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Two days later, the capital.

Early in the morning, two green-covered horse-drawn carriages stopped in front of the gate of the Jiang Mansion, and the word "Chu" was engraved on the emblem of the carriage.

A respectable servant woman in a green gown stepped forward and knocked on the door, and the boy who opened the door poked a head out from the hole: "It's so early in the morning, who is it?"

The servant woman shouted: "The old lady is from the courtyard of the old lady of the Chu family in Jinling. The old lady is not feeling well and wants to see our fourth aunt. Today is to pick up the fourth aunt." Back to the Chu family."

The fourth aunt of the Chu family is not the mother of the Jiang family today.

The young man had a sharp-mouthed and monkey-cheeked face. When he heard that it was the Chu family, he immediately put down the partition of the door: "Madam got mad, and was ordered by the master to be locked up in the yard, and no one will be seen."

But the servant woman was a formidable one, and she put her hips on her hips and cursed angrily: "Is there anyone like your Jiang family? All the fathers and folks passing by come to judge. My aunt married into his Jiang family. Not only did you not invite a doctor when you were sick, but you didn’t let our natal family look at it, right? Today, the old lady at home is not in good health. She wants to see this married daughter. open!"

"Poor my poor aunt, how could there be such a family!"

"My old lady is sick, and I want to invite my married aunt to go back to serve her sickness. What kind of family style is this in your Jiang family? Jiang Jing'an is still a dignified third-rank official. This is a book of sages who can be read in the stomach of a dog. gone?"

The servants of the Chu family cursed at the top of their voices, and their voices drifted a few streets away. There were more and more people watching in front of the gate of the Jiang family, and all of them pointed at the Jiang family.

The janitor couldn't stand it anymore, so he quickly moved in the butler.

Jiang Shangshu has gone to the palace and is not in the house.

When the steward saw this posture, it was not an option for people to scold him, so he wiped the sweat from his forehead, so he had to ask the servant to quickly open the door and welcome him in: "I don't know if people from the Chu family are coming today, the master is going into the palace." Well, I hope you can forgive me for the poor hospitality."

The servant of the Chu family snorted and said, "Your Jiang family has a concubine Xi, and now the lintel is very high. If it weren't for my aunt of the Chu family who is still in your house, when my Chu family is willing to come Stepping on your high threshold?"

She led people on a rampage and went directly to Mrs. Jiang's yard, but the housekeeper couldn't stop her even if she wanted to.

Walking through a door with hanging flowers, I suddenly saw a woman Pingting approaching. Although the clothes on her body were the clothes of a maidservant, she was wearing a gold bracelet with carved flowers on her hand, and the earrings were plump and bright top-grade oriental pearls. There are several solid gold bead flower hairpins inserted obliquely in the bun.

There is no jewelry that a maid should wear.

When Yan Hong saw the servants of the Chu family, she raised her slender eyebrows, and reprimanded her in a hostess tone: "What are you doing? You're making a lot of noise, are you still behaved?"

The servant of the Chu family smiled coldly: "Hey, when did Jiang Shangshu pick up a concubine? Why didn't our Chu family hear any news?"

When Yan Hong heard that she was from the Chu family, her complexion changed, and after being stabbed like this by her, her complexion became even uglier.

The housekeeper hurriedly said: "This is Miss Yanhong from the mansion. She used to be the maidservant next to the eldest lady, and now she is serving the pen and ink in the master's study."

"It turned out to be a lowly maid, I don't know if I thought she was the mistress of your mansion!" The servant of the Chu family sneered, and the butler couldn't hold back his face.

He said: "Ma'am is currently ill, and the affairs of the house are all handled by Miss Yan Hong."

It was also implicitly telling the servant of the Chu family that it was only a matter of time before Yan Hong was raised as a concubine.

However, the servant of the Chu family took a step forward, grabbed Yan Hong's carefully combed hair with one hand, and slapped her both left and right.

