Chapter 12: Is There Really Anyone in the Coffin?
There is a saying called "It's none of your business, hang high." The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info "So for Miss Xie Jiasan's braided hair in the middle of the night, although the people in the city talked about it, but in the afternoon, the enthusiasm was reduced."
Xie Zhaolin was only a seven-year-old girl, and compared to her, the men were more willing to talk about which famous flower building had a new Oiran in the building, or which young widow hooked up with the one in the east of the city. They can form a group of three or five people, sit in a restaurant to eat and drink, or a roadside stall, and maybe have some daily conversations at first, and then the scene is probably someone telling a meat joke, and then the crowd laughs and enjoys it.
And the women are not easy, they have to take care of housework every day, for a little money, firewood, rice, oil and salt have to be carefully calculated, most of them do not have the Mrs. Kuo to sit down and drink tea, eat snacks and comment on others, naturally there will not be too much care about Miss Xie San at that time, at most it is just a pity.
is those real Mrs. Kuo, talking about a person also depends on her identity, Xie Zhaolin is still a concubine in the end, plus physical reasons, it can basically be said that she is staying at home, she is young, and the marriage has not yet been considered. In addition, the biological mother Aunt Zhang is low-key, and various factors combine to cause many people to only know that there is a third lady in Xie Mansion, and no matter how many there are, few people will know about it.
But that is someone else's leisure, at this moment, in Miss Xie Er's room, the eldest girl Huan Yifang is in a hurry.
I got up early in the morning, and everyone was surprised to hear that the third lady was suddenly ill in the middle of the night. Because although the third miss seems to be in poor health, it is not as bad as outsiders think, and she usually plays with the second lady!
But in fact, there was no surprise, the third lady had indeed had a sudden illness before, and she had seen it once! She still remembers the shivering and pale face vividly, and it is not surprising to say that such an illness would suddenly kill someone.
They thought so, but Xie Yilin didn't think so, she first thought that everyone was joking with her, a very excessive joke.
When she saw the mourning hall and the coffin in the side hall, she had to believe it, she understood that the third sister, like her grandfather four years ago, would be buried in the earth forever!
After confirming the facts, Xie Yilin immediately hid her face and cried, and after crying for a while, she turned around and strode back to her room, maybe to not see this sad picture for her!
Then she kept crying in the room, and finally stopped for a while, and immediately continued to cry as if she was stimulated, she didn't eat a few bites of this meal, how could she not worry about her personal maid Yifang.
"How's it going, did Madame say anything?" Yifang was a little surprised and asked the little girl she sent to call Mrs. Xie, but she didn't understand why Mrs. didn't follow.
"Madame, she seems to have something to say to the master, tell the slave and maid to come back first." Xiao Yahuan bowed her head and replied.
What could be more urgent than her most precious daughter? Yifang was puzzled, but she could only sigh and wait.
At the same time, in the study, Master Xie was also looking at Mrs. Xie with the same confusion, and he didn't understand why she didn't follow the girl ring immediately, isn't she the most precious second daughter? Do you want him to go with him?
"Whelan, although Yilin doesn't seem to be much now, it's inevitable that you will get used to it if you continue to be so used to it. She's just crying like this for a while, you can just go over!" Master Xie was a little unhappy.
Knowing that she was misunderstood, Mrs. Xie frowned slightly, couldn't help but didn't justify, and replied: "The master misunderstood, the concubine is just a little strange, how can this coffin have been nailed with nails, she... Is it really in there?"
"Does it matter?"
So, is it true or false? Master, this is different from what we thought at the beginning! Shouldn't we take good care of the princess and wait for the palace to pick up people later?" Mrs. Xie was dissatisfied that she was actually kept in the dark.
"You know what? Would the princess have such a strange illness later, do we want to get it? If she dies in our Xie family, who can afford to investigate it in the future?" Master Xie was also unhappy.
"Then let the head of Yue Qing save her life, didn't he say that he could save it? Why... Why do you want to come to such a cheating death, it will hurt Yilin..."
"You know your Yilin! Don't think I don't know your mind, let her and the princess get so close in the first place! Do you know how the princess's illness came about? It was injured by the internal force of a person with strong martial arts, and his hand was also pulled off like this!" Master Xie was so angry by Mrs. Xie's ignorance that he couldn't figure it out.
What does this mean? It shows that this matter is not as simple as Zhang Minmin said! It's about the royal family, this trip to the troubled waters, our Xie family can't afford it! Since the head of Yueqing wants to take her away, it is not a good thing, so it is also to come out like this, so that my Xie family can clear up the relationship, do you understand?" Later, Master Xie's tone softened again.
Having said that, what else is there that Mrs. Xie doesn't understand. She didn't say anything more, turned around and prepared to go out.
"This matter can't be let Yilin know, except for the relevant people, our Xie family will treat Miss Xie San as if she is really dead, and there will be no Xie Zhaolin in the future." Master Xie looked at her back and added.
"Don't worry, master, there is still a concubine body with this bit of proportion." Mrs. Xie didn't turn around, and went out after speaking firmly.
So these two preoccupied people didn't notice Aunt Liu, who had been standing around the corner for a long time!
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It was late at night, except for some places for people to have fun, most of the neighborhoods of the capital had fallen into silence, only the voices of the watchmen were slowly wandering, and occasionally one or two people walked by, all in a hurry, and the cold air of late autumn urged people not to stay outside.
The darkness also spread into the palace, except for the sound of pleasure and music in some halls, there seemed to be only living creatures in the huge area such as the night guards standing upright and the eunuchs and palace maids who were also on duty but couldn't help but yawn.
However, in the imperial study, the lights were still bright, and a middle-aged man in a fur trimmed cloak was sitting at the desk looking at the kneeling man in black below.
The big eunuch on the side saw that the man in black was silent for a long time, and knew that it was not the news he should have heard, so he bowed to the middle-aged man on the seat and said goodbye.
"Zhang Peide, what are you doing with so many lights, lest others not know that I am still in the imperial study?!" The middle-aged man was none other than the current saint Qin Qixiang, who was looking at the great eunuch Zhang Peide who turned around and retired with dissatisfaction at this time.
"Yes, Your Majesty, the slaves are stupid, and the slaves will put out these lights." Zhang Peide hurriedly turned around and extinguished a few lights, and then retreated.
After Zhang Peide closed the door tightly, Qin Qixiang turned his gaze back to the man in black: "Say, how are you looking for people?!"