Before dawn, Madam Tao stood in front of the main door of Shaohua Garden holding a ruler, and said in full force, "Please ask the fourth young lady to kneel down and worship the ancestors on time and reflect on your sins."

I copied books until midnight last night, probably around one or two o'clock in modern times.

Now he hadn't even woken up yet, and the old nanny came to knock on the door again. Pan Xi and Pan Lan had already gotten up. While answering Nanny Tao, they came to ask Song Guanzhou to get up.

It was so cold in early spring that I just stuck one foot out of the quilt and quickly pulled it back in.

"Where's the charcoal basin?"

Song Guanzhou was so cold that Pan Xi was stunned for a moment before she lowered her head and said, "The Duke ordered a reduction in the expenses of Shaohua Garden. Today, the little maids went to collect coal, which was seven cents less than usual. Thinking that the young lady still had to copy books at night, I took the initiative to save the coal for the morning."

commit a sin!

Song Guanzhou didn't bother to verify whether it was true or not. She was so frightened by Aunt Tao who came in that she dared not to refuse anymore.

Aunt Tao was tall and strong, with a fat waist and round arms. She swung the ruler so hard that it made a loud noise. Song Guanzhou had more than twenty scars from the ruler all over his body and he dared not do it again.

Not as good as she is in the present life, fat and plump enough to beat up two men.

Now she is thin, and her ex-wife believed in the aura of the pale and skinny Liu Fufeng, so she has been controlling her diet. Not to mention hitting people, she will collapse if she walks a few steps.

Song Guanzhou looked at the oval face in the bronze mirror, which should have been beautiful, but now it was so thin that it looked unrecognizable.

Never mind, just let her recover. If she wants to run away someday, she’ll have to rely on a healthy body.

**

Kneeling down was something that no one got used to. Song Guanzhou knelt to the end and started crying. She thought about pretending to faint, but just as she fainted, Nanny Tao's thick nails poked her philtrum.

It hurts more than breaking a leg from kneeling.

"Tell my father that I can't kneel any longer. He should find another way to punish me."

Something else?

Nanny Tao's mouth twitched, "Fourth Young Master Madam, the book about women you copied yesterday had a lot of typos and misspellings, so you have to rewrite it."

What? Rewrite!?

In the original wife's memory, she could write and was good at calligraphy and painting, but in this world, Song Guanzhou is just a diligent social animal working dog. She can attack the keyboard skillfully, speak foreign languages ​​fluently, be a beautiful mother-in-law, go up and down the mountains and seas with her male colleagues, and write a situation report of several thousand words on a trivial matter!

But he can't play the piano, chess, calligraphy or painting.

The calligraphy made her want to cry, but now Aunt Tao had revealed the truth and asked her to rewrite it.

She cried freely, and when she thought about the possibility that she would never be able to return to this world, she was even more sad. She cried like a real 18-year-old girl, wiping her tears and saying, "Tell my father that I can't kneel down or finish writing. Even if you beat me to death with a ruler, I can't do it anymore."

Aunt Tao was extremely shocked.

It's not like he had punished the Fourth Young Master's wife before, but she had always endured it with gritted teeth. Even though the punishment was a bit heavier this time, it wasn't to the point of crying and wailing.

Song Guanzhou cried so hard that he hiccuped.

Aunt Tao's expression exploded, "Fourth Young Master's Madam——"

Song Guanzhou rolled up his sleeves and wiped away his tears.

"I have lost my manners now, so you can punish me as you like."

...How shameless!

Nanny Tao thought that she had been teaching for many years and had met countless unruly girls and daughters-in-law, but this was the first time someone cried as loudly as Song Guanzhou.

She calmed herself down, pulled Song Guanzhou's left hand, and gave him three heavy spankings with the ruler.

Song Guanzhou was stunned for a moment, looking at her red and swollen palms, which suddenly felt burning with pain, and her tears flowed even more violently. She hugged her left hand and cried inconsolably.

"It was Pei An who was obsessed with the prostitute's bed and forgot about his wife at home. How can it be my fault?"

Who could have expected that the small ancestral hall where Song Guanzhou knelt down was not far from the ancestral temple? The wife of the Duke's Mansion, who was reciting scriptures in a quiet and silent manner, opened her eyes when she heard the sound, listened carefully, and sneered, "Yingzhi, go and find out what's going on."

It was so noisy early in the morning that it made my heart ache.

Yingzhi came in in plain clothes and whispered, "It should be the sound coming from the small ancestral hall. Madam, wait for me to go and take a look."

"A small shrine?"

Madam Xiao of the Duke's Mansion understood, "I'm afraid someone will be punished again."

Yingzhi thought for a moment before walking up to Xiao and whispering about the trouble caused by the Fourth Young Master's wife, "The Duke was very angry, and without waiting for the Fourth Young Master to return home, he directly severely punished the Fourth Young Master's wife. Now you asked me not to ask about family affairs, and I just listened and didn't ask more."

