My wife is frail and sickly

Mrs. Lin has been in a state of distress these past few days. Even though her shop was burned down, she reported it to the officials, but for the sake of the Marquis, the officials were very concerned about it.But after searching for several days, there was no clue at all. The fire seemed to have started for no reason.

The man who was bribed to set fire to Wang's shop was not found. He searched at home, with relatives and friends, and at places he frequented, but no one was found. It was as if a living person had disappeared out of thin air.

Most of the shop's beams were burned down, and the walls were so black that they were useless no matter how much they were tidied up, so they had to rebuild.Not only would one day's delay mean that one day's worth of money would be lost, but one would also have to dig out a lot of money, which made Mrs. Lin frightened.

Now her daughter ran back crying again. Ms. Lin was shocked and distressed, "What's wrong? Aren't you having a party with your little sisters? We had a quarrel, or who bullied you?"

Shen Qingya threw herself into her mother's arms, feeling extremely aggrieved and said, "Mom, I have no shame in seeing people. I will never go out again. They all laugh at me. They..."

Mrs. Lin's face darkened, and she looked coldly at her daughter's personal maid, "How do you serve a girl?"

Even though Mrs. Lin gave birth to three sons, her daughter Shen Qingya was the one she loved most.This is her first child. As a first-time mother, she already has a natural preference for her first child.Furthermore, it was precisely because she was pregnant with this daughter that her cousin made up his mind...at least half of her dignity today was brought about by her daughter.

The eldest maid's scalp tightened, and she knelt down on the ground, begging for forgiveness again and again, "Madam, please forgive me. I know I was wrong, please punish me."

"Mom, I don't blame Haitang. She takes care of her daughter very carefully. Don't punish her." Shen Qingya raised her head and begged softly, "They said, said..." She couldn't say anything for a long time, but she was about to cry.

Mrs. Lin stroked her daughter's head lovingly and looked at the maid kneeling on the ground, "Forget it, since the eldest lady is interceding for you, I won't punish you this time. But you must know that it is your duty to serve the master well. Only when the master gets better can you get better."

"Thank you, Madam, and thank you, Miss. I swear, I will serve you more attentively in the future."

Mrs. Lin was satisfied and slightly raised her lips, "You go down." She sat down with her daughter in her arms, "Yaya, tell me, what did they say about you?"

Shen Qingya bit her lip and then spoke hesitantly, "They said our family was shameless. They said that our daughter pretended to be the legitimate daughter of her original wife and deceived the Wang family. They also said that my mother's good reputation in the past was all fake..."

The original words were even worse. She didn't have the courage to imitate them, otherwise she wouldn't have been so angry that she ran back crying.

"Did they say that in front of you?" Mrs. Lin's pupils shrank suddenly, her face became terrifyingly gloomy, and she couldn't help but tighten her hands holding her daughter.

"Mom, it hurts!" Shen Qingya had never seen her mother look like this before. She was uneasy and whispered that it hurt.

Only then did Mrs. Lin realize that she had hurt her daughter, and seeing the fear in her eyes, she quickly let go of her hand and changed her expression, "Mom thought of something else and got distracted. Did it hurt you?"

Facing her mother's concerned eyes, Shen Qingya shook her head gently, "It doesn't hurt very much."

Looking at her daughter's delicate face, Mrs. Lin felt proud of being a mother.Her daughter, the daughter she has raised for 14 years, is obedient, sensible, and looks so good.

"Yaya, tell mother, did they say those words in front of you?"

"No." Shen Qingya lowered her eyes, "I heard what they said behind my back. Mom, they are all ladies, but they talk about people's rights and wrongs behind their backs. It's so abominable. And they don't know the truth at all. To If it weren't for our relationship with the Changping Marquis Mansion, Wang, well, the business of my uncle's family wouldn't be so smooth. Li Mingzhen and Zhao Xinyue, I have helped them rewrite their poems before, mother, I will never care about them again. ”

She looked angry and furious.

Mrs. Lin touched her daughter's little face and thought to herself: Yaya is still too innocent.She smiled and comforted her daughter, "Just ignore it! There are so many girls in Beijing. Let's play together if we can. If you can't, let it go. Don't wrong yourself, or my mother won't be able to let go."

She was coaxed with just one sentence. Shen Qingya's eyebrows curled up and she said, "Mom, you are so kind." Before she was happy for a second, her face turned gloomy again, "They are all talking about our family, how can I go out in the future?"

Lin's expression remained unchanged, but a stern look flashed in her eyes. She taught patiently: "Yaya, you should know that it is wrong for them to tell Taoists behind their backs. Next time you meet again, you might as well point it out generously. And rumors will eventually happen. It's just a rumor. The pure will self-purify, so you don't have to worry about it. Your mother is your stepmother. From the point of view of etiquette, the Wang family is your maternal family. You should be confident. What's there to feel guilty about? The more guilty and angry you are, the more likely outsiders will be. I think the truth is just like the rumors. Think about it carefully, is this the case?"

