Chapter 18 The Yang family is on fire
Sister Gu Yiqian hurriedly beckoned the maid to step forward and help Chen to sit down, and was busy fanning the fan, inviting Lang Zhong, and it was another hectic, Gu Shangshu stepped forward to take the order. Fang Sheng looked at the holy decree in Gu Shangshu's hand excitedly, his eyes lit up. He quietly pulled down Liansheng's sleeve: "Sister, this adult is really good." ”
"Not bad?" Lian Sheng raised his eyebrows: "He wanted you to live, do you know?" ”
"Hey, isn't that going to happen?" Fang Sheng looked at Yu Shizhao's radiant appearance, and his heart was very yearning.
Getting ahead has always been his ultimate dream, because only in this way can he pay back the damage he once suffered.
"You're so magnanimous." Liansheng was very dissatisfied, this Lord Yu, his hand was inevitably stretched too long. In order to bring down Gu Shangshu and make Gu Shangshu feel bad, it was too much to drag his sister and brother into this dispute along with his deceased mother.
Yu Shizhao came over with a serious face: "Congratulations to Miss Liansheng, Mrs. Yang should be relieved to know underground." ”
Liansheng's waist was straight, he looked directly into Yu Shizhao's eyes and shook his head and said, "Lord Yu, you don't understand your parents' hearts for their children too much. If our sisters and brothers work hard to earn the title of their mother, it is a great joy, and our mother will definitely smile at Jiuquan, if it is because of some unclear dispute, the chips brought by one faction against the other faction, it is not a good thing. ”
"You can speak directly now, my lord, I'm so sad."
"It's best to say it directly, so as to avoid adults bothering in the future."
"Where bother, to be honest, I like you very much......" Speaking of this, Yu Shizhao suddenly stopped, and his peach blossom eyes frequently discharged: "I like your sister and brother." ”
Liansheng knew that this person was a dog who couldn't spit out ivory, so he simply didn't say anything, frowning and looking into the distance.
This will saved Gu Lianyong in disguise, Gu Shangshu is in a complicated mood now, and he has no time to take care of anything else, so he is busy beckoning people to send the holy decree to the ancestral hall, and the Baixiang case is offered. As for the other Gu clan relatives, when they saw that the Gu family suddenly had another Mrs. Yipin, they only felt that this was the emperor's grace, and Gu Shangshu had a big face. Don't provoke others, hold Gu Lian and never let go.
Li's anger did not subside, and Gu Yesheng was about to go home.
Liansheng gave Fang Sheng a look, and the two sisters and brothers stepped forward together: "Auntie, it's all my brother's fault, and he must go to apologize to my aunt another day." ”
"No need." Li still didn't have a good face.
Gu Yesheng hurriedly whispered: "Seventh sister, twelfth brother, you have to be careful, I don't think they will suffer this loss." ”
"Thank you, Fifth Brother, we will definitely be cautious."
Li also felt that he had done something shameless for Liansheng's sister and brother at this moment, so he took Liansheng's hand and whispered: "Child, it's not the eldest aunt I'm here to provoke, your mother's person is the one we know best when we get along with each other for many years, if she was a Mulan in the past, she would never commit suicide for a concubine, today I can see it, there must be something wrong with this." Your brothers and sisters keep it in mind, and when Fang Shengzhong becomes an official one day, you will have to avenge your mother's grievances. ”
Gu Yesheng didn't expect Li to say this, so he looked left and right with an embarrassed face: "Mother, don't say this, you are all guessing and not true." ”
Li's mother and son left in a hurry.
Liansheng looked at their backs thoughtfully. Fang Sheng suddenly said, "Sister, what do you think?" ”
"The words of the eldest aunt are all guessed by herself, and you can also see that she now hates the family of Lord Shangshu, and there is too much moisture in her words."
"I believe her." Fang Sheng looked at his sister firmly: "We all know what kind of temperament my mother is, she was born in a fast family, she has seen many things thoroughly, and her personality is also very resolute. I remember that she once proposed to reconcile and divorce, and in the end we had to endure going to the capital because of our anger, would a person who was single-minded and divorced commit suicide because of the rudeness of the concubine? ”
Lian Sheng hurriedly grabbed his sleeve: "Don't say these words again, you will rot in my stomach, now you and I have no power and no power, even if there are more doubts in my heart, I have to suppress them." We're going to wait, wait for the best time. Now we must not startle the snake. ”
After this scene, the joint funeral continued, as long as the coffin of the old woman Gu was carried into the tomb.
