Chapter 558: Suspicion
Su Yiqing was shocked when she learned about the disappearance of General Shao Li and her children from Mrs. Quan Si, and her first reaction was not Lian Yufeng's doing, right?
Mrs. Quan Si said that the Shao family inquired everywhere, but there was no news at all, and a few big people disappeared out of thin air, which was really strange, and the Shao family did not dare to report the case, but the Yancheng Mansion still intervened and turned the Shao family upside down, and there was still no clue.
Su Yiqing wanted to ask Lian Yufeng, but she felt that the relationship between the two had been a little tense recently, and she couldn't rely on her own guesses to question, if it wasn't for Lian Yufeng, it would be too hurtful, after all, General Shao's wife and children are women and children, and it is the most despicable behavior to attack women and children.
It's just that she really has doubts in her heart, and Su Yiqing can't help but be a little anxious.
At this time, even Yufeng took the initiative to come to her.
Looking at the chessboard placed in Su Yiqing's room, Lian Yufeng asked, "When did you like to play chess?"
Su Yiqing said softly: "I don't like it, I have nothing to do, I always have something to pass the time, this chess game is not bad, it can make people concentrate and have no distractions." ”
"Go down with yourself?" Lian Yufeng smiled, "Maybe I can accompany you to the next game?"
Su Yiqing shook her head, "No...... I'm not good at this, I think you must be a master, playing against you, it's not interesting to ask you to let go, if you do your best, I will lose too quickly, and it's even more boring. ”
"Who said that I must be a master of chess?" said Yu Feng lightly, "Actually, my chess skills are not proficient, for this kind of game." I don't think much thought about it. ”
"Yes, you focus on the real stuff and don't waste your time on it. Su Yiqing said casually, and then felt that something seemed to be wrong, a little wrong, so she lowered her head and didn't dare to look at the other party's eyes again.
Lian Yufeng sighed slightly: "You don't know me...... Or maybe you don't trust me anymore, do you?"
Su Yiqing lowered her eyes and clenched her fists slightly. Nails pinched into the golden flesh. Rely on a little sting to remind yourself, don't be soft-hearted or say something unrealistic to perfunctory, that will cause greater harm, which is not good for yourself and others. After that, she said, "It's not that I don't believe you. It's just that people can't blindly trust others...... Or that there has never been a foundation of trust between you and me. After all, there are many things between you and me that can't be told to each other, and concealing it is not malicious, but I always feel that there is something in my heart. ”
"Why do you have to know something that has nothing to do with you?" even Yufeng's expression was a little helpless.
"Do you think I should ignore everything around me?" Su Yiqing raised her eyes. looked at Lian Yufeng, "If that's the case, you shouldn't have married me in the first place, you should know that I'm not the kind of person who has enough to eat and drink, I can really do nothing and ignore anything, and I'm not the person I am today." ”
What Su Yiqing wants to say more is that even Yufeng just wants an obedient and gentle wife, there are still many such girls in Yancheng, although most of the girls who grew up in the mansion are a little scheming, and even some of them are really not very good, but they are still kind and kind, and even Yufeng has a heart, and he will definitely be able to find such a wife.
In the final analysis, she and him are not suitable after all, it has nothing to do with whether they like each other or not, she and him are not suitable, each other's environment, personality and other reasons add together, so that they cannot live a peaceful life like a normal couple, and even some couples who have a bad relationship and quarrel every day.
Some quarrels mean that there is still room for negotiation or compromise, and she and him can't even quarrel, so they are consuming the feelings they should have, and in the end they are both exhausted.
Sadly, she didn't know what it was all about, and naturally there was no way to fix it.
There were times when she wanted to ask him directly if she wanted to get to that top position, but she was afraid to know his answer, and she was afraid that if he told her directly, what would she do? Do she do everything she can to help him, or will she continue to be an ostrich and hide in her own world?
To help him, she felt that she didn't have that ability, and she couldn't do it if she turned a blind eye, so she chose not to face this problem, not to find the answer, maybe this matter will pass like that.
She has been comforting herself, it shouldn't be, after all, it is not easy to get that position, she no longer understands the affairs of the court, and she also knows that he is still far away from that position, and it is not easy to reach, and everything he does is not quite like what he wants to do in that position.
