After being reborn with Sister Zha, I was stunned!

Shen Rongyue originally resented her natal family who had brought shame upon her and had no intention of going back, but Princess Kang finally showed her a bit of goodwill, so how could she dare to go against her wishes?

He packed up hurriedly, got on the carriage with a few servants, and went back to the Shen family.

As soon as I entered the front gate, I heard a fierce quarrel coming from the backyard.

"What's wrong? What happened in the mansion?" Shen Rongyue frowned and asked the gatekeeper Wang Si.

Wang Si's eyes flickered. "My dear Miss, I'm not too sure, but it seems like the old lady and the eldest lady had a quarrel over something..."

Fighting for something?

Shen Rongyue's face immediately turned ugly.

There is a maid from the palace following behind her!

Lose your face!

Shen Rongyue hurried to the backyard, and the two people who were quarreling were indeed the old lady and her mother, Mrs. Du.

"Zhi Nian is still in prison, yet you are so impatient to empty out Zhi Nian's study and yard. What are you thinking?" The old lady pointed at Du angrily, her lips trembling.

She finally fell asleep last night, but when she woke up in the morning, she heard that Mrs. Du had moved things into her room overnight!

Not only did he move the things, he also took all the more than 200 taels of silver in the mansion's public account into his own hands!

That's pretty cool!

Mrs. Du curled her lips and said, "What can I be at peace with? Of course, I am at peace with the good of the Shen family! The servants in the mansion have been really unruly recently. If I don't do this, will all the master's things be given to these servants for free?"

The old lady didn't believe what Madam Du said at all. She snorted coldly, "Excuses, all excuses! I think you want nothing else but to monopolize the wealth of the Shen family!"

Mrs. Du was also very angry: "What are you talking about, mother-in-law? I am still the head lady of the Shen family, right? Shouldn't I be the one who keeps the master's things?"

"Besides, how much silver are these things worth?"

When the servants were moving last night, she took the opportunity to make a rough estimate.

Among Shen Zhinian's things, the most valuable ones were some antiques, calligraphy and paintings. Although she didn't fully understand them, she could guess their approximate value. At most, they were worth about seven or eight hundred taels of silver.

Compared with the five thousand taels that the old lady took away from her, there is a huge difference!

No matter how you look at it, she's the one at loss!

If the five thousand taels had not been lost, she would not have been so anxious to snatch these things from Shen Zhinian!

But Mrs. Du has her grievances, and the old lady has her reasons.

Mrs. Du has a pearl hidden.

The bead was handed to her by her son due to a momentary mistake.

The son said that the pearl might be worth ten thousand taels.

And she only took 5,000 taels from Mrs. Du.

No matter how you look at it, the Du family has taken advantage of it.

The old lady refused to give in. She continued to scold, "You are the eldest lady of the Shen family, but don't forget that you have been in prison before. Your power as the head of the family has been taken back a long time ago. How can you still have the power to be the head of the family? Return Zhinian's things to me immediately!"

When Mrs. Du heard the old lady mention that she had been to prison, she became even more angry.

"Going to jail? Don't you know why I went to jail?"

The murder of Miaomiao was all instigated by Shen Zhinian!

If it weren't for Shen Zhinian, how could she have ended up in jail?

"No, it would be fine if you didn't mention it, but now that you mention it, it reminds me that I should go to Jingzhao Prefecture and explain the previous matter to the prefect!"

Mrs. Du said this and was about to go out.

She had kept silent in prison before because she didn't want to drag Shen Zhinian into trouble easily.

After all, Shen Zhinian is the head of the Shen family and holds the sixth-rank official position. With Shen Zhinian around, her son will have a good future.

But things are different now.

Now that Shen Zhinian is guilty of a capital crime, what does it matter if he has one more crime?

The Shen family will break up sooner or later, and her innocence is more important!

Mrs. Du was shouting that she wanted to redeem her innocence, but the old lady ordered sternly: "Bring her back to me!"

The two old women next to them looked at each other with embarrassed expressions, and no one stepped forward.

The old lady and the eldest lady, they really don't know who to listen to...

Seeing that no one came forward, the old lady had to go forward herself and try to hold Mrs. Du back.

"You came back, do you think Zhinian hasn't suffered enough? Anyway, Shen Qingyin has withdrawn the lawsuit, and it has no impact on you. If you go to the court to make trouble again, Zhinian might have to be punished again... He is already suffering a lot now, and you still want to harm him!"

Mrs. Du refused: "What about me? What about my innocence?"

The old lady snorted coldly: "Do you think you are innocent just because you are dating Zhinian? Cai'er is indeed someone close to you and was arranged to go to Bixiyuan. How can you be innocent..."

Mrs. Du insisted on going, but the old lady wouldn't let her.

The two of them started to pull each other without realizing it.

As soon as Shen Rongyue entered the second door, he saw this scene and his face suddenly turned terribly dark.

"Enough!" Shen Rongyue shouted.

She glared at the two of them angrily: "Don't you think the Shen family is shameful enough? How can the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law be so tug-of-war? Aren't you afraid that they will be laughed at if it gets out?"

Mrs. Du and the old lady were startled and stopped arguing.

"Yue'er, why are you back?" Mrs. Du showed surprise, let go of the old lady, and walked forward to hold Shen Rongyue's hand.

Ever since the old lady’s last birthday, she heard that her daughter was confined to the institution, and she has been worried ever since.

I didn't expect that the palace would allow her to return to her parents' home today!

Shen Rongyue looked at Mrs. Du, her eyes full of disappointment.

She lowered her voice and said, "Mom, no matter what the reason for your quarrel with grandma is, if it gets out, it will always be you, the daughter-in-law, who is in the wrong. Don't you think you haven't been scolded enough?"

Mrs. Du's face turned red.

I was indeed a little impulsive just now and forgot about those idle people outside.

"Yue'er, you don't know, your grandmother..."

Mrs. Du wanted to talk about the five thousand taels of silver, but it was not convenient to say it in front of the servants present.

Shen Rongyue interrupted Mrs. Du and said, "Mother, I don't want to know about the disputes between you and grandmother. I only have one question: why did the Shen family suddenly appear in the court with banknotes and account books that day?"

She had been under house arrest before, and she only knew from Mrs. Zhu that her father Shen Zhinian was in cahoots with bandits.

But when I just arrived, I happened to meet two men dressed as yamen runners chatting about the Shen family.

It was said that the severe punishment of Jingzhao Prefecture failed to pry Shen Zhinian's mouth, but it was someone from the Shen family who pried Shen Zhinian's mouth with an account book and tens of thousands of taels of silver... It was also said that if there was no account book and silver bills, Shen Zhinian would probably not admit to the felony of murder, and he might not be sentenced to death...

Mrs. Du didn't understand why Shen Rongyue asked this. While she was stunned, it was the old lady who spoke first.

"Of course, this is to prevent the other members of the Shen family from being implicated and suffering from exile..."

Shen Rongyue was puzzled: "Implicate? Exile? Who told you this?"