The Three Spirit Stones

The news that Lady Hua Ning Zuo had beaten the angel of imperial decree spread across the city of Bianjing in an instant!

On the day of the imperial edict, many families who were on good terms with the Cheng and Cao families asked their servants to send congratulatory gifts. After they came back, they reported the situation to their masters.

Ah Cai became famous in Bianjing City, but it was a bad reputation!

The Cao family also received the news immediately. Cao Wei had prepared to return to the northwest in the past few days, so he could go home for dinner.

When the Cheng family was granted an imperial title, Madam Cao sent her butler Cao Zhong to the Cheng family to deliver a gift. When the whole family was eating, Cao Zhong hurriedly ran in and shouted,

"Something bad has happened, sir, madam, it's terrible!"

Cao Wei never liked people being rash and making a fuss. When he was about to teach Cao Zhong a lesson with a stern face, Cao Zhong said with shaking hands, "Little ancestor, that little ancestor..."

Because Cao Wei had privately called Ah Cai "little ancestor", Cao Zhong followed suit in a moment of desperation.

When everyone heard it was Acai, they immediately became nervous. That guy's brain circuit was not normal.

"She...she beat up the messenger angel!"

Then, Cao Zhong told everything that had happened in Cheng Mansion just now!

Everyone was stunned!

Is this something humans do?

Who doesn't know that a reward of five thousand gold is equivalent to a reward of five thousand copper coins?

This is just an imperial decree given as a token of my appreciation. How can I think it is worth five thousand taels of gold?

The angel delivering the emperor's decree is not an ordinary eunuch, he represents the emperor. If you hit him, aren't you hitting the emperor in the face?

If the emperor blames someone, he can confiscate the property and destroy the entire family at any time, and the Cao family will be implicated.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Cao's hands were shaking as she held the bowl and chopsticks. She asked her husband with trembling lips, "Master, Master, what should I do?"

Cao Wei didn't expect that he would be given such a scene before returning to the northwest. He frowned and said, "I'll go to Cheng's house first."

After saying that, he put down his bowl and chopsticks and walked out, leaving Mrs. Cao, her children, and her daughters-in-law looking at each other in bewilderment!

Cao Qian now feels that A Cai had shown mercy to her before, as he only threw the dog into the pond instead of throwing her into the pond!

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In the side hall of the Cheng Mansion, Sun Yuechan was trying to calm her mother-in-law. What happened today almost made her faint!

The culprit, Cheng Acai, was huddled in a large chair with her legs hugged, looking pitifully at Mrs. Cheng like a kitten who had made a mistake, and said, "...Mom, don't be angry, I won't dare to do it again next time!"

"You...you, there will be a next time? It's hard to say whether our Cheng Mansion can survive tomorrow?"

Madam Cheng pointed at her with a shaking finger.

Sun Yuechan calmed her down and said, "Mother, don't worry. Your husband is in the palace now. Maybe things are not as bad as you think."

"I am afraid even in the palace. What if the emperor gets angry? Oh! My poor son!"

Thinking that her son might have met with an unexpected accident, Mrs. Cheng burst into tears immediately.

At this time, Ah Cai interrupted and said, "Mom, don't scare yourself! He can't be in trouble. I'm fine, how could he be in trouble?"

What she meant was that she and Cheng Yu were linked by the same fate, and she would definitely feel it if Cheng Yu got into trouble.

And who is he? Even if something happens to the emperor, it won't be his turn to get into trouble.

But Mrs. Cheng didn't know this. She only knew that Ah Cai was still making sarcastic remarks at this time and didn't worry about her husband's safety at all.

She was so angry that she no longer cared about her status as a descendant of a god. She pointed at Ah Cai and shouted,

"Shut up! If anything happens to my son, I will kick you out of the house."

Ah Cai had never seen Mrs. Chengguo so angry. She stared at her blankly, her mouth pursed and she burst into tears.

Sun Yuechan looked at her pitiful appearance and could hardly imagine that not long ago, she had grabbed Eunuch Xu like a ferocious little tiger, hysterically shouting at him to spit out the gold.

She grabbed the person's hair bun, and several people tried to pull it open but failed. When they used force, Eunuch Xu cried out in pain. In the end, Yuechan pried her fingers apart one by one, and Eunuch Xu was able to get away.

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When Cheng Yu hurried home from the palace, Cao Wei was comforting his mother in the side hall!

When they heard the servants shouting that the Marquis had returned, they all asked as if they had seen a savior, "How is it going? How does the emperor plan to deal with the Cheng family?"

