At the end of the sight is Aunt Zheng!

Her personal maid Cui'er had a mole under her mouth.

Madam Shen immediately ordered someone to call Cui'er to Zhuijin Hall. As soon as they reached the door and before they could even enter the house, Taoist Master Jingming started yelling, "It's her! Yes, yes, it's her!"

"She asked the innkeeper to pass me a note and asked me to meet her in the alley behind the inn."

"Although the note is gone, the innkeeper can vouch for me that what I said is true!"

Cui'er still kept one foot on the steps, her whole body like a petrified person.

Obviously, she also recognized Taoist Master Jingming.

She walked into the room tremblingly and subconsciously looked at Aunt Zheng.

The latter looked nervous, and could hardly conceal it.

Qian Chuan and the others didn't even need to deliberately scare her. They just asked her normally and Cui'er burst into tears and confessed everything.

"Yes...it was Auntie who ordered me..." Cui Er knelt on the ground and cried pitifully: "She said that if the Third Miss had not been competing with the Second Miss, she would not have committed such a stupid thing and was sent to the farm to suffer."

"And the second young master's reputation was ruined by the second young lady."

"She wants revenge!"

After hearing this, Aunt Zheng immediately became anxious: "You idiot, who taught you to wrongly accuse me like this?"

As she spoke, she rushed over with her teeth bared and wanted to fight Cui'er, but was stopped by Qian Chuan with his sword drawn!

After listening to it, he felt that the whole thing was the concubine framing the mistress, and she should have nothing to do with the matter of the deer bones used by Jingming.

However, the matter was of great importance, so Qian Chuan did not dare to be careless and decided to get to the bottom of it first.

Aunt Zheng was anxious and scared, but there was nothing she could do.

Until Shen Mengyin said in a neither loud nor soft voice: "Don't worry, Auntie, everything requires evidence. No one can wrongly accuse you of something you didn't do."

Hearing this, Shen Qiyin immediately looked at her, with a hint of interest flashing across his eyes.

Aunt Zheng was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then she grasped at a life-saving straw and argued: "They colluded with each other and teamed up to frame me. I won't accept it!"

"Unless they produce evidence."

Qian Chuan: "We will look for evidence, you don't have to worry about it!"

Since Jingming said that he was paid to do the job, we should start by investigating the source of the money.

Zheng was a concubine, and in a family like the Shen family, so it was obvious that she did not have much monthly salary. She could pay Jingming twenty taels of silver and promised to pay more later, so she would have to pawn some hairpins, rings and jewelry.

As long as we find the pawn ticket or the stub in the store, we have the evidence!

But who would have thought that Jingming would weakly say at this moment: "I... I, I have evidence..."

He pointed to the bag he was carrying and said, "The piece of paper that the girl gave me with the birth dates of all the people in this mansion written on it is still there. I didn't dare to throw it away because I was afraid I couldn't remember it. I took it out from time to time and recited it. I even looked at it before entering the mansion."

He smiled flatteringly and said, "Just compare the handwriting of the person on it, and the truth will be revealed."

"Okay, you've done a great job!"

Qian Chuan said this as he leaned over to search, and sure enough he found a piece of paper that was almost crumpled to pieces.

It can be seen that he has indeed watched it many times.

When Aunt Zheng saw the paper, her face turned pale.

She suddenly confessed: "...I admit it!"

"I instructed Cui'er to bribe this old Taoist priest to slander Madam and the Second Miss and drive them out of the Shen family, but so what?"

"After all, this is just our family affair. I will accept it if the old lady wants to kill me or sell me off, but there is no need to alert the authorities, right?"

Aunt Zheng is absolutely right.

Old Madam Shen also didn't want the family's disgrace to be made public, so she also spoke up to try to protect her.

But they all overlooked one problem.

Qian Chuan explained, "Madam, it's not that Qian Chuan doesn't want to give you this face, but she has a conflict of interest with Jing Ming, and Jing Ming violated the law by using deer bones. This is a crime of rebellion and the people involved must be taken back for strict trial."

After saying that, he directly shackled Aunt Zheng: "Go!"

"Brother Qian." Shen Qiyin suddenly stood up and said, "I have two words to say to Auntie. Is it convenient?"

Qian Chuan thought that Aunt Zheng was bent on harming them, mother and daughter, and it was only natural for Shen Qiyin to retaliate by showing off her verbal skills, so he stepped aside to make room for them.

