novelaction Chapter 197 Complicity
Chapter 197 Complicity
The four aunts and sisters-in-law entered Shi Minghui's yard. Shi Mingzhu stopped them outside the curtain and said softly, "Eighth brother just went to bed. I would like to thank the sisters-in-law and sisters for coming to visit him on behalf of Eighth brother. Let's go to the main hall to have tea."
Le An Ning got angry when he saw Shi Mingzhu's face, and couldn't help but sarcastically said, "Just now when I saw Third Brother and his wife arguing, I knew that the eldest sister must be with Eighth Brother, and she is indeed here."
Shi Mingzhu was already feeling a little guilty, and her ears felt slightly hot when she heard that. She forced a smile and said, "Second sister-in-law, don't talk nonsense. Third brother took care of Eighth brother all night last night, and Third sister-in-law came to take him back to rest."
Le An Ning smiled slightly and did not continue to argue with her: "Since my elder sister said so, I believe it. The quarrel between the third brother and his wife has nothing to do with you. Look, we are here, and we have mobilized a large force. Let us take a look at the eighth brother before we leave."
Shi Mingzhu didn't move. These sisters-in-law, including Shi Yao, the time-traveling girl, were all eager to create chaos in the world. If they knew that Eighth Brother had a broken leg, they would probably wonder where he had gone and what he had done yesterday.
The smile on her face became more and more forced, and she said tactfully: "Eighth brother has just gone to bed. Besides, it's not appropriate for sisters-in-law to enter the bedroom of their brother-in-law, right?"
Fu Nanjun then said, "Eighth brother is not married yet, and he is not yet an adult. We are his sisters-in-law, so it is polite for us to go and visit him. Big sister stopped us from going in, is there something that is not allowed to be seen by others?"
Le An Ning agreed meaningfully: "Yes, my elder sister is seventeen years old this year. She went into her brother's bedroom to look after him without even bringing a maid to serve her..."
She raised her handkerchief to cover her lips and laughed in a weird way.
Shi Mingzhu's jade-like cheeks flushed red, and she said angrily, "Second sister-in-law! If you don't speak, no one will think you are dumb!"
Shi Yao didn't know how long they would stand here arguing, so she noticed some melon seeds on the table next to her, so she grabbed a handful and started eating them while standing behind her sisters-in-law.
Le Anning: "Big sister, if you don't stand here, no one will treat you as a stake!"
Shi Yao: Click!
Shi Mingzhu: "You are so vicious, no wonder my second brother doesn't like you!"
Shi Yao: Click!
Le An Ning: "You are so hypocritical, no wonder the Fourth Prince demoted you to a concubine in his last life, and he will still demote you to a concubine in this life!"
Shi Yao: Click!
Shi Mingzhu's strong self-esteem was severely frustrated, and her eyes turned red with anger. If only it were Nanny Xin, she would no longer despise her vulgar and filthy words.
"Shi Yao!"
Shi Yao was enjoying the show when she suddenly shuddered and quickly spat out the melon seed shells in her mouth: "Pah, pah, pah! Big sister, I didn't say anything, please don't pull me."
Shi Mingzhu's angry eyes slowly swept over the four people, and sneered: "Shi Yao, don't be complacent. You know exactly how they treated you in the past.
Now they can't bear to see the Shi family doing well, so they drag you into this mess to deal with me. The next person they're going to deal with is you! You're also the culprit that caused that disaster!"
Shi Yao cracked another melon seed slowly and said with a smile: "I don't know anything about the past grudges. I just heard about it from you. I just want to live a peaceful life with the sisters-in-law - it's better than you and the sisters-in-law joining forces to deal with me.
I don’t have any lofty ideals, and I have never dreamed of becoming an imperial concubine or queen. I just want a safe and smooth life.”
Le An Ning gloated and reminded: "I advise the elder sister to go to lunch earlier. As a younger sister, what's the point of you blocking the door of the eighth brother's dormitory?
