"Then let Wang Suanzi go to Songzhuang Village and tell everyone that you hired him to frame Erzhuang's family?" Tang Su'e hit the nail on the head, knowing exactly how to protect her own family.
Old Tang wavered, "Would Wanping really agree?"
Tang Su'e muttered something under her breath, and the old man coughed awkwardly.
Zhou Qiaoyun brought over some hot water and eavesdropped on the father and daughter's whispered conversation.
"Xiaowei, go to the drawer of Grandpa's desk in his room... or I'll get it myself." Old Tang left.
Tang Su'e winked at her son, signaling him to follow.
"Yunyun, call your cousin Wanping over and tell her that Grandpa invited her to dinner."
Zhou Qiaoyun watched as Tang Su'e instructed her second son, Wang Xiaowei, to secretly pour a packet of powder into the wine. When she wanted to continue watching to see what they were up to, Tang Youliang chased her out.
Zhou Qiaoyun stood in the kitchen observing the movements in the main house. She saw Wang Yunyun and Chen Wanping enter the house together.
A dozen minutes later, the people inside left one after another.
Only Chen Wanping and the master did not come out.
She was about to pretend to go over to tidy up the table and check the situation when Tang Youliang stopped her and wouldn't let her get close to the main room.
She asked her son what had happened in that room and why Chen Wanping and the master hadn't come out, but her son hesitated and refused to answer.
The whole family is wary of her, even their own son is wary of her.
The Tang family has more than twenty rooms. The main house, which faces south, has eight rooms, and there are side rooms on both sides, totaling more than twenty rooms.
Old Man Tang lived in the main house, as did Tang Su'e's three sons, one daughter, and daughter-in-law. In particular, her youngest daughter, Wang Yunyun, was considered the Tang family's lucky star and lived in the largest and most beautiful room in the main house.
Because she was considered a lucky star, she was showered with love and affection from birth. Grandpa Tang personally took care of this granddaughter and often had her call him grandpa.
Whenever Zhou Qiaoyun thinks about these things, she feels heartbroken for her biological daughter who was abandoned by her husband's family at birth.
Because of her anger over her biological daughter, she refused to breastfeed or care for her eldest son, Tang Dafei, after giving birth to him the following year. As a result, her eldest son is not close to her now and is on the same side as his biological father and grandfather.
Around 9 p.m., Zhou Qiaoyun saw Wang Xiaowei and his wife carrying their two crying children out of the main house and hurriedly going to the side house opposite.
The side rooms on both sides of the Tang family's house are occupied by Tang Su'e and her husband on the opposite side, and by her family of four on this side.
Wang Xiaowei and his wife left with their two children in their arms, and Wang Laifu and his family of three followed shortly after them out of the main house.
In order to seize her family's property, Tang Su'e, the nun, arranged for all her children to live in the main house, thus occupying most of the rooms.
Zhou Qiaoyun harbored a great deal of resentment towards Tang Su'e.
When she first came in, she got along quite well with Tang Su'e, but later she always suffered losses at Tang Su'e's hands, and their relationship deteriorated rapidly.
Back then, after her husband's family secretly threw away her newborn daughter, she made a huge scene and even got into a fight with Tang Su'e, who was protecting her in-laws and had instigated Tang Youliang to beat her.
After that, the two had a falling out.
Although Tang Su'e apologized to her afterward, and she had to swallow her anger, the two of them always maintained a tacit understanding of their outward harmony but inward discord.
Zhou Qiaoyun glanced at Tang Youliang, who was sleeping like a log beside her after drinking too much, and quietly got out of bed and went to the main room.
Wang Laifu and his family of three left in such a hurry that they didn't close the main door properly.
As soon as I entered the living room of the main house, I heard a loud noise coming from one of the rooms.
As someone who had been through it all, Zhou Qiaoyun understood what was going on almost instantly.
She followed the sound to a room, secretly opened the door, and was shocked by what she saw inside.
In the pitch-black room, she immediately recognized the female voice as Chen Wanping's.