Shen Qiyin walked up to Aunt Zheng with his back to the crowd. Under her suspicious gaze, he lowered his voice and said to her, "Although I don't like Aunt Zheng, I can't help but be moved by how much you love your daughter."

When Aunt Zheng heard this, her eyes suddenly widened.

Shen Qiyin lowered his eyes to hide his myriad thoughts, and his face returned to its calm and composed look.

She said: "You want to keep Shen Mengyin, I will help you."

"After all, this mansion is getting more and more deserted. Having her to play with me can help me relieve my boredom."

Aunt Zheng looked alert: "What do you want to do?!"

Shen Qiyin didn't answer and turned back into the house.

Aunt Zheng wanted to say more, but she and Cui'er were forcibly taken away by Qian Chuan.

Taoist Master Jingming was fed the antidote by Shen Qiyin, and he finally regained his strength. However, his arm was not reattached, and blood was oozing from his thigh. He walked with a limp, as if he had resurrected a corpse.

Qian Chuan and the others soon disappeared at the gate of Zhuijin Hall. Madam Shen finally vented her suppressed anger. She picked up the teacup at hand and threw it out fiercely.

"You little idiot!"

She was angry with Aunt Zheng.

She was escorted all the way back to Jingzhao Prefecture, and even though people outside didn't know the specific situation, it was not a good look.

Not to mention, if people knew that she, as a concubine, dared to harm the mistress and the legitimate daughter, the Shen family would become "famous" again.

The play was over, and Shen Qiyin didn't have the time to watch the old lady showing off her power, so he went out with Rendong.

On the way to Guangren Hall, Rendong asked the question in her heart: "Miss, I remember hearing you say before that Aunt Zheng is not very literate. Did she really write those birth dates?"

"If it's not her, who do you think it is?"

"Fourth Miss."

"Yeah." Shen Qiyin nodded in agreement: "My honeysuckle is really smart!"

"I guessed it right?!" Ren Dong was a little excited, but still confused: "Then why didn't you expose them just now?"

"Because even if it's exposed, Aunt Zheng can still say that she asked Shen Mengyin to write it, and she can still remove Shen Mengyin from the picture."

Moreover, the old lady will not sit idly by.

She had finally raised Shen Mengyin to this age, and now they were about to get married, so how could she allow anything to go wrong?

Therefore, if you want to touch Shen Mengyin, you have to let her commit suicide like Shen Ruyin and become a complete abandoned child of the Shen family!

As they were talking, the two arrived at Guangrentang.

Shen Qiyin saw a familiar figure.

Feng Heng.

He has been coming here these past two days.

Although the illness had not yet been cured, he ate well and slept well every day, and his health seemed to be better than before. He felt that Dazhuang had some extraordinary qualities.

I believe that as long as I come to him for acupuncture regularly, sooner or later I will be able to regain my former glory.

If you come here often, you will always run into Shen Qiyin.

When Feng Heng first learned that the doctor who examined him that day was his future fiancée, he was very embarrassed. But then he thought again, he didn't mean to tease her, but came to see a doctor honestly, so he let it go.

It was not known whether it was because of the illness, or because Shen Ruyin broke off the engagement with him after he had an affair with her, but Feng Heng no longer had those frivolous thoughts about Shen Qiyin when he saw her again.

Always felt……

Mom is right, he really doesn't deserve her.

"Hey? Brother Feng!" Song Huai passed by on the street and saw Feng Heng in Guangren Hall at a glance. He walked towards him in two steps: "Why are you here?"

"...Ah, I'm sick. Come and get some medicine."

"Oh, then what are you doing in this shabby place? Tomorrow I'll talk to my dad and ask him to get you a doctor!" Song Huai wanted to marry Feng Ruoying, so when he met his "brother-in-law" Feng Heng, he had to treat him well.

"Don't, don't, don't..." Don't come near me!

In fact, Feng Heng's friends were mostly playboys with similar interests, but he always kept his distance from Song Huai.

While the two were arguing, Song Huai suddenly stopped and stared at the place in the corner where rain gear was stored, where there stood an oil-paper umbrella made of Mengzongzhu.

One day before, when Shen Qiyin went to Qingyin Pavilion to buy a flute for Rendong, it started to rain heavily and a kind-hearted young man gave her his umbrella.

This is it.

Song Huai rushed over excitedly, pointed at the umbrella and asked, "Where did you get this umbrella?!"

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