Shen Qingqiu didn't plan to tell her mother about this, firstly because she was afraid that her mother would worry, and also because it was very frustrating to have Gu Yarong's incident exposed.
The second reason is that he was afraid that Old Lady Xu would find out. After all, she is old, and if she knew about this kind of thing, she would inevitably be angry, which would not be good for her health.
The third is the reputation of the Marquis’ Mansion.
Meng knew this, "Don't worry, Qiu'er, leave the rest to me."
Seeing that she understood what he meant, Shen Qingqiu nodded, "I have stayed in the Marquis' Mansion for a whole day. It's time to go back to the palace. I'm going to see my mother."
Meng nodded and sent Shen Qingqiu out of her yard.
Then she held on to the chair, her face looking extremely ugly, and ordered the maid beside her, "Go and call Chen and Gu Yarong to me!" Seeing that she was so angry, the maid did not dare to delay and hurriedly went to invite Chen and Gu Yarong.
Meng thought for a moment and then said, "Call the young master to me as well."
Seeing that she was about to call Gu Shaohe, the confidant beside her immediately advised: "Madam, no matter what, the young master is Chen's biological son. No matter what mistakes she made, if you punish her in front of the young master, won't it make the young master alienated from you?"
Mrs. Meng frowned and said helplessly, "How could I not know this? But the mother and daughter of the Chen family are so bold. If I don't punish them today, I don't know what kind of disaster they will cause in the future. Instead of letting him guess behind his back why I punished his mother, it's better to let him see for himself."
"If this grown-up child still can't understand things, what can I rely on him to do in the future?"
Having said this, the confidant would not continue to stop him.
Soon Chen and Gu Yarong arrived. At this moment, her son Gu Yarong looked a little impatient, "Why did you call someone over now? It's late at night, I'm already sleepy."
Seeing that she was not afraid and looked confused at this time, Mrs. Meng was so angry that she knocked over the teacup in front of her, "Is this how you treat your stepmother? Kneel down!"
These days, Mrs. Meng treated the mother and daughter coldly, but she never asked them to follow any rules.
Gu Yarong was stunned for a moment, bit her lip, and knelt down unwillingly. "I wonder what important matter my stepmother has called my daughter and me here so late at night."
Meng took a deep breath and said, "Do you really think that what you two did today was perfect and no one knew about it?"
Chen was a little flustered, but Gu Yarong was not.
She raised her eyes and looked at Meng. "Mother is our legitimate mother. She shares our ups and downs. Isn't that what mother said herself? If something like this happens, it's my fault. Mother can't escape the blame either."
"You!" Meng had not expected that she would still be so shameless, but due to her upbringing, she could not say anything vicious, so she could only point at Chen and say, "This is the good daughter you raised!"
Chen shrank her head and dared not utter a single sound.
Gu Shaohe, who had been watching from the side for a long time, had no idea what had happened. Instead, he asked Meng suspiciously, "What happened that made mother so angry?"
Meng calmed down her anger a little, and then told Gu Shaohe everything that Chen and Gu Yarong had done today.
She wanted to see whether Gu Shaohe would still favor his biological mother and sister under such circumstances.
Gu Shaohe's face was grim. He had learned a lot from Meng's teachings these days. Not to mention the words of courtesy, righteousness, integrity and shame, just what his sister did today was clearly putting the heads of the whole family under the knife. Gu Shaohe cupped his hands and said, "Mother, I know that my mother and sister have committed a heinous crime this time, and I shouldn't beg for mercy. But I only ask that when you punish them, you can spare their lives because they just came to the capital from the border and don't know the rules of the capital."
Meng nodded.
Meng was satisfied with what Gu Shaohe said.
Meng didn't want Gu Shaohe to be so confused and biased towards Chen in such a situation, but if he was so cold-blooded and ruthless that he didn't even care about his own mother, how could Meng, as an adoptive mother, not feel disappointed? It was not so bad now.
Chen Que was disappointed. She pointed at Gu Shaohe in disbelief and said, "You little bastard! I have raised you for so many years and it was in vain. You are helping outsiders to punish your own mother! I, I, I will beat you to death!"
Chen was about to pounce on her, but was stopped by the servants in Meng's room.
"How can you be so rude in front of me!" Meng slammed the table.
She had not disciplined Chen and Gu Yarong enough before, which led to them becoming so arrogant that they dared to do anything.
Now that this has happened, it's not too late to make amends.
Mrs. Chen had never seen Mrs. Meng so serious before. Her legs softened and she knelt on the ground. Mrs. Meng said, "Ms. Chen, I just want to ask you, were you there when Gu Yarong did this?"
