A wailing sound echoed above the post station. When Shen Xiangdi heard her son's screams, she immediately rushed over.

When she saw Jiang Hao's arm hanging limply, her heart trembled violently. She turned around and slapped Ah Bei twice, "Who do you think you are? How dare you hurt my son!"

Jiang Hao sobbed and threw himself into Shen Xiangdi's arms, "Mom, I just wanted to be friends with him, but I didn't expect him to break my arm. It hurts so much, Mom!"

Abei was slapped in the face and was already unhappy, but when he thought that this was Jiang Yan's sister-in-law and Jiang Nianwei's aunt, he did not fight back but just covered his slightly swollen cheek.

Shen Xiangdi had a look of disdain on her face, her tone full of contempt and ridicule, "You are pretty, but you are a man, a servant, and you can't get pregnant. It's your blessing that my son likes you. You were actually bullied by a servant. I will find a doctor for you right away!"

After she finished speaking, Shen Xiangdi was still furious and wanted to kick him a few more times, but was decisively blocked by a figure.

Jiang Nianwei's face was grim. "Now, I can still politely call you aunt. But if you dare to hurt my people, I will break your leg if you kick him with that leg. No mercy!"

Jiang Nianwei then saw the slight swelling on Ah Bei's right cheek, and she was furious. "It was obviously this idiot who had bad intentions towards Ah Bei first. Ah Bei, you did the right thing. If he dares to do this to you again next time, you will kick him to pieces without mercy!"

Hearing this, Jiang Hao cried even harder. Shen Xiangdi was extremely heartbroken and started to yell, "You have a mother who raised you but didn't teach you. Your mother didn't teach you well, so today I will teach you well!"

As she spoke, Shen Xiangdi rolled up her sleeves, looking ready to do something big.

During the years she lived in the rear house, she had already developed the ability to be aggressive.

Turning her head to the side, a cunning gleam flashed in Shen Xiangdi's eyes.

She happened to catch a glimpse of Jiang Yan walking slowly towards her, and a plan quickly formed in her mind.

Then he pretended to stagger weakly, pulling Jiang Hao to sit on the ground together, with a hypocritical sadness on his face, and a few crystal tears rolled down from the corners of his eyes at the right time.

"Oh, why is my life so miserable? Now I have to suffer your bullying. I am wrong. I beg you, please don't hit me and Hao Ge'er anymore. We really know we are wrong."

She sobbed as she spoke, her voice trembling a bit, as if she was really wronged.

The change in this woman's attitude meant something was wrong. Jiang Nianwei looked behind her and saw her old father.

Shen Xiangdi burst into tears without any scruples, "Why is my life so miserable? Ever since I was implicated by your father, I have been displaced and exiled to a desolate place. Now I have to endure your anger. It's fine if you bully me, but how can you not let my brother Hao go!"

Her eyes kept glancing at Jiang Yan behind her. Given Jiang Yan's compassionate nature, he would definitely feel sorry for her.

When she saw Jiang Yan's heavy steps slowly approaching, Shen Xiangdi felt a surge of satisfaction in her heart.

Now that he saw his own daughter bullying her aunt, she didn't believe that Jiang Yan would not be angry.

Jiang Nianwei quickly explained the cause of the incident, "Dad, it was my aunt who bullied Ah Bei first, saying that he was an inferior person who could be humiliated by others."

Jiang Yan pulled Ah Bei who was standing beside him and looked at the scars on his face carefully. "Ah Bei, are you okay?"

Ah Bei shook his head gently, "Master, I'm fine. This minor injury is nothing to worry about."

Jiang Yan turned around with a serious expression, "Sister-in-law, although Ah Bei follows us, he is not the servant you mentioned. He is my disciple, and there is no difference between him and us."

"I didn't insult him. He broke Hao'er's arm, so I scolded him angrily." Shen Xiangdi was still acting, "Brother-in-law, do you think I'm such a person who can't tell right from wrong? We treat you well, and you're making groundless assumptions about me."

