The daily life of a concubine's daughter

Chapter 156 Shut your stupid mouth

Shi Yao's expression froze: "So, what's in that long box that Mr. Xie is holding?"

Xie Jibai said sadly: "My second sister's braid."

Shi Yao: “…” So cruel!

Xie Jibai sighed again and said, "Well, when we went to visit him, we ran into Ningyuan Hou. He rushed in and asked four or five servants to hold me. He hurried to Hanxu Hall. I don't know what he was doing there."

"Pfft—" Shi Yao quickly covered her mouth tightly, afraid of laughing out loud, her shoulders trembling non-stop, "Huff, Hou Ningyuan must be here to cancel the engagement as well! Hufu, my poor seventh brother, my poor eighth brother..."

Hahaha, she was laughing so hard!

When the Shi family heard this scene, many of them were furious.

Shi Mingchen was about to cry again.

Shi Minghui's expression became uncertain again.

Xie Jibai looked at her twice more and was sure that this Second Miss Shi was gloating over someone else's misfortune.

Alas, the Shi family is not united, and there are wolves hiding in plain sight.

It’s right for my sister to cancel the engagement, but I don’t know if she can do so.

Shi Yao pretended to be sad for a while, then said with a sad face: "Since the two families have called off the engagement, are you still willing to help me, Master Xie?"

How could Xie Jibai dare not help? Although Shi Yao was a concubine's daughter, she was a genuine official's daughter, and she was sincere in doing good deeds, such as when she stopped him from "hanging himself" or when she extorted ten taels of silver from him and then exchanged it for rice from Xie's grain shop and went to distribute porridge at the city gate.

"I will definitely help you. I will also give you a discount and try to sell you as much rice as possible. But, this amount of money is really too much."

"Thank you very much, sir! If I do good deeds and accumulate virtue, and marry a good family in this life, I will definitely reward you handsomely!" Shi Yao could not take the banknote back. If she was not afraid of frightening Xie Jibai, she would have wanted to donate tens of thousands of taels. She turned around and left, "Sir, please take the banknote. Look, the old lady's maid is looking for you."

Xie Jibai didn't want to chase after the girl here, and was stopped by the lady's maid and asked to go into the hall.

So he collected the banknotes, apologized, and quickly went to the main hall.

At the same time, the third wife Rong and the third master Shi Jianan were also summoned.

Shi Yao accomplished a great thing and received two pieces of good news. She was very satisfied and walked around the yard happily.

When I returned to the main door, I saw Mr. Xie and Xie Jibai coming out with red faces. Xie Jibai's eyes were also red, obviously he had been crying.

Hey, Xie Jibai is also a good actor.

The two sides greeted each other, and the father and son of the Xie family hurriedly said goodbye and left.

The steps are heavy when coming and light when leaving.

Obviously, what you wish for comes true.

Shi Yao climbed the stairs and stood outside the curtain. She heard Shi Jian'an crying angrily and cursing words like "untrustworthy", "making excuses", and "adding insult to injury".

As a well-behaved and filial lady, she should know her place by not listening to or seeing the ugly deeds of her elders. So she hummed a song and went back to Guanju Courtyard with her maids.

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In the main room of Ganlu Hall, the lady's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and she sat stiffly.

Rong's face wasn't much better, her chest ached, she was angry and ashamed.

Shi Jianan burst into tears: "Old lady, you have to make the decision for our brother Chen! The day for him to get married is coming soon, how can you cancel the engagement?

How can we, the Duke's Mansion and Mingchen, put our faces? How dare they, a merchant, bully our Shi family? They are so bold! Old lady, you have to let my eldest brother help our family get rid of this evil..."

"How dare you! The Xie family has done great favors to our family and to Daxing. How dare you say that you are repaying kindness with hatred?" The old lady slammed the table and said angrily, "You still have the nerve to cry! The good son you raised conspired with his brothers to destroy the innocence of his own sister. Is that what a human being would do?"

Shi Jianan defended himself, "Old lady, you know very well that Mingchen was just being loyal to his brother. He didn't know Mingwei's plan. Later, Minghui beat someone to death in court, which had nothing to do with him!"

The Madam sneered, "Since none of this had anything to do with him, why didn't he say anything in court? Why didn't he defend himself when the old master punished the three brothers? Why didn't he go to the Xie family to explain and comfort the Xie family?"

Shi Jianan said stubbornly: "He is loyal to his brothers. As for the Xie family, they are just merchants. Our family married their daughter because their ancestors burned incense and their ancestral graves were filled with good fortune..."

"Shut up your dog mouth!" The lady shouted sternly, her eyes full of disappointment, her hands trembling slightly as she rested her hands on the table. "You keep saying that the Xie family is a merchant family, with such a condescending attitude, you never regard the Xie family as your relatives at all.

Well, well, I've seen that girl. She's a good girl. It would be a good deed for our family if we cancel the engagement. It wouldn't be in vain for your son to harm a good girl!

Since the Xie family girl is not getting married, you all should remember that our Shi family will always owe the Xie family a huge favor! If it weren’t for the Xie family’s help back then, you would have all died on the battlefield, and the grass on your grave would be two feet high now! "

Shi Jian'an and Rong were so frightened that they both knelt down.

The lady continued, "Your father treated the Xie family very politely, fearing that he would neglect them, but you, on the other hand, kept saying that the Xie family was a merchant.

"Okay, okay, you looked down on merchants, but now that the engagement has been cancelled, it's a relief for you! Why are you crying? Go set off firecrackers to celebrate, and go find the official matchmaker to arrange a marriage for Mingchen!"

Shi Jianan didn't dare to say a word.

Rong said with tears in her eyes: "The old lady may be angry, but you can just beat and scold the third master. Please take care of yourself."

If the old lady gets angry again, how will the couple have a place to stay in this mansion?

The lady closed her eyes and waved her hand: "Get out, all of you! Go back and tell Mingchen the good news that the engagement has been cancelled."

Shi Jianan didn't dare to move and felt regretful. Rong saw that the lady didn't want to see them, so she dragged Shi Jianan away.

After leaving Ganlutang, Shi Jianan complained: "How dare the Xie family..."

Rong said coldly: "Master, please stop talking. How dare your son plead guilty? How dare the Xie family cancel the engagement?

Look at the reputation of our family now. Who in any family who cares about girls would be willing to push them into this fire pit?

I don't know what you are planning, so I advise you to give up your thoughts as soon as possible.

The conspiracy was not completed, but the family was in turmoil. Today, one was sick, and tomorrow, another was beaten. It was fine if they were beaten by their own family, but they were also beaten by the court. Since Mingwei dared to murder his own sister, the Shi family's reputation has been ruined!

You still despise the Xie family. Let me see what kind of noble lady your son can marry!"

After Rong finished speaking, tears fell from his eyes. He raised his hand and slapped himself loudly.

Her cheeks were red from being beaten, and the two strings of pearls on the hairpin were shaking.

Shi Jianan was startled, held up Rong's face and looked at it carefully, and asked with great sorrow, "Madam, what are you doing?"

Rong pushed him away and cried, "I hate myself. I have been blinded by greed all these years. I was angry with you and taught my son to be like this! What brotherhood is this?

When Mingwei tricked him into taking the blame, he didn't talk about brotherhood! He is such a good person, he should have said it clearly in public, taken the responsibility himself, and cleared Mingchen out of the charges!"