Chapter 13: Killing Two Birds with One Stone
"Old lady, this is from the crack in the stone under the rockery." Mama Gui lowered her head and presented the burden.
Old Lady Ren's eyes swept over the faces of the fifth lady and Ren Yaoyu, and motioned for Mama Gui to open the burden.
Mama Gui put the burden on the kang table, turned her back and untied the burden, and suddenly her frightened gasps sounded in the room.
Old Lady Ren frowned and glanced at it, then her pupils shrank suddenly, and her face turned pale.
Everyone looked curiously at the kang table, but saw that the autumn fragrant wrapper had been spread out on the kang table, among which was a white puppet, and the adult two palm-sized puppets were painted with red cinnabar with messy symbols, which was shocking at a glance, and it was no wonder that the always calm Gui Mama gasped at first sight.
Everyone in the room could tell that this was a curse that was circulating among the women in the backyard.
The air-dried yin-yang grass is wrapped in a white cloth to make a human shape, and the birth date of the cursed person is sewn on it, and the cursed spell is drawn with dog blood.
Old Lady Ren's cold eyes looked at the two maids who knelt down with a frightened "poof": "You have the courage to do such a dirty deed in the house!" ”
The two maids trembled and begged for mercy: "The old lady spares her life, the old lady spares her life......"
In the big family, this kind of evil and crooked way is the most taboo, especially the person in charge, who cannot forgive this kind of behavior. If someone is involved, it will be sent to the government and will be used in public with a hundred boards.
The 100 big boards in the yamen are actually equivalent to taking people's lives.
The eldest lady also looked ugly and said, "You guys are too confused, how can you do such a thing!" Our Ren family can't tolerate the use of such selfish means! You guys...... Hey......"
The maid with a mole on her face seemed to react, and suddenly turned her head to look at Ren Yaoyu, who had no colorless face, and suddenly took a few steps on her knees and pounced: "Miss Eight help, Miss Eight will die——"
When the fifth lady was angry, she kicked the maid's heart and scolded, "Shut up!" ”
The maid was heartbroken, and shouted regardless of it: "This is Miss Eight's thing, the slave maid was just ordered to take out the coffin and bury it, and I don't know the inside story!" ”
Another maid who only cared about crying was also busy sobbing and said: "Old lady, how dare the slaves and maids curse their masters with such things, the slaves and maids are really just acting on orders." ”
If Miss Eight is dragged into the water, the Ren family will not send them to the yamen because of their face.
Old Lady Ren looked at Ren Yaoyu coldly: "What do you say?" ”
Ren Yaoyu was weak in her legs, and she cried when she saw "Wow-".
The fifth lady was furious, stepped forward and kicked the two maids to the ground, no longer caring about her image and scolding: "You two eat things inside and outside!" Do you dare to splash this kind of dirty water on your master? I'm getting tired of living! ”
Ren Yaoyu was so frightened by the atmosphere in the room that she was about to have a nervous breakdown: "I'm just having fun, I'm ...... I...... I'm not using dog blood, it's cinnabar...... Third sister, she won't die......"
But this is an admission that she made the things.
Ren Yaohua, who was named and mentioned, looked stunned, and subconsciously looked at the puppet on the kang table.
The fifth wife was so angry with her daughter that she really wanted to slap her and scold her, "Idiot!" But now it's too late for her to scold.
Seeing that the people in the room were all looking at their mother and daughter with complicated expressions, the fifth lady reluctantly endured the anger in her heart, turned her head and smiled at the old lady: "Mother, Yu'er, she is young, and she doesn't know the severity of the road. It's just a joke between sisters, and it's actually involved in this kind of thing. She was just provoked by the people below, and she didn't really understand what she was doing. This time, the daughter-in-law is not strict in discipline, and I ask your old man to forgive me this time. ”
The curse was said by her to be a small fight between sisters in a few words.
Seeing that Mrs. Ren was calm and silent, the fifth lady turned her eyes to Ren Yaohua, who had a cold face, and said in a good voice: "Yaohua, this time it is your sister who is not sensible. You are a sister, don't worry about her if you have a lot of adults, she is just a child's heart, and she has no ill will towards you. The fifth aunt personally made amends to you. ”
Ren Yaohua didn't eat her, and said with a sneering face: "Fifth aunt, Yaohua doesn't understand this, I forgive the eighth sister is an adult, and if you don't forgive, it's a chicken belly?" You, the condescending and noble of the elders, have come to apologize to me, the junior, if I don't obey you, I will have no respect for the elders? This hat is really big, Shu Yaohua's head is too small to wear. ”
A trace of annoyance and anger flashed in the eyes of the fifth wife, but today it was her daughter who was the first, she had to hold back her anger, and was about to say a few more soft words to stabilize the scene, but Mama Gui over there said "Huh", and pulled out the cloth strip with the eight characters of the birth date behind the puppet, which was frightened, and subconsciously glanced at the old lady.
Old Mrs. Ren noticed her movements, and also swept the strip of cloth in her hand, this time her face changed greatly, and she turned her head and pointed at Ren Yaoyu angrily and scolded: "Beast! On your knees! ”
Ren Yaoyu was sobbing, and when she saw that the old lady Ren suddenly became angry, she was so frightened that she fell to her knees with a shake.
The fifth wife, who was still talking to Ren Yaohua, was stunned for a moment, and turned around: "Mother......"
"Don't call me mother! Look at what good things you've raised! The old lady Ren gasped for breath, picked up the puppet and threw it at the fifth wife, which happened to fall on the fifth lady's face.
The fifth wife was stunned for a moment, and then felt a little humiliated, and her eyes immediately turned red.
This is the first time she has received such a reproach from Mrs. Ren since she married into the Ren family.
When she was a girl at home, she was favored by the elders in the family and never suffered the slightest grievance. After marrying into the Ren family, Mrs. Ren also treated her like a daughter, and always supported her between concubines and concubines.
This time, he slapped her in front of the eldest wife and so many juniors.
The fifth lady was so aggrieved that her tears were like falling golden beans, she raised her sleeves and wiped her tears on her face, and was about to express her dissatisfaction, but when her eyes swept to the puppet on the ground, her body was stiff and she couldn't say a word.
Everyone in the room also saw clearly the puppet marked with the eight characters of birth on the ground, and the room was silent for a moment.
The eight characters of the birthday were written with a cinnabar pen, which was shocking, but it was not Ren Yaohua's birthday eight characters.
Ren Yaohua was born on the sixth day of the eighth month of the Gengwu year, and the time written on it was right, but it was the year of Gengyin.
Everyone in the Ren Mansion knows that the reason why Mrs. Ren looks at the third lady Ren Yaohua differently is not only because Ren Yaohua is like when she was young, but also because Ren Yaohua's birthday is the same day and the same time as her.
The eight characters of birth on the puppet used to curse are obviously the old lady's.
Ren Yaoqi looked at it from beginning to end, and the surprise on the faces of the fifth wife, mother and daughter, and Ren Yaohua did not seem to be fake.
Now she finally understands why the fifth wife in the previous life insisted that Ren Yaohua framed Ren Yaoyu.
Looking at Ren Yaoyu's performance, this puppet should indeed be from her, but the eight characters of her birthday written by her were Ren Yaohua's, and the last one somehow became Mrs. Ren's.
After the most reluctant, Ren Yaoyu was rejected by Mrs. Ren because of this, and Ren Yaohua regained the qualification to live in Ronghua Academy, who else has more motivation to frame Ren Yaoyu than Ren Yaohua?