The Wronged Second Sister You Is Tricked into Grand View Garden; The Jealous Xifeng Raises a Storm in the Ning Mansion

After Jia Lian set out, it happened that the military commissioner of Ping’an was away inspecting the frontier and did not return for about a month. Jia Lian could get no definite news, so he had to stay at an inn and wait. When the commissioner returned and they met, he finished his business. By the time he started back, nearly two months had passed. Xifeng, however, had already made her plans. She waited only for Jia Lian to leave. When he was gone, she summoned workmen of all kinds and fitted up three rooms in the eastern wing, decorating and furnishing them exactly like her own principal chambers. On the fourteenth she told the old lady and Lady Wang that on the morning of the fifteenth she was going to a nunnery to offer incense. She took only Patience, Feng’er, Zhou Rui’s wife, and Wang’er’s wife. Before getting into the carriage, she told them her reason. She also ordered the men servants to wear plain clothes and plain covers and to come straight to the place. Xing’er led the way to Second Sister’s gate and knocked. Bao Er’s wife opened the door. Xing’er......