Daming female local tyrant

"Father, that Qi Ming didn't believe me after he went back. I think they were afraid and didn't dare to come to the old lady to tell the cousin." Shen Shilian went to see his father Shen Xian six or seven days after Qi Ming returned to Suzhou, After expressing his conjecture, he asked Qi Zhuangtou and the others who were afraid to come, what should they do next?Could it be that Shen Wan took the filial piety money from two Zhuangtou in Suzhou so that she could live a comfortable life?

Shen Xian said darkly: "They don't dare to come, so why can't we let their letters come?"

Shen Shilian asked suspiciously: "They wrote a letter? This..."

"Don't you know some masters of forgery in calligraphy and painting? How difficult is it to write two letters?"

"Father... I understand! I happen to have a letter written by Qi Yunping, which was sent along with the painting when I congratulated my wedding last year."

"Isn't this better? With his autographed letter, it's even more authentic. You find that letter and find someone to copy two letters. The letter says that Qi Yunping reported that Shen Wan was extorting him and his wife in Suzhou. Liu Shiming 800 taels of silver. This letter is finished, send one to me and one to your uncle, and then I will take this letter to the old lady."

"Father means that my uncle will definitely not give the old lady the letter that revealed that my cousin accepted two zhuangtou's filial money. Then I can use this to question my uncle's injustice as the patriarch. Favoring the cousin, and letting the cousin spit out the 800 taels of silver that she collected. In this way, you can kill two birds with one stone, not only make the cousin poor and poor, but also damage the reputation of the elder uncle who is the head of the Shen family?"

"You're not too stupid."

"It's just... if Qi Yunping came to Jinling and said that he didn't write these two letters, but someone framed him, how should we deal with it?"

"Who will believe him? In black and white, we only need Awan to be poor, and the Shen clan questioned your uncle as the patriarch to hide his secrets. Besides, you ask Director Dong to tell Qi Yunping that if he doesn't mess around, he will lose money." How much money we will make up for him, and we will find good jobs for their father and son elsewhere. If he doesn't know how to mess around, just wait for bad luck."

After hearing this, Shen Shilian bowed to his father and said that he would settle the matter right away.

Two days later, the two masters of the clan of the Shen family received two letters with the same handwriting. This letter was written by Qi Yunping, the head of the Shen family's Suzhou management Yitian. Later, in the name of letting the old lady let her manage Suzhou Xuetian and Yitian, they blackmailed a total of 800 taels of silver from them.Qi Yunping also wrote in the letter that Shen Wan said that if she didn't give her the money, she would make Qi Yunping and Liu Shiming unable to become Zhuangtou. The two of them were so threatened by Shen Wan that they could only hand over the money in exchange for keeping the Zhuangtou. s position.

In the letter Shen Chang received, at the end it was written that the Elder Master and Shen Chang, who is also the patriarch of the Shen clan, should make the decision to deal with this matter impartially and give him and Liu Zhuang the first justice.Just because Shen Wan is the daughter of the patriarch, we can't cover up her blackmailing behavior.

Seeing this letter, Shen Chang was really taken aback. He always felt that blackmailing Zhuangtou's money was not something his daughter could do.Even if the daughter's dowry and money were confiscated by the old lady, she didn't have a penny with her when she went to Suzhou.But what the wife said, the old lady asked her daughter to take all the satin and woolen clothes from her house. Those big woolen clothes alone are worth a lot of money.Also, both myself and my wife wrote letters to friends in Suzhou and my wife's natal relatives, and my daughter took those letters to ask for help, so it doesn't mean that there is no money to spend.Why did she want to blackmail the money of the two dealers, let this matter fall into their hands, and finally write a letter to sue.

With this letter in hand, Shen Chang asked someone to call Mr. Yan, the steward, and asked him what was going on with the two bosses in Suzhou, and why they wrote a letter to accuse their daughter of blackmailing them for 800 taels of silver in Suzhou.

Since the old steward Yan sent Shen Wan to Suzhou to return his orders, he did not tell Shen Chang that Shen Wan summoned the two Zhuangtou. He didn't know if he came out to Shen Wan or not.

Hearing Shen Chang's question at this moment, he told Shen Chang that Shen Wan called the peasants to act in a play, exposing the fact that the two village chiefs embezzled the silver that should have been handed over to Shen's father-in-law, and speculated that it was the two village chiefs who took the silver. After coming out to honor the eldest lady, he was dissatisfied with this matter, so he wrote to sue the eldest lady.

