Forty-sixth
In the next few days, Cai Wei and the others lived in seclusion and caution every day, for fear that Aunt Liu would come up with some evil tricks to calculate them. I don't want to, but it didn't take a few days, but it was Aunt Liu's side who asked someone to calculate first.
April 11 is Mrs. Tai's 65th birthday, this day Bofu is also hanging lanterns, screen Luan Feng, although the guests are not as lively as a few days ago, but it is also full of laughter.
On her grandmother's birthday, Yizhi came back early in the morning to pay her birthday, and Mrs. Tai saw that her expression was much better than four months ago, so she immediately smiled and hurriedly pulled her to talk to her.
The eldest lord looked at the smile on his mother-in-law's face, and the corners of his lips couldn't help but smile a little, for his mother-in-law's sixty-fifth birthday, he had already prepared a "big gift", just waiting for his mother-in-law to be used, and at that time, see if her old man can still laugh so happily.
Yizhi accompanied her grandmother to talk for a while, couldn't help but look left and right in the room, and said strangely: "Why don't you see Sister Caiwei, today is a good day for grandmother, where did she run away when she didn't serve in front of her grandmother?" β
Mrs. Tai coughed, took the tea handed over by Mama Wang, and drank it slowly. Mama Wang told Yizhi about Cai Wei's life just to overcome Mrs. Tai, so she didn't let Cai Wei come over today, and still let her stay in Qiutang Courtyard.
Yizhi listened, and it was not easy to reason with her grandmother, so she had to say that she had lived in the same house with this cousin for more than a year, and her relationship was very good, and she had not seen her for a long time, so she wanted to go to Qiutang Courtyard to see this cousin. The old lady didn't stop her, but just asked her to sit back for a while.
Cai Wei was happy to see Yizhi, and saw that the expression on her face was gloomy and completely gone, so she liked it even more. Sure enough, before she could ask, Yizhi had already taken her hand and said, "Good sister, I'm here to thank you today." Thanks to the few words you mentioned me in the first month, I checked according to your words, and those two aunts were given to your brother-in-law by Mrs. Sun, so I disciplined them severely. Your brother-in-law really didn't pay attention to them, and didn't protect them at all. β
Cai Wei saw that her eyes were shining when she said it, so she smiled and said, "I'm afraid that the more jealous my sister is, the happier my brother-in-law will be?" β
Yizhi's face turned red, and he said softly: "I talked to your brother-in-law, and I told him all the conjectures we had last time, to see if he would continue to ignore me, or if the two of us would work together to break the gold." β
Cai Wei couldn't help but high-five and praised: "Get straight to the point and be honest." My sister is really wise and brave! It seems that your brother-in-law has already been taken into your pocket, right? β
Yizhi raised her hand and twisted it lightly on her face, and scolded with a smile: "I'll treat you poor monkey!" Then he asked her, "Don't patronize me, but also take care of yourself, why did you move out of your grandmother's yard and be relegated here to be crowded with Sister Juan?" β
Cai Wei flattened her mouth, "It's probably that Aunt Liu wanted Yifei to live in the old lady's yard, so she thought of a way to buy an old nun and said that I was chongke and moved me out." It's just that the old lady didn't let Yifei live in, but let Brother Cheng live in the west wing. β
Yizhi gritted her teeth and hated when she heard this: "That slut, when he saw that I was out of the house, he couldn't bully me anymore, and turned his head to bully you, he only hated God for not having eyes, and when would she get some retribution!" β
She didn't know that at this time, Aunt Liu had already suffered retribution, and she was crying in the courtyard of the fourth room for her son Brother Ammonium.
The two sisters were talking, and suddenly the eldest girl Yuegui next to Yizhi ran in and said, "Oh no, no, there is an accident in this house, and the old lady is so angry that she faints!" β
Yizhi was so panicked when she heard this, she hurried to Xuhui Hall. Cai Wei walked a few steps, thought of what Chong Kezhi said about her, slowly retracted her steps, and returned to the room, while instructing the two little girls Loquat and Basho to go out to find out what was going on, while copying the Buddhist scriptures and praying for her grandmother in her heart.
These two girls have always been the best at inquiring about news, and after a while, they came back to tell SΓΉ Caiwei that the reason why Mrs. Tai fainted was because the fifth master and the second young master were arrested by the people of Shuntianfu. And the reason why the fifth master and the second young master were arrested by Shuntian Mansion was because they went to a place called Qinglou, and it was the same Qinglou.
Cai Wei understood as soon as she heard it, and Emperor Hongwu of Yan Qin once issued a clear decree: "All officials who live with prostitutes will have sixty rods, and those who match will be reduced by one, and if the descendants of officials live with prostitutes, the same will be true, and they will never be hired." And wrote this article into the Great Qin Law.
Although the fifth master was demoted to an official before, he is still an official in the end, but the second young master Zhao Yiming is a fellow acquaintance of his father who spent thousands of taels of silver to donate a five-grade to him a few days ago in order to ask him to be crowned, and he is also an official. This time, not only were they all dismissed, but they also had to be punished, and then they were never hired, and their lifelong future was ruined. At this moment, I am afraid that Zhao Yiammon's son has no hope.
Not to mention that the fifth master is the youngest son of Mrs. Tai who has always been distressed, only on the good day of her sixty-fifth birthday, the parents and grandchildren did not say that they would give her a birthday obediently, but went to β‘β‘ together? The scandal of this day is still known to everyone in Beijing, and it is enough to be so angry that Mrs. Tai can't bear it.
It's just that Cai Wei always feels that this thing is unreasonable. If the second young master did such a thing, it would not be too unexpected, but the fifth master?
Although the fifth master is no longer as energetic as before after he was demoted, and he runs outside all day long, he still respects Mrs. Tai as always. How could he know that today is his mother's birthday, and instead of staying in the house, he went to the Qinglou instead? Over the years, there is not even a concubine room in the fifth master's room!
After further questioning, I found out that the uncle and nephew had not been in the house since last night, and they all said that there was something outside and they were staying at a friend's house, and they only said that they would come back this morning. As a result, after waiting for the two of them in the morning, they waited for the people from Shuntianfu to come and told everyone that his uncle and nephew were arrested and beaten sixty boards each, and asked the government to pick them up.
It seems that this uncle and nephew must have been calculated, otherwise where would it be so coincidental that the uncle and nephew actually entered the same Qinglou, and happened to be caught by the government on the day of Mrs. Tai's sixty-fifth birthday?
Could it be that the person behind the curtain didn't hurt the fifth master and Brother Ammonium enough, and he still wanted to make Mrs. Tai angry?
Cai Wei couldn't help but be shocked when she thought of this, and became more and more worried about her grandmother's body. Mama Du thought that if Mrs. Tai was really angry, then her own girl would no longer have any backing in this mansion, so she could only be slaughtered.
But no matter how much they hoped that Mrs. Tai would be safe and wake up earlier, until the third day, Mrs. Tai was still unconscious. The eldest lady was already talking about whether she wanted to prepare for the old lady's funeral.
Since Mrs. Tai fell ill, Cai Wei spent the rest of her time copying Buddhist scriptures except for sleeping for a few hours every day. The grandmothers persuaded her, but she did not listen, only said that she could not go to her grandmother to serve and pay filial piety in person, and had to use this method to pray for her grandmother, hoping that the Buddha would bless her old man to survive this hurdle and recover as soon as possible.
Xu is her sincerity touched the Buddha, and early the next morning, a Taoist priest suddenly came outside the door of Bofu, it was none other than the Guhong Taoist who Cai Wei wanted to find.