"A coquettish, mean-spirited hoof, who deserves to be well-behaved in front of the mistress and her family? Pooh!" Chu's servant spat at Yanhong:

"Even if you are really raised as a concubine, you can only kowtow when you meet the mistress! But the Jiang family is really a good family style! The maid in the daughter's yard climbed on the father's bed, Jiang Jing'an is not afraid of being poked Backbone!"

Yan Hong only felt that her scalp was torn off by the servant, and her face was in hot pain from the beating, so she started to cry immediately.

The guards of the Jiang family wanted to stop them, but they were stopped by the thugs brought by the Chu family. The third master Chu later joined the army, and naturally all the servants in the house were replaced by the Lian family sons. The court is not their opponent at all.

The housekeeper shouted: "You Chu family, don't be too domineering, this is in Jiang's residence!"

The Chu family servant "wife" raised her hand and tore off the two earrings from Yan Hong's ears, threw them on the ground and crushed them to powder:

"Overbearing? Whose servant girl thinks you are like your Jiang family? Wearing gold and silver, and painting eyebrows and eyes, the concubines of other families may not live as comfortably as her! My aunt is ill, I'm helping my aunt teach the slaves of the family a lesson!"

Yan Hong's ears were bleeding, she fell to the ground and cried her heart broke, "You are too deceitful! Your Chu family is too deceitful! I'm dead!"

As she spoke, she was about to bump into a rockery, but the maids of Jiang's mansion hurriedly stopped her and tried to comfort her.

The servant of the Chu family has served Mrs. Chu all her life, and she has never seen any kind of goblin before. Seeing this, she walked over, grabbed her hair with one hand, pressed her head, and slammed her head hard on the ground twice. Knocked down, the skin on the forehead was broken, and the blood flowed.

This time Yan Hong didn't want to seek death, she cried and yelled "Help".

"Aren't you dead? Why are you calling for help? You little bastard, how many catties are you? Don't be such a monster in front of the old woman!" The servant of the Chu family threw her on the ground with a look of contempt, and led her straight Mrs. Ben Jiang's yard.

Mrs. Jiang's yard is not only locked, but there are guards at the door.

Seeing this, the servant of the Chu family didn't get angry, and directly asked the accompanying thugs to knock down the two guards, and then kicked open the gate of the courtyard.

The maids and servants inside knew that the mistress had lost power, so they didn't care about serving them all, and even took the share originally allocated to Mrs. Jiang as their own.

When the gate opened, they were eating sunflower seeds in the yard and chatting about their daily life. When they saw so many people approaching aggressively, they stood up in panic.

The servant of the Chu family glanced over and found that there was no familiar face inside, her heart sank, and she shouted angrily: "Where is your wife?"

Mrs. Jiang, who was locked in the room, probably heard Mrs. Yang's voice, and hurriedly knocked on the door, crying, "Mother Yang, is it Mother Yang?"

Mrs. Yang's heart trembled, and Mrs. Jiang could recognize her at every sound. She didn't look like she was insane.

She hurriedly led people into the yard, and when she found that the door of Mrs. Jiang's room was also locked, she was so angry that she said, "Auntie, what crime have you suffered... "

The screen window above the door has been torn off by Mrs. Jiang these days. Through the two-finger-wide door crack, one can see that Mrs. Jiang inside is unkempt, and her clothes seem to have never been washed.

Mrs. Jiang finally saw a family member of her natal family, crying out of breath: "Mother Yang...Jiang Jing'an is not human! He sold everyone around me, and Mother Fang was also sent away by him... He was afraid that I would go back to my mother's house to tell the truth, and would declare me crazy, and lock me up..."

Mrs. Fang's nurse, Mrs. Jiang's nurse, couldn't be more sincere to Mrs. Jiang.If Mother Fang was still there, with her means, how could Mrs. Jiang suffer these crimes.

Mrs. Yang became furious when she heard this, and cursed: "This wolf-hearted thing! Fortunately, his career was not going well, and he was single-handedly promoted by the third master!"

Mrs. Jiang cried bitterly against the door frame: "Ayi has been sent to Xizhou. I don't know what's going on now. You should go back and report to your father and ask him to write a letter to the third brother to save Ayi..."