Gu Yarong glanced at her mother from the side.
Chen was a mother after all, and she wanted to help her daughter at first, so she just said, "Madam, don't blame Yarong. This was all my idea. She was just a child and she listened to me... I... I also wanted Yarong to have a good husband. If Yarong follows the emperor, then Qingqiu is our daughter, and so is Yarong. If Qingqiu becomes the queen, then Yarong can also be a noble concubine. Wouldn't the life of the Marquis's mansion be more prosperous?"
Meng was so angry at her words that she wanted to laugh, "You did such a shameless thing, and you still want to drag down our entire mansion?"
Meng took a breath and said, "Well, since you have admitted it yourself, there is no need for me to ask. Come on, take him away and drown him in a pond!"
"He instigated the girl to ruin her reputation, hooked up with a man outside her family, and drugged the emperor. This crime is not worth dying for even once!"
Chen thought that if she took the blame, she would at most be beaten with a few sticks or locked up for a few days. Anyway, no one would know about it. However, she did not expect Meng to be so cruel and wanted to kill her directly! Chen's legs went weak immediately, "Madam, Madam, spare my life!"
Gu Yarong had not expected this. No matter how cruel she was, she would not watch her own mother die. "It was my idea. My mother did it because I told her to. Besides, it didn't work out. Why did you have to be so cruel as to bite my mother's life?"
Mrs. Meng turned her head and looked at Gu Yarong. "Am I cruel? If you come back and take a closer look at the book I asked Nanny to send to your room, you will know that if this happened to an ordinary lady, her life would have been ruined. But you are still acting like nothing happened?"
Meng had already found out that Chen did not have such big ambitions.
Even when she climbed onto Gu Sanlang's bed, she was pushed by others. She was easily influenced by others. Gu Yarong's eyes had been rolling around since she came to the mansion. She looked like a woman with her own ideas.
Now that we have tested it, it turns out that she was the one in charge.
"What do you want, mother? Nothing happened. Do you want to kill us?" Gu Yarong asked. "Mother, don't forget that I am your father's only daughter. Many people in Beijing know that we, an orphan, have taken refuge with Gu Jia. If I die inexplicably, people will inevitably ask a lot of questions."
At this point, Gu Yarong smiled and said, "If mother really told us the reason for executing us, it would probably bring shame to the Marquisate, right?"
At this point, Gu Yarong actually felt a little regretful. She shouldn't have jumped out just now.
It was impossible for Meng to kill her mother. She was just trying to trick her.
Gu Yarong regretted her impatience.
Mrs. Meng shook her head. If he still didn't repent even in this situation, he was either extremely stupid or selfish and hopeless.
"You're right." Meng said.
Then he turned his head and looked at Chen. "You failed to discipline our daughter properly, so I will fine you half a year's salary. I wanted to punish you with a stick, but Shaohe is old after all. If you, her biological mother, lose face in front of the servants, it will not be good for him, so I will only punish you with house arrest."
She sighed, "Mrs. Chen, you are a mother, and I am not. I think you should care more about the child's future than I do. I know you were at the border before, and I also know what kind of identity you relied on to get to where you are today. But the border and the capital are two different concepts, and Gu Yarong is not you either. She is a noble lady from the Marquis's Mansion."
"She doesn't need to use any tricks to marry a man from a good family."
"But have you ever thought about what happened today? If it was a different man, once the truth came out, Gu Yarong's reputation would be ruined. Who would she marry? Most of the famous families in the capital know each other's background. Let's not talk about Gu Yarong, let's talk about your son. You asked him to study and learn to read, so you wanted him to have a promising future, right?"
"He has now returned to the Marquis' Mansion and is the pillar of the Third House. With the path that the Marquis' Mansion has opened for him, and his diligent practice, he will eventually achieve success and fame. In another three or four years, when he reaches the age of twenty, he will be given a wife. However, when the famous ladies in the capital hear that Gu Shaohe's sister has done such a thing, which family is willing to marry their daughter to our Third House?"
Meng's earnest advice was so good that even the dumb Chen could understand a little bit.
"In this noble family, reputation is always more important than anything else. Since you have come to live here, you must abide by the rules here, otherwise you will die without a complete body."
Meng looked at Chen and said, "I have told you so much, do you understand now?"
Chen nodded stiffly.
Mrs. Meng breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that she had convinced one person. She looked at Gu Yarong next to her, but saw that she was still kneeling indifferently. Her son's migraine was coming back.
"Forget it. I won't tell you anymore. Anyway, you should think twice before doing anything in the future."
Just like Qiu'er said, she couldn't enter the palace anyway. If it really didn't work out in the future, she could just marry her off far away and be sent away.
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