bright moon goes west

The fourth lady fell asleep in a daze when it was almost dawn, but after sleeping for two hours, she was woken up by the sound of birds singing outside the yard. She opened her eyes, and a note appeared beside her pillow.The fourth lady was stunned for a moment, and picked up the note.

"Young Madam, will the Fourth Madam come to the appointment?" It's past nine o'clock, and the Fourth Madam has not yet appeared.Although Fei Qiong had always had confidence in her master, she looked at the time on her wrist watch and felt a little worried.

"Don't worry, she will come." Hang'e brewed a pot of Biluochun with her own hands, and there was a faint fragrance in the abode. This is the fourth wife's favorite tea.

At a quarter past nine, the Fourth Madam brought her close-fitting Mama Lin into the abode. After seeing Heng'e, her eyes flashed with shock: "Why are you!" followed by a burst of anger in her heart: "You Do you know that your fourth uncle is about to turn Jin Lcheng upside down. Ordinarily, I am an aunt in the next room, and I am not qualified to teach you a lesson, but you are also born as a lady, and you are so self-willed, so you just disappeared from the house. , let a bunch of people worry about you, isn't this joke too much!"

Heng'e was not angry at the fourth lady's series of questioning, but made a cup of hot tea for the fourth lady in a good-tempered manner: "Fourth aunt, calm down."

The Fourth Madam took the tea from Heng'e's hand, it was the excellent Biluochun.The sweet white porcelain teacup reflects the blue tea soup, which makes people feel relieved.

The fourth lady put it to her lips and took a sip, she pressed her forehead with one hand wearily: "Say it, ask me out in a concealed way, what's the matter?"

Heng'e looked at the fourth lady who seemed to be more than ten years old, and there was a trace of unbearable in her eyes.She adjusted her emotions, and her soft tone revealed sincerity and respect: "Auntie, I asked you out today because I believe in Auntie's character. There are some things that I don't want to see you keep in the dark."

The fourth lady's hand holding the teacup froze, and her eyes showed a cold light: "What do you mean!"

"I heard that Fourth Uncle wants to marry Sister Nian'er to a R himself. Did Fourth Uncle take care of our Chen family's reputation when he did this?"

The husband has made such a big sacrifice for the sake of the city and the Chen family. Although the fourth wife has always disagreed, she also understands that this is the husband's helpless move. Now that Cui Heng'e is here to beat him down, the fourth wife is furious: It's not that Chen Xi is too incompetent to put Jin Lcheng into danger, how could your fourth uncle make such a bad move! Nian'er is our daughter, doesn't he feel bad about it!"

"Auntie, Chen Xun secretly sold opium, and he was in collusion with R himself. How could such a big matter be hidden so tightly by Chen Xun alone? He doesn't have such a great ability. In terms of financial resources, the Fang family is behind it." Support, but if it's just a Fang family, how can it help Chen Xun avoid layers of investigation? Tell me, who is this person behind him?"

"Presumptuous!" The fourth lady slapped the Kang table with her palm.Although she was disappointed with her husband, she believed in his integrity and character. He valued Qing Yu more than anything else, how could he do such a thing.

"Nephew and daughter-in-law, if you ask me out today just to splash dirty water on your fourth uncle and slander your fourth uncle's reputation, I don't think there is any need for us to talk anymore." The fourth lady looked at him coldly. Cui Heng'e's eyes seemed to be frozen with a layer of ice.

Heng'e felt a little pity for the fourth lady. The husband and wife have been married for [-] years, but they still haven't seen the true face of the person next to them.

"Fourth aunt, you don't know me well, I never aim at nothing." Heng'e pushed a stack of documents in front of the fourth lady: "This is evidence of the collusion between Fourth Uncle and R himself, please take a look. The reason why he married a daughter , not for the people of Jin L City, but to strengthen the covenant with Kazuo Yamamoto. It’s only pity that you and sister Nian’er were kept in the dark. You are a woman who understands righteousness. I believe you will make the right s Choice."

The Fourth Madam didn't believe Cui Heng'e's words at all, and she didn't move the information on the table: "The most important thing between a husband and wife is trust, and I trust my husband." Because of a few words from an outsider, she would doubt her pillow. Cui Heng'e, who is a neighbor and the father of her two children, also takes herself too lightly.

"My niece, I don't know why the people behind you ordered you to do this, but I know my husband, he is a man of integrity. His reputation is more important than his life."

"Auntie, don't be so naive. Sister Nian'er is about to jump into the fire pit. With Auntie's shrewdness, I don't believe you haven't doubted it." The Fourth Madam showed her firm belief in her husband.But freezing three feet is not a one-day cold, a man who always hides other women in his heart, will there really be no gap between husband and wife?The fourth lady didn't believe what she said, not because Chen Ji was perfect, but because she was wary of herself as an outsider.But it doesn't matter, Heng'e knows where she should start to break the fourth lady's defense.

"Auntie, even if it's for the sake of my son and sister, I advise you to look at the evidence. Father-in-law and husband-in-law are not intolerant people, not to mention that the fourth uncle and father-in-law are brothers of the same mother. If it were not for the fourth uncle It's too much, why can't I have a home and can't go back."

