NFBE Chapter 193 Kneel down and faint
Chapter 193 Kneel down and faint
Whose servant is this?
She hasn't even gotten married yet, but she already listens to Xie Guimo. Even if she gets married, the servants in Pingyuan Marquis's Mansion should still follow her words.
Shen Tang was neither angry nor not angry.
The carriage made a circle, but only a small one. When it was almost at the side door, Xie Guimo left the same way he had entered.
When the carriage stopped, Shen Tang punished the servant by saying, "It's half a month's salary."
The servant was not angry at all.
Because when a certain gentleman jumped out of the window and left, he was given a reward of five taels of silver.
His monthly salary for half a month was less than one or two taels, which meant he earned four taels by driving the carriage around. How could he be in a bad mood?
Delicious.
Ginkgo and Qiutong got off the carriage at the back and came over to help Shen Tang.
He walked up the stairs and into the mansion. Qiu Tong, who was walking behind him, asked, "Why is one of your earrings missing?"
Shen Tang raised his hand and touched it.
The earring on the left ear is missing.
Ginkgo said, "It must have fallen into the carriage. I will go get it."
Gingxing went after the carriage and came back quickly, saying, "It's not in the carriage. Could it have fallen at Jiang's house?"
Qiu Tong said, "I saw the girl wearing it in the carriage."
Shen Tang's face turned red as she thought of something. Just now in the carriage, that bastard buried his head in her neck, which happened to be on the left side. It was most likely that she fell on him.
It was just an earring, and Shen Tang didn't want to ask Chen Shan to go to Xie Guimo to get it for such a small matter. Maybe he didn't notice it and it might have fallen off.
Shen Tang didn't take this little thing to heart and walked back to Qingyi Garden.
Let's talk about Xie Guimo. After getting out of the carriage, he rode back to Jingyang Palace on horseback. When passing by the busy street, he happened to meet Chu Yi, the prince of Xuanyi Marquis, and Xiao Xun, the prince of Duan, who were coming out of the restaurant.
Chu Yi waved his folding fan and looked at Xie Guimo, "Your outfit is way too ostentatious."
Xie Guimo frowned, "What's so ostentatious about this?"
He doesn't usually dress like this.
Xiao Xun asked, "You came from Pingyuan Marquis' Mansion, right?"
Xie Guimo asked, "Are you so sure?"
Chu Yi smiled and said, "Not only am I sure, but I also know that she is wearing a pair of gold earrings inlaid with rubies today, right?"
Xie Guimo threw down three words, "I didn't notice."
Chu Yi, “…”
Xiao Xun, "..."
Xiao Xun coughed lightly, "You've been flaunting Second Miss Shen's earrings all over the street, and you didn't even notice what she was wearing?"
Seeing Chu Yi looking at his hair, Xie Guimo raised his hand and touched it, and then took out an earring.
Xie Guimo, "..."
Xiao Xun covered his face with his folding fan, very curious, "How did you hook Miss Shen's earring without either you or her noticing?"
Xie Guimo didn't want to talk and just rode away.
Chu Yi and Xiao Xun behind him watched him walk away, and no matter how they thought about it, they felt that this was impossible.
But I am still very envious in my heart. This is what true love and mutual understanding look like.
Unlike them, one of them is not engaged yet, while the other is already engaged...it's better not to mention it.
Thinking that his parents and the Right Prime Minister's Mansion were already discussing the wedding date, which would be set in the next two days, Chu Yi felt a little desolate in his heart. Which young master from a noble family in Kyoto had a matchmaker who was a toad?
At the wedding banquet, the groom is supposed to offer a toast to the matchmaker. Is he supposed to offer it to a toad?
The image of himself toasting the toad flashed through his mind, and he shuddered, with the corners of his mouth twitching.
Shen Tang returned to Qingyi Garden. As soon as he returned to his room, Si'er came in and said, "The old lady asked the second young master to go back three times this morning, but the second young master refused to leave. Now he is still kneeling in Songhe Hall..."
