Daming female local tyrant

"Old ancestors, we should send them to the Jinling government office. They will tell the truth when they get there." Seeing that Geng Shi was determined to go all the way to the dark, Jing Lan said coldly.

"This..." Feng hesitated.

Yuan Shi looked at Jing Lan in surprise, and she found that Jing Lan was completely unafraid of causing trouble.

That is to say, Jing Lan is not afraid of damage to her boudoir's reputation at all, and she is not afraid of not being able to get married. She would rather die than find out the behind-the-scenes instigators who ordered Geng Shi and his son to come to Lu's house to make trouble.

So, Geng Shi and his son were really instigated to come to the Lu family, using the pretext of getting engaged and withdrawing their marriage, so as to damage Jing Lan's reputation and make it difficult to get married?

After a little thought, Yuan thought that Jing Lan's guess was reasonable, so she never dared to say a word on this matter.

Otherwise, she will be suspected that she is the behind-the-scenes instigator who ordered Geng Shi and his son to come to Lu's house to seek Jing Lan's explanation, especially the ancestors would suspect her.Just now, the old ancestor came over from Fuhai Hall and gave her a stern look.

There were many meanings in this glance, and she knew very well in her heart that the old ancestor blamed her for mishandling the matter, and even asked someone to pick up Lin Gensheng and his wife to confront Geng Shi and his son, obviously wanting to make things worse.

In Yuan Shi's heart, the old ancestor, her mother-in-law Feng Shi has become a fine person, and it is not easy to deceive her with every move.

After Jing Lan said that Geng Shi and his son were going to be sent to the government, Yuan Shi remained silent, and no one else dared to speak. For a moment, the atmosphere in Qingyuan Hall was very solemn, and needles could be heard.

Feng finally decided that protecting Jinglan's boudoir reputation is the most important thing, but she was unwilling to let Geng Shi and his son go, so she said, "If you would apologize to my family Jinglan in the hall, and write it down in the apology letter." Sign and draw a pledge, saying that if you don't come to the Lu family to mess around again, I will let you go and let you go back."

Hearing this, Geng Shi and his son breathed a sigh of relief, and Geng Shi hurriedly said that they were willing to do what Feng Shi said.

Jing Lan wanted to stick to her opinion again, but when she looked at the old ancestor, the old ancestor waved his hand to signal her to stop talking.

So Jing Lan thought that the old ancestor's arrangement might have a deep meaning, so she also pursed her lips and waited quietly.

Then, Geng Shi and his son got up from the ground, bowed and apologized to Jing Lan, saying that they were deceived by lard, so they came to Jing Lan to ask for an explanation, and they begged Jing Lan to forgive them. The neighbor of the Lin family, and the relationship between the two families is good.

As for Jing Lan, she nodded and said, "Forget it, since you all know your mistake, then I will follow the old ancestor's wishes."

Geng Shi and his son wiped the sweat from their brows when they heard the words, and their hearts were finally relieved. Before, they were afraid that Jing Lan would not let them go easily.After all, Jing Lan insisted on sending them to the Jinling government office to meet the officials.

Soon someone came over with a letter of apology written in the name of Geng Shi and his son, read it to the two of them, and after reading it, told them that if there was no objection, they could press their thumbprints on it and they could go back.

Geng Shi and his son wished they could get out of Lu's house sooner, so after reading the letter of apology, the maid in front of Feng immediately put their thumbprints on it.

The eldest maid went to Feng Shi with the letter of apology in her hand. After Feng Shi glanced at it, she said that Geng Shi and his son could leave.

Geng Shi and his son retreated as if flying, and before leaving the door, Geng Hu took a look at Jing Lan, and there was still reluctance in his eyes.

As soon as they left, Feng stood up and asked Yuan to go with her. Jing Lan sent off the two elders respectfully. After the two left, she went to shake the hand of her adoptive mother Xie, and smiled. Invite her to stay at Lu's house for one night before going back.

Mrs. Xie agreed, and she told Lin Gensheng to go back first, and she will come back tomorrow.

