Wear It with Space

It rained just a few days ago, and the flowers and trees in the garden became more and more prosperous after this irrigation.

Shen Ling chose such a time to hold a small banquet. The place for the banquet was the Qiuwuxie in the mansion. Not only was the place spacious, but it was also next to the lotus pond in the garden. A circle of sycamore trees was planted around the window. With silver-red light gauze, sitting in it can feel cool without being invaded by mosquitoes. It is a good place to keep cool in summer.

A huanghuali square table was placed in the middle of Qiuwu Pavilion, and a small huanghuali screen was placed against the north wall. Two female storytellers sat in front of the screen, and they were talking lively.

A dozen wives and young ladies gathered around the square table or whispered and laughed, or listened to the story of the husband. There are dozens of surrounding dishes on the table, with snacks, dried fruits, and fresh fruits in season.

Shen Ling crossed a piece of cut melon and put it in his mouth, and casually glanced at the lady sitting opposite. The lady was in her forties, because she was well maintained, she seemed to be in her thirties. The stone-blue dress, with gold hairpins on her head, made her more graceful and luxurious. It was Xia Houyan's wife Liu.

After observing her for so many days, Shen Ling has basically figured out her personality, her appearance is gentle and kind, but inside, she is selfish and selfish.

The ancients' saying that things gather people into groups according to similarities is really correct. Xia Houyan is no exception to having such a wife.

Next to the Liu family sits a beautiful girl who is the third daughter of Liu family. She is fourth in the Fuzhong, and she is called Yuanniang. This Yuanniang was Liu's youngest daughter. The two older sisters were married to Xia Houyan's proud disciples. When it was Yuanniang's turn, Liu wanted to plan a better marriage for the youngest daughter.

Therefore, as long as she has time for Shen Ling's banquet, she will bring her daughter over. One is to take this opportunity to meet more dignitaries, and the other is to find a good husband's house for her daughter.

Shen Ling looked at it coldly and found that she had secretly missed the second son of Jianninghou’s family. She couldn’t help but sneered secretly. Jianninghou’s wife came from a noble family, and some of them didn’t really value those civil servants who climbed up from the bottom. Even if the scenery is beautiful, it is only a few years old, and sometimes with bad luck, it will face the end of exile. Therefore, she married her eldest son as the daughter of a noble family. Shen Ling felt that the Liu family would probably be rejected by Mrs. Jianninghou.

She gently lifted the celadon tea cup in front of her, took a sip, and now waits for Liu's rejection by Mrs. Jianninghou to take the bait!

When Shen Ling held another banquet next time, he found that although Liu still took Yuanniang to the banquet, but the look on his face was not very good, so he raised his mouth and smiled at everyone: "Last time I went to the palace. When visiting the empress dowager, the empress dowager said that the emperor has no heirs, and her elder is going to persuade the emperor to hold a draft."

When the words "draft" were dropped, Shen Ling saw a hint of surprise on Liu's face, knowing that the fish had taken the bait, and revealed a slight smile.

When Liu was intensively preparing for the draft for his daughter, news came out from the palace that a small draft would be held in the fall.

In a few months, Yuanniang entered the harem as she wished, and was named a concubine Yuan due to Xia Houyan's relationship. Concubine Yuan was spoiled for a few days when she first entered the palace because of her good looks, but she was soon left behind by Emperor Yuanfeng when she was fresh.

When Concubine Yuan was arrested by the queen to perform witchcraft in the palace, it was already two years later.

Emperor Yuanfeng was naturally furious, and not only sent Concubine Yuan into the cold palace, but Xia Houyan's career was also slightly affected. Xia Houyan's position as the first assistant was taken by a younger generation who joined the cabinet a few years later. This incident made Xia Houyan resent, and when he came home, he scolded the daughter in the palace with **** heads, and then criticized the Liu family. He shouldn't have sent his daughter into the palace.

But the fact is already like this, Xia Houyan's first assistant position is still lost after all. Because earlier he thought of himself as the future chief assistant, not only did the current chief assistant not look pleasing to him everywhere, but even his colleagues in the past were talking and laughing at him secretly.

Xia Houyan endured for a few months and finally couldn't hold back and fell ill.

A few days after he fell ill, the Yu Shi presented to Emperor Yuan Feng, saying that his nephews and nephews relied on his power in Beijing to do everything in their hometown, not only forcibly seizing them, but also occupying the people's daughters.

When this memorial was up, Emperor Yuanfeng saw that Xia Houyan had worked for the prince Zhan because it only made him think behind closed doors, but he did not blame him. But my heart was quite disliked by what he had done.

It happened that a concubine that Emperor Yuanfeng loved recently suddenly fell ill. After the queen's investigation, it was discovered that the concubine's illness was actually related to the concubine Yuan in Lenggong.

After hearing the queen's return, Emperor Yuanfeng immediately swept the teacup on the table to the ground with a gloomy face, and then ordered the **** beside him to send a cup of poisonous wine to Concubine Yuan.