Shen Gu was unwilling to move out of the Marquis's mansion, probably because he still wanted to stay and inherit his father's title. But the old lady knew that there was no hope for the second branch, and it would be useless even if Shen Gu fainted and died in Songhe Hall.
After all, he was the grandson she had watched grow up. These things were done by the second master and the second mistress, and had nothing to do with Shen Gu, at least not on the surface. The old lady couldn't bear it, but she couldn't say it out loud.
This self-torture trick will be of no use except to bring suffering upon oneself.
Shen Gu knelt down the moment he came back from the academy in the morning. Mother Wang didn't know how many times she had tried to persuade him, but Shen Gu just knelt there stubbornly. Mother Wang wanted to ask someone to drag him back to the South Courtyard, but no matter how much trust Mother Wang had in the old lady, she was still just a servant after all. She wouldn't dare do such a thing without the old lady's permission.
By the evening, Shen Gu finally couldn't bear it anymore and fainted from kneeling.
After he fainted, Mother Wang sent someone to send him back to the South Courtyard.
As a result, the next day, Shen Gu went to kneel again.
I didn't make it until the evening that day, and I fainted from kneeling at noon.
Day three...
This time, Shen Gu knelt outside the gate without even entering it. This time, the time was even shorter, and he fainted after kneeling for an hour.
He knelt on and off for three days, and his knees were almost broken.
Shen Gu knelt down and fainted three times, but the old lady didn't give in, and neither did Shen Sui. The second master and the second mistress were disheartened. Shen Sui asked them to move out of the marquis' mansion within three days, which was the final deadline.
Manager Li brought people to the South Courtyard to watch them move out. Before this evening, everyone in the South Courtyard can take away everything. After the curfew at night, anything left in the South Courtyard will be recorded in the public records.
The bruises on the Second Master's face from Shen Sui's beating were still there. He knew that Shen Sui was serious this time. Even the old lady had the heart to let Shen Gu kneel and faint three times, let alone him.
The second master and his wife had sullen faces and moved all the things from the second house away.
In the evening, Shen Tang was feeding the fish in the lotus pond when Si'er came over and said, "The South Courtyard has been emptied. Even the rockery and Lingbi stone in the yard have been moved away."
The second house spent a thousand taels to buy the rockery, and the Lingbi stone was even more expensive. The second house was removed from the family tree, and not a single copper coin from the public treasury was allocated to it. They still have to make a living in the future, and the second master and second mistress will not sacrifice the substance for the sake of face, not to mention that they have already lost all their face.
Shen Tang felt relieved when he thought that he would never see them in the Marquis' Mansion again.
A good night's sleep.
The next day, Shen Tang went to Songhe Hall to pay his respects to the old lady as usual.
When I went there, I happened to meet the third and fourth wives.
Although the old lady said that there was no need to pay respects these days, everyone still went, as the more courtesy the better.
However, she hadn't run into Shen Tang on those occasions. Now that she ran into him, the Third Wife said, "The Second House has moved out. Our Third and Fourth Houses..."
Shen Tang said, "Aunt San, the second wife didn't move out, she was kicked out."
Although there is only one word difference, the difference is huge.
The Third Madam hurriedly said, "Third Aunt is wrong. I'm just worried that the Marquis and the Old Madam will also separate the third and fourth rooms."
Shen Tang said, "As long as my parents are alive, the family will not be divided. As long as the third and fourth rooms do not cause trouble for my grandmother, my father will not casually mention dividing the family."
Although there will be less trouble in the Marquis' Mansion if the third and fourth rooms are separated, the third and fourth rooms are not the kind of people who would cause trouble. Moreover, this time they are killing the chicken to scare the monkeys, so the third and fourth rooms will only be more cautious in the future.
The fourth house is loyal to the eldest house. In addition, the grandmother is old and has no energy to manage the household affairs. When the eldest brother gets married, the Marquis' Mansion will have to prepare the betrothal gifts for him and the wedding banquet, etc., which will require people. Although they can come back to help after the family is separated, it is not as convenient as staying in the mansion. Besides, there is no reason to separate the family now. The one who made the mistake is the second house, and the third and fourth houses should not be implicated.