The mistress of the Hou family worked herself to death, and she did not serve after her rebirth

Someone reminded her of the imperial tutors in the court. Many of them were unwilling to return to their hometowns after retirement, or they were from Kyoto and lived in the capital. When they had nothing to do, they would play chess and drink tea together in groups of three or five.

Pei Jiuniang found their gathering place and asked someone to inform them that she wanted to see the Grand Tutor. As a result, after waiting for a long time, she actually saw Grand Tutor Xie who came hurriedly.

She was happy to see Master Xie. After all, Master Xie and her grandfather, Master Pei, were close friends. When she was with her grandfather, she often met Master Xie, who once praised her for her unique insights.

She was just about to stand up, salute and explain her purpose, but Master Xie recognized her, his face suddenly changed, he swung his sleeves and was about to leave.

This indifference made her feel a little puzzled.

I thought to myself, could it be that I was not polite enough?

After all, Master Xie attaches great importance to etiquette.

He hurriedly chased after him, raised his voice, and saluted Master Xie again.

Unexpectedly, Master Xie's face was still frost-covered, and his voice was even more sinister, "The Marquis's wife's gift, I can't bear it."

Hearing this, Pei Jiuniang's heart sank. Then she suppressed her temper and asked, "Grandpa Xie, is there anything that Jiuniang did wrong? If there is anything that Jiuniang did wrong, please tell me, Grandpa Xie, and Jiuniang will definitely correct it."

"Don't do that. Who are you and who am I? I am not worthy of being called your grandfather, let alone your guidance."

Master Xie frowned and glanced at Pei Jiuniang, making the latter more and more puzzled.

She asked herself that she had never done anything to offend anyone, and her courtesy just now was quite considerate.

And the other party seemed to be still bothered by her current identity as the marquis' wife.

But the marriage was arranged by the elders, and she really didn't understand why the other party did that.

But she didn't want to remain confused.

So after thinking for a long time, he stopped Master Xie and decided to ask him for clarification.

"Grandpa Xie, even if you don't allow me to call you that, I will still call you that. I still remember when my grandfather was alive, I drank tea and played chess with Grandpa Xie, and I was right next to him. You treated me like your own granddaughter. Grandpa Xie, how did Jiu Niang offend you and make you unhappy? Please tell me."

As she spoke, Pei Jiuniang bowed deeply to Xie Lingyun.

Xie Lingyun's expression was still grim, but his eyes were already somewhat moved.

But when he thought of his grandson Xie Yuzhou, who was depressed at home and had wasted his career and had not yet married, he hardened his heart.

"I have nothing to say to you, and you have never offended me."

Having said that, he turned around and left.

Pei Jiuniang stared blankly at the person who was about to disappear before her eyes, and her doubts grew even greater.

She couldn't figure it out.

She was such a good person to him before.

She still remembered that he liked her very much at the beginning, and even wanted to match her with his grandson Xie Yuzhou.

Thinking of Xie Yuzhou, Pei Jiuniang was in a trance again.

Xie Yuzhou was a man of great talent and learning. He was known as a talented scholar in Kyoto and was a favorite to be the top scholar that year. But for some reason, he did not take part in the imperial examination that year and no one heard of him since then.

Thinking of this, she called out to Master Xie, "Grandpa Xie, is Yuzhou okay?"

As soon as the words fell, the person who was about to leave in a hurry suddenly stopped, then walked back quickly. When Pei Jiuniang thought that this trip was in vain and was about to leave, he suddenly shouted, "Pei Jiuniang, you still have the nerve to mention Yuzhou? Haven't you hurt Yuzhou enough? How dare you?"

"I?"

Pei Jiuniang was stunned, her mouth opened in shock, and she couldn't utter a word for a long time.

"Why aren't you talking? Aren't you very talkative?"

Master Xie became angrier and angrier as he spoke, his face turning red with anger.

At the beginning, he really liked Pei Jiuniang and wanted to match her with his grandson Yuzhou.

After all, they look like a perfect match, a talented man and a beautiful woman.

He and Old Tutor Pei are also close friends, and the fact that their grandchildren are together is a continuation of their friendship.

But he never imagined that the joke he made that day would cause such misery to his grandson.

And the instigator can still keep his face as if nothing happened.

What a big face.

"Thank you, Grandpa. I don't know what you are talking about. What do you mean I harmed him? When did I harm him? I..."

Pei Jiuniang was completely confused by all this.

She and Xie Yuzhou had met less than five times in total, and all of them were with strangers. They were at most nodding acquaintances and had barely spoken to each other. How could this be possible?

"At this point, you're still saying these things. Don't you think you're being too hypocritical? Didn't you correspond with Yuzhou back then? Didn't you keep him hanging? Didn't you say you wanted to marry him? Didn't you write a letter to make him give up?"

