Chapter 158: Murder for Money

readx; Li Xiu's remarks made Mo Xiaohe open his mouth wide and was extremely shocked, it seems that no matter when, once a woman is independent and has the ability to make money, her vision and vision immediately become different. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

There was a light rain outside, and the sky never cleared, which was annoying. On the way here, Mo Xiaohe walked a few steps, wet her skirt and shoes, and it happened that there was luggage in the carriage, so she changed into a new set of clothes.

"Xiaohe, the embroidery of your dress is so beautiful, and I have never seen the pattern, is it a Kyoto style?"

Li Xiu touched it, reluctant to let go, women like rouge gouache, jewelry and new clothes, she is no exception, look at the fabric, although it is muslin, it feels very good to the touch, more comfortable than smooth silk.

"I bought ready-to-wear from Luzhou City."

Mo Xiaohe passed by a ready-to-wear store and took a fancy to this dress at a glance, and was almost mistaken for a murderer at that time, and there was a big oolong, she used to buy and buy to vent. This dress was bought several times, and it looked like a big opera, and it was also after she learned how to tailor with Feng on the way back, and changed the size by herself.

Don't look at this kind of muslin cloth, wear it in summer, it is very comfortable, sweat-absorbent, breathable, and the price is more expensive than ordinary silk, but Luzhou is rich in silk, and the locals will not spend a lot of money to buy muslin dresses.

"Cousin, I don't know your size, I can only make a rough estimate, so I bought the fabric, and you make your own favorite style."

The things that Mo Xiaohe and others brought back were piled up in a big box, which contained silk flowers, jewelry, hairpin rings, handkerchiefs, purses, and bits and pieces of gadgets, incense, small incense burners, and elegant incense, all of which were liked by the daughter's family.

Li Xiu felt that her eyes were almost insufficient, picked up the embroidery handkerchief, praised the good embroiderers on it, she calculated how many copper plates she could exchange for the same embroidery pattern, which must be higher than the general price.

"Later, I bought wine and tea, and the carriage couldn't fit down, otherwise I could have brought more."

Mo Xiaohe took out two pieces of fox fur brought from Licheng and put them on the box, these were for his cousin alone, and there was a pair of red gauze tents inside, which could be used as a dowry.

"My parents said that I was old and wanted to marry me as soon as possible, but I was not in a hurry."

After a woman gets married, it is better to be free when she is in her mother's house, she is a member of someone else's family, and the money she earns to supplement the family can only be done secretly, Li Xiu wants to make her own conditions better first.

"Gee, you're worried a lot."

The two sisters are giggling and fighting, who said that they will not be free after marriage? Mo Xiaohe doesn't think so, the most important thing is what kind of family to marry, first of all, a man must be of good character, hard-working, and a good-looking embroidered pillow is useless.

"For example, you like to read books, chant poems against each other, and the wind and snow, but apart from this, what can he do?"

You can't pick your shoulders, you can't lift your hands, it's almost time to eat, make a sour poem, it sounds very beautiful, like painting a big pie, you drool, still starving, chanting poems to the moon at night, sad spring and autumn, the moon, there are always four seasons all year round, repeatedly, do you want to listen to it for a lifetime?

In the past, her cousin Li Xiu was still very realistic, but judging from her admiration for the rabbit spirit Xu Yanhui, it is difficult to escape the nature of the Dawu Women's Appearance Association, and Mo Xiaohe, as a person who has come over, must sound a wake-up call for her.

"Haha, Xiaohe, the example you gave is funny."

Li Xiu covered her lower abdomen and giggled a few times, if these words came out of other people's mouths, she could barely accept them, but Mo Xiaohe was different, she used to love beauty the most, and she especially liked readers, so she did not hesitate to be a concubine, and now after getting married, she can be regarded as a change of character.

Orion is very diligent and good in all aspects, but his appearance is too ugly, Li Xiu wondered if his cousin would wake up in the middle of the night, turn his head, and see that scarred face, and scream in fright.

"Of course, there are not no people who are good-looking, hardworking, willing to work and can read, such as my eldest brother."

Mo Xiaohe looked proud, the eldest brother Mo Huaiyuan is really top in all aspects, but unfortunately the fierce man is afraid of entangling the woman, and in the end he was won by Jingzhao Yin's daughter Zhang Xianxian, she can only pray.

It was almost noon, the sky was still gloomy, Mo Xiaohe came out of the house, accompanied Gu Zheng to pick up the clothes to take home, the couple went to the shop to buy spices together, and went to visit Mo Daya by the way.

Holding a hare, after the two discussed, they took a pot of tea, this kind of unconscionable person, it is not worth sending too many good things, whether the hare can fall into Mo Daya's mouth I don't know.

"Then I'll wait for you on the side of the road, something will call me."