Obviously, Shen Xiangdi's eyes were as sharp as a knife when she looked at Jiang Nianwei just now, but when she turned to Jiang Yan, they instantly turned into a pool of spring water.

Her tone was full of grievance and tenderness. "Look at your daughter. She hits me without asking any questions. I am her elder after all. How can she be so rude?"

Jiang Nianwei thought her father really believed her lies, but Jiang Yan just patted her shoulder gently and said, "My daughter, if there is any fault, I will teach and correct it. I know very well that she is not as bad as you describe her. I know Nianwei's character better than anyone else. I think your brother Hao and you must have done something out of the ordinary to make her angry. Although your family suffered exile because of me, I never treated you badly when I was in power."

When Jiang Nianwei heard what her father said, she felt a little warmer in her heart.

In addition, even though Jiang Hao was injured, his obscene eyes were still scanning Abei's body.

Since Jiang Yan could take the position of Imperial Censor, he was not a fool who didn't know people's hearts. "Sister-in-law, I hope you can teach Hao'er well and don't let him do such despicable things again. Otherwise, as your uncle, I will help you discipline your son!"

Shen Xiangdi covered her stuffy chest and couldn't speak, but Jiang Nianwei stepped forward and slapped her hard twice.

"These two blows are for you. You can't tell right from wrong, and you're confusing right and wrong. If you have time to think of doing something tricky, you'd better discipline your children!"

Shen Xiangdi was so angry that her chest hurt. She wanted to fight back, but she found that Jiang Nianwei was very strong and she couldn't fight back at all because her hand was tightly grasped by her.

Jiang Yan then spoke up to stop her, "Forget it, Nianwei, your aunt knows she was wrong."

Shen Xiangdi gritted her teeth and was unwilling to accept it, but she could only give in temporarily and left with Jiang Hao, who had a miserable face.

Afterwards, Jiang Nianwei took out the ointment and gently and carefully applied it to Ah Bei's wound. "You saw it too. Don't worry about us in the future. If someone hurts you, fight back if you have the ability."

Her fingers were slightly cool, and when they touched Ah Bei's cheek, he felt an inexplicable throbbing, and his cheeks couldn't help but slightly heat up. "I'll listen to you, Miss."

Jiang Nianwei noticed that his left cheek was also very red, "Did you get hit on the left cheek too?"

Abei quickly covered his left cheek and said, "No...no, I'll apply it myself!" After that, he hurriedly walked to the side and applied the ointment.

Jiang Nianwei thought Ah Bei was very strange, and turned to look at Jiang Yan, who had a serious expression on his face, "Dad, did that matter just now make you feel embarrassed?"

Jiang Yan waved his hand and said calmly: "It's not difficult at all. This is your aunt's fault. Dad is old, not confused. He can see right from wrong very clearly."

Jiang Yan has always been like this, clearly distinguishing right from wrong. Even when she divorced, he never blamed her at all and always stood firmly on her side.

At this time, Taozhi hurried over, her face full of anxiety, and said breathlessly: "Miss, it's bad, Madam Liu and Miss Jiang Mian are arguing, you should go and take a look!"

When she rushed to the scene, she saw that Aunt Liu's body was soaked with soup, and her originally neat clothes now looked disheveled.

Jiang Mian stood aside with a smug look on her face, a disdainful smile on her lips, "She's just a nanny, so what if I just drank a few sips of soup? I'm also a lady of the Jiang family, so I'm naturally qualified to drink this soup."

Nanny Liu is an elder in the mansion who has always taken care of them loyally. But now she is being bullied by Jiang Mian, which is really infuriating.

Jing Qiudie stood in front of Aunt Liu, with a tone of dissatisfaction and blame: "Jiang Mian, do you know what you are doing now? Are you even fighting for the tonic soup for pregnant women?"

