Chapter 117: Flat Waves
This thirty-nine is just the number of people, not the number of incense sold, she looked carefully, some of the guests took away the parcels bulging, obviously more than one or two boxes. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The box of Hexiang is only the size of a palm, and the first three days of opening are all wrapped in red silk, so you can see it clearly at a glance.
Not only Yuchun, but the other people in the box all showed a slight joy on their faces.
The corners of Mrs. Si's lips curled, and she teased Yuchun: "Can you count clearly?
Yuchun didn't react for a while, shook his head and said very honestly: "No, I changed it with Miao Zhen Shaolan during the meal, and I always counted it." โ
Miao Zhen and the other maid, Shaolan, knew that Mrs. Si was making fun of Yuchun, and when they saw Yuchun coming back so seriously, they couldn't help laughing.
Shaolan approached Yuchun and laughed quietly: "Madame is playing with you." โ
Yuchun's face flushed, and she turned to the window embarrassedly, and suddenly, she looked at her: "Miss, the little fan is below." โ
As she spoke, the little fan on the street below also saw her, but her face was a little strangely anxious, and she glanced at her, and quickly entered the restaurant.
Shen Nishang came over to take a look: "Where are the people?"
Yuchun also felt that something was wrong: "It should come up." When the slave and maid saw him come in, they saw that there seemed to be something wrong with his face. โ
Wrong?
Shen Nishang was slightly stunned, glanced at Mrs. Ling Feisi, and looked in the direction of the door.
The sound of hurried footsteps outside the door had already approached, Miao Zhen walked over quickly, and the next moment, sure enough, the voice of the little fan sounded outside the door: "Miss Shen, Young Master Ling, Young Master Shang-"
Miao Zhen opened the door, and the little fan rushed in quickly, kneeling down in the middle of the house, and his voice was crying: "Miss Shen, Young Master Lingโyou can save my young master quickly!"
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General's Palace.
At this time, the sunset is slightly slanting, and the sky is lined with brilliant colorful clouds, which is extremely dazzling.
Since the beginning of spring, this can be regarded as the most beautiful sunset day.
However, the atmosphere of the General's Mansion at this time did not match this beautiful scene at all.
"Do you admit it or not?"
Mu Dongheng was covered with frost, stared at Mu Qing a few steps away, and asked in a cold voice.
In front of him, Mama Hu and Bai Yuanzhi knelt together, with anxious and worried looks on their faces.
Hearing Mu Dongheng's questioning again, Mama Hu turned her head to Mu Qing with a pleading look, and begged him to recognize Mu Dongheng's words with her eyes.
Mu Qing was lying on the special bench used by the expert method, his lower body pants were removed, and dozens of hemp ropes were tied sturdily on his body, and the snow-white middle pants had been whipped to shreds by barbed whips, and the original snow white was all dyed blood red.
You can even see flesh blooming in the tatters!
From noon to this moment, it has been almost two hours, and he has been whipped for an unknown number of times, Mu Qing has been a little confused at this time, and his lips have been bitten out of blood by himself, and when he heard Mu Dongheng's question, he tilted his head and opened his eyes to look over-
Seven steps away, there was his father's cold face, and five steps away, Mama Hu and Bai Yuanzhi knelt in front of their father, and the two were looking back at him.
Bai Yuanzhi's face was worried and anxious, but Mama Hu's eyes were full of pleading.
Mu Qing blinked effortlessly, and set his eyes on Mu Dongheng, he shook his head lightly, his breath was weak but resolute: "The child has never done ......"
Mu Dongheng's face turned pale: "Call me!"
The guard with the whip on the side saw Mu Qing's miserable face, angry as a gossamer, showing a look of embarrassment, and took a step forward, holding the whip and not daring to fight again.
Seeing this, Mu Dongheng took a few big strides over, took the whip and threw it down, only to hear a "pop" sound of flesh and skin, Mu Qing snorted, his body trembled violently, and suddenly a blood mark appeared at the corner of his mouth!
Mu Dongheng's whip was obviously much stronger than the guard's hand earlier, and after the whip, the smell of blood in the air suddenly became a little heavier!
"Do you admit your mistake? If it weren't for you, then tell me where you had been in those two days and nights?" Mu Dongheng asked sharply.
Mu Qing only felt a buzzing in his ears, and even Mu Dongheng's question seemed to come from the sky, but he still replied in a low voice: "I...... That's right......"
Seeing that Mu Dongheng waved the whip again, Bai Yuanzhi hurriedly got up and rushed over to block the pleading: "Father-in-law, don't fight, since Changsheng refuses to admit it, there must be something strange in it-father-father-can't fight anymore!"
