Shen Cangning, braided a double bun, ran around the post while holding her skirt in her hands and crying. The colorful silk sash tied to her bun floated with her and looked very pretty.

However, it was so chaotic the hall today that it was a pity that no one was in the mood to appreciate it.

The exasperated Madam Su, holding a ruler in her hand and slipping on her clogs, chased and scolded, "How dare you! Your father loves you and allows you to go into the study, but you are bold enough to help that troubled Feng'er steal ‘Lu Hu.’ Do you know that this sword is made by an extraterrestrial meteorite obtained accidentally by your father when he was a teenager and crafted with his own hands? It's something that even your second uncle has been thinking about for decades! You! I can't believe you stole it out and gave it to Feng'er to take to Fengzhou and gave it to the girl from the Wei Family! Did you know that after this, the marriage with the Wei Family cannot be broken off anymore?"

Shen Cangning dodged left and right, frequently went to the back of the post to avoid being badly beaten after being caught by her mother. And she did not forget to complain in this situation "It's none of my business! The third brother stole it himself!"

"Don't you dare talk nonsense! There were people outside the study, and Feng'er did not enter the room those days!" Madam Su was so angry that she almost threw the ruler over, "If it wasn't you who used the excuse of playing the musical instrument and hid the counterfeit under the instrument, who can steal the sword in the eyes of the public?"

"Maybe the third brother climbed over the window!" Shen Cangning said loudly, "Third Brother is the most cunning! He must have slandered me, Mother. You must uphold justice for me!"

Madam Su jumped her feet and said, "Was there no one outside the window? Shuyan has confessed, how dare you frame your third brother? Is it because he is not here and can't confront you?! Where did you learn your blatant skills? You embarrassed me so much! Don't tell others you are my daughter when you go out!"

"What? Shuyan actually confessed?" Shen Cangning was stunned and stamped her feet, "She is so…" With such a pause, she stopped. Although Madam Su did not move, she winked at the two maidservants nearby, who suddenly rushed up while Shen Cangning was distracted and complained about her niece's lack of righteousness.

Shen Cangning sensed that she had been deceived. She exclaimed and jumped up to run, but she was still too late. The maidservants grabbed her arm on both sides and forcibly led her to Mrs. Su. Seeing that the situation was not good, Shen Cangning immediately burst into tears, "Mother, I know I was wrong! Listen to me, in fact, it was all planned by Shuyan..."

Seeing that she did not forget to pass the buck at this point, Madam Su was so angry that she talked to the maidservants, "Mantang, Manting, pull her hand up!"

"Mother, no! I really know I was wrong! "Shen Cangning cried bitterly and repeatedly made excuses, but she was still beaten four to five times by Madam Su with a ruler at the palm of her hand. Then Madam Su asked resentfully, "Do you dare to lie again?"

Shen Cangning cried and withdrew her hand. While she cried about her pain, she said angrily, "I didn't lie to you. It was indeed urged by Shuyan!"

"Don't you dare say it!" Madam Su was so angry that she couldn't say anything. Without help from Mantang and Manting to grab her daughter for her, she grabbed Shen Cangning's left hand herself and hit it hard. She said angrily, "How come I gave birth to such an unworthy evil creature like you! You not only take the innocent Shuyan to help your third brother steal the sword but also have the nerve to pass the buck to your three-year-old niece when you are found out!"

Shen Cangning was so aggrieved that she jumped to her feet, crying and screaming, "What I said is true! How can Shuyan not be sensible? No one in the capital doesn't know that there is a female prodigy in our family who can recite poems before she is four years old. I am ten years older than her, and my poems are not as good as hers! She wanted to help the future third sister-in-law, so she kept encouraging me to pester the third brother to intervene in it! It was her idea. How can Mother blame me only because I am older than her?"

Madam Su was stunned and stopped beating her. She thought about it and said, "Although Shuyan is very talented in poetry, she is still a child. She has never met the girl from the Wei Family, why did she want to help her so much?"

Shen Cangning sobbed, wiped her face with her sleeve casually, and said aggrievedly, "It is because the future third sister-in-law's surname is Wei!"

"She likes the Wei Family?" Madam Su was confused. Although her little granddaughter's talent in poetry was amazing, she was still the same as an ordinary three-year-old in other aspects. How could she suddenly be so interested in the Wei Family?

Shen Cangning pouted high and said angrily, "The literature in the Wei Family in Fengzhou is prosperous, and the ancient books hidden in the clan are very precious. The future third sister-in-law is said to be much doted in the Wei Family." Speaking of this, she looked at her mother angrily and hummed, "My future third sister-in-law and I are all lineal daughters, but I am pitiful. How can I compare with the status of the third sister-in-law in her family?"

