Chapter 66: The Struggle (Part II)
He Yan raised his foot and kicked Huang's mother's chest, and Huang's mother fell to the ground holding her chest. Waving his hand outside, Chief Bai sighed, opened the courtyard door, and from outside came a column of guards with solemn expressions, all with shiny knives at their waists.
The main courtyard was raised by a girl, not a dead man raised by the eldest lady, and when they saw this situation, they all shrank in the corner of the wall and kept silent.
The two mothers-in-law lifted Xingzhao's legs one by one and the other into the small courtyard, Xingzhao opened his mouth and bit the mother-in-law's hand, and the pain made the mother-in-law cry out with a "whoop", and was about to pinch Xingzhao with his secret hand, but he heard He Yan's sharp voice outside: "No one is allowed to hurt the four girls!" ”
The woman shrank her hand, and as soon as her hand was loosened, Xingzhao was bound in it and couldn't move, so she could only blink her eyes fiercely, trying to blink the tears out of her eyes, and finally she could see clearly, the door of the main hall had been tightly closed, and her heart rose sharply to the helplessness and sadness that she had never before, and she called out loudly: "Father-Mother gives birth to children for you, takes care of your chores, and Mother is dedicated to you!" The affairs of the Fang family have not yet settled, the uncle is not a person who is easy to give up, the father and son break up, and the foreign family is resentful, is that what you think! Even if my uncle is dead, the Fang family is not extinguished! When is the time for retribution?"
Xingzhao hit the tied mother-in-law with his elbow fiercely, the person was weak and weak, everything was in vain, Xingzhao's face was full of tears, his throat was full of fishy sweetness, and his voice was hoarse but still shouting: "Dad! You're okay, okay, you're okay."
Xingzhao has lived two lives without asking for anyone, but under the suppression of power and absolute power, all the cleverness and words are just in vain. And He Yan is the absolute authority of the Lin'an Hou Mansion, and no one dares to disobey.
Xingzhao cried so much that he collapsed to the ground. For the first time, she felt her weakness, and no one knew it better than her. What kind of harm can He Yan do to the eldest lady, again, she doesn't want to experience that kind of pain again!
"Father, A's please, A's please!"
The little lady's voice was high, and the two mothers-in-law looked at each other, with softness and doubt in their eyes, and the strength in their hands loosened. Lianyu broke free from the control of Mr. Bai, and cried with tears on her face. Staggered to this end, a soldier with a knife pulled out a knife to threaten on the way, Lianyu was ruthless, his hands tightly grasped the blade, and his hands were immediately full of blood, and he said fiercely: "Get out of the way!" ”
The soldier shrank back, watched the little lady stumble through the door, and pulled away the hands of the two mothers-in-law who were holding Xingzhao.
He Yan heard it clearly in the room, gritting his teeth. With his head down, he leaned back on the Taishi chair and squinted slightly.
The eldest lady burst into tears, looked at He Yan with teary eyes, turned around and rushed over quickly. I wanted to open the closed door, and my hand was about to reach the edge of the door, but I heard He Yan whispering behind him: "You are dead." It's good for Ah Yu and Brother Jing. ”
The words are weak, but the meaning is categorical.
"Ying Yi only gave me seven letters. She left one. He Yan slowly opened his eyes, and his circles gradually turned red. The tone lowered: "As soon as you die, she will immediately send the letter over, and I will vouch for the credibility and future of the He family." So even if you don't drink the bottle of poison yourself, I'll pour it myself. ”
The eldest lady was stunned in place, her back to He Yan, and her tone trembled: "You also want me to die?" ”
"It's not that I want you dead! Yes you have to die! He Yan raised his head suddenly: "If you don't die, the letterhead will be submitted, and the Fang family will be finished!" The He family will also be finished! Fang Qi disappeared, the emperor summoned me into the palace to discuss, it was I who strongly recommended the emperor to send another team to find Fang Qi, the emperor had high hopes and specially sent the veteran Qin Boling, but the result! ”
"Do you think Ying Yi won't present it? She's crazy! She found me today and said that she had given you a limit of three days, but she felt that it was too many days, and asked for the news of your death to be reported in Lin'an Hou Mansion today! ”
"The wrath of the Son of Heaven is a disaster for thousands of miles! When the time comes, everything will be over, Brother Jing will be used as a military household, Ah Yu will be filled into the court, I will be Ling Chi, and my family will be ruined! ”
He Yan raised his head, sentence after sentence, Lin Anhou, who was known for his sophistry, did not notice his incoherent words.
"Have you ever taken me to heart?"
For the first time in so many years, the eldest lady interrupted He Yan's words, gently but extremely tactfully.
He Yan was stunned for a moment, and finally shook his head gently.
The eldest lady turned her back to He Yan and naturally couldn't see it. The silence and silence for a long time in the back made the eldest lady laugh loudly, took out the bottle of ginger bright glazed amphora stuck to her heart from her arms, uncorked the bottle, turned around, took two steps forward, no longer cried on her face, straightened her arm and held the bottle in her hand, and stretched out to He Yan: "Master Hou, I respect you for your eternal power and power." ”
Then bring the bottle to your lips and drink it up.
The gentle arc of the neck was very similar to the scene that made Xingzhao feel warm at the church meeting that day.
Xingzhao slammed open the door outside, and what he saw was this scene, the candlelight in the main hall flickering around, and the mother holding an amphora tightly in her hand, in such a gentle and graceful way, bidding farewell to the world and her beloved children.
