Chapter 006: The Handmaiden
The two of them followed the prestige, and saw that the shops on the street had come to an end, followed by a long high wall.
When Xiao Yu first returned to Yong'an County, he didn't know which big family's mansion this was, and the courtyard wall occupied half of the street. At this time, the people on the street gathered around when they heard the movement, and the crowd was so crowded that they couldn't see what was happening.
Hao Jun squeezed over with Xiao Yu.
I saw a small door open in the courtyard wall, and there were swords on both sides of the courtyard. A carriage covered in green cloth slowly came out of the house, followed by two neatly dressed servants. The suppressed cry came from inside the car, and it seemed that it was a teenager.
Pedestrians and vendors on the street stood on tiptoe and craned their necks to peep, wanting to see what was going on, and whispered to each other in groups of threes and twos.
The private affairs of the high-ranking families can always make the low-level Shengdou small people talk about it. There was a well-informed and quick to add fuel and vinegar to the matter, and the onlookers talked nonsense.
"What a sin, another little girl's life. How come such a beast has not been taken away by God and left in the world to harm people. ”
"The Chen Mansion is also considerate of the subordinates, and let the carriage send them out. It is said that he got a lot of silver, and he changed it to someone who was rich and unkind, and the mass grave was lost. ”
"The daughter of a rich family is a good life, and there are maids to protect her from disasters. This slave and maidservant died for the master's family, and gave some money to be kind, I bah! A woman in her forties with a coarse caftan brown next to her heard this and spit at the back door of Chen's mansion.
Then a young woman with a round face in a blue linen shirt and skirt squinted at the brown woman at the caftan and said disdainfully: "The slave who is a slave to protect the master's family from disasters still needs the master to be grateful to Dade?" Who in Yong'an County doesn't know that the Chen Mansion will be Kuanren. Besides, it was a bad person's life, and this Chen Mansion Kaien encumbent his slavery was eliminated, and this little girl was also decent to enter the ground. Not to mention that he also gave a large sum of money to his hometown for resettlement, is it not benevolent and righteous? ”
"When people are dead, what's the use of being decent? Look at it, the eldest sister's bones are not cold, and the sister and brother were driven out together, I heard that there is no family house without a father and mother, but where are you going to stay? It's easy to be calculated if you have money. ”
The caftan brown woman retorted.
The people next to him turned a deaf ear to the arguments between the two of them, and they talked about it to themselves, full of sympathy.
"The thieves who are killed by heaven have harmed how many girls, no wonder those who have daughters have been sent away from afar."
"I don't know what kind of poison it is, it is said that I have called several doctors but have not been saved."
"Pity a human life."
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Poisoning? Xiao Yu listened to the evil people and thieves in everyone's mouths turned out to be poisonous, and couldn't help but pay more attention to listening, and then pieced together the information, and roughly knew what happened.
Last night, a gangster from the famous Chen Mansion in Yong'an County quietly infiltrated the boudoir of the Chen Mansion's concubine, not wanting Miss Chen to stay with her mother, and only a night vigil maid was in the room. The maid was awakened and cried out, poisoned by the gangsters.
When the nursing home heard the sound and arrived, the gangsters were nowhere to be seen. Chen Fu invited a famous doctor to detoxify and treat the maid overnight, but the poison in the maid was extremely violent, and the doctors had no skills to recover. The maid's parents died at an early age, and there was only a younger brother in the family, and she also entered the Chen Mansion as a scholar the year before last.
Chen Fu returned the deed of sale of the two sisters and brothers, and gave them two taels of silver, so that the scholar could take his sister back to his hometown for burial.
In front of him, it was the Chen Mansion who sent a carriage to send the two sisters and brothers out of the mansion.
Qingbu's mule cart stopped at the door and waited. At this time, someone from the Chen Mansion hired another mule cart to come over. The servant woman stepped forward and raised the curtain of the mule cart, and a child in a green shirt got out of the cart. He was about ten years old, and his eyes were red from crying, especially when he burst into tears.
