When Shen Qingyi was looking at the strange yet familiar version of herself in the mirror, Qing Luo frowned worriedly, turning her head to look outside the door from time to time, wondering: "Why hasn't Liu Ying come back yet?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Liuying was seen hurriedly turning back with the hem of her skirt in hand. When she crossed the threshold, she almost fell down because she ran too fast.
Fortunately, Qing Luo caught her quickly with quick eyes and hands, frowned and reprimanded: "Liu Ying, what's the matter with you? In such a hurry, what would happen if I bumped into the girl?"
The maid named Liu Ying was obviously very embarrassed in front of Shen Qingyi. Even if she was scolded, she fluttered her skirt and said, "Aren't you anxious to report to the girl? That's why she ran a little more hastily."
She just explained and didn't care what Qing Luo said, so she hurried to Shen Qingyi's side.
"Girl, something happened up front."
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When Shen Qingyi arrived at the Yongxu Courtyard where her grandmother lived, she saw that the room was packed with people inside the four-open door, and a girl was kneeling in the center with a look of fear on her face.
Shen Qingyi frowned.
Her eye disease in the previous life was not cured at this time, so what happened today was unknown to her in the previous life.
In this life, she will never let anyone harm the Shen family again!
She sat down next to Shen Jingnian as quietly as possible, covered her face with a small handkerchief, and asked quietly: "Second brother, what's going on with this tense situation? What did this maid do?"
Seeing that there was no hope of getting a higher position, the maid was ordered to forge evidence that Shen Yinian had accepted huge bribes. As a result, Shen Yinian had one of his legs broken and was demoted to a commoner. The Shen family was also jealous of Zhao Xian and was punished.
The end of the exile.
Shen Yi, the eldest son of the Shen family, was a Jinshi in high school a few years ago and is now the prefect of Yanqing Mansion. In the previous life, Shen Qingyi remembered that Shen Yi was obsessed with Yuan Wanning, the eldest daughter of a Hanlin University scholar. The two were originally in love with each other, but between them,
Not long before they were about to get married, Shen Yinian suddenly brought in a concubine for no apparent reason.
Sitting next to the old grandmother on her left hand are her mother Wen Shi, the eldest son Shen Yinian, a compatriot of her mother, and the second son Shen Jingnian, who was born to Aunt Wang but was raised under Wen Shi's knees since childhood.
Although Shen Jingnian was a concubine and not born to the same mother as her, they were the most similar in age among the brothers and sisters, and they had grown up since childhood, so they were naturally closer than others.
The maid had straight facial features, a pointed chin, and peach-shaped eyes. Although she had a low-brow look, her eyes were moving around under her feather-like eyelashes, and she obviously had an idea.
Shen Qingyi looked at the maid kneeling on the ground again.
Yuan Wanning was a strong-tempered man, so he immediately tore up the engagement letter and refused the marriage.
Shen Qingyi rolled his eyes, and after lingering on her arm, he roughly guessed the whole story.
"Nonsense, why should I come?"
Shen Jingnian really didn't notice for a moment, so he whispered "Ouch", turned his head subconsciously, and when he saw Shen Qingyi's face, he couldn't help but reach out and pinch her face in surprise. He looked at her eyes carefully for a while, and asked in a low voice:
"Is your eye disease healed?"
"This girl doesn't have much face, but her mother was an old man who stayed with our grandmother when she was down and out. The master and servant of these decades are here, not to mention that the deceased is a big one.
Who knew that my eldest brother was not in the house when I came in, and this girl was looking at my eldest brother's teacup furtively and didn't know what she was doing. I looked at it strangely, so I asked, but I didn't know that nothing was wrong. The girl was in a panic.
The earth is about to run away.
Shen Jingnian clicked his tongue angrily.
As she said that, she looked into the room pretending to be curious and said, "What's going on today? It's so lively. Is there any major festival in the past two days?"
Shen Qingyi nodded, without alerting anyone else, and tiptoed around from behind the screen at the side door.
Shen Qingyi rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "It's better that I don't have eyes. Seeing that there was no one in the backyard, I thought of coming to tell my grandmother that I was safe."
Shen Qingyi stared at the maid thoughtfully.
Shen Yinian was so traumatized by this incident that he never married. However, the concubine tried her best and Shen Yinian refused to touch her, let alone support her as his wife.
She had seen this maid in her previous life.
When Shen Jingnian heard the words, he also leaned over, pointed to the maid kneeling on the ground and replied in a low voice: "You just have an eye problem, I don't know. This maid is the son of Aunt Qiu who gave birth to her son in our house. She had been doing groceries before. , was newly assigned to serve the elder brother a few days ago. At that time, I didn’t look like a peaceful person, so I wanted to choose a good one for the elder brother.
Although she didn't know the specific reason, she knew that although the Shen family was not a famous family, it still had enough capital to become the target of public criticism.
Zhong Ling shook her head and said: "Young lady, I don't know, my ancestor is angry. I can't explain this for a while. My ancestor always loves you the most. Go and comfort her. Don't be angry." It’s only when your body is broken!”
And the concubine who caused all this is the restless girl in front of her.
On the right are the various aunts in the mansion, all with different expressions, some with worried eyes, some with sarcastic eyes, and some with disdain.
But everyone was watching with their eyes, nose, and heart, and did not dare to express their anger. Obviously, they did not dare to apply eye drops in front of the old lady and the head mistress at this juncture.
As soon as I saw it, I knew there was something fishy here, so I sent someone to detain the girl and called the doctor to take a look. My dear, this little girl has given our elder brother some dirty medicine!
How can this be possible? I thought that the witnesses and material evidence were all there, and there was no need to say anything more, so I sent the person away quickly. Unexpectedly, she suddenly knelt down and cried, saying that she had already belonged to my eldest brother. I don’t want to ask for any status, I just want to be a cow and a horse in front of my eldest brother, causing no peace and almost making our grandmother angry."
She quietly looked behind the screen and saw her grandmother sitting at the top, leaning on a walking stick in her hand. Her usually kind face was tense and serious at the moment, looking scary. Yuxiu next to her was fanning her and fanning her from time to time. He glanced at his heart and whispered something worriedly, probably trying to persuade his grandmother not to be angry.
Shen Qingyi frowned in disgust and said: "Since this girl has thoughts that she shouldn't have, just send her out of the house, why did she make such a big fuss? Besides, isn't Aunt Qiu gone a long time ago? What’s the inconvenience?”
But looking at the situation in the room, it is definitely not a trivial matter.
When no one noticed, she quietly walked around the screen, walked behind the second young master Shen Jingnian, and unexpectedly covered his eyes.
The eldest maid next to Mrs. Shen, Zhong Ling, was much older than Shen Qingyi's mother Wen, but she was still bright-eyed. She saw Shen Qingyi from a distance, and hurriedly went up to her and looked Shen Qing up and down. Yi glanced at her and said, "Is the third girl in good health? It's such a cold spring, why did you come out at this time?"
Her sleeves were turned up, exposing her entire forearm.
"Right now, the matter has not yet been decided. If we just expel the person from the mansion without any explanation, wouldn't it open the door for others to say that our Taifu's mansion treats its loyal servants harshly?"
Shen Qingyi raised her eyebrows.
"What's there to worry about? Just wait and see for me."
