Chapter 143: The Next Gu
Mrs. Ma was at a loss at the moment, and then heard that a maid had died, but she felt that today's incident was really a little inexplicable, but now she couldn't take care of these antecedents, so she could only hurry home to find Mrs. Gu to see if she could enter the palace to ask the queen, maybe there was room for maneuver. She stood up and walked out without saying a word.
Seeing that Jinxiu had not woken up, Lin originally wanted to invite Jinyi to come in and take a look at her, but she thought that Jinyi was an unmarried daughter, how could she be allowed to come in such a place.
Now that he had no choice but to hurry home, he had no responsibility for himself, so he said to Mrs. Lin: "Now she is so sleepy, I don't know what the situation is." Please send her out in a soft sedan chair first, I can't make up my mind about this matter, I still have to go back first and see what the old lady does. …… As for the dead maidservant, it is better not to report it to the official, Mrs. Lao Bolin has done it according to the routine of the family, and I will discuss it with you when I go back to the old lady. ”
Mrs. Lin had no choice but to nod her head and order her subordinates to make arrangements.
Jin Yi looked at Lin's face and walked out behind the soft sedan chair, turned around and said to Jin Ru lightly: "Let's go find the fourth uncle." ”
After seeing Xie and Mrs. Ying, and listening to her two tell the story, Jin Yi herself did not expect that this matter would be so fanfare in the hands of Mrs. Lin.
Mrs. Ying saw that Jinru was safe and sound, so she was relieved.
Everyone still returned to Taoyuan to sit down, although it was not as good as the previous laughter, but the discussions were more lively. Someone said: "This peach blossom feast is really evil, and it was destroyed by the same person twice." ”
When the feast was over and Jin Yi and the others returned home, the old lady was already so angry that she fell ill.
Doctor Zhang came to the clinic for treatment, prescribed medicine and left. Qin Jinxiu still hadn't woken up, and the old lady only ordered someone to carry her back to the Stacked Color Pavilion, and didn't let the imperial doctor go to take a look.
Everyone sat in the outer hall of the Fuxi Hall, not daring to leave.
The old lady asked Yingxue to come out, invited Jinyi in, and asked her about today's incident.
Jin Yi told Qin Jinxiu about luring him to Zhuxuan, only saying that after he and Jinxiu entered the house, he was unconscious and was taken by Qiao Wei to a nearby pavilion to rest, and the rest was unknown.
The old lady had some unnatural flushes on her cheeks because of her coughing illness, but her eyes were still blazing, and she stared at her tightly for a while, and sighed, "It's all her own sin......"
Jin Yi told her what Mrs. Lin had said, "...... Ancestor, if this matter is after the edict is issued, I am afraid that our family will also be implicated in it. But at this time, it is indeed the best result for the Heavenly Family's face. ”
The old lady was silent for a long time, bowed her head slightly, and called Lin in again.
"You are the eldest daughter-in-law in the family, and today's events have made you tired."
When the Lin family heard this, his face was slightly better, and he said with relief: "Old Ancestor, this matter is like this now, don't think about it anymore." After a pause, he mentioned to her again, "It's better to urge the Ma family to marry someone as much as possible, and from then on, this stubble will be revealed." Otherwise, her reputation will be ruined, and I am afraid that it will affect the marriage of Sister Yi's children, which will be even worse. ”
The old lady nodded and said to the Lin family, "I'll tell Zhili about this, let him go to the Ma family in person, the etiquette is simple, just a quick word." …… At that time, I will need you to help you with a thing or two. ”
He also instructed, "You send out all the people of the Stacked Color Pavilion, and after she wakes up, she is not allowed to go out for a single step, and you have arranged for someone to guard it." ”
A hint of happiness flashed in Lin's eyes, and he nodded in response.
The old lady's face was gloomy, without the kindness of the past, her eyes were resolute, and she waved her hand to let the two out.
Jin Yi no longer had any emotional ties in her heart, and took Qiao Wei and Qian Mo back to Fu Jinxuan.
