Chapter 17: Uncle

In Mo Yunxuan, Ying Ning was saying good morning to her mother, talking. The maid of Yijing Pavilion came to say that the second girl was not feeling well today and could not come, and hoped that Mrs. would forgive her sins.

This forgiveness is a nice thing to say, since her daughter is sick, Mrs. Ji is naturally anxious and it's too late. The Yang family hurriedly took the seventh sister to Yijing Pavilion, and if it was serious, he would have called the doctor earlier.

Qingbi, the eldest girl next to the second sister, was waiting outside the door, and when she saw her wife coming, she only said that the girl was unwell and was lying on the bed, and she was not even allowed to enter.

Mrs. Ji was in a hurry, afraid that something would happen, so she hurriedly asked the girl to open the door.

"Girl, Madame has come to see you, and I will open the door." Qingbi called outside the door.

"I'm fine, tell my mother to rest assured, go back, I'll be fine." Yingxiu shouted inside.

Hearing what the second sister said, how could Mrs. Ji rest assured, so she asked Qingbi to quickly push the door open.

Yang and the seventh sister entered the house, the house was burning with incense, smoky, the windows and doors were closed, and there was no ventilation, which made people panic, and this suffocation was also to suffocate people. Quickly asked the girl to open the window.

Yingxiu on the bed adapted to the dim room, and as soon as the sky light outside the window shone in, she couldn't open her eyes, so she quickly pulled up the quilt and covered her head.

"Oh my silly girl, what are you doing here." Mrs. Ji came in and took a look, and half of her heart was relieved, these two girls are not really sick, I am afraid that they are sad about yesterday.

Yingning thought that the second sister was still angry with Jingzhu, her second sister was always angry, and everyone in the house of Jingzhu and Liu Gongzi discussed it privately, the so-called good things don't go out and bad things spread thousands of miles, that is, the wife has three orders and five declarations, and there are also some long tongues chewing the root of the tongue behind their backs.

She walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, and reached out to pull the quilt that the second sister covered her head: Didn't you say it was okay yesterday, but today you can't even get out of bed. ”

Yingxiu's quilt was suddenly taken off, revealing a slightly pale face with tear stains. Ying Ning was stunned, she didn't expect the second sister to be so sad. Yesterday I looked strong, not a single tear was shed, but it was all pretended.

Mrs. Ji also felt distressed when she saw it, a good daughter, a good marriage, was stirred up like this, what a big thing in a woman's life, it was not good to hear such a bad thing when she encountered it.

"Good girl, Mother knows you're sad. I went to Wanshoutang today, and your grandmother also told me that Sister Zhu can't stay in the house. "Although the Yang family feels a little sorry for Jingzhu and her mother, which one is a mother who doesn't protect the calf? Leaving such a person in the house, I can usually think of pickled things when we meet. She also thought about it, even if she gave Jingzhu some more silver taels, bought her a small mansion outside, let Mrs. Qian follow, and buy two maids to send, and take care of her usual life.

Yingxiu didn't hate anyone, Jingzhu was weird, but the so-called slap didn't make a sound, and it wasn't all Jingzhu's fault. When such a thing happened, she was just depressed in her heart, crying and venting, but fortunately, she only looked at Liu Gongzi and was not really moved.

The daughter is sad and sad, and the matter of Mrs. Ji's brother going to the house still has to be handled. The meals of today and tomorrow will be the same. The son of the Liu family in the wing room of the outer courtyard has just lived, and he only needs to change the bed and bed, and the house will be cleaned up a little. There are also servants and girls who are waiting, and they will be picked and sent over.

"Don't be sad, there are a lot of good people here, let's not hurry and pick slowly, my mother will definitely pick the best one for you." Yang saw that the second sister had already sat up by herself, and saw that she could still think about it, so she breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly rejoiced that it was her second girl who encountered this, not because she was partial, but because although the two daughters were born from the same mother, their temperaments were completely different.

"Since you are up, you should also clean up, your uncle must go out to meet him when he comes over today, otherwise he should be said to have no rules." Ji's mother patted the second sister's hand, and said to Yingning, "Ning'er, you accompany your second sister well, I have a lot to do, so I'll go back first." ”

Ying Ning sent her mother outside the gate of the hospital before turning back.

Yingxiu thought about it for a day and a night, crying and crying, annoyed and annoyed, I heard that Jingzhu was going to be sent out, but now I also figured it out, I still have a good mother, a good sister, I don't know how blessed I am in the blessing. Don't want someone like Liu Gongzi, fortunately, it's happening now, if she encounters this after she gets married, then there is really no place to cry.