Xingzhao rushed forward, hugged the head of the eldest lady, and called out repeatedly: "Call the imperial doctor!" Take the chicken feathers! Take the chicken feathers and mung bean soup! Tears rippled the eldest lady on the ground, and then used his hand to pick the eldest lady's throat, crying higher than a voice: "Mother! You spit it out! ”
The door of the main hall opened, and the girls who were cowering in the corner avoided it when they saw such a scene inside.
Yueqiao cried and helped Huang's mother, limping over, Huang's mother covered her chest, her face turned blue: "I'll go to the imperial doctor!" With that, he limped out again.
After a while, Lianyu came in with a handful of chicken feathers, Xingzhao shook his hand and pulled one out of it, and let Lianyu put her head against the back of the eldest lady, and scratched the throat of the eldest lady with chicken feathers.
Xingzhao didn't dare to stop, nor did he dare to poke hard, so he could only scratch cautiously one by one - this was a trick he learned in his previous life to avoid Zhuangzi and watch the peasant family accidentally ingest poison.
Finally, the eldest lady let out a "wow" and spat out the bright brown filth to the ground.
Xingzhao put down his heart, and he didn't have time to wipe off the sobs on his face, Yue Qiao came in with a large cup of mung bean soup, Xingzhao knelt on the ground, didn't care about crying, and immediately picked up the bowl again, and poured it into the eldest lady's mouth bowl by bowl.
It wasn't until the eldest lady vomited another puddle of soup that Xingzhao dared to wipe his face, and looked up with sweat and tears in his eyes, but saw that He Yan had walked out of the main courtyard at some point.
Xingzhao didn't have time to care about this, so Yueqiao carried the eldest lady onto the warm couch, and the eldest lady closed her eyes tightly, but she was still breathing, and her five orifices did not bleed.
"Yue Qiao, you go and invite Mrs. Tai over!"
Xingzhao wiped a handful of tears, and suddenly remembered his brother, if there was no stalemate, would today's things not come here? This thought lingered in my mind for a moment, and was finally thrown out. Poison, letterheads, and He Yan's menacing, these can't be whims!
After a while, Huang's mother led an old man with a white beard to come in with a medicine box, and saw the eldest lady lying on the warm couch peacefully, and saw a piece of filth on the felt carpet, her heart was surging, and her words were full of happiness: "I thought that the hospital was far away, and the hour did not wait for anyone, so I went to the Huichun Hall to invite the old doctor who sat in the hall to come over!" ”
Before Huang's mother's words landed, there was a commotion outside the room, and Mrs. Tai opened the curtain and came in, and asked, "Did the eldest daughter-in-law quarrel with the Hou Ye?" How's it going? ”
Qualitative as a quarrel!
A trace of panic flashed in Xingzhao's heart, and he hurriedly let go of the seat, invited Mrs. Tai over first, and said to the old doctor: "I don't know what I drank, I have already induced vomiting, please take a look!" ”
Mrs. Tai saw a mess in the house, frowned, and invited Cai Yueqiao to come, but she only said, "Master Hou and the eldest lady argued a few words, and the eldest lady drank something." But as soon as she entered the courtyard, there were guards in armor, mothers-in-law in the outer courtyard, and a room of trembling little maids.
Mrs. Tai could guess a few points and immediately settled the situation.
"Carry the lady to the back room, and ask the doctor to take care of it. How did the guards outside break into the inner courtyard! It's all scattered! The girls and mothers-in-law perform their duties, the ones who should fetch water should fetch water, the decoctions that should go to decoction, and the housekeepers who should clean up the house! ”
After a few words, the people in the main courtyard rushed out, and only Mrs. Tai, Xingzhao, the old doctor and a few maids were left in the main hall.
When the eldest lady was carried to the bed in the inner room again, Xingzhao saw that her complexion had improved a lot, and the top priority was to rescue the eldest lady!
The doctor touched the pulse through the handkerchief, and said after a while: "I drank arsenic mixed in the water, vomited a part, and there was still some in the body, but it was finally stabilized, and I had to induce vomiting early." ”
Xingzhao was ecstatic, and asked again and again if he wanted to open a prescription and what medicines to use, and invited the doctor to sit at a small round table, and personally laid out paper and pen for him.
He asked Yueqiao to go outside to guard the medicine, and personally took the spoon to feed the medicine to the eldest lady, and after finishing this, he suddenly felt like he was prostrating, leaning on Mrs. Tai, looking at her mother sleeping on the bed, she stretched out her hand, and little by little she wanted to smooth out the frowning eyebrows of the eldest lady.
Mrs. Tai patted Xingzhao's back, and didn't ask what happened to the leader, but said, "You go and eat first, and I'll guard here." Master Hou is here, and I am in the way, don't panic. ”
Xingzhao reluctantly looked at his mother, and only nodded after a while and walked out.
The sky outside gradually fell, it was dark, Xingzhao was paralyzed on Lianyu's body, Lian Rong and Wang's mother were anxiously waiting outside, Xingzhao beckoned to them for the rest of their lives.
Before Xingzhao could speak, he saw a burst of hurried footsteps behind him, and Yue Qiao's heart-rending voice sounded again: "The fourth girl and the eldest lady have gone" (to be continued......)
ps: Let's catch the bugs tomorrow~