Chapter 160, there are many crises

"Mingjing, where are you going? Would you like to bring me with you? A sweet-voiced and delicate girl lifted her skirt. Hurry over.

Mingjing turned his head, looked at Cheng Ziyu who had stayed in the Xie Mansion since he performed the crown salute with a headache, and said angrily: "Miss Cheng, although you are also a distant relative of the Xie family, after all, you are not my biological brother and sister, please don't forget the great defense of men and women, call me Third Master Xie in the future, or Brother Xie!" ”

Cheng Ziyu's pink and beautiful cheeks immediately flushed, a pair of big watery eyes were full of grievances, and her small mouth was pursed, and her eyes were about to turn red, but she forcibly held back, stomped her feet and said, "I don't want to call you Brother Xie, there are three Brother Xie in the Xie family, who knows which one I call it?" I don't even want to call you Xie Sanye, as if you are seventy or eighty! I just want to make you pure! ”

Mingjing glanced at her helplessly, and said boredly: "Then you can do whatever you want!" After speaking, he turned around and was about to leave, Cheng Ziyu grabbed him, rolled his eyes, and said with a smile: "If I call you Brother Mingjing, you will have goosebumps when you say that the flesh is numb." Why don't I call you Xie San? It's kind and easy to remember, how about it? ”

Mingjing, who had been entangled by her for seven or eight days, really couldn't stand it, wanted to lose his temper and hindered his mother's face, and besides, he was a young female guest, so he couldn't be too rude, and he was in a hurry to go out, so he had to go with her: "Okay, Xie San, Xie San, but please let Miss Cheng go, although you and I are relatives, we must also know whether men and women are kissed or not!" ”

After speaking, she broke free and turned over the horse, but Cheng Ziyu was extremely good, grabbed the reins of the horse, and said delicately: "Third Brother Xie, if you refuse to take me, just tell me where you are going?" ”

Mingjing had an urgent matter, seeing that she was still entangled, he was angry and annoyed, and suddenly had a pranky heart, he poked his head down, and said with a bit of ****: "If you come over, I will tell you where I am going!" ”

Cheng Ziyu didn't know where to go, seeing that Mingjing was willing to get close to her, she happily lifted her feet, Mingjing poked her head off the horse, approached Cheng Ziyu, and said mysteriously: "I heard that there is a new fan head in *Xiaolou, I want to go and see it." Are you going? ”

Cheng Ziyu suddenly became ashamed and angry, her face turned red, tears swirled, she stomped her feet and said angrily: "I'm going to tell my aunt that you bullied me!" ”

Mingjing took advantage of her release of the reins and smirked a few times and beat the horse away. Behind him, Cheng Ziyu's face suddenly became cloudy, staring at the clear and dusty background, and returned to the house without saying a word.

Mingjing went out and walked around the street first, and then came to the Shunfeng Restaurant far away from Xie's Mansion, handed over the horse to Xiao Er to feed, and relied on his friendship with the shopkeeper, and told him to hide it for himself, and then slipped away quietly through the back door.

He was looking for Mingche, and just now, an usually inconspicuous old slave of the Xie family suddenly quietly found him and told him that his eldest brother was back and was waiting for him in a small inn.

In the cottage where Ming Che lived temporarily, the table was already full of cups and plates, and the two brothers were chatting and drinking. After three rounds of drinking, Mingjing knew that Mingche only brought two henchmen to suddenly come back from Jinyang without telling everyone, and he had always been in a hurry, but Mingche was preoccupied and only persuaded him to drink. refused to say a word, the two drank for a while, and seeing that he seemed to be a little drunk, they couldn't help but be a little anxious.

"Big brother, what do you have to tell me when you come back in a hurry?"

Mingche took a sip of hot tea, took a towel to wipe his face, his originally somewhat drunk eyes suddenly became clear, his eyes stared at Mingjing uncertainly, and he quickly lowered his eyelids and hesitated for a moment and said with a wry smile: "I have a very important thing to say to you, but I don't trust you enough, it's not that you treat your eldest brother hypocritically, nor do you intend to betray your eldest brother, it's because my aunt's deed of sale is in her hands after all, and it's better if you don't know some things, so eldest brother is very conflicted." ”

Mingjing was already extremely unhappy in his heart, and said dissatisfiedly: "What does big brother mean? Aren't our brothers deep enough? Even if my aunt's deed of sale was in her hand, I couldn't tell me anything, so I ran to tell her! ”

Ming Che shook his head with a wry smile, and said in a low voice: "It's not that I don't trust you, and I'm afraid that they will do something to your aunt in order to persecute you, and when you can't do anything and are helpless, you will be involuntarily what you do." ”

Mingjing objected: "I know that my eldest brother has always treated me as a child, and my father spoiled me too much when he was alive, so I used to be a little unconscious." But I've been through a lot of things over the years, maybe it's still the same on the surface, but I know everything in my heart, and some of them are just for people to see, and only in this way can they rest assured that they can cause less trouble for me and my aunt. Isn't it, big brother? ”

Ming Che looked at him in surprise, and nodded with satisfaction: "It's me who underestimated you, always treat you as a child, and never thought that you were already a man who dared to act." Big brother trusts you. ”

Mingjing nodded solemnly: "Big brother, I swear to my dead father that I will never betray you!" ”

Mingche sighed and said, "You know what? How difficult is it to have someone you really trust? Steward Xie was pointed out to me by my father when I was very young, and he was afraid that he would be too busy to take care of me and let me be wronged, so he pointed out to me the shrewd, capable and cautious Xie Chengzhong, and served me for life, and I also vowed to support him in his old age. But two years ago, I found some clues, some suspects that Xie Chengzhong had been bought, but I couldn't be sure, I was finally sure after Bai Mei's death. ”