Madam Su held up the ruler with a sneer and said, "You deserve it! Has the girl from the Wei Family ever stolen something beloved by her father and uncle to give it to others? Is there any reason not to beat such a troubled girl like you?"

Seeing the ruler, Shen Cangning shrank her head and dared not take advantage of the subject to complain and murmured, "In short, the third sister-in-law will probably bring one or two authentic books when she married here in the future. Shuyan wanted to ask the future third sister-in-law for an authentic book. She found that the third brother was going to…. Well, he planned to steal the sword and went to Fengzhou, she pestered me to help. In due course, she can take this favor and exchange with the future third sister-in-law for an authentic book!"

Madam Su was so angry that she wished she could hit her again and said, "You! You are thirteen years old, and you are ten years older than Shuyan in terms of the age! In terms of seniority, you are her aunt! How come it wasn't you who persuaded her not to fool around, but you were persuaded by her to fool around with her even more?! You…what kind of brain you have?"

Shen Cangning said unconvincingly, "How come I don't have a brain?" Originally, Shuyan did not think of that the Wei Family had a large number of precious ancient books, and most of the beloved daughters who married out would bring some to accompany her. It was only when I reminded her that she knew about it!"

Madam Su almost vomited blood. She picked up Shen Cangning's ear, ground her teeth, and said, "Yet you still say that Shuyan urged you to do this?"

"It hurts!" Shen Cangning screamed as she covered her ears and said confidently, "She urged me in the first place! That's what I told her, and nothing else! It was Shuyan who pestered me to help steal the sword after knowing this! I'm not in charge of this!"

"...!" Madam Su took a deep breath and ordered the people on the side, "Drag this little wretch back to the house! Punish her to copy 《Female Code》a hundred, no, three hundred times! If she can't copy it well, she is not allowed to leave the house! And no one is allowed to go in!"

"Wooo..." Hearing this, Shen Cangning immediately cried, "Mother will only do me wrong! The mastermind is the third elder brother and Shuyan, why would I be punished now?"

Madam Su clenched her teeth and shouted, "Shuyan is only three years old. How can I punish such a small child? As for your third brother, you can rest assured that when he comes back, he will be punished according to the family doctrine!"

As she said, she smashed the desk, "Drag her away! During the period of copying books, you are not allowed to eat meat! You are so bold at such a young age that if I don't teach you a lesson, what kind of person will you become in the future?"

When Shen Cangning was tearfully dragged out of the door, Madam Su suddenly remembered that she had another question and hurriedly asked someone to drag her back, "Why did you coax Shuyan to involve in this matter? Who told you about the girl from the Wei Family?"

"I..." Shen Cangning flattened her mouth and looked at her mother with tearful eyes for a moment, then suddenly stamped her foot and said, "I am the only one who is punished for what three people have done! And I have the least responsibility! It's so unfair. I won't tell Mother!"

Madam Su threw herself back in anger and tightened the ruler, "Do you want to tell me or not?"

"No!" Shen Cangning held her head high and said with strength of character, "Even if you beat me to death, I won't say it!"

"I will beat you half to death and see whether you will say it or not!" Madam Su rolled up her sleeves and gritted her teeth!

… After making such a fuss for half an hour, Shen Cangning cried while running out.

Looking at the messy hall, Madam Su was angry, hated, and tired. She waved her hands to ask Mantang and others to clean up the hall, but she had no time to rest as well. She rushed to the study to tell her husband, Shen Xuan, who wanted to practice swordsmanship this morning yet was very angry when he unexpectedly took an empty sheath. She said, "Ning'er was fooling around just for fun, so she helped Feng'er steal the sword! There is no other inside story."

Shen Xuan had a bad facial expression, "A girl who is close to turning fifteen, how come she still doesn't know what is important and what is not?"

"Isn't it all because you connive her?" Madam Su once beat Shen Cangning so that she hid and ran all over the room, but now she spoke for her daughter, "I told you, you should not let girls in the study, but you still decide to dote them. She is used to being spoiled by you. How can she know the consequences of stealing that sword for Feng'er?"

Shen Xuan said resentfully, "Normally, she is only naughty that she did not do anything that goes too far. From now on, tell them not to come in the study anymore!"

Madam Su sighed and said, "This thing can be ended here, but on the side of Fengzhou...Why is Feng'er so obstinate? That girl from the Wei Family is the only granddaughter of Wei Huan. Her mother, Mrs. Song, got this daughter after nearly ten years she married into the Wei Family so that she loved her more than her own life. Even if our family breaks off the marriage, she only has to marry to someone a little bit beneath. With the wealth of the Wei Family, it was not difficult to protect her to live a good life. Yet, Feng'er did not even want to make her suffer this grievance! He refused to let the girl from the Wei Family to be wronged, but he didn't think that after she married here, he would be the one who would be greatly aggrieved!"

