Chapter 61: The Cycle Repeats

Imperial Physician Wu left the Xinguo Mansion and let out a long sigh.

He didn't know what happened to the Duchess of Xinguo, who wanted Old Taijun Qiu to enter the palace in person to ask the queen to take action, but as soon as this Fang family became pregnant, the originally very simple situation became complicated.

As a mother, he has seen too many things about burning jade and stones for the sake of children after becoming a mother.

But even so, when Mrs. Qiu asked him to tell the queen to "keep the child", he was still relieved.

He only did what he had to do, how to decide, that was what the old lady and the queen should consider.

If he doesn't say this, something will happen to this woman in the future, one corpse and two lives, I am afraid that he will be thrown out by the queen mother and apologize to the Xinguo Mansion.

Imperial Physician Wu returned to the palace, met the queen, explained the situation of the Fang family to the queen, and said what Mrs. Qiu meant.

When the queen heard this, she was a little puzzled and said, "You say, Mrs. Qiu wants a child?" โ€

This Fang clan resolutely can't let her die well, give birth to a child at this time, this child is also a burden when she is born, what do you want to do? If Li Mao wants to stop his wife and remarry in the future, or take other concubines, wouldn't this child be even more embarrassing than Li Rui now?

Even if Mrs. Qiu wants to keep this child and raise him personally, how many years can she protect him? You can't protect it for a lifetime.

Imperial Physician Wu knelt on the ground and replied, "Yes." The thing was too coincidental, and the coincidence made the minister think it was deliberate. But the minister looked at the expressions of the people in the Xinguo Mansion, as if he didn't know that he was pregnant. The old lady probably thinks that the people of the Xinguo Mansion are too thin, so she wants to keep this child. โ€

The queen estimated that this was also the reason, if the Fang clan relied on the child in her belly to do witchcraft, she should let her out when the old lady locked her in the side courtyard.

However, it is not surprising that Mrs. Qiu did this. The people in a family are so weak that they can even have a concubine as a baby, let alone crawl out of their daughter-in-law's belly.

The queen nodded, indicating that she had understood.

These are small things that don't get in the way of the big picture.

Isn't there another thing in this world called "leaving a son to go to a mother"?

Gu Qing consciously did the right thing, and finally let go of the burden in his heart.

She is a doctor who specializes in saving children, not the daughter of a nobleman who was proficient in all kinds of house fights in ancient times and regarded human life as a mustard. The Fang family made a mistake that should not be made, and he wanted to be punished, but the child in the womb was Li Rui and Li Ming's younger brother after all, she was not the child's biological grandmother, and she was just a dove occupying the magpie's nest; Second, it cannot make decisions for the child's parents, and there is no right to demand anything other than him.

Originally, he wanted the Fang clan to disappear in front of people in the name of "miscarriage", but now he couldn't attack so quickly.

It's just that this Fang clan is pregnant again, I'm afraid that I want to use the child in my belly to make trouble, in order to prevent further incidents, the Splendid Courtyard is still isolated, and it is better for the Fang clan to live in isolation.

After she gave birth, according to what the queen said, she was sent far away to Zhuangzi, or if she was injured, she would be locked up in a side courtyard for the rest of her life and not come out, so that Li Ming's future would not be delayed, nor would Li Rui have any burden in his heart.

The sentence of life imprisonment for attempted murder is โ–กโ–ก life imprisonment, which is not light even in modern times.

Gu Qing was simple-minded and didn't think too much. In her opinion, it is best for a family to be harmonious, and if they can't, they should not play with the old troublemaker. Now the troublemaker has left a case record with the queen, and the two children are also doing well, she continues to be her old lady, except for the housekeeper in the future, there is really nothing to be dissatisfied with.

She felt relieved, so she ordered Siyun to send the gold and silver bills that had been beaten well, as well as the purse that was originally going to be given to her subordinates, to the front hall.

Her annual "mother-in-law who scatters wealth" is coming again!

In this room, Gu Qing was ready to take a bunch of subordinates to happily hand out silver, but Li Rui's heart was like falling into an ice cave.

He followed the subordinates of the torture chamber to the torture room, entered the small cell, and sure enough, he saw that Mama Liu and the goddess died together.

The torture chamber was small, and it was originally only separated from men and women, and both of them were women, so they were locked up together by the subordinates in charge of the torture cell. I don't know what went wrong with Lu Dao, originally the two of them were tied up, this Mama Liu actually loosened the rope, strangled the goddess alive, and then hit the wall and died.

