The atmosphere in Xinyuan Marquis Mansion has never been as gloomy and solemn as it is today.

Clearly in the morning, a group of people left the mansion in neat carriages and in a bright and beautiful manner, but when they came back, several masters were missing out of nowhere. The maids who accompanied them, regardless of their age, all looked miserable and kept silent.

Old Madam Zhu was almost carried into the inner room. The first thing she did when she woke up was to announce that she would move back to her Songshou Hall.

The mansion was in chaos again, and at this critical moment, Madam Xiang stepped up to take the lead. She first sent the frightened girls back to the second room, ordered the concubines to take them down to settle down, asked the mansion doctor to prescribe a tranquilizing decoction to distribute, and then ordered the trusted servant to go and find the second master to return to the mansion.

After hastily arranging all these, she found time to change her clothes and rushed to serve Old Madam Zhu.

Xiang Mengxuan took the medicine from Xiuyu's hand, winked at her, and went forward. She whispered, "Old lady, you should drink at least one sip. At this critical moment, if you can't hold on, who can our Shen family rely on?"

"Even if you don't love your wife, you should love your son. The Marquis is still ill."

It would have been fine if she hadn't mentioned this. As soon as she mentioned this, Mrs. Zhu got so angry that she turned over and sat up, crying, "Chongyan, if Chongyan knew about this, he would be so angry that he would die!"

She was disheartened for a moment: "What else is there to say? After this incident, how can our Shen family face others? When I go to the underworld, how can I face the old marquis?"

He gnashed his teeth and cursed Luo Miaoyun: "It's all that mean and vicious woman's fault! I really don't know what kind of dirty heart, rotten lungs and evil intestines are under her skin! Is she determined not to stop until she kills our whole family?"

He suddenly became half-mad again, and yelled at Mengxuan: "Hurry up and send someone to destroy the yard of the mother and her two children, and throw out everything they have! I can't stand seeing those filthy things!"

Madam Xiang was helpless, for she knew that when the old man got angry he was just like a naughty boy and there was no way to reason with him.

She had no choice but to agree verbally first, and dismissed the maids serving in the room, leaving only Xiu Yu, the old lady's closest personal servant.

Xiang Mengxuan said earnestly, "It is because the Marquis, our Chongyan, and the girls and boys below are all relying on you that you have to take good care of yourself and clean up the mess. Besides, the emperor is in front of us, and the court will have a consensus on right and wrong. In the future, no matter who looks at us, we are all victims, and we are just being gossiped about behind our backs. If we really want to lose face and dignity, it will be the Luo family!"

It was with great difficulty that I managed to coax the old lady into opening her mouth and taking a sip of the medicine.

Madam Xiang passed the medicine cup to Xiu Yu exhaustedly, and secretly sighed, what was going on? Suddenly, her brother and sister-in-law, who were the pillars of support, fell apart, and she watched her grown-up nephew turn out to be an outsider. She used to be a second wife in the Marquis's mansion, but now she had to deal with these thankless and troublesome things.

Now, it is impossible for Luo Miaoyun to be the legitimate wife of the marquis, and her eldest brother's family has no children. However, their second family has two legitimate sons. The more she thinks about it, the more frightening it becomes.

Feicui opened the curtain and shouted inside: "The second master is here!"

The old lady waved her hand, and Xiang Mengxuan hurried out to greet her. When she saw her husband, she was shocked: "What happened?"

Shen Chongyao smiled bitterly: "It's nothing, I was in a hurry when I got off the horse, and I accidentally fell, but I didn't hurt any bones."

Xiang Mengxuan came over and said, "Let me see if you are hurt. Master, you are too careless. How can the servants serve you? If you have any problem at this time, what should I do?"

Shen Chongyao took her hand and walked in, saying, "Nothing happened. It's just that the skin was scratched and the clothes were stained."

When he heard someone coming from the mansion saying that something terrible had happened at home, he felt something was wrong and got on his horse and rushed back.

Finally he arrived at the front door of his house, but when he dismounted from his horse, he was so distracted that one of his feet got caught in the stirrup and he fell headfirst. Fortunately, the horse had stopped by then, and there were people waiting for him, so he didn't get into trouble.

When he saw the old lady, he said nothing, but fell to his knees in front of her bed and kowtowed, "Please punish me, mother."

Madam Zhu opened her eyes immediately: "What are you being punished for?"

Shen Chongyao took off his crown and said with a wry smile, "On my way back, I passed by my eldest brother's room. Without mother's permission, I told my elder brother everything that happened today!"

As he said this, he bowed his head and knelt for a long time without getting up.

Xiang Mengxuan and Old Madam Zhu were both shocked. No one had expected that Shen Chongyao, who had always been gentle and docile, would do such a big thing without making any noise!

Cut first and then play.

The old lady was so angry that her hands were shaking: "You, you are so brave! How dare you?" She grabbed the teacup beside her and threw it at her second son, "Chongyan is in such a bad condition now, how can he bear it!"

Shen Chongyao neither retreated nor dodged, and took the blow head on. The tea hung on his eyebrows, but he didn't even move his eyelids.

"Old lady," he bowed again, "please listen to me."

Madam Zhu suppressed her anger and uttered two words stiffly: "You say!"

Shen Chongyao said in a deep voice: "Mother is thinking about my eldest brother and can't bear to let him know about this. But the truth cannot be hidden. My eldest brother's health is getting better day by day, and there will always be a day when he can recover and leave the house. We can keep it a secret from others in the house, but we can keep it a secret for a while, not forever! If my eldest brother learns about this from outsiders, won't he be even more annoyed and hateful?"

"But at least he was well then!" Old Madam Zhu choked up, "He's still sick now, and Ning'er is gone too. How could he bear such a blow!"

"But," Shen Chongyao raised his voice, "Those two children call him father! If we know about this, and the whole world knows about it, and we keep it secret from him, how sad will he be?"

These words were so powerful that they left Old Madam Zhu speechless.

Shen Chongyao took advantage of the situation and advised: "What's more, since that night, my brother knew Ning'er's life experience, his health has been getting better day by day, and even the imperial physician was amazed. Mother, my brother is a general who fought his way out of the sea of ​​blood! He is not some young master who has not experienced the wind and rain. He is much stronger than you and us!"

These words obviously touched Madam Zhu. Shen Chongyao gauged her expression and added fuel to the fire: "Big brother is the pillar of the Marquis's Mansion. Only when he makes a decision can we know what to do next. Don't you think so?"

"Alas..." Zhu Jinyuan sighed deeply, her attitude softened completely. She said dejectedly, "I'm old and useless. I can't see things as clearly as you do."

"Forget it, forget it. Since you've said so, come with me and go see Chongyan."

Seeing that they had convinced the old lady, Shen Chongyao and his wife looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, a maid named Xianyun from Shen Chongyao's room stumbled in and said in a hurry, "Master, Madam, a group of officials on tall horses suddenly came to the outside of the Marquis's mansion, led by a handsome young man in brocade clothes, who asked to see you by name!"

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