Mama Hu said with tears in her eyes: "Although the cheap maid is in the princess's courtyard, every time the young master comes back, the old slave is also there! How can the young master have a personal affair with the cheap maid, and now that the cheap maid has a bad seed, she must be afraid of the general's punishment, so she blames the young master! The general punishes the young master like this, if the young master does it, it will be fine, but if it is not done by the young master, how can the general bear it? Besides, even if the young master makes a mistake, it is common for people like us, even if the young master has a few people in the house, why is the general like this...... It's ...... like this."
Mama Hu couldn't go on, and she couldn't stop crying.
"People in the house?" Mu Dongheng sneered, "If he dares to admit it, I think he still has some blood, but now he dares to do it, my Mu family has had such a bad obstacle! My mother is sick and lying on her side, in the name of taking care of filial piety, but she does such an unseemly deed in private! Even the maid next to her mother dares to do it, and she also makes a seed of evil - that cheap maid even knows the birthmark on his body, and he still doesn't admit his guilt, so he is also worthy of being my Mu Dongheng's son with this virtue! I look at it more, and I am afraid of staining my eyes!"
"Father-" Bai Yuanzhi grabbed Mu Dongheng's hand holding the whip, knelt down and pleaded, "This matter has not been fully investigated, and I ask my father's subordinates to show mercy." โ
Mu Dongheng glanced at Bai Yuan, snorted coldly with a sinking face, and threw the whip to the ground: "If you want to investigate, just check, before you find out, as long as he doesn't admit it, if anyone dares to loosen my ties, get out of the general's mansion!"
Mu Dongheng strode out of the courtyard.
Mama Hu got up with difficulty, walked to Mu Qing in a few steps, and when she saw the tragic injuries on Mu Qing's body, tears rained down, she stretched out her hand to touch it, but she was afraid of hurting him, and finally reached out and touched Mu Qing's face tremblingly: "Changsheng, Changsheng......"
Bai Yuanzhi also walked over quickly and called him twice.
Mu Qing opened his eyes in a daze, and tried his best to show a pale smile at the two: "Mama...... Big Brother White...... Feel relieved...... I...... It's okay......"
Bai Yuanzhi looked at his injuries and showed a worried look: "I didn't hurt my bones, but the skin injuries were extremely serious, and I was afraid that it would take ten days and a half months to get out of bed, but if I didn't take medicine now, I was afraid that the injuries would worsen." โ
If the skin injury is severe, it is not impossible to kill people.
Mama Hu gritted her teeth and reached out to untie the hemp rope: "I'll untie it, anyway, I'm old, and the general wants to drive me away, then I'll go back to the royal capital to find the queen mother!"
Bai Yuanzhi sighed and helped untie the rope.
"Don't ...... Mama," Mu Qing opened his eyes and looked at the two, "I can't solve ......"
"Immortality. Bai Yuanzhi looked at him.
"I can't solve it-" Mu Qing said in a low voice, reaching out to grab Mama Hu's hand, "What if, what if...... Father really wants to let Mama go...... Phoenix...... Don't go ...... mama."
His voice was intermittent, and his mind was not very clear, but the meaning of his expression made Mama Hu understand.
Mama Hu burst into tears, only to feel heartache, holding his hand and just crying: "Changsheng is not afraid, Mama doesn't leave, Mama won't go anywhere, Mama will accompany Mama's Changsheng-"
Bai Yuanzhi stood up: "Mama, you accompany Changsheng, I'll check it again." โ
Mama Hu held Mu Qing's hand with one hand, wiped her tears with the other, and turned her head to reveal gloomy hatred: "Changsheng will never have anything to do with that beautiful and cheap maid!" I also blame me, I didn't keep the door in prison, and I didn't even watch when this cheap maid left the house, I didn't expect that she would actually climb on Changsheng! This slut ...... It's not a pity to die 10,000 times!"
Mama Hu gritted her teeth, obviously hating it to the extreme!
"Don't blame Mama, Mama takes care of the eldest princess day and night, and it's human nature not to notice it for a while. Bai Yuanzhi frowned and thought for a while: "But how did she know that there was a butterfly birthmark on Changsheng's waist?"
During the confrontation during the interrogation earlier, the maid Xiuzi insisted that she went out of the mansion on the seventh and eighteenth days of February to meet Mu Qing, and also said that the back door key in her hand was also given by Mu Qing, and even said the shape of the birthmark on Mu Qing's back waist at the end.
And Mu Qing has a butterfly-shaped birthmark on his body, which even he doesn't know.
The steward of the Bisheng Mansion also confirmed that Mu Qing did leave the house during the two days and nights, and Mu Qing refused to say where he went anyway, only said that he went out to play, but he couldn't get a witness.
The fetus in the womb of that Xiuzi is just over a month old, which coincides with those two days.
Mama Hu couldn't think of why Xiuzi could know such secrets, but if she wanted her to believe that Mu Qing had an affair with the maid in the eldest princess's room, she would never believe it.
