After Li Hui finished speaking, he looked at Old Madam Deng with a worried expression.

Old Madam Deng's pupils were slightly dilated, and she didn't seem to hear what Li Hui was saying, and her expression was blank.

Li Yan, who was holding Mrs. Deng, took a few steps back, and hit the long table with calligraphy and paintings, making a sound.

Mrs. Deng woke up like a dream, her eyelashes trembled and she asked, "Hui'er, what did you say?"

Li Hui couldn't bear to look at Old Madam Deng's expression anymore, lowered his head and said, "Grandmother, the second uncle is gone......"

"No, how not?" Old Madam Deng tried her best to keep her composure, but her voice trembled a little.

Li Yan had already covered her mouth and cried.

Her father died?

The father who once taught her how to learn calligraphy is dead? The father who reprimanded her with a straight face when she didn't study seriously is dead? The person who she accidentally bumped into to give her mother a thrush and made her secretly promise that she would find a husband like her father in the future is dead?

That one...... The father she missed for more than five years but came back with a beautiful concubine died?

At this moment, Li Yan was full of sadness, covering her mouth with a handkerchief and suppressing her crying.

She hated that person and loved that person, it was her father, and she and her sister were orphaned ever since.

"Hui'er, you speak, tell your grandmother, why didn't your second uncle have it?"

Li Hui shook his head: "My grandson doesn't know either. I went to the yamen with my father to inquire about the second uncle, and the gatekeeper said that he didn't see the second uncle leave the yamen, so he went in to look for it, but found that the second uncle was lying motionless on the desk......

"What about now, what about your father and Chenguang?" asked Mrs. Deng after taking a deep breath.

She can't fall, she didn't fall when she received the bad news of her husband's death when she was young, and she can't fall now!

"My father waited for the adults of the Criminal Department and Shuntianfu to come and investigate the cause of the second uncle's death, and Chenguang traced the whereabouts of the two little guys who went out with the second uncle in the morning, so the grandson rushed back to report the news. ”

Mrs. Deng was silent for a moment after hearing this, and shouted, "Mother Rong." ”

"Old lady—"

"Then you will lead someone to take ...... Pick up the Nanmu coffin I bought two years ago, and put up another clothes and mourning shed. ”

"Old lady-" Mother Rong couldn't bear it, and tears flowed down her face.

The most bitter thing in this world is that the young man is widowed, the old man loses his son, and the old lady's life is too bitter.

"Go ahead, I can't die yet. Mrs. Deng waved her hand, showing her old age.

Mother Rong didn't dare to say any more, so she took the order.

"Hui'er, let the steward accompany you to the yamen, if there is any news, send the word back immediately, especially the news about your third sister!"

"The grandson knows, and the grandson retires. Li Hui knelt down and kowtowed to Mrs. Deng, and his voice was choked, "Please take care of your body, grandmother." ”

He didn't have much affection for the second uncle, but he could understand his grandmother's grief at the moment.

Not to mention grandmother, even my father, who scolds the second uncle from time to time, is very sad now, if something happens to the third sister again-

Li Hui didn't dare to think about it anymore, and hurriedly left accompanied by the steward.

Old Madam Deng sat in the hall in a daze, except for Li Yan, and sent everyone else out.

The room was very quiet, Li Yan didn't dare to cry anymore, and silently guarded Mrs. Deng.

After a long silence, Old Madam Deng broke the silence with a long sigh: "Fourth girl, grandmother remembers that you are as old as your third sister, right?"

"Yes, the granddaughter was born in the same year as the third sister. ”

"Fourteen years old, not young, grandmother married your grandfather when she was your age. ”

Li Yan lowered her eyes.

"Fourteen years old, it's time to be sensible. Old Madam Deng held Li Yan's hand with her rough hand and sighed softly, "Your father, after coming back from Lingnan this time, I knew that he would get into trouble sooner or later, but I didn't expect him to kill himself so soon!"

"Grandmother, are you saying that my father was killed?"

Old Madam Deng looked outside the door and did not speak.

The second son came back this time, obviously wrong, that ice lady is both murderous and Gu, how can it be an ordinary thin horse? She couldn't guess what the second son was involved in, but she could be sure that it was a blessing or a curse, and she even thought about whether the entire Loei Province would be tossed and scattered by the second son. The second son actually came out step by step by himself to end up like this, and he can't complain about others!

"It's always yourself who can really harm yourself. Yan'er, remember her grandmother's words, stand upright, and the gods and ghosts will not invade. ”

"Yan'er knows. Grandmother, my mother's—"

"Hold off for a moment. Old Madam Deng looked even more tired when she thought of Liu.

Liu lost her husband just after she was pregnant, and she didn't know if she could withstand such a blow, and she even had to rejoice that the second husband and wife had a cold relationship in the past few months. In any case, no one in the family can afford to have an accident.

As the black scarf was taken off, Qiao Zhao finally saw where he was.

It was a room with windows open near the roof, and there was nothing but a low couch and a screen, and even the light came in through the high windows.

"Miss Li San is extremely smart, do you want to guess the purpose of our invitation to come?"

"Sorry, I couldn't guess. ”

"Hehe, doesn't Miss Li San think that we are all your fiancés Champion Hou, or your family?"

Qiao Zhao looked at the person who spoke calmly.

The man's eyebrows and eyes were ordinary, and if he was thrown into the crowd, he might not be able to recognize him in the blink of an eye, but at this moment he looked at her without a trace of fluctuation.

Qiao Zhao knew that this should be a dead man, and he would never have the heart of pity and cherishing jade.

"Miss Lisan, I advise you not to take chances. Whatever we ask you, you answer truthfully, and you can suffer less. ”

"What do you want to know?"

"Where are you hiding the string of hand beads?"

"Hand beads?"

"Don't play stupid!" the questioner raised his hand and slapped Qiao Zhao.

Qiao Zhao's body was already petite and delicate, and his cheeks immediately became high and swollen after this slap, and the neatly combed double buns were scattered and hung down to his ears.

"Miss Lisan, we're really not trying to scare you. ”

Qiao Zhao raised his hand to pull the broken hair behind his ear, and looked at the man calmly with dark eyes: "I know." ”

"Then give us the hand beads, and we'll let you go back!"

The girl bowed her head and said nothing, revealing her slender neck, as if she was thinking.

The man raised his hand and was stopped by his companions.

"What about my second uncle?" There was a moment of silence, and the girl raised her eyes to look at the two.

The two didn't expect Qiao Zhao to ask this, so they couldn't help but look at each other.

Qiao Zhao smiled: "It was my second uncle who handed me over to you, right?"

The two of them stared at Qiao Zhao intently, and after a long time, one of them smiled and said, "Miss Li San is really smart, this time she didn't say kind words." ”

"Since you think I'm not stupid, then I'll tell you where I put my hand beads?" Qiao Zhao asked with a sneer.

One of them smiled: "Then it depends on whether Miss Li San can stand our greetings." ”

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