Seeing that Shen Xuan kept a heavy face and did not speak, she asked, "Husband, this marriage with the Wei Family. At least the second younger brother is one step ahead, and he can get ahead of Feng'er, can't he?"

Shen Xuan said coldly, "He has taken away the "Lu Hu". It must have been given to the girl from the Wei Family in my name. Don't you know your son? Even if when he arrived in Fengzhou and Danxiao has already told the Wei Family to break off his marriage, he would still use the "Lu Hu" as a token and lie in front of them that we have changed our mind or that Danxiao has misheard!"

Madam Su was silent for a while, then said aggrievedly, "I gave birth to him, isn't he your son as well? Speaking of this, Feng'er was raised up by you."

"...Prepare everything for the newlyweds arriving here according to the day set before." Shen Xuan, who was not in the mood to argue with her, sighed and rubbed his forehead while tiredly instructed.

Madam Su was very unreconciled and said, "The reputation of the girl from the Wei Family is already...Feng'er is fooling around, and you really going to let him do as he wants?"

"This rebellious son stole "Lu Hu" and was using it in my name. Do you think we can go back on our promise now? The Wei Family can understand us if we only break off the marriage once. However, if we break off and then continue the marriage yet break off it again, what do you think of the Wei Family?! If this news gets out, the Shen Family will also become a laughingstock among the gentlefolk!" Shen Xuan snorted and said, "This rebellious son has blocked all the retreats of our family. What else can we do if we don't let this girl from the Wei Family to marry into our family?"

Madam Su resentfully, "My son..."

"Don't say anything like that!" Shen Xuan frowned and said, "The marriage cannot be withdrawn anymore. Instead of entangling in Feng'er's grievance, it is better to think about the benefits of continuing the engagement!"

Madam Su stood up angrily, "This is the event that would affect Feng'er's life! Instead of worrying about him, you immediately figure out what good it will be for your son to marry a woman with a disgraced reputation! How can you be such a father?"

Shen Xuan hummed, "Didn't I renounce the marriage for him? But this rebellious son himself did not want it and stole my sword to personally go to Fengzhou to stabilize the hearts of the Wei Family! Now that what's done is done, what's the use of talking about it more? You also think your son has suffered losses. Is it wrong for me to take this opportunity to make a name for Feng'er?"

He said, "I'll call my assistants here in a minute, and ask them to write several brilliant articles about that when the girl from the Wei Family had a bad reputation...Well, no, when she was stigmatized, our family did not give up on her and was observant and credible. In particular, Feng'er went to Fengzhou with a sword to prove our family's intention to provide the timely help. By doing this, we can take this opportunity to let the whole country know that our Shen Family attaches great importance to affection and righteousness and know Feng'er's tolerance and magnanimity!"

Madam Su wondered, "Was the girl from the Wei Family really stigmatized? Is she still innocent?"

"How do I know?!" Shen Xuan frowned, "But if the Wei Family doesn't admit it, neither will our family. Then it is a slander! Do you want her marrying with a tarnished reputation? If you don't want it that way, then she is innocent!"

Madam Su, "...."

Shen Xuan added, "You should also say the same thing when communicating with other families' female members! By the way, not long ago, I seemed to hear that there was a daughter in the Liu Family who was very attentive to Feng'er? You can imply to the others that our rebellious son, who is talented and has a good appearance, has captivated countless girls. And the so-called rumor that the girl from the Wei Family has lost her virginity appeared partially because of these women were jealous of her and was deliberately spreading rumors! If you hear any women who talk about the girl from the Wei Family in the future, you can just suspect that she wants to marry into our family! And all the young ladies who talk about the girl from the Wei Family, you can just suspect that she likes Feng'er! If they want to make our family lose our faces, we might as well let them lose face as well!"

When Shen Xuan said this, he threw the official document in his hand angrily and resenting, "This rebellious son has caused such trouble that now the whole family has to clean up the mess for him! The most important thing is, what is not easy to take in this study? Why did he have to take 'Lu Hu? Danxiao has asked it from me for decades, yet I have not willing to give it to him. However, this rebellious son is generous enough! When he comes back, I must break his legs!"

This time it was Madam Su hummed, "He could only get out of the capital by asking the Emperor for a leave. When he comes back, he will continue to work in front of the Emperor. If you break his leg, how can you explain to the Emperor?"

"Go back to the rear courtyard and teach Ning'er well!" Shen Xuan was speechless, so he drove people away impatiently...