Chapter III

"Miss, you can rest for a while and then embroider, if you continue to embroider like this day and night, the child in the belly will be unbearable. Meihan looked at her young lady worriedly.

"It was embroidered right away, and it was a little close. Jiang Liannan concentrated on the embroidery in his hand, and replied without raising his head.

"Okay, finally embroidered. However, my mandarin duck is different from the one drawn by the proprietress of the embroidery shop. Jiang Linan looked at the embroidered handkerchief in his hand and showed it to Meiyan

The embroidered handkerchief is wrinkled around, and there are two fat little mandarin ducks embroidered in the middle of the handkerchief, and the originally small mouth looks much wider under Jiang Linan's embroiderer, and the place where the body should be red hair is embroidered into golden yellow.

"This mouth...", Mei Yan said, pointing to the mandarin duck's mouth.

"Ahem, I think I can be more stable and ruthless when I catch fish with a bigger mouth. Jiang Liannan whispered.

"And the golden feather?" asked Miya, pointing to the large golden feather.

"This was too dark in the house at that time, I didn't see it too clearly, I took the wrong money, and then I wanted to dismantle it, but I was afraid that it would be demolished by mistake, so I embroidered it like this. Jiang Liannan whispered more and more, "So isn't it particularly ugly?" she asked cautiously.

"It's beautiful, Miss embroiders everything beautifully. "Mei Yan said with a weak heart. In fact, she especially wanted to tell the young lady that at first glance she thought it was two chubby ducklings bathing.

"However, the people of the Seven Days Pavilion also said that sincerity is the most important thing, so Miss don't worry. Before Jiang Liannan could answer, she continued.

"Miss has been stabbing this handkerchief for the past few days, except for sleeping and eating, and her hands are almost tied into a sieve, if Madame sees how distressed she will be. Meihan's eyes were slightly red, and the tears in her eyes seemed to be about to burst out.

"Where is the hand as exaggerated as you say, compared to the mother's matter, I am nothing. I don't believe that my mother will take poison naturally. Jiang Linan held the embroidered handkerchief in his hand tightly, and his knuckles turned blue and white because he was too hard.

"Meiya, let's send the handkerchief to the Seven Days Pavilion. She handed the handkerchief to Mei Yan, wrapped her hands around Mei Yan's hand holding the embroidered handkerchief, and said, "Be careful on the road." If you break the people of Jiang Mansion, you will take a detour, and you must not be rash. ”

"Miss, go back to the house and sleep for a while, I will be careful. ”

Mei Yan took the embroidered cloth out of the Mu Mansion and hurriedly walked towards the Seven Days Pavilion.

Afraid of something, I happened to meet Miss Jiang Fuer who was shopping with Miss Bai Hibiscus on the way.

This second lady is Jiang Sichu, Jiang Linan's half-sister. is also the illegitimate daughter of her father.

"Sister, I heard that you had dinner with Mu Gongzi a few days ago. Jiang Sichu said with a smile to Bai Hibiscus.

"Yes, my father was also there that day, and he was discussing our marriage with Mu Ying. Speaking of this, Bai Hibiscus's face was slightly red, and a smile appeared on his mouth, as if his face was full of flowers.

"I envy my sister that I can marry such a talented and beautiful person. Jiang Sichu squinted his eyes and looked at Bai Muhibiscus, who was still immersed in joy, and showed a disdainful smile, and continued: "I don't know when my sister's marriage is scheduled?"

"Mu Yan means to listen to me, my father said that another day let people check the auspicious day of the zodiac and set the date. Bai Hibiscus said and shyly covered his smile with his sleeve, which could not be hidden, and said proudly.

"Sister, you go on dates often! Jiang Sichu felt that his horse's ass had just slapped on the horse's buttocks, and continued.

"It's not often, Mu Xun is very busy, often don't know what he's busy with, last time I told me that there was a wandering master in the Thanksgiving Temple and he used to be an old friend, it is estimated that he has been in the Thanksgiving Temple for the past few days!" Bai Mu Hibiscus said a little sullenly.

"Sister doesn't have to be sad, I think it's because Mu Gongzi has something to do, and my sister is such a big beauty, how can he bear not to accompany you?" Jiang Sichu glanced at Bai Mujian's slightly drooping corners and said comfortingly.

Mu Gongzi? I didn't hear that there was any prince surnamed Mu in the court, Mei Yan didn't have time to think about it, and after watching them drift away, she turned into the Seven Days Pavilion in a blink of an eye.

"Please give this mandarin duck handkerchief to the pavilion master, and ask the pavilion master to help find Aunt Mei as soon as possible. This is Aunt Mei's birthday, and the clothes she wore at that time. Mei Yan handed over the handkerchief embroidered by Jiang Linan to the people of the Seven Days Pavilion along with Aunt Mei's birthday and old clothes.

She didn't know what the method of finding someone in the Seven Days Pavilion was, but she still prepared according to the Seven Days Pavilion's requirements.