Gu Zheng carried a cloth bag in his hand and gave the hare and tea canisters to his wife, and he guessed that the Zhang family would definitely have a moth.

Sure enough, after Mo Xiaohe knocked on the door, Li Erniang came to open the door with an impatient face, and shouted loudly, "What are you urging, it's coming!" Not deaf, heard! ”

"Really, it's raining and cloudy, and it's not at home, what are you messing around! The door panel is going to fall apart! ”

Li Erniang opened a crack in the door, and when she saw Mo Xiaohe, she immediately smiled and narrowed her eyes, seeing that she was carrying something in her hand, the smile was even deeper, and the wrinkles on her face could trap a fly.

"Auntie, I'll come to see my cousin."

Mo Xiaohe pretended to be stupid, pretending not to know anything, she had discussed with Mo Daya before, and came to see it every few days, the old goddess would probably not let her enter the door, if it was safe, hang a red rope in the yard, one at the door, one in the yard, and use it to report safety.

As soon as she knocked on the door, she carefully looked for the red rope, but she didn't see it, and now the door opened a gap, Mo Xiaohe took a step forward, poked her head and looked in, but she didn't see the red rope hanging by Mo Daya.

Could it be that my cousin forgot? Or is it a rainy day, and the red rope is taken away?

Mo Xiaohe blinked, and suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart. The courtyard was quiet, and she deliberately banged on the door vigorously, but she didn't get a code.

"Hey, this is the little lady of the Mo family, it's really handsome, the old woman has lived in the town for so many years, and I haven't seen a few handsome people than you, tsk."

Li Erniang rolled her eyes, took the rabbit and tea canister in Mo Xiaohe's hand, and pondered in her heart.

"The eldest girl was affected by the wind a few days ago, and she had a rash, and after seeing Lang Zhong, she said that the disease was contagious, and she had a fever from time to time, and now she is sleeping in the side room."

Rubella is not a serious disease, almost everyone has had it, fever is also a normal phenomenon, just drink some banlan root, ordinary people's daughters-in-law are not so delicate, Li Erniang found this excuse perfectly, and put an end to Mo Xiaohe's visit.

"Little lady, the old woman won't keep you much, so as not to be too sick, wait for the old girl to get better in two days, and then let her talk to you."

Li Erniang said a few more words of thanks, and was about to close the door.

"Wait a minute, auntie, I've had a rash before, I can get this disease once, let me go in and see my cousin."

As a relative, Mo Xiaohe made this legitimate request, but Li Erniang's face immediately changed and she scolded, "Why are you so blind?" ”

On a rainy day, if she doesn't go to work, Li Er is rarely at home, and she is warming up with Mo Daya, striving to have a child as soon as possible, and continuing the incense for the Li family, she is just looking for a reason, who would have thought that Mo Xiaohe would be so stupid.

"Really?"

The old lady said this, if it was an ordinary little lady, she would have been so shy that she would have turned her head and left, but that person is not Mo Xiaohe, in modern times, casually open a few meat jokes, almost no one blushes, and the posture of sexual affairs can hold lectures, which are just normal needs.

The problem is that Li Erniang, in order to force her to leave, did everything she could to find such a ridiculous reason to insult her IQ? Mo Xiaohe was almost certain that if she was not allowed to enter the door, there would be something.

"Husband! Husband! ”

If there is a problem, find Gu Zheng, this is what Mo Xiaohe has always pursued, she called out twice with her throat, and Gu Zheng immediately rushed over.

"The old woman won't let me go in to see my cousin, let's break in!"

Time was pressing, and he couldn't explain so much, Mo Xiaohe was full of energy, and he pressed against the door hard to prevent Li Erniang from closing the door.

"Robbers, trespassing, I'm going to sue you!"

The old pious woman had red eyes, turned her head and called her son Li Er for help, and after a while, a sloppy man rushed out of it, his shoes were worn backwards, and he was full of alcohol, and it seemed that he hadn't woken up.

"Have you ever seen a robber who volunteered to deliver something?"

With Gu Zheng joining, Li Er and Lao Qianpo were not opponents, Mo Xiaohe rushed in as soon as possible, and almost hit her head on the door frame due to inertia, she hurried into the door, and then shouted Mo Daya's name around.

"Little lotus, little lotus, save me."

Mo Daya was thrown in a utility room, leaking everywhere, because of the rain, she was even more trembling, dizzy, she hoped that her cousin would be smarter, and there was time to save her, she didn't want to die.

Groggy and unconscious several times, she felt that she was about to die, but she was unwilling, the old pious woman and the vicious Li Er killed her child, do you want to let her die too?

After living for so many years, Mo Daya has never regretted it so much, she hates, she doesn't listen to the old man, she suffers in front of her, such a good future is ruined by her, she lives like no one and no ghost, she has no face to face her relatives!