In the afternoon, you still have to go to Prince Xian’s mansion with the Duke and his wife to apologize. You must eat more and have enough strength, otherwise if you apologize too softly, the princess will not give in, and it will be even more embarrassing. "
Shi Mingzhu's tears kept rolling in her eyes, and she finally nodded and said, "Okay, okay, you guys are determined to not see the Shi family doing well.
A group of short-sighted women! Just out of jealousy, they opposed the Shi family everywhere and held the family back.
All of your sons have the surname Shi. I want to see which one of them will end up in trouble after causing such a turmoil in the Duke's Mansion!"
Shi Yao looked back and saw that no important person had come in to eavesdrop, so she raised her hand and said, "Big sister, I have to be fair about this matter. It's not that the sisters-in-law are jealous of you, but you want them to be jealous of you. Otherwise, you wouldn't show off everywhere how much your brothers love you and how unique you are.
Let’s not talk about other things. Just look at the time when you were flying kites. You took the biggest and most beautiful phoenix kite and asked your third brother to fly the kite with you. Tsk, the look in your third sister-in-law’s eyes at that time made me feel heartbroken. "
Le An Ning sneered, "Second sister, you are the only one who can see things clearly. In the past, we sisters-in-law dared to be angry but not to speak out, and we would always be branded as jealous.
You don't know, your elder sister is the best at this kind of thing. Now that I've let go and am not burdened by fame, I feel that life is really fun!"
Shi Mingzhu blushed and bit her lip in protest, "I, I never thought of this. You are jealous of me and made malicious assumptions about me! My brothers wanted to spoil me, I didn't ask them. It's because you are jealous and vicious that my brothers don't like you."
Finally, she looked at Wang Fan, "Sixth sister-in-law, are you going to go along with them? Sixth brother loves you so much. If he knew that you were making things difficult for me, there would definitely be a rift between you and your spouse."
Wang Fan heard this and suppressed the urge to slap her in the face. She said calmly, "What is going along with the crowd? We don't want to be around you anymore, we don't want to spoil you anymore, we want to be nicer to ourselves, we want to find a way out, is that going along with the crowd?
The way I see it, I just don't want to be associated with your crazy brothers."
Fu Nanjun was already impatient: "Big sister, since everyone is speaking frankly, I will speak frankly too. What we are doing is, as Sixth Sister-in-law said, a way to survive.
If you insist on believing that we are jealous of you and don't want to make you the queen, that's up to you.
Now, we need to know what happened last night, whether the Eighth Elder was ill or injured, and how serious his injury was. We need to know the attitude of the Ningyuan Marquisate towards the Shi family. "
"Ningyuan Marquis Mansion?" Shi Mingzhu was shocked and asked angrily, "How do you know about Ningyuan Marquis Mansion? Was what happened last night your doing?"
Fu Nanjun said calmly: "Yesterday, the mansion made a big fuss to look for Lao Ba, but after a day and a night of searching, there was no result. Lao Ba was only brought back to the mansion this morning.
From what we know, Ning Yuanhou has been looking for faults and handles in our family. How could he not know this? Why should we do anything? What happened to Old Eight?"
Shi Mingzhu clenched her fists tightly, thought again and again, and never moved a step: "You guys go, Eighth Brother just has a fever, his illness has nothing to do with Ningyuan Marquis Mansion."
I can’t let my sisters-in-law know what happened last night, otherwise they will spread it and put Myna to death.
At this point, she no longer dared to have any hope for these trouble-making sisters-in-law.
Fu Nanjun smiled faintly and said, "That's good. Old Eighth did not leave the house yesterday. That's good. There is one less charge against our family. He did not bother Fourth Sister Ge, so I can interact with her without worry. Let's go. Let's go talk to Fourth Sister Ge when we have time."
After saying that, Fu Nanjun turned around and left first.
Shi Mingzhu's face changed drastically, and she chased out in panic: "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law!"
She wanted to tell Ge Qiuheng not to ask, but she knew they wouldn't listen to her, so she half-pleaded and half-threatened, "Sister-in-law, you have to think more about your children and grandchildren!"