5. Bathing in the fire

Chen Manjiang hurriedly greeted Mo Shi, and before he left the courtyard, he saw Yao Chongming and his wife coming with a sad face. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Before Mo Shi could speak, Second Lady Yao screamed, "Give me back my sister's life!" He threw himself at Mo.

Mo Shi hurriedly hid behind the girl, but Second Lady Yao fell down when she was still two steps away from her, and she fainted.

Mo Shi breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly beckoned someone to carry Mrs. Yao into the house, and Chen Manjiang politely invited Yao Chongming to the study to discuss Yao Keqing's death.

Not to mention how the Chen and Yao families should discuss, Mo Sang of Tongyun Academy has been terrified since he learned of Yao Keqing's death. Although she wished that Yao Keqing was dead, but now that Yao Keqing was dead, she felt that this matter seemed to have nothing to do with herself, and she suddenly felt a little restless. Thinking that he designed her to have a miscarriage, everyone did not see the clues, and this time the matter will definitely not be discovered, and the only person who knows is dead, and I feel a little at ease, but this result is not the same as what the man said! And that person also knows the truth of Yao Keqing's miscarriage!

Thinking of that person's mysterious actions, Mo Sang vaguely felt that he was being used, and that person must have borrowed his own hand Yao Keqing, otherwise why didn't she dare to see her with her true face? Originally, she thought that after Yao Keqing died, she would be able to be justified because of her son, so she agreed to that person, but now it seems that things are not as simple as that person said!

Mo Sang was lying on the bed tossing and turning, always feeling that Yao Keqing's cold eyes were looking at her behind her back, but when she turned around, she couldn't see anything, she only felt creepy. Then she got up and gritted her teeth and called the henchman to whisper, the girl took the order and left, she always felt uneasy when she thought about it in bed, until the girl came back and took out a bag of things from her arms and handed it to her, she pinched the bag of things before she put her mind at ease, I hope this thing is useful.

In the study, Chen Manjiang finally negotiated with Yao Chongming, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart that this Yao Chongming is also a ruthless character, his own daughter's bones are not cold, as a father, he can also make a fuss about his daughter's death and seek benefits for their Yao family. Although the two families no longer have the love of marriage, this kind of interest relationship is more solid. Moreover, his request is not excessive, it is nothing for them to take back the dowry, and the Chen family is not short of silver flowers, although Yao Chongming's words are high-sounding, he wants to laugh in his heart.

"It's not uncommon for children like ours to have a little thing in their hands, but we always have to give an explanation to Qing'er's uncle's family, besides, there is still her brother in the long house, and this dowry should be disposed of by her brother."

What is 'not uncommon that little thing in the hands of the children', when the Yao family got married, the dowry caused a sensation in the entire capital, not to mention the fields, Zhuangzi, and shops are all good, just those gold, silver and jade that accompany the dowry, calligraphy, painting, calligraphy and the like that cannot be bought with money, the Fang family has been heirloom for more than a thousand years, the family is rich, and the dowry of the daughter of the Fang family is all given to her daughter Yao, how can the dowry run by the two families of Yao and Fang be just a little thing, he was shocked when he saw the dowry list for the first time, It's almost half worth half of the Chen family's belongings; What 'Changfang and her brother', that is not his Yao Chongming's son, in the end, the thing still fell into his hands. But fortunately, he didn't force himself to support King Li, he didn't want to get involved in the matter of establishing a prince, and now he asked himself not to support other princes and he was agreeing with him.

It's just that this night is destined to be unpeaceful.

The two families shook hands and made peace, but a Yao Keqing died, as long as Yao Keqing was in the ground, then this matter could be uncovered without mentioning it, but he didn't want to come but something happened - the mourning hall was on fire.

Autumn is the dry season, plus it has not rained for a long time, and the mourning hall is temporarily cleaned up, and it is too late when the next person finds out that it is on fire, when Chen Manjiang and Yao Chongming rushed over, Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Yao had already arrived. The whole courtyard of the dead spirit has been burned, and the family is busy carrying water to extinguish the fire, but it is useless at all, and the fire is getting bigger and bigger. Chen Manjiang looked at the chief steward with a calm face, and the chief steward stepped forward to explain the reason.

It turned out that Mo Sang sneakily avoided the people who had escaped the night in the middle of the night and touched into the mourning hall, and fled in a hurry after being discovered, and the people guarding outside the hall ran to arrest people, and when they caught people back, the mourning hall was blazing. Chen Manjiang glanced at Mo Sang, who was trembling non-stop, and only heard her say incoherently: "It's not me, it's not me, it's really not me... I don't know how it caught fire... I... I'm just here to put incense... incense..."

"Ridiculous! Who comes to incense in the middle of the night! Chen Manjiang said angrily, but Mo Sang was soft on the ground and never spoke again.

Thinking of the scene just now, Mo Sang couldn't help but feel a wave of fear. She just wanted to secretly press the soul-calming talisman paper on Yao Keqing's chest, lest Yao Keqing's soul linger on herself, but she didn't want Yao Keqing to suddenly open her eyes, and the eyes of Gujing Wubo stared at her so straight that she was so scared that she couldn't scream, and ran away, which alarmed the night watchman and was caught, as for why it caught fire, she really didn't know, maybe she panicked and knocked over the candlestick!

