Chapter 5: Shen Shuwei's Methods
Mei Yingzhu was well-informed and had known about the replacement of the daughter of the Jingning Marquis's mansion long ago. Seeing Chen Shuwei's eyes narrowed, she sneered: "What are you doing with all this fanfare? You just returned to the mansion and you come to me to act like your daughter of the Marquis' mansion?"
It has to be said that every word Mei Yingzhu wrote was like a knife, knowing exactly where to stab someone to hurt the most. Chen Shuwei had just severed ties with the Marquis's Mansion, and she was already rushing to ridicule her.
Shen Zhiyang's teeth chattered with anger. Just as she was about to speak, she was held down by Shen Shuwei. She slowly stood up and smiled at Mei Yingzhu, "I didn't know that my aunt went to bed early. I'm sorry to have disturbed her."
Mei Yingzhu sneered, and sat down in the main seat with her chin raised proudly, looking like she was doing something stupid.
Chen Shuwei was not annoyed and called out.
Soon someone brought Nanny Lin up, kicked her in the knee, and threw her down at Mei Yingzhu's toes.
"It's just that there's a servant in the family who is disloyal and shameless. I have to come and ask my aunt how to punish him." Chen Shu said with a smile.
Mei Yingzhu was frightened by her outburst. She gritted her teeth and stared at Chen Shuwei, "What do you mean? If you want to teach the servants a lesson, go back to your own yard. Why are you asking me?"
Don't think that she couldn't hear that Shen Shuwei's words were a roundabout way of scolding her.
Shen Shuwei raised his eyebrows and said, "Since my aunt has given me full authority, I will speak frankly."
"This person was originally Chu Xinrou's wet nurse. How dare a servant like her take the liberty of stealing her master's property and giving it to someone else? She deserves to be beaten to death. This will serve as a warning to the servants, lest anyone follow her example and disrupt the rules of my aunt's household."
Nanny Lin's mouth was blocked, and she was whimpering in fear. However, before she could struggle for a while, she was dragged away by two servants on her left and right, and was pressed into the yard and beaten with a stick.
Mei Yingzhu listened to Shen Shuwei's words, which showed that he was thinking about her. She couldn't vent her anger. She was startled by the words "beat to death". She looked at Shen Shuwei with forced composure, "He's your family member. If you want to beat him or kill him, take him back home and deal with him. Why are you making a fuss in front of me?"
Chen Shuwei looked at Mei Yingzhu who was refusing to admit it, curled his lips, and calmly picked up the teacup to drink tea.
At this moment, the cloth gag on Nanny Lin's mouth was pulled away, and she let out a series of screams, like a butchered pig, one louder than the other. Meanwhile, Qing Dai was beside her, cursing and swearing, "Shameless and despicable thing! It's a blessing that the master treats you well, but you covet other people's money and property, and you're not afraid of being rotten!"
"Look at yourself in a basin of water. How dare you take a girl's things? Aren't you afraid that retribution will fall on your children and grandchildren?"
Mei Yingzhu couldn't stand it any longer and said with a gloomy face, "Chen Shuwei, what on earth do you want to do? After all, I am your elder. You have someone teach a servant a lesson in the middle of the night and make such a big scene. Are you deliberately trying to bring bad luck to me?"
"This isn't the Marquis of Jingning's mansion, and you're not a young lady from a mansion anymore. Stop showing off in front of me."
Chen Shuwei slowly put down his teacup, still smiling at Mei Yingzhu, "It's precisely because this isn't the Marquis' Mansion, otherwise I would have had this servant who colluded with everyone and couldn't tell good from bad beaten to death long ago."
As if recalling the past, Chen Shuwei said a few more words, "Aunt, you don't know, there are many people in the Jingning Marquis's Mansion who are talkative, and most of them are wealthy masters. This means there are many ways to punish people. I have even beaten someone to death in a cup of tea."
Chen Shu slightly curved his eyebrows and looked at Mei Yingzhu, whose face was ashen. His eyes fell on the Buddhist beads on her wrist. "Auntie is kind-hearted and devoted to Buddhism. No wonder she can't stand seeing these things."
"Forget it, Qingdai, bring her in. I have something to ask her."
Qingdai responded, and two servants came in, carrying Nanny Lin, whose lower body was beaten and covered in blood, and threw her down in the hall.
