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Chapter 683: Many Cheats 4
Seeing that the poem did not seem to be poisonous, Marquis Jing'an took it. As soon as he opened it, he was shocked.

Because the first poem in it is "Quiet Night Thoughts", but more importantly, it mentions the author Li Bai.

After reading it, Earl Jing'an couldn't help but breathe heavily. He then flipped through the pages and found several poems that Shen Erniang had recently written, all of which had their authors.

If you say that this is someone else's fabrication, then look at the other poems that Shen Er Niang did not steal. Each one is of similar level to the previous ones, and people who read them are all amazed. Jing'an Bo knew that this book of poems was real and not fabricated by others. It is not right to say that Shen Er Niang's poems were written by these people, because other people have the time to fabricate such amazing poems. Wouldn't it be better to just write them down and let others worship them?

This also solved the doubts that Jing'an Bo had been having for some time: how could his second daughter, who had not shown any talent since childhood, write such exquisite poems? More importantly, the styles of those poems were not unified and they did not seem to be written by the same person.

Now the doubts have been resolved. It turns out that they were not written by the same person, so it is normal for the styles to be different.

He immediately thought of a problem. Since this collection of poems was delivered to the Jing'an Marquis' Mansion by an outsider, and he was asked to read it or he would regret it, it meant that this person did not want to harm their family. If he wanted to, as long as this collection of poems was published, the Jing'an Marquis' Mansion would immediately become a laughing stock.

So this guy is helping him.

Fortunately, Menzi reported the matter. Otherwise, Menzi would have thought that the things sent by a little beggar were insignificant and would not have reported them but thrown them away. If the matter was exposed in the future, the Jing'an Marquis's Mansion would have become a laughing stock in the capital.

At that moment, the Earl of Jing'an ordered his confidant to give Menzi a string of silver coins as a reward for not taking the initiative to throw the things away but instead delivering them to him.

Not to mention how happy Menzi was when he received the reward, thinking that he had done the right thing, but at that moment, while Jing'an Bo ordered his confidant to do this, he was thinking about how this matter would end.

He didn't think that the other party sent him this poem simply to let him know that Shen Erniang's poems were not written by herself, but copied. After all, he was the Minister of War, a third-rank official. He didn't get to this position entirely because of his family connections, but also the result of his hard work. So even if his brain was not particularly smart, it was not particularly stupid.

Because if the other party's purpose was just to let him know that Shen Erniang's poems were not written by herself, there was no need to go to such great lengths. After all, it didn't matter whether there was this book of poems or not. As long as he knew that Shen Erniang's poems were not written by herself, if there was no special reason, what else could he do to his daughter? At most he would just scold her and that would be it.

Therefore, the other party sent him poems, definitely not just to let him know about this and scold Shen Erniang, but... to warn him that there are people outside who know that these poems were not written by Shen Erniang, and that the other party is very likely to do something to make the Jing'an Marquis' Mansion suffer a big setback. This person may have a good impression of the Jing'an Marquis' Mansion, so he informed him in advance to let him be mentally prepared and take the initiative to deal with it. Otherwise, when that unfriendly person makes a move, the Jing'an Marquis' Mansion will be laughed at.

It was definitely not the other party who wanted to threaten me. After all, if he wanted to threaten me, he could just write a letter saying that Shen Erniang's poems were copied, that he had the book, and then ask me to give some benefits in exchange for this collection of poems.

Since the other party did not put forward any conditions, it was obvious that he had good intentions and was not trying to threaten me.

Now that he had figured this out, Earl Jing'an naturally had to think about how this matter would end.

Thinking of this, Jing'an Bo could not help but curse. He was not cursing anyone else, but Shen Erniang. After all, if Shen Erniang had not gotten such a collection of poems from somewhere, copied the poems on it and said they were her own, he would not have to worry about these things at this moment. Jing'an Bo called his wife over and showed her the book of poems.

The wife of Marquis Jing'an was shocked when she saw it. She said, "I knew something was wrong. How come the second girl is so good at writing poems? It turns out she copied them?! What should we do? If people outside know about this, won't people in our family be laughed at when they walk around outside in the future?"

Jing'an Bo sighed and said, "That's exactly the truth. I suspect that someone out there has this collection of poems. If there weren't any extras, there would be no need for the other party to warn us. After all, there is no evidence out there, so what can they do to our family?"

"What should we do now?" asked Lady Jing'an.

Since it involves a concubine's daughter, Lady Jing'an Marquis's wife doesn't want to get too involved, because no matter how she handles it, if one day her relationship with her husband or the concubine's daughter is not good, the other party will pick up today's incident and accuse her of mistreating the concubine's daughter. That would not be good. After all, she is not her daughter, but the daughter of Lord Jing'an. So let Lord Jing'an handle it, and she just needs to agree with it and not give too many opinions, unless her husband's actions will damage Lord Jing'an's Mansion, then she can consider whether to remind him.

But come to think of it, unless her husband doesn't want to have a bad reputation for being bad to his daughter and wants himself to bear this bad reputation, he will handle it honestly to avoid any problems in the Jing'an Marquis's Mansion.

But it is not necessarily true, because there are also those men who want their wives to bear all the bad reputation so that they can pretend to be innocent. Often when something happens, they will not step forward. Then the wife will be anxious, afraid that the matter will affect the family, and step forward to deal with it. In the end, it is the wife who bears the bad reputation.

The most common situation among the people is that sons do not want to support their parents, but still want to have a good reputation, so there often emerge a bunch of evil daughters-in-law who treat their parents-in-law harshly.

Of course, these daughters-in-law are not good people. After all, they really did do cruel things. However, if their husbands did not have the same idea and deliberately indulge them in doing so, but insisted on being good to their parents, these evil daughters-in-law would not dare to do these things.

As a result, outsiders only thought that the daughter-in-law was too bad, and no one said a bad word about the son.

In the backyard of a big family like theirs, such things also happen. Sometimes, if concubines' daughters and sons make mistakes and are not dealt with, it may affect the family's reputation. However, the husbands like to pretend to be good people and often like to let their wives deal with it. In the end, they are all good fathers who love their children, and only the legitimate wife is bad.

There are people like this.

If the Marquis of Jing'an was such a person, he would pretend that he didn't know how to handle the matter, or would handle it in the wrong way, and then deliberately let his wife find out that he did a bad job and made his wife anxious. Such a handling would affect the reputation of the Marquis of Jing'an's Mansion. In the end, he could only be a considerate person and put forward better suggestions. Finally, his husband would adopt the suggestions and announce to the outside world that it was she who handled it. Then the concubine would be severely punished, and she would be the only one who hated it. Then she would die unjustly.

Thinking of this, Lady Jing'an looked at Earl Jing'an, wanting to see how he was going to deal with it.

I have been married to the Jing'an Marquis's Mansion for so many years, and everything has been smooth sailing. This is the first time I have encountered such a difficult matter. It is a good opportunity for me to see what my husband can do.