Xiao Yu suddenly had an indescribable feeling, and felt strange in his heart, looked at the young man carefully, and suddenly remembered: Isn't this the young man I met before!
But why didn't you have this strange feeling yesterday?
The young man got out of the car, turned around and put his hand into the car, and the servant woman waiting next to the car half-helped and half-hugged a girl in a goose yellow dress and a double bun. The girl was weak and weak, her head was hanging down on her back, and she was facing Xiao Yu's side.
I saw that the girl's face was slightly round, her eyebrows were slender, and her appearance was beautiful, which was a little similar to her brother. Because of the poisoning, his face was pale and red, there were dark shadows under his eyes, and his facial features seemed to be a little kinked.
It's the girl I met yesterday.
The moment the girl was picked up on the mule cart, Xiao Yu saw her slender and white fingers move.
Xiao Yu couldn't help blinking: That girl is still alive! Yes, in fact, everyone only said that this maid was poisoned and had no tricks to restore the sky, but they didn't say that she was dead.
Just as Xiao Yu was flashing, the mule cart slowly started, and then faster and faster, driving away from the street in front of Chen's house.
The mule cart servant woman of the Chen Mansion also returned through the back door.
By the time Xiao Yu reacted, the mule cart had disappeared from view.
"Such a thief, it's really lawless." Hao Jun said angrily, and then sighed, "I don't know how that kid will live alone without his eldest sister." ”
Xiao Yu thought of the young man's crying red eyes and helpless face, suddenly thought of his own situation, and couldn't bear it, and hurriedly asked a woman next to him: "This lady, do you know where the two sisters and brothers went?" ”
"It is said that he is returning to his hometown, but I heard that he does not have a farmhouse, and I am afraid that he will go to Yizhuang first."
The woman glanced at Xiao Yu strangely, her eyes swept to Hao Jun next to her, seeing his beard and big knife on his shoulder, and suddenly remembered that the two of them might be going to rob the Chen Mansion of the pension money given to the sister and brother, and she was shocked and hurriedly walked away.
Hao Jun saw the woman's appearance of quickly avoiding him after a few glances, and wondered, "Do I look so vicious?" ”
Xiao Yu froze and said to Hao Jun: "You know where Yizhuang is, right?" Take me there! ”
Yizhuang was originally a place to provide shelter for the poor, and some of them were clan properties, and they were also responsible for almsgiving, righteousness, and so on. Later, the Yizhuang in the city slowly changed, and by the time of the present dynasty, it had become a place to store coffins. Those who have not found a place to bury and have no ancestral hall to park after passing away, or who have died in a foreign country waiting to be transported back to their hometowns, and those who are too poor to be buried, are temporarily placed in Yizhuang.
Hao Jun was full of doubts: "You went to find that sister and brother?" What to do? ”
Although Xiao Yu thought that there might be many corpses parked there, and was a little creepy, he still nodded and whispered: "That little girl is not dead, maybe she can still be saved." ”
"And saved?" Hao Jun said loudly, and then hurriedly pulled Xiao Yu to the direction of Yizhuang, and then remembered the discussion of those people just now, and said as he walked, "So many famous doctors have said that there is no way, what can we do if we rush over?" ”
Xiao Yu had no time to explain, and said, "Yizhuang is not far away? Hurry up if you don't hire a car. ”
Hao Jun saw that his expression was determined, and thought that she was the same age as the young man, and she was also lonely, so he turned to hire a car nearby, and was still sighing.
"Life and death are fate, the king of Hades wants you to die in the third watch, who dares to keep people until the fifth watch, some people don't want to save it, but they can't save it, don't be too sad."
"Let's go and see." Xiao Yu said, "I have learned some detoxification methods, so I always have to try it." ”
The author came back ahead of schedule, and now it's more, so please understand! (づ ̄3 ̄)づ