Chapter 21: The Concubine
Ling Yun left the lobby and came to the backyard, which was far from the scale of the courtyard of the Hu Mansion, only twelve separate courtyards symmetrical on the left and right, which were inhabited by several concubines and subordinates of Wang Sancheng. Wang Sancheng was transferred here for several years, and he did not bring his family with him, because his wife had a pungent personality, and his father-in-law lived in a four-grade official residence, and his status was not low.
Wang Sancheng loves women, and it is common for him to linger in the place of Qinglou, if his family moves to Jingnan County, I am afraid that his wife will have to make a mess.
Because his wife was not by his side, he stayed in the capital thousands of miles away, so when Wang Sancheng came to Xianmen, he did whatever he wanted, and married seven concubines in a row, and his body became thinner and thinner, although he was still a fat ball-like figure, he had lost a lot of weight compared with before.
When Ling Yun came to the backyard, he found that it was unusually quiet, and he couldn't hear a single human voice.
He knew that he had deceived Sun Xun in his official uniform, but Wang Sancheng's family would definitely recognize him, and if there was no one in the backyard, it would be a good thing.
Before, he adjusted the world time to extremely slow, walked through the backyard, and searched for the pamphlet in Wang Sancheng's concubine's room, at that time, he remembered that there were many female servants in the backyard, whether it was cooks, horse servants, gardeners, housekeepers, or concubines, maids, and mothers-in-law, there were more than 20 people.
At the moment, the backyard was empty.
Ling Yun was slightly surprised, could it be that these people knew that Wang Sancheng had been killed, that the trees had fallen and the macaques had scattered, and that they had all run away? It seemed that Wang Sancheng was too unpopular.
It's a pity that the millions of taels of silver have already been emptied.
Ling Yun walked through the corridor of the house without giving up, rummaging through the boxes and cabinets, and took a lot of effort, except for some precious porcelain and gold and silver jewelry, he did not find the imaginary boxes of silver.
Came to a study, the bookshelf was covered with dust, there was a chaise longue couch in the hall, the couch was covered with tiger skin velvet, and the head of the couch was a Shu brocade pillow embroidered with the Spring Palace, Ling Yun sat on the soft couch in frustration, thinking, more than a million snowflakes and silver, you have to pull several carts with a carriage, how can they all be swept away!
The gold and silver jewelry in each concubine's room, Ling Yun had already reluctantly packed it, and the heavy package was thrown on the couch, and the jade bracelet gold and silver touched, making a crisp sound.
"Bang-" There seemed to be a sound of wooden planks slamming down, and Ling Yun became alert, and the sound seemed to come from under the chaise longue's bed.
Ling Yun got up lightly and carefully lifted the chaise longue, revealing a blank grid underneath it, and under the lattice was a heavy wooden plank.
Ling Yun was afraid that someone would be ambushed under the board, so he slowed down the picture scroll of the world into frames, and the wooden board was opened by him quickly, and the people below were still sluggish and had not yet noticed, after all, the world had only passed less than a thousandth of a second.
It was a beautiful face, with her hair tied into a jet-black bun, hanging behind her head, a few strands of hair hanging down on her forehead, fair skin, a high nose, a pair of rouge lips that were extraordinarily red, and a close-fitting coat set off a bumpy figure, which was the mature and green flavor of a first-time wife.
Ling Yun scanned up and down for a long time, time gradually returned to normal, and the man was suddenly startled after a second, and shouted loudly: "Don't kill me, don't kill me!" Covering his eyes, he didn't dare to look again.
Ling Yun saw the pair of jade-like fingers, gently took them away, and asked with a smile, "Do you know who I am, why did you ask me not to kill you?"
She was shocked, her chest continued to rise and fall, and she saw that the person who came was wearing an official uniform, and said in surprise: "This is the master's official uniform?"
Ling Yun smiled: "No, I am a new magistrate, and Wang Sancheng has been transferred out of this county." ”
The woman was stunned for a moment, and then burst into tears.
