In late July, jujubes are red, grapes are purple, and small traders and vendors are hawking along the streets. The sound of autumn is in the ears, the rhyme is desolate, and those who are depressed and sentimental can't help but feel the feeling of being old.

In the early morning, Hongwen sat lazily in front of the window, and powdered her face without a match. Because his wife returned home, she had a ghost in her heart, and she thought about going to compensate Lu'er, but because she couldn't pull her face for a while, she rubbed it for several days.

"I can't put it off any longer, God knows if that slut in Lu'er can't help but tell the truth. Alas! It's just hateful that Xilan was pinched by others. ”

Hongwen sighed helplessly, the Xilan hair outside the window was uncombed and unwashed, and she was splashing water.

Suddenly, a few people walked in from outside, and the leader was Lu'er, Hongwen's expression suddenly became unnatural, and she saw them saying a few words around Xilan, and with a bang, the copper basin fell to the ground.

"Not good!"

Hongwen's expression changed, and she hurriedly got up and put on her coat and walked out, not wanting to see a few people gone.

She hurried to the upper room, and was surprised to see that the entire outer hall was full of people, Hongwen glanced at Xilan, who was red and white, frightened and overwhelmed, and put on a smiling face and went in to say good morning.

Here Du Qianqian knew that she was not worried about chasing after her, so she said slowly: "I called Xilan to ask a few words, and I was about to ask you to listen, sit down."

"Yes." Hongwen relaxed a little, and said what does Mrs. want to ask? Odd.

As soon as her ass sat down, Du Qianqian's face sank instantly, and she said sharply to Xilan: "You entered the mansion at the age of eleven, and now you have been three or four years, and you should know the rules of the mansion." Men and women have always been inside and outside the family, unless there is something to say, not allowed to talk in private, let alone eyebrows, no matter how hard and decent people have been in the house for many years, once they commit this disease, they will be expelled immediately. Don't you know?"

"It's over." Hongwen's heart trembled.

Xilan's eyes were dark, and she whispered tremblingly, "The slave knows."

Du Qianqian sneered: "What you did a few days ago is very good, very good!" Do you think that if I am not at home, I don't know what is going on in the house? Don't you know that I am outside, my heart is in the house, and you are the most uneasy, how many people have been instructed to watch in the open? Say, if you can confess the truth today, I can fulfill your face and not let the lord know; If you dare to conceal half a word, you will be killed immediately. ”

Xilan, who had a ghost in her heart, was questioned by her wife, as if she had a thunderbolt in mid-air, and the whole person was stunned. Na Lu'er waited for a class of girls to go to the room, and stood behind his wife with a smile on her face, looking at her schadenfreude with a shy face and shaved her nose, and she was ashamed to bury her ears and ears, and she couldn't wait to get into the cracks in the stones.

Could it be that someone else exposed it? Hongwen, who wanted to strangle Lu'er to death, muttered, she had already guessed that nine times out of ten it was that incident, because Aunt Shen promised to help her stabilize Lu'er and Xiang'er, so even if other girls were playing right and wrong, but it was not as good as what Lu'er had seen with her own eyes, how could Mrs. know the details?

But looking at Du Qianqian's fierce reaction at this moment, it is clear that she knows everything, and she can't tell Xilan about it, so my wife's affairs also know?

Thinking about it like this, in front of so many people, Hongwen was even more embarrassed than Xilan, and she couldn't help but feel like ashes, and she regretted in her heart that she shouldn't have taken the liberty of following her, and she clearly became a self-throwing net, and her buttocks seemed to be on fire, like pins and needles.

She is a person who does not have many city governments, Du Qianqian looked at her trembling pitiful appearance, smiled coldly, and asked Xilan instead: "Don't move quickly!" Is it possible that you still want to have any ideas? Want to use strong words and make sense, but you can't get entangled? Otherwise, do you still want to be cunning to others?"

Xilan, whose face was as pale as paper, was discouraged, and knew that she couldn't hide from it today, so she knelt on the ground and said miserably: "The slave and maid should die, I was confused for a while, I just asked for the grace of my wife, and beat the slave and maid to death with a stick, without resentment." If the wife must ask anything, the slave and maid admit that they are all there, and they have nothing to do with others. ”

Xilan, who was determined to live and die, was unwilling to betray her grandmother, and after finishing speaking, she couldn't help but feel sad for a while, lying on the ground and crying, and Hongwen's eyes immediately turned red.

Du Qianqian didn't expect her to be so fierce, and the secret path was really expected by Aunt Shen, and she was in a hurry to ask, it would be related to their lives.

It is true to say that Du Qianqian is a well-known good person in the capital, but in terms of internal affairs, because of several soft-hearted losses in the early years, in recent years, as people pass the middle of the year, they have already become steely in matters related to the reputation of the Mu family or the safety of their children.

Therefore, when the people below saw her say that she was going to fight and kill, most people would not doubt it, not to mention that Xilan was just a teenage girl.

Xilan's crime is not to death, and Du Qianqian doesn't want to cause death. In fact, she and Aunt Shen's concerns are exactly the same, once the investigation is revealed, Xilan can't resist and reveal Hongwen's hidden feelings, not only Mu Ang will lose face, but even she is not overlooked, after all, it is Hongwen who she lifts with all her might.

