Chapter 13 My dear son, do your mother a favor...
Zhao Xian glared at Jiang Heng and handed the baby in her arms to the wet nurse who had rushed over after receiving the news.
Granny He reached out to support Zhao Xian and whispered, "This servant will arrange for someone to bring the eldest young master and the others back immediately."
"Need not."
Upon hearing the words "relics," Zhao Xian suddenly thought of a heart-wrenching plot point in the book, which happened to be related to this matter.
"Let's go check on Lianniang first, just in case something happened to her."
As he spoke, he walked into the house.
Zhao Xian heard the commotion inside the room and went to the inner room. When she saw the haggard beauty leaning against the bed railing, she almost thought she had gone to the wrong place.
With maids and servants in the mansion, Zhao Xian naturally didn't need to personally take care of anyone.
However, she also carefully searched for all the details that were beneficial to postpartum women and used them on Li Lianniang as much as possible, so she took good care of her for almost a month.
She had just begun to look radiant, but that scoundrel Jiang Wei ruined her beauty in an instant.
Zhao Xian felt a sense of powerlessness, as if she had tried her best but achieved nothing.
“Jiang Wei has only left the manor, he’s not dead. He died too soon.” Zhao Xian’s tone was not reproachful, but rather teasing.
Li Lianniang's heartbroken and haggard appearance startled me; she seemed to have gained some spirit and was no longer so gloomy.
Her lips parted as if she wanted to say something, but no words came out.
It's true, it's true, my mother-in-law's words were too wild.
Zhao Xian didn't have time to comfort her right now.
I remember the plot of the book: Cui Tingyue lost her things, and the two of them went out of the mansion to search for them. Jiang Wei even issued a reward for finding the lost items, but to no avail.
The item was not found, and Cui Tingyue was in tears every day. Jiang Wei saw this and was very anxious.
Unfortunately, it happened at the most critical moment.
He found the relic in Li Lianniang's room and became furious. He not only hit Li Lianniang but also accused her of stealing it and misunderstood her as being of bad character.
Li Lianniang was not good with words, and Jiang Wei wouldn't listen to her explanations.
When she saw this part, she couldn't help but post a message criticizing the male lead.
Without investigation, review, or questioning, where is their brain?
This misunderstanding was later revealed by Cui Tingyue herself, who said that she deliberately framed Li Lianniang by putting her belongings into her room.
Zhao Xian never wanted to think of Cui Tingyue as malicious; she was already pitiful enough, an orphan girl who had lost her family and had no one to rely on.
Zhao Xian glanced around, wondering how she could search Li Lianniang's room without arousing suspicion.
We must find the item before Jiang Wei returns.
Come to think of it, she had already stopped Cui Tingyue from seeing Li Lianniang, so how could this have happened?
By the way, Cui Tingyue came here once.
I remember that she stayed in the outer room at that time and did not seem to come inside.
Zhao Xian looked at Li Lianniang on the bed and smiled very kindly: "I noticed that some of the things in your room are old. Let me replace them with new ones for you, using Jiang Wei's money."
Li Lianniang had not yet recovered from her grief when her mother-in-law spoke, and she was stunned again.
How did this become about the item being old? And needing to be replaced?
Distracted by this, Li Lianniang's distress at hearing that her husband had gone out with Cui Tingyue again inexplicably dissipated by half.
"Are they old?" She had only been married into the Jiang family for a little over a year, and these were all newly made items.
Zhao Xian insisted, "Old."
Without further ado, they took Granny He and went to open the storeroom.
If you're looking for something, changing the carpet or the room's furnishings is the most effective way.
Zhao Xian also brought her two maids, Chi Lan and Dan Ruo, and said to them, "Choose according to your young mistress's preferences. If you want to change, change them all."
The interior of Yunzhu Garden is now almost entirely furnished according to Jiang Wei's preferences.
Jiang Wei preferred to go to his study, so he could stay in the Molinzhai.
The book focuses on the mistreatment of Li Lianniang, and this compensation is hardly enough for her, since it wasn't her money that was spent.
