Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Chapter 483 Experience 4

Hualan's betrothal proposal came to an end. After Sheng Hong finished worrying about these things, he remembered the scene that day when Minglan, the youngest girl, was wearing thin clothes and accompanied by a similar little maid, eating and drinking alone in a corner.

Men always like to vent their anger on others, and Sheng Hong himself had a grudge against Madam Wang Ruofu, so he got angry at her that day. Afterwards, Wang Ruofu mentioned that his share of allowance had been deducted from Madam Wei. Even though he wanted to excuse Lin Qinshuang in his heart, he couldn't help but feel that the matter had been brought to the fore.

Lin Qinshuang was suddenly called to Weiruixuan and asked by Sheng Hong about what happened in Wei Xiaoniang's courtyard in front of Wang Ruofu. She immediately thought of an excuse: "Honglang, you know me well. Although I don't like Wei Xiaoniang to share my favor, now Wei Xiaoniang is pregnant with Honglang's child. I have no reason to embarrass Wei Xiaoniang, a pregnant woman!"

Wang Ruofu saw that Sheng Hong's expression had softened and he even felt more sympathy for Lin Qinshuang, so she immediately got angry: "You're still quibbling!"

"Mrs. Wei can't even afford a charcoal fire in her yard, and you haven't deducted money from her?!"

"Minglan is just a little girl and doesn't even have warm clothes. Is this what you mean by not making things difficult for her?!"

Lin Qinshuang immediately understood why what happened in Wei Xiaoniang's room was exposed. It turned out that Wei Xiaoniang stayed in the yard all day and never went out, but asked Minglan, a little girl, to come out and hang around in thin clothes in the middle of winter, making everyone in the mansion look down on her!

Lin Qinshuang was now confident. It was true that she had deducted money from Wei Xiaoniang, but she had only deducted two cents of charcoal and two cents of clothing. She had not taken anything else. So she looked at Sheng Hong with a face full of grievance: "Honglang, why would I make things difficult for a little girl like Sixth Miss? Besides, it's cold in winter, I'm sure I've already sent the winter clothes to each courtyard!"

After hearing this, Sheng Hong was sure that there must be nothing wrong with Lin Qinshuang, so the problem was with Wei Xiaoniang herself, so he personally took people to Wei Xiaoniang's yard.

Wang Ruofu thought she had caught Lin Qinshuang, so she excitedly followed with Liu Kun's family. Lin Qinshuang did not compete with Wang Ruofu for it, and when she saw Sheng Hong leaving the door, she turned around and pulled her, which almost made Wang Ruofu fall backwards in anger.

When she arrived at Wei Xiaoniang's courtyard, she really didn't know why all the famous masters of the Sheng Mansion suddenly came, but she instantly thought of the day when Minglan went out to the Yuan family to propose marriage wearing only thin clothes and came back wearing a new cotton-padded jacket. She wanted to pull Minglan back and twist her ears.

Everyone saw that the cotton-padded jacket Minglan was wearing today was not the one she wore from the main courtyard that day. Lin Qinshuang just looked at Wei Xiaoniang, who was holding her waist and holding her belly, with a half-smile and said nothing. Wei Xiaoniang felt extremely embarrassed, and realized belatedly that she seemed to have offended all the masters of the Sheng Mansion except Old Madam Sheng.

Wang Ruofu was always impatient. When she saw Minglan wearing a different coat today, she knew she had been deceived. However, she also thought that Minglan was just following the adults' instructions and that it was all Wei Xiaoniang's fault. She immediately went straight to Wei Xiaoniang in anger, "Well, I said, how could Minglan, a child, not know anything? She actually came out wearing old clothes that didn't fit her. It turned out that you, a slutty maid with bad intentions, were the one who instigated it!"

Even though Sheng Hong had a problem with Wei Xiaoniang, he couldn't bear to hear Wang Ruofu scolding his aunt who was pregnant with his child as a bitch, so he quickly stopped her: "Okay, the matter is very clear now. Wei Xiaoniang was thinking wrongly. This matter has nothing to do with Shuang'er from the beginning to the end."

Lin Qinshuang quickly looked at Sheng Hong with a touching expression: "It is good that Honglang can know my innocence. My sister must have been thinking too much during the pregnancy, and Honglang has been too busy recently and has no time to visit her, so she has made up her mind."

