Chapter 42: Danger is Imminent
After worrying for several hours, finally in the evening, HD Ranken opened the door, and Wang successfully entered the main house of the plum garden.
Gao Gaolan, who was half-lying on the bed, had already red and swollen eyes, curled up in the quilt and did not show her head.
Wang walked into the room and pulled the girls back, closed the door gently, and then slowly approached the bed, "You get up for me!" Although he was very distressed in his heart, Wang was very strict on the surface.
Gao Gaolan, who was covered in the quilt, originally thought that her mother would comfort her first when she came in, but what she didn't expect to hear was cold words.
Unexpectedly, Gao Gao Lan opened the quilt and poked her head out, "Mother? ……”
"If you can't win, hide in the quilt and cry, are you still my Wang's daughter?"
"I ......"
"The glory of defeat is also defeat! If you lose, get up and continue to fight with her, this is decent, and you plan to continue to lie still when you fall down once, what? Are you waiting for Gao Ying to come up and continue to step on you? ”
"Mother, daughter doesn't mean that......"
"You saw the momentum of your father when he came, and you can hear what we said, and if I hadn't stood in the way outside the door, you would have been punished today! Even your father's pass can get by, what are you afraid of? Wang's face was even colder, and he didn't look moved at all.
Gao Gaolan's whole body was pulled out of the quilt, "But mother, today's banquet is so noisy, my daughter's reputation is ruined!" How will you go out to meet people in the future? Princess Gao Yang must know that I used her as a tool to deal with Gao Ying, and Gao Yang also hated me, so wouldn't other people be even more high? Daughter...... My daughter can ...... in the future."
"Shut up! What does it look like to complain? You haven't even gone out, how do you know that others will worship high and low? If you can't afford to lose, don't be my Wang's daughter, in the future, you just stay in this plum garden and don't go out, and when the year is over, find you a general in your father's military camp and marry casually, and then you will be in charge of firewood, rice, oil and salt, and you will be in charge of your own affairs, and it will be ...... not to associate with these ladies."
Listening to Wang's description of his future life, Gao Gao Lan felt like falling into hell, "Mother, don't live such a life, my daughter should be glorious and wealthy, why should I wrap myself in firewood, rice, oil, salt, and coarse cloth every day?" Daughter don't! ”
Slowly sat down on the side of the bed, Wang's tone gradually slowed down, "Since you don't want to live like that, you have to fight for yourself, today's banquet is just a small mistake, your father will definitely do his best to help our mother and daughter when he is outside, what's wrong with her standing at the peak temporarily?" I want to see how high she can stand, and the higher she stands, the worse she will fall in the future......"
The will that had been worn out was instantly restored, Gao Gao Lan wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and sat up straight on the bed, "Mother, what should my daughter do next?" ”
"Although I don't want to admit it, but today's banquet is too big a blow to our mother and daughter, we can't be strong in a short time, your grandmother is now in the house, I just got the news that that old guy actually ordered Gao Ying to serve in Fushou Garden every day, this is blatantly against our mother and daughter!"
"With the old lady protecting us, we can't do anything to her?"
"Not really, even if the old lady doesn't protect us, we can't do it in a short time, your father's suspicion of us has not been completely eliminated, so I have to accompany him well these days, and what you need to do is to live a normal life every day, eat well and dress well, as if nothing happened, and don't have any conflicts with Gao Ying, not only that, but you also have to be more intimate with her than when you usually get along with Gao Ying, let's paralyze her from the outside and devour her little by little!"
The slender fingers were clenched into fists, and Wang's eyes were far away, and a fierce color flashed in his eyes.
Gao Gao Lan was completely awakened by Wang's point, "Mother, what you mean daughter understands, what we need to do is to wait for the opportunity, and when the time comes, wait for the opportunity!" ”
"That's right, my smart daughter, her days of beauty are coming to an end!"
"But Mother, is it really okay with Father?"
"What can happen, when we attacked the Qin family back then, your father knew about it, and everything happened with his acquiescence, in fact, Gao Ying and Gao Weiguang have long been a thorn in your father's eyes, so your father and we are the same group, daughter, look at it, this pair of brothers and sisters have not had a good life for a few days."
"My brother doesn't know when he'll be back, and he's been out for too long this year, right?"
"Daughter's family, you don't understand, these are your father's plans, in short, it won't hurt. Whether your brother comes back or not has nothing to do with us, he wants to follow your father to do great things, you must not bother him with these things in the back house! ”
"Daughter knows ......" A smile climbed onto Gao Gaolan's face, and after sweeping away the haze, the second lady of the General's Mansion seemed to be clearer about what she had done and was about to do.
In the middle of the night, Xi Yao was sleeping soundly, the weather was getting cooler, and the night wind began to blow.
The leaves beside the bed swept across the window, rubbing against each other to make a rustling sound.
Suddenly waking up from the dream, Xi Yao adjusted her breathing and turned over.
Today is the Red Candle Vigil, and the Red Candle is the lightest.
When she woke up from her dream, Xi Yao thought about the dream just now, and she couldn't fall asleep, and vaguely seemed to smell a familiar smell, but she wasn't sure.
"Red Candle?"
Red Candle got up when she heard the sound, put on her coat and lit the candle and walked in, "Miss, what's wrong?" ”
"I'm a little thirsty, there doesn't seem to be hot water in the house, you go boil water......"
There was no disagreement with the master's order, and the red candle pretended to be bold and went out with the kettle.
As soon as the door closed, there was a loud bang, and before Xi Yao was ready, the figure on the beam had already fallen to the ground.
Startled by the sudden fall, when Xi Yao walked in with a candle, the familiar smell became stronger and stronger, Xi Yao was sure that this was the smell of Bai Moyang, but the strange thing was that there were some other things in this smell - a very strong smell of blood.
Walking in front of the man, Xi Yao's footsteps froze, and the light of the candle was unusually soft, as if the last slanting light of the setting sun was shining on Bai Moyang's body.
"Bai Moyang?" Xi Yao shouted, and the candle in his hand was almost unstable.
At his feet, Bai Moyang was gasping for breath, and in an instant, the place where he was lying was surrounded by blood, and the gurgling blood was flowing out from an unknown place on Bai Moyang's body, and when he looked around with a candle, he could see an obvious spot formed by blood extending from the window to the house.
Obviously, Bai Moyang came in through the window, and then hid on the beam.