Chi Lan and Dan Ruo exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with joy. "Yes."
As the items inside Yunzhu Garden were replaced, Cui Tingyue's lost belongings were found.
Four bells strung together in the shape of lilies of the valley, each with a word engraved on it.
Based on the character '玥' on the bottom bell, could these four bells represent her mother, father, brother, and her?
Using something like this to set up a scheme—with Cui Tingyue's obedient and docile demeanor, is this something she would actually do?
Where was it found?
The bell rang, producing a clear but not loud sound.
Granny He's expression was somewhat strange. "I'm afraid even Madam wouldn't believe it, but the maid found this string of bells inside the gauze that was tied up."
"The outer room?" There's no gauze curtain in the outer room.
"In the inner room, next to the dressing table, there was a veil of gauze that was usually tied to a pillar with a thin silk ribbon."
The lady instructed her to tell the maids and servants who were changing the items to be careful, and if they found any unusual small items, to bring them to the lady for her to see first.
When the maid brought the bell, Granny He knew that the madam intended to change the young mistress's belongings.
But how did Madam know that Miss Cui's belongings were in the eldest young mistress's room?
Hearing what Granny He said, Zhao Xian remembered that place.
That decorative veil could actually be used to hide things.
"On the second day after Lianniang gave birth, I remember Cui Tingyue went to Yunzhu Garden. Did she go into the inner room?"
At that time, Li Lianniang's condition was critical, and doctors and midwives were called in, with maids coming and going.
With so many people around, she didn't have time to pay attention to Cui Tingyue at that moment.
They didn't even know when she left.
Granny He thought for a moment, then shook her head and said, "It's been too long, I can't remember."
"Go investigate, but do it quietly, don't make a fuss."
After some questioning, I learned from Peony that Cui Tingyue had not entered the inner room that day, and had greeted her before leaving, asking her to pass on a message.
Zhao Xian glanced at the bell in the box. That was strange, since she had never been inside the inner room, nor had her maid.
How did these belongings end up in Li Lianniang's room? And in such a place?
Did it fly in with wings?
This problem had been troubling Zhao Xian for a long time; she couldn't figure it out.
Another question is whether to give the string of bells directly to Cui Tingyue or what to do with them.
Zhao Xian didn't want to let it go like this; she wanted to teach them a lesson.
Peony entered the room and reported, "Madam, the Second Young Master has come to say goodbye. He is currently outside."
Because the second young master had displeased the madam, he did not barge in as usual, and Peony announced his arrival according to the rules.
Zhao Xian put the bell into the small box, closed the lid, and said, "Let him in."
This time, Jiang Heng was not furious. He bowed respectfully and said, "Your son greets his mother."
Zhao Xian's mind was filled with questions about how the belongings got into the inner room. Was it really Cui Tingyue who put them there?
Why didn't she just guide Jiang Wei to Yunzhu Garden to find him?
Is that young girl really so meticulous that she went through all this trouble just to make Jiang Wei misunderstand Li Lianniang? What was she after?
She especially remembered that Cui Tingyue's methods in the book were quite simple, but Jiang Wei was blinded by his own limited understanding and couldn't see them.
Even after she revealed her secrets in the book, some readers commented that it was illogical, arguing that with Cui Tingyue's intelligence, she couldn't have devised such a complex scheme.
"Mother, mother."
Jiang Heng waved his hand in front of Li Lianniang a few times, and Zhao Xian came to her senses: "What are you doing?"
Jiang Heng went behind Zhao Xian and massaged her shoulders, saying in a flattering voice, "Mother, please don't be angry. I've heard everything. You've been so good to my sister-in-law. I misunderstood you."
In the past few days, he had Liu Feng inquire around the mansion and learned that his sister-in-law's condition was dangerous when she gave birth to Xiu'er, and she even had to call a doctor because of bleeding.
It was after that incident that his mother moved to his sister-in-law's house.
Yesterday, they even opened the storeroom and moved things into my sister-in-law's room.
Jiang Heng knew his mother well. If she liked someone, she truly liked them and would give them all the good things. If she didn't like someone, she wouldn't give them even a needle.
