"Miss, Miss!"

A thirteen or fourteen-year-old maid pushed open the vermilion door and said breathlessly: "Miss, Biyun Pavilion is making trouble again, the old man is not at home, the old lady is sick again, the lady asked someone to surround Biyun Pavilion, the slave maid heard someone screaming and begging for mercy outside the courtyard, but was stopped by those people, and I couldn't figure out what was going on inside, Miss, go and take a look!" ”

This maid's name is Lilac, and she is the second-class maid next to Wei Yan, the eldest lady of the Wei Mansion, and at this moment she is sweating on her forehead, and she is obviously in a hurry to report the news, and she has come all the way. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The incense was burning in the room, and it was sunset, and the lights were not yet turned on, making the room a little dim. A girl in a water-red dress put down the embroidery thread, frowned and walked out, made a boo gesture on her lips, stepped out of the room, and then whispered: "Lilac, you have now been promoted to the second class, why are you so ignorant of the rules?" Miss is most tired of noisy, what are you yelling about? What is Biyun Court? What is the identity of the young lady? Even if Biyun Pavilion turns the sky upside down, it is not something that Miss can manage as a girl who has not yet left the pavilion! You girl, you are also confused! ”

"But, but...... Second Miss She ......"

"Ruyue, Lilac, come in!" A soft voice came from inside the house, and the big girl at the door, Ruyue, glared at Lilac angrily, and then pushed the door in together.

The crystal bead curtain separates the hall and the bedroom, there are very few furnishings in the house, there is only a pineapple wood tea table in the hall, a few chairs, the deepest part of the bedroom is a heavy curtain embroidered couch, a red lacquered wood carved dressing table under the window and a four-door cabinet of the same color, a low case is placed in the west, there is a piano on it, and a pipa is hung on the wall, a hole flute.

Wei Yan was dressed in a lotus-colored robe, holding an old ancient book in his hand, reclining on the couch, his long hair loosely pulled up, and there was no hairpin ring decoration. It's evening, and it's a dress that wants to sleep peacefully.

The two maids walked in, and Ruyue said: "Miss, don't listen to Lilac's nonsense, Biyun Pavilion is full of aunts, and there is no reason for you to care about their disputes." ”

Wei Yan looked at Lilac: "You just said, what's wrong with the second miss?" ”

"Miss, the slave maid didn't mean to disturb Miss, but when the slave maid passed by, she saw the second lady begging there, saying that she begged Mrs. to spare Aunt Cai, and Miss Cousin was also there, it was Miss Cousin who saw the slave and asked the slave to come and ask Miss to come forward to help."

Wei Yan said again: "How is the fetus in Madame's womb?" ”

"I think it's okay, the slave doesn't know very well."

"Miss," Ruyue persuaded, "I don't know what happened, the slave thinks it's better for you not to go through this troubled water, the relationship between you and Madame is not close, if you interfere in her aunt's affairs again, I'm afraid Madame will resent Miss in her heart........."

Wei Yan didn't answer when he heard this, got up and sat down in front of the dressing table, and lightly ordered: "Dress up for me!" ”

After a while, Wei Yan put a Chaoyun bun on his head, fixed it with two glazed butterfly wing hairpins, and draped a smoky gray floor silk on his body, and appeared outside Biyun Pavilion with two maids.

This eldest lady of the Wei Mansion rarely walks around on weekdays, and at this time, the maids and ladies surrounding Biyun Pavilion are all smiling and busy coming over to greet them.

Wei Yan suddenly felt like he hadn't heard or seen it, so he walked around the crowd and walked to the second young lady Wei Jiang, who was kneeling on the ground and crying bitterly, and said softly: "Wei Jiang, you get up." ”

The crying Wei Jiang was stunned for a moment, raised her eyes to stare at Wei Yan, and saw that this sister, who was usually not close to her, had a dignified face, wearing loose homely old clothes on her body, and the windy sleeves and skirts lined her temperament like a fairy, thinking of her embarrassment at the moment, she couldn't help but feel pantothenic acid in her heart, and wanted to ignore her sister as usual, but she still let Miss Cui Ningjuan help herself up, covered her face and wiped her tears, don't look over her head and don't say a word.