This was the first time that Mrs. Lin admitted that she was a stepmother in front of her daughter. This was the most taboo thing for her in the past, but in order to teach her daughter, she didn't care about anything else.

Shen Qingya was thoughtful, her eyes flickered, she lowered her eyes in embarrassment, and admitted her mistake obediently, "Mom, I was wrong." "I don't blame you if I'm wrong. You are still young and haven't experienced anything. In the future, Mom I will teach you slowly."

"Okay!" Lying in her mother's warm embrace, Shen Qingya felt extremely happy.

Mrs. Lin coaxed her daughter well and sent her trusted maid to take her back to her yard. The expression on her face softened, "Mother Xu, go find out what the rumors are about?"

Mother Xu went and came back again and again. She was very efficient, but her face was ugly. "Madam, the rumors are spreading widely outside. It seems that everyone except our house knows about it."

"What has been spread?" Lin's face was expressionless.

Mother Xu was silent, "Rumors, what good can they say? They are nothing more than slanderous words, so it's better not to taint Madam's ears."

"Say!" Ms. Lin's voice was low, but Mrs. Xu's heart suddenly hit her, and she said quickly: "Say that our prince's family looks ugly, and for the sake of money from the Wang family, we used the second daughter to pretend to be the eldest daughter; that you are very clever. You are obviously a step-in-law, but you are a step-brother. She firmly grasped the Marquis Mansion and the Marquis in her own hands, wiped away all traces of her original wife, and gained both fame and profit. She also said that the one in front of her died in a strange way, and [-]% of it..." It was you who caused it, she didn't dare. Go on.

Mrs. Lin closed her eyes and then opened them again. There was an indescribable hatred in her eyes.

Wang family!

It must be a rumor spread by the Wang family!

She couldn't think of anyone else besides the Wang family.

She also asked why there was no movement from the Wang family. So they were waiting for her here?Careful and dangerous!Do you think you can control the Hou Mansion by spreading a few rumors?I just don’t know what it means!
That night, Mrs. Lin cried so hard in front of Shen Derong that the little accuser said, "...If you don't look at the monk's face and look at the Buddha's face, even if you hate me, don't you still have a marquis? How could the uncle of the Wang family do this? What? Isn’t this putting the face of our Marquis and you on the ground? In these years with the Wang family, I have been practicing three festivals and six rituals, and my concubine has not missed a beat in etiquette. If there is no credit, there is always hard work, right? There is nothing you can’t do without sitting. Are you coming down here to have a good discussion? Are you going to let outsiders laugh at you?"

Shen Derong's face was filled with dark clouds. He remembered that the way his colleagues looked at him yesterday was very different from usual.They even gathered together to talk behind his back, but when he came closer, they stopped talking...it turned out that he had become a joke!

Shen Derong didn't care that it was night and went directly to Wang's house to question him.

Wang Hecheng smiled sarcastically, "Mr. Shen, do you think this is a rumor? Why do I think this is the truth? Does Mr. Shen have the courage to do it but not the courage to admit it? Is Shen Qingya really my sister's daughter? I see her talking to you like that Why do the two step wives look so alike? Where is the daughter my sister gave birth to? Is it dead or alive? Or is it that the daughter my sister gave birth to was not a daughter at all, but a son? The step wife is worried that he will block the way of her child. , encouraged you to change people? Mr. Shen, the tiger father still refuses to eat his children. You have no humanity and you are a father in vain!"

He cursed loudly, he had wanted to scold him for a long time!

Just scold him, what else could he do to him?Anyway, most of the Wang family's business is in Jiangnan. No matter how powerful Shen Derong is, at least they dare not do anything to him on the surface.When he bought the house, he carefully selected it. The neighbor on the left was the censor, and the house on the right was also the censor. Shen Derong would try to touch him?
"That's nonsense!" Shen Derong's face turned livid with anger, "Who said that Mrs. Wang gave birth to a son? There was no such thing..."

"Even if it's a daughter, what about the child?"

Shen Derong...

What did this make him say?No matter how you say it, it's all wrong, he became angry, "That's the child of the Shen family, what does it have to do with you, the Wang family? A man should act openly and aboveboard, you spread rumors, secretly do despicable things, you slander the reputation of the Marquis House, you, you..."

"My sister is her biological mother, so why does it have nothing to do with my Wang family's business? When the Hou Mansion accepted the money from my Wang family, they didn't think of clearing up the relationship." Wang Hecheng sneered, "Master Shen thought it was me spreading the rumors? I thought, Aren’t you busy looking for my sister’s child and didn’t have time?”

"Don't make excuses. Who else is there besides your Wang family?" Shen Derong, like Lin, believed that this was done by the Wang family.

"Then I don't know. Who knows how many people your Changping Marquis Mansion has offended?" Wang Hecheng retorted, making Shen Derong jump in anger.He is not good at quarreling with others. How can he quarrel with the eloquent Wang Hecheng?

Want to get rough?The servants in the Wang family's courtyard were watching eagerly, not to mention that there were censors living on both sides.

Finally... Shen Derong came in a fierce manner and left in a rage. His chest hurt from holding in his anger.