At least, if he really wanted that position, he shouldn't marry her, but should marry a more well-connected young lady and rely on the strength of the Yue family to achieve his goal.
But she really didn't know why he wanted to marry her, if it was just for some kind of use, he wouldn't let her give birth to their child at all, just because they had a common child, it was not easy to draw a line between them, and that day, if her identity was revealed, it would definitely have a great impact on him, and there would be speculation in all aspects.
She couldn't imagine how he would face it at that time, before he comforted her and said that if there was a case, he also had a way to deal with it, but what was this countermeasure, he never said, would there be no way to deal with it at all, it was just a comfort.
Or to put it worse, he won't let the matter be exposed at all, and for this he will do whatever it takes to eradicate all those who know the secret and have the potential to leak it, such as Xin'er.
Even Yufeng has been looking at Su Yiqing, and for Su Yiqing's question earlier, he replied for a long time: "As a woman and a wife, it is not that you should ignore it, but you must also know not to be too entangled, after all, you also know that even if you are a husband and wife, sometimes men do things outside, and they can't tell women everything." ”
Su Yiqing said softly: "I don't want to know what you did outside, but I care if what you do is unreasonable, I don't want my husband to be a fair and upright gentleman, but at least, he won't do too much evil." ”
"So, do you think I'm going to do it to women and children now?" Lian Yufeng raised his eyebrows, and his tone was indescribably disappointed.
Su Yiqing felt a little uncomfortable. But when it comes to this, I can't back down, gritting my teeth and saying, "Don't you want to know what kind of relationship General Shao's wife has with me?"
Lian Yufeng said: "Her name is Du Juan, and her sister Feng Rou used to ...... After talking to me, she also stayed in the county lord's mansion for a while, so she should have known you at that time, right? You have always been very kind, especially for those women with rough fates, and maybe you took care of her during that time. ”
"You know?" Su Yiqing was a little surprised. Then he said, "When did you know?"
"Not the time you thought it was a long time ago. I knew it when she became General Shao's wife, after all, I had some political disagreements with Shao Li, so I paid some attention, and even Yufeng paused. glanced at Su Yiqing. Again. "You can understand that I have some petty minds in the backyard of my investigation. ”
Su Yiqing lowered her head again and stopped talking, saying that she was a villain or too much. However, she confirmed that Lian Yufeng was always staring at other people's backyards, taking advantage of the suspicions between women to make a big fuss and achieve his own goals, which was a little too unsightly.
Lian Yufeng continued: "So Lu Tengyi told me, you met with General Shao's wife, and after you came back, your behavior was a little abnormal, I knew what it was for, but I didn't mean to do anything, after all, Shao Li is not an ordinary person, and it is not so easy to move his wife and children." ”
"But...... Now that the cuckoo and the child are missing, what's going on?" Su Yiqing couldn't help but ask.
Lian Yufeng spread his hands, "I'm not omniscient, to tell you the truth, I don't know what's going on, and I'm still investigating." ”
Su Yiqing said: "You really don't have any clues?"
"What do you think I'll know?" asked Lian Yufeng rhetorically.
"I don't know. Su Yiqing was a little sullen, but she felt that this matter seemed a little weird, and it was too coincidental.
"Why don't you think of an answer for yourself?" Lian Yufeng smiled, "I can give you a few hints, a woman disappears with a child, there can only be two reasons, one is that she ran away from home with the child, and the other is that she was taken away, and these two reasons have different reasons, if she runs away from home with the child, then it means that there is a reason why she can't stay at home, and if she is taken away, there are naturally different reasons." ”
Su Yiqing thought about it, and Mrs. Quan Si did say that Uncle Shao and his wife were very disagreeable, making trouble at home all day long, Du Juan was just a weak woman, and she was dragging the child, and she didn't want to be too entangled with Uncle Shao and his wife, so it was possible to hide out temporarily, but after thinking about it, I felt that something was wrong.
After all, Du Juan is already the general's wife, no matter what kind of background she was from before, she now has to take care of her identity or General Shao's face.
Just run away from home like that, how can you face all kinds of speculation and doubts when you come back in the future? A woman in the dust can also be good, but if she is infected with the dust again after being good, it will be difficult to wash it away for the rest of her life.
