Three families hire each other, the mistress of the marquisate accidentally offends the treacherous

That day, the woman came with her family to clean up.

It costs money to add tiles, to clean up, you have to buy pots and pans, to repair tables and chairs, and you have to pay extra for food, rice, oil, and salt.

However, the woman took the money and worked efficiently. In just one day, she cleaned up the old house. Although it was not in great condition, it looked like a courtyard where people could live.

The roof no longer leaked, the pots and pans were all there, and the quilts were all replaced with dry ones. Although it was not as good as the fine clothes and delicious food he had in the marquis's mansion before, at least he could settle down.

Before leaving, I helped them fill the water tanks.

Although the old lady thought the money was a bit expensive, she cursed a few words when she saw the house looked presentable, but didn't say anything else.

only……

It cost about twenty taels of silver to buy all these things.

Adding the medical expenses to Xue Feimu's, she was left with only twenty taels of silver out of her one hundred taels, which made her feel a huge sense of crisis.

He immediately bought paper and pen, wrote a letter, and asked Sun to give it to Jiang Qingyue early the next morning.

How could Sun be so embarrassed to go? Jiang Qingyue was her former daughter-in-law. Now she had to go to visit her former daughter-in-law, especially at such a desperate time. Her heart felt like it was filled with water in her chest, and the suffocating feeling made her unable to breathe.

But the old lady had spoken, and she had to go.

Sun was feeling uneasy and did not sleep well that night.

Early the next morning.

The old lady looked at the stove and felt that she had to find someone to do the work in the house, otherwise they would starve to death even if they had rice and flour. Although she could do it, there was no way she could serve Sun.

He also made an agreement with the woman next door, giving her three taels of silver a month and asking her to cook three meals a day.

The woman agreed, collected the money first, and made some porridge, steamed buns and pickles in the morning for the two of them to eat.

After the old lady gave a few instructions, Sun reluctantly went out.

This time she didn't dare to hire a car, nor did she have the money to do so. She walked for a long time and asked many people before she found Qifeng Villa.

When they arrived at Qifeng Villa, Jiang Qingyue did not see her, but Lu Huan.

Sun took out a letter with some trembling and handed it to Lu Huan, but Lu Huan did not take it. Instead, she said to Sun as her master had just instructed:

"My young lady told you to deliver this letter to the general's mansion."

Sun was surprised: "General's Mansion?"

Lu Huan replied: "Yes, this is what the old lady meant. If you send the letter to the general's mansion, someone will come to the door as the old lady wishes."

Sun couldn't figure it out, but she felt that Jiang Qingyue knew the purpose of the old lady sending the letter without even reading it.

Before leaving, the old lady said that as long as she delivered the letter, they would have no worries about food and drink.

Sun was skeptical as she didn't know where to get to the General's Mansion. Lu Huan considerately called a carriage for her and took her directly to the Dongling General's Mansion.

Sun went to the general's mansion, delivered the letter, and then took a carriage back to the Xue family's old house. The coachman didn't say anything and just sent her back directly. Sun was very grateful.

After returning to the old house, Sun went to see the old lady first.

The old lady saw her coming back, and a hint of pride rose in her eyes.

"Has the letter been sent?"

Sun nodded: "Yes, it has been sent out."

"But what did you bring back?"

The old lady looked at her empty hands, then glanced outside, with a look of dissatisfaction on her face.

Sun's eyes were blank: "What? Nothing."

"No, what do you mean by no? Didn't Jiang Qingyue bring you something when you came back?"

"No."

"So what did she tell you? Did she look panicked? Or did she make any promises to you?"

Sun shook her head: "I didn't see her."

"What? You didn't see her. Who did you give the letter to? Did you give it to her maid? Doesn't she have anything to say?"

Sun answered honestly, "I didn't see her, but I did see her maid, the one called Lu Huan, but that maid didn't answer my letter either."

The old lady couldn't sit still anymore as she listened to her words one by one.

"What do you mean she didn't answer your letter? How dare she? She actually dared to do that. Isn't she afraid of losing her reputation?"

Sun was confused and didn't know why the old lady would say such a thing, so she continued to answer honestly:

"The maid said that Jiang Qingyue asked me to deliver the letter to the general's mansion, saying that this was also your intention. She also hired a carriage to take me there. She said that as long as we deliver it to the general's mansion, we will get what we want..."

"What?" The old lady couldn't listen any longer and shouted in shock: "Stupid, stupid, you are a stupid person."

