The old lady's carriage had already entered Luodu City, and was about to arrive at Guangde Marquis Mansion, when Shu received the news that the old lady had returned, she hurriedly led everyone in the mansion to stand inside the gate to greet her.

"Old madam, I'm looking forward to you coming back." With a smile on her face, Mrs. Xu went over to Mrs. Shu and went up to support the old lady's hand, as if she was the old lady's serious daughter-in-law.

"The old lady has worked hard all the way." Mrs. Shu saluted the old lady.

"Where's Lord Hou?" The old lady glanced at the crowd, and all she saw were some female relatives and servants, but she didn't see her son and two grandsons.

"Master Hou hasn't returned home yet. Jing Rui went to the shop to check the accounts early in the morning, and he will be back in a while. If he knows that the old lady will be home today, he will definitely wait at home and not go out." Mrs. Xu supported the old man The man walked inside and said while others, including Shu Shi, followed behind.

"Since both of you, Lord Hou and Jing Rui, have business to do, why is Jing Yun missing?" the old lady asked again.

"Jing Yun hasn't returned from discussing scriptures with Master Kong Wu at Hanwu Temple, so my daughter-in-law will go find him now." Shu Shi replied immediately after the old lady asked Qiao Chen.

"There are so many servants in the mansion, just send someone casually, and you need a wife to find it in person? Or do you want to hide when you see me coming back, afraid that I will eat you?" The old man's relaxed face was full of dissatisfaction. He looked at Shu Shi happily.

Before Mrs. Shu could answer, Mrs. Xu said firstly, "Madam doesn't know something. Now it's very difficult to meet Eldest Young Master. Even Master went to look for him several times, but he still couldn't meet anyone."

"In that case, then you, mother, go find him yourself. If even you can't find him, I have to go in person, my grandmother." The old lady was supported by Mrs. Xu in the main seat. He sat down and looked at Shu Shi with gloomy eyes.

After saluting, Mrs. Shu left in a hurry, and hurriedly asked people to prepare the carriage and headed to Hanwu Temple.

When Qiao Chen heard his mother came to look for him in person, he already guessed what was going on. Now the entire Guangde Marquis Mansion is under his surveillance. Of course he also knew that his father sent a letter to the south to pick up the old man. Regarding the matter of the man's return, they knew that they could restrain his mother, so they could restrain him. This is indeed a good idea, but how could Qiao Chen let them succeed?

"Jing Yun, your grandmother is back and is waiting for you to go back to see her at home. She also said that if you don't go back, she will come here to find you in person." After seeing Qiao Chen, Shu said to him in a hurry.

"Mother, don't worry, sit down and talk slowly." Qiao Chen helped his mother to sit down.

"How can I not be in a hurry? Your father didn't mention a word to me about your grandmother's return. I didn't know until we were almost at the door." Shu sighed and said, "When your grandmother comes back, our mother and son are afraid." It's not a good life, you know her, what can't be done to our mother and child?"

"I bought a courtyard on the hill outside the city. The courtyard is not only elegant, but also has a good view. Why don't we go back to the Marquis Mansion in the future and just live in the courtyard?" Qiao Chen said, "If your grandmother comes back Before, it was okay to live for a while, but now that your grandmother is back, how could she let us live in another courtyard?" Shu's face was full of worry.

"If we completely leave Cheng's house and Guangde Marquis Mansion, she won't be able to control us anymore." Qiao Chen said.

"Leave completely?" Shu Shi looked at Qiao Chen with a puzzled face, not understanding what Qiao Chen meant when he said leaving completely.

"The old lady hates the Xiao family the most, and I have helped the Xiao family many times. I am afraid that she will not easily forgive me when she comes back this time. Mother will not have a good life with him and her in the future. Instead of going back to suffer and suffer and let her bully me, it's better for our mother and son to sever ties with the Cheng family and live alone."

"You mean..." Shu Shi, who understood Qiao Chen's meaning, was a little surprised by Qiao Chen's thoughts, and quickly denied, "How can that be done? In this way, how can you behave in the future? I don't know how many people will poke in the back in the future. The backbone of our mother and child."

Qiao Chen shook Shu's hand and said, "Son, I don't want my mother to go back and be bullied by those people, not even for a day."

Thinking of the hardships she had suffered in front of the old lady before, Shu couldn't help her eyes moisten, she could bear it by gritting her teeth, but judging by the old lady's attitude today, I'm afraid she was here specifically for Qiao Chen, Shu She didn't want her son to suffer, but if she really severed ties with the Cheng family, she couldn't make up her mind.

"Let's go, let's go back and meet the old lady, and see what she wants to do to me." Qiao Chen helped his mother to go out.

Qiao Chen and Mrs. Shu went back to Guangde Marquis Mansion together. Along the way, Mrs. Shu worried about what would happen after returning to the Marquis Mansion, and at the same time thought about what Qiao Chen said just now, feeling uneasy.

