"Old lady!" Zhen Qingyin raised her voice and interrupted, "My cousin is crying and can't explain the cause of the matter. If you don't believe her, let me tell you."
Meng Rulan wished she could go back in time and erase such scandals. How could she listen to others repeat them? She wanted to faint, but she was afraid that after pretending to be fainted, Zhen Qingyin would add fuel to the fire and make the scandal even uglier. Then she would not be able to tell the difference even if she had the words to say. .
Meng Rulan cried louder, resenting Zhen Qingyin in her heart.
If Zhen Qingyin hadn't sneaked up to see His Highness the Crown Prince alone, how could her innocence and reputation have been ruined in vain?
The old lady patted Meng Rulan's back and glared at Zhen Qingyin: "You don't need to make trouble, Aunt Rong, you can do it."
She will become a monk soon. Zhen Qingyin is now barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes. Why does she have a long mouth? Isn't it just to prevent herself from being wronged?
She spoke directly: "We came back from Mr. Yin's house in Jingzhao Prefecture. On the way, we went to Shuilian Temple to burn incense. I took the Buddhist scriptures I copied to be consecrated on the way. In the meantime, I went to the teahouse. My cousin was suspicious. To find out who it is, go to the tearooms one by one to check.
She didn't know what she saw, but she ran all the way out of the back door of the nunnery and ran towards the street, where she bumped into the arms of a drunk man. The drunk man was so strong that he hugged her and Little Pumpkin, moving back and forth frivolously.
As soon as I saw this situation, I went up and kicked the drunk man, and then Aunt Rong pulled my cousin out of his arms. The drunkard refused to give in. Our people gave him a few bricks and he became honest. "
Old lady: "..."
Why don't you just be a guest, why are you having such twists and turns?
She was angry that Zhen Qingyin ignored her words and turned to look at Aunt Rong.
Aunt Rong nodded slightly, and everything Zhen Qingyin said was true.
She was also responsible for this. She should not have let a useless little pumpkin chase Meng Rulan. She should have gone with Meng Rulan to capture the prince.
Meng Rulan cried until she almost died, her body shaking like a kite with broken strings.
"What do a group of servants and maids do for food? They actually asked their cousin to be frivolous in public!" The old lady hugged Meng Rulan tightly, her body trembling with anger, "Everyone who follows me to serve today will be slapped with five boards! Aunt Rong, you can't. Have you written down who the drunkard is and where he lives?"
Aunt Rong hadn't even been hit yet, but her butt already hurt. She hoped that the old lady would spare her because of her many years of service. She hurriedly replied: "I don't know, but I heard people calling him Ma San, which should be Shuilian Temple." The idle men nearby heard them making noises, and Na Ma San often wandered around the back door of Shuilian Nunnery, teasing the little nuns.
The old lady is a little more tolerant. The old slave has seen that Shuilian Nunnery is not a big nunnery. The people who go there are all pilgrims from small families. No one recognizes us. At the nunnery master's place, the old slave has taken care of things and will not talk nonsense or ruin the cousin's reputation. "
"Hmph! These sluts have ruined the innocent reputations of so many girls. They really need to be cured. Ru Lan, stop crying. When your second cousin comes back, I'll ask him to help you vent your anger." The old lady said softly. After a few words of coaxing.
Meng Rulan felt a little more at ease, as long as the old lady didn't dislike her.
Fortunately, it was the old lady who made the decision for her and replaced her stepmother. The stepmother wished that she would ruin her innocence and reputation, and would marry her to Ma San, the murderer of a thousand swords, by paying the dowry.
Zhen Qingyin toiled for a long time, and when she was tired, she picked up a piece of snack to cushion her stomach.
Ma San really needs to be treated.
Anyway, you have too much money to burn your hands, so why not raise a few thugs who specialize in setting sacks for thieves?
She was thinking wildly about ways to punish the disciples. When the old lady saw it, she became very angry: "Your cousin suffered a disaster, but you can still eat! It's so good, where are you going to Shuilian Temple? If If you don't go to Shuilian Nunnery, wouldn't this matter be over? What happened today was all caused by you!"
Meng Rulan agreed.
If Zhen Qingyin had taken her to meet the prince, she would not have met that toad Ma San.
Zhen Qingyin arrived home speechless.
She ate the last bite of the snack slowly, poured herself a cup of tea, took two sips, and then said slowly: "What the old lady taught me is that from now on, I will never leave the house, nor take a second step, nor go anywhere." Go and stay at home.”
When Meng Rulan heard this, how could this be done?
How can you meet the prince if you don't go out?
For some reason, she was sure that the other person in the tea room was the prince.
Today she suffered a big loss and almost lost her innocence. She wants to climb up even more and trample all those who have seen her scandals under her feet!
She gently tugged on the old lady's sleeve.
The old lady understood what she meant immediately, and her expression softened: "I didn't say I wouldn't let you go out. How can you get married if you don't go out?
but! How can you, a little lady, be so fierce and kick a man in person? If word spreads, the reputation of the Zhen family's women will be implicated by you! "
"What the old lady taught me is that I still eat too little salt. It turns out that doing so will harm my reputation." Zhen Qingyin's black and white eyes looked at the old lady and Meng Rulan seriously, "Next time someone bullies my cousin, I will run away You have to cry with your cousin from a distance, and you must not offend the bad guys in the slightest, so as not to damage the reputation of our Zhen family girls."
Meng Rulan thought that if Zhen Qingyin hadn't been so fierce, she would have kicked Ma San immediately, then picked up a brick for the maid to hit Ma San, and stood aside to let the maid smash it hard to give her confidence, otherwise she wouldn't have known she was about to fall. How long has Ma San been abused in his hands?
She shuddered and turned sideways, revealing half of her face. Her eyes were red and her tears fell one by one. She said in a weak voice: "Cousin, don't be angry. Cousin saved me today. I'm grateful, it's just...it's just that Ma San was so hateful, I was too scared, and I never had time to say thank you to my cousin."
She was so frustrated that she burst into tears again.
Her cousin had harmed her, and she wanted to thank her cousin. Tears fell to her lips, full of bitterness...
The old lady was about to faint with anger. She pointed at Zhen Qingyin who remained silent and said nothing for a long time.
say what?
She said something, but Zhen Qingyin refused to give in. She was so angry that she would not pay for it with her life.
Zhen Qingyin solved the problem and stood up: "My cousin must be uncomfortable after being treated lightly and needs to be washed earlier. Old lady, I won't bother you. By the way, my maid will hit Ma San with a brick today. Save My cousin, I beg the old lady to forgive her for her negligence and spare her five pieces of bread."
When the old lady heard her talking about the maid without mentioning her name, she knew it was the pomegranate she had kicked out before.
She was determined to use this incident as an excuse to severely punish Pomegranate for betraying her old master, but she was worried about chilling the hearts of her maidservants. What if the maidservants didn't dare to be so brave next time something happened?
He had no choice but to hold back and wave his hand to tell Zhen Qingyin to get out quickly, out of sight and out of mind.
Zhen Qingyin rolled away.
If she hadn't known the old lady's temper and knew that when she saw Meng Rulan crying, she would definitely send someone to scold her indiscriminately, so she wouldn't even bother to make this trip.
Back at Chaoyu Pavilion, Zhen Qingyin felt something was strange.
