Daming female local tyrant

Shen Wan knew that the old lady sent Qiuyun and Qiuwen, the big maids beside her, to accompany her out to meet Hu Quan. Of course, as the old lady said, the two maids had the advantage of knowing how to advance and retreat. Going out with her also means monitoring her.

The old lady was afraid that she would meet Jing Lan privately on the grounds of going to see Hu Quan.

Although Shen Wan was a little bit disgusted with the old lady's behavior, it was not unacceptable.

She thought she would do the same if she were an old lady.

After all, she just separated from Jing Lan, so it's normal for the old lady to worry about her.

Shen Wan nodded: "Then granddaughter will go to see Cui Zhu, talk to her a few words, then Qiu Yun and Qiu Wen will accompany me to see Hu Quan.

Old lady Li: "Okay, you go to see Cuizhu first, my name is Qiuyun and Qiuwen, and I will come later."

Then Shen Wan was accompanied by Madam Deng to the woodshed outside, and saw the emerald bamboo locked in the woodshed with her hands and feet tied and her mouth stuffed with rags.

When Cuizhu saw Shen Wan, her face showed fear, she lowered her head, shrank her body and hid in the pile of firewood behind her.

Mother Deng asked a strong servant girl who was guarding to tear the rags from Cui Zhu's mouth, then Shen Wan waved them out, she wanted to say a few words to Cui Zhu.

A few people led by Mother Deng withdrew as promised and waited outside.

Shen Wan looked at the emerald green bamboo shrunk into a ball with a dirty and flowery face, she couldn't help but sighed, and said: "If I knew this before, why did I do it in the first place?"

Cui Zhu bit her lip tightly, with a look of shame on her face.

Shen Wan paused and then said: "I just want to ask you, are you being bribed to come to the old lady to sue me and Lan'er as they said?"

Cui Zhu buried her head in silence.

"You stupid girl, don't you know that you have been deceived by people's rhetoric? When I punished you to go to the Shen family's old house, I just hated you for exaggerating in front of me, and arranged for Alan to do something wrong with Miss Tao. Alan later told me By the way, it was Miss Tao's naughty, just joking, after you bumped into me, think about what you said when you came to me? I can also think that you must be jealous of Alan for my favor, remembering that you were with her To Suzhou. But, have you ever thought that you were able to go from the Shen family courtyard to the Shen family in Jinling, and even become my personal servant, thanks to Alan, she has always been kind to you..."

Before Shen Wan finished speaking, Cuizhu was already crying, she continued intermittently: "Girl... Slave, I told the old lady what the man said... Before, I just told the old lady what I knew. I told that person about Sister Lan's relationship with Miss Tao's family, and the girl's doting on Sister Lan. The man said that he was the master of the Shen family, as long as I told the old lady what I knew and what he told me , he will help and let me go back to Jinling..."

"Are you serious?" Shen Wan frowned and asked.

Cuizhu said eagerly: "If I dare not lie to the girl again, if I dare to say a lie again, I will be struck by thunder from the sky, and I will die! I was also confused for a while, so I believed him, who knows... who knows... The old lady said that the servant betrayed the master and wanted to sell the servant far away...Girl, please plead with the old lady, and said that the servant was deceived by others, so she said those things against her will."

Shen Wan shook her head after hearing this, and sighed: "It's too late, the old lady won't believe you if you go back on your promises. Besides you and my fifth uncle, the old lady must believe him more. Seeing as you and my master and servant I will tell Mother Deng that when I sell you, I will sell you to a better family. From now on, how you live will depend on your luck."

Cuizhu burst into tears and begged Shen Wan to let her go back to Shen's other courtyard.

Shen Wan frowned at her, then turned around quickly and walked out.

She went outside and said to Madam Deng, who was in charge of selling green bamboos, that she hoped that Madam Deng would sell the green bamboos to richer families for her sake, and she would tell the old lady about it. of.

Mother Deng nodded, and ordered the strong servant woman next to her to go in and keep Cui Zhu's mouth covered, lest she cry and upset people.

Qiuyun and Qiuwen came over at this moment, and Shen Wan took them away.

As soon as she left, Madam Deng went to Yanniantang to meet old lady Li, told Shen Wan what she had just asked, and asked old lady Li to show her what to do.

Old Madam Li said quietly, "I thought you were doing well..."

Mother Deng's complexion changed immediately, and she quickly said that she was getting old and confused, so she went to do what the old lady said, and after she finished speaking, she bowed her body and quickly backed away.

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Along the way, Shen Wan was thinking about what Cui Zhu said just now.

If Cuizhu's confession is true, Cuizhu said that it was her fifth uncle who bought her and taught her to say that she and Jinglan are good friends.

Then, how did her fifth uncle, Shen Zheng, know that she and Jing Lan were friends?

Could it be that someone in Jinling Shen's family discovered something and revealed it to her Fifth Uncle?

But the fifth uncle of the fourth room, Shen Zheng, couldn't stretch his hand so long. He took a step back and said, he really could stretch such a long hand. He had Shen Zheng's eyeliner by his side, and found out that he and Jing Lan had a good relationship. Shouldn't he grasp this handle to seek benefits from himself?

But Shen Zheng went to the Shen family's old house in Suzhou to find Cui Zhu, and by bribing her, let the matter of his relationship with Jing Lan come out of Cui Zhu's mouth.