It's really strange that she died so resolutely.

The man said that he was in a hurry and went out for a quarter of an hour, and that was it when he came back. The lynching in the house was not commonly used in the first place, and if the subordinate made a mistake, he would be whipped at most, or he would be directly sent to the official. This torture room used to be held for family members who had committed crimes and had to be sent to the official, and the subordinates of the torture room were also very carelessly managed.

Who would have thought that something would happen with such carelessness.

This accident made Li Rui feel like he had eaten a big fly. He felt like there were countless holes in his house, and anyone could put their hand into it.

Mama Liu is a confidant next to her aunt, when she married into the house, the bride selected by the Fang Mansion for her daughter has stayed in the house for more than ten years, and even by his side, there is a nephew of her who is a scholar, and her influence in the house can be seen.

This person is loyal to his aunt, and he is cautious, and his ability and ability are not weak. Although she was fueling the witch Gu thing, and even the goddess was brought into the house by her, but the sin did not lead to death, and now she strangled the goddess to death and crashed into the wall to death, it is hard not to think that she was instructed by her aunt.

Regardless of whether this thing was done by the aunt or not, as soon as the goddess died, the fact was already settled.

When he returned from the Splendid Temple, he became suspicious of his aunt's intention to use the technique of overwhelming victory to harm him. My aunt looks like she will calculate step by step, and deliberately get his hair and eight characters to harm him.

He wanted to ask again the next day to see if there was another master behind this, but now that the goddess and Mama Liu are dead, except for the confession and the puppet with the eight characters of the birthday, there is no proof of death.

This form suddenly reversed, which made Li Rui feel a headache too.

If this matter was not done by the aunt, then someone had ill intentions, and heard that the aunt was looking for the goddess and arranged the goddess into the house. I'm afraid that no matter whether or not there is an exorcism for grandma, this witch thing will be exposed.

The matter involved witch Gu, or the most stubborn climbed on his aunt, making him suspicious of his aunt and uncle; Either it was not covered up, and someone reported and exposed it, or the person who arranged the matter exposed it, and the whole house was punished;

Whether or not they find out about it, their house will be greatly damaged by it. This plan to kill two birds with one stone is really too vicious.

Now I don't know if this Mama Liu is someone else's dead soldier, or if this goddess said something to scare Mama Liu like this. No matter what is going on, the power behind this is not small, and the heart is vicious, and they must make it difficult for them to believe in the Guogong Mansion.

At the thought of not knowing where the road was, the poisonous snake-like force was staring at the Guogong Mansion all the time, wanting to pull them into the water one by one, Li Rui couldn't help but shudder.

He looked at the blood on the walls, and the goddess with her eyes and tongue sticking out, and turned away from the torture chamber.

"Prepare a horse for me, I'm going to leave the house."

He's going to his uncle.

In the West Garden.

On the night of the thirtieth day, Li Ming and his two brothers stayed up all night to keep watch for the New Year, and they didn't fall asleep until dawn, the children were not as good as adults, and they couldn't stand the boil, so Li Rui had already left the house, and Li Jun was also called by Gu Qing to send silver, only Li Ming slept in the cloud and didn't wake up until noon.

When he woke up, his stomach was growling. He only drank a bowl of shredded chicken porridge in the morning and fell asleep, and this sleep until noon, naturally he was hungry. When he got up, the girls and the little maids hurriedly came in to serve, and the meals were ready in the kitchen, so they waited for Li Ming to get up and eat as soon as he woke up.

After Li Ming had eaten enough, he changed into a new set of clothes that were red from the inside out, put on his favorite little court boots, and ran to Qingcang Courtyard with a kick, but he pounced.

Hey? Is my brother not here? It must be somewhere to play without him!

Li Ming pouted and went to the side courtyard to find Li Jun unhappily.

Hmm, I didn't enjoy playing yesterday, so he went to his cousin to "kill" again!

"What? Isn't the lobby brother here either? Li Ming was about to cry.

"Our young master went to the front to help Mrs. Tai pay the reward." Li Lao Wu looked at this young master of the Xinguo Mansion with a smile on his face.

Yo, he looks so handsome, even more handsome than their young master! It's cute to look like you're going to cry!

Speaking of which, the eldest young master is also very handsome, but he is a little fat, and he has no expression, so he doesn't look as interesting as this little young master. The children of this big family are just different!

"It turned out that I was going to give out the reward." Li Ming nodded. In the past, the Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year each issued a reward, and his grandmother and his father sent it once. This year, my father is not here, and my grandmother has sent a lot, so the manservant asked the lobby brother to send it.

