Chapter 511 Secret
Mrs. Meng sat alone in the house and sighed for a long time. She was less than forty, but she felt old and lonely. There was no one around her who could say what she was in her heart, let alone someone who could give advice.
Don’t blame others for saying that children must always be kept by themselves. Although they will inevitably become more spoiled by them, they seem close, just like a daughter is more considerate than two sons. She will tell her mother directly if she has any thoughts or any grievances. The son cannot say that she is unfilial, but she always feels that there is something apart from each other, and she is too polite.
So much so that when something happened, the means she could use were so rough and direct.
If it were other mothers and sons, they might have persuaded them carefully, but for some reason she and her son couldn't speak.
Just as he was thinking, the little maid came to report.
Mrs. Dong is visiting.
Mrs. Meng was stunned again. It seemed that her sister had not taken the initiative to climb the Meng family's door for a long time. The sisters had a good relationship, but since a few things came out, there was a gap between the sisters. My sister would never be at the Meng family's door for no reason. Is something wrong this time?
Thinking of another incident, Mrs. Meng had a headache, but she couldn't avoid it, so she went out to greet her sisters, so she didn't have to sort out her appearance carefully. She didn't have that time now.
After meeting Mrs. Dong, Mrs. Meng felt relieved.
Mrs. Dong was blushed, wearing a royal blue brocade dress, wearing a fashionable bun, holding a white and fat baby in both hands, and following a group of maids and mothers.
This situation doesn't seem to be anything bad.
Since it was not a bad thing, Mrs. Meng naturally felt relieved and said with a smile: "Sister, why are you free to come here to play today?"
Mrs. Dong pulled down the hand of the doll that wanted to pull her earrings. Then she replied: "I'm not my little ancestor. I've been shouting to play all day long. I've been surfing the mansion, but I don't even speak well, but I know that I can't point to the gate. I can only take it out. It's not easy to go to the mixed places outside. I'll think about it, but I'd better come to my sister's place to stroll around, don't you disturb my sister?"
"What's the matter with my sister? Is there anything to disturb me?" Mrs. Meng said as she reached out and said to the fat baby, "Little Bear, come and hug you aunt."
The little baby didn't admit his child's birth, probably being held by his biological mother, feeling a little bored. As soon as Mrs. Meng reached out, he grinned and struggled towards Mrs. Meng.
Mrs. Dong took the opportunity to hand the doll to Mrs. Meng and reminded: "Don't bite my aunt's clothes."
The little doll couldn't say clearly, so she didn't listen at all. As soon as she was brought over by Mrs. Meng, she lay on Mrs. Meng's shoulder and bit her hard. The little fur child, whose teeth were not yet fully grown, couldn't bite her. She just dripped on Mrs. Meng's clothes, and she was wet.
"Oh, I just said you, you don't listen." Mrs. Dong gently patted the child's little butt and said with apologies, "Sister, I'm so sorry. This kid likes to bite things just because he has teeth. Let me hug you. This kid has either bite things or pulls them around recently. Don't mess up my sister's hair later."
"It's okay, it's okay, who was not like this when he was a child?" Mrs. Meng looked at the child's red face with a smile, which made people want to kiss her hard.
The sisters entered the room as they spoke. Mrs. Meng put the child on the couch to make him afraid. She then brought him a piece of candied fruit for him to bite. While teasing the child, she talked to Mrs. Dong.
With a cute child in the middle, the relationship between the two sisters seems to be close. In a trance, Mrs. Meng seemed to have returned to the time when the sisters depended on each other before they left home.
Thinking about what happened these days, Mrs. Dong actually did nothing excessive, but she just didn't think about some things carefully.
Who hasn’t thought about it yet, but he is a sister and is not very arrogant enough.
Thinking of this, Mrs. Meng couldn't help but say, "Sister, a few days ago, my sister didn't care about you... so don't take it seriously."
"Sister, don't say that. It's me who is ignorant as a sister, who causes trouble for her all day long." Mrs. Dong is now in a child, and everything is enough. The stepsons that the Dong family's most headache-inducing headaches have disappeared. Although there is some estrangement from Mr. Dong, they are old husbands and wives, and can they still mix oil in honey?