Hearing these words, Mrs. Yang could no longer hold back the tears in her eyes, and said with a sob: "Miss Biao... She was brought back by the third master..."

Mrs. Jiang was ecstatic when she heard it, but when she saw Mrs. Yang's teary eyes, she realized something instantly, her lips were trembling, but she couldn't say a word, tears were rolling like beads.

Mrs. Yang asked the thugs to break open the door. Without the door to lean on, Mrs. Jiang slid softly on the ground, but she was caught by Mrs. Yang.

Mrs. Jiang had a bad smell, obviously she hadn't washed for a long time.

The food in the room seemed to be scooped up from a bucket of water, and no one came in to pour out the chamber pot when it was full.

Mrs. Yang wiped away her tears and couldn't bear to look any further, so she carried Mrs. Jiang outside.

Seeing a group of servants of the Jiang family standing in the yard outside, she directly ordered the thugs: "Beat! Beat these slaves to death!"

At this time, the housekeeper of Jiang's house also dared to come with a wave of guards. Seeing that they had brought Madam Jiang out, he shouted: "You can't take Madam out of the house!"

As soon as Mrs. Jiang saw him, she went crazy, and rushed to scratch and scratch at the butler: "You eat what's inside and out!"

The thugs of the Chu family beat the group of servants until they cried for their fathers and mothers, and they knocked out a few teeth before stopping.As soon as the butler brought the nursing home over, they confronted the nursing home again.

The housekeeper was originally picked up by Mrs. Jiang, but now she has become Jiang Shangshu's confidant.He didn't dare to do anything to Mrs. Jiang, so he could only keep hiding, his face was scratched several times, and the smell from Mrs. Jiang's body was so pungent that it made him nauseous.

Seeing that the thugs had put down the guards, Mrs. Yang hurriedly hugged Mrs. Jiang's waist: "Grandma, let's take Master Biao home to visit the old lady first!"

Seeing the old lady was just an excuse, the real willingness was that Chu Changping brought back the coffin of "Jiang Yanyi" in the middle of the night last night.

Before Mrs. Yang came, Chu Changping specifically told her to bring Mrs. Jiang and Young Master back home immediately.Chu Changping was sure that Jiang Shangshu would enter the palace, so he asked the servants in the house to pick him up. If Jiang Shangshu was in the house, he would definitely not let Mrs. Jiang, mother and son leave.

Mrs. Yang was afraid that once Jiang Shangshu came back, they would not be able to leave.

Mrs. Jiang vented, and she also sorted out the priorities, spat at the butler, and took Mrs. Yang and her party to the yard of her son Jiang Yangui.

**

Jiang Yangui never got out of bed since he broke his leg, and he had to be waited on when he ate, drank and lazed.

After all, he was Jiang Shangshu's only son, and the people in his yard took care of him, at least Jiang Yangui was clean, but that was all.

All the servants in the yard were like deaf and dumb people, no matter whether Jiang Yangui questioned him or got angry, they would not answer him.

When Mrs. Jiang and her son met, they both hugged their heads and cried a lot.

When Jiang Yangui heard that his sister's coffin had returned to Beijing, he tightly pursed his pale lips and grabbed the sheet under his body with both hands. His hands were slender and slender, with well-defined joints. Because he was ill in bed these days, his arms were almost white in color. Transparent, the veins and blood vessels under the skin can be vaguely seen.

His black eyes like dry wells were lifeless and strangely empty, only teardrops rolled down from the eyelids, and he said with difficulty: "Take me to see... Sister."

***

At this moment in the palace, the new emperor looked at the folder that had just been brought in on the table, and a sneer appeared on Junyi's face: "Chu Changping left his post without permission and returned to the capital privately. He is suspected of treason. Where is the commander of the imperial army?"

The commander of the imperial army standing under the imperial study room immediately stepped forward: "The humble post is here!"

The new emperor's voice was as cold as a poisonous snake spitting out a letter, "Hurry up and take a thousand imperial troops to the Chu family and ransack the house!"