Yu Shizhao stepped forward and poured three incense sticks in front of Old Madam Gu's spiritual seat, and then bowed his hand to Gu Shangshu: "Haha, Lord Gu, don't let down the good intentions of the saint and the noble concubine." ”
Gu Shangshu still had a strict look on his face: "Gu Mouqiē acts in accordance with etiquette. ”
"Haha." Yu Shizhao laughed strangely, and several people who were close couldn't help but change color.
"Master Gu, there is a foul saying among the people, Yu thinks it is very suitable for you." Yu Shizhao was tall, he approached Gu Shangshu, lowered his head and said in his ear: "Wipe your ass clean first and then take care of others." How Mrs. Yang died, I'm afraid only God knows. ”
After Yu Shizhao finished speaking, he laughed and left, Gu Shangshu's face was gloomy, and his gaze at the Liansheng sisters and brothers was much more complicated: The two children of the Yang family are not well-intentioned, and I am afraid that if they fail to surrender in the future, they will add disaster.
A few days after the funeral, Gu Shangshu returned to the capital with his family.
The Liansheng siblings did not go to see them off.
On this day, Liansheng delivered food to the prison and was greeting and talking to Mrs. Liu, who had taken over, when she suddenly saw Mrs. Liu's son running in from outside in a panic.
"Look at you're chattering, but there's a wolf chasing you outside?"
"Mother, I just reported to my sister that she had a difficult birth, and the child couldn't be born, it's been a whole day, what do you think you can do?"
"Huh?"
Mrs. Liu's bluffed six gods have no master: "What should I do, what should I do?" ”
"Hey, auntie, go and have a look."
"I still have to be on duty, no."
Liansheng thought to himself that it was really dangerous for a woman in this era to give birth to a child with one foot in the ghost gate, so she might as well do something good, so she comforted: "Auntie, don't worry, I will be on duty for you tonight, you go to see if your daughter is serious first." ”
"Liansheng, you are really good, wait a few days for your aunt to help you on duty." Mrs. Liu hurriedly followed her son and ran.
At this time, passing by a small servant, Liansheng shouted: "Please go to my house and tell my brother and sister-in-law, I will be on duty at night and will not go back." ”
"Okay. Rest assured. ”
When it was dark, Fang Sheng came over with a food box.
"Sister-in-law is not worried, let me bring you something to eat."
An oil lamp was lit in the place where Liansheng was on duty, and a few pieces of paper were scattered on a square table. Fang Sheng flipped it up and saw that it was all strange words that turned in the song, and he was stunned, "Sister, what are these words?" ”
Liansheng saw that he remembered a little diary in English, and hurriedly snatched it and smiled: "It's a ghost drawing that I wrote blindly, where is the word." ”
Liansheng was eating on the side, and Fangsheng sat there and took out a book to read.
After a while, Lian Sheng finished eating, and Fang Sheng said: "It's quite boring for you to be on duty alone, I'm going to finish reading this book tonight, so I'll accompany you here." ”
"That's not going to sleep, you're not sleeping?"
"I missed a lot of homework a few days ago, and I have to take the exam next month, so I have to make up for it."
Liansheng thinks about it, it's up to him, he has also experienced the stage of hard study, everything in this world is like this, and only when he suffers hardship can he become a master.
Liansheng took out the dishes and chopsticks to wash them, and went to the women's prison to inspect again, and when he returned to the room, he listened to the sound of the candles outside, and looked up at the sky, the moon was a little hairy and hazy.
Liansheng carried the lantern and walked around the palace again, and then returned to the door of the women's prison, and in the hut where he was on duty, Fangsheng read and concentrated. Liansheng didn't dare to disturb him, and gradually fell asleep against the wall, and he didn't know how long he slept, and was suddenly woken up. Fang Sheng's eyes widened and he shouted, "It's on fire, it's on fire." ”
"Huh? Where, where. Liansheng thought that something had happened to the women's prison, and instantly refreshed, jumped up and looked left and right.