"It's raining!" Suddenly, a voice said, just now it was still full of stars, but now it is layers of dark clouds, and the pouring rain is pouring down without warning, Yao Chongming looked at the dark sky, and a sense of foreboding climbed into his heart. At this moment, a thunderbolt of lightning across the whole sky came, illuminating the whole heaven and earth as bright as day, and after a muffled thunder, the whole world was quiet, very quiet.

Yao Keqing opened his eyes and saw an embroidered tent roof, and was surprised to think that I was alive again? Struggling to sit up, she was very happy to find that her hands and feet could move, but when she looked at the white and tender little hands in front of her, her face froze suddenly, could it be that she had been reincarnated? But why do you remember the events of your past life? Did you forget to drink Meng Po soup? How did you get here?

…… Yao Keqing has a stomach full of questions!

"Miss, you're awake, it's still early!" A crisp voice came, Yao Keqing felt very familiar, and it was the sound of pomegranates under the subtlety! Didn't Pomegranate get married a long time ago? Could it be someone with the same voice as a pomegranate? Yao Keqing looked at the person who spoke with a full stomach full of questions, it was really a pomegranate, and he was still a very young pomegranate, only 13 or 4 years old.

She said tentatively, "Pomegranate, where is Mama Fang?" ”

Pomegranate didn't notice the strangeness of her own young lady, and while helping her put on her coat, she replied, "Mama went to the third young master's house, the third young master has had a headache since he came back from the ancestral house yesterday, and Mama can't rest assured, seeing that it's not yet the time for the young lady to get up, so I went to take a look early." ”

Yao Keqing asked again: "Pomegranate, how old are you this year?" ”

Pomegranate was a little surprised, Miss has never been close to them, even Mama Fang is no exception, except for the dead old marquis and the third young master can get Miss care, usually not even a superfluous look to others, the people in the house say that the second miss looks down on them as subordinates, but they know that Miss just doesn't like to be close to people, but she has never treated them lightly. Although she was surprised in her heart, she replied honestly: "The slave will be fifteen next month." ”

Yao Keqing was relieved, thinking that Pomegranate was a daughter-in-law who was a housekeeper in her courtyard after marrying in her previous life, and later invited herself to Zhuangzi, but she didn't pay attention, thinking that because her husband died and she didn't have a son, the housekeeper in the inner courtyard thought she was a widow and squeezed her away. Thinking that what happened to her in her previous life was a little pitiful, she arrived: "When the time comes, find Grandma Fang to take a few feet of cloth to make new clothes, and then take two taels of silver, let the kitchen set up a table, and invite familiar sisters to get together." It's just that it's in the filial piety period, so don't drink. ”

At this moment, Pomegranate was completely shocked, and her face was full of surprise, when did her young lady change... Became... I have said so many words, and I still have such intimate words.

Looking at Pomegranate's face, Yao Keqing also understood that although she was impatient with those chores in her previous life, she had been a daughter-in-law in the end, and she had Mama Fang on the side to mention it, and she still knew a little about the world, but she hadn't adapted to the fact that she was only 5 years old now, even if she was smart, she wouldn't understand this, and she had never been close to people, no wonder she was suspicious. She didn't want to explain, just pay attention to it in the future, and instructed with a faint expression: "Fetch water, I want to freshen up, and then go to see Shen'er." Pomegranate hurriedly called the little girl to fetch water and personally served her to freshen up.

Pomegranate was about to ask her if she wanted breakfast, but Yao Keqing had already gotten up and walked out, Pomegranate thought in her heart that she was going to the third young master to use it again, so she instructed the little girl to carry the food box, and a group of people surrounded Yao Keqing and walked away. Although Yao Keqing is still full of doubts, he can't think about it, no matter what happened in the past, he must not be able to ask people to calculate in this life.

It should be May 11 in the sixth year of Deguang, my grandfather has just died, and yesterday was the day they sent my grandfather back to his ancestral home for burial.

The Yao family is considered a nouveau riche family, passed to Yao Chongming here is the third generation, the first emperor thanked the Yao family for saving the grace, in addition to the title, but also rewarded gold and silver antiques, grange homestead, etc., now the Yao family lives in the Changxiang Hou Mansion is given by the first emperor, the house is not as big as those founding dukes, but the Yao family is also a family of generations of officials, the family is quite rich, several generations have been handed down, after several transformations, the garden has also been expanded, so the Changxiang Hou Mansion is not small, and the Yao family because of the small population so the living is also spacious.

The front of the central axis of a courtyard was originally the old marquis Yao Jingde and his wife lived, now the old marquis is dead, only the old lady Miao lives alone, followed by several courtyards are the long house to live, before the eldest lady Fang took the second young lady and the third young master to live, and then the eldest lady went, the old lady wanted to put the second young lady and the third young master by her side to raise her, the old marquis did not agree, the second lady and the third young master still lived in the courtyard of the long house, and then lived in the second room Yao Chongming and his wife and concubines, The courtyard behind the second room was converted into several small courtyards for entertaining guests, and the kitchen, laundry room, sewing room, and storeroom were all located at the back, next to the back garden. There are two gardens in the Changxiang Hou Mansion, one in the front yard, one in the back yard, one in the southwest corner, and one in the northeast corner. But it's the one in the backyard that's more delicate and much bigger.

Yao Keqing's secluded pavilion and Yao Qishen's Qifang Pavilion lived on both sides of the Yilan Courtyard where Fang's lived before his death, Yao Qishen was originally going to be raised by Fang's side, but Fang's died a few days after giving birth to Yao Qishen, and then the old marquis spoke and moved Yao Qishen to live in his Fang Pavilion.