Taifu Xie became angrier and angrier as he spoke. He knew nothing about these things at the beginning. He was just puzzled when he saw his energetic grandson suddenly become a completely different person. He even got drunk on the day he was going to enter the imperial examination hall.

Later, he found a poem written by his grandson Xie Yuzhou, which contained the word Jiu Niang. Only then did he realize that his taciturn grandson was actually in love with Pei Jiu Niang.

He thought that it was his joke that made his grandson have such a change of heart, and he tried to persuade him several times. Unfortunately, not only did his grandson not let it go, he got deeper and deeper into it.

The handsome little grandson refused to eat or drink, and his cheeks were sunken due to acne. He got drunk every day, and when he was drunk, he would draw her portrait and write poems for her.

During that time, he wanted to slap himself, but he was afraid that his excessiveness would implicate Pei Jiuniang. After all, Pei Jiuniang was the granddaughter of his good friend and had already married into the Marquis' Mansion. He didn't want to implicate innocent people.

Until he accidentally found the letter Pei Jiuniang wrote to her grandson, which was full of love and said that she was reluctant to let go, but had to obey her parents' orders and the matchmaker's words to marry Gu Tingzhi. Her words also implied that no matter how hard he tried, even if he won the top spot in the imperial examination, he could not compare to the Marquis' Mansion.

Then think of the drunken grandson muttering, "What's the point of taking the imperial examination? I'll never be able to match him."

Master Xie, there is something you don't understand.

Then, he found some letters from Pei Jiuniang to Xie Yuzhou.

Only then did I understand why my grandson had fallen into depravity.

If the two people were in love and were forced to separate, it would be fine, but it saw several letters that Pei Jiuniang wrote to Xie Yuzhou after she got married, in which she actually wrote that she could not forget him.

Master Xie was almost angry to death.

In his opinion, since she is married, she should abide by the code of conduct for women, support her husband and raise her children. However, she was still communicating with a man outside her family, and the man was her own grandson.

He severely rebuked his grandson Xuzhou and asked him to burn the letters, but he regarded those letters as treasures and was reluctant to part with them.

Later, in a fit of rage, he burned the letters himself, and almost died in the fire while trying to save them.

In Master Xie's opinion, all this was caused by Pei Jiuniang.

If she hadn't sent Xie Yuzhou a letter from time to time, he would have let it go long ago.

is her.

She was the one who killed his grandson, how could he not be angry with her? !

Upon hearing this, Pei Jiuniang was completely stunned.

letter?

With Xie Yuzhou?

What does this have to do with anything?

But she knew that Master Xie would never make something up.

So, there must be letters.

Xie Yuzhou's decadence in recent years has a lot to do with this.

In other words, someone was keeping in touch with Xie Yuzhou in her name.

Thinking of this, she raised her head and looked at Master Xie, pausing for each word, "Master Xie, I swear on my life that I have never had any correspondence with Xie Yuzhou. I don't know what happened. All I can think of is..."

"You mean someone is using your name, Pei Jiuniang? Don't you think it's ridiculous? You're using such a poor excuse to justify yourself. Do you think I'm a three-year-old child?"

Master Xie’s expression became increasingly ugly.

"Let me ask you one thing. Does this person have nothing to do? Is he just bored?"

"I don't know. I really don't know what all this is about, but this person dared to impersonate me, destroy my reputation, and destroy Brother Yuzhou's Taoism. I will never let this go. Thank you, Grandpa. I will definitely get to the bottom of this matter."

Pei Jiuniang swore solemnly.

"This? You? Impossible?!"

Perhaps it was Pei Jiuniang's determination that made Master Xie a little shaken. He stared at Pei Jiuniang for a long time and saw that her face was full of anger, which she could not fake. Also, when he saw her in the past, she behaved properly and never overstepped the line.

How could such a person keep correspondence with a stranger after getting married, not to mention the words in the letters...

He was so angry at the time that he took a quick glance and his face turned red.

"No, that's impossible. Don't lie to me. I know your handwriting. It's yours. Also, as Yuzhou said, the letters were all handed over by the maidservant next to your mother..."

Halfway through the conversation, Master Xie also noticed something was wrong.

If Pei Jiuniang really did it, how could she let the maidservant by her mother's side do that?

This, what on earth is going on?

"My mother? Is she really the girl next to my mother? Does Master Xie know the name of that girl?"

Pei Jiuniang cried out in surprise. She had thought that she and Shen had severed their mother-daughter relationship and would never have any contact with each other again in this life.

Now Shen has been divorced and returned to the Shen family.

