Spring Forest Evening

The final result of the punishment was: for the sake of Uncle He, Mu Yun and Chen Feng were hit with [-] boards each, and each was fined one month of silver, and they were sent to the Bodhisattva of Daxiangguo Temple together as sesame oil money.

Of course, Chen Feng will not be allowed to go this time, Yueyin can be handed over to Nanny Shen directly, and let her go to Daxiangguo Temple to offer incense and pray for blessings in the name of Prince Jing's Mansion.

The two naturally expressed no doubts about this, and said with shame that they would definitely go back and reflect on it.

Seeing that the heat was almost ready, Uncle He glanced at Shen Fu, coughed lightly and changed the topic to the serious matter:

"My lord, these two boys have already told me about the matter before. I didn't expect such a heinous thing to happen after I went out for a few days. Fortunately, Ms. Zhou is a lucky person and is safe and sound now, but the person behind this , no matter who it is, it is necessary to find out anyway, if you don’t get rid of it for a day, you can’t sleep peacefully for a day, you don’t know if there will be a next time.”

"That's right, Uncle He's thinking is exactly what I'm thinking about." Shen Fu glanced at the two people with lowered heads who were somewhat obtrusive: "Go out first!"

This is something to discuss with the master, Chen Feng and Mu Yun immediately saluted and retreated as if they were amnesty.

"My lord," after the two apprentices had left, Uncle He put away his good-natured smile just now, with a serious look on his chubby face, and asked Shen Fu directly:

"So you think this incident is directed at the palace? What evidence do you have?"

Shen Fu nodded, and while gesturing him to take a seat, he gave him a rough explanation: "Before taking the boat at noon that day, Ah Heng used to have lunch at the Tianxiang Building by Liuhu Lake. Mention it to her so that she won't have to worry about the wet nurses and maids around her soon..."

Speaking of this, Shen Fu is a little embarrassed, but this Uncle He has always had a deep relationship with him. He also knew about Ah Heng's arguing to make him promise not to accept his side concubine earlier. If you don't explain this matter clearly, you can't say anything later.

After a pause, he happily continued to say all that Zhou Heng had said to him before: "The third lady said that after cleaning up these people, there will be no hidden dangers in Prince Jing's mansion, and let Ah Heng wait to become Princess Jing .”

"These words, Uncle He, should be put aside on weekdays, maybe they can be regarded as personal words between sisters, but, it happened to happen on the day when the incident happened, and such a place was chosen, so it has to be suspicious, and, besides," Speaking of this, Shen Fu also revealed to this Uncle He the news he received from the Zhou family at the first time:

"Uncle Zhou sent a message earlier, saying that he had secretly investigated the situation of his concubine's third son-in-law's family in the past two days. The servant also set up some real estate shops, his concubine was very generous, and after careful investigation, I feel that this situation has been going on for some time, and it started years ago, which is a bit unusual, this is one of them. "

"Secondly, Ah Heng told me a detail at the time, saying that when she woke up and went ashore, she found that there was no one on the shore, and the same was true in the river. This is also very unusual. Uncle He, just imagine, you can do it quietly. There aren’t many people who silently blocked the river, right? The point is, Mu Yun and the others have investigated privately, but they haven’t found any clues.”

What he said made Uncle He's originally small eyes suddenly become bigger in an instant: "There is another matter! However, my lord, let's think about this matter in reverse, and we can also infer based on this. A lot."

"Exactly," Shen Fu nodded, "So, Uncle He, such a family can't afford to deal with a lady from a mere fifth-rank official's family. What's more, Mu Yun must have told you that there are still people from the boatman's family who are in advance. To instigate, to have to pour dirty water on Ah Heng, this matter is also very unusual, as the saying goes, the dead are the worst, let alone a lady in the boudoir, how can there be such a deep hatred?"

"My cousin's aunt, not to mention being generous to others, is not harsh to those concubines' children. The third lady's husband's family is also not high or low. It is said that the relationship between the couple is also good, so they don't treat the aunt and the mother-in-law. My sister hates it so much, of course, forgive her for not being able to do that."

Speaking of this, Zhou Heng praised Zhou Heng unconsciously: "Fortunately, Ah Heng is also very brave. After the boatman's body was recovered that day, she also followed me to identify it, saying that it was not the one who wanted to kill them. People's ages don't match up at all."

"Then there must be something wrong with this matter. Why would someone want to get rid of the Miss Zhou family in such a deliberate way? These days, the Zhou family... and Ah Heng himself have thought about it over and over again. But when it comes to such deep hatred, it is definitely not there."

"She is a daughter of a boudoir, and it can be said that she is well-documented when she goes out to socialize and so on. Of course, there have been rumors in the capital that something major has happened. She doesn't go to many places, that is, her grandfather's Xie Mansion, so naturally she won't have anything to do there."