Cui Ningjuan held Wei Jiang with one hand, held Wei Yan's left hand with the other, and said: "Sister, my aunt was shocked last night, and it was found out that it was Aunt Cai's red hand, although my sister felt sorry for her aunt's suffering, and pity the little cousin in my aunt's womb who suffered before she was born, but Aunt Cai is the old man next to her uncle, and she is the biological mother of the second sister, and my sister is really afraid that my aunt will lose her mind in a hurry and be punished, which is not good for anyone." Now my aunt is much better, and my little cousin in the womb is also fine, this matter must be persuaded by my sister to make peace, sister, you see? ”

Wei Yan's eyes flickered, bowed slightly to Cui Ningjuan, and said to the mother-in-law guarding the door: "Open the door!" ”

The mothers-in-law looked at each other for a moment, and no one dared to stop Wei Yan like the second lady Wei Jiang, and after a little hesitation, she opened the door in a panic and said, "Eldest lady, please!" ”

Wei Yanju walked inside, Biyun Pavilion is actually two small buildings opposite each other in the garden, the first one in the east lives Aunt Cai, and the first one in the west lives Aunt Ping, who was just brought up by Mrs. Cui two months ago.

In the hall of the small building on the east side, Mrs. Cui leaned on a chair, and behind her stood the personal maid Ziyuan and Aunt Ping, who lowered her eyebrows, and Aunt Cai rolled on the ground with her hair scattered, pointing to the sky and claiming that she had never ordered someone to murder her wife.

Wei Yan frowned lightly and walked into the hall step by step. When everyone saw her coming, they were a little surprised.

"Yan Niang, why are you ......" Obviously I didn't expect Wei Yan, who has always been nosy and nosy, to intervene in this matter, Mrs. Cui said apologetically, "Is it the noise here that disturbs you?" It's not mine......"

Seeing that Mrs. Cui was holding Ziyuan's hand and wanted to get up to greet her, Wei Yan hurriedly said, "Madame, sit down." After taking a closer look at Cui's family, he saw that in addition to her pale face, she was in good spirits and her actions were normal, knowing that the fetus in her womb was fine, so she turned her head to look at Aunt Cai, and saw that she was embarrassed, with palm prints on her face, obviously beaten, and couldn't help frowning and said to Mrs. Cui: "In addition to the maid's identification, is there any evidence?" ”

Seeing that she intended to protect Aunt Cai, Mrs. Cui sat back on the chair with an aggrieved face, and raised her hand to Ziyuan weakly. Zi Yuan saluted Wei Yan, took a tray from the table, pointed to a loose paper bag and said: "Miss, please see, this is a herb that can make a pregnant woman have an abortion, found on Aunt Cai's personal maid Piaohong, last night Aunt Cai was serving dinner in Madame's room, the person who served the soup was Piaohong, and Mrs. drank the soup and had abdominal pain and vomited again and again. ”

Hearing this, Wei Yan looked at Cui Shi again, with a caring face, and Cui Shi immediately smiled gratefully: "I don't like to eat that soup very much, I only drank one sip, and now it is fine." ”

Zi Yuan said: "This is the sachet embroidered by Aunt Cai for Mrs., Mrs. loves Aunt Cai's needlework and thread, and wears it on her body every day. Miss, is musk a spice that women can use frequently? Miss, what Mrs. is now pregnant with is the old son of the master, your own brother! How can a lowly aunt be allowed to murder? Mrs. is kind-hearted and doesn't want to wronged her aunt, so she called Piaohong to confront her aunt, Mrs. was kind to her aunt, and she didn't add a finger, but her aunt didn't give up, and slapped herself and scolded the heavens and the earth, saying that Mrs. was deliberately wronged by her......"

