Chen Yuhui was dressed very strikingly today, in an orange butterfly flowered short jacket with a front opening, a light yellow cloud satin skirt, her hair full of pearls and jade, and her face rosy with powdery cheeks.
In order to highlight her, Chen Yuqing dressed very low-key, wearing a lilac embroidered long cotton jacket. Chen Afu dressed even more low-key, not to highlight Chen Yuhui, but because she was in no mood to dress up, she wore a lilac long jacket, and simply put two jade hairpins on her hair and put on light makeup.
Even if Chen Afu wore cloth clothes, she was still much more beautiful than Chen Yuhui.
Chen Yuhui didn't think so. She was stunned the moment she saw He Linsheng come in. It turned out that he was a heavenly man when he was dressed up. But when she saw that He Linsheng's eyes didn't stay on her, but were looking at Chen Afu's astonishment, she was so angry that her face suddenly turned red. She tightly grasped her handkerchief, feeling very aggrieved.
In her opinion, Chen Ahfu did it on purpose. He knew that he looked best in lilac clothes, but he chose to wear this color today. If he wasn't here to seduce men, what else could he be doing?
Chen Ahfu looked up and saw Chen Yuhui looking at her hatefully, and she was also angry. Did she think she was willing to let that stinky man look at her? What a joke, when He Linsheng looked at her twice, she felt more disgusted than eating a fly.
Mrs. He also felt that her son's performance was not good. No matter how beautiful Chen Afu was, she was still someone else's wife, and the wife of her husband's arch-enemy Chu Lingxuan.
She laughed and praised Chen Yuhui a few times, saying how dignified, steady and talented she was, which made Chen Yuhui laugh again.
When Mrs. He called Chen Yuhui "steady", not only did Chen Yuqing and her sister have a hint of sarcasm in their eyes, but even He Ying snorted.
Mrs. He suggested going to visit the old lady. Jiang smiled and said, "The old lady is not in good health and is still bedridden."
Around noon, the midwife took the baby out to bathe him, and everyone added basins.
After the meal, they chatted and laughed for a while, and then the He family left.
Jiang saw that Chen Ahfu seemed to have something to say to her, so she sent Chen Yuqing and her sister away. She asked, "What's wrong with Fu'er?"
Chen Afu asked the servants to leave, helped Jiang sit on the bed, and hugged her arm and said, "Mother, you must be strong. You must believe that my father is a good official, and you must also believe in us. We will not let anything happen to your father or this family..." Jiang felt that something big was going to happen. She grabbed Chen Afu's hand and asked, "Fuer, what happened? It can't be your father..."
Before he could finish his words, tears were already streaming down his face.
Chen Afu nodded and said, "Well, yesterday my grandfather received a letter from my third uncle, saying that the emperor intended to let my father be the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, so some people began to impeach my father, and all the evil things that old lady Chen did in the countryside were blamed on my father. Here, it mainly talked about how my father divorced his wife, and how he suddenly had money to buy land and a four-story house. These two things are easy to handle. It's not my father's fault. It was done by that evil old lady Zhao. It's just that I don't know what they have collected about Jiangnan..." She briefly talked about Chen Shiying's affairs, and asked Jiang if she knew about Chen Shiying's affairs in Jiangnan.
When Jiang heard this, her body shook a few times and then went limp.
Chen Ahfu hugged her and whispered, "Mother can't fall down. This family still depends on you. My uncle has gone to Shizhou Prefecture to ask his uncle for help, and sent Manager Luo to the capital with a lot of gifts to ask for help. Dad should be fine. But, mother wants to tell me about Dad's situation in Jiangnan. If there is any problem, see if there is any remedial measure..."
When Chen Ahfu said "ask his uncle", he was obviously not confident enough, not knowing whether Lord Luo would help. But no matter whether he would help or not, he had to ask him for help, there was really no other way.
After hearing this, Jiang hugged Chen Afu and burst into tears. She sobbed, "Fuer, thank you, thank you son-in-law. At this time, I can only rely on you."
After crying, he talked about Chen Shiying's experience as an official in Jiangnan.
The two things his mother did in his hometown made Chen Shiying angry and afraid, so when he went to Jiangnan, he asked Jiang to keep the old lady and Tang under guard. The old lady, Tang, and the Tang family had also done a few not-so-good things, but Chen Shiying remedied them after knowing about them. The money he accumulated in Jiangnan was mainly from Jiang's dowry shop and the business between his servants and the Tang family. Moreover, many of the big businesses were not under his jurisdiction. There was no big stain on him in Jiangnan. There might be some small things, but every official had them, so it would not affect his official career. I just don't know if Old Lady Chen, Tang, and the Tang family have done anything that Chen Shiying and Jiang didn't know about...
Just based on those two things, Chen Shiying's foundation cannot be shaken. The worst possibility is that he will be demoted a few levels. As long as he is still an official, he can find a way to reinstate him in the future.
Chen Afu was relieved. He hoped that Chen Shiying and Jiang would be able to see through the bad things those people did and remedy them.
Jiang was most afraid that Chen Shiying would go to jail. As long as he was well, she would be happy even if he didn't become an official.
After having dinner here, Chen Afu returned to the Chu family. Before leaving, Jiang gave Chen Afu a few banknotes and asked her to use them to manage relationships. Chen Afu refused, saying that she and Chu Lingxuan had already taken the gifts to use to manage relationships.
Jiang forced it on her, saying that the family was rich and it was unreasonable to ask her son-in-law to work hard and still pay for it. Besides, the green-leaf agarwood could not be bought with any amount of money.
Just after Chen Afu and his companions left, a servant came to report that the old lady wanted to see the lady.
Jiang clenched the fist in his sleeve and went to the old lady.
Since being frightened by Chen Ahfu last time, the old lady's health has deteriorated again. Jiang's going to the temple to burn incense was not enough, the old lady also asked someone to invite a Taoist priest to perform a ritual, drink the magic water, and take a lot of medicine. Her spirit gradually improved, but she could not move much, and she ate, drank, and defecated in bed.
Now she no longer lived in Wanshou Hall, but moved to another courtyard, which she named "An Tang", which sounds the same as "An Tang", thinking that ghosts would not dare to come to her house if she called it by this name.
Because she didn't dream about the old man and didn't encounter any "ghosts", the old lady felt that the Taoist priest's ritual and the talisman water she drank had worked, so she felt relieved.
That time, Chen Shiying came back from the countryside and heard about the "dream". He didn't quite believe it. Dreaming about the old man might be possible, but how could the old man say those words, and there was a white head floating in the air, how could it be possible! But from the reaction of the old lady, she did see the white head floating in the air in the middle of the night.
A trace of doubt flashed through Chen Shiying's mind. Could it be that Fu'er had hired someone to pretend to be a ghost to scare the old lady? As soon as this thought came to his mind, he rejected it again. During those days, he and Jiang had sent people to guard the yard tightly. Not only could no one, but even a bird could not get in.
Andang is a remote courtyard, which is incomparable to the three-story Wanshou Hall. There are only six rooms here, no side rooms, no bamboo, trees, flowers or plants, and no dark corners that can hide ghosts or people.
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