When they heard him say that the government did not blame them and that it was just a misunderstanding, they finally felt relieved!

Mrs. Cheng immediately wanted to go to the Buddhist temple to burn incense, and Yuechan accompanied her.

Cheng Yu walked up to Ah Cai, who was still curled up in a chair and crying silently, touched her head and asked, "Do you know you are wrong?"

She nodded,

Then he asked, "Do you know what's wrong?"

He nodded and said, "I shouldn't have hit someone without asking clearly and without knowing the truth."

Cheng Yu sighed inwardly!

She still didn't understand. The class system in the Song Dynasty was strictly divided. Beating and killing people was fine, and beating eunuchs was even finer. The problem was who was being beaten and killed.

But she couldn't explain all this to him. Seeing her pitiful appearance, he couldn't help but feel distressed. He helped her dry her tears, picked her up, and said to Cao Wei beside him, "Uncle, wait for me here for a while. I'll take her back to rest first."

Back in the side hall, the uncle and nephew sat down. Cao Wei said, "Prepare a generous gift and personally deliver it to Eunuch Xu tomorrow."

"That's exactly what I meant!"

"...Xu'er, I think you should think about this carefully. It's not a good idea for Ah Cai to always stir up trouble like this. She won't be so lucky every time. What if one day she pokes a hole in the sky? Can you patch it up?"

"Uncle, you are right, but I don't know what to do for the time being. She didn't do this on purpose, she just doesn't understand the rules here. When she is well behaved, she is actually very well behaved."

Cao Wei thought to himself, how could you say that when she is well behaved, she is very well behaved. You have forced me to call her my little ancestor!

But I can't blame my nephew. Having a wife like this, he has it harder than anyone else!

Then he sighed and continued, "In the future, try not to go out unless you have something to do. If you really have to go out, it's best to take her with you to watch over her. You can stop anything that happens to her in time. Otherwise, if I go back to the northwest, how can Yuechan and your mother be left alone to watch over her?"

"I know,"

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Sun Yuechan felt that her mother-in-law was hiding something from her, and that thing was Ah Cai’s true identity!

I remember when I first came to the Cheng family, although my mother-in-law liked me very much, she still had to set the rules. For someone like Ah Cai, let alone today, even in the past, she would have to use the family rules.

Of course, she is the daughter of the Cheng family's benefactor.

But marrying into the Cheng family means being the daughter-in-law of the Cheng family. How could a daughter-in-law be so lawless? Even if there were no family rules, scolding was inevitable. But the mother-in-law never dared to scold her. It was only because such an outrageous thing happened today that she couldn't help but scold her.

And her uncle, a high-ranking official in the court and a famous general, but strangely, he never dared to scold her, as if it was a taboo.

Nothing makes sense!

Who is she, Cheng Acai?

Thinking of Ah Cai, Yuechan was even more confused. She was so ignorant that it was outrageous. It was as if she was not from this world.

Things that everyone else takes for granted, she finds incredible, and things that everyone else finds incredible, she finds commonplace.

She had no concept of male superiority and female inferiority. She took it for granted that she could order her husband around and was not shy. She said whatever she thought to a room full of strangers, often saying shocking things. Her words sounded unorthodox, but upon closer inspection, they made some sense.

She seemed to treat everyone equally without distinction of high and low. She never took advantage of her husband's favor to become spoiled. She would not bully servants and maids, and she treated her own daughters like her own sisters.

Her father, General Sun, once told her that Ah Cai's daily necessities were very strange.

In fact, she had noticed these things a long time ago. The things she used could not be made in the Song Dynasty.

She had two large notebooks filled with strange symbols and words. She treasured the two notebooks very much and would lock them back in the cabinet after reading them.

And the pens she used were very thin and could be used to write without ink. She had a large bundle of them and once gave one to Yuechan, but Yuechan was reluctant to use it and gave it to her father!

Cheng Yu said her hometown is in South America,

Yuechan didn't know where South America was. Once she asked Ah Cai, she said it was on the other side of the earth. She also said the land under our feet was called the Earth, which was round and would rotate.

Yuechan was very curious, how did she know?

Not only does she know, she can also draw it. She once drew a map, saying it was the front and back of the entire world, and pointed out where South America is. Where are we now?

Yuechan later showed this map to her father. General Sun was also very curious and said he would slowly study whether it was true or false.

She must have just scribbled it for fun!

Draw the whole world?

Who can do it?

Do you think she is a fairy?