Woo woo, where did my brother go, he wasn't even at home to send money!

"This old man, I haven't seen you before, are you here with the lobby brother?" Li Ming looked at this wrinkled old man curiously, who lived in the courtyard of the lobby brother, and should be from Jingnan's hometown.

"Wow, I...... The old slave is the second housekeeper in Jingnan's hometown, and he is responsible for pressing the New Year's gift to the capital. The heavy snow blocked the road and couldn't go back, so I stayed in the capital for the New Year. Li Lao Wu replied to Li Ming's words with a smile. He also has a little grandson who is seven years old this year, and he looks at all the little ones interestingly.

Li Ming was uncomfortable with his smile, and decided to go to the front to find his grandmother and cousin. He was just about to leave, when he saw the old man's weathered face and slightly saddled back, and then thought that he was giving New Year's gifts to the house, and he couldn't even go home for the New Year, so he ripped off the big purse he was wearing and handed it to Li Lao Wu.

"The old man can't go home after giving gifts to the house, and our house has tired you. Leave this to your juniors. Li Ming grinned, turned around and ran.

"What a beautiful purse. Such a beautiful purse is not kept for the mother-in-law, for the children to play with, and it was torn off in two days. Li Lao Wu looked at the delicate purse in his hand inexplicably, this kind of thing must be kept for the old wife at home.

Leave it to the little grandson, and the old woman's face will be cloudy for a few days, saying that he is partial to his daughter-in-law or something. It is......

"Why is it so heavy?"

Li Lao Wu tore open the mouth of the purse, and when he saw the contents inside, he was so frightened that he quickly pinched the opening of the purse.

There are small pens lying inside, small Ruyi and a few small plum blossoms, small ingots in the shape of gold bills, it looks like there are five or six, each of which weighs one or two. At this time, one tael of gold and ten taels of silver, these small gold bills, together with his family's five years of chewing.

This little doll, why is it so casual!

Li Lao Wu sighed deeply for this loser boy.

Li Ming ran to the front yard with his girl, and sure enough, he saw a lot of people walking to the front yard along the way.

These subordinates were all smiling and red-faced, and when they saw him, they all saluted very quickly, and some people were worried that he would fall when he ran alone, and they wanted to carry him or carry him to the front yard.

Just kidding, once this year passes, he will be ten years old! Where do you need people to hug and hug around!

Li Ming waved his hand, thanked them for their kindness, and then ran forward.

It's just that he took pity on a few of his little guys, and he couldn't catch up with him, so he was afraid that he would fall that little ancestor.

Li Ming rushed into the front yard like a small whirlwind, and saw a large number of male servants standing outside the hall on the left, and a large number of female servants standing outside the hall on the right, all lined up, four by four went in one by one, kowtowing to grandma.

The people who came out of the hall were holding things in their hands, and their smiling mouths couldn't close together.

These subordinates work hard for a year, just to have a good income at the end of the year, save a dowry or prepare to marry a daughter-in-law.

The manservant in front is not easy to see the girls in the back, so take advantage of the New Year to glance at the girls a few more times, and match what you like, and when you finish your errand, you can ask the master for it.

The girls are pretty much the same.

This caused the unmarried people outside the hall to wait at all, and asked those who wanted to get the money quickly and go to the front. Some girls looked at those handsome boys and were embarrassed to say, so they quietly wrote down their appearances and prepared to go back and inquire.

Li Ming saw that these girls who usually dress very exquisitely have been dressed up in a fancy way recently, so he couldn't help but look at them twice in wonder, and accepted the courtesies of the people one by one, and then walked into the hall quickly.

In the hall, Gu Qing couldn't close his mouth when he sent money, but Li Jun was in a trance, all of them were supported by Grandma Sun and the big girl Xiangyun, and they divided the silver for him and handed it to him.

Li Jun has grown so big, he has never seen so much silver. The gold and silver bills were piled up on several large plates and placed on the table, and they were given different according to different grades, but there were at least two silver bills.

His family's New Year's Eve is all copper coins, even if it is him, there are only a few coins for the New Year. As a result, early this morning, his grandmother called him to help, and first grabbed a large handful of gold bills for him to play......

He's, he's he, he's scared to death, okay!

Although it looks like a plaything, looking at the color of this gold bill, it is all red gold with a lot of color, a dozen taels of silver on top, and this gold bill......

He felt that the money he had made to marry his daughter-in-law had been lost.

