Chapter 57: Threading
P.S.: Sleepy, really sleepy, this chapter is super short, I uploaded it head-on. I'm sorry!
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Mother Wu took the cloth hammer, carefully checked it, sniffed it again, found nothing unusual, looked at Mother Liu suspiciously, and handed the cloth hammer over.
In the blink of an eye, Mother Liu, who had been secretly paying attention to Xianglan, caught the smugness that flashed in her eyes.
Mother Liu took the cloth hammer and pinched it a few times, it felt very good, it should have stored a sufficient amount of good cotton.
Mother Liu seemed to be concentrating on the movements of her hands, but the afterglow at the end of her eyes "just happened" to catch a glimpse of Xianglan's face began to become nervous, and she moved her fingers little by little and pinched them more carefully.
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Xianglan's forehead began to sweat, and her teeth clenched her lips in obscurity.
Mother Liu suddenly sank her face: "Bring scissors." ”
"Don't," Xianglan exclaimed, and then suddenly became alert, covered her mouth with one hand, and said, "Slave maid...... The slave maid makes this little cloth hammer flower...... It took a lot of work. ”
Mother Liu ignored her, took the scissors handed by the little maid, and carefully cut them open from the seam.
With a "bang", Xianglan sat on the ground and cried.
Now Master Zhang can't sit idly by, no matter how much he doesn't care about the affairs of the inner courtyard, he can also see that something is wrong, what's wrong with that cloth thing? What is Lanxiang going to do? A maid dared to plot to kill his young son, who was only a few days old?
When the small cloth hammer is cut, five or six red beads the size of soybeans stand out, scattered among the snow-white cotton.
"What is this?" Mother Wu was about to reach out to pick up a bead to look at, but was stopped by Mother Liu.
Mother Liu frowned: "If I'm not mistaken, this is a poisonous powder ball called vermilion, once it gets wet, it will become highly poisonous, and the poisoning symptoms are like eating a bad stomach and dying of dehydration." ”
Mr. Zhang's legs and feet are trembling, how can a child who has only been a few days old withstand diarrhea? Who did such a young child recruit and provoke whom?
Grabbing Xianglan's collar with one hand, Master Zhang shouted angrily, "Cheap maid, you dare to murder the little master, who gave you the guts?" Tell me, Who hath made thee? "A little girl, what good is it for her to kill the little master?
Xianglan didn't speak, just kept crying and shaking her head.
made Master Zhang more and more angry: "Come on, pour all these things into this." The sudden violence made Xianglan cough, and her face turned red.
Xianglan was stunned, knelt up and kept kowtowing: "The master spares his life, the master spares his life, is it ...... It was Aunt Guan, it was Aunt Guan who caught my mother and little brother and forced me to do this, she said it was called killing two birds with one stone. She also said that after getting rid of the wife and the two young masters, the master will definitely make her his wife, and when she becomes his wife, he will raise me as an aunt, and when the time comes, the young master will be raised under her name, and she will be the eldest son and grandson of the Zhang family. ”
Aunt Guan? Zhang Caishu was stunned, that weak and kind woman? The beautiful concubine who is always tender like water in front of him?
More importantly, what is killing two birds with one stone? Kill Brother Chen, blame Brother Xu?
Aunt Guan is the personal maid who grew up with her ex-wife (Brother Xu's mother), how can she bear to hurt Brother Xu? The former wife closed her eyes and begged Master Zhang to take Guan'er as a concubine for the son she had given birth to.
For the sake of the former wife's affection, Master Zhang has been very good to Aunt Guan all these years, but Aunt Guan lost her body after giving birth to a concubine, and she has never been able to have another son as she wishes, and she is always angry.
In fact, in the first few years, Aunt Guan was very good to Brother Xu, and it can be said that she took good care of her. But later Xia Ruoyun entered the door, Brother Xu, who was less than two years old, began to stick to Xia Ruoyun, and in just half a year, the two of them got along like their own mother and son, which made Aunt Guan very disappointed.
The eldest son was close to his stepwife, and Master Zhang was naturally happy, and only comforted Aunt Guan a few times verbally, but he didn't take it to heart.
Xia Ruoyun didn't stop the soup until Brother Xu was four or five years old, and I don't know if it was because he had taken the soup for too long, and he didn't succeed in getting pregnant with Brother Chen until this year.
At this time, I thought of the changes in Aunt Guan after Xia Ruoyun became pregnant, and the "There are no holes in the purse" when he locked Brother Xu in the small black room that day, "There are no holes in the purse", "After eating the fried soybeans, I don't know why there are so many roads?" "Someone pushed me"......
Zhang Caishu suddenly had a thrill, shivered, and glared at Xianglan angrily: "The eldest young master bumped into his wife that day, is it also the ghost you and Aunt Guan made trouble?" ”
"No......" Xianglan instinctively wanted to deny it, but when she met Zhang Caishu's cold eyes, she suddenly lost her courage and nodded.