Chapter 294 Shen He: I am simple and timid
Chapter 294 Shen He: I am simple and timid
The calm and elegant Ms. Du's face finally showed a hint of panic.
She avoided Shen He's sight, took a sip of the cold tea to cover up, and said calmly: "I also heard it from others."
"There is no such thing as a wall that is impenetrable. The outside world has received some information about what happened to Mr. Song."
"Miss Shen is making a fuss out of nothing."
Old fox!
Shen He then asked Du Yuling: "May I ask Ms. Du, who did you hear these words from?"
"Tell me the name of that person. I must ask him why he spread rumors and slandered my family. After all..."
Shen He smiled mysteriously, as cunning as a little fox, and said, "As a wife, I didn't even know that my husband was bewitched."
There is no such person at all, Du Yuling is just making it up.
Shen He was obviously serious and wanted to get to the bottom of this matter. How could Du Yuling dare to mention the specific name?
She herself has something wrong.
Seeing that Du Yuling was going to deal with it with silence, Shen He deliberately said, "Did you hear it from your eldest son?"
Du Yuling's pupils trembled.
Look, she hit the key person again.
Seeing that Du Yuling was scared, Shen He smiled deliberately and tilted his head and said, "That might be what Cheng Song said. He went to Song Garden to attend my mother-in-law's funeral before, and maybe he heard the nonsense from the employees of Song Garden."
Du Yuling felt a little relieved, "Maybe."
Du Yuling rubbed her temples, pretending to be distressed, and sighed softly: "When people get old, their memory is not so good. Maybe I heard it wrong, or maybe I remembered it wrongly."
"Aunt Du may be really old." Shen He smiled and said, "Before my old lady passed away, she was still telling me that she had a good relationship with you when she was young."
"I don't know what's going on. I haven't seen Aunt Du go to visit her in these years. I'm worried that Aunt Du still can't let go of the holiday when they were young and is unwilling to forgive her."
Shen He was completely lying.
Chu Zhi had never mentioned Du Yuling in front of them.
But Shen He understood Chu Zhi's personality. She and Du Yuling must have known each other when they were young. As for whether their relationship was close or distant, it didn't matter.
The important thing is that as the mistress of the Cheng family, Du Yuling should find the right opportunity to go to Song Garden and chat with Chu Zhi.
But Du Yuling never went there once.
Chu Zhi is a spoiled and self-centered person.
Shen He reasonably speculated that the two of them knew each other when they were young, and Du Yuling had also suffered injustice and loss at the hands of Chu Zhi, so they never had any contact with each other until they died.
After saying that, Shen He focused on observing Du Yuling's reaction.
As expected, when Du Yuling heard the name Chu Zhi, hatred and murderous intent flashed quickly in her eyes!
That was a strong murderous intent.
"A celebration of youth?" Du Yuling asked Shen He mockingly, "Your mother-in-law called the things she did to me a 'festival' of youth?"
Sure enough, there is a story.
"Aunt Du." Shen He looked a little surprised. She asked tentatively, "Could it be that when my mother-in-law was young, she did something really mean to you?"
"You also know my mother-in-law's temper. She has a strong desire for control and a domineering personality. She is the one who has the final say in the entire Song Garden."
"Even when my father-in-law was alive, she obeyed him in everything. Many things that we thought were corrupting were just trivial things in her eyes."
"Aunt Du, what did my mother-in-law do to you back then?"
"You do know your mother-in-law well." Du Yuling sneered sharply, "If time could go back 20 years, she would easily crush you to death if you were a daughter-in-law who displeased her."
At this point, Du Yuling smiled meaningfully and said, "I remember that more than ten years ago, she killed a girl who was close to Mr. Song."
Shen He slowly stopped smiling.
She stared at Du Yuling with scrutiny and answered irrelevantly: "My mother-in-law did do a lot of evil, but her methods were clean. We know that she did these things. It seems that Aunt Du has been sending people to monitor the movements of the mistress of Song Garden over the years..."
Du Yuling was stunned again.
She had been very careful not to fall into the language trap set by Shen He, but she still fell into it.
The key is that Shen He can always find the loopholes in her language at the first opportunity.
The new hostess of Song Yuan is indeed not to be underestimated.
"Ms. Shen, let me be frank. You didn't come here to visit my husband sincerely." Du Yuling sneered, "How can you visit a patient and then ask me about his past in a roundabout way?"
"Tell me the truth." Shen He simply confronted Du Yuling. She said, "If they are just here to visit the patient, then it is not my turn to show up. I can just ask Kang Bo to bring gifts to save face."
"If Aunt Du is willing to talk about the grievances between you and my mother-in-law when we were young, I will definitely listen attentively. But since you don't want to talk about it, I won't force you. After all, my mother-in-law has passed away, and there is no point in asking about it."
