Chapter 19

The servant gasped and said, "I don't know who it is. I only know that it is a middle-aged man who gave me money... After the matter is done, I will give me fifty taels."

After hearing this, Yuan Jin leaned on the chair of the Grand Master. This servant was just a stupid idiot. He was so obviously a traitor. He signed a contract for selling his body. Even if something happened, the government would not pursue it. The second house was naturally not stupid, and he would not come forward by himself.

However, the noise in the west wing room was too loud, which made Cui come after hearing the news.

"What are you doing with mobilizing troops? No one has made my lunch." Cui looked unhappy. Since she started choosing a prince in this family, she felt that she had never been purified. When she came in, she saw the girl and the woman kneeling all over the ground, she was even more angry. "What are you doing?"

Yuan Jin had a headache and asked someone to show the snake corpse to Cui, and then told Cui about the whole story.

Cui was immediately frightened: "You mean, someone wants to harm Wen Yu?"

"It's the second house." Yuan Jin nodded, "So it's not that I made a big fuss, but that I almost made a life happen, so why not investigate it strictly."

Cui usually just shook his majesty on small matters. When encountering such big matters, he didn't know what to do. He asked his daughter: "Since that's the case, what should we do? I think it's better to take this snake corpse, catch this person and go to your grandmother's place, and ask her to preside over justice!"

Yuan Jin said: "We have no evidence that the second wife does. Even if we go to my grandmother's place, it will be useless. She will only turn big things into small things and small things into small things, so that we will not let such things spread."

Cui said, "No matter what, you can't hold it in your mouth! Today is Wen Yu, what if it's you tomorrow, Jin Yu!"

Yuan Jin finally dissuaded Cui. If you fight for this matter without evidence, you might be bitten by the second house. If you call everyone from the second house over and ask the servant to point out one by one, the second house will definitely not agree, and the old lady will not agree. She will never want to make such a family scandal.

"Of course, I won't let him go easily." Yuan Jin said lightly. "We can't say it, but the servants can say it. As long as they don't put it on the surface, it's not too much to say it."

She asked Cui to stay calm and then went to find Jiang.

When Jiang heard her talk about the poisonous snake, she was also startled and then furious. "The second house is too vicious! It's just a prince. As for such a ruthless move!"

"That's true." Yuan Jin said, "I want to know that since the third aunt has eyeliners in the second room, who are these eyeliners around?"

Jiang looked at Yuan Jin in surprise.

And Yuan Jin just smiled.

After a day passed, at night, the incident of Xue Wenyu being almost bitten by a poisonous snake had spread throughout the Xue Mansion. The servants of the fourth room naturally all discussed it as the second room. There were rumors that even Cui scolded the second room for words such as "ungrateful, cold-blooded and ruthless."

Old Mrs. Xue asked Shen to ask questions.

Shen refused to admit it after hearing this: "Our second wife has never done such a thing before. They said we did it, but we have to come up with evidence! Otherwise it would be slander!"

"The fourth room didn't say that you did it. It was just a rumor spread by people below. Why are you anxious?" Old Mrs. Xue glanced at Shen.

Shen could only smile: "Mom, you can't be slandered by such rumors. Our second wife has never done such a thing."

Old Mrs. Xue closed her eyes and said nothing. Her daughter-in-law has always been cruel. Besides, a few days ago, Xue Wenyu was praised by Duke Ding again, so she would definitely feel uneasy. This is too much like something she can do. But what can she do? She can't let such words spread, otherwise wouldn't the entire Xue family be ridiculed?

Since the fourth room didn't make a fuss about it, let's forget it.

Old Mrs. Xue was thinking about calming down the situation, so she warned Shen a few times and let her go back.

Although Cui had heard his daughter say that Old Mrs. Xue would not care. But now she heard it, she was still very angry and said to Xue Qingshan: "You legitimate mother is just tilted to the navel! She only aims at the legitimate family and not us. For such a big thing, she doesn't even want to investigate. Just ask someone to send something to Wen Yu, what's going on!"

Xue Qingshan sighed. What else could he do? After all, he was the legitimate mother who raised him. She had never had enough food and clothing before. Besides, there was indeed no evidence, and there was no way to make trouble.

When Yuan Jin heard this, his reaction was very calm.