Zhao Xian slapped his hand away: "No misunderstanding, I was just teasing my daughter-in-law."
Jiang Heng wasn't annoyed and continued massaging her shoulders, saying:
"No, absolutely not. My mother is the most magnanimous and the best mother-in-law in the world. How could she do anything to torment her daughter-in-law? Those people outside are just spouting nonsense. My mother is the best."
He showered her with compliments, then continued to beg for forgiveness: "Mother, please don't be angry, okay? Your son is going to the city guard camp soon, for twenty days. You won't see your son for a whole twenty days. Are you going to let rumors from outside hurt our mother-son relationship?"
At first, Zhao Xian just listened without commenting, but the last sentence made her laugh.
Jiang Heng tilted his head, his face full of smugness: "If you smile, you're not allowed to be angry with me anymore."
Zhao Xian: "...Don't be lazy, keep pressing."
I must say, that grip strength was just right.
He felt both emotional and worried. If the male lead in a tragic novel had such an insightful mind as Jiang Heng, would he still need to go through the whole "chasing wife crematorium" process?
Jiang Heng continued rambling, "Then, Mother, you said you're not angry anymore."
"I'm not angry with you, I'm worried."
"What's there to worry about?"
Zhao Xian didn't want to say anything, but Jiang Heng's eyes were full of curiosity.
"If someone sets a trap to frame someone, and the trap has been exposed, but the other party is still unaware of it, and no major mistake has been made, then I wonder, should this matter be left as is, or..."
Before Zhao Xian could finish speaking, Jiang Heng interrupted:
"Set up a scheme to get back at them, and give them a taste of their own medicine."
Zhao Xian raised an eyebrow, signaling him to continue.
Jiang Heng then said, "Since they've already started setting things up, it means they're scheming. Why should we forgive them? They should also experience what it's like to be schemed against."
Zhao Xian pursed her lips, opened the box placed to the side, and said to Jiang Heng, "Since that's the case, then you can do your mother a favor."
"What kind of help?"
"Put this string of bells in your brother's study, in a secluded but not too secluded place."
The smile on Jiang Heng's face vanished bit by bit, and he gritted his teeth and said, "The person who set this up is my brother?"
Zhao Xian shook her head; she didn't know either.
"Then what about you..."
"Although it wasn't him, the matter is related to him and it started because of him."
Jiang Heng turned his face away from the bell in his mother's hand and advised, "Mother, if my brother finds out, he will tell Father, and Father will ask for family punishment."
He didn't want to get beaten up.
"If you don't tell, and I don't tell, how will anyone know you released it? Besides, even if it comes to family discipline, I'll protect you, won't I?"
The original owner doted on this second son and never let him undergo the full family discipline.
Jiang Heng thought about it and agreed. He took the string of bells from Zhao Xian's hand, his eyes darting around. "Miss Cui's keepsake? My sister-in-law took it?"
No wonder they went to such lengths yesterday to open the storeroom and replace things for my sister-in-law, and my brother also happened to take Cui Tingyue out of the mansion to look for some relics.
Zhao Xian: "..."
This kid's got something.
“Your sister-in-law is in postpartum confinement and hasn’t even left the house, yet you’re making false accusations against her.”
Jiang Heng was taken aback. "That's right. I was wrong. I shouldn't have been so arbitrary."
The next moment, he asked again, "Then... did Miss Cui release it?"
"She never entered the inner chambers of Yunzhu Garden."
Jiang Heng understood why her mother was worried, and shook the string of bells: "Big brother?"
But what was his older brother after?
Zhao Xian felt that he was more suitable to go to the Dali Temple, as he had a strong thirst for knowledge and was more suitable than Jiang Wei. "Since you are so curious, why don't you investigate this matter?"
"I'm going to the city guard camp, I don't have time."
"That depends on you. If you find out the truth..."
Jiang Heng spoke first: "Please grant me a request."
“Okay.” Zhao Xian nodded. “Put this in your elder brother’s study first.”
A note from the author:
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