The Prime Minister's delicate wife can control her husband

Chapter 29: 2 The mystery of uncle?

After Master Yan and other younger generations in the family arrived, they made Yan Qin crawl on the bench and whipped her hard with a bamboo whip.

"Do you need to think before you speak?" asked Master Yan.

"Remember, Grandpa!" Yan Qin replied with clenched fists.

Then another whip was swung, and screams rang out in the ancestral hall. Jiao Niang was awakened by the screams. She did not expect these things to happen, and immediately pleaded with Master Yan.

Seeing Jiao Niang pleading for him, Yan Qin ignored her and said, "What a hypocrite!"

"Grandpa, I just want an apology and they will let bygones be bygones." Jiao Niang said weakly.

"Daughter, apologize to Jiao Niang quickly. After that, we can go home." Yan Da asked with concern, holding her hand tightly.

Yan Qin didn't say anything and remained silent.

"Sister, you should apologize to your sister-in-law soon, then grandpa won't beat you." Her two younger brothers also said.

The two of them stood in front of Master Yan's whip, "You two, get out of the way!" Master Yan roared.

"Dad, if you want to hit me, hit me. It's my son who failed to educate my daughter well. Everything she did was instigated by my son and has nothing to do with Qin'er."

Yan Sheng looked around and suddenly realized that everything was going in a different direction than he expected. "Logically speaking, grandpa shouldn't be so angry. Could it be that someone is interfering again?"

Yan Sheng looked at his father and his second uncle. His father also looked at Yan Sheng anxiously. His second uncle stood by and was indifferent. "Could it be that he instigated it?"

"Grandpa! Don't be angry first, take care of your health." Yan Lang limped to him and knelt down, followed by all the descendants of the Yan family kneeling down and begging for mercy.

Only the people from the second house were unmoved, "Dad, I think Qin'er has realized her mistake, you should not get angry, your health is more important."

Yan Sheng stared at his second uncle, "You speak now? Something is wrong!" Yan Sheng looked at his grandfather again, and he didn't expect that the old man actually put down the bamboo whip in his hand.

"Is it a coincidence or is it a secret code from my second uncle to my grandfather?" This thought boldly emerged from his mind. "If it is a secret code, then what does my grandfather mean? Does he want the brothers to kill each other? Or does he have another purpose?"

"Since you have asked for mercy, I will not do it again!"

"Yes." After seeing Old Man Yan leave, Yan Da carefully helped Yan Qin home, and the farce came to an end.

After returning to the third courtyard, Jiao Niang sent someone to deliver the external ointment to Yan Qin.

"You also noticed something was wrong?" Jiao Niang asked Xiang Yansheng.

"Well, what my eldest sister did shouldn't make him so angry. Before, at most she made us kneel in the ancestral hall. I didn't expect that she would whip us with a bamboo whip this time. I feel that this is a bit abnormal?"

"Could it be that grandpa is really angry?" Jiao Niang added.

"Grandpa wanted Qingwen and the kitchen maid to take the blame before, so how could he be really angry? Did he meet someone or know something when he was moving to the ancestral hall? That's why he was so furious."

"Dad, throw this ointment away! I don't want her things." Yan Qin threw away the things Jiao Niang gave her with one hand, "Even if I die, I will not accept her things. The people in the third room are all hypocritical!"

"Daughter, our first branch cannot defeat the third branch. Just accept your fate!" Yan Da sighed.

"Dad, please believe me again. I will definitely be able to move to the third room." Yan Qin said confidently.

Yan Da immediately covered her mouth and said, "Give up. What happened today was not caused by the Third House."

"This was not the work of the third branch of the family. Jiaoniang designed a plan to lure Grandpa here, and then something happened at the right time, and finally she begged for mercy."

"It was your second uncle who sent someone to inform your grandfather, and Jiao Niang didn't know about it. But you did something not fair and aboveboard, so why did you send someone to make things difficult for the people in the third house?"

Yan Qin was confused by his father's question, "Dad, when did I ever make things difficult for the people from the third house? I was just following the rules of the mansion. It was that cripple who came out to stir up trouble in the end. Otherwise, why would grandpa hit me?"

"Didn't you pay that woman to tell on you?"

"When did I bribe that woman with money? It was the woman who came to tell my daughter herself."

Yan Da thought for a moment after hearing his daughter's words and said, "Are you sure you didn't give that woman money?"

"My daughter used her own surname to guarantee that I did not give that person any money."

"No, that woman told everyone that you bribed her with money. Could someone have instigated her?" Yan Da had doubts in his mind.

After Yan Lang comforted Jiao Niang, he went to find Manager Geng to find out what happened. Zhang Wuji saw his sister being bullied, and he was so angry that he sneaked into the main room.

At the door, he heard Yan Qin scolding his sister again. He looked at the stones on the ground, took out the slingshot from his waist, and aimed at Yan Qin who was lying on the bed.

"You told me to call you my sister!"

"call out!"

The stone hit her already bruised butt hard, and screams rang out in the room again. Hearing the sound, he sneaked back to the third room.

Yan Lang found Manager Geng, who told him that the old woman had already left.

"Leaving? So soon? Didn't she leave after settling her wages tomorrow?"

"Yeah! When you went to the ancestral hall, the man packed up and left. What are you doing here?"

Yan Lang told Manager Geng what he had guessed, and Manager Geng assured him that the people in the kitchen now were people he had employed for four to five years.

"Now the remaining people are yours, so who is that woman?"

"That old woman was brought by your second uncle. I didn't want her at that time, but your second uncle insisted on having her stay and work in the kitchen." Butler Geng said softly.

"Interesting? It seems that this was all done by my second uncle."

Then Manager Geng told Yan Sheng something even more explosive, which made Yan Lang dumbfounded. "But is it true?"

"I'm not sure, but the woman was spotted when she first arrived, and the person who spotted her was fired by your second uncle not long after."

"Can you ask the cook who knew about this?" Yan Lang ordered, "Help me monitor the actions of the second house and report to me every day."

After saying that, he left the kitchen and returned to the bridal chamber, where he ran into the flustered Zhang Wuji. "Did you do anything wrong, little devil?" Yan Lang asked.

"No, no, I didn't do anything." Zhang Wuji replied guiltily.

"Don't mess with the people from the first house these days. They are all very angry."

Yan Lang gave a kind reminder, but Zhang Wuji mistook it as Yan Sheng's cowardice and fear of causing trouble for the first wife's family.

When Manager Geng brought over dinner, he motioned for Yan Lang to step aside to talk, and told him some bad news.

"That person died not long after returning. Now no one can confirm whether this is true or not. The person who just shared a room with the old woman came back to report that the old woman's clothes and silver were in the room. I suspect she was murdered."