
"Hey, isn't this Mrs. Huang from the Meng family?" Zhuangzi recognized these two people, "What is she doing here?"
Mrs. Huang usually runs errands for Meng Qiao. Because Jiang Qing and Meng Qiao are close, she often comes here.
Standing with Mrs. Huang was Jiang Qing's maid Xiuju, who seemed to have stuffed something into Mrs. Huang's hand.
Seeing Jiang Nuan, Xiuju hurriedly came up to say hello, and Mrs. Huang left in a hurry.
Jiang Nuan didn't want to meddle in other people's business, so she just pretended that she didn't see him, got out of the car and went in.
As soon as she got into the house and changed into homely clothes, Jiang Qing came over.
Lingdang saw that she seemed to have something to say, so she winked at Huizi, and the two of them went out with an excuse.
Jiang Qing then said: "Sister came back just now. I must have met the mother-in-law of the Meng family, right?"
When Jiang Nuan saw her asking him, he didn't avoid it and said, "I didn't see it clearly either. I saw Xiuju talking to someone."
"That's it," Jiang Qing said with some embarrassment, "it was the second sister of the Meng family who sent her here."
Now, Meng Qiao's reputation has been completely ruined.
People no longer regarded her as a well-educated and talented woman, but said that she was shameless.
She was the only one who confronted Zuo Zhengqing that day.
Several other women either committed suicide or became a monk. In short, they tried to bring as little shame to their families as possible.
But Meng Qiao refused to become a monk and refused to die, which made everyone hate her even more.
When Jiang Nuan, Cen Yunchu and the others gathered together, they were not even willing to mention her name.
Such a person can no longer be simply defined as "bad" and "shameless".
So even if Jiang Qing said this, Jiang Nuan didn't want to talk about Meng Qiao with her. He just said, "I won't tell my wife about this, let alone anyone else."
"I know that my sister is the most generous and considerate person." Jiang Qing lowered her head slightly and said in a sad tone, "I got close to her before and thought she was good in everything. When she was with me, she also
He never showed any signs of being unhappy.
Although I know what kind of person she is now, after all, I still have so many years of friendship with her.
Now her uncle's family is forcing her to die or become a monk, and has taken away everything in her room, making it difficult for her to have a full meal.
So I asked Mrs. Huang to beg me. I really couldn't bear it, so I asked Xiuju to give her a few taels of silver.
I know that she intends to frame Miss Cen, and you are the best friends. I just want to ask my sister not to misunderstand. I just can't bear it, and I don't agree with what she did."
"You don't have to worry about this. Neither I nor Yun Chu are petty people." Jiang Nuan looked at her with admiration because of Jiang Qing's words, "You don't live for others in this world.
As long as you feel it's worthy of your conscience, just do whatever you want."
When Jiang Qing heard what Jiang Nuan said, she couldn't help but feel happy. She nodded and said, "Thank you for your understanding, sister! My wife has said that she wants me to learn more about these things from my sister these days."
"Learn from me? What's there to learn from me?" Jiang Nuan was puzzled.
"If I'm not afraid of my sister being angry, I didn't really agree with the friends you made at first." Jiang Qing said with some embarrassment, "But now it seems that compared to my sister, it's my own poor taste.
, please ask my sister to teach me more in the future."
"Don't say that, how can I teach others?" Jiang Nuan's face turned red, "I am the stupidest, but I was lucky enough to meet Sister Xu and Yun Chu."
"Anyway, I will only follow my sister from now on," Jiang Qing said, "Just don't dislike me."
Besides, the woman Meng Qiao sent out hurriedly returned home after getting a few taels of silver.
Meng Qiao was like an ant on a hot pot at this moment, no longer as calm as before.
Now she is despised by the world and can't even get out of her room.
The most important thing is that the Zeng family has found out that the knife she blocked for Zeng Nan was also a deliberate design, and they came to question her again.
Meng Chengyuan was furious and wanted to strangle Meng Qiao to death.
Mrs. Yin thought more carefully and felt that it was better not to leave such an excuse and to let Meng Qiao fend for himself.
In fact, Meng Qiao's original plan was for Cui Mingzhu. Cui Mingzhu fell in love with Zeng Li, the eldest son of Yongxian County Prince, but the Zeng family was unwilling to marry her.
So Meng Qiao helped her come up with this idea, asking Cui Mingzhu to block the knife for Zeng Li, and then took the opportunity to build momentum so that the Zeng family had to agree to marry her.
But Cui Mingzhu was so afraid of death that she refused to risk her life no matter what.
So Meng Qiao proposed that she should block the knife for Zeng Nan. She promised Cui Mingzhu that as long as she could enter Zeng's house, she would find ways to arrange for her and Zeng Li to become a couple.
So Cui Mingzhu found someone who had a grudge against the Zeng family and spent a lot of money to bribe him.
Otherwise, Meng Qiao himself might not be able to do this.
The man who committed the assassination was caught and thrown into prison. Originally, he refused to tell anyone.
But now Meng Qiao has become a street rat. The Cui family is hiding in the background, and it is impossible to come out to deal with the mess. All the benefits promised to him have been in vain.
So that person simply bit Meng Qiao out. In short, everyone would have a hard time.
Meng Qiao knew that if she still didn't want to die, she had to escape as soon as possible.
She had some money hidden away, but it was not enough.
So I sent a reliable person to find Cui Mingzhu to ask for money. Of course, it was not because Cui Mingzhu and her had any real friendship, but they were just using each other to get some hush money.
It was the woman who took it upon herself to go find Jiang Qing and get five taels of silver.
Another day passed, and everyone heard that Meng Qiao was going to become a monk.
After hearing this, Jiang Nuan's stepmother Meng recited the Buddha's name and said to her confidants: "This scourge finally has a conscience!"
When Meng Qiao was exposed, Meng really hated her.
Because she not only ruined the family, but also implicated Jiang Qing to some extent.
Fortunately, Jiang Qing hasn't gone to Zuo Zhengqing's place to approve her horoscopes, otherwise things would have been even worse.
So taking advantage of this incident, he called Jiang Qing over again and warned her: "In the future, stay close to your eldest sister. If anyone mentions that shameless person again in front of you, you will pretend not to hear it."
But who knew that Meng Qiao actually ran away halfway, and no one knew where she went.