The fourth wife never suspected that her uncle would secretly suppress her husband.Cui Heng'e made such a fuss, the fourth wife only thought it was a young couple bickering, Cui Heng'e intentionally made her nephew Bo Yu nervous.

Now, after hearing Cui Heng'e's swearing words, the Fourth Madam inevitably wavered a little. Do you really want to gamble with your daughter's life?If what Cui Heng'e said is true, and her daughter married for the sake of the righteousness of the family and the country, after learning the truth~, can she still live well?With trembling fingertips, the fourth lady picked up the documents on the Kang table and flipped through them page by page.

The abode was extremely quiet, only the sound of the fourth lady flipping through the documents and shallow breathing.

As the thick stack of documents was spread out, the expression on the fourth lady's face became more and more solemn. When she saw the extremely familiar handwriting in the correspondence between her husband and Kazuo Yamamoto, the fourth lady completely collapsed.Why!Why did he do this!
The Wei family of the fourth wife is a famous local family in Guangdong. When Humen sold out cigarettes, the Wei family followed closely behind Master Lin, a famous official in the late Qing Dynasty and a national hero. For this reason, they were suppressed by the Qing government. , The family even fell into a slump for a time.The fourth wife inherited the court training when she was young, and engraved the word "integrity" in her bones and blood.Unexpectedly, what her husband did subverted the cognition of the fourth wife.Her whole life has really become a joke!
"Why...why did he do that!" The Fourth Madam's lips trembled, as if she had exhausted all her strength to squeeze out this sentence through her teeth. She didn't know if she was asking Cui Heng'e or herself.It turned out that I was so sad that I couldn't shed a single tear.

From the corner of Heng'e's eyes, she glanced at Mama Lin, who had been in an extremely strange manner since entering the room, and said indifferently: "Probably because of an old incident. Normally, as a junior, I shouldn't talk too much about this matter, after all It is a scandal, but since Auntie wants to know the reason, it would be too unfair to hide it from you."

The fourth lady closed her eyes in pain.A woman's terrifying sixth sense told herself that this incident must have something to do with the woman hidden in her husband's heart.

"In addition to a few brothers, my father-in-law also had a concubine sister who died of illness before she could get married due to poor health."

"You, you... what are you talking about?" The fourth lady couldn't believe what she heard in her ears. This terrible thought made her hands and feet feel cold, and she was almost paralyzed. It was Lin Ma who saw the opportunity and held her up She, but this servant who has experienced half a lifetime of hardships is covered with tears, and her expression is unspeakably sad.

"The woman's boudoir name is Mei E. She is as clean as a red plum in snow, clear and cold, and aloof. Because her biological mother is a prostitute, her biological father doesn't pay much attention to her, and her aunt looks down on her background. Question: Some of the servants who bully her are always bullying her, intentionally or unintentionally, and this girl has a very bad life in the mansion. Later, for some reason, the fourth uncle grew out of pity for this concubine sister, and did it. An irreparable scandal. These two people secretly hid for three years, until they were smashed by their father-in-law, a bowl of medicine was poured down, and a generation of beauties disappeared." Hang'e sighed at this point, this In the incident, it was not only Chen Mei'e who was wrong, but Chen Mei'e was the only one who swallowed this bitter fruit. "This is probably why fourth uncle hates father-in-law."

"The Chen family kept it from me so hard!" The fourth lady lost her soul, her teeth sank into her lips, until a sticky smell of rust gushed into her mouth, and her blank brain regained a brief lucidity.

She and Chen Ji had made a marriage contract since they were young. In the year she was married, Chen Ji personally sent her the hairpin for her wedding ceremony.

That day was a sunny and sunny day in April. She hid behind the screen and fell in love with this handsome young man at first sight. She never thought that at that time, Chen Ji had already been entangled with her concubine sister.

The fourth lady had a crying and smiling expression on her face, she gritted her teeth and swore: "I will never let my daughter who was born in October follow in my own footsteps! Otherwise, it will be like this!" She put on the suet jade hairpin that she had been wearing for so many years, and she threw it to the ground, and the plum blossom carved on the head of the hairpin shattered into several pieces.

The fourth lady looked at the hairpin on the ground, and couldn't help thinking of the plum garden in the mansion. Every plum tree was planted by Chen Ji himself. What did he think of his wife!
Probably as deep as love is, as deep as hate is.Heng'e's picturesquely sculpted eyebrows were stained with a look of melancholy.Passionate since ancient times spared hate!The origin of good dreams is the easiest to wake up from!

"Auntie, I know you feel uncomfortable, but at this time, you must not startle the snake. Once the fourth uncle is on guard against you, the rest of the life of the sister Nian'er will be over."

"You Chen family cheated on the marriage back then, and watched me jump into Chen Ji's fiery pit, now it's my daughter's turn! I thought he, Chen Yunhong, was a hero in vain, but he turned out to be just a villain protecting his siblings! "The fourth lady gnashed her teeth.Her parents were upright all their lives, if they knew about Chen Ji's scandal, even though the two families had a covenant, they would never allow her to marry into the Chen family!