Wei Changying followed his example, not being afraid of his threats, and sneered, "Outside of this door, I will naturally act like a lady! I'm a daughter of the Wei Family. Who in my family doesn't get praised for her chastity and virtue? Besides, I'm a lineal descendant of the clan! Do you think they'll believe what you say? And I'm going to say you're deliberately slandering me!"

Shen Cangfeng laughed and said, "I've been talking a lot of sweet words to you, so why do you only want to learn such unreasonable words? You're a bad girl."

"Bah, you're the one who should behave!" Wei Changying hit him again, scaring him, "If you keep talking flirtatiously like this, I'll beat you up!"

Shen Cangfeng's face turned serious, saying, "You have underestimated me too much. Do you think I'm afraid of being beaten up?"

"You!" Wei Changying was speechless. After a moment, she punched him with hatred, "if I beat you more often, I don't believe you won't be scared!"

Shen Cangfeng laughed, "I said, hitting is kissing and scolding is love. That is to say..."

"That is to say... you dare to say it again!" Wei Changying raised her small fist with a threatening look on her face.

Just at that moment somebody knocked on the door. Qin'ge and Yan'ge coughed outside before reporting through the door, "Young master and young madam, the first young madam sent someone over to ask the young madam to go to the eldest branch tomorrow."

Wei Changying hurriedly pushed Shen Cangfeng away and straightened her collar again before saying, "Come in and tell me more about it."

"Yes!"

Qin'ge and Yan'ge came in empty-handed, apparently not having taken Shen Cangfeng's command to go and get the snacks seriously, saying, "The first young madam said that there seems to be something going on at Lvqiao's place, and would like to ask you, young madam, to go over tomorrow to witness it."

Wei Changying was puzzled, "What happened?"

"The person sent by the first young madam was in a hurry and didn't want to explain. I don't know either."

Wei Changying glanced at Shen Cangfeng, then instructed the maidservants, "In that case, you can go now." When only the couple remained in the small study, she asked, "This Lvqiao?"

Shen Cangfeng shook his head, "We need to ask Granny Wan. I don't know much about my second brother's rear courtyard either. I only noticed Lvqiao after my second brother dragged me along for a drink when he was so happy because it was said that she carried a boy."

It was surprising that Shen Lianshi would be so happy as to drag his brother along for a drink over the fact that the child in Lvqiao had been said to be a boy. It showed how much he looked forward to the first son from his concubine. Yet he'd only been expecting it for two months and then it suddenly stopped. No one knew how sad he was right now.

Wei Changying wasn't very concerned about the mood of this second brother in law. She wondered what might have been going on since Lvqiao miscarried that could make Mrs. Liu, the first young madam, who had always been in charge of the family, unable to decide, so as to drag in someone who just got married into Shen family to be a witness. A witness to what?

Since Shen Cangfeng suggested asking Mrs. Wan, Wei Changying left the small study and asked someone to bring Mrs. Wan to the hall for consultation.

On hearing this, Mrs. Wan froze briefly and said, "I don't know much about Lvqiao either. There are several concubines in the second son's rear courtyard. Lvqiao was not outstanding. If not for this pregnancy, no one would have noticed her. I really don‘t know her temperament, nor dare I speculate, lest I mislead you, young madam."

Wei Changying pondered, saying, "Really? I really don't know what this thing my first sister-in-law asked me to see tomorrow will be about."

Mrs. Wan squeezed her handkerchief, smiling, and stopped talking.

Later that day, when she had the chance, Wei Changying asked Mrs. Huang. Mrs. Huang smiled and said, "Young madam, you see, the second young master has three daughters but no sons. Even if Lvqiao is only a concubine, why wouldn't he be happy? The second young master was so happy that everyone in the Shen family knew that he valued Lvqiao's child. Isn't our young master also shocked by Lvqiao's miscarriage?"

"It's fair to say that a five-month-old fetus should be secure. It didn't go wrong earlier, nor go wrong later. Only it happened when you had got married and the second young madam had gone to the Su family with the Madam." Mrs. Huang smiled coldly, saying, "The second young madam has two lineal daughters. Although no lineal sons so far, she may not be willing to let the son of the concubine be born first, right? After all, the second young master and the second young madam are both young! Who's to say that the second young madam can't have her own son?"

Wei Changying was astonished, "The son of the concubine will just be the son of the concubine!"

"Young madam, you can't apply the rules of our family to the Shen family." Mrs. Huang shook her head, saying, "The Shen family determines allowances according to their being lineal or not, and doesn't treat all people equally. However, in terms of the most important position, the Family Head, it never cares about the person, but only about their ability. After all, the Shen Family's hometown is in Western Liang and they have to fight against enemies every now and then. If the Family Head is useless, the whole clan will all suffer! Being a lineal son is less important in the Shen Family than in our Wei Family! We, the Wei Family, unless the lineal son cannot take over the position of the Family Head, such as Duke Jingping, or our Elder Master...but the Shen Family is different!"