"Is this a mandarin duck?" asked the guard of the Seven Days Pavilion, looking at the duck-like mandarin duck embroidered on the handkerchief.

"Well, you said at the time that as long as you are sincere, you can do it. Mei Yan explained with a red face

"That's right. I didn't expect the pavilion master's hobby to be so strange. The guard stared at the embroidery and muttered to himself, but he didn't hear what the guard was saying because he was too quiet.

"Let's go back, wait for news from the Seven Days Pavilion after the seventh day. Seeing that Miya was still standing in place, the guard waved his hand.

"Miss, is there any other big family in Lin'an City with the surname Mu?" Meiling, who went back to Mufu, remembered that Bai Muhibiscus and Jiang Sichu had a conversation on the street today.

"As far as I know, it's just one. Jiang Liannan sat in the room, tasting the plum blossom cake prepared by Amber and replied while eating.

"That's strange, I met Bai Mu Hibiscus and Jiang Sichu in the street today. They—" Meiya frowned and wondered.

"Is there a conflict?" Jiang Linan interrupted her and asked anxiously

"They walked ahead and didn't see me. I heard that later. Mei Yan continued: "Bai Mu Hibiscus said that she was going to marry a son surnamed Mu, and also said that a few days ago, her father and Mu Gongzi discussed the days of marriage in the Zui Anju Restaurant. ”

"Drunk and peaceful? Sure enough..."Jiang Linan stopped the hand that was about to reach for the plum blossom cake.

"What else do you hear?" she asked, her eyes wide, as she stared at Mei Yan motionlessly.

"Later, I vaguely heard that I didn't dare to get too close to the Thanksgiving Temple, and after seeing them go away, I hurriedly ran into the Seven Days Pavilion. Miss, what's wrong?" asked Meihan uneasily, looking at her young lady's appearance.

"There's nothing wrong with it, Mei Yan, if I find the people who killed my mother and framed my grandfather, and avenge them, are you willing to leave Lin'an with me?" Jiang Liannan looked at Mei Yan with a wry smile, lowered his head and whispered.

"My life is all given by Miss, and I will go wherever Miss goes. But miss, is my uncle going to move?" asked Mei Yan suspiciously.

"No, I just said it casually. The most important thing now is to find the murderer of my mother and grandfather. Jiang Liannan said, looking into the distance.

"Does Aunt Mei have a clue?" Jiang Linan was so nervous that he stood up from the stool, and stood there in a daze, looking at the beautiful man who pushed the door in, feeling uneasy.

"Yes, yes, yes" Meihan excitedly held Jiang Linan's hand, and tears of excitement came out of her eyes. He pulled out a piece of sweat-eroded paper from his sleeve and unfolded it on the table.

"After looking for so long, it turns out that Aunt Mei is still in Lin'an. But since she is in Lin'an, why don't you come to see me?" Jiang Liannan looked at the address on the paper and wondered.

On the paper is the address found by the Seven Day Pavilion, which is in an ordinary household in the south of Lin'an City.

"Miya is now preparing the carriage, let's go to this address. Jiang Liannan pointed to the address on the paper and said.

When she was sixteen, her grandfather was framed by a traitor, and after he was imprisoned, Jiang Feng did not reach out to help, but he still contributed to the troubles behind his back, causing his grandfather to die in prison and his mother to die in a hurry.

She never believed that all this was a coincidence, but there was no clue at all until now, she had been driven out of the Jiang Mansion, and the servants of the Jiang Mansion were nowhere to be found, and the only one who knew that Aunt Mei was beside her mother at that time didn't know how to escape, but she searched everywhere for Aunt Mei's whereabouts, but to no avail.

Fortunately, I finally found Aunt Mei.

The old door creaked and screeched, as if the family hadn't lived in years.

"Aunt Mei~" Jiang Linan pushed open the door and looked at the lifeless house, chicken feathers fell on the ground, and the house exuded a burst of bloody smell.

"Aunt Mei ~ Aunt Mei?" Jiang Linan's heart suddenly sank, and he screamed uneasily.

When I walked into the house, I saw the tables and chairs on the ground, and even one that had fallen apart lying on the ground, and the more I walked into the house, the heavier the smell of blood. Jiang Linan walked cautiously, avoiding the tables and chairs scattered on the ground. Walking into the inner room and finally Aunt Mei, Aunt Mei fell in a pool of blood, blood continued to ooze out of her chest, Jiang Linan walked quickly to Aunt Mei's side, probed her nose, faint breathing hit her hand, and the quiet inner room slowly echoed Aunt Mei's weaker and weaker gasps.

"Aunt Mei, who is it? Who caused you to do this? Aunt Mei, look at me, I'm Nan'er. Jiang Linan gently dragged Aunt Mei's head, not daring to push too hard, for fear of hurting Aunt Mei, he clicked on the acupoint above Aunt Mei's chest, the blood in his chest stopped, took out a pill from his shirt and fed it to Aunt Mei's mouth, and gently wiped the blood on the corner of Aunt Mei's mouth with his cuffs.

