Mrs. Li raised her brows and gritted her teeth like a furious lion. She rushed forward and slapped Jiang Fu to the ground.
Then he grabbed her bun.
"Okay! I shouldn't believe your nonsense! You're only going to be happy if you want to destroy all my property and make a fortune! Give me back 20,000 taels! Give me back my money!"
Jiang Fu was in pain and begged for mercy, crying and saying: "Sister-in-law, have mercy on me! Didn't I return the five thousand taels to you? You didn't lose anything!"
"Pooh!"
Li Shi spat at her, "You think I don't know that the five thousand taels belong to Xu'er. What are you hiding? Asking Xu'er to pay off your debt?!"
"If mother-in-law has something to say, please say it, but don't do anything."
As soon as Mrs. Li made a noise, many servants in the corridor looked over. Ji Shu stepped forward and separated the two of them.
Putting the round fan on her chin, she asked with a suspicious look on her face: "What did my aunt do? Why are my grandmother and mother-in-law so angry?"
Mrs. Li pulled Ji Shu over and was so angry that she wanted to beat her chest and feet, "You don't know, she is going to kill our Marquis Mansion!"
Mrs. Li told the story in a sarcastic way. She didn't know about it at first, but she happened to be on the street shopping today and heard the people in Zhongzhongfang talking about it.
The waiter in the teahouse was very excited and told vividly how Jiang Fu bribed the censor of Zuodu and later chased the censor's carriage and shouted.
Li's chest kept rising and rising, and she said bitterly: "You tell her what she says, and she insists on repeating that she is from the Hou Mansion! Now the entire capital must know that people from the Wuding Hou Mansion bribed the censor, and the emperor What a good thing it would be if he were punished!"
"What? Someone heard me..."
When Jiang Fu heard the bad news, she was so shocked that she fell to the ground, shaking like chaff.
When she came to her senses, she crawled to Ji Shu, grabbed the hem of her skirt and cried heartbrokenly.
"Shu'er! Shu'er, please save me. I didn't mean to do it. Please give me an idea. Please save me. I beg you!"
"You pest! Come here! Send her to the village outside the city quickly!"
Mrs. Qi came over after hearing the news and ordered her mother to come forward and grab Jiang Fu and drag her away.
Ji Shu: "Wait!"
"Old madam, this is inappropriate."
Qi Chengxu stepped forward and said, "Shu'er, my sister-in-law did something wrong. If grandma wants to punish her, it's better for you and me not to get involved. She's not thinking right these days. If she says something to you, don't take it seriously. .”
Cold sweat broke out on Qi Chengxu's back, and he glared coldly at Jiang Fu from the corner of his eye. If she dared to talk nonsense to Ji Shu, he would not spare her.
"My aunt just came to me to plead for mercy, what can I say?"
Ji Shu's rhetorical question stopped Qi Chengxu in his tracks. He smiled and said, "It's nothing..."
Mrs. Qi frowned and thought for a few moments, then raised her hand and told Mother Xu, "Take the person back and lock him up first."
After Jiang Fu was taken away, Li said angrily:
"Mother! If you don't send her away now, how long will it take? When the emperor's decree comes down, the entire Hou Mansion will be affected!"
"Is it possible that if we send away the third aunt and grandma, she will no longer be from the Hou Mansion?"
Ji Shu slowly walked to the courtyard, fanning himself, and said elegantly:
"It is an indisputable fact that my aunt is from the Hou Mansion. If my grandmother sends her to the ends of the world, the emperor will still involve the Hou Mansion. Now this matter is not a big deal. Firstly, the censor confiscated my aunt's gift, and secondly, it is not a political matter. , it’s just a shop, the emperor’s punishment won’t be too severe.”
Mrs. Qi breathed a sigh of relief.
"Then why can't we send her away?" Qi Chengxu frowned.