"But it's not right. Could it be that they don't understand that this trick is called harming others and benefiting themselves? A Wan was sued, and at most they will withdraw the 800 taels of silver they received. But in this way, the money they have embezzled over the years is not Are you going to quit, and you will be dismissed by the Shen family, and they will not be allowed to be the heads of the management of Suzhou Xuetian and Yitian. It is impossible for them to be unaware of such a big loss, but they have to risk the possibility of such a loss Writing this letter to tell Wan'er, there must be something inside." Shen Chang mused while holding the letter in his hand.

The old steward Yan interjected: "In my opinion, they don't have the guts to sue the eldest lady, and even write this letter to the master, knowing that doing so will offend the master. Could it be? They were instigated by someone to write a letter to sue the eldest lady, and they deliberately came to the master's army to see if the master would deal with it fairly. If the master did not deal with it fairly, they would say that the master was not worthy of being the patriarch of the Shen family because he abolished the public for personal reasons. If the master dealt with it impartially, although they suffered a loss, the money that the eldest lady just accepted would be withdrawn, and the eldest lady would live in embarrassment again. The old lady had an order first, not to allow members of the Shen clan to help the eldest lady Otherwise, the eldest lady will be expelled from the family. The master received this letter, no matter what he did, he couldn’t have both. Compared with the eldest lady’s poverty in Suzhou, the old servant thinks it is more important to maintain the reputation of the patriarch of the Shen clan. If you don't hear a word, will you be safe if you don't have skin?"

Shen Chang nodded slightly, and said: "The old steward is right. I am the head of the Shen family, so my children will be protected. Even if Wan'er was poor in Suzhou for a short time, but I am the head of the Shen family, so others will protect her." Wan'er is a little more respectful, and it is easy to reach out to help. In this way, this time, Wan'er will be wronged. Old steward, you should immediately send someone you trust to go to Suzhou in person to make a decision on how I should handle this matter. Tell Wan'er to let her prepare early."

The old steward Yan bowed: "This old servant will let my child go to Suzhou as soon as possible."

Shen Chang: "There is Lao Lao in charge."

The old steward Yan hurriedly said that it was his duty to do things for the patriarch of the Shen clan.

After speaking, he turned around and walked out quickly.

Shen Chang read the letter again, folded the letter, put it in the envelope again, and took the letter to Yannian Hall.

He intends to show the letter to the old lady, and then ask the old lady for instructions so that he can handle the matter fairly.

When he arrived at Yannian Hall, his second brother, Shen Xian, was one step ahead of him, sitting next to the old lady, reading a letter in his hand, and the old lady sat on the arhat couch and listened attentively.

He heard the last few sentences, which were similar to the last few sentences in the letter he had just received accusing his daughter Shen Wan of blackmailing the two village heads in Suzhou, except that what Shen Xian wanted was to ask the second master of the clan house to help them decide.

snort!It turns out that the inside story is here!

Shen Chang immediately understood that this letter was in duplicate, one was sent to himself and the other to his second brother.

If he didn't report it and concealed the matter, his second brother would take advantage of him and accuse him of favoritism and protecting his daughter. He was not worthy of being the patriarch of the Shen clan. As a patriarch, he would really feel ashamed and his reputation would be damaged.

It seems that the two Zhuangtou in Suzhou took refuge with their second brother and did the right thing with themselves and their daughter.

The old steward Yan analyzed just now that the two bosses in Suzhou alone would not have such courage, and they must have backers behind them to write such a letter accusing their daughter of blackmail against him and himself.

Judging from the current situation, the backing of the two Zhuangtou in Suzhou is the second brother.

Shen Chang found it very strange that when his father was the head of the Shen family, his second brother didn't care about anything else, only caring about Xiu Xuan and asking for longevity.But as soon as his father died, he jumped out and targeted his daughter everywhere. He thought he was blaming his daughter for his father's death before.But judging from today's situation, he has begun to target himself. Targeting himself, the patriarch of the Shen family, is it possible that he still intends to replace himself as the patriarch of the Shen family?He is going to compete for the position of the Shen family patriarch?

To be honest, Shen Chang felt that he was not a person with a strong desire for power, and he did not have a strong desire to be in charge of the Shen family.It was only because he was the eldest son, and logically he should have become the head of the Shen family after his father died, that he became the head of the Shen family.If Shen Xianzhen wanted to be that much, and had the ability and character, he could even ask Xian to say that he was not in good health and could not do his best for the Shen family, and give him the position of the Shen family patriarch.