"Jiang Qingyue is so cruel."

The old lady's chest heaved violently with anger, but when she thought of the words "General Dong Ling", a cold sweat broke out on her back, and she belatedly realized a sense of fear.

She was only concerned with using this as a handle to threaten Jiang Qingyue, but she forgot that this matter also involved another person, and that person was someone she could not afford to offend.

If Jiang Qingyue was still in the Marquis' Mansion in the past, she might have gained some benefits by catching the thief, seizing the stolen goods and catching the adulterer in bed, but now they are like fish on the chopping board, at the mercy of others, and they have no ability to fight back at all.

That's the King of Hell...

The old lady was scared and she regretted it. If she had known earlier, she would definitely stay away from Jiang Qingyue and would never have anything to do with Jiang Qingyue again.

"Go, go and get the letter back and say it was sent to the wrong address."

The old lady herself did not notice that her voice was trembling when she spoke.

In the past, the Marquis' Mansion could not afford to offend the General's Mansion, but now Dong Lingyan wants to crush them to death as easily as crushing an ant.

Sun was shocked when she saw the old lady's appearance:

"What's going on?"

The old lady glared at her fiercely: "Hurry up, go quickly."

As the old lady spoke, she reached out and pushed Sun.

Sun didn't understand what was going on, so she quickly responded, "Okay, okay, I'll go right away."

She stumbled out of the door, but before she reached the front door, it was kicked open from the outside with a bang.

Then, a group of unknown people, about seven or eight in number, rushed in from outside and started smashing everything they saw.

Sun was terrified. Her eyes were wide open with fear in them, and her mouth was open, but no sound came out. Her legs went weak and she fell to the ground. She curled up, not daring to even cry. She hid in the corner without saying a word.

When those people saw her, they didn't touch her, they just smashed things.

The old lady in another room also heard the noise, but she didn't dare to say a word and clenched her teeth tightly.

The only one who dared to smash the house in such public was the King of Hell.

She didn't dare to speak or shout, but when a tile fell in front of her, she was so frightened that she became incontinent. For a moment, the room was filled with a foul stench.

Just when she thought today was her death anniversary, she found that those people had no intention of beating or killing her, but only smashing things in the house.

The roof was poked out, the water tank was smashed, all the pots and pans bought today were smashed to pieces, and even the stove was dug up.

After the whole yard was smashed to pieces, those people left in a hurry.

The room fell silent, as if the noise just now was just an illusion.

But it really happened.

Sun finally couldn't help crying out loud, but she didn't dare cry too loudly, for fear that those people would hear her and start crying again.

The old lady breathed a sigh of relief only after she confirmed that those people had left, feeling as if she had escaped death.

Let her experience the joy of life.

But then, looking at the desolate scene in the yard, he finally came to his senses.

The place where she could live, which she had managed to clean up with great difficulty, was gone.

The old lady burst into tears and regretted her decision.

How could she be so confused that she thought this could threaten Jiang Qingyue? Why didn't she think of the General's Mansion?

It’s all Jiang Qingyue’s fault. If she hadn’t wanted to hand the letter to the General’s Mansion, they would never have done this.

If she had known earlier, she would never have sent Jiang Qingyue to the General's Mansion. She didn't get any benefit at all, and such a thing happened at this juncture.

Jiang Qingyue really deserves to be damned. She is useless at all. Even at this time, she still comes to harm the Marquis' Mansion.

The old lady burst into tears and hated Jiang Qingyue in her heart, but she dared not do anything and could not do anything.

She was so frightened that she lost control of her bladder, and all the dirt was in her pants, filling the room with a foul stench.

She struggled to get up and wanted to ask Sun to clean up for her.

But Sun was already frightened at this time and was shivering behind the door.

Not a word was spoken, not a word was heard.

Honest people have no choice but to clean up the mess themselves.

But there was no water in the yard, so she could only fetch water from the well at the entrance of the alley.

However, the entrance of the alley was some distance away from her home, so she had no choice but to bite the bullet and carry a wooden bucket out.

As soon as she went out, she ran into the neighbors around her. When they saw her, they would take a detour. After smelling the strange odor, they ran away quickly, as if she was something dirty.

As she walked, the filth fell out of her trouser legs and all over the road. The neighbors were so angry that they cursed her for dirtying the road in front of their own doors.

No matter how thick-skinned the old lady was, she couldn't hold back her pride at this moment.