"However." Shen He smiled playfully and said, "No matter how Aunt Du argues, you are the number one guest on my suspect list in the murder of Jing Cheng."
Therefore, Shen He didn't plan to ask the rest.
From the moment Du Yuling blurted out that Song Jingcheng was poisoned by a Gu, Shen He could confirm that she was the one who put the Gu on him.
Du Yuling's expression changed again and again.
She rarely saw a girl as difficult and domineering as Shen He. Although they were both domineering, Shen He's methods were more convincing than Chu Zhi's.
Chu Zhi was able to do this by relying on her husband's family background and her husband's favor.
But Shen He relies on her wisdom to deal with people.
"You didn't come here specifically to trick me, so what is your purpose?" What else could it be?
"I came here to tell you that Jingcheng and I already know the secret between you and Cheng Yang."
"We were also surprised that Cheng Yang was our brother. But Jingcheng said that he was very happy to have another brother after he was over 30!"
"If Aunt Du is willing, you can bring Cheng Yang back to the Song family someday. Our Song family will definitely open the ancestral hall to welcome him back to the Song family."
It depends on whether the Cheng family is willing to give up.
Chu Zhi stood up suddenly, staring at Shen He in shock, and growled, "Shut up!"
"Cheng Yang is my child, the first child of Cheng Jinsong and me. What does he have to do with your Song family? Don't talk nonsense!"
"No..." Shen He nodded and said, "Then let's just take it as no. Aunt Du, don't worry. You are old and can't stand stimulation."
"Shut up!" Du Yuling yelled with red eyes, "You kept provoking me today. Are you trying to kill me?"
"Aunt Du, please don't wrongly accuse me!" Shen He patted his chest and pretended to be scared and said, "I'm young, innocent and timid. I'm getting married soon, so I don't want to commit murder."
Du Yuling was furious. "You are naive and timid! You are really good at lying with your eyes closed. You, Shen He, are a naive and timid little pitiful girl. There are no real bad women in Qing City!"
"Don't think I don't know what you did between Song Jingcheng and his nephew. Chu Zhi really died too early. If she had lived a few more years, she would have learned a lot about the abilities of a vicious daughter-in-law like you!"
Shen He thought that Du Yuling was praising him.
Shen He stood up, shook his wrist, and sighed: "I'm sorry, I'm just a country bumpkin after all."
"If you want to climb up, you have to put in effort and learn all kinds of methods."
"Unlike Aunt Du and Miss Ou Yalan, who were born into a wealthy family and have never had to worry about anything since childhood, all they need to do is dance well."
"By the way, speaking of Miss Ou..." Shen He suddenly leaned closer to Du Yuling and kindly reminded her: "I just learned from my good friend Jun Lin a few days ago that Miss Ou Yalan was actually his little cousin."
"That prison warden Ou Jingyu was the son-in-law of the Jun family for decades. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a misunderstanding in the end..."
Du Yuling was immediately distracted by Shen He's words. "...Oolong?"
Du Yuling's heart was pounding. What did it mean that she was Jun Lin's little cousin?
"What do you mean? Isn't Ou Jingyu the son-in-law of the Jun family? Isn't Ya Lan the niece of the old general of the Jun family?"
"Ah." Shen He covered her mouth in surprise and asked Du Yuling: "Didn't Miss Yalan tell you that her mother is not Miss Jun's at all?"
"More than ten years ago, when Miss Yalan's mother died in a car accident, the Jun family discovered this blunder."
"However, for the sake of the reputation of both families, neither the Jun family nor the Ou family announced this matter to the public. But I heard from Cheng Song that Miss Yalan is about to become his sister-in-law."
"The Ou family and the Cheng family are going to get married soon. They will become one family. Didn't Miss Yalan tell you about this?"
Du Yuling pressed her palms on the table in despair.
How dare the Ou family deceive them!
Du Yuling was so furious that she forgot to control her expression.
Seeing Du Yuling's reaction, Shen He quickly said politely, "It seems that Miss Yalan forgot to tell you. After all, this happened more than ten years ago."
fart!
Ou Yalan didn’t forget to say it!
She had been deceiving the Cheng family from the beginning to the end!
Every time they met, Ou Yalan mentioned Kyoto and the Jun family intentionally or unintentionally. Wasn't that trying to induce them to think that she had a close relationship with the Jun family?
Ou Yalan and Ou Jingyu actually colluded to deceive them!
"Qingya, I just remembered that I have an appointment with the doctor to come to your house later to do a post-operative recovery checkup for your uncle. I won't keep you and Miss Shen for dinner."
"Excuse me." After saying that, Du Yuling instructed the housekeeper Chen outside the greenhouse: "Housekeeper Chen, please help me see the guests off."
Without waiting for housekeeper Chen to come in, Shen He picked up his bag and politely said goodbye to Du Yuling. "Auntie Du, please take care of yourself. Shen He will visit you next time."