When the queen returned to her Kunning Palace, Shen Ling was waiting in the side hall of the Kunning Palace. When the maid presented the newly donated spring tea in front of Shen Ling, the radiant heat made her look unclear for a while. .

When the queen walked into the side hall, Shen Ling stood up and smiled: "please greet the queen empress."

The queen smiled and said, "Why are you so polite between you and me." After saying that, she waved away from everyone, "Sometimes I don't understand, why can't you just get along with Concubine Yuan for a transparent person like you? I didn't think. Did she offend you?"

Shen Ling said: "Since the Queen Empress asked, I'll just say it. Before entering the palace, Concubine Yuan had a relationship with her husband. If it weren't for the queen dowager to hold a draft for the emperor, I'm afraid she has already entered the palace and became a husband. Your concubine."

The queen nodded: "It turned out to be like this. The things you asked me to do have already been done. Now you can rest assured."

Shen Ling smiled. The reason why she was willing to start with Concubine Yuan was because she saw that her temperament was the same as her father, who was vicious and vicious. Otherwise, even if Shen Ling had the Queen's help, if she didn't kill herself, the Queen would not be able to catch her fault. Witch Gu and poisoning his concubine were indeed true, it was not that Shen Ling let the queen blame her on her, at best it was just that the queen knew what she wanted to do, but provided her with some convenience. Otherwise, as a concubine in the cold palace, how could it be so easy to buy the palace ladies in other palaces.

However, Shen Ling felt that it would be some time before she was at ease.

Just after Emperor Yuanfeng gradually forgot about Concubine Yuan, one of Xia Houyan's incidents before he was a scholar was picked up. It turns out that when he was still a juror, when he was filial piety for his grandfather, he had an affair with others. , And gave birth to an illegitimate daughter.

When this incident was brought to the front of Emperor Yuanfeng by Yushi, Emperor Yuanfeng remembered the incident that Concubine Yuan had done, and felt that what the ancients said was correct. If there is a father, there is a daughter. The father and daughter have nothing good.

Emperor Yuanfeng immediately made the decree and demoted Xia Houyan as a general, and his family property was taken away from the official.

After Xia Houyan received this imperial decree, he immediately vomited blood, and his newly raised body immediately collapsed. But before he could relax, the ransackers came.

When Xia Houyan was disgusted by his two son-in-laws and was forced to leave Beijing to return home, the coachman on the road suddenly stopped.

"Old Xia Ge, in Xia Sun Ming, I was deeply blessed by you. Now I heard the news of your failure. I can't help but feel very sad. If you don't give up, please come to the house to tell."

Xia Houyan got out of the car and saw that the speaker was a young man dressed as a scholar. Although he could not remember that he had met this young man, he still accepted the young man's invitation.

Sun Ming took him into a farm in the middle of Beijing. After Xia Houyan had a rest for a few days, Sun Ming invited a theatrical troupe on the grounds of a happy event in the mansion.

Xia Houyan was sitting under the stage. He was still smiling and talking with Sun Ming until he saw an actor wearing a dark maroon dress led by an elderly mother to the pavilion in the garden, his face changed color, but I think it's just a coincidence.

But when the actor in the dark chestnut dress poisoned the woman who was dating him, Xia Houyan couldn't sit still anymore.

Shen Ling smiled and walked up from behind the stage, "Old Xia Ge, don't come here unharmed?"

Xia Houyan tremblingly asked, "Who are you? How come you are here?"

Shen Ling smiled and said: "It turns out that Elder Xia Ge doesn't recognize me. Then I will declare my family. My surname is Zheng Ming Shuwan, my father is Zheng Xiankai, who is named Jin Wang, and my mother's concubine is Liu Mingfu. My husband's family is Cheng En. Hou Mansion, your husband is today’s cousin. Now, Xia Ge should know who I am, right?"

When Xia Houyan heard the name Liu Fu, his eyes went dark and he passed out.

When he woke up, he found himself lying on a carriage. The driver was still the original coachman, with Liu sleeping beside him, as if the episode where he met Sun Ming was like a dream.

But Xia Houyan was sober, knowing that it was not a dream at all, but a long-planned revenge. Thinking of her daughter's fall from grace in the palace and being given poisoned wine, Xia Houyan woke up and realized that everything was done by Zheng Shuwan.

The more Xia Houyan thought about it, the more scared he became. He would have nightmares every night, either dreaming that Liu Fu came to him to kill him or dreaming that Shen Ling would send someone to chase him down.

Before arriving in his hometown, Xia Houyan was already tortured in an unnatural manner.

But until this time, Xia Houyan had not experienced any other changes, but this made him even more nervous. Who knows when Zheng Shuwan will stabb him again.

He didn't even want to understand that Shen Ling did not take any action for a long time, which was the best revenge against him, making him always feel that a sword was about to fall on top of his head at any time, until he collapsed. This is the best punishment for him.