She cared so much about Shen Yulang and Shen Yuyan. Now Shen Yulang had been exiled again to a farther and more difficult place, and Shen Yuyan's reputation was ruined. Naturally, she should take good care of the only child in their Shen family.

"How would I know that? I heard it from the servant next to Yuzhou. I didn't ask any more questions."

Master Xie was very angry when he recalled that he first learned about this matter. At the same time, he also felt that based on his understanding of Pei Jiuniang, this matter was impossible.

But handwriting cannot be forged.

It was sent by the maidservant of Pei Jiuniang's mother.

And he really couldn't think of any other possibility.

After hearing what Master Xie said, Pei Jiuniang hesitated and hesitated for a moment and did not speak.

She has always known that Shen favors Shen Yuyan.

The reason why Shen Yuyan was able to enter the palace and serve as the princess's companion was because of her policy essays.

Also, she suddenly remembered that Shen Yuyan seemed to have asked her about Xie Yuzhou. At that time, because of the relationship with Shen's company, she even joked that Shen Yuyan might have a crush on Xie Yuzhou.

Thinking about it now, it seems that everything is not impossible.

She had always known that Shen Yuyan was a person with a strong desire for revenge.

Once Shen Yuyan fell in love with her hairpin, but she didn't give it to her because she liked it. Then Shen Yuyan secretly knocked her down, causing the hairpin to break into pieces.

If Shen Yuyan really liked Xie Yuzhou and Xie Yuzhou rejected her, she didn't dare to think about whether Shen Yuyan would retaliate.

But Shen, as a former wife of the Pei family, would she really do such a thing?

And she even acquiesced to Shen Yuyan using her name. Doesn't she know how much harm this would cause to Xie Yuzhou, and how much harm it would cause to her?

If she had not happened to come here today, met Master Xie, and noticed that something was wrong with him, this incident would have always been a rift between the Pei and Xie families.

hateful.

Pei Jiuniang was filled with anger.

He took a few steps back, bowed to Master Xie, and slowly said, "Grandpa Xie, there is another hidden story behind this matter. I have a guess in my mind."

"You said."

Master Xie also calmed down. After all, the shock on Pei Jiuniang's face could not be fake. However, he really couldn't imagine who could do such a thing in the name of someone else.

If true.

This man has a heart that can be killed.

Not only will he destroy his grandson Xie Yuzhou, but he will also destroy Pei Jiuniang.

If he had a strong personality, he would probably come and beat us up.

And he did have the idea of ​​breaking up with the Pei family and the Marquis' Mansion.

He only endured it because he thought of his deceased old friend.

"I have a cousin who is my mother Shen's niece. My mother loved her very much since she was a child. I remembered that Shen Yuyan once mentioned Xie Yuzhou to me..."

"Are you saying that this person named Shen Yuyan imitated your handwriting and deceived my Yuzhou?"

Master Xie was so shocked that his gray beard started to flutter.

Pei Jiuniang nodded heavily.

"I remember that Brother Yuzhou is good at calligraphy and painting. I would like to ask him to draw a portrait of the girl next to my mother. As long as we find her, everything will be clear."

"This is not impossible."

Master Xie did not expect things to be like this, and he wanted to find out more than Pei Jiuniang.

Mainly, he wants to untie Xie Yuzhou's knot.

He is old now, and he raised Xie Yuzhou since he was a child.

He couldn't bear to see him so decadent.

A few days later, Pei Jiuniang got the portrait.

It’s a pity that the girl in the portrait had long been beaten to death for stealing Shen’s jewelry and selling it.

Everything is broken.

Master Xie was even more anxious than she was, and even somewhat suspicious of her.

Pei Jiuniang thought about it again and again, and finally came up with a solution, "Thank you, Grandpa, is Brother Yuzhou still unmarried?"

"What do you ask for this?"

Speaking of this, Master Xie became furious.

Even though he already knew that someone might be interfering, he still couldn't help but vent his anger on Pei Jiuniang.

After all, she is now married into the Marquis's Mansion and is living a good life, while his Yu Zhou is decadent and has never been married...

"Thank you, Grandpa. I want to ask you to do me a small favor."

Pei Jiuniang revealed her plan to Master Xie.

Tutor Xie was a little hesitant at first, but when he thought that someone might take revenge on his grandson because of a failed courtship, causing him to waste his studies and life, and almost ruining his bright future, he gritted his teeth and agreed.

As Master Xie watched Pei Jiuniang's plan, his doubts gradually dissipated.

He also heard some things about her and the Shen family.

When he first heard about it, he was actually a little confused, and even said in public that she was cruel. No matter what Shen did, she was still her mother after all.

But now, it seems that the three-foot-thick ice did not form overnight.

Maybe Shen really had it all to himself.