Even if it is for the sake of a pair of children, Du Juan should not be like this, if she really wants to avoid Uncle Shao and his wife, she can hide in the nunnery like last time, without sacrificing her reputation.
Even Yufeng seemed to be able to guess what Su Yiqing was thinking, and said lightly: "You must have seen a lot of the cruelty of the battle between the inner house, and some vicious people are not so easy to avoid." ”
Su Yiqing frowned slightly, did Yu Feng mean that Uncle Shao and his wife were going to kill Du Juan's mother and son? Thinking of this, she said, "Du Juan has also seen the world, so he shouldn't be easily calculated?"
"Day and night, it is difficult to prevent thieves. Lian Yufeng said lightly, "As long as you live under the same roof, there will be a time when you can't prevent it, speaking of which, you don't see anyone in this life, you don't see death, and the matter has only come out after these days, this Uncle Shao really wants to do something to the cuckoo's mother and son, just find a sack to cover, put it in a carriage and transport it out of the city, dig a pit and bury it casually, where can I find it?"
"How is it possible?" Su Yiqing was taken aback by Lian Yufeng's speculation. These are three lives in life, is Uncle Shao so bold? Dare to blatantly kill his brother-in-law and nephews and nieces.
Lian Yufeng asked, "Do you think Uncle Shao doesn't have the courage, or do you think things are difficult?"
Su Yiqing thought for a while and said: "There are maids and servants by the side of the cuckoo, Uncle Shao and his wife really want to quietly kill people, and then get out of the mansion, it is not an easy task at all, the Shao family is also a high-gate compound, how can it avoid everyone's eyes and ears?"
"I don't know. Lian Yufeng immediately said, "I only know now that Yin Zhuying of Yancheng Mansion has already begun to ruin the descendants of the Shao family to the court, see if you can interrogate anything, since you pay attention to this matter, I will order people to pay more attention, as soon as there is news, I will tell you immediately, in short, this matter has nothing to do with me, you can feel at ease now." ”
Well, Su Yiqing admitted that she was a little sympathetic to Du Juan's mother and son, but as long as this matter had nothing to do with Lian Yufeng, then this matter had little to do with her, and she could indeed feel at ease.
At the same time, the Yancheng Mansion.
Zhu Ying, as Lian Yufeng said, was interrogating the subordinates of the Shao family.
Those subordinates shook their heads one by one, saying that they didn't know anything, and they hadn't seen their wife go out, but Zhu Ying was so old in trying the case, with a little glance, he knew who was lying, and immediately punished the two mothers-in-law who looked more tricky.
The woman's bones were not very hard, and she confessed immediately that on the day when the general's wife and children disappeared, she was only concerned about eating and drinking, and was lazy, so she did not guard the corner gate, and I don't know who entered and exited the corner gate.
Zhu Yingshun touched the melon, and asked the mother-in-law, how to eat and drink with people, and who invited her?
The mother-in-law confessed that it was the small wine invited by the grandmother next to Mrs. Shao, and the wine and food were all brought by this grandmother.
Zhu Ying immediately brought the grandmother next to Mrs. Shao again.
At first, the grandmother was also hard-mouthed, saying that the master's family had rewarded some wine and food, and she couldn't finish eating alone, so she invited the mother-in-law who guarded the door to eat together, and she didn't know anything about the disappearance of General Shao's wife.
Zhu Ying didn't allow that grandmother to get away with it, speaking of which, the two rooms of the Shao family are separated, and that grandmother has good wine and good food and doesn't eat with the people in her own room, but goes to another room to eat with the rough envoy who is several levels lower than her, who believes this?
He interrogated the other subordinates of the Shao family, and they all said that the grandmother next to Mrs. Shao had her own identity and rarely talked to them, let alone eat and drink.
It was during this time, I don't know why, every once in a while, I invited the mother-in-law who guarded the door to eat and drink, and everyone thought it was a little weird? But I didn't think too much about it.
It's just that this grandmother has a hard mouth, and she uses a little punishment but refuses to say anything, in the end, she is a grandmother from a big family, and she can't be tortured too much. (To be continued......)