After returning to the Hou Mansion, Shu Shi and Qiao Chen went to see the old lady directly, at this time Cheng Su and Cheng Jingrui had also returned to the mansion.

"I heard that you are so arrogant now that you can't even see your father if he wants to see you?" The old lady looked at Qiao Chen, and anger immediately appeared in her eyes, completely missing the loving gaze that Qiao Chen had shown Cheng Jingrui before he came back.

"I live in the Hanwu Temple and often discuss scriptures with Master Kong Wu who supports me. Every time my father comes, it's just not the right time." Qiao Chen replied neither overbearing nor humble.

"Hmph." The old lady snorted coldly, "I also heard that you helped the Xiao family deal with King Yong'an many times, is there such a thing?"

"I did help the Xiao family a few times." Qiao Chen said truthfully.

The old lady smashed the teacup on the table onto Qiao Chen's body. Qiao Chen's clothes were wet with tea, and some tea leaves were still stained.

"You know that the Xiao family has enmity with our Cheng family, yet you still help the Xiao family?" The old lady pointed at Qiao Chen and asked angrily.

Shu Shi who was next to him saw the steaming tea on Qiao Chen's body, and went forward to see if Qiao Chen was burned, but was scolded by the old lady, "Shu Shi, I'm just asking him, who will allow you?" Step forward, step back."

"I..." Shu was worried about Qiao Chen, but subconsciously afraid of the old lady.

Qiao Chen waved his hand to signal her mother not to worry, and then replied to the old lady, "I don't know what enmity the Xiao family has with my Cheng family, why can't I help the Xiao family."

"How dare you say you don't know?" The old lady patted the table with her hand vigorously and said, "The Xiao family killed more than ten members of my Sun family. Such a deep hatred, how dare you say you don't know in front of me?"

"The Sun family is not only greedy for money for disaster relief, but also massacred the victims. The Xiao family killed them, and they deserved what they deserved. Moreover, this is a matter of the Sun family. What does it have to do with our Cheng family? Didn't the old lady often tell my mother, get married? The water poured out by my daughter, I can only have my husband's family in my heart, can't I have my mother's family?"

"You..." The old lady clutched her chest angrily because of Qiao Chen's words, unable to speak.

"You rebellious son, how can you talk to your grandmother like this? You don't kneel down and admit your mistake." Cheng Su saw that Qiao Chen contradicted the old lady, and immediately taught him a lesson.

"I'm not wrong, how will my father tell me?" Qiao Chen stood there without showing any weakness.

"Okay, it's very good, have you seen it? This is the good son brought up by the Shu family." The old lady took Cheng Su's hand and said, "In his eyes, there is still you as a father, and then there is also me as a grandmother? "

"The old lady doesn't need to involve my mother in everything, even if you think our mother and child are not pleasing to the eye, these things have nothing to do with my mother, just come for me."

"Take out the family law." The old lady yelled, "Beat me hard until I die."

"Jing Yun." When Shu heard that the old man was going to use the family law, he cried anxiously. He pulled Qiao Chen's sleeve and said, "You just have to admit your mistake to the old lady."

Qiao Chen stood there, neither speaking nor answering.

"Hmph." The old lady snorted coldly, "I'd like to see if your bones are tough, or your family law is tough."

Xu and Cheng Jingrui stood aside to watch the show, their faces full of schadenfreude.

Soon, a servant carried a bench and came in carrying two bundles of bamboo. The bamboo was tied together by more than a dozen thin bamboos, and the skin would be ripped apart with one push, and most people could not withstand ten blows.

"Hit him hard, first ten times, if he still refuses to admit his mistake, then continue to beat him until he admits his mistake." The old lady gritted her teeth and said fiercely.

"You can't fight, you can't fight." Shu pushed away the servant who was about to step forward to hold Qiao Chen down, hugged Qiao Chen and cried to Cheng Su, "Master Hou, are you just watching Jing Yun being beaten?" dead?"

Cheng Su also knew in his heart that Qiao Chen's body would definitely not be able to bear these ten blows, so he carefully said to the old lady, "Mother..."

"Shut up." The old lady interrupted Cheng Su's pleading for Qiao Chen, glared at Cheng Su and said, "If you dare to speak up for him, you will never recognize me as a mother again."

Cheng Su immediately retreated to the side and stopped talking, Shu Shi suddenly felt chilled, and tears flowed out uncontrollably.

"Mr. Shu, if you don't get out of the way, I'll beat you too." The old lady said fiercely.

Shu shook her head, hugged Qiao Chen and refused to let go.

"Come on, separate them and beat me hard." The old lady ordered loudly.

"Cheng Su!" Shu Shi shouted after the old lady gave the order, "I want to separate from you!"

"What did you say?" Cheng Su thought he had heard wrong, and asked with wide eyes.

