Dad, open the door. I'll bring your mistress back for you.

"Third Master, don't leave in a hurry. Something happened in the third room."

"Hehe, hehe, you are talking nonsense. Our three wives and concubines live in harmony, the father is kind and the daughters are filial, what can go wrong?" Shen Qingjiang responded with a smile.

"Third Master, please come back with me. It's hard to talk about things at the gate. Third Madam, Aunt Xue, and the two young ladies are all with the old lady at Songhe Hall. You'll know what's going on once you get there."

Seeing that he couldn't escape, Shen Qingjiang could only follow Shen Zong into the house again with his head down. Along the way, he didn't forget to whisper something to the servant, and the servant hurried out after receiving the order.

Shen Huaizhong and the other two were standing in the hallway talking when they saw Shen Qingjiang coming back.

"Aren't your colleagues waiting for you to drink?" Shen Huaizhong asked unhappily.

Shen Qingjiang pointed at Shen Zong and said, "Ask him. He said something happened at home and he won't let me go out."

When Shen Huaizhong heard this, his face suddenly darkened, "Shen Zong, which little bastard is causing trouble again?"

Shen Zong glanced at Shen Qingjiang out of the corner of his eye, then took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Shen Huaizhong.

Shen Huaizhong looked at the contents on the paper, and his face darkened the more he read. After reading it, he folded the paper in half and threw it at Shen Qingjiang.

"Where are the people now?" Shen Huaizhong asked.

"Sir, they are all waiting for us at the old lady's place at Songhe Hall."

"Let's go and take a look." Shen Huaizhong just finished speaking and glanced at Shen Qinghai and Shen Qinghe beside him, "You two come too."

Although this matter is ultimately the private affair of the third house, Shen Huaizhong hopes that the eldest and second sons can take a closer look at it and use this incident to remind them.

……

"Butler Shen is back. Have you summoned the doctor from Tianxi Hall?"

When Aunt Xue heard Old Lady Shen ask this, her heart was in her throat.

"In reply to the old lady, the doctor at Tianxitang said he is closed and only accepts patients to get medicine from the store." Shen Zong replied respectfully.

Aunt Xue breathed a sigh of relief.

Shen Jingwan seized the opportunity and stood up. "Grandfather, grandmother, the doctor from Tianxi Hall must have known that there was something wrong with his medicine and felt guilty, so he didn't dare to come. We must report him to the authorities and have him arrested, so that Tianxi Hall can be closed down. Grandfather is the Prime Minister, how can we be afraid of a clinic?"

Shen Jingwan thought that Aunt Xue was her life-saving straw. If she got into trouble, she would have to rely on Aunt Xue to deal with Old Madam Shen, so she had to help Aunt Xue as much as possible.

Shen Huaizhong snorted coldly and said to Shen Qingjiang: "This is your good daughter. She can't distinguish right from wrong and always uses her power to oppress others."

Shen Qingjiang gnashed his back teeth until they made a sound, and threw the paper Shen Huaizhong had given him at Aunt Xue's head, "Take a look for yourself."

Aunt Xue looked at the familiar self, her hands trembling as she dared not open the paper.

Shen Jingwan took the paper from Aunt Xue's hand, glanced at it quickly, and her hand holding the paper began to tremble, "Mother?"

Shen Jingwan thought about the possibility of tearing up the paper. This paper was brought back by her father, so her father must have read it.

Since my father and grandfather entered the door together, there is a high probability that my grandfather has also seen it, so there is probably no point in destroying the evidence now.

Nanny Gui easily took the paper from Shen Jingwan's hand and respectfully handed it to Old Madam Shen with both hands.

"Xiangxue, is this your handwriting?" asked Old Madam Shen with narrowed eyes.

"It is...it is...my handwriting." Aunt Xue stammered in a low voice.

"Do you know what these words mean?" Old Madam Shen asked unwillingly.

"I...know."

Old Madam Shen felt dizzy. If the child in Xiangxue's belly could be born safely, and if it was a girl, the Shen family would have another possibility of having a phoenix life. She would be registered under Qin Qimei's name and have the status of a legitimate daughter. She would then be carefully raised in Songhe Hall. In the future, she would definitely not be worse than Shen Jingwan, and could even be comparable to Shen Chuning.

At the very least, if we have a son, the third child will have a successor.

But Xiangxue, in order to consolidate her own position, took the damn medicine from Tianxitang even though she knew it was dangerous. As a result, she even lost her child.

"Third brother, this is a matter in your room. How are you going to deal with it?" Shen Huaizhong asked. He had never agreed to let the concubine enter the house in the first place.

"Father, this vicious woman must not stay in the house anymore." Shen Qingjiang said gritting his teeth.

Shen Qingjiang has had a smooth life. His father holds a high official position and his elder brother is capable. Although his own official position is not high, he has a leisurely life. If he has to say who is worse off, he has a fourth brother who is not even a relative and is away from home all day. The only pain point in his life is that he has no son to carry on the family line, and Xiangxue actually took the initiative to use drugs indiscriminately.

Xiangxue was his first woman. In the past, when Xiangxue was willing to coax him, they had some friendship. But since she gave birth to Shen Jingwan, his mother cared more about Xiangxue and her daughter than about him.

Later, after Xiangxue entered the mansion, she controlled him in every way, even more than Qin Qimei, the legal wife.

So when Shen Huaizhong asked him how to deal with Xiangxue, Shen Qingjiang's first reaction was to drive her out of the house so that no one would care about him.

"Husband?" Aunt Xue looked at Shen Qingjiang in disbelief with tears in her eyes.

In the past, Shen Qingjiang loved Xiangxue's pitiful appearance the most, but now he just felt annoyed when he saw it. He turned his head away and no longer looked at Aunt Xue.

Old Madam Shen sighed. Xiangxue was her niece after all. "Although Xiangxue made a mistake, it was her own child who was lost. She was punished. Let's send her to the manor."

Old Madam Shen originally wanted to send him to the farm first, and then find a reason to bring him back after a few years.

But Aunt Xue had experienced the luxurious life of a mistress in the Prime Minister's Mansion, so how could she be willing to go to a remote farm?

Aunt Xue fell to the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, "Old Madam, I know I was wrong, I know I was wrong. I will do anything you ask me to do, but please don't send me to the farm."

She kowtowed to Old Madam Shen for a while, then knelt down to Shen Qingjiang's side, hugged his thighs and cried, "Third Master, I can't leave you, Third Master."

Shen Huaizhong looked irritated and said, "It's not impossible for you to stay in the mansion if you want to. Go find the mansion doctor and get him a prescription for a child-killing soup. If there are no more problems in the future, you can continue to stay in the mansion."

"master……"

Just as Old Madam Shen was about to open her mouth to persuade her, Aunt Xue said, "I am willing. I am willing to drink the sterilization soup."

According to the rules of the Great Yong Dynasty, once you become a concubine, there is no possibility of becoming a co-wife or a stepmother. Aunt Xue wanted to give birth to a son in order to gain more favor.

But if she was sent to the farm, where she couldn't even see Shen Qingjiang, where could she go to win his favor?

"Let's do it this way." Shen Huaizhong made the final decision and prepared to go back to his study.

Shen Chuning glanced at Mrs. Shen San who was standing beside her, and seemed to have made a great decision. "Grandfather, An Ning has something else to say."