Suddenly, footsteps sounded behind me.
Zhou Qiaoyun quickly hid to the side.
The stun gun in the living room was turned on.
The entire living room instantly brightened up.
Old Tang's face showed embarrassment and awkwardness. The noise was keeping him awake, so he grabbed a bottle of tea and prepared to go back to his room.
Wang Yunyun couldn't sleep either, her face flushed with embarrassment.
"Grandpa, I'm going to sleep in my mom's room."
Old Tang looked at his most beloved granddaughter with a hint of guilt on his face.
Disturbing my granddaughter's sleep is a huge mistake.
"Yunyun, Grandpa has a gift for you. Come with me to get it." Old Man Tang entered the house carrying a tea bottle.
His room had a basement. Moving aside a cabinet taller than a person and lifting up the wooden planks on the floor revealed the entrance to the basement.
Wang Yunyun asked in surprise, "Grandpa, how come there's a basement here?"
"Your grandpa and grandma dug this out shovel by shovel more than ten years ago." Old Tang said, taking a flashlight as he walked down the wooden ladder.
Turn on the basement lights, and you'll be greeted by countless breathtaking treasures.
There are antique vases, gold bars, silver coins, valuable calligraphy and paintings, as well as various animal heads and jewelry, which dazzles the eyes.
Wang Yunyun was utterly shocked to see the entire basement filled with gold and silver treasures.
She had never seen so many treasures before.
"Yunyun, pick one you like, and Grandpa will give it to you as a gift," Grandpa Tang said lovingly to his granddaughter.
He smuggled these out from the space inside the jade pendant.
Thinking of that jade pendant, Old Lady Tang felt an intense hatred for Song Erzhuang's family, especially Song Yinhua.
"Everything here is yours. This room will be left to you after your grandfather dies. Don't let anyone else know, not even your three older brothers, especially your jealous seventh aunt. Be very careful around her."
When Zhou Qiaoyun heard her father-in-law's words from the basement, she felt both angry and resentful.
She married into this family and served them like a slave, but her son got nothing. Even her own daughter was abandoned by her husband's family, and everything in the house was left to her sister-in-law's daughter.
Thinking of her own daughter, Zhou Qiaoyun's hatred remained unquenched for a long time.
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The next morning, when the master woke up, he saw Wang Xiaowei holding his younger sister in his arms.
“My sister Yunyun stayed with you last night. Let bygones be bygones. Don’t come to my house again. Let’s pretend nothing happened. If you meet any of my family members on the street, pretend you don’t know them.”
The master had a good night's pleasure and readily agreed, even saying to Wang Yunyun, "One night of intimacy brings a hundred nights of kindness. Little Yunyun, if you want me to take responsibility, you can come find me anytime. This master is kind and good-hearted, and I live at..."
"Wang the scoundrel, behave yourself and don't push your luck!" Wang Xiaowei warned.
The master wasn't angry. The people of Wangjia Village called him "Wang the Scoundrel" behind his back; they were used to it.
The Tang family breathed a sigh of relief after Wang the scoundrel left.
Wang the Scoundrel got drunk and started acting crazy, insisting that Tang Family's Little Lucky Star spend the night with him, or else he would make a big scene.
They deliberately got Chen Wanping drunk, then secretly brought her into the house, using a substitution trick.
The room was completely dark, and you couldn't even see faces clearly.
Wang Pizi naturally had no idea that the person he spent the night with was Chen Wanping.
Unaware that she had been tricked, Chen Wanping slept until noon.
Regarding what happened last night, in her half-drunk and half-awake state, she felt as if she were with Han Zhiyuan, but after sobering up, she felt as if nothing had happened.
His clothes were intact.
Wang Yunyun handed her a cup of hangover tea. "Cousin Wanping, you got drunk last night. My mom and I helped you to your room to rest."
Upon hearing Wang Yunyun's words, Chen Wanping didn't think much of it.
She stretched her body, took the hangover tea and took a sip. "I don't know if it's because I drank too much last night, but I feel a little tired."
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