Speaking of this, Ziyuan looked at Cui's distressedly, and choked up: "Miss, Mrs., she has been in the house since she entered the house, and she has always been generous to others, how are you to Miss, how are you to your aunts?" Everybody is watching. But now, when the lady is pregnant, it is the time when she needs care the most, but in exchange for it, it is a deliberate conspiracy and calculation...... Miss, people's hearts are made of meat, how can she not be wronged, sad, or heartbroken! ”

Although Ziyuan did not say it explicitly, he also complained about Wei Yan in his words. Cui's is the step-room, Wei Yan has always been cold to her, morning and dusk are exempt if they can avoid it, and they have never called Cui's mother, and now they are still protecting an aunt who has harmed Cui's back and forth, which makes Wei Yan too willful and unreasonable.

Wei Yan was also a little sorry in her heart, but her heart knot was difficult to solve, it was not easy to face the Cui family politely, how could she still pretend to be a mother and a daughter and call each other her mother? Wei Yan turned his head away and said to Aunt Cai, "Do you have anything to say?" ”

When Wei Yan came, Aunt Cai cried non-stop, like a madwoman, and when she saw Wei Yan, she was silent and obedient. Aunt Cai walked on her knees on the ground and cried: "Miss, the slave and maid are wronged, the slave and the maid have never done it, the slave and the maid embroidered the sachet, it is the lady who likes to call the slave and maid to embroider it, the spice is usually used by the slave and the maid, the slave and the maid do not add musk, and the musk in this is by no means put by the slave and the maid." As for why Piaohong carried herbs to harm his wife, the slave didn't know anything. Mrs. has been in the house for a long time, and she doesn't know who the slave and maid are, so she blames the slave and maid! The slave maid has been in the house for more than ten years, miss, don't you know how the slave and maid are? ”

"When you say that, it's clearly a quibble!" Ziyuan red-eyed and reprimanded, "Madame is kind-hearted, so you should be a lady and be a bully?" Miss is young, can you make up some words to deceive Miss? Piaohong is your personal call, I have followed you for many years, what she has done, you can't tell clearly, who believes it? What does a maid do without the instructions of her master to do such a thing that harms others and is not beneficial to herself? The sachet is made by your own hands, and you don't know it, but who believes it? You clearly open your eyes and talk nonsense, when the young lady is young and easy to bully! ”

Before Wei Yan came in, it was this Ziyuan and Aunt Cai who quarreled and accused each other, and at this moment Wei Yan came, Aunt Cai was like a different person, and she didn't refute Ziyuan's words, but just cried and begged: "Now that the master is not here, the old lady is seriously ill, and the slave begs the eldest lady to be the master of the slave!" ”

Wei Yan was silent for a moment, then turned back to Cui Shi and asked lightly, "What does Madam want to do?" ”

Cui Shi suppressed his sad emotions, pushed away Aunt Ping's hand, stroked the bulging belly, and bit his lip and said, "At this moment, I am also in turmoil. Even if the matter of the herb is done by Piaohong alone, but the sachet only passed through the hands of Aunt Cai after all, if I reveal it, won't everyone be able to murder my mother and son in the future? As the heroine of the house, what kind of prestige do I have to serve the public? But Cai's is the person on the tip of the master's heart after all, and he gave birth to a second miss, I ......" Cui's seemed to be extremely difficult to make a decision, his lips couldn't help but tremble, and tears rolled down his white face, "I'm stupid, Yan Niang, you are smart, what if you teach me?" ”

In the end, I could barely cry. Zi Yuan hurriedly leaned over to help her, and persuaded her with tears in her eyes: "Madame is pregnant, she has already suffered such a big sin last night, don't be sad anymore, you don't care about yourself, you have to take care of the little master in your belly!" ”

Both the master and servant were teary-eyed, one was wronged, the other was distressed, and they cried so miserably.