Lin Gensheng wanted to stay at Lu's house for one more day, but Jing Lan didn't invite him to stay, and he was embarrassed to say that he would stay at Lu's house for one more day, waiting for Mrs. Xie to go back together.So he had no choice but to agree to Xie shi, and let her spend a few days with Jinglan before returning home.

Mrs. Xie lived in Lu's house for two days before returning to Qingxi Village. Jing Lan sent a carriage from Lu's family to take her back, packed her a lot of good pills, tea, cotton cloth and satin materials, and gave her 100 taels of silver, called She takes this money as her own money, don't give it to her adoptive father.

"This is too much money. I can keep ten taels and twenty taels. You can take it back." Xie declined.

Jing Lan exchanged five ingots of 20 taels of silver for five ingots of 20 taels, and said, "Then take these back, you can keep 30 taels, and take out the remaining [-] taels."

This time, Mrs. Xie accepted it with a smile, and said that she was really embarrassed to bother Jing Lan for two days when she came to Lu's house to eat and drink.

He also said that after going back this time, he would not give the Geng family a good look.

Jing Lan didn't comment on this, after sending Mrs. Xie away, seeing her leave in the Lu family's carriage, Jing Lan then went to Fuhai Hall to pay respects to her ancestors, and then went to the school.

Because Mrs. Xie was at Jinglan's place these two days, Jinglan just accompanied her after school, went to pay her respects to her ancestors in the morning, and hurried to school after eating, without asking her ancestors, where Geng Shi and his son were, Is that all?You really don't intend to find out the person behind the scenes?Or did the ancestors really have to believe the words of Geng Shi and his son?

Taking advantage of sending away her adoptive mother early today, Jing Lan went to Fuhai Hall to greet her ancestors earlier than usual.

When she went, the wives and ladies of each house in the Lu family hadn't arrived yet, and the ancestor had just woken up, and his hair was being combed by the big maid beside him, Pearl.

The maid outside said that Jing Lan had come, so the old ancestor came out of the inner room with the support of the big maid beside him, and sat on the Luohan couch under the south window of Xici Room.

Jing Lan respectfully saluted her ancestor Dao Fu, Feng raised her hand to get her up, and asked someone to move a drum stool for Jing Lan to sit in front of her, then asked her with a smile: "Why are you here today?" So early?"

"If we go back to our ancestors, the great-granddaughter sent off her adoptive mother early in the morning, so I'm here to pay my respects to my ancestors."

"Good boy, if you know how to repay your kindness, your adoptive mother must have been kind to you all these years, otherwise you wouldn't have kept her for two days."

"The old ancestor is right. My adoptive mother really loves me. By the way, old ancestor, do you really believe what Geng Shi and his son said?"

"I knew that you came so early to ask about Geng Shi and his son. Naturally, I didn't believe what they said. However, at that time, I thought, for the sake of your reputation as a young lady, it is not appropriate to see officials making trouble. Small, trivial matters."

Jing Lan was slightly disappointed after hearing what the old ancestor said, because she insisted on sending Geng Shi and his son to the government that day, but the old ancestor signaled her to stop talking.

At that time, she thought that her ancestor would have follow-up means to keep up.

"Old ancestor, since you don't believe what Geng Shi and his son said, you can send someone to find out what they did after they left the Lu family, and did they meet anyone?" Jing Lan couldn't help asking.

Feng said: "Don't worry about this matter, I will definitely give you an explanation."

Jing Lan became happy when she heard this, and said, "Great-granddaughter, I would like to thank my ancestor for doing these things for me."

She had long thought that if the ancestors did not investigate Geng Shi and his son here, then she would write to Shen Wan and ask her to find someone to help her. She believed in her own judgment, that is, Geng Shi and his son were indeed bribed , came to the Lu family to make trouble.

Feng Shi smiled slightly towards Jing Lan at this moment: "I didn't do this for you alone, I just want to know who is so bold and dark-hearted, who dares to target our Miss Lu family and want to ruin your boudoir reputation, It will make it difficult for you to marry in the future. A woman's boudoir reputation is no different than anything else, it is better than thousands of gold and silver, if I don't investigate this matter thoroughly, let that treacherous villain show his true colors, it will appear that I am too incompetent."

