After the Hou family's mistress went crazy, she became the favorite of the entire capital.

Shu Yan raised and lowered his whip until he forced Liang into a corner.

"If you want to establish your authority and get angry, you have to pick on others. My aunt, I'm not that easy to bully!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the vine whip in Shu Yan's hand fell again, hitting Mr. Liang's eyesight with blackness and causing him to faint to death.

Shu Yan threw the vine whip in his hand at the feet of Liang's slaves and said with disdain: "The broken things are not even one-tenth as good as the general's mansion."

If it had been Zuo Jing's vine whip, just one blow would have killed Liang.

Shu Yan stood there and glanced at Liang's gang of slaves one by one.

The servants all fell to their knees, hitting their foreheads on the ground, not daring to lift them up, and not even daring to take a breath.

"Who was the person who handed her the cane just now?"

No one dared to speak out.

"Who?"

Shu Yan's slightly raised tone contained a majesty that could not be ignored.

Someone was pushed out and fell directly to the ground, "It's her! It's her!"

After seeing it clearly, Shu Yan sneered, "It has to be you, Mother Fang."

Mother Fang quickly got up from the ground, "Young madam, this servant also obeys orders."

"A good one who follows orders."

After finishing her words, Shu Yan's tone suddenly became cold, "My mother used to be the most kind-hearted. Even if she stepped on an ant to death, she would feel distressed for a long time, let alone her physical actions. I guess it was an evil slave like you who was gossiping in front of my mother, fanning the flames, and instigating us. The relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. My uncle has just walked away, and you are inciting your mother to beat someone. If someone comes, kill Mother Fang with a cane on the spot!"

No one dared to touch a group of servants.

This is Mother Fang, the maid Liang took with her when she married into the Marquis Mansion. She is Liang's confidant. Who dares to take action?

Mother Fang also thought of this and stood up with courage.

"Who dares! You dare to use lynching when the Marquis is still in the house?"

Mother Fang pointed at Shu Yan and cursed in anger.

"Shu Yan, you are a little bitch who has committed an offense below. My wife is the mistress of the Hou Mansion, your mother-in-law, and an elder. How dare you beat her like this? You are disrespectful and rebellious. Wait until I tell Hou Master...ah!"

While Fang's mother was talking, Shu Yan had already walked up to her.When Mother Fang realized it and wanted to retract her hand, Shu Yan had already pinched her finger and pulled it back.

With a click, Mother Fang's heartbreaking screams of pain echoed throughout the front yard.

"Who did you scold just now?"

Shu Yan didn't say a word, but his hands had a little more strength.

Mother Fang was shaking all over in pain, and she had lost the momentum she had just now.

"Did you hear clearly just now? Who is she scolding?"

Everyone dared not speak.

Xi'er stood up and was so frightened that her tongue was tied, "I heard this with my own ears. She was scolding you, young lady!"

As soon as the words fell, someone immediately stood up and accused Mother Fang of being disrespectful to the master.

"That's even more damning."

Mother Fang was beaten to death with a stick in front of these slaves, and some of the timid ones were frightened and fainted.

"You have all seen, this is the fate of evil slaves."

After Fang's mother's body was dragged out, Shu Yan had someone take Ms. Liang, who had been hanging there for a long time, back to her room.

When he returned, he saw Xi'er trembling. Shu Yan stopped and asked her, "Are you afraid of me?"

Xi'er knelt down and shook her head, "I have served the young lady for many days. I know the young lady's character. If the lady had not provoked the young lady, the young lady would not be like this. But she is always the wife of the Marquis. If the Marquis knew about it, I am afraid... …”

Shu Yan looked at her, "So you still can't understand what I just said?" Xi'er really didn't understand.

But He Zhengyuan understood.

Even though Mr. Dong supported Mr. Liang and went back and forth to the house many times, He Zhengyuan still gave Mr. Liang the cold shoulder.Now that there are two bad articles that Nan Huai personally confirmed, He Zhengyuan's dislike of Liang has reached the extreme.

Although what Shu Yan did just now was treasonous and unethical, if he told it, he would be drowned by Tumo Xingzi.But based on the unified confessions of the slaves present, who said that Fang's mother had instigated the discord and witnessed the evil slave being disrespectful to Shu Yan, He Zhengyuan didn't even need to go to trial, and all the mistakes had been pinned on Liang.

Furthermore, Shu Yan still had Nanhuai in charge, so He Zhengyuan couldn't punish her.

He looked at the scroll that had been unfolding for a long time in front of him, and gently rubbed his fingers on the face in the painting that was five points similar to He Wangzhou's: "The Nan family should be resenting me to death."

"Master Marquis, the young lady has gone out. Do you need to send someone to follow her?"

He Zhengyuan carefully put away the scroll and said, "Tell someone to follow you from a distance, don't let her find out."

Shu Yancai took the token and went out, and He Zhengyuan had already stepped into Jinyuyuan.

All the servants guarding Jinyuyuan disappeared. Even Ah Si was sent away. No one knew that He Zhengyuan came to Jinyuyuan.

Entering the inner room, he looked in front of the bed for a moment and then pulled back the quilt.

*
Shengjing Bookstore is the most famous bookstore in the Northern Yuan Dynasty. There are many fine pens, inks, paper and inkstones here. It is said that a good inkstone is worth thousands of gold.There are also many enlightenment books, which are must-read for young masters from various families.Not only that, there are many rubbings by masters in the bookstore, as well as good articles from the top three in the imperial examination. As long as you can name them and give enough money, you can find the articles you want.

After entering Shengjing Bookstore, Shu Yan took out the token, and then a waiter led him inside. He passed through a courtyard and walked through a long corridor before stopping.

"Young madam, the second master is inside."

Shu Yan's eyebrows jumped sharply.

Does Shengjing Bookstore belong to the Nan family?

"Is Yan'er here? Come in."

Nanhuai's voice sounded, and Shu Yan pushed the door open and entered.

He was sitting at the table, writing a letter, when he heard her come in. Without raising his head, he just pointed to the chair over there and asked him to sit and wait for a while.

Nanhuai wrote three letters in a row, telling Chang Sui which letter should be sent to which place in front of Shu Yan.

Shu Yan's eyebrows twitched again.

Of these three letters, one was sent back to Nan's house.One letter was sent to the current Taifu Ni Zheng, who was once a disciple of Nan Mingyue and had a high status in the court.The last letter was sent to the house of the Shaoqing of Dali Temple. He was honest, upright, and as tough as Zhou Xing.

Nanhuai contacted them as soon as he came back and did not shy away from Shu Yan at all.

I'm afraid there's some kind of story here.

After Nanhuai's Changsui left, Shu Yan couldn't help but speak.

"The court does not allow cliques to be formed for personal gain. Uncle, aren't you afraid that I will tell you this?"

"It's rare for me to come back to Beijing. I just write a letter to meet my friends. Besides, I'm not a bad person, so how can I use the words "forming cliques for personal gain".

Nan Huai laughed.

"Yan'er didn't study seriously before, did she?"

Shu Yan blushed.

She used to get a headache whenever she read a book, let alone listen to a class.She also knew what the words "forming parties for personal gain" meant, but for some reason, it felt most appropriate to put it in this context.

"Then uncle, do you believe me so much?"

Nan Huai had admiration in his eyes, "How could I not believe that such a kind-hearted person is willing to give so much money to the court for disaster relief? She is also Wangzhou's wife."

He poured himself a cup of tea and sat down with it.

"Come, tell me everything that happened during this time."

(End of this chapter)