Why did he want to do this extravagantly, instead of trying to make money, he insisted on letting the old lady find out about his relationship with Jing Lan, so that he would lose Jing Lan?

Moreover, this move will offend him. Although he is a girl, his father is the head of the Shen family, and his brother will also be in charge of the Shen family in the future.Isn't he afraid that he will retaliate against him in the future, and won't give Sifang good fruit through his father and brother?

Shen Wan felt that if she was Fifth Uncle, and found out that she and Jing Lan were mirroring each other through his eyeliner, she would probably write an anonymous letter to extort money, and making money is what a person like her Fifth Uncle should do .

But his fifth uncle chose not to do what he was supposed to do, and there was obviously something inside.

Shen Wan then thought, who would benefit the most if the matter of her friendship with Jing Lan was exposed?

Needless to say, she thought of her second uncle and her cousin Shen Shilian.

Could it be that her fifth uncle colluded with her second uncle and her father and son, and her second uncle asked her fifth uncle to expose the matter, and their father and son secretly enjoyed the fisherman's profit?

Let yourself be flustered and hit, and have no intention to find out the reason for his younger brother Shisi's injury, so that his reputation will be damaged. Even if his younger brother Shisi recovers from his injury in the future, he will not be able to help him take over the Shen family...

Shen Wan was sure that her second uncle and son were the masterminds of the forced separation between her and Jing Lan this time, and her fifth uncle was only bribed by her second uncle and son to come forward to expose her friendship with Jing Lan.

Inferring who was the mastermind behind the forced separation between her and Jing Lan this time did not make Shen Wan breathe a sigh of relief, on the contrary, her expression became more serious.

Because, Cuizhu's confession made her think of the eyeliner beside her, and this eyeliner belonged to her second uncle.There is such a person, or more than one person, hiding by her side, discovering the secret of her love with Jing Lan, and continuing to hide, secretly observing her every move, which really makes her feel like a thorn in her back.

In any case, she must find out the eyeliner on her second uncle's side as soon as possible, otherwise everything she does will be under the control of her second uncle and his son, which will be very unfavorable to her.

So after returning to the women's building, she went to get the key herself, opened her storeroom, and picked out a bronze vessel from the Shang Dynasty and a famous painting from the Song Dynasty, and wrapped them up.

Take it out and ask Qiuyun and Qiuwen to hold it. She turned around and locked the warehouse.

Then I called Mama Xia and whispered such and such in her ear. Mama Xia kept nodding, and finally let her go to work with peace of mind, and I will leave it to her here.

Next, Shen Wan walked out with Qiuyun and Qiuwen.

Going to see Hu Quan, the eunuch of weaving in Jinling, definitely couldn't go empty-handed, and Shen Wan thought those gold and jade objects were too common, so Hu Quan would definitely look down on them.

In addition, Hu Quan used to serve in front of the late emperor, and his eyesight must have been very high, and only the things she picked out and sent could catch his eyes.

Hu Quan's sister, Hu Shi, always regarded Shen Wan as a lifesaver, and later became friends with Shen Wan, and wrote to her brother to praise Shen Wan.

Needless to say, when Shen Wan returned to Jinling to meet Hu Quan, he would definitely treat Shen Wan with courtesy, but Shen Wan didn't think that she could go empty-handed to meet Hu Quan, who was so popular in Jinling official circles.

Sitting in the car to Jinling Weaving Yamen, Shen Wan asked Qiuyun and Qiuwen not to tell anyone about following her to see Hu Quan after they went back, except of course the old lady.

Qiuyun and Qiuwen agreed, and said that they knew the rules and had never said much when serving the old lady all these years, otherwise the old lady would not have said that they were safe.

When she arrived at the weaving office in Jinling, Shen Wan asked her fellow groom who was also a groom to meet the official guard outside the gate safely, and handed over her post, begging to see Hu Quan.

In the past few years, Ping An has followed Jing Lan and entered various yamen offices, and he knows how to deal with the officials guarding the gates.

Seeing that Ping An went forward, he bowed his waist and handed over Shen Wan's post, touched the silver and stuffed it into the hands of the guard at the gate, and revealed the identity of the master, and also said that the admiral's sister and the master are friends with each other.

The guard at the gate collected the money, and after listening to Ping An's words, although he was dubious, he went in to complain because of Ping An's generosity.

After a while, the official ran out with a smile on his face, and said politely to Pingan that the admiral of his family invited Ping'an's master to come in and talk.

Pingan ran back in a hurry, and reported to Shen Wan what the officer said under the car.

Shen Wan put on the veiled hat and got out of the carriage, and asked Pingan to drive the carriage away and waited, then led Qiuyun and Qiuwen into the Jinling weaving office.

Because Hu Quan, the admiral of Jinling weaving, was an eunuch and had no family members, he came to Jinling from the capital and lived in the weaving yamen after he took office.

As soon as they entered the Jinling weaving yamen, another eunuch under Hu Quan came over and led the three of them, master and servant, to a study room behind the yamen.

Outside the study, the eunuch asked Shen Wan and the others to wait a while, he went in to report, and then went back and led Shen Wan, master and servant, into the study.

Behind a large red sandalwood book table in the study room, sat a middle-aged man wearing a big red python suit and a three-mountain cap.