Jing Lan gave a thumbs up and praised: "Ancestor, you are the most capable person in our Lu family. With you here, my granddaughter will be waiting for the good news."

"You just have to study hard, and you don't have to worry about anything else."

"Ah."

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After Geng Shi and his son ran out of Lu's house in a panic, they raised their sleeves and wiped the sweat from their foreheads, secretly rejoicing that they escaped this time.

Geng Hu said: "Father, this time is very risky. Fortunately, the old lady of the Lu family did not insist on sending us to the Jinling government office, otherwise we might be punished and go to jail... Once we see the official, we cannot guarantee that we will not speak up." Who asked us to go to Lu's house to make trouble."

Hearing this, Geng Shi nodded, then shook his head again, and said, "Even if I see an official, I won't say anything even if I get beaten. We won't be able to earn 300 taels of silver for the rest of our lives. You see Look, we took the risk this time, and we got 300 taels of silver, and when we go back, we can also build a house and buy land, and marry you a daughter-in-law to come in."

Geng Hu was silent, he was still thinking about Jing Lan's appearance, and felt that all the women in the world were not as good-looking as her, and there would be no more women for him to worry about, and he would forget about eating and drinking.

When Geng Shi saw his son's appearance, he guessed what he was thinking, and couldn't help but slapped him hard on the head, calling him a worthless thing, and that woman Jing Lan was so cruel, and he still missed her.

He said: "From now on, you will stop thinking about her, or you will humiliate yourself and bring trouble on your body, do you hear me?"

Geng Hu shrank his neck and said in a low voice, "Understood."

He asked his father where he was going after leaving the Lu family, and if he should hire a car to go home.

Geng Shi said: "Let's go to the Gaosheng Inn in Nancheng to stay. Someone has booked a room for us there. He will come to us in the middle of the night and give us the remaining 200 taels of silver."

After finishing speaking, he and his son Geng Hu hired a mule cart on the street, and asked the driver to drive to the Gaosheng Inn on the south side of the city.

When they arrived at the place, Geng Shi and his son got out of the car, paid the fare, entered the Gaosheng Inn and reported their names, a clerk came and took them to the last room on the second floor, saying that this room had been booked by a guest early in the morning, so it was Prepared for their father and son.In addition, what they want to eat, just tell the guy, and the guy will bring it to them, and the food and drink money is also included in the rent.

Geng Shi ordered a table of food and wine, and slowly ate with his son Geng Hu in the room. After eating and drinking enough, the two went to bed and fell asleep without bolting the door.This is also what Qi An had agreed with him, after staying in the Gaosheng Inn, don't lock the door, he will come to find Geng Shi and his son in the middle of the night.

After sleeping until midnight, someone pushed the sleeping Geng Shi awake. He got up, and by the moonlight outside the window, he saw the salesman who had entrusted him with some work.

The shopkeeper who came to look for Geng Shi was Qi An. He came to Gaosheng Inn early in the morning to reserve two rooms, and then he ate, drank and slept in the room. He didn't come until midnight and opened the door of Geng Shi's father and son's room, and came in to wake Geng Shi up. .

When Geng Shi saw Qi An, he complained that today was a dangerous day. He took his son to the Lu family to ask Lu Jinglan for an explanation, but was almost taken away by the Lu family and sent to the Jinling government office.

Qi Wan heard the words, but he didn't take it seriously and said: "I expected that the Lu family would not send you to see the official, otherwise the trouble would be even bigger, and it would be even more detrimental to the reputation of the second wife of the Lu family. The Lu family is just scaring you. Okay. Now, here is the 200 taels of silver bill, you take it, we will never see each other in the future, you better forget about it, go back and live a good life."

While the two were talking, a black figure tiptoed over from outside the house, lightly poked a hole in the window paper, looked in, and then put his ear on the window crack...

The author has something to say: Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!