As for Mr. Dong's concubine, she didn't care at all. For so many years, very few people around Mr. Dong were pregnant. Mr. Dong was older. His child might be his last one, and his mother was rich by her son. The Dong family's wealth would not be their mother and son in the future, so there was no need to rack his brains to calculate the three melons and two dates.
Besides, now that her mother's family is in power, her brother-in-law is getting bigger and bigger, and she has a niece son-in-law who is the prince. Who are you afraid of? The servants of the Dong family will see the wind again. Seeing who the master spoils, they have to weigh the weight of it. Even the master gives in to her, who dares to step on her head?
Seeing Mrs. Dong's relaxed look, Mrs. Meng was very envious. Sometimes she would rather be as relaxed as Mrs. Dong. Although Mr. Dong's official position is not very large, it seems difficult to go further. However, relatively speaking, there are fewer battles and can concentrate on enjoying the joy of family.
The interaction between Mrs. Dong and her mother made her extremely envious. Thinking about her busy calculating this and that back then, her son was thrown to the wet nurse. Looking back now, there seemed to be few warm scenes that could be remembered, and she couldn't help but feel sad.
Mrs. Dong did not see Mrs. Meng's sadness and asked casually: "By the way, the little prince of the Ding Prince's Mansion can walk now, how do you look? This prince is not here, the prince has not served a full moon wine, and we have never seen a child before."
Mrs. Meng said vaguely: "It's pretty good, it's also white and fat."
"I heard that the prince has invited a new beauty at the border?" Mrs. Dong asked in a bit gossip.
"I'm not very clear about this." Mrs. Meng was vague again. She didn't want to comment too much about the matter of Ding the Prince's Mansion, so as not to spread it, and it would be bad if it was spread to Xiaofu's ears.
"Hey, this is the prince's eloquence. Who doesn't know about it? No wonder." Mrs. Dong said to herself, "Sister, I want me to say that you should persuade your niece. Men are like that. She should make arrangements early. If you can't accompany the prince, you should arrange someone who can trust. Anyway, you have to have someone, so you can find someone who can hold on to the position."
Mrs. Meng said lightly, "My sister is a little confused. Prince Ding has seen a woman before. He can just put someone around him. He can fall in love with them? Those rough and stupid people are not favored by the prince at all. They are too smart and difficult to grasp. If you do something wrong, it will be Xiaofu's fault. Why bother with this?"
"It's not like that. Arrangements are better than not. The prince doesn't like it, and others can like it." Mrs. Dong approached Mrs. Meng and said, "Sister. Some words may not be convenient for outsiders to say, so I said you and my sister. I also heard from others. They all say that the niece is jealous and cannot tolerate others. This reputation is very bad. Therefore, even the empresses in the palace do not like it."
"My mouth grows on others. Who can control what others say," said Mrs. Meng, feeling that her tone was a bit bad. She was afraid that her sister would misunderstand, and explained, "Sister, I will tell you the truth. If this is my own daughter, I can naturally persuade her, but this is not my own daughter. Some things are really hard to say, just like the thoughts that the third old master had started before... I really don't know how to say them."
"Yes, it's not my own, but I'm wrong in anything I do." Mrs. Dong had a good understanding. Isn't that what her step-born child was like? No matter how she pleased her, they just didn't appreciate it, and they went against her everywhere, and were kind-hearted to be donkeys.
That stepson is fine, and she is worried that there will be a family dispute over the family if she gives birth to a legitimate son, but the stepdaughter is really heartless. Her brother was killed by a thief and she was also present at that time. What does this have to do with her? Her brother is not allowed to die, so she said that others are gloating and are not sad at all.
She didn't care about a little girl in her teens, but the dead girl was as scorpion as a snake and wanted to harm her baby son. Thinking of this, Mrs. Dong really hated Dong Guifeng for not dying earlier.
Since she thought of Dong Guifeng, she casually said: "Sister said it, if something goes wrong with the person she sent me, I can't explain it clearly. Take the maid next to my stepdaughter for example. Fortunately, I didn't arrange it, so I actually went around and said that the lady had miscarriage during her lifetime. It's really ridiculous."
Mrs. Meng said strangely: "What's the matter? Although this woman's miscarriage is unfortunate, it is not a novelty."