Aunt Mei opened her closed eyes with difficulty, and finally saw the person in front of her clearly: "Ahem, Nan'er, I didn't expect that I would be able to see you again before I died." Ahem, this may be the chance for God to give me another ahem~ atonement. Aunt May raised her bloodied left hand

"Aunt Mei, what's wrong?" Jiang Linan slowly held Aunt Mei's hand, and tears fell out of her eyes one after another, and finally converged into a line.

"Nan'er, I'm ~sorry for you~, thank God for letting me tell you the truth while I'm still alive. ”

Jiang Liannan just wanted to interrupt Aunt Mei, but Aunt Mei continued: "Let me finish speaking." I'm sorry I lied to you guys from the beginning. I was originally the eyeliner that Jiang placed next to your mother..."

Jiang's, after her mother's death, her father Jiang Fengshu (chú) married a woman who entered the door, that woman and her father were childhood sweethearts, and when her mother married her father, the two of them secretly Chen Cang, embarrassed.

When Jiang Fengshu married her mother, the Jiang family came to Lin'an City with Jiang Fengshu, and Jiang Fengshu (chú) also settled the Jiang family in a mansion. The Jiang clan wanted to take Shi Qianling's place, but Jiang Fengshu (chú) always said to wait, wait and wait before the time came. When he was seated in the general's place, it was time for them to make a move.

Jiang was afraid that Jiang Fengshu (chú) would change his mind after marrying Shi Qianling, so he placed Aunt Mei next to Shi Qianling to monitor.

Aunt Mei and the Jiang family were originally fellow villagers, and they met in Lin'an City, and the house arranged by Jiang Feng for the Jiang family was next door to Aunt Mei. Jiang Zhi often heard the sound of a woman crying next door, so he went to check during the day, and saw Aunt Mei sitting on a stool crying, her face was blue and purple, and asked the reason, Aunt Mei didn't say it at first, but after a long time, she always knew what was going on.

Aunt Mei's husband is an alcoholic, every time her hard-earned money will be robbed by her husband to buy alcohol to drink, every time she drinks alcohol, she will scold Aunt Mei for giving birth to a daughter who loses money, so that he can't hold his head up in front of his fellow villagers. After scolding, he was angry and punched and kicked her and her daughter.

After the Jiang family found out, he secretly brought some bruising medicine to Aunt Mei every time, and would share half of the delicious food at home. Aunt Mei has always been grateful and always wants to find an opportunity to repay her.

One day, Jiang cried and told Aunt Mei that she had met her childhood sweetheart, but he had married someone else, and she wanted to see if that woman was worthy of her sweetheart, so she wanted to ask Aunt Mei to serve that woman in the house.

Aunt Mei was reluctant at first, because she was not worried about handing over her daughter to her husband, and she did not want her daughter to see her mother for a long time.

Later, the Jiang family gave her an idea, so there was the scene where Aunt Mei met Shi Qianling, at first Aunt Mei thought that everything was designed by the Jiang family, including that she could take her daughter into the Jiang Mansion.

But after slowly getting in touch for a long time, I found that Mrs. Shi was really a kind-hearted woman. In the past few years, his wife has treated her very well and treated her as if she were her own relative.

Gradually, Aunt Mei learned that Jiang's ambition was far from what she said, and she just wanted to see if her sweetheart was doing well.

Jiang Fengshu hadn't come to Jiang's for a long time, so Jiang was anxious to find Aunt Mei and asked Aunt Mei to secretly poison Shi Qianling, and when Aunt Mei asked the reason, Jiang replied like this: "Jiang Yan and I were childhood sweethearts, and we have already made a private agreement for life, but General Shi insisted on breaking up me and Jiang Xun by virtue of his high position." After that, Jiang Lang and I could only separate, but after the separation, I found out that I had his flesh and blood. I have no choice, I also want to give my children a home, I really can't help it. ”

Aunt Mei didn't know what she should do at the moment, both sides were people who helped her, and the Jiang family, like herself, was also a poor woman, she comforted: "You don't have to use the method of poisoning, as long as you let Master Jiang marry again, it is the best of both worlds." ”

Jiang Shi retreated and thought: Maybe this is also a way not to affect Jiang Lang's future. If Aunt Mei can help her deliver the news from Jiang Mansion, then that's okay. So she had a plan and said: "It's easy to enter Jiang's mansion to talk about it, Jiang Lang doesn't know my existence now, and I don't know the existence of this child, and I have no way to see her." I don't even know what to do now. Jiang pretended to wipe away tears that didn't exist in the first place.

Aunt Mei softened her heart and said, "Why don't you write a letter, and I will pass it on to Master Jiang for you." ”

Jiang Shi was overjoyed and said: "Chunmei, when you were beaten by your husband, my heart was like a knife, and I am a woman, and I can't help you anything, so I can only send some meals and medicines usually." If I marry Jiang Mansion one day, I will definitely be doubly good to you. ”