With just a few words, Lin Qinshuang established her gentle and virtuous image, and pinned the blame of using the child to win favor on Wei Xiaoniang's head. Even Wang Ruofu, who was still angry, disliked Wei Xiaoniang very much. It was Liu Kun's family behind her who pulled her back, so that she did not say anything more unpleasant.

Wei Xiaoniang was tricked to death by her own daughter. At this moment, she could only burst into tears and could not say anything. Minglan, on the other hand, had already discovered that something was wrong and quickly defended her mother: "Dad, our house was really deducted. Sister Xiaodie knows it all."

Xiaodie, who was named by Minglan, quickly stood up and replied: "Master, Madam, our share of the courtyard has never been fully distributed. The weather has turned cold recently and we need charcoal, but I have not had enough charcoal for a long time..."

It was only the middle of the month and they were already saying that the charcoal "had long been insufficient". Lin Qinshuang's tears were in her eyes, but she looked even more beautiful, like a pear blossom in the rain. Sheng Hong felt that even if the charcoal in Wei Xiaoniang's yard was really withheld, it should be the fault of the subordinates and had nothing to do with Lin Qinshuang.

At most, Lin Qinshuang had only one fault, which was poor supervision.

As a result, Minglan did this, but she did not get any benefit except offending her whole family. She even felt wronged in front of Wang Ruofu because Lin Qinshuang was slandered. Sheng Hong turned around and gave her two shops.

After this incident, Wei Xiaoniang completely calmed down. When Lin Qinshuang really deducted money the next year, she did not dare to make a fuss. However, Lin Qinshuang quickly changed her tactics at that time and sent a stream of supplements to her yard. Even Minglan felt that Lin Qinshuang was a person who "admitted her mistakes and corrected them". Xiaodie, who had been punished before, did not dare to say anything.

Afterwards, Lin Qinshuang felt that Wei Xiaoniang was indeed a person who should not be underestimated. Because she was worried that Wei Xiaoniang was pregnant with a boy, she severely deprived Wei Xiaoniang of her kindness after the New Year. Later, she decided to feed Wei Xiaoniang a big baby so that the baby would be too big and cause a difficult delivery, resulting in two deaths. Only then did she start to behave like a virtuous woman and gain favor in front of Sheng Hong.

Lin Qinshuang would not reveal any of these women's tricks to Changfeng, but she took the initiative to teach Molan, "For women in the harem, either the east wind overwhelms the west wind, or the west wind overwhelms the east wind, or there is a three-way balance of power. There is no fourth choice."

"Mo'er used to think that Wei Xiaoniang was too aloof and would not please your father, but look at what Wei Xiaoniang and Minglan are doing. I don't believe that Minglan, a four-year-old child, knows how to win favor for Wei Xiaoniang."

Of course Molan understood what Lin Qinshuang meant. In the past, when Lin Qinshuang fought with Wang Ruofu, she never complained at all. But it was different now. Lin Qinshuang was obviously going to kill someone.

Not to mention that she couldn't bear to watch Wei Xiaoniang and the baby in her belly die, but just because Old Madam Sheng and Wang Ruofu were always keeping an eye on Lin Qige, she couldn't let Lin Qinshuang do anything wrong.

Molan advised, "Mother, I heard that the old lady intends to raise a child to entertain her, but now that my eldest sister hasn't married yet, the old lady is already thinking about having another child. Not to mention others, she can't get over it with Wei Ruixuan."

"The old lady doesn't like me, and Wei Ruixuan can't bear to part with Rulan, so the old lady can only choose Minglan or the one in Wei Xiaoniang's belly. So if you make any move, you will be giving the old lady a handle."

Lin Qinshuang knew how powerful Old Madam Sheng was. Even though she had lost a legitimate son in the rear house, she also sent away her husband's favorite concubine. Lin Qinshuang suddenly realized that although she seemed to be in a very prosperous position and had surpassed the first wife and the housekeeper by several years, she was actually on the edge of a cliff.

After thinking for a few days, Lin Qinshuang gritted her teeth and pushed the housekeeper power away after hearing that Sheng Hong might be transferred to the capital. She also took the opportunity to play a pity in front of Sheng Hong and deducted 1,200 taels of silver and a shop from him.