Xiao was nearly fifty years old. Although she had announced to the public that she had become a nun, she still had black hair, wore golden hairpins, and dressed in gorgeous brocade clothes.

"Ms. Song was raised by the Grand Secretary to be arrogant and domineering. If my mother-in-law had not lived long, the Duke would never have agreed to this marriage. Look, it's only been two years and the whole mansion is already in turmoil."

Song Wenqi was an honest official. Apart from his adopted son Song Xinglu, he and his wife had their only child, Song Guanzhou, when they were nearly thirty years old. She had met the Duke twice and had spoiled him very much, but had never thought of marrying him.

Nothing can be predicted. Poor her fourth son, he had such an ignorant daughter-in-law.

The Fourth Young Master's wife has not been favored by the elders for a long time. Yingzhi did not dare to respond and waited until Xiao finished speaking before going out to inquire.

Just as he arrived in front of Tingyu Pavilion outside the small ancestral hall, he ran into the Crown Prince's wife Xiao Yinxiu.

"Sakura, where are we going?"

As the head maidservant of her aunt and mother-in-law Xiao, she held an important position in the mansion. Xiao Yinxiu asked the question personally, and Yingzhi smiled and answered, "Madam, the old lady was reciting scriptures for morning prayers, but she heard a commotion outside, so I came out to see what was going on."

Xiao Yinxiu called her over and said, "It's nothing. It's just that Fourth Brother's wife is weak and delicate, and she's throwing a tantrum."

It turned out to be the fourth young master’s wife!

Yingzhi simply supported the Crown Prince's wife, and Linglong asked carefully, "Did the Duke punish her too severely? The Fourth Young Master's wife never cried like this before."

Xiao Yinxiu gently patted the back of her hand with her white jade fingers, "Don't worry, I've sent someone to check on her. Just ask Aunt Tao to be gentle. Alas... Fourth brother's wife got into too much trouble this time, and others don't dare to go to the master to plead for mercy."

Stopping Yingzhi's idea of ​​going to investigate, "I'll go with you to visit my aunt. I haven't seen her for a while. Is she okay?"

Since entering the family temple, Xiao has lived in seclusion and rarely goes out. She has also waived all the greetings from the younger generations.

In the small ancestral hall, Song Guanzhou's sobbing rose and fell without stopping. Aunt Tao hit him ten times more, and her hands were red, swollen and painful. She cried so hard that she could hardly breathe.

Seeing such a loss of composure, Nanny Tao turned around, locked the door and went out to report to the Crown Prince's wife.

It happened that the Crown Prince's wife came to pay her respects to the old lady, so she chased after her, stood in the old lady's living room, and told her what happened.

Upon hearing this, Xiao's eyes widened with anger. "How unreasonable! Regardless of the family tradition of the Huaifeng Song family, you should also consider the hundred-year reputation of the Duke's Mansion. This rude woman is short-sighted and should be punished! A heavy punishment!"

Xiao Yinxiu held the tea and served her mother-in-law, "Aunt, please calm down. My sister-in-law is young and ignorant. She is infatuated with my fourth brother and has lost her sense of propriety. I will persuade her with my eldest sister-in-law in the future. She will become sensible in time."

"Eighteen years old is not young."

Xiao was furious, but she couldn't help but have doubts. "Song has never been so out of control in the past. Did she run into something unclean when she went out to the Lantern Festival?"

After hearing this, Aunt Tao nodded.

"What the old lady said makes sense. I have also felt that the fourth young master's wife is very strange these past two days. Her behavior and speech are different from before, and much more vulgar. This morning I checked the three female books that the Duke punished her to copy, and the handwriting is also very different from before."

Yingzhi covered her mouth and whispered, "It is said that the concubine of Master Chen from the Dali Temple was possessed by an evil spirit three years ago, and bewitched many of the servants and maids in the mansion. Later, she asked the fairy lady to exorcise the evil spirit, and she was cured."

Later, this matter spread throughout the capital for a long time. The Chen family felt that this girl was unlucky and sent her away.

Xiao believed in Buddhism. She chanted "Amitabha" and called her daughter-in-law, "Xiu'er, go back and tell the second son to find a chance to ask the fairy lady to come and have a look."

"Mother, how about talking to the fourth child first?"

Xiao snorted, "An'er is soft-hearted and is an official in the court. The court has been suppressing spiritualism and witchcraft for years, saying it is evil magic. You told him, should he stop you or believe you? Just don't make things difficult for him."

It's better not to say anything.

Xiao Yinxiu nodded gently, "Don't worry, Auntie, I'll do it right away."

The vulgar Song Guanzhou cried until he was tired. He hadn't drunk a drop of water or eaten a grain of rice since he got up early in the morning. Now he was cold and hungry, so he simply curled up on the ground and fell asleep.

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