"Under such circumstances, one more son from the concubines could cause more trouble to her own flesh and blood in the future." Mrs. Huang said gravely, "That's not all! Young madam, you think it over. The second young master has three daughters but no sons. As for the first son, regardless of who his mother is, he will always be welcomed with a great deal of hope. If this son of the concubine was born, wouldn't the second young master teach and care for him himself? Later children may not be able to have such treatment. After all, as the second young master gets older, he won't have enough energy and he'll have more and more things to worry about in the future. As the days pass, a son of the concubine may not match the position of being a lineal son, but in the second young master's mind, he may not be any less important than a lineal son!"

"Really troublesome." Mrs. Huang lowered her voice, "If it were in our branch, I would persuade you to get rid of the trouble too!"

A chill went through her heart and Wei Changying said, "Could it be that the second sister-in-law... she...."

Mrs. Huang said, "As soon as the second young madam left, something happened to Lvqiao. She isn't in the mansion, so she can easily shrug it off! And now that Old Madam Deng is seriously ill. She still needs the daughter of the Duanmu Family to ask the Eighth Miss of the Duanmu Family to get help from Miracle Doctor Ji. Even when Madam returns, she will vouch for her! That is such a good opportunity and Mrs. Duanmu isn't stupid. How could she let it go?"

"Could it be that why the first sister-in-law has asked me to go over tomorrow is that something has been found in Lvqiao's place?" Wei Changying muttered.

Mrs. Huang said, "Since Mrs. Duanmu dared to play this hand, she must be quite sure that she will not be caught. And if that was the case, the first young madam must have sent someone to the Su Mansion immediately to ask the Madam to make the decision. Why would she openly invite you to witness something? This is going to make the matter, the Shen family rear courtyard's dispute, public. If the matter involving the only unborn son of the second branch got out, the whole family would lose their face. The first young madam wouldn't do that."

"Then...." Wei Changying pondered, saying "Granny, what do you think the first sister-in-law is asking me to witness tomorrow?"

Mrs. Huang smiled, saying, "Mrs. Duanmu can't have left any evidence, but it can't stop someone from thinking it. I think that it is probably because Lvqiao's hopes have fallen and she won't accept it so she insists that Mrs. Duanmu did it. However, she is not in the mansion, and the first young madam is unwilling to be involved in too many affairs of the second branch, so she is going to ask you to go over and put things to rest together."

Wei Changying thought for a moment and asked again, "Then after I go?"

"Young madam, you just see what the first young madam does. Didn't Mrs. Wan say that? You are just married, so you don't know anything. The first young madam is your sister-in-law, so if she asks you to go, you should go! As for the disposition of the matter, why should you worry when the first young madam who has always been in charge of the house is present?"

This was asking Wei Changying to go no matter what happened but not to get involved in anything. She just got married and she was not the head of the family, and left all this matter to Mrs. Liu.

Wei Changying took Mrs. Huang's advice to heart, and mentioned about Wei Shengxian, "Granny, do you think is it okay that I made the promise?"

"Asking the second madam to do a favor should be fine." Mrs. Huang said casually, "What do the people from the Song Family, who want to take advantage of their son's adoption, have to do with us? Besides, even though the Old Madam isn't very close to the children of concubines, she wouldn't like to see this daughter of a concubine being bullied. Wouldn't that be embarrassing our own family? No matter what happens, the Family Head of the Song Family is the young madam's lineal uncle, so a letter will do the trick. Tomorrow, ask someone to deliver the letter to the Song Family, and just give it to Miss Song."

Seeing that Mrs. Huang didn't object to it, Wei Changying was relieved and smiled, "By the way, I found that my first sister was very cold to me today and looked at you in a very unfriendly way too. Why was it like that?"

"Nothing." Mrs. Huang smiled gently, saying, "In the past, Miss Wei Changwan didn't like me very much and once wanted to throw me out, but I was ordered to stay in the capital by the Old Madam. How dare I go against the Old Madam's words? It might be this reason that got Miss Wei Changwan angry. She's not happy to see me even now but this has also implicated you."

She said it casually but Wei Changying knew that Wei Changwan hated her so much that she even started to hate Wei Changying who was the precious pearl of the Wei Family and the second branch dared to offend. It could be seen that Mrs. Huang must have made her suffer a lot.

Wei Changying had only met this cousin once, and under the influence of the Old Madam Song, she was wary of the second branch. Asking about it was just out of curiosity. There was no sympathy for Wei Changwan. She smiled, "It's nothing, I didn't think I had much to say to my second aunt when I came back today. The seventh sister was already very articulate, so if the first sister was so too, I really didn't know how to get out of there."

The two spoke some more, and then Wei Changying returned to the inner room. Shen Cangfeng had already been waiting for a while. After a shower, he changed into a stone green brocade robe and sat alone under the light playing chess. When he saw Wei Changying come in, he raised his sleeves and mixed the pieces up, laughing, "What did you talk about with Granny Huang? It was a long time before you came back, You kept me waiting for so long."

"I'd rather not tell you." Wei Changying said loudly.

Shen Cangfeng came over to embrace her, smiling.