Dressed as a middle-aged mistress, I want to lie down every day

Zhong Hanlin wanted to find out who the man was, but he had no idea where to start.

The only option is to send someone to keep an eye on Li Zheyan.

Within two days, word spread in the capital that the cousin of Mrs. Xue Si of the General's Mansion had a brother-in-law who was the son of the eldest daughter of Li Daxueshi, who was also the original wife of Zhong Hanlin.

People who have seen Nie Chengping suddenly realized why he looked so much like Zhong Hanlin.

So, Li did not die of illness that year, but left the Zhong family.

Did the Li family know that she left the Zhong family while pregnant?

Otherwise, why didn’t you go to the Zhong family to cause trouble?

Elope with someone?

There was an uproar in the capital for a while, and things that happened decades ago were dug up.

The surviving old ladies recalled that Mrs. Zhong and Mrs. Li had no contact since Mrs. Li's death, and the two families became strangers.

I used to think that Mrs. Li blamed the Zhong family for not taking good care of Li.

This kind of thing happened to civil officials, especially the Grand Secretary's Office and the Hanlin Palace. The censors of the Censorate were ready to go to court to impeach Li Zheyan and Zhong Hanlin.

Zhong Hanlin was stunned. Before he could find out who that person was, rumors were already flying everywhere.

He hurried to see his mother, who had a dark face.

"Mother."

Mrs. Zhong looked at her son. She had heard the rumor and thought that some gossipers had seen Nie Chengping and guessed it.

"Rumor has it that Aning gave birth to a son."

Mrs. Zhong scolded, "You also said it was a rumor. An Ning has already passed away, so how could she have a son?"

Zhong Hanlin's heart skipped a beat. His mother had never mentioned that Aning had passed away. When she mentioned Aning before, she always said that she had left long ago.

So the mother knew about Aning. Did she know that the boy was the son Aning gave birth to?

"Mother has seen that man? Why didn't you tell me?"

Madam Zhong said, "Are you crazy? Did you believe the rumors? If it was the Li family, why didn't they make any move?"

Zhong Hanlin said: "A few days ago, I met the eldest brother of the Li family in the teahouse, and that person, who looked like me."

Mrs. Zhong narrowed her eyes. Her son went to the teahouse?

Such a coincidence for him to see it?

"Who did you go with?"

Zhong Hanlin was stunned.

It's ma'am.

It turned out that both his mother and his wife knew about it, but one of them kept it from him while the other led her to see him.

Mrs. Zhong also understood that it was her daughter-in-law who took her son there. Haha, what did she want to do?

No wonder there are rumors that Li eloped with someone.

She concluded that the Zhong family did not dare to tell others that Zhong Hanlin had betrayed her and married another woman?

She wants to ruin Aning's reputation!

Mrs. Zhong said coldly, "Aning died of illness that year, so you don't need to make trouble out of nothing."

She quickly sent someone to her daughter-in-law's house to confine her and not let her go out.

It's a pity it's too late.

Mrs. Zhong went to the dowry house of Wang Huilan, the fourth wife of Xue, and handed in a letter asking to meet Mrs. Wang.

Mrs. Wang didn't go out and didn't know the rumors outside. Wang Jingye heard them and was talking to his wife.

Mrs. Wang was confused. Isn’t her brother a member of the Nie family?

Wang Jingye said, "Don't listen to what people say. There are people who look like me. I met someone who looked like me when I went to Yunnan and Guizhou. If I didn't know that my father had never been to Yunnan and Guizhou, I would have thought he was my long-lost brother."

He also talked about a misunderstanding that happened in Beijing one year. The student who looked like the examiner was later sent to Lingnan to serve as a county magistrate.

Mrs. Wang was puzzled because her stepmother was brought back from outside by her father and no one knew her background.

When she was brought back, she had already given birth to a younger brother.

Could it be that my father abducted Zhong Hanlin’s original wife?

The reason why she believed the rumors was because her brother Chengping looked nothing like anyone in the Nie family.