"I was waiting to be married at home, but my house was raided and the other party broke off the engagement. Otherwise, I would have been married now. All this was caused by you. Now I am just drinking a few mouthfuls of soup from your family. What can I do?"

Jing Qiudie was so angry that her face turned blue. Just as she was about to explode, Jiang Nianwei gently pulled her sleeve.

She shook her head slightly, signaling her mother not to be angry, and said softly: "Mother, forget it, since she wants to drink, let her drink it. It's just some soup, there's no need to hurt the harmony over it. Mammy, you can make more nourishing soup in the future and send it to my cousin."

"My cousin is still very generous."

Jiang Mian glanced at the people next to him, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, revealing an incomparable arrogance, and left with the bowl of soup.

When she was in Tongzhou, as the only legitimate daughter in the family, she was doted on by Shen Xiangdi, so naturally she could not suffer any hardship.

Jing Qiudie felt helpless, "Nianwei, are we just going to let her take advantage of us so easily?"

Jiang Nianwei handed over a packet of medicine powder, "Of course not, Aunt Liu, I'm sorry to have wronged you. If she wants to drink it, you can stew more and mix the medicine powder into it, so that she can drink it to her heart's content! If we are tough with her on the surface, she will definitely not accept it and will make trouble again. Only when she suffers, she will retreat."

Madam Liu immediately turned from anger to joy, "Young lady is really thoughtful."

After Jiang Shen's family arrived, their relatively peaceful days were completely disrupted.

Jiang Mian sipped the carefully prepared tonic soup, and the lingering aftertaste between her lips and teeth made her feel satisfied.

In addition to feeling satisfied, she felt an inexplicable urge in her heart to visit Qin Ziqian, her former cousin-in-law, who had left a deep impression on her life.

Thinking back to the time when Jiang Nianwei and Qin Ziqian got married, the grand wedding and the bustling city, as a bystander, she was also yearning for it.

At that time, Qin Ziqian in her eyes was graceful and elegant, which made people fantasize about him.

And a few years ago, she had a strange dream.

I dreamed that my house was ransacked, but my cousin-in-law, who seemed to be down and out now, would become a prominent figure with great power in the future.

At that time she thought it was just an absurd dream, but now, when the house was really confiscated, the fragment in the dream caused ripples in her heart, making her begin to doubt whether it was really a premonition.

Shen Xiangdi once tactfully suggested that it would be better to send Jiang Mian to the Marquis's residence as a concubine.

But Jing Qiudie flatly refused. Now that her cousin and brother-in-law have divorced, does that mean she has a chance?

When she glanced at Qin Ziqian secretly, her old admiration for him resurfaced.

Qin Ziqian looked much thinner than before, but still as handsome as before. Jiang Mian pretended to fall and attracted Qin Ziqian's attention.

"Brother-in-law, it hurts so much." Her voice trembled slightly, like a willow branch swaying in the wind, gently blowing past.

Qin Ziqian hadn't noticed Jiang Mian at first. It was only when he heard her call him brother-in-law that he looked down at the woman, but he had no impression of her.

"Who are you? Why do you call me brother-in-law?"

Jiang Mian lowered her eyes shyly, with an indescribable sense of loss in her heart. She spoke softly, completely different from her overbearing appearance just now: "Brother-in-law, I am Jiang Mian, Jiang Nianwei's cousin. Do you remember your wedding banquet a year ago? I saw you there."

Qin Ziqian thought about it carefully and then remembered, "It turned out to be you. Were you also exiled?"

"It's all my uncle's fault for causing us trouble."

Qin Ziqian reached out his hand and gently helped her up.

She seemed to move closer to him intentionally or unintentionally, snuggling up to him.

This sudden closeness made Qin Ziqian, who had not had contact with a woman for many days, feel a strange emotion in his heart.

Qin Ziqian pretended to be serious and said, "Your cousin and I have already divorced. You don't have to call me brother-in-law anymore."

"In my heart you will always be my brother-in-law, and it's my cousin who is blind!"

