Ye Qinghuan lay on the floor of the ancestral hall for half the night, suffering from back pain. He went to sleep after breakfast.

It was already afternoon when I woke up.

Chunyan served the iced cheese: "Madam finally got to eat it today. The kitchen steamed several bowls yesterday, and they were all eaten by the second and third old ladies."

"You didn't hide a bowl for me?" Ye Qinghuan asked mischievously.

Chunyan was very protective of her master, and she would always keep all the delicious food close to her. When they were going through the most difficult times in their previous life, Chunyan fed her the only rice porridge she had, and she herself ate leaves to fill her stomach.

Chunyan would definitely save good stuff like Bingsuku for her.

"I left one bowl. Later, my wife was punished to kneel in the ancestral hall, so I gave it to the general."

Look, leave it for her.

Ye Qinghuan looked at Chunyan, who was only thirteen years old, and said seriously: "Good girl, when you reach the age of marriage, I will decide whether you can marry your cousin!"

"Ah? I, your servant, must serve you all the time..."

"Your cousin is a real man, and he also works for me. If you marry him, it won't prevent you from serving me."

After hearing what Ye Qinghuan said, Chunyan asked shyly, "When did Madam find out?"

"When you went to look at the charcoal, you and he always looked at each other secretly."

Chunyan blushed immediately and knelt down and said, "Madam, I am absolutely loyal to you and will never betray you for the sake of love..."

"Get up! Work hard for me with Chang Ming, and I will let you live a comfortable life in this life!"

"In this life?" Chunyan was stunned.

People live for one lifetime, plants and trees die for one autumn. Even if there is an afterlife, I won’t remember anyone after drinking Meng Po soup.

Madam, why are you talking so strangely?

"If not in this life, then in the next?" Ye Qinghuan laughed, "Do you still have the ice cream?"

"some."

"You and Chunyu should also have a bowl. The autumn heat is very strong, so don't let me worry about such trivial matters in the future. Just make your own food."

"Thank you ma'am."

Chunyan was flattered. She and Chunyu stood at the door of the kitchenette, eating and admiring the lady's kindness.

"Oh, a lowly servant like me is also eating the master's food?" Li Lan came over twisting her body.

Contrary to her usual submissiveness, her face was full of sarcasm.

"Madam, how dare I overstep my bounds? This is a reward from you, Madam." Chunyu put down the bowl and bowed.

Li Lan looked at the remaining ice cream in the bowl and became even more angry: "The lowly maids from Jinfeng Courtyard are eating ice cream, and we, the proper masters, can't even use ice! Is the General's Mansion going to rebel against Tiangang?"

Chunyan and Chunyu lowered their heads and said nothing, thinking: You don't have ice because you are poor! What does it have to do with our wife?

But I dare not say this openly.

Li Lan was so greedy that she shouted, "Why don't you bring a bowl to the master?"

After saying that, without waiting for the maids to do anything, she went to the kitchen to get it herself.

It's so delicious! It's cool, smooth, delicate and refreshing! These rich people know how to enjoy it!

When she has money, she will eat it every day!

But when will she have money?

The mother-in-law looked down on her husband and suppressed him in every way. Her family had the hardest time in the East and West Mansions!

If I could find something from Ye Qinghuan...

Li Lan rolled her eyes and asked, "Where is your master?"

"He's looking at the account book, let's not disturb him." Chunyan's implication is: Don't disturb him either.

As a result, Li Lan’s focus was: look at the account book!

"She's not the head of the household, so where is the account book?"

"Of course it's the shop that the Ye family gave as a dowry."

Li Lan: ………

His arrogance suddenly diminished a bit.

The concubine daughters of wealthy families have shops to rely on when they get married, but the legitimate daughters of small families don’t even have a few pieces of jewelry! Comparison is the thief of anger!

"When did sister-in-law come?" Ye Qinghuan looked up from the small window and greeted her.

Li Lan got angry again when she saw Ye Qinghuan's face which was as calm as a chrysanthemum.

They are all born out of wedlock, so who is nobler than who?

"Just arrived, come and see what our general's illegitimate mistress looks like."

"Sister-in-law is also a concubine, why do you have to laugh at me?"

"How is that? It's a well-known fact that our eldest son was born out of wedlock, and it's an honor to be a concubine. It's not like some people who pretend to be rich and deceive their superiors and subordinates!"

"Ye, you are passing off a concubine as the legitimate wife. How dare you act like the mistress of the house these days? You have been married here for so many days, but you act like a legitimate wife. I have been fooled by you."

"What? You finally can't lie anymore? Does it feel good to kneel in the ancestral hall?"

After finishing her ice cream, Li Lan walked to the window with a sarcastic look on her face, straightened her back and looked at Ye Qinghuan.

Oh, this sister-in-law has been putting on airs since she came into the family. She lives a luxurious life, but is very stingy with her brother, sister-in-law and nephew.

Today, she has finally found fault with me. I must give her a good scolding. Let's see if she understands the meaning of respecting elders and the young!