There is so much reluctance, if she dies, who will avenge her child? Will God accept the two sluts, Lao Qianpo and Li Er?

"Cousin!"

The voice was too weak, but it was still heard by Mo Xiaohe, who tried her best to capture it, she ran over and kicked the door open hard, the dust on the door frame fell, choking her and coughing.

It was a gray, tattered, low room, with a basket of scattered firewood underneath, rain leaking in the corner, and a few stools with missing arms and legs, crooked, the wall leaking, and one place in the corner of the wall was moldy, leaning against the window, and there were huge cobwebs.

Mo Daya was lying on a straw mat, her face was blue, her lips were pale, and her chest was almost out of breath.

"Cousin......"

Mo Daya was like a woman in her forties and fifties, with a sallow face, no flesh on her body, just lying there, Mo Xiaohe couldn't help it, and immediately cried bitterly.

"Oops, oops!"

There were two crisp sounds of bones in the courtyard, followed by the shouts of Li Er and the old pious woman, Gu Zheng locked people in the stove, tied them with ropes, and hurried to find Mo Xiaohe, he was very anxious at the moment, his own lady, what happened?

"Woo woo, husband, what should I do, my cousin doesn't seem to be able to do it!"

After Mo Daya screamed twice, she lost her breath, Mo Xiaohe's legs were weak, she didn't dare to come forward to look, she trembled and leaned on Gu Zheng's arms, tears were in her eyes, she met the day before yesterday, her cousin was almost pale, but it wasn't like this for two days!

"It's still angry, don't worry, send people to the hospital."

Gu Zheng patted his lady on the shoulder, wiped her tears again, he looked around the courtyard and found a trolley.

"Lady, go into the house and find two sets of bedding, one spread under the cart and one for her."

After speaking, he now laid a layer of straw on the cart, and the husband and wife carried Mo Daya to the cart and went straight to the nearby medical center.

In fact, the medical hall in the yamen only costs a penny, but the distance is a little far, Mo Daya's situation must be diagnosed and treated as soon as possible, otherwise he may have to give up his life.

"People have become like this, why did they send it? This is what you shouldn't eat, right? It seems to be a deadly white poison umbrella! ”

Lang Zhong opened Mo Daya's lips and looked at it, sighing, people are like this, he can only do his best, or he will carry it back to prepare for the future. Deadly white poison umbrella, if you eat it, you will die, and the toxicity is no less than arsenic.

Recently, it has rained, mushrooms are easy to grow under the tree, the deadly white poison umbrella is one of them, those people who have no common sense, are always reluctant to throw it, just make soup to drink, a few days ago there was a family, the baby is not sensible, after eating, it didn't take long to die, the family is really crying liver and intestines.

"This white poison umbrella is not the same as other poisons after poisoning."

After poisoning, it will be latent for a period of time, and then make people vomit, vomit and diarrhea, some people will feel that they have eaten the wrong thing, just drink some medicine, and it will get better, but when it is repeated here, it will basically kill you.

"Lang Zhong, save my cousin!"

Mo Xiaohe wiped her tears, resentful in her heart, needless to say, this white poisonous umbrella must be a good thing done by Lao Qianpo and Li Er, otherwise why is it that only Mo Daya was poisoned, but those two people are fine?

They saw that the Mo family was going to come back, and after giving Mo Daya the master, they were going to spit out the dowry they ate, so they thought of a good idea to make money and kill themselves, after all, if Mo Daya died, the Mo family would have no excuse to come to the door to ask for the dowry.

"Whether it can be achieved or not, it depends on the creation."

Lang Zhong sighed, didn't ask more, sent the boy to fill the medicine, and entered the door by himself.

Mo Xiaohe's guess is right, in fact, Li Erniang has such a mind, she has done too many bad things, she is afraid of being exposed, in case Mo Daya sues and says that she abuses, it will be enough for her to drink a pot.

What kind of person is the Mo family, it is the queen's mother's mother's family, even if Mo Daya is expulsed, the Mo family will not ignore it.

Li Erniang regretted that she listened to the slander, her life was good, her heart was alive, and she became greedy, she was really blinded by lard, but now she regrets it, there is no way to make up for her previous mistakes, and she is reluctant to pay the large dowry.

It happened that Li Er came back from gambling money, and was scolding bad luck, she asked the reason to know that the family that often gambled together had a dead baby, and he was still the only man in the family.

When I went to the town to see it, Lang Zhong couldn't say why, it was different from arsenic poisoning, so Li Erniang moved her mind. That night, she cut the meat given by Mo Xiaohe into slices and stewed soup, went out to the utility room to get firewood, and happened to see a few white mushrooms under the eaves.

In the past, cleaning the yard was done by Mo Daya, and she didn't pay attention to it at all, but now after seeing it, she is even more excited.

