Shen Wanghong came out of Zanhua Lane exhausted. Although his body was tired, he was in a good mood.
He married a concubine outside without telling He. He said it was a marriage, but in fact he fell in love with a prostitute in Wangchun Tower, paid money to redeem her, rented a small courtyard in Zanhua Lane, and kept Chunhong outside.
Shen Wanghong was picking his teeth while savoring the warmth and softness he had just felt, and he felt so happy.
Chunhong's figure and appearance were countless times better than He's. He was domineering. Whenever he returned home, he would be greeted by a barrage of complaints and scolding from He, or she would cry and complain about not having money and saying that she couldn't compare to other men. She didn't even look at herself. When she first married him, He was also young. Although her appearance was not particularly beautiful, she was still lovely.
Who would have thought that after many years of marriage, when He gave birth to a son and a daughter, her waist became as thick as a bucket. She complained every day about being short of money, but which family short of money could eat as much as she did?
He was also jealous. Looking around, she found that every master in Wangjing City had several beautiful concubines, and she also saw other families' wives making a fuss every day. Even her eldest brother had two concubines, which were given to him by her mother. Although the two concubines had no children in the past few years, her eldest brother did have one.
Although he had two concubines in his room, He kept a close eye on them. Whenever he was at home, he was not allowed to enter the two concubines' rooms once or twice a month. Every time he had the rare chance to go, the concubines felt aggrieved. When they were young, Shen Wanghong had quarreled with He. After so many years of quarreling, Shen Wanghong was too lazy to quarrel now and felt disgusted when he saw He.
Chunhong is different. She is young and beautiful, with a very flexible figure. Whenever she sees him, Chunhong's gentle and charming look always makes Shen Wanghong unable to stop.
Fortunately, Chunhong was a prostitute, and it was impossible for her to marry into the Shen family with her identity, so Shen Wanghong simply kept her outside and came to hang out with Chunhong when he had time, which was quite interesting.
Shen Wanghong walked home in a good mood, with a satisfied smile on his face all the way, and even hummed a little tune while walking on the street.
But the closer Shen Wanghong got to the Shen Mansion, the more he felt something was wrong. The people at the door who usually treated him with respect and even fawned over him seemed to have changed their faces today. They were afraid to hide when they saw him, and as soon as he left, the discussions seemed to start again from behind.
This made Shen Wanghong very unhappy.
Shen Wanghong had sharp eyes and quickly walked over to grab a man who usually loved to sell candied haws at the gate of the Shen Mansion and asked him:
"What happened today? Why are you guys sneaking around?"
The peddler was very upset when he was caught by him, but he couldn't run away at the moment. He hesitated and didn't dare to say anything, for fear that Shen Wanghong would be angry if he said anything.
Shen Wanghong has always been a reckless person, who dares to mess with him?
Seeing that the peddler didn't say anything, Shen Wanghong tugged at his collar again.
"Hurry up and tell me! Otherwise, I'll never let you set up a stall in front of the Shen family again. I'll beat you up every time I see you!"
The peddler trembled as he stammered about what had happened in Zhuangyuan Street today. He talked about the second young lady having a secret meeting with He Zhen from the He family in Qinfang Tower, and how her snow-white legs were clearly visible to everyone. Shen Wanghong loosened the peddler's collar and pushed him to the ground.
"What nonsense! Who is talking nonsense behind my back? How could my daughter do that?" Shen Wanghong said angrily.
When the peddler saw Shen Wanghong let go, he hurriedly got up and ran away.
Shen Wanghong's good mood today was gone. He was now full of anger. He rushed in without even paying his respects to Old Madam Shen, and went straight into the courtyard of the second house.
He was sitting beside Shen Lijiao's bed. Shen Lijiao was lying on the bed, staring at the ceiling with lifeless eyes without saying a word.
Shen Wanghong walked very fast. Before the servants could inform him, Shen Wanghong had already pushed open the door and rushed in.
"You're back..." When He saw Shen Wanghong, she stood up and wanted to throw herself on him and cry, but Shen Wanghong pushed her away, walked up and slapped Shen Lijiao on the bed.
"Vile thing!" Shen Wanghong said angrily.
He quickly threw herself on Shen Lijiao, tears in her eyes, and yelled at Shen Wanghong: "What are you crazy about! Why are you hitting Jiao'er!"
"I just want to slap this stinky, shameless, cheap bitch to death!" Shen Wanghong didn't care about anything at this moment. He cursed whatever came to his mind. He wanted to use the dirtiest words to curse, otherwise it would be difficult to relieve the anger in his heart.
"You are so arrogant, why don't you go and vent your anger on the eldest wife? You were nowhere to be seen when my daughter and I were bullied, but now you come back and scold my daughter. How can this be right?" He cried.
"What does Guan Dafang have to do with it?" Shen Wanghong asked.
"It's the eldest wife! It must be Shen Liyue! What happened today should have happened to Shen Liyue. Jiao'er must have been framed by Shen Liyue!"
"What's the matter?" Shen Wanghong heard something wrong from He's words.
After He finished shouting, she realized that she had said something wrong, but she couldn't care less at the moment. Even if her man was useless, he was still her backbone in times of crisis.
So she told the whole story about how she and the He family had conspired to set a trap for Shen Liyue today, causing Shen Liyue to lose her reputation and have to marry He Zhen. She didn't know why Shen Lijiao was the one who got into trouble in the end.
"Okay, okay." Shen Wanghong laughed in anger, "So it was you who was behind this. Now that's good. Instead of harming others, you ended up harming your own daughter. Are you satisfied?"
Hearing this, Shen Lijiao finally reacted.
She couldn't figure out why this happened today. It turned out that her mother was behind it. When she thought about it carefully... it was her mother who harmed her!
Chen Lijiao got up from the bed like crazy. She felt a little dizzy when she got up suddenly because she hadn't eaten all day. But she didn't care about anything else and fought desperately against her mother. "It's all you, you vicious woman, who made me like this! It's all you!"
He's heart was filled with sorrow. Who was she planning so hard for? Wasn't it so that the Second House could vent its anger? Wasn't it so that others would see that Jiao'er married better than Chen Liyue?
Even though things haven't been done well, why do they all hate her so much?
Chen Wanghong watched Chen Lijiao go crazy with cold eyes, and did not try to stop her. He scolded He Shi: "You plan to frame others, you see if you have the brains to do that. What's so good about the He family? You used to secretly take money to subsidize the He family. Do you think I don't know? I don't care about you, so why do you dare to do such a thing? How can your He family be worthy of my Shen family? Marrying you is a misfortune for my family. How can your He family be worthy of marrying my Shen family's daughter?"
He was furious when she heard this and rushed towards Shen Wanghong again, but Shen Wanghong stepped back to avoid it.
"Why am I working so hard? Isn't it for this family? If you could just stand up for yourself, we wouldn't have to live such a miserable life of being inferior to others for so many years!"
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