Mu Qing didn't like the maid since he was a child, since he was three years old, he didn't even want the nurse to bathe him, and the people who served him close were all small servants, and then it was always a small fan who was serving, not to mention that this show was still in the eldest princess's courtyard, even if it was other maids in the general's mansion, Mu Qing would never provoke.
"Changsheng wouldn't do such a thing, there must be someone making trouble in this!" Mama Hu said hatefully.
Bai Yuanzhi thought secretly, and was about to speak, when he saw his little servant walking in quickly and whispering: "Young Master, Young Master Ling of Enhou Mansion and Young Master Shang from the third room of General Shang's Mansion are here." โ
Bai Yuanzhi was stunned: "Can you repay your father-in-law?"
The little servant replied: "The steward of the outer courtyard has already gone, but Young Master Ling said that he came by order, and the big housekeeper did not dare to stop him, and now he has already come to this courtyard of Young Master Qing!"
Footsteps had already sounded at the courtyard gate, and Bai Yuanzhi looked up, only to see a delicate and noble young man walking in with a beautiful maid.
Behind him, Shang Zilu was talking to the chief butler of the General's Mansion, as if asking something.
Shangzilu was known to Bai Yuanzhi for a long time, but although he knew it, he had only seen it a few times, and he didn't really deal with it.
Bai Yuanzhi set his eyes on the handsome young man who was at the beginning.
As soon as the handsome young man and the servant girl behind him entered the courtyard to see the scene in the courtyard clearly, the two frowned, and after the handsome maid and the handsome young man looked at each other, a few walked quickly to Mu Qing's side, and reached out to his forehead.
Seeing that the handmaiden's behavior did not say anything to ask the handsome young man, Bai Yuanzhi's face was slightly surprised.
The handsome young man didn't show any discoloration, only smiled lightly and arched his hand towards Bai Yuanzhi: "Ling Fei is under the command of His Majesty this time, and I have come to the mansion to see you!"
Although Bai Yuanzhi is Mu Dongheng's righteous son, his identity is worlds different from Ling Fei, and when he heard this, he hurriedly returned a salute: "Yuanzhi has seen Young Master Ling." โ
Shangzi Lu also came over, and the two greeted each other.
Mu Qing had already fallen asleep in a daze, and he only felt a burst of cold and heat on his body, and the injury hurt so much that it made him extremely uncomfortable.
In a trance, a soft and boneless hand touched his forehead, and there seemed to be a wisp of fragrance at the end of his nose, which only felt a little familiar, but he felt impossible.
He slowly opened his eyes, a beautiful face in the dazzling beauty of the sky, suddenly met his eyes, the clear eyes were looking at him steadily, dark and swarthy, indescribably moving.
She had always been calm and calm, and there was never a trace of panic and worry, but at this moment her eyebrows were furrowed, and the worry in her eyes was something he had never seen on her face.
"I'm ...... Are you dreaming......" He closed his eyes, his voice low enough that only he could hear, but a smile appeared on his lips.
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Mu Dongheng was in the study, facing the half-open window sash, standing with his hands in his hands.
There was no one in the study, two steps behind him, a short and fat middle-aged man with squinting eyes was standing solemnly, his expression seemed to be very respectful, but there was a glimmer of light in his thin eyes, and he looked at Mu Dongheng's back cautiously.
If there is a subordinate of the General's Mansion here, he will definitely be able to recognize at a glance that this short and fat middle-aged man is Yu Guang, the second steward of the outer courtyard of the mansion.
"General......" Seeing that Mu Dongheng didn't say anything for a long time, Yu Guang, who had finished reporting the matter, seemed a little uneasy, and he repeated in a low voice, "Young Master Ling said that he was ordered by the Lord-"
"But the matter of the maid in the main courtyard is your handiwork?" Mu Dongheng turned around suddenly, and his sharp gaze shot straight at him.
Yu Guanghuo was taken aback, and instinctively wanted to deny it: "No!" The words were too urgent, and he hurriedly laughed again, "General, it's a small faux pas." Small means, how dare a small person be so bold-"
"Shut up!" Mu Dongheng said in a low voice, "In front of me, do you want to quibble? Who else in this mansion can do such a thing except you! That evil obstacle has a birthmark, now except for me and the old woman in the main courtyard, only you know! Who else can it be?"
"Small...... How can a little one know about the birthmark?" Yu Guang still wanted to argue.
"Don't you know?" Mu Dongheng snorted coldly: "Back then, you could buy off that nurse in private, since she was your person, how could she not tell you! Yu Zhengxin, I told you a long time ago not to do anything in private, it seems that you really took my words as a deaf ear! Now you are doing such a thing, you are so bold!"
Mu Dongheng slapped his palm on the table on his side, and the thick mahogany table immediately cracked with two fine lines, which showed the anger of the force! )