Hearing what Shen Fu said, ignoring the meaning of defending Zhou Heng in his words, Uncle He also thought about it very quickly, and nodded in agreement:

"That's right, the Zhou family doesn't have any promising children these days, and Zhou Yan himself is doing an easy job in the Ministry of Rites. That is to say, the other party can make such arrangements, and getting rid of Ms. Zhou is only superficial. The target is actually you!"

After finishing speaking, he added another question: "Then, the Zhou family's husband's family who gave birth to a concubine, did their family suddenly get rich at the same time as you got rid of your clothes?"

Seeing that Shen Fu gave an affirmative answer, he raised his head and thought for a while, and then said to himself: "Then it's right, Miss Zhou made a fuss about asking you to promise not to accept the side concubine, probably it was her." Was this third sister instigated by you?"

Speaking of this, he also looked down at Shen Fu and smiled: "Miss Zhou must be regretful now, right?"

Shen Fu instinctively wanted to defend Zhou Heng, but before he could say anything, he remembered that the current Zhou Heng was not the original Zhou Heng, so he should admit the injustice, so he reluctantly said something uncomfortable: "This time I have already told her about it, after all, for the rest of her life after this catastrophe, Ah Heng thought of coming to the Palace to look for me at the very first moment..."

What he said made Uncle He couldn't help but take a serious look at Shen Fu, didn't he, didn't he avoid Miss Zhou's family before, why does it sound like he wants to protect her now?

That Miss Zhou was originally a delicate young lady, it is indeed admirable to be able to support the palace with such a breath, but this is not enough... Thinking of this, Uncle He couldn't help but looked up and looked at Shen Fu seriously again. , ho, the ears are red!

Uncle He, who had grown up with him and knew Prince Jing very well, knew that Shen Fu was embarrassed.

What are you sorry for?

Uncle He's small eyes rolled, could it be that the young and vigorous prince felt pity for the troubled girl?Hasn't this Prince Jing always disliked that kind of delicate and capricious Miss Qianjin?

However, this Miss Zhou was able to escape to the palace without being noticed that day. She was not the delicate and willful girl that was criticized in the past. The corpse, it seems that it has undergone great changes, and the original character in the bones has been revealed instead.

That's right, the girls of the Zhou family, counting up several generations, there are also people like the noble concubine, who don't show off when they are pampered, and only see the truth at critical moments.

Thinking of this, Uncle He suddenly became interested in the young lady of the Zhou family who survived the catastrophe. Originally, the marriage between the Shen and Zhou families was a bit of a twisted melon, but he didn't expect that once the situation suddenly changed, it would turn around.

The lottery that that silly boy Chen Feng asked for might be quite clever, maybe it really is "good things take a long time"?

Uncle He's chubby face began to stretch out slowly like a ball of fermented dough:

"My lord, then, there is nothing wrong with the Miss Zhou family living in the mansion now, but it is not a day's work to find the real murderer, so what will happen in the future?"

Although the two had a marriage contract long ago, but such a lonely man and widow living under the same roof, after a long time, it is inevitable that people will be criticized. Even if the case is reversed in the future, the situation during this period of time should be seriously investigated, and it will be fine for Shen Fu Well, as a girl's family, Miss Zhou's reputation will inevitably suffer a bit.

"Don't worry, Uncle He, I've already told Ah Heng, and she's willing." Shen Fu was naturally confident about this matter, so he introduced the subsequent arrangements to him, saying that he would arrange Zhou Heng to go to Tangquan Town later. .

"Either way," Uncle He pondered for a while, and then made a decision:

"The Zhuangzi in the Wangfu has been idle for many years. It's a pity. Just say that I'm not feeling well when I come back from Bigu, so you let me go to the hot spring Zhuangzi to recuperate. Looking back, things over there will look good. No matter what, Zhou Miss Jia is still the one who has a marriage contract with you, and we can't tolerate any mistakes, not to mention we don't know the details of the other party now, it's better to make more preparations, so that we can also explain to the Zhou family, what do you think?"

He asked Chenfeng to pick him up from the Daxiangguo Temple in such a hurry. He originally thought he wanted to discuss the arrangement of this matter with him. Go over there and sit in town by yourself, in case something happens to Miss Zhou's family.

Thinking of this, Uncle He looked at Shen Fu seriously again, causing Shen Fu to be puzzled for a while: "What's wrong, Uncle He? But what's wrong?"

"It's okay, it's okay," Uncle He smiled. He wanted to feel that this eldest nephew is now a handsome man and that Miss Zhou must be a match made in heaven. Thinking this way in his mind, he suddenly felt a flash of inspiration and blurted out: "Should Could it be that someone has taken a fancy to you?"