Ling Yun said: "Don't cry first, make it clear, who wants to kill you?"
The woman burst into tears and said: "At noon today, I was taking a nap on the chaise longue in the study, and suddenly I heard someone shouting outside the window, 'Murder', so I lay on the window and looked out, but I didn't expect a charred corpse to walk around, and bite people when I saw them, until I sucked up the blood of people, and I was so frightened that I hid under the chaise longue's couch, and escaped a catastrophe, and I didn't dare to come out until now, who knew that I heard a sound on the couch, and I was so frightened that I retracted." ”
When Ling Yun heard the "charred corpse", he couldn't help but think of Hu Yinshan's missing corpse, and his heart was full of curiosity: "Is there really a zombie in the world?"
He just walked through every room in the entire backyard, and indeed found that some places smelled foul, and the furnishings in the house were a mess.
Thinking of a few strange mosquitoes in the dense forest, Ling Yun felt strange, how could zombies suck up human blood like mosquitoes? What about the empty skin sac after being sucked out of blood? Ling Yun did not see it.
When the woman saw that Ling Yun was an ordinary person, not a zombie, her fear was greatly reduced.
Because she had been hiding from noon until now, she rushed up with urine, hurriedly climbed out of the dark compartment, took out a filthy basin from under the desk, ignored Ling Yun, untied her dirty pants, and there was a sound of water.
Ling Yun didn't notice such a fragrant scenery at all, his eyes were attracted by the glittering thing in the dark.
Countless gold bars and silver ingots accumulated in the dark grid, shining brightly through the faint light.
Ling Yun's heart was so full of joy that he almost fell headlong into the dark grid.
The woman, who had been drowsy due to excessive fear and poor air in the dark compartment, was dizzy from the urge to urinate as soon as she showed up, and was in a hurry to release her, so that outsiders discovered Wang Sancheng's vault, and could not help but regret it.
She didn't know that Wang Sancheng had long been reduced to ashes, on the one hand, she was ashamed of peeing in front of a strange man, and on the other hand, she was anxious to cover up the secrets of the vault, but unfortunately she couldn't think of any good way.
She lifted her trousers, picked up a finely embroidered coat from the hanger and put it on, twisted the jasper button, sorted out the clothes on her body, walked slowly to the chaise longue, and gave a deep salute: "I don't know if my lord is respectful? Why did my lord suddenly transfer out of this county, can there be documentary proof?"
Ling Yun smiled: "You tell me your name first, who is Wang Sancheng?"
The woman bowed her head and said, "Where does the little girl deserve the upper surname and big name, only the cheap name Xuezhu is the seventh concubine of my lord." ”
Xuezhu is eighteen years old, and his parents are both local farmers, because Wang Sancheng occasionally came to be interested, and took a group of people to hug him, went out of Nancheng to hunt, and saw that the Xuezhu playing in the water by the river was very pretty, so he tried every possible way to force the second elder to marry his daughter to him, and Xuezhu was only fifteen years old that year.
Xuezhu originally had a marriage contract with the son of the Li family next door, where did Wang Sancheng care about this, and snatched Xuezhu into the official mansion overnight, thinking that it was a virgin, but he didn't expect it to be smooth and smooth, and it turned out that he had already secretly married the son of the Li family next door. Wang Sancheng was not angry, he was happy to walk Yangguan Avenue instead of taking the chicken intestine path.
The son of the Li family next door was angry because of this, he was originally thin and weak, and he died of depression not long after.
Xuezhu originally loved the handsome young man next door, and didn't like this fat-headed and big-eared county official, but she was powerful, and her parents were powerless to resist.
Since then, Xuezhu has become Wang Sancheng's favorite concubine, and the first six rooms have become decorations. Xuezhu is also a stingy and jealous woman, and Wang Sancheng is not allowed to take concubines again, since then, Wang Sancheng is too lazy to take another concubine, and he is tired of eating home-cooked food, so he goes to Wanxian Building or shopping in the streets and alleys to find a good home, but it has a different taste.