In the final analysis, it was all because of Hongwen, Du Qianqian glanced at her viciously and said, "You heard it with your own ears, it wasn't that I believed her and instigated her, and deliberately wronged Xilan in your room." Don't think I don't know what you're doing, I'll only give you one chance, from now on you must be more cautious and behave, otherwise don't blame me for being ruthless! What are you still doing here? Isn't it possible to wait for Xilan to say that you are coming out before you go away?"

These words hit Hongwen's face mercilessly, not to mention face, even the lining is gone, and everyone can guess what's going on.

The self-conscious Xilanhuo stood up, covered his face, and ran back crying all the way.

Du Qianqian was worried that she was extremely ashamed, and she felt that she had no face to see people running to kill herself, so she beckoned Lu'er to come over, and said a few words in her ear, Lu'er immediately nodded and went out with Hongwen.

"Go and call Mu Ming." Du Qianqian commanded with a straight face.

At that moment, a few little girls standing under the porch rushed out, and soon one of them found Mu Ming. Mu Ming didn't know why, so he asked the reason while walking.

On weekdays, he does a lot of things for the little girl, so the little girl told him, Mu Ming was so frightened that he had already entered the inner house, so he had to walk into the upper room.

As soon as he entered the house, Mu Ming immediately knelt on the ground, didn't dare to distinguish a word, and kowtowed to his wife again and again, making a thumping sound.

Du Qianqian didn't ask, there were too many maids, so she directly ordered someone to call Mu Fu in, and when the others came in a hurry, she talked about the matter and scolded the big housekeeper fiercely.

Men and women are inferior, and they must be punished heavily. However, Du Qianqian did not announce the crime in public, so there is no evidence, and the people below will be jealous when they gossip behind their backs, and Mu Fu will also explain that the two children only have a private relationship.

In the courtyard, two sturdy male servants hit Mu Ming's forty boards hard, almost knocking people unconscious, and also beating everyone's hearts in shock.

After the fight, Mu Ming, who was lying on the stool, panted convulsively. Mu Fu first kowtowed to his wife to confess his guilt, and called in the four little servants who were on duty to pass the word.

Just when the big guys thought it was over, they saw Mu Fu shouting, "Throw this beast on the ground."

The four little guys were stunned for a moment, and hurriedly stepped forward to drag Mu Ming down and throw him on the ground. Mu Fu's eyes were red with anger, and he snatched a wool board with his hand, and seemed to use all his strength to fight it, hitting it more than a dozen times in a row, looking like he couldn't beat Mu Ming into two pieces on the spot.

In the blink of an eye, he hit twenty times, Mu Fu was going to beat again, Du Qianqian hurriedly scolded: "Okay, don't you want to beat your nephew to death?"

"It's time to die, it's clean!"

Mu Fu threw away the wool board unwillingly, the reason why he was so angry was that Du Qianqian said something I was afraid that it was a little unclear with Aunt Hong, if this was known by the master, if it was true, then he Mu Fu would probably have to die to apologize.

At this moment, Mu Ming's skin was beaten open, and blood soaked out along his trouser legs, looking shocking, lying in the yard like a gossamer, and he didn't dare to move.

Du Qianqian said: "Bring the ring ruler and give it twenty strokes on each hand."

Xilan was worried about Mu Ming and lowered her head. The mother-in-law took the ring ruler from the maid's hand, pulled out her two hands, raised the ring ruler and beat it hard.

"Ahh Xilan's painful waist twisted, and she avoided the death penalty and no longer had the previous hardness, and she begged for mercy in pain.

After the fight, Du Qianqian said: "Take her back, give it to your nephew immediately, and you don't have to pay any value, and I won't reward anything." Since I have already punished them, you are not allowed to beat and scold them again, so there is no need to mention it on the master's side, just say that it is my intention, and reward Xilan to Mu Ming as his wife. You are allowed to take them out of the house immediately, and you are not allowed to stay, and you are not allowed to set foot in the door of the house in the future. ”

"Yes." Mu Fu bowed down and smiled bitterly, his nephew had a good future and died for a girl, but he was lucky to have a daughter-in-law.

Everyone was amazed, and immediately thought that the wife's disposition was reasonable, and there was nothing to fault with. Mu Ming and Xilan also heard it clearly, and they were extremely sad and happy, although they were humiliated, they could be regarded as fulfilling each other's wishes, so the two of them were very grateful to their wives in their hearts.

Mu Ming opened his eyes and struggled to climb forward a few steps, Xilan cried and ran over to help him, and the two of them respectfully kowtowed to his wife to thank him.

"Go ahead." Du Qianqian's face softened, and she said softly: "In the future, husband and wife will support each other, live a good life, and remember today's lesson."

"Yes." Mu Ming said ashamedly.

"Take care, ma'am." Shelan burst into tears.

At that moment, Mu Fu led the two of them out, and scolded his nephew again, scolded and scolded, and immediately hired a sedan chair to send the two home to recuperate first.

A month later, Mu Ming married Xilan as his wife, he knew that it was difficult to survive in Jinling, and he didn't want to send someone under the fence at his uncle's house, so he took Xilan with his savings and resolutely went south and went overseas by boat to work hard.

Du Qianqian asked someone to invite Aunt Shen, removed their names, and said to everyone: "When the master asks, he will say that it is my opinion."

She also instructed Aunt Shen to choose an old and reliable person among the servants, and the youngest girl in her room.

"Turn over and serve Hongwen, you two must not leave her side by the inch, do a good job, I will have another reward every month, and no one will be allowed to have three long and two short." (To be continued......)