Cui said that Mrs. Xue was wrong. Mrs. Xue did not want to maintain the legitimate family, but did not want this incident to spread and affect this selection.

What she had already expected was something to be angry about.

Everyone thought that this matter had passed, but the next day, everyone in the Xue Mansion went to Dingguo Duke's Mansion to study. Yuan Jin and his wife were practicing embroidery, but they ran into a girl from the second room and said to Xue Yuanshan: "My wife, it's not good, our young master fell off the horse!"

Xue Yuanshan and Xue Yuanyu immediately put down the embroidery pattern in their hands. Xue Yuanshan was very shocked and asked repeatedly: "Why did you fall? Is it heavy?"

The little girl was so tired that she was out of breath. She saw that she was running over. After calming down for a moment, she said, "The horse that the young master rode suddenly went crazy and threw it off the horse. She hit the stone pillar and broke her leg. You should go and have a look. The young master was carried to the back cover room. The old lady has already asked someone to hire a doctor!"

The other ladies stopped practicing and followed them to the back room to watch.

Yuanzhu whispered to Yuan Jin: "He deserved to fall. I want to see him. Who told him to fall my brother!"

Yuan Jinze smiled, put down the embroidery pattern and said to Yuanzhu: "Do you want to go and have a look?"

Yuanzhu is naturally happy to go and have a look.

The back cover room was surrounded and the old lady of Dingguo was sitting outside. After all, the person was falling from her, so she couldn't ignore it.

Wen Yu walked to Yuan Jin. Because of practicing riding and shooting, he was wearing a robe and his arms were wrapped in musk skin, which made him look even more slender. He has been moving a lot these days, and he suddenly became taller and more at the same level as Yuan Jin.

"He suddenly fell off the horse, what's wrong?" Wen Yu asked softly.

Although he didn't know why, he felt that this matter was inseparable from his sister.

Yuan Jin said lightly: "It's just that I fell down."

They bullied her and almost killed Wen Yu. How could she bear it?

This time I just broke my leg, and next time, it won’t be so easy!

Wen Yu looked at Yuan Jin's side face, looked at him for a long time, and suddenly smiled faintly: "Sister, it's different from before."

Yuan Jin frowned when he heard this. Wen Yu felt very sensitive, and he must have noticed something.

In fact, Yuan Jin has been working very hard to integrate into the role of the little lady in the cottage, but she has such a temperament, and it is impossible to be completely similar.

She was about to say something. Wen Yu shook her head gently, and he said, "Sister is sister, no need to say."

Although this sounds strange, Yuan Jin didn't think much about it.

The two siblings were talking, and Mrs. Xue had already brought Mrs. Shen. Mrs. Shen seemed to have cried on the road, and her eyes were red. As soon as they arrived, they hurried in to see Xue Yuntao's injuries. Then the doctor also came over with a box and diagnosed it, and told Mrs. Shen that she might not be able to recover from her legs for two or three months, so she had to put on the board and could not move her legs.

Shen's face turned pale in an instant, and what she was most worried about was still happening!

Xue Yuntao was unable to practice riding and shooting for several months, which means that he could no longer compete for the position of Prince of Dingguo! After all, the Duke Dingguo Mansion would not wait for him for two or three months. She asked the doctor nervously: "Can't you really move?"

After getting the exact answer, she started crying on the spot, grabbed the sleeve of the old lady Xue and said, "Mom, you have to make the decision for your grandson! How could he fall off the horse for no reason! Someone must have harmed him! You can't ignore it!"

The old lady coughed and said, "Second Grandma Xue's family, don't be too sad, just be fine if you are fine. But in the next few months... I'm afraid you won't be able to practice riding and ejaculation."

What does this sentence mean? A discerning person will naturally know at first glance. Shen naturally cried even more sadly, and even his two daughters were extremely sad and were in a very depressed mood.

How can you not be sad? This glory and wealth that is so close to you is gone! The position of Prince of Dingguo and marriage with the Marquis’ Mansion is gone! Who can not be sad!

Shen cried for a moment, as if he suddenly remembered something, his eyes swept away the people present, and then saw Xue Yuanjin and walked towards her: "It was you who hurt my son! You tampered with the horse. You are trying your best to harm my son because of your brother's affairs!"