But it just wasn't, before he didn't think there was anything annoying about this second brother who looked like a Taoist priest, but now he hated Shen Xian, too eager, too obvious, and wanted to replace him.And what he can't bear is that he targets his daughter again and again.

When the old lady summoned the members of the Shen clan to discuss whether to expel their daughter, Shen Xian was the strongest person who demanded that her daughter be expelled. If he hadn't fought hard in front of the old lady, his daughter might have already been expelled.

Later, it was Shen Xian who proposed to supervise and confiscate his daughter's dowry and belongings, but nothing was left, not even a single silver hairpin was left for his daughter.When the daughter left Jinling, she wore only a velvet flower on her head and no gold or silver jewelry on her body.

When she arrived in Suzhou, her daughter obtained hundreds of taels of silver from the two Zhuangtou who embezzled the property of the Shen family by virtue of her intelligence, but he took advantage of her. In this game, he wanted to implicate himself, damage his patriarch's reputation, and prepare for him to seize the position of Shen clan's patriarch in the future.

This is really tolerable and intolerable!

Shen Chang suppressed the anger in his heart, and did not show any trace on his face.

Seeing the old lady, he stood under the hall, took out the letter from his sleeve, bowed and held it in his hands, and said, "Mother, my son is about to receive a letter from Zhuangtou surnamed Qi in Suzhou. The letter told Wan'er that they had blackmailed 800 taels of silver, here is the letter, please read it."

After hearing this, old lady Li took a look at her second son Shen Xian who was sitting in front of her, and asked the maidservant next to her to take the letter from the elder son and asked the maid to open it and read it to herself.

After listening, she said to Shen Chang who was standing under the hall: "Chang'er, go and sit aside. You and your second brother came to me one after another. What you showed me was the same letter, and the letters were all eloquent." The matter in Suzhou. As the saying goes, if you don’t understand what you listen to, you will believe it if you listen to both. The two village heads wrote a letter to tell Wan’er to force them to pay filial piety money. After all, Wan’er confiscated it. Come and listen to me. I think so, immediately send someone to Suzhou to pick up Liu Qi, the two Zhuangtou and Wan'er, let them confront each other and find out if this is true or not?"

Shen Xian was stunned when he heard the words, but Shen Chang immediately said: "According to Mother's request, there will be a boat sent to Suzhou to pick up Wan'er and the two Zhuang heads to Jinling immediately."

The old lady Li added: "Ask the two heads of the farm to bring the account books of their grain harvest over the years, and then call a few tenants who plant our fields."

Shen Chang bowed and agreed: "Yes."

Old lady Li waved her hand: "Go."

Shen Chang immediately stepped back, Shen Xian sat stiffly in front of the old lady for a while, then he remembered something and stood up and said: "Since the mother has given instructions, I will leave here."

Old lady Li also waved her hand, indicating that he could go.

When Shen Xian came out of Yannian Hall, he immediately went to his son's study, and asked Shen Shilian to send a competent person to Suzhou to meet Qi Yunping immediately, and he must promise to come to the old lady to admit that he wrote the two letters, otherwise , has him to look good.

Shen Shilian called Guanshi Dong, told him what his father had ordered, and told him to take 3000 taels of silver and rush to Suzhou to bribe Qi Zhuangtou and Liu Zhuangtou, so that they must cooperate in the old My wife is acting in front of me.

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Shen Wan was accompanied by Fang Shi and her two daughters-in-law to visit the garden at Tao's house, had lunch, and played leaf cards for a while. To persuade him to stay, he took Jinglan and Cuizhu out and took a carriage back to Jinhe Town.

Fang and others sent Shen Wan's master and servant out of the house, watched them get into the carriage, and returned to the house after the carriage had gone far.

They made an agreement with Shen Wan that in a few days, they would go to Shen Wan's old house in Jinhe Town to visit Shen Wan.

Tao Yuehua held Jing Lan's hand, reluctantly sent her to the carriage, said that she would go to play with Jing Lan in a few days, and she also gave Jing Lan an exquisite purse and a very beautifully embroidered sachet.She said that these were made by the maid who was the best at needlework in Tao's family, and they couldn't be bought outside, and she had quite a few, so she gave two to Jinglan.