Qin Ziqian was moved, but he remained calm on the surface and tested her, "Don't talk about your cousin like that."

"Brother-in-law, since ancient times, it has been common sense for a man to have three wives and four concubines. People in the world take it for granted. My cousin may have a grudge against this and seem too narrow-minded, but I am completely different from her."

Those subtle hints, those admiring eyes, were all focused on Qin Ziqian.

He naturally understood the deeper meaning behind her words, and his heart couldn't help but be moved.

It had been a long time since a woman had looked at him with such eyes. He felt the satisfaction of being watched and appreciated, but he also felt his heart being shaken.

……

Chunyu hid in the dark and saw everything. She did not dare to hide anything and went back to tell Jiang Nianwei everything she had seen and heard.

"This lady is really disgusting because she says one thing in public and another behind the scenes."

Jiang Nianwei took a bite of the jujube paste cake, and the sweet taste slowly melted between her lips and teeth. She shook her head slightly and said a few words lightly: "Ignore her."

Jiang Mian seems smart, but she is so stupid. How extraordinary can the man she disdains be?

Jiang Nianwei sneered, "Doesn't she like soup? Let Aunt Liu bring the stewed soup to her."

This time, Nanny Liu did not hesitate as she did in the past, and brought the soup over as Jiang Nianwei had instructed.

Jiang Mian couldn't help but sneer: "After all, he is your master's dog. He is quite obedient this time."

In her heart, Jiang Nianwei is still the weak, incompetent and opinionless woman she once was.

Aunt Liu could only suppress her anger for the time being and left respectfully on the surface. However, she had added a lot of "good ingredients" to the soup.

Jiang Mian took a sip of the bowl of perfectly cooked pork ribs soup, and the rich aroma bloomed on the tip of his tongue.

It was not until her mother came back with her brother, looking angry, that she stepped forward and asked a few questions, "Mom, in my opinion, that Jiang Nianwei is just a bluffing fellow, there is nothing to be afraid of."

Shen Xiangdi's brows were filled with worry. "What do you know? She is definitely not as simple as you think."

The current situation is very bad for them. Thinking of this, she warned again, "Don't provoke her. She is more difficult to deal with than we thought."

Shen Xiangdi smelled the scent of pork rib soup and asked suspiciously, "Where does this soup come from?"

Jiang Mian's tone was inevitably a little proud, "It was just delivered by Aunt Liu herself. It seems that they are still a little afraid of us and have to give in to us a little."

Shen Xiangdi felt a chill when she heard this. The things Jiang Nianwei had sent over must have bad intentions. "Did you drink it? Spit it out quickly, spit it out quickly!"

As soon as she finished speaking, her mother rushed forward to help Jiang Mian scoop out the soup he had just drunk. Her nervous look made Jiang Mian feel a little puzzled.

Although Shen Xiangdi usually acts steadily and cautiously, she seems to have become a different person today, becoming timid and fearful, which is very different from her usual character.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?" She asked in confusion. "I've tasted the soup from his family many times before, and I've never found anything wrong. I've seen Qiu Meixue drink the soup every time. I'm not defenseless."

Shen Xiangdi sighed softly, "You, I've taught you so much, but all you can think about is eating! People's minds are hard to predict, especially your cousin. She is not as simple as she seems. She has a deep mind and is hard to understand."

"She doesn't have any deep thoughts. She is just a simple-minded, gullible fool."

Jiang Mian, who was originally complacent, soon suffered a bitter fate.

In a short while, Jiang Mian felt as if countless ants were biting her whole body, and the extremely itchy feeling almost made her collapse.

Jiang Mian scratched his body vigorously, and then he regretted it, "Mom, you are right, there is something wrong with her soup!"

Shen Xiangdi gritted her teeth. After spending some time together, she found that Jiang Yan's family all listened to Jiang Nianwei very much.

She thought she could easily sow discord between them, but now it seems that this trick is obviously not working, it seems that she must find another way.

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