She said she was going to pull Yuan Jin's clothes, but Wen Yu, who was standing next to her, grabbed her hand and threw it away.

The old lady next to her advised her again: "Mrs. Xue Er, don't be excited. We have checked all the horses, there is no problem."

Shen said: "That's the forage that horses eat, there is something wrong with the forage!"

This made the old lady even more helpless, but her tone was still gentle: "Second Mrs., all the horses eat the same forage, and there is no problem with other horses. How could this horse be a problem with the forage?"

The person Shen used to pestering her on weekdays suddenly didn't know what to say. The only thing she wanted to do was to check if there was any problem with the horses. However, the people from the Duke Ding Mansion kept dissuading her, but she refused to give in and she had to go. Even the old lady of Ding Guo did not look good. Seeing her as embarrassed, Old Lady Xue even lowered her face: "Please pay attention to her identity. The old lady repeatedly told you that there was no problem, that was no problem, why bother to hold on!"

Shen came to his senses only after being yelled by his mother-in-law.

"But... it must be the fourth room. They are going to harm my son because of the poisonous snake..."

Old Mrs. Xue suddenly interrupted her: "Do you have any evidence that it was done by the Fourth Room?"

She has no evidence.

Shen was chilling all over and suddenly understood the intention of Mrs. Xue interrupting her. If she continued to talk, she would clearly admit that the poisonous snake was done by her. That's why she was worried about the revenge of the Fourth Room! She couldn't continue to talk, nor could she hold on to the Fourth Room, because the old lady was actually fair. She said there was no problem, that was really no problem.

"This is just an accident." Old Mrs. Xue said lightly, "You can take Yuntao back to rest later. The Duke of Dingguo Mansion will not be used for the time being. Let's talk about it when you recover from the injury."

Seeing that Shen had no choice but to make trouble, he could only suffer the loss.

Because Old Lady Xue doesn't protect anyone, she only protects the interests of the Xue family.

Before, Yun Tao made Yun Xi unable to participate, but she did not pursue the investigation. Now the fourth room may have caused Yun Tao to continue, and she will not pursue the investigation. Because the more people can stay, the better. She will not pursue the investigation if anyone who stays will stay.

Xue Yuntao can only be eliminated like this.

The old lady naturally sent someone to tell Duke Ding about this matter today.

Duke Dingguo was having tea with Pei Ziqing.

Pei Ziqing came to Shanxi again and happened to send him forty elite Jinyiwei soldiers.

After hearing the servant’s reply and talking about the strange things, Duke Ding was very interested.

"This matter is interesting." Xue Rang, Duke of Ding, said with his wine glass, "It's not the first time he rides a horse. How could the horse suddenly go crazy? And there is no problem with the forage."

"It's not impossible." Pei Ziqing said lightly.

Xue Rangrao was interested: "Do you know why?"

Pei Ziqing narrowed his eyes slightly and suddenly asked him: "Do you remember Gao Song, the Minister of the Ministry of War?"

Xue Rang nodded. This man made military achievements and was also a scholar. Later, he became the Minister of War. He was just very arrogant, so he was not very popular. Now he seems to have been transferred to the Ministry of War in Jinling and has been demoted to a fifth-rank doctor.

"I was just a little Si Yu at the beginning, and was humiliated by him because I blocked his way." Pei Ziqing said, "He jumped off his horse, whipped me a few times, and stomped my face with his boots."

Xue Rang smiled: "I said why he was demoted so much? It turned out that he offended you!"

Pei Ziqing smiled, and a little gloomy appeared between his eyebrows and eyes: "But at that time I was just a small official. Although I was so humiliated, I could not take revenge."

But that day he went to the palace to tell Danyang about something. She looked at his face and asked him what was going on. Pei Ziqing told her, and Danyang thought about it and said to him: "Do you want to take revenge?"

At that time, he thought she would tell him that as long as he was strong, he would be able to take revenge. But she told him, "There is a special needle in the book. After you go back, you can find an opportunity to put it in his horse's iron hoof and you can see him falling and eating shit. And the needle will fall by itself. It's really unaware of it, and no one will doubt you."

Although he didn't go back to do this at that time, he always remembered the expression and smile when she spoke.
To be continued...