But he could only endure the pointing and criticism, went to fetch a bucket of water, and carried it back to the yard with difficulty.

The stove was dismantled and the firewood was scattered all over the floor with nowhere to burn it, so she could only use cold water.

It took a long time to clean up. I was reluctant to throw away the clothes I had taken off, so I could only wash them with the little water and prepared to get a bucket of water.

As soon as I went out, I heard the sarcastic voices outside.

"Which stray dog ​​ran to the entrance of our alley to poop? How shameless! Everyone coming in and out might accidentally step on it. How disgusting! Whoever owns the dog should keep it on a leash."

"That's right. If you didn't catch it, you have to clean it up. How can people live in such a dirty place?"

"Forget it, forget it. Stop scolding. Dogs don't understand human nature. They will poop wherever they want. What's the point of scolding them?"

"The dog has no human nature, and its master, who comes from a wealthy family, is so uneducated."

"He's already a deserter, how can you expect him to be educated? If he hadn't been a deserter, maybe my son would be alive. This kind of family deserves it."

“I don’t know who is doing this, but it makes me happy.

"There's so much dog shit on the road, so I'm the one to sweep it. It's really dirty, but I'm really happy. I just hope I can come here more often. I don't mind sweeping it a few more times. Anyway, cleaning the pigpen is the same as usual..."

The old lady just listened to these people saying these things, not daring to refute a word. She just thought fiercely in her heart that if it were in the past, these people would have been beaten to death by her many times. But now, it’s not that she didn’t want to, but that she didn’t dare.

The old lady fetched some water and cleaned herself up. She was already half dead.

He went to see Xue Feimu, only to see that his face was covered in dust and his quilt was covered with tile chips. He stared at the roof in a daze, not saying a word.

"Mu'er." The old lady couldn't help crying out loud.

Xue Feimu: "Who are these people?"

The old lady didn’t dare to say what she had done, so she could only say, “It was the families of those soldiers on the border.”

The implication is that because he was a deserter, the families of those men came to take revenge, which led to this incident.

Xue Feimu turned his head and looked over: "Those people are not ordinary people, they are soldiers."

The old lady avoided his gaze and did not dare to answer.

"Grandma, what are you hiding from me?"

The old lady shed tears, not out of regret but out of fear, and she didn't know what she was afraid of.

When she met Xue Feimu's gaze, she knew that she could no longer hide this matter.

He told Xue Feimu everything.

After listening to this, Xue Feimu was speechless for a long time.

These few days, he lay in bed and couldn't do anything, but he had time to think carefully about what had happened in the past few days.

He was sure that the Marquis' Mansion was being targeted and someone wanted to deal with it.

But he couldn't think of who he had offended.

Ever since he became the Imperial Clerk...

He couldn't figure it out. He had clearly agreed with Dong Lingyan that the credit would be given to him and he would help the Marquis' Mansion.

But then he changed his mind.

Now I suddenly realize, so that's how it is.

Everything finally came together.

No wonder he broke his leg for no apparent reason, no wonder he got a job as an official in the Imperial Household Department. No matter who he asked, it was useless. Even when others told him that he had offended someone, he didn't believe it.

The Sun family was indeed targeted, but it was not because the Sun family offended anyone, but because the Sun family helped the Marquis' Mansion.

The decline of the Marquis' Mansion was doomed from the moment the old lady sent Jiang Qingyue away.

"Grandmother, you are the one who caused the current situation of the Loyal and Brave Marquis' Mansion."

"What? I, I'm devoted to the Marquis' Mansion, why are you blaming me... You, you, you mean, it was that bitch Jiang Qingyue, and it was her idea that caused the Marquis' Mansion to be like this?"

"Grandmother, it's you. You are the one who ruined the Marquis' Mansion. She has been in the Marquis' Mansion for three years and has done her best for it, but you treat her like this."

"Why can't I treat her like this? She is a concubine's daughter, married by marriage, and she is not worthy of you at all."

"Grandma, have you ever thought that if you were her and someone did this to you and you had the ability to retaliate, would you be even more extreme than she is?"

The old lady was stunned for a moment, then suddenly shouted:

"So it was her, it was really her, she was the one who harmed the Marquis' Mansion, Mu'er, you also said it was her, you hate her, you go ahead and hate her, it was her, Jiang Qingyue, that bitch, she is the one with the bad heart, she was the one who harmed the Marquis' Mansion..."

Xue Feimu looked at her: "It's you."