Wei Yan took out the handkerchief and handed it to Cui's hand, and when Cui took the handkerchief, he slowly persuaded: "I shouldn't be in charge of this matter, even if Mrs. kills Aunt Cai's master and servant, it is understandable, Yan Niang knows that she has trespassed." can be seen on Wei Jiang's face, the child in the lady's womb is safe, not as good as ...... Forgive Aunt Cai this time. As for Piaohong, poisoning the master's mother, the crime is unforgivable, and when her father comes back, she will be sent to the yamen for punishment! What does Madame think? ”

Cui Shi clutched the handkerchief tightly, and said sadly and painfully: "Whatever Yan Niang says, do it...... It's just that in the end, it's a matter of the back house, if it alarms the lord and makes the lord worried, isn't it my sin? I am pregnant again, and I can't bear to see others suffer that great calamity in prison, and I will be red, so I will call for people's teeth to come, and I will sell them. Yan Niang, do you think this is good? ”

What else could Wei Yan say, so he had to bow his head slightly and said, "Madame is in charge." Yan Niang said goodbye. ”

He didn't look at the crowd anymore, turned around and left.

Shion complained in a low voice, "The eldest lady is also eccentric. Madame was almost harmed by these people...... "was stopped by Cui's and didn't dare to say more."

After Wei Yan entered the courtyard, the mother-in-law who guarded the door did not lock the door and stop people, Wei Yan came out, only to find that Wei Jiang, Cui Ningjuan and the subordinates were crowded at the gate of the courtyard and looked inward. Wei Yan didn't want to say much, only glanced at Wei Jiang with concern, and then took Ruyue and Lilac Shi Ran away.

Cui Ningjuan stood in the crowd and said softly: "My aunt is the most refreshing person, who dares to be disrespectful to her in the Cui family?" I was afraid that she would be so angry that she would punish Aunt Cai heavily, who would have thought that my aunt was poisoned and would ...... Poor aunt ......"

Her words were fluttering and not loud, but the people around her could hear them clearly, and everyone had their own plans for a while. The eldest lady Wei Yan is favored by the lord, and she is both talented and beautiful, and she says the same thing in the house on weekdays, and the new lady enters the house, not only does she not change her name to mother, but she also treats the province in the morning and dusk as nothing, and only loves to play the piano and pluck the strings in the house all day long, and now she is involved in the new lady's disposal of the concubine...... The eldest lady is getting stronger and stronger, and even the new lady has to look at her face and behave......

Wei Yan returned to his yard, pulled off the hairpin, and leaned on the couch tiredly.

Ruyue handed over a cotton handkerchief soaked in hot water and persuaded, "Miss shouldn't go." The lady asked someone to invite the lady to go, and she must not have a good heart. How can anyone not favor his aunt, but want to find someone to intercede with the murderer? You don't go to the room to say goodbye, you have been said to be arrogant and rude, and now you have saved a little aunt who was stolen and murdered the main mother, young lady, do you know, how will people outside miss you? Just the way those maids look at you......"

"Don't talk about it." Wei Yan covered his face with his hands, "Don't say it, Ruyue." I don't understand, and I don't want to understand these sinister tricks in the back house. I don't care what other people say or think. What I did today is nothing more than for my sister Wei Jiang, I have no clear heart, and I have no regrets! ”

"Then the second lady has to understand your sincerity! Look at the second lady's attitude towards you, has she ever called you a sister? She only knows that you are a concubine, she is a concubine, and she complains that you are better than her everywhere! Miss, you're just too stupid......" Ruyue said, a little pantothenic acid in her nose. If the former lady is still alive, why should the young lady live so tired and boring?

Wei Yan lay on his back on the couch, his long eyelashes cast a heavy shadow on his face, listening to Ruyue's nagging in his ears, but his heart was empty, and loneliness slowly spread into his heart......