Fang Sheng's eyes were red: "It's our house on fire!" ”
A bolt from the blue! Liansheng was stunned, "What?" Our family? ”
Only then did Liansheng see a catcher under Liu Zhutou standing outside, only to see him covered in muddy water, extremely wolfy, panting and saying: "Yang Zhutou's house is on fire, Liu Tou heard that you are on duty, ask me to come for you, let you hurry over!" ”
Liansheng forgot to thank him in a panic, and pulled Fang Sheng to run home.
Sure enough, when I got out of the gate of the mansion, I saw that the sky in the direction of my house was red, and the smell of burnt was wafting in the wind. Liansheng and Fangsheng ran all the way to Yang's house, and saw a large group of people around, the house in the main courtyard had burned down, and Liu Zhutou was pouring water inside with the officials and the neighbors. Seeing Liansheng coming, the princess who lived in the side courtyard howled and cried: "Miss Liansheng, your brother's family has been ......"
When Liansheng heard this, he was covered in ice and snow, Liu Zhutou sighed, and took Liansheng to the side, only to see five corpses lined up on the ground, three large and two small, all of which had been burned black and could not distinguish their faces.
Fang Sheng fell to his knees with a puff, covering his mouth and crying bitterly.
"How so? How so? Liansheng's eyes were red, and he grabbed Liu Zhutou's arm and shook it: "Liu Tou, how can this be, how can they not escape?" ”
"I'm also strange, the people in the side courtyard found that the fire was already burning badly when they got up at night, and there was no movement at all in Yang Zhutou's house, and no one heard the call for help." Liu Zhutou lowered his head to Liansheng's ear and said, "I suspect that they were killed before the fire. ”
"Who, who's going to do this?" Soon after Liansheng came to this time and space, Yang died and has been living with her cousin's family, in her heart, Yang Quan and his wife are flesh and blood, and Fang Sheng is the person she cares about the most, she clenched her fists tightly, and tears kept dripping.
"I have ordered someone to search for suspicious people near the fire."
Liu Zhutou sighed: "Now let's send Yang Zhutou's family to the county morgue first." ”
Thinking that their relatives were about to be sent to that cold and gloomy place, Lian Sheng and Fang Sheng hugged their heads in pain, and the neighbors also touched their tears: the lady of the Yang family is usually enthusiastic and hearty, this street is inhabited by head hunters, and petty thieves dare not come, who would have thought that disasters would fall from the sky. It's so pathetic.
Liansheng asked Fangsheng to wait at the fire, and he followed Liu Zhutou to send the body of his cousin's family back.
The officials found a large sheet, wrapped the body together, and then carried it to the yamen, silent all the way, and the atmosphere was extremely depressing.
At this time, someone shouted in the back, "Liu Zhutou, Liu Zhutou, please stay." ”
A gangster-like man ran forward: "The small one is Niu Er on the street next to him, and the four neighbors all recognize the small one." ”
Liu Zhutou nodded: "What's the matter with you?" ”
"The little one lost a lot of money during the day, and he was afraid that the tigress at home would not dare to go home, so he ate some wine outside, and only came back in the middle of the night, and when he passed by Yang's house, the little one collided with a person. Guess who that person is? ”
Niu Er still wanted to sell Guanzi, but saw that Liansheng's staring eyes were particularly panicked, so he hurriedly continued: "It's that little white-faced Fan Qifan Xiucai, he ran out of the Yang family in a panic, the little one still thinks it's really unlucky, how did he bump into such a thing, the small one poured too much yellow soup and didn't think much about it at the time, and when the little one heard that the Yang family was on fire, he understood." ”
"Very good, Niu Er. You wander around the liquor shops and gambling halls, and if there is a new situation, feel free to tell me. Liu Zhutou took out a few coins of silver and gave it to him, and Niu Er grinned and agreed.
"Feng Qing, Wang Jiang, you two hurry up and look for that Fan Xiucai."
"Yes." The two catchers quickly took the order and left.
It was almost dawn at this moment, Lian Sheng looked at the bright colors in the east, and thought to himself: It won't be Fan Qi, how can that person be so thin and beat his cousin? Will the whole family be subdued?
Liu Zhutou also saw her thoughts, and comforted: "It's better to ask you to watch it first, and then talk about it, I will definitely give Yang Tou's family justice." ”
Lian Sheng bit his lip and nodded, swallowed his tears, and secretly decided: If his cousin's family is really killed, no matter how much he pays, he will avenge this sea of blood.