Mingjing's eyes widened: "Hasn't he always been loyal to you?" I remember that before my father died, he knelt down and swore to my father that he would be loyal to you for the rest of his life, and if there were two hearts that hit five thunderbolts on the same day, he would not be afraid of retribution? And why are you sure he has two hearts today? Could it be that Bai Mei's death has something to do with him? I really don't understand. ”

Ming Che snorted coldly: "If there is really retribution in the world, where are there so many wicked people and injustices?" On the night Bai Mei died, that mother-in-law was a stupid peasant woman hired temporarily, where could she kill Bai Mei under his nose? I think it must have been him. It looked like I kicked Baimei very hard that day, but it wasn't a big deal, you forgot that I was a perennial martial arts practitioner. Naturally, I know the fatality of people, I obviously want to ask Bai Mei some information, how can I kill her so easily? ”

Mingjing nodded in admiration, but asked puzzledly: "Why did Xie Chengzhong kill Bai Mei?" Is it to extinguish the mouth? Whose secret does Bai Mei have, so do you have to be silenced? ”

Mingche frowned, and a touch of pain appeared on his face: "I can't figure it out, I can only guess one thing, this person may be Bai Mei's accomplice, he wants Bai Mei to spy on me closely, and he is afraid that Bai Mei will betray him, so I don't know when he betrayed Xie Chengzhong." One is to spy on me, and the other is to spy on Baimei. As for what the secret that Baimei and that person have in common, I suspect it has something to do with your sister-in-law's sudden death. That time, Xie Chengzhong saw that I saw through Bai Mei's true face, and he was afraid that she would not be able to insist on recruiting the person behind the scenes, so he simply killed her, the purpose was to protect that person. Anyway, Baimei is so badly injured, it's normal that she can't stand it, if I hadn't been careful with my subordinates, where would I have noticed? ”

Mingjing listened to all this in surprise, remembered the kindness of his sister-in-law, and slammed his fist on the table: "Big brother can guess who it is?" ”

Mingche hesitated for a while and said, "At first, I suspected that it was Ming Qing, but now I suspect that it is Lin Xinhui." ”

Mingjing stood up in shock: "Second brother and second sister-in-law? How is this possible? Why do they want to hurt their sister-in-law? Why do you want to hurt Shu'er? How did Bai Mei collude with them? ”

Mingche patted him on the shoulder and signaled him to calm down: "I'm just suspicious, and I'm not sure, maybe I wronged them, I hope that from beginning to end, it was just the old pious woman and Bai Mei who made it up, and no one instructed them." ”

Mingjing still heard the question: "But why do you suspect the second brother and second sister-in-law?" ”

Mingche was silent for a long time, picked up the teacup and slowly spoke: "Actually, Lin Xinhui was originally the wife hired for me by my grandmother when she was alive. ”

Mingjing was so shocked that the chopsticks fell from his hand, and he looked at Mingche with burning eyes. Mingche took a deep breath, sat down with him and said, "Don't worry, I'll tell you slowly, this matter is a long story, and it's all an old thing." ”

During the Sui Dynasty, the Xie family and the Lin family were world friends, and the clear grandmother Mrs. Xie and Mrs. Lin were close friends in the boudoir. Everyone knows that Mrs. Xie was very fond of Mingche back then, and she was afraid that his identity as a concubine would be criticized and affect her future, so she was bent on hiring a young lady for him.

People with too good family backgrounds are not happy, too poor and not worthy of Xie Fu, so they fell in love with Lin Xinhui, the second lady of the Lin family, the Lin family's family background is acceptable, but they are much worse than the Xie family, and marrying Xie Fu is considered a high climb. In order to hire Lin Xinhui and arrange Mingche's future, Mrs. Xie not only recorded him in the name of her daughter-in-law Xie Wu, but also recorded him as the eldest son who inherited the family business on the family tree.

Although Lin Xinhui is a few years younger than Mingche, she is a real concubine, and her grandmother, Mrs. Lin, loves the young Mingche quite much. Seeing that although he was a concubine, he was raised as the eldest son, and he would have an unlimited future, so he agreed, and soon she passed away, but the family affair was recognized by his son and daughter-in-law.

When it was time to get married, it was already the replacement of the old and new dynasties, Master Lin died early and had no children under his knees, the Lin family gradually declined as an old minister of the previous dynasty, Xie Wuya became an official and a knight, and he was even more popular in the court than the previous dynasty.

Although Mrs. Lin has a lot of wealth, she is lonely and widowed, and she is afraid that the Xie family will miss her daughter's life, so she proposed to use the rich family resources as a dowry to let her daughter marry as soon as possible, and she also has something to rely on. Because Xie Wuya funded most of the family's wealth to the Qin King uprising, there was only an empty shell left at that time, but it was not an overnight thing to save again, and the Xie family never thought about retiring from his family, so he agreed.

Because Ming Che followed King Qin to fight the world immediately over the years, he was already too late to marry a wife, and he also pressed the Ming and Qing dynasties to not get married, so Xie Wuya planned to let them marry at the same time half a year later.

Who knew that when discussing marriage, Fang knew that the daughter-in-law originally hired by Ming and Qing was already sick and half dead, and sure enough, she died of illness a month before marriage. Then, no one knew what method the Ming and Qing dynasties used to make Lin Xinhui marry her within a month, and they didn't know how the two families discussed, but they actually agreed to this ridiculous request, so Lin Xinhui married the Ming and Qing dynasties.