Jing Lan really liked the purse and sachet that Tao Yuehua gave, because Tao Yuehua didn't brag, the material selection and embroidery skills of the purse and sachet were very good, and they really couldn't be bought outside.Speaking of which, she also stayed in big families like the Xiao family and the Shen family, and saw a lot of purses and sachets, none of them could compare to the two that Tao Yuehua gave her.Before, Shen Wan once said that Suzhou embroidery is famous all over the world. Now it seems that it is really so, and it can be seen on these two small embroidery works.The Tao family has been dealing in silk weaving and satin materials for generations in Suzhou. The most outstanding embroiderers in their family must have better craftsmanship than ordinary embroiderers. No wonder, Jing Lan liked it as soon as she saw it, holding it in her hand. Li couldn't bear to let go.

She thanked Tao Yuehua, and said that when Tao Yuehua followed her mother and others to visit the Shen family's old house in a few days, she would give Tao Yuehua some of the special rice crackers she baked for her to taste.

Tao Yuehua, a foodie, heard about it, and immediately clapped her hands and applauded. However, she still couldn't forget about eating dog meat, so she asked Jing Lan to pay attention to whether there were any dogs for sale in Jinhe Town. Kill him and give her stewed dog meat.

"Um, no, no, you're here, I'll make something else for you to eat." Jing Lan hurriedly waved her hands.

"Another delicious food? What is it?" Tao Yuehua asked.

Before Jing Lan had time to think about it, Shen Wan, who got into the carriage first, had already lifted the curtain of the carriage, and urged Jing Lan in a cold voice: "Alan, get in the carriage, you can talk about anything in a few days."

"Yes, girl, I'll come." Jing Lan heard that Shen Wan was not very happy, probably because she was chattering with Tao Yuehua here, making her young lady wait, a bit to save her face, so she was impatient up.

She hurriedly resigned from Tao Yuehua and got into the car, and said: "I will give you a surprise when you come in a few days, then you will know what to eat."

Tao Yuehua clapped her hands under the car and said yes, she likes to be hung up on her appetite, and she will feel more delicious and delicious when she eats.

Jing Lan smiled at her and put down the curtain of the car.

After putting down the curtain of the car, Shen Wan immediately ordered the driver Geng Jiu to get up the car and go back to Shen's old house as soon as possible.

Geng Jiu responded outside, flicking his horse whip, and drove the carriage very fast.

After the car ran for a while, Jing Lan told Geng Jiu not to drive so fast, just go slowly, otherwise the car would shake too much.

Saying so, she looked at Shen Wan who was sitting across from her, and she seemed to blame her for being so careless. She was obviously pregnant, so how could she let Geng Jiu drive the car faster.

Shen Wan had a sullen face, indifferent to the hints in Jing Lan's eyes, but inside she was very helpful to Jing Lan's thoughtfulness.

She was also a little jealous of Jing Lan and that Miss Tao family just now, and although she would not believe that there would be anything between Jing Lan and that Miss Tao family, she just felt blocked and couldn't see Jing Lan being with the rest of the family. She's young and beautiful girls touch.

Seeing Jing Lan talking and laughing happily with Tao Yuehua made her feel glaring and uncomfortable.

So when she got jealous, she forgot that she was pregnant, and she couldn't ride in a carriage too fast, otherwise the carriage would shake too much, which would be bad for the child in her belly, so she asked the coachman Geng Jiu to drive faster, and he wouldn't let the carriage ride too fast. Jing Lan continued to quarrel with that young lady from the Tao family.

The car left the Tao's mansion far away, and Shen Wan felt more comfortable, but when she saw Jing Lan sitting opposite, holding the purse and sachet from Tao Yuehua in her hand, looking at it over and over again, she felt unhappy again.

"Bring it." She couldn't help it, and finally stretched out a hand, asking Jinglan to ask for the purse and sachet in a forceful voice.

Jing Lan, who was looking at the delicate purse and sachet in her hand with a smile, was taken aback for a moment, she looked at Shen Wan, and asked her in disbelief: "Girl, do you also think this purse and sachet are exquisite and beautiful..."

What I didn't say later was, Miss Shen sometimes has shallow eyelids, when she sees that the pouch and sachet in her hand look good, she wants to ask for it.

It's just that this is a gift from Miss Tao's family. She wears it on her body when she is going. What will Tao Yuehua say when she sees it?

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