Since he wanted to open it, he lifted the quilt and called the maid to change her clothes and clean her face. Seeing that the woman in the bronze mirror is still radiant, she has cleaned up her spirits and her mood is a little better.

Mrs. Ji had already sent her housekeeper to wait at the gate of the city, just waiting to pick up Master Yang to Ji's mansion. It's strange to say, if this brother went to Beijing to do business with the holy decree, there must have been a letter from his mother's family in Qingzhou a few days ago, and his sister-in-law would also accompany him into Beijing in the past. However, the New Year's festival is not over, and no one comes to visit my mother's family. asked Master Ji, and Master Ji only said that his brother-in-law came to Kyoto to discuss something with him, and did not say much else. This should be a very important thing, so that my brother came in such a hurry, and my own master kept silent. Yang had no choice but to keep his doubts in mind.

Lord Yang's carriage traveled day and night, and it only took a day and a half to arrive in Kyoto, pick up the subordinates sent by the Shangji family, and hurry to the Ji Mansion.

Master Ji got up early in the morning and waited in the study. He didn't sleep all night last night, and he couldn't figure out who was behind the scenes.

He paced and put his hands behind his back, and a cold sweat broke out all over his body at the thought of someone pulling his pigtails behind his back and revealing things that were not good. If this chess game is not taken well, it will be destroyed.

Master Ji asked outside the door for the third time: "Zhao Shi, has Master Yang received it?" ”

"I got it, and I'm rushing to the house." Zhao Shi is the chief steward who follows Master Ji, and he has followed Master Ji since he was a child, and he is very trusted by Ji Yihuai. Moreover, the accounts of the Ji family are all in and out of his hands, and he also knows the secret affairs of the Ji family that even Mrs. Ji doesn't know.

"When Lord Yang arrives at the mansion, I will bring him directly to my study."

"And where is the lady?"

"Don't let her know about this, just say that I have something important to discuss." The woman in the house has no opinion since she came to meet with something, Master Ji only thinks that this matter is very tricky, if this matter can pass, then it will be treated as if nothing happened, if this thing can't be passed, only as the worst plan to settle the backyard female dependents.

The person sent by Mrs. Ji came back to report that Lord Yang had arrived at the mansion, and as soon as he entered the mansion, he went to Lord Ji's Linshu Pavilion. Yang felt that something had happened, but her own adults didn't say it, and she had no way of knowing.

Yang suddenly thought that the accounts he had always handled were full of loopholes, and said that he would listen to his master, but Ji Yihuai only deduced that there was a money shop outside and called a shopkeeper to take care of it, and she never touched it from beginning to end. Thinking that my brother came to manage the salt affairs and procure the palace income, and held a large amount of silver taels allocated by the saint, could it be that there was a problem during this period? Thinking of this, the Yang family almost lost his footing and almost died, if this is the case, then the old man is exhausted, and it is not surprising that his brother went to Beijing overnight.

This matter can be small or big, if the two are really colluding with each other, it's good that things are not shaken out, and the vacancies in it can be slowly filled. Thinking of this possibility, Mrs. Ji couldn't sit still anymore, hurriedly changed her clothes, and called Yanhong to prepare to go to the old lady's Wanshou Hall.

The sandalwood Buddhist beads engraved with seal inscriptions were broken and fell apart. Old Madam Ji looked at the beads that rolled down, and slowly digested her daughter-in-law's words just now.

"It's all speculation on your part and mine, maybe we're thinking too much. He's your brother, you're going to pull him in and ask for it, you know? "Mrs. Ji has been married to Mrs. Ji since she was fifteen years old, and she has spent most of her life in the Ji family, she can't control the things after this life, but she can't watch the Ji family be destroyed in the hands of Ji Yihuai in her lifetime, otherwise how to face the ancestors of the Ji family and the late Ji Chengkang after death.

In the Linshu Pavilion, Master Ji was already anxious, ": It must be the ghost of the old thief of Song!" This red-headed account book is locked in a secret box and hidden in the dark pavilion, how do ordinary people know? Only the secret guard in his hand can do such a thing. Can the thief who got in catch it? ”

This clothed cavalry general Lord Song is the minion of the patrol camp Admiral Wei, and Admiral Wei is the mother of Empress Wei.

"The thief who infiltrated fled overnight, and when I found out, he had already left Qingzhou City, where would I arrest him. This Prime Minister Nie couldn't shake him, he went to the left side of the door, and resorted to the next three indiscriminate means, and the martial artist who didn't make a fuss and didn't understand the reason was vulgar! "Lord Yang is also a scholar, although he is angry, but no matter how ugly he is, he can't say it.