As luck would have it, Nanny Lin raised her face, stared at Mei Yingzhu with her messy and pale face, and opened her mouth to spit out blood foam.
Just then, a flash of lightning flashed outside, and the white light reflected on Nanny Lin's old face, like a ghost crawling out of the underworld. Mei Yingzhu was so scared that she almost jumped up from the stool.
"You - what on earth are you going to do!" Mei Yingzhu screamed.
Although she was in charge of the Bo's Mansion, servants would make mistakes from time to time. At most, she would order them to be slapped in the face. If she was extremely angry, she would order someone to take their indentures and sell them. She had never seen such a bloody scene.
This Chen Shuwei is worthy of being from a place like the Marquis' Mansion, his methods are extremely cruel!
Chen Shuwei winked at Qingdai, who grabbed Nanny Lin's head and pointed directly at Mei Yingzhu, "Tell me everything you took. If you make even the slightest mistake, I'll sew your mouth shut and you won't have to speak again."
Sew...sew it up!
Mei Yingzhu almost fainted just by imagining that scene.
But thinking of all the valuables she had taken from the second house, she was still reluctant to return them, so she gritted her teeth and forced herself to sit back down.
"Your Second House has no one in charge right now. As your elder, I was worried that you young ones would be cheated of your property, so I was kind enough to keep it for you. Yet, you just rushed over with your men, shouting and yelling for violence, causing chaos and unrest!"
"But after staying in the Marquis' Mansion for a few years, you really think you're a Marquis' daughter?" Mei Yingzhu's face turned pale and she slammed the table fiercely. "Tomorrow I will ask the old lady to find someone to teach you the rules!"
Seeing that she was still determined to see Huang He, Chen Shuwei kindly reminded her, "Even if I'm not a daughter of the Marquis' Mansion, my friendship with the Princess of Hengyang and the Princess of Yongning can't be fake."
"The elder brother of the Princess of Yongning is a yamen official. Auntie, you might as well guess how many years of exile one could receive for forcibly seizing someone else's property."
"If I'm determined, my aunt could be the next Nanny Lin." Shen Shuwei raised his chin in the direction of Nanny Lin, motioning Mei Yingzhu to look, "But if my aunt returns the things now, I can pretend that nothing happened, and our two families can still support each other in the future."
Shen Shuwei's words made it clear whether he wanted to be her enemy or stand on her side.
Mei Yingzhu's face turned completely pale, especially after seeing Nanny Lin's smashed lower body, she almost vomited.
She clutched her skirt tightly, with a complicated look in her eyes.
It has to be said that Shen Shuwei is good at winning people's hearts. It is not worth it to ruin the possibility of dealing with the princess and the county lord for a box of gold and silver.
After a long while, she gritted her teeth and forced out a sentence, "Someone, bring out the lacquered wooden box in my room."
The left and right wives will be exiled in the next few days. When they are exiled, the second wife’s money will still be hers.
If the second house is lucky enough to escape punishment, then based on the friendship between Shen Shuwei and the princess, she can also get a share of the profits.
Mei Yingzhu held her breath and watched Shen Shuwei and Shen Zhiyang count the belongings in the box.
"If you want to count, take it back to your courtyard. I need to rest."
After saying this, Mei Yingzhu was about to leave with the help of her maid.
"Wait, there's a gold hairpin and a jade bracelet missing." Shen Zhiyang called out to her.
Mei Yingzhu glared at Chen Zhiyang fiercely, then realized that these two things were taken away by her daughter Shen Wan.
"It's just a small thing. We are all relatives. Are you so short-sighted that you have to make a fuss about it?" Mei Yingzhu said unhappily.
"You——" Shen Zhiyang stood up angrily and was about to argue with her.
If it's a small thing, why is she hiding it and not giving it back to them? Shameless thing!
"Okay, Ayang, auntie is right, there is no need to worry about such a small thing." Shen Shuwei held Shen Zhiyang's hand.
Shen Zhiyang looked at Shen Shuwei in shock, while Mei Yingzhu sneered, "You are quite sensible and know when to stop."
As she said this, she twisted her waist and was about to go out.
"Please convert the gold hairpin and jade bracelet into silver, along with the interest earned over the past two days, and give it to me."
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