After saying that, Mrs. Hou picked up the bowl and lowered her head to drink the porridge, but she ate much faster than usual.
Shi Jingyang saw it and said with concern: "Mom, eat more slowly!"
Mrs. Hou smiled and shook her head, "Nothing!"
After finishing breakfast, Mrs. Hou put down her chopsticks and said, "You guys eat slowly. I'm done. I'll go to the living room first."
The three brothers and sisters got up to see Mrs. Hou off.
Mrs. Hou pressed her hands and motioned them not to move. "You eat your food, there is no need to stand up."
After sending Mrs. Hou away, Shi Jingchen looked at Shi Jingxing, "Sister, why did grandma send someone to look for grandma so early in the morning?"
Shi Jingxing raised his head and looked at Shi Jingyang. In Shi Jingxing's opinion, the reason why his grandmother was looking for his grandmother was probably because of the marriage between his brother and Sister Yi.
Naturally, you cannot say this in front of your brother.
Shi Jingxing shook his head, "I don't know."
Shi Jingchen curled his lips and snorted coldly: "Grandma sent people to look for my mother, there must be no good things going on!
I’m not saying that grandma is just partial. They are both sisters. Compared with the attitude of grandma towards grandma and the attitude towards empress, there is a world of difference..."
Shi Jingxing looked over coldly, "Sister Chen, be careful what you say!"
Shi Jingchen glanced at Shi Jingxing and murmured in a low voice: "What did you say? It's true. I'm not wrong. My grandmother didn't treat my mother well.
Several times, in front of us juniors, my grandmother would reprimand my grandma for any trivial matter, to embarrass my grandma, but not to save her any face at all."
"You still said! There is no one behind the scenes, senior, you..." Shi Jingxing looked at Shi Jingyang and stopped Shi Jingchen with a straight face.
Shi Jingchen put down his chopsticks unhappily, looked at Shi Jingxing and said impatiently: "Okay, stop, I know I was wrong! Stop preaching!"
After saying that, he angrily picked up the chopsticks again, reached out and picked up a crystal dumpling into the bowl, lowered his head and ate it.
Shi Jingxing looked at Shi Jingchen who was poking the dumplings with chopsticks and said, "Did this dumpling offend you? You have such a bad temper. You are wrong. I can't even say a word."
Shi Jingyang drank the last mouthful of porridge and looked up at Shi Jingxing, "Sister Xing, Sister Chen is not wrong. What she said is true.
Grandma is just partial. Let’s not compare her with my mother-in-law, but with the people in the Duke’s mansion. Grandma treats anyone in the Duke’s mansion better than she treats my mother-in-law.”
After hearing Shi Jingyang's words, Shi Jingxing was stunned. She had never thought about this problem. She thought that her grandmother was harsher on her mother because of her deep love and severe responsibility...
Shi Jingchen looked at Shi Jingyang with bright eyes,
"Brother also noticed it? Look, sister, I'm not the only one who feels this way. My brother also noticed it."
Shi Jingxing looked at Shi Jingchen, then at Shi Jingyang, and was about to speak.
Shi Jingyang spoke before her, "In a moment, if grandma wants to go to the Chengguo Palace, Sister Xing will accompany her. Remember to protect grandma and don't let grandma be wronged."
"Will grandma be wronged? Then I will accompany grandma." Shi Jingchen said, if anyone wants to make grandma angry, she will return it on the spot.
Shi Jingyang said: "Just stay in the house and Sister Xing will accompany you. Sister Xing, eat quickly, otherwise, grandma will leave soon."
Shi Jingxing put down the chopsticks in his hands and said, "I'm done eating. I'm going to change clothes now."
Shi Jingyang nodded and said, "Go and take good care of my mother-in-law."
In the Fu'an Hall of Duke Chengguo's Mansion, Mrs. Cui leaned on the soft couch and let out a long and short groan.
Her right calf was bitten by a snake. Although a doctor was called for prompt treatment, the leg was so swollen that she could not move and was in excruciating pain.
During the pause between moans, Mrs. Cui did not forget to complain to Duke Chengguo who was not far away: "How can there be snakes in the house in such a cold weather?
Snakes appeared on the bed, or two snakes... Oh, my mother, I don't want to live anymore...
Not just snakes, but also scorpions... Ouch, it hurts!
Master, you must have someone investigate thoroughly and find out that vicious person.
Ouch! Mother, it hurts me to death... Ouch!
Master, An Xin made the bed for me before I went to bed. After An Xin made the bed, Grandma Shi checked it again before I got into bed.
If you want to say that this is not man-made, even if you beat me to death, I won’t believe it.”
Duke Chengguo's face was as black as ink, and he sat silently aside.
Last night, he was lucky not to be bitten by a centipede, but thinking about the four or five-inch long centipede crawling on his body made him feel weak.
When Mrs. Cui saw that the Duke was not responding to her, she raised her voice dissatisfied: "Master, I am talking to you, did you hear it?"
Duke Chengguo glanced sideways at Mrs. Cui and said impatiently: "You have said this more than ten times. If you are not annoyed, I am tired of hearing it.
You understand the truth, how can I not understand it? I am blind and don’t know that this is man-made?
Right now, the most important thing is to find out who did this?
I will definitely find this man out and let him stay in a snake's nest, a centipede's nest, and a scorpion's nest for a day each."
After saying that, Duke Chengguo stood up and said to Mrs. Cui who was sitting on the soft couch: "You are having a good time. I have something else to do, so I'll go and get busy first."
Mrs. Cui endured the pain and shouted to Duke Chengguo: "Master, don't leave yet. I still have something to say to you."
Duke Chengguo pretended not to hear Mrs. Cui's words, strode out of Fu'an Hall and returned to Zizhuyuan.
Entering Zizhuyuan, Duke Chengguo told his servants: "Let Manager Huang come to see me."
After a while, Manager Huang came to the study.
Before Huang Guanshi could greet him, Duke Chengguo asked: "Has it been found out? Who did it?"
Manager Huang leaned forward and said, "Young master, I have returned home, but my incompetence has not been found out yet."
Duke Chengguo slapped the table, glared at Manager Huang and said, "How long has this been? How come it hasn't been found out yet?"
The banging sound on the table seemed to hit Guanshi Huang's heart, and Guanshi Huang knelt down on the ground with a "plop".
He said: "When I return to my country, my lord, I have checked all the people in the house. I can be sure that what happened last night was not done by anyone in the house.
But the scope of checking people outside is too large, and I don’t know where to start at the moment?
Lord, should we report this matter to the official, or to His Highness the Crown Prince?"
"Bang!" Duke Chengguo slammed the table again, making Manager Huang shrink back in fright.
Duke Chengguo glared at Manager Huang on the ground and angrily shouted: "Reporting to the official, how do you plan to ask me to report to the official?
Do you want me to tell the government that snakes, scorpions and centipedes were thrown on the bed between me and Cui last night?
Do you think I am not embarrassed enough, or do you think the empress and Your Highness are not embarrassed enough?"
Duke Chengguo knew very well that this matter could not be discussed with outsiders.
If outsiders knew about it, they still wouldn't know how to arrange the relationship between him and Cui, Snake and Scorpion... Baizu...
It's a small thing that he and Mrs. Cui have become a joke in the circle, but it's a big influence on the empress and His Highness.
The more Duke Chengguo thought about it, the angrier he became, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became.