When night came, he called in the hearers.
Hearing her say that in the past two days, Ning Xiang was still the same as before, and Jin Yi stroked the black jade box in her hand quietly.
The heterogeneous Golden Bell Lily of the Valley contained in it was cultivated by the Miao Jiang Gu Master with secret techniques, and the black fruit produced contained Gu worms in the core.
More than 100 years ago, before Huajing moved the capital, there were concubines in the palace who competed for favor with this thing, and there was a false pregnancy within three days of taking it. Half a month later, the Gu worm died in the abdomen, and the person who took it was like a miscarriage.
At that time, the concubine framed the queen for her miscarriage in this way, which made Long Yan furious, deposed the queen into the cold palace, and she jumped to occupy the phoenix position.
Jin Yi recalled that Mr. Ji told him about it, "...... The cycle of the world is unpredictable, this Gu can make people pampered for half a lifetime, or it can make people irreversible, the most unpredictable thing is the human heart! ”
Before Jin Yi returned to Beijing, he originally planned that as long as he set up a chess game, trap the Xu family for a month or two, and then take this Gu. When he found the thunder vine bead on Qin Zhili's wrist, he was shocked and secretly sighed that it was really providential.
No matter who Xu got the thunder vine beads from, after all, she planted the cause of this infertility on her husband first. The Gu worm of the golden bell lily of the valley is the fruit she obtained. With the old lady's determination to Qin Jinxiu today, Xu's life will not be left this time.
The third watch is about to pass, and the fourth watch is about to arrive, which is the time when people sleep the deepest.
There was only a small red candle lit in Jinyi's room, and the candle was as bright as a bean. Qiao Wei and Qian Mo helped her change her clothes for night walking, and Qian Mo said with some worry: "Miss, why don't you go for you." ”
To this day, Qian Mo still doesn't know that Jin Yi has also practiced martial arts, although he is not good at fighting, his light body kung fu is excellent. Otherwise, when she was in Zhuxuan today, she wouldn't be so worried.
Jin Yi chuckled, "It's just a trip to Ningxiangju, and the tea will come back, don't worry." ”
Gently went out of the back window, and walked out of the courtyard wall by capturing the dragon's claws, Jin Yi took advantage of the deep night and silently followed the hidden mountains and rocks, flowers and trees to Ning Xiangju. The front yard was empty and uninhabited, and the whole courtyard showed a decadent and decaying atmosphere.
Gently climbed into the back yard and touched the west corner of the back hood. The door of the room on the edge was locked, and in the next room, two old women could be heard snoring slightly.
Jin Yi lit two short sleeping incense sticks and gently inserted them through the crack in the door. After a moment of darkness, the snoring in the room became low and steady, and then he slashed the bolt of the westernmost room with his palm and leaped in.
She lit an old oil lamp on the desk, the oil was cloudy, and the faint light of the fire was listlessly covered with the black and yellow wick, reflecting the dim and desolate light of the humble room.
This was supposed to be the place where the lowliest maids lived, and the cabinet against the wall was dark, and in the center was a plan, on which rested a porcelain pot with a broken handle, the color was a dirty and old dull yellow, and several teacups were not complete, and the mouth of the cup was somewhat missing.
Xu Shi was lying on the kang in the east, his long hair was scattered on the side of the pillow, and his face, which was white and tender without a trace of wrinkles, was now yellow and haggard, and the fine lines at the corners of his mouth were messy, but he had not seen him for a few days, and he seemed to have aged for decades.
Jin Yi stood on the edge of the couch and looked at her quietly for a while, then took out the black bell lily of the valley fruit from her arms, crushed the skin like a wax pill, revealing a hard core the size of a milky white fingernail, which was wrapped in a mature Gu worm.
Xu Shi fell asleep motionlessly, his face looked very peaceful, and Jin Yi did not hesitate to clamp her jaw and feed the Gu core into her mouth. (To be continued.) )