Seeing that Shen He was about to leave, Cheng Qingya also picked up her bag and prepared to follow.
Du Yuling suddenly called Cheng Qingya, "Qingya, is your mother okay?"
Hearing this, Shen He knew that Du Yuling had something to tell Cheng Qingya.
"Sister-in-law, please talk to Aunt Du. I'll wait for you outside." Shen He left as soon as he said so, without any hesitation.
After watching Butler Chen accompany Shen He to leave, Du Yuling said to Cheng Qingya with a stern face: "Qingya, your last name is Cheng."
"Although your father and your uncle did not grow up together, they are brothers after all. You and Cheng Yang are from the same family, so we are a family."
"Can't you see that Shen He has bad intentions?"
"As a member of the Cheng family, how can you turn your elbow outward and bring outsiders to deal with our own people?"
Du Yuling's words were a bit harsh.
But she dared to say that because she didn't see Cheng Qingya's family take it seriously.
Cheng Qingya smiled and reminded Du Yuling: "Aunt, I call you Aunt, that's the affection."
"My grandmother took my father away from home and cut off all ties with the Cheng family. Although my three brothers and I have the surname Cheng, it is not necessary for us to have the surname Cheng."
"We can always change our surname to Sheng, like our mother. At worst, we can change our surname to Guan, like our grandmother."
"Anyway, no matter what our surnames are, we are all our mother's children. And what does your Cheng family have to do with us?"
"Even if we are from the same family, so what? Has the Cheng family given any benefit to our family?"
"Mr. Song and Ms. Shen are my husband's employers after all. They pay our family a seven-figure annual salary every year."
Cheng Qingya picked up the cold black tea and drank it all in one gulp.
Putting down the teacup heavily, Cheng Qingya said, "Next time we meet, I will remember to call you Aunt Du."
After saying that, Cheng Qingya left.
"Bastard!"
When Butler Chen returned to the greenhouse after seeing off the guests, Du Yuling ordered him with a dark face: "From now on, Cheng Qingya and her three brothers are not allowed to enter the gate of our Cheng family!"
"Ma'am, please calm down."
Butler Chen poured a cup of tea and handed it to Du Yuling, and suddenly said, "The eldest son called just now and said he would be back for dinner."
"Ayang?" Du Yuling's mood became even worse when she mentioned her eldest son. "You're back just in time. I have something to ask him, too!"
*
At night, seven o'clock.
As soon as Cheng Yang got home, the housekeeper Chen Ru'an told him: "The young mistress of Song Garden came to visit you today and chatted with your wife in the greenhouse for an hour before leaving."
Cheng Yang paused, lowered his eyes and stared at Chen Ru'an thoughtfully for a moment before he said, "Shen He? What did she talk about with the madam?"
"I don't know the details, but after she left, the wife got really angry and she's still in her room."
Cheng Yang got into the internal car, pulled his tie and put it on the seat, then lit a cigarette and smoked silently.
Cheng Yang had a bad feeling.
After Mu Tingyun was imprisoned, he carefully reviewed what had happened some time ago and clearly realized that it was Shen He who was setting a trap for him.
But what is scary is that Mu Tingyun knew that Shen He had played him around, but not only did he not hate Shen He, he was actually thinking about her all the time.
The last time he secretly went to the prison to visit Mu Tingyun, the love-brained girl was still asking him about Shen He's whereabouts.
Cheng Yang had no doubt that as long as anything happened to Song Jingcheng, Mu Tingyun would disregard moral ethics and hide Shen He as soon as he was released from prison.
Hide in a place only he knows and make his aunt his wife.
A person who used to only exist in the mouths of Melody and Mu Tingyun has recently frequently appeared in his life. This is not a good sign.
He had just finished smoking a cigarette when the car stopped outside the gate of the villa.
Cheng Yang got out of the car, straightened his coat, and walked up the stairs to the building. As soon as he arrived at the restaurant, he saw his mother Du Yuling walking towards him.
Du Yuling stopped in front of Cheng Yang and said straight to the point: "Shen He came to see me today. She said that Ou Yalan's mother is not Miss Jun at all."
"Ou Yalan is not Jun Lao's niece. Cheng Yang, is this true?"
As expected...
"Shen He didn't lie to you." Cheng Yang told his mother: "I have known about this for two days. During these two days, my people have been secretly inquiring about the news in Kyoto."
"This afternoon, we received news that Ou Yalan is indeed not the niece of Elder Jun. Her mother deceived the Jun family back then."
"The Ou family and the Jun family are not only not relatives, but also enemies."
"I came back tonight to tell you that I can't marry Ou Yalan."
Du Yuling gnashed her teeth and cursed: "This damn liar! If we marry into the Ou family, we will make enemies with the Jun family. Ou Yalan really cannot marry..."
"Mom." Cheng Yang interrupted Du Yuling and said, "Ou Yalan seems to be pregnant."
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