Mrs. Wang asked, "Who did Zhong Hanlin marry later?"

Wang Jingye...

Women understand this clearly.

"The one he married was his cousin, his grandmother's great-niece, who had been fostered in the Zhong family."

Mrs. Wang chuckled coldly, "Regardless of whether my stepmother is Hanlin Zhong's original wife or not, Hanlin Zhong is a man without moral integrity! Otherwise, which woman would give up her status as the original wife, her family home in the Grand Secretary's Mansion, and leave her hometown?

"How could a pregnant woman do such a thing if she wasn't forced into it? Did she really elope? What man would be worthy of her doing that? And that year, my father stayed home for the entire year after I was born and my mother passed away. Someone is slandering Madam Li."

She was stunned for a moment. Her father had been to the capital when he was young.

Wang Jingye nodded and said, "Madam, you're right. Someone is using this to target Zhong Hanlin and the Li family. Tell Chengping not to believe him. He is the eldest son of the Nie family, and he's recorded in the Nie family tree."

As the couple was talking about this, the doorman came in to say that someone outside wanted to see him. Wang Jingye took the note and saw that it was Mrs. Zhong Hanlin.

His face darkened. Was he just coming here to cause trouble without any evidence?

Mrs. Wang saw her husband's face darken and asked, "Who's coming?"

"It's Mrs. Zhong Hanlin, would you like to meet her?"

Mrs. Wang gritted her teeth and said, "See! I want to hear what she has to say. I don't care if she's a Hanlin wife. If she wants to cause trouble, I'll kick her out!"

Mrs. Wang went to the reception room angrily, and Wang Jingye went to his brother-in-law's yard to talk to Chengping about this matter.

He saw Nie Chengping painting and walked over to admire it.

My brother-in-law's paintings were no worse than those of some masters, and the woman he married was from the Guanzhong Xiao family. His father-in-law was the great scholar Xiao, who accepted my brother-in-law as his last disciple and betrothed his youngest daughter to him.

My brother-in-law learned painting from his father-in-law, but he never shared his skills with others. He would destroy most of the paintings he finished, saying that they did not satisfy him.

He used to think that his brother-in-law was really stubborn. Now he knows that he is still stubborn, just like Madam Zhong. Once he makes up his mind about something, he will never change it until he grows old.

When Nie Chengping saw his brother-in-law come in, he put down his pen.

Wang Jingye said, "You continue. I'll come over to check on you if I have time. Where's Shanluo?"

"I didn't let him come over." Nie Chengping picked up the painting and tore it up.

Wang Jingye found a chair and sat down. "Someone just wanted to see your elder sister. It's Mrs. Zhong Hanlin. I think it's because of a rumor outside. Your elder sister said we should listen to what she has to say."

He told his brother-in-law about the rumor, and seeing that his brother-in-law showed no surprise, he knew that he already knew about it.

"Don't think about anything else. Your eldest sister said that you are the eldest son of the Nie family and it's recorded in the family tree. There are people who look like you."

He told as a joke a misunderstanding that had occurred to an examiner in the past.

Nie Chengping said, "Thank you, brother-in-law. I am your father's son and your eldest sister's brother."

Wang Jingye nodded, "That's the right way to think..."

Just as he said this, a woman hurriedly reported back from the door: "Master, the mistress is having a tantrum in the living room."

Wang Jingye ran over quickly. It would be terrible if the maid said that the lady was angry.

Mrs. Wang was waiting in the living room when she saw a lady about fifty years old come in. She could tell she was a beauty when she was young.

The stepmother she recalled was only pretty, with a calm expression and spoke gently to her father.

Smile at your brother and sister.

She was stunned. Why did she feel that Mrs. Mo was kind? When Mrs. Mo smiled, her eyebrows and eyes curved. She looked a bit like her stepmother, not in appearance, but in smile.

Look at Mrs. Zhong. Although she is old and dressed in luxurious clothes, her bones are still beautiful.