Anyway, I just heard about it, and it may not really be able to poison people, Li Erniang was ruthless, picked a few stewed soups, and served a big bowl for Mo Daya for dinner, and said all the good things.

Mo Daya thought that the clansmen were coming back, and the old pious woman had a weak heart and wanted to please her, and besides, there was no oil and water for a while, so she drank a whole big bowl, and it was not good the next morning.

"Husband, the queen mother gave me an antidote pill before, and I just fed my cousin one, I don't know if it can be useful."

The detoxification pill, also known as the Baihua Yulu pill, can detoxify all kinds of poisons, but Mo Daya is half dead, and the treatment is too late, and all the hopes cannot be placed on the detoxification pill.

"Jiren has his own nature."

Gu Zheng touched his lady's head, felt that her body was trembling, and hurriedly hugged her in his arms, thanks to the lady's intelligence, if it was a day and a half a day late, Mo Daya would become a corpse.

As for what to do with Li Er and the old godly woman, we have to wait for Mo Daya to wake up.

Until it got dark, Mo Daya seemed to have a dream, in the dream, she was stripped naked by Li Er, hung on the pillar and whipped, she resisted strongly, and her body was whipped out of the traces, she cried and shouted, desperately said no, and woke up like this.

"Cousin, are you awake?"

Mo Xiaohe wiped Mo Daya's tears with a towel, sighed, Lang Zhong said that he would not wake up until tomorrow, it seems that the Hundred Flowers Jade Dew Pill is working.

The next morning, Gu Zheng went back to the blacksmith shop and informed the Wen family and Li Xiu of the situation, the two followed to take a look, helped Mo Daya scrub, changed a set of clothes, and the two had to go back, so as not to wait for Mo Xiaohe's grandparents to wait for people to be in a hurry.

In an emergency, no one is psychologically prepared, sending people to the iron shop, for fear of rumors, which is not good for the cousin, and the current state of the person is not stable, the husband and wife discussed, so they gave Lang Zhong more silver, borrowed a room, and took care of it at any time.

Gu Zheng was reluctant to let his mother suffer, but he was a foreign man, and he couldn't take care of people, so he had to help decoction medicine in the stove and boil porridge that replenished qi and blood.

"Xiaohe, I thought I'd never see you again."

After waking up, Mo Daya was stunned, she never thought that the old goddess would be so vicious and wanted to kill her, that day's dinner, she was the only one who drank the meat slice soup, if you want to say that this is a coincidence, she doesn't believe it!

This is murder for money, murder!

"Cousin, you recuperate first, those two people have been put away by me, and they can't get out of the city."

The town is so big, it doesn't take much effort to find two people, and it won't let them run away, Mo Xiaohe has already sent a letter to his family and asked them to rush back as soon as possible. When the case is opened, it is best to have the family in charge, and she can't decide it herself.

"I really didn't expect that if a husband and wife are a hundred days old, Li Er will not do such a thing if he can read a little bit of husband and wife love!"

Mo Daya was sad, more desperate, she always thought that Li Er was instigated by his mother, it turned out that she was unwilling and didn't dare to admit it, and the reality was bloody.

The rain stopped, the temperature was a little low, the night was cool and the wind was gusting, the weather was cloudy, and the moon was not visible.

Mo Xiaohe lit the wick with a wire, turned around and went to the kitchen to serve the boiled medicinal porridge, which was filled with ginseng brought from Licheng, which was the most nourishing. The porridge was too hot, Gu Zheng was afraid that his wife would be burned, so he wrapped the edge with a cloth towel, put it in a food box, and sent her to the door.

"Cousin, now that you have a weak spleen and stomach, you'd better drink some porridge first."

Open the food box, the air was filled with a medicinal fragrance, Mo Daya smelled it, a little embarrassed, she was always jealous of this cousin before, and she was not very good to Mo Xiaohe, but when something happened, her cousin was the first to stand up.

She remembered that before leaving last time, Mo Xiaohe felt that it was inappropriate, and specially asked her to leave a password, she didn't take it seriously at the time, and she thought it was funny, but now that she thinks about it, her back is cold.

That night, after the meal, Mo Daya was too happy, the old goddess did not let her clean up, she washed up, went to bed early, and forgot that the red rope reported safety, and the next day, it began to be bad, until she was in a serious coma, and when she woke up, she found herself locked in the utility room.

Thousands of calculations, incomprehensible to the hearts of the people, Mo Daya felt that she was very pathetic, and she should not be killed, she wanted to send two black-hearted people to prison, and asked the official master to help and the Li family.

After Mo Xiaohe heard this, he thought that things were not so simple, these years the officials have taken care of each other, and it is the prefect's concubine who eats his cousin's baby, will people admit it? The family must be consulted in one place, and it is necessary to send a letter to Kyoto to hear the meaning of the clan.