Chapter 398: Shen Congwen’s loss and anger!
When everyone was curious about the Shen family's attitude, Shen Lanxi took leave again, claiming to be sick.
He also sent someone to send a message to the palace, saying that he was ashamed to face people because his family's disgrace had been made public.
Emperor Renxiao was originally upset because of the things happening in the northwest, but when he heard Wang Bao say this, he was so angry that he laughed.
"What kind of family scandal is she talking about?" What does the evil done by the elders have to do with her, a junior?
Wang Bao laughed, covering his mouth.
"You old thing, what are you laughing at?" Emperor Renxiao asked with a displeased smile.
Wang Bao pinched his fingers and said shyly: "Your Majesty, the news has spread all over the capital now. Storytellers have made up several versions of Mr. Shen's romantic affairs!" After Wang Bao finished speaking, he seemed to have thought of something funny and couldn't help laughing.
Emperor Renxiao has been very tired recently, so he might as well listen to the story of the Shen family to cheer himself up.
"What do storytellers say?"
Wang Bao: "They say that Mr. Shen is not satisfied. He already has a princess who is as rich as a flower, and a beautiful concubine by her side, but he is still obsessed with keeping a mistress. Either the mistress is extremely beautiful, or she is very cunning."
Emperor Renxiao's eyes seemed to be filled with deep thoughts, and he said in a cold tone, "We should let the Queen Mother take a good look at what you have carefully selected for Xinrou!"
Sensing the coldness in the emperor's mouth, Wang Bao snorted coldly and said, "Shen Congwen is a bastard, he hides it very well. The concubine and the concubine's son are lucky that they did not suffer the pain of exile."
Emperor Renxiao's eyes became even colder.
He had his own secret guards who monitored all officials, and he knew exactly what those officials did in private.
The Shen family was also under surveillance. Over the years, not a single deadpool or secret guard had come to report the matter of Shen Congwen keeping a mistress.
Could it be that Shen Congwen had some tricks up his sleeve in private that he didn't know about?
Considering that the Queen Mother was determined to marry Zhou Xinrou to Shen Congwen, Emperor Renxiao became even more suspicious.
“Let someone keep an eye on Shen Congwen.”
Wang Bao was about to say yes when he heard Emperor Renxiao say, "Let the concubine and her son enter the Shen family."
Wang Bao was confused and uncertain, but he did not show it and hurried to do it.
Juding Gongfu
Shen Lanxi stayed indoors for two days, and the Shen family's affairs had been settled.
The concubine entered the mansion as a concubine, and the child she gave birth to was changed from a concubine's child to a bastard's child.
Shen Yuanxu said with concern: "Liang Xinyi looks 60% similar to my aunt."
Shen Lanxi sneered in her heart. Others said that her mother was magnanimous. Not only was she not domineering, she also took concubines for Shen Congwen and never treated concubines and illegitimate children harshly.
Now, she wanted to see if her mother could still be magnanimous.
"What was my mother's reaction?"
Shen Yuanxu frowned, "My uncle goes to my aunt's yard every day to ask for forgiveness. My grandmother and my mother also go to persuade him from time to time, but my aunt never sees him."
Shen Lanxi: "Where is Shen Yuantang?"
Shen Yuanxu: "My aunt didn't want to see her at first, but she was very talkative, so she let her go."
Shen Lanxi's eyes were full of sarcasm: "I feel relieved that she is with my mother."
Shen Yuanxu: "Are you really planning to never return to the Shen family?"
Shen Lanxi: "The time is not right yet."
Shen Yuanxu didn't know when would be the right time. The situation in the first house had already become like this, was she waiting for things to get even more tense?
"If you are okay, go back to the academy!" Shen Lanxi said casually.
Hu Jinyu was about to give birth, and Shen Yuanxu actually wanted to wait until after she gave birth before going back.
"Tomorrow, my uncle will formally take Liang Xinyi into his room, and the family will definitely not hold a concubine banquet. What my uncle means is that we will have a simple meal and introduce the three children born to Liang to the family."
Shen Lanxi said in a gloomy tone: "I'm curious, does he still have money now?"
Shen Yuanxu was stunned, then said awkwardly: "It should be that my grandmother took it out of her private pocket."
Shen Lanxi pointedly said, "The Shen family is now living off their savings. What you are spending now is Hu Jinyu's dowry. The baby is coming soon, and there will be more places to spend money."
Could Shen Yuanxu not understand what Shen Lanxi meant?
If he didn't understand, how could he follow Shen Lanxi around during the war?
"I am just a poor scholar now, I won't do anything stupid."
Shen Lanxi: "Let's go back and give Yuan Jun and the others a lesson as well."
Shen Yuanxu nodded and talked to Shen Lanxi for a while. Fortunately, she didn't ask him to go back to the academy.
He will never be foolish enough to help pass messages home again.
Not only that, after Shen Yuanxu returned, he immediately went into his parents' room to talk for a while, and then went to find his brothers.
Shen Congwen never thought that Zhou Xinrou would allow Liang Xinyi and her son to come in.
But after hearing the news, he was not very happy, but felt a little depressed.
Does she really not care about him at all?
Even after such a thing happened and she was bullied right in front of her, she remained unmoved.
Shen Congwen felt lost and angry.
After all these years...why did she marry him?
Liang Xinyi and her son were assigned to the courtyard where Zhang Zifen used to live. When the mother and her son arrived, they didn't bring anything with them. They started to make arrangements after entering the mansion.
There was no extra money in the mansion to buy anything for them, and Shen Congwen didn't know whether he was angry or not, but after leaving Zhou Xinrou's courtyard, he went to find Liang Xinyi.
After a while, Shen Congwen went to find Old Madam Shen.
"Mother, Xinyi and I don't have any replacement clothes. I'm out of money, so I want to ask you for some."
He had given his mother many good things before, and now he was taking them back to use, and when he got his salary next month, he would give them to his mother.
When the old lady heard her eldest son say this, she almost fainted again.
"You bastard, do you know how much money I have spent on subsidies? Do you know that because of Yuanxin's marriage to the princess, I sold all the precious medicinal herbs that Lanxi gave me?"
The old lady was so angry that she wanted to vomit blood.
Shen Congwen's face flushed red, he really didn't know that his family had become so poor.
"Mother, next time His Majesty gives me another reward, I will give it all to you. From now on, I will not keep a penny of my salary, and I will give it all to you."
When Mrs. Shen heard her son's promise, her expression eased a little, but not much better.
After all, Zhou Xinrou is a princess favored by the royal family. What would His Majesty think when such a thing happened in her mansion?
What would the princess think if she saw Liang Xinyi's face?
We can’t let Liang Xinyi meet the princess with that face.
"You go back first and call Liang over. I'll teach her some rules so she doesn't get confused about what to say when she sees someone from the mansion."
Shen Congwen's eyes were filled with surprise. Did his mother say that she accepted Liang Xinyi?
"Mom, money?"
"Go back and wait, I'll have someone send it to you later!" Old Madam Shen said with an unhappy face.
Shen Congwen didn't dare to stay any longer and make his mother angry, so he left in agitation.
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