"This matter has come to this, what happens next, we should think about it in the long run." Ji Yihuai knew that he couldn't panic at this moment, he still had an old mother, a wife, and a large family, and he was bound to cross this threshold. "This account book has already reached their hands, and it will be a matter of time before we are exposed, as long as the things are handed over to the saint, it is really powerless...... Unless they can't hand it in. "Master Ji knows that Prime Minister Nie Cheng has always had a wide range of disciples and great power, it can be said that one person is above ten thousand people, as long as he avoids the eyes of the saint and blindfolds the eyes of the saint, he can cover the sky with one hand, and they are all people in the same boat, and there are many things in this account that have his shadow, it seems that this matter can only ask him......

"I have indeed done all this according to your arrangement, if the things are really handed over, is there a way to fill it?" Every time Lord Yang passed the account, he was terrified, if it weren't for the reassurance of his brother-in-law, he would never dare to do such a thing.

"This thing is coming at us, the number is so large, how can there be a way to fill it...... "Such a large number, and after operating for so many years, you can fill it if you want to."

When Lord Yang heard his brother-in-law say this, he sat on the throne for a while, and he regretted it, but there were jackals, tigers and leopards in front and an abyss in the back, and he had no way back.

The two of them had been locked up in the study all afternoon, and they had not even eaten tea, and when they came out, it was dark.

Master Ji called Zhao Shi, handed over a letter, and immediately sent a post to Prime Minister Nie Cheng, saying that he was going to visit him overnight and discuss important matters.

Mrs. Ji finally waited for the master and brother to come out, but she didn't say anything, and ordered someone to set up a banquet and serve tea.

"I have something important to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion, so I won't eat, you can entertain your brother." Saying that, Master Ji took two entourages out of the hall.

Mrs. Ji became more and more sure of her guess.

Although Lord Yang is turning the river and the sea in his heart at this time, he is still acting like the past on his face, and he is afraid that his sister will be worried and afraid if he knows it.

Several sons and girls of the Ji family also came over to ask for peace one after another, this Lord Yang has not seen his nephew and niece for a long time, seeing that his brother is about to become an adult, and his sister is slim, his heart can't help but come to his heart, and he feels sorry for his own sister, but he can't tell the truth.

Mrs. Ji saw that her brother was full of concerns, and poured a glass of wine into her stomach, always wanting to say something.

After finishing the meal and returning to the hall, Mrs. Ji saw that there was no one around, so she hurriedly closed the doors and windows, pulled Lord Yang and asked, "Brother, do you have something to say to me?" ”

Where is Lord Yang willing to say, one more person knows and one more person is worried. Besides, how can my sister bear such a weak woman? If this thing is not done well, it will ruin the family......

Before Lord Ji arrived at the Prime Minister's Mansion, Zhao Shi, who had gone to deliver the post first, rushed over, "Lord Ji, the porter of the Prime Minister's Mansion took the post, saying that the Prime Minister was summoned into the palace by the Holy Lord after lunch, and he hasn't come back yet." ”

How good is that?

This Prime Minister Nie is going to see tonight, it is about the life of his family, and he is in a hurry. Ji Yihuai still asked the groom to rush to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

It was the Lin steward of the Prime Minister's Mansion who came forward to entertain him and brought him to the guest hall of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

"Does Steward Lin know what the Prime Minister is doing when he enters the palace?" Ji Yihuai asked, if this saint has nothing important, he will not summon officials into the palace to stay until Shenshi. Ji Yihuai's mind flashed, he shook his head, he must have thought too much.

"My lord got the holy word and hurriedly entered the palace, as for what the old slave didn't know."

"What time will you come back?"

"There is no letter in the palace, it's all at this hour, I think it's soon, Master Ji wait a while." Steward Lin served tea for Master Ji and withdrew.

Ji Yihuai waited for two hours, and it was time to arrive.

Outside, Steward Lin came in and said that the master had a message from the palace and would not return to the house tonight.

When Master Ji heard this, it was going to be a bad thing. After resigning, Steward Lin got into the carriage and went home. I've been thinking about the prime minister's entry into the palace all the way, is there really such a coincidence?

In Ji's mansion, Mrs. Ji sat on the edge of the couch in the bedroom, still thinking about what her brother had just said: It's all my fault for being confused, but this one wrong step is wrong, but there is no turning back. As long as this pass safely, I will be an errand for the saint, and I don't want to be opportunistic.

In the end, she guessed it.

She never asked the lord about the affairs of the court, and she didn't know how much she had done. But she knew that if the saint wanted to investigate this matter, he Ji Yihuai's ten heads would not be enough. Thinking of her eldest brother who is about to take a scientific examination and a few sisters who have not yet married, Mrs. Ji can't calm down.