"If you send her away at this time, the emperor will either misunderstand that the Hou Mansion is protecting her in the name of sending her away, or he will think that the Hou Mansion is instigating this matter. Sending her away is eager to clear up the relationship, but it will make a simple matter serious. , in fact it is not good for the Hou Mansion."
"Then, should we do what you said or what happened last time? Deal with her first and apologize to the emperor?" Mrs. Qi said.
"My aunt's disposition depends on the emperor's decree. What the Hou Mansion needs to do is to temporarily delist Ruifuxuan, compensate the couple who were involved in the accident, and burn all the problematic cotton in public to show their attitude and calm the public's anger."
Mrs. Qi: "Okay, did you hear everything? Do as the young lady said."
Qi Chengxu looked at Ji Shu's face, slightly lost in thought. Maybe on the wedding day, he only glanced at Ji Shu and then left too hastily.
Mrs. Qi and Mrs. Li left one after another. Ji Shu turned around to go back to the house. He took two steps and heard footsteps behind him. He looked back and chuckled.
"It's so late, won't the second master go back to the yard?"
"I'll stay with you. If you don't like it, I can sleep outside."
"Second Master sleeps in the outer room, where can I keep a vigil?"
Xitao retorted mercilessly.
Qi Chengxu frowned and ignored her. He lowered his attitude and said to Ji Shu gently: "Shu'er, grandma has found a famous doctor to treat me. I have been sorry to you for the past six years. I hope I can have the opportunity to make up for it in the rest of my life." .”
Ji Shu had goosebumps all over his body, and the finger bones holding the handle of the fan turned white. His eyes rolled, and he chuckled:
"If the second master has such an awareness, I can ask the doctor from my maternal grandfather's family to take a look at the second master. My uncle studies Da Fang Pulse and has also done research on acupuncture."
"No, there's no need to trouble my mother-in-law. Grandma has already found a doctor. If it can't be cured, let's wait and see."
Qi Chengxu was not sick to begin with, so the doctor he sought must have asked the Lin family to see if he was cheating.
"Second Master doesn't accept my favor? Then let's wait until Second Master is cured!"
Ji Shu had a straight face, raised his hand and nodded at several women, "Send the Second Master out!"
"Shu'er! Shu'er!"
After entering the main room, Ji Shu breathed a sigh of relief, fanned himself in disgust, and ordered: "Flush the courtyard with water from the leaves of fenugreek to remove bad luck."
"Yes, miss."
Not long after Xitao left, Ji Qianyuan walked out of Nuan Pavilion holding a stack of rice paper.
"Sister, I've finished writing."
"Show me."
Ji Shu flipped through the pages one by one. From the crooked characters at the beginning, the last one became much more regular. In just two hours, the rice paper was stacked as high as a joint. It was really fast and efficient.
"Qian Yuan wrote really well. Are you tired? I just asked someone to warm the soup, drink it and then go back to rest."
"Thank you sister."
Little Master Ji Qianyuan seemed to be sitting upright, but his brows were furrowed, like a caterpillar, which made Ji Shu smile.
He raised his hand to brush away the wrinkles between his brows, "Children, don't always frown like this. When you grow up, it will leave traces, just like a little old man."
Ji Qianyuan blushed, touched his forehead and hummed, and said disappointedly:
"Sister, Jinxing refuses to listen to me. No matter how I ask him to study, he refuses. What should I do?"
"You can ignore him from tomorrow on."
Ji Shu said that her brother sent a letter today, saying that he would come to her door tomorrow to talk to her about this matter.
She had no intention of letting Ji Qianyuan control Qi Jinxing and let him die on his own.
The next day, Ji Shu met Ji Chengfeng at the front door of the Hou Mansion. The two returned to Changle Courtyard together, and after closing the door, Ji Chengfeng said:
"The people in the Marquis Mansion are really non-stop. If I had known this was the case, I should have stopped you when my parents wanted you to marry me! I'm afraid that one day I'll be implicated in you!"