"Sister-in-law, you are wrong!" Ye Qinghuan smiled calmly, "No matter what my background is, I am the general's mistress who was married to him in a formal ceremony and carried into the house in a sedan chair. Unless the general is not the legitimate son of my mother-in-law, I cannot be the mistress."

"You are such a sharp-tongued person! With your background, you are completely bringing shame to our General's Mansion!" Li Lan sneered, "Your Ye family is so shameless. Our Li family would never be able to do that."

Although the Li family was of lower status, Li Lan was indeed a legitimate daughter.

This is also the reason why she felt frustrated after marrying the illegitimate son Shen Yun and always wanted to fight for the right to manage the household.

"What does my sister-in-law want to do? Divorce me?" Ye Qinghuan asked bluntly.

Li Lan: ………

How could she have such right?

"Yesterday, in front of the general and my second and third aunts, my mother-in-law approved of me. If you have any objections, go and talk to my mother-in-law! I don't care. I will listen to my mother-in-law in everything." Ye Qinghuan said.

Li Lan had prepared a lot of lines, but she was criticized as soon as she came on stage and couldn't perform them! She was so angry that her face turned red.

"Why isn't she talking, sister-in-law? Are you afraid to go to see your mother-in-law?" Ye Qinghuan asked knowingly.

Li Lan stamped her feet and said, "Ye, don't be so proud. You are just a dog used by mother-in-law to check and control my second brother! Your lowly background is not worthy of my second brother at all! When mother-in-law finds a good candidate, you will be replaced!"

"Checks and balances?" Ye Qinghuan frowned, "Sister-in-law, you said that my mother-in-law married me to check and balance the general?"

"I, I didn't say that! You heard it wrong." Li Lan denied in a panic, her eyes dodging, "I have something else to do, so I'm leaving first."

Then he ran away in a flash.

Chunyan came over angrily and said, "Madam is so uneducated! She eats our food and yet she bullies us."

"She came at the right time today..." Ye Qinghuan looked at the direction where Li Lan left, thoughtfully, "Chunyan, go and quietly inquire about the general's birth."

"what?"

"I mean, ask the general if he is the old lady's son."

Chunyan's face turned pale with fear: "Madam, this is impossible..."

“Whether it’s true or not, just ask.”

"Yes!"

Ye Qinghuan pursed her red lips.

I originally thought that Madam Shen wanted to marry a wife to suppress Zhou Niannian.

Now it seems that the person the old lady really wants to suppress is Shen Lin!

Shen Lin was also clear about it in his heart.

No wonder in her previous life, no matter what Ye Qinglan did, Shen Lin refused to touch her.

What kind of mother would suppress her own child like this? Could it be that Shen Lin was not born to the first wife like her?

----

It’s late at night and the starlight is romantic.

Several black figures were chasing a white shadow, climbing walls and running across the city.

After several rounds of swordplay, a white shadow fell from the sky.

The bamboo hat fell off, revealing an extremely handsome face.

He struggled to get up: "General Shen, I really wasn't the one who poisoned Zhou Zhengan. How many times do you want me to explain it?"

"Then who did you come to Shengjing to poison?" Shen Lin asked with a stern face.

"I didn't! General Shen, you misunderstood. I was just passing through Shengjing while fleeing for my life..."

"Then how could someone in Shengjing be infected by your heart-eating poison?"

"What? Someone in the capital was poisoned too?"

"Bai Chong, if you don't tell the truth, don't blame me for being blind with my sword!" Shen Lin moved his wrist and put the sword against his heart.

Just a slight push forward would kill him.

Bai Chong quickly begged for mercy: "I really didn't poison anyone. Besides, the Heart-Eating Medicine is so expensive that it's not worth it for me to use it on ordinary people. Maybe someone stole the medicine and used my name to harm others. General, please investigate!"

"Okay, I'll give you a chance to live. If you make the antidote, I'll spare your life."

“Ah?” Bai Chong’s face fell. “General Shen, you know very well that there is no antidote for Heart-Eating… Ahhhh, I make it, I make it!”

All resistance ended when Shen Lin's sword sank into the flesh.

"The deadline is three months. Don't even think about running away. This general will not let you go no matter where you go." Shen Lin snorted coldly and retracted his sword.

Bai Chong covered his bleeding wound and smiled bitterly: "Who can escape from being targeted by you, the devil of the battlefield? I want to ask, who has been bitten by the Heart Devourer again?"

"Don't worry about it! And don't ask about it! Anyway, if I don't see the antidote in three months, you will go to hell!"

"……Yes."

Bai Chong sighed and could only blame himself for his bad luck.

But he could make an antidote... Even if he was killed, he couldn't make it! He could only fool him first and then find a way to escape Shen Lin's pursuit.

"General, are you really not going to kill Bai Chong?" asked Deputy General Yu Wu.

Shen Lin's face was grim: "If we kill him, who will make the antidote?"

"But the general promised Miss Zhou that he would kill Bai Chong to avenge Brother Zhengan..."

"It won't be too late to wait a few more months."

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