"I said that I want to separate from you, and our mother and son will no longer be angry with you." Shu said loudly.

"Mr. Shu, do you know what you're talking about? You should think about it clearly." The old lady asked with a sullen face.

"I can't think more clearly." Shu looked at the old lady and said, "Old lady, ask yourself, since I, Shu Qianrong, have ever been disrespectful to you since I married into your Cheng family, and have you ever given me any respect?" A good face once? He praised a concubine higher than me, the wife of the first wife, and dared to climb directly on top of my head to make a fortune. He regarded a concubine more important than a serious son, and regarded him as everything. First of all, do you think that these things are just your own family's affairs behind closed doors? But you don't know how people outside see the Cheng family's jokes. "

"You still don't shut up." Cheng Su listened to Shu Shi's words, although he knew in his heart that it was true, but as a junior, how could he blame the elders?

"Why should I shut up? Anyway, I don't want to stay in your Cheng's family anymore, so I just say what I want to say today." Shu also gave up, and she must have vented all the dissatisfaction and pain in her heart today.

"I married into your Cheng family. I was originally married. Your old man went to my house to propose marriage in person. You even promised to be good to me in front of my father and never let me suffer. What happened? I married in." Have a good life for a few days after that? You just watched your mother torture me, watch a concubine bully me, is this good for me?"

"Since my parents passed away, my elder brother was released to serve as an official, and the old lady tortured me even more. Mrs. Xu even ignored me. Did you say a word for me?" Mrs. Shu asked Cheng Suhou He also said, "Forget all of this, I can bear it, but now you want to beat my son to death, I will never allow it, and I will never bear it!"

Cheng Su knew that Shu's life had not been easy these years, but what the hell could he say?

"Ma'am, it's not right for you to say that. The old lady is an elder, so how can it be torture for you to set the rules? Didn't you let me set the rules these days?" Mrs. Xu said two steps forward.

Shu Shi looked at Xu Shi who was speaking, walked towards her, and slapped her hard.

"Ah!" Mrs. Xu was slapped by Mrs. Shu. She didn't expect Mrs. Shu to hit her in front of the old lady. "You dare to hit me?"

"Mother." Seeing his mother being beaten, Cheng Jingrui immediately stepped forward to help her back, then glared at Shu Shi.

"What's the matter with beating you?" Shi looked at Xu and said, "I'm still the wife of the Cheng family, not to mention beating you, even if I sell it immediately, I can do it."

"Old madam!" Xu cried and rushed to her side immediately, "She dared to beat me in front of you now, and even said that she would sell me. You have to make the decision for me, otherwise I won't be able to live."

"Give her a divorce letter, and let their mother and son get out of this house immediately." The old lady slapped the table and said angrily.

"Mother, this letter of divorce can't be written just by writing it. This..." Cheng Su looked at his mother in embarrassment and didn't know what to say, and then said to Shu Shi, "Quickly admit your mistake to mother, please forgive you .”

"Bring the divorce letter, we'll leave right away, and we won't stay any longer." Shu looked at Cheng Su and said, Qiao Chen was her only hope to survive, and she would never let Cheng's family hurt his son.

"Did you hear that? She asked for it herself. Why do you keep her? Do you want to keep their mother and son to make me mad?" the old lady said excitedly, clutching her chest, as if she would faint from anger at any moment. .

Mrs. Xu hinted that the servants quickly brought the pen, ink, paper and inkstone to Cheng Su. Cheng Su looked at Mrs. Shu and Qiao Chen standing below, and at his mother who was turning pale from anger. He didn't know what to do. .

"Are you trying to piss me off too? Hurry up and write." The old lady shouted loudly.

Cheng Su had no choice but to pick up a pen and write down the letter of divorce.

Taking the divorce letter written by Cheng Su, Shu read it carefully word by word, then folded it and put it in his sleeve.

"From now on, our mother and son will have nothing to do with your Cheng family." After Shu said resolutely, he pulled Qiao Chen away without looking back.

When the gate of Guangde Marquis opened, Qiao Chen and Shu Shi saw Xiao Qinan standing outside the gate, and behind him stood many soldiers of the Xiao family.

Of course, Qiao Chen would not allow their mother and son to be bullied by those from the Cheng family, so he had already sent someone to notify Xiao Qinan. If those people really dared to do something, Feng Shu would immediately run out and report to Xiao Qinan.

When Xiao Qinan rushed in to save him, at worst it would tear his face, so he took his mother away, but his mother had endured it for so many years, but she didn't want him to suffer a little harm, so she offered to leave.

"Is everything arranged?" Qiao Chen asked Xiao Qinan.

"It's been arranged. The carriage is outside. I'll take you there." Xiao Qinan said.

Qiao Chen helped his mother into the carriage outside, and under the escort of Xiao Qinan and Xiao Jiajun, they went to the other courtyard on the mountain outside the city.

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