Mrs. Dong said: "The problem is that I didn't hear Dong Guifeng say she was pregnant before, and the in-laws didn't know that she was not an unmarried daughter. What's so shameful about getting pregnant? With Dong Guifeng's temper, she really wants to miscarriage and can still endure it herself and have to blame the people around her for not taking good care of her. How could this silent thing be possible? The master is dead, but the little maid is so gossipy. You say it's abominable."
Mrs. Dong's casual complaints came to Mrs. Meng's ears. For some reason, she always felt something was wrong, but some people couldn't say it.
But this is the business of the Dong family, and she doesn't want to care about that much.
Mrs. Dong talked for a while before leaving.
After seeing him off, Mrs. Dong and Mrs. Meng felt that the house was empty and even more lonely.
After sitting for a long time, the old lady who sent her to inquire about the movements of Bibolou was back.
She hurriedly cheered up and asked the woman about the matter in Bibo Building. The woman didn't find any useful news, just about the rumors about how Shui Zhongyue was clean and noble in character.
Mrs. Meng was disdainful and said that the girls in other brothels could be said that the girls in the Bibo Building came and went freely, and no one was forced to do so. If they really want to be noble in character, why don’t they leave?
This woman is really clumsy and can't find out the key points when inquiring about things. Come and go, it's just trivial matters, and it's useless.
Perhaps the woman herself knew that the inquiry was not the point, for fear of being unfavorable, she lost her job, and racked her brains to find something useful, even if she couldn't think of it, she had to think of something else. This thought made her think of something, and she said to Mrs. Meng: "Madam, I have also found out about something. Who said it has nothing to do with the young master, but it is also a secret matter."
"Tell me," Mrs. Meng asked, but she was a little indifferent. The woman was not smart and thought there would be no news worth hearing.
The old lady looked sneaky: "It's about the Dong family. Does the lady still remember the Liang family that the lady of the Dong family married?"
Mrs. Meng nodded. The Liang family was Mrs. Hu's mother's home. Miss Hu had plotted against her daughter at the beginning, and Mrs. Hu helped conceal it. For a while, she was very angry. However, now the Hu family has collapsed. Mrs. Hu heard that she had died a few days ago, and the Hu family has received retribution, so she was too lazy to pay attention to it.
The old lady said, "I saw that the Bibolou area is full of fireworks and willow alleys. When I asked about the news, I happened to see a kiln sister pulling Mr. Liang and asking him to pay, saying that if he played, he was not paid, he was a man. Then Mr. Liang said that he would take credit for the time being, and then the kiln sister would not do it. He pulled Mr. Liang and scolded him, and the words were really ugly. I wouldn't say it out, so as not to taint the wife's ears. The main reason is that Mr. Liang is not a real man at all, and he actually learned to come out for prostitution or something."
The old lady originally said it as an interesting thing, but Mrs. Meng heard it and, with her sensitivity to certain things, she recalled what her sister said inadvertently.
These things couldn't help but be linked up. Although the words of the kiln sister's swearing may not be taken seriously, some things may not be said randomly. If Mr. Liang really doesn't do it, then if Dong Guifeng is really pregnant, who will it belong?
I have always suspected why Dong Guifeng was hanged, and just quarreled with Mr. Liang for a few words. With Dong Guifeng's character, even if she was about to die, she would probably use a knife to cut the other party first and then die, but she would hang herself silently.
She had always doubted what was inside. Now that she thought about it, it seemed to be true. If Dong Guifeng had a head and tail with someone else, her beaded fetus was secretly knotted, and she had a secret abortion.
Everything was reasonable and she was in the wrong, so even if she was treated like this by the Liang family, she would not dare to speak out until she could not bear it in the end and hanged herself.
The question now is, whose child Dong Guifeng is pregnant with? The Liang family is not a small family. There are many maids and mothers around Dong Guifeng, and it is not easy to make a fuss.
It would be better if it were the Liang family, but if it wasn't, there was such an ineffective relative among the Dong family, and it would be disappointing to think about Mrs. Dong.
If this person can harm Dong Guifeng, he can naturally harm someone else's daughter. Who is it?
In addition, it would be fine if this matter was kept covered up, but if it could not be covered up in the end, it would be revealed that day and the entire Dong family would be shamed.
Chapter completed!