My cousin was not at home, so my cousin greeted my grandmother in the morning and went to his uncle's house. Li Ming was still sleeping, and his grandmother couldn't bear to wake him up, so she pulled him, a strong man, to give the manservant silver.

He didn't know the rank of the people under the Dao, so it was all up to Miss Xiangyun and Grandma Sun to divide the silver and let him hand it over.

Originally, everything was fine, but the problem was that when Miss Xiangyun gave the silver, she accidentally touched his finger.

Then he started to itch all over his body. According to his experience, his thighs and arms should have started to have rashes.

He was originally shocked by so much silver, and he was a little reluctant to send the money, but now he realized that there was a young woman standing behind him, and he was even more distracted, and he just wanted to let this girl go away quickly.

When he paid attention to this, he immediately felt that Xiangyun standing behind him was very fragrant, and even his ears were hot.

But this woman is my grandmother's personal girl, and now he is helping the house again, and he asked people to go away for no reason, there are so many people in the hall, it is too embarrassing for other girls.

So he could only endure the itching all over his body, and continued to pretend to be calm and make money.

Li Ming ran into the house with a cigarette, first rushed to his grandmother and knelt down, kowtowed to Gu Qing, and then straightened up and said a lot of auspicious words with a smile.

As soon as he finished speaking, he hurriedly stretched out his hand: "Happy New Year, grandma!" โ€

Gu Qing was so amused by Li Ming that he couldn't close his mouth, so he grabbed a handful from the plate containing the gold bills and handed it to Li Ming: "You kid, you can still say auspicious words so smoothly with a leaky mouth, it seems that you have been thinking about grandma's New Year's money for a long time." I just gave you a few to play with yesterday morning, and what about your purple purse? โ€

Li Ming casually said "give it away", and then took the six or seven gold bills and stuffed them into his sleeve pocket.

"It just so happens that your brother has gone to your uncle's house, you go and send one for your cousin." Gu Qing pointed to Li Jun, who was sitting at the bottom of the right position.

Li Ming smiled and leaned over to Li Jun's side: "Happy New Year, brother lobby!" โ€

Then he stretched out his hand to Li Jun to ask for silver.

This made Li Jun blush, he didn't know that his peers in the Ludao Mansion also had to pay New Year's money, so he didn't have any silver money on his body, so he had to touch the gold coin that Gu Qing had just given him.

Li Ming saw that Li Jun was serious, and hurriedly grabbed Li Jun's hand.

"Don't take it seriously, brother, my brother is joking with you. Hey? Li Ming grabbed Li Jun's wrist and looked at it, "Brother Hall, why are there all red envelopes on your wrists?" โ€

When he shouted, everyone in the room looked at him. Gu Qing quickly stood up and walked over to see Li Jun's situation.

Li Jun embarrassedly withdrew his arm from Li Ming's hand, and said shyly: "It's old and sick, it's not in the way." โ€

As soon as he said this, Gu Qing suddenly remembered his "hidden disease", and then looked at the Xiangyun behind him, where else did he not know what to do. She took a look, it was indeed a rash like hives, not a big problem, and couldn't help but cover her mouth and smile, and called Xiangyun over.

When she saw Li Jun's grateful expression, she was overjoyed.

Burst! Hurry up and pull Xiangyun away, otherwise you will even have a rash on your face in the future, and the whole house will know about this "phobia".

"It just so happens that your cousin is not feeling well, so you send it for him. Jun'er, you're not feeling well, go to the back and take a rest. Gu Qing pointed to the backyard, "I'll come back for your cousin later." โ€

Seeing that the old lady understood, Li Jun hurriedly saluted happily and walked out of the courtyard.

With his bag, he can finally grasp it well.

Li Ming swept around the room, didn't see his mother, and asked his grandmother with a bitter face: "Is my mother okay?" โ€

Gu Qing felt bored, but he still had to pretend to be normal.

"Your mother is not well, don't disturb her to rest. Don't go back to Xiaozhu in the clouds tonight, come to grandma's yard. Grandma has a story to tell you. โ€

"Huh? Could it be the follow-up of the Three Kingdoms? Derpy said excitedly, "Is my brother going to listen too?" โ€

Gu Qing paused, but still shook his head.

"No, grandma will tell you alone."

Such a sad story, don't repeat it to Li Rui.

Not to mention how excited Li Ming was in his heart, how much he was looking forward to it, how tormented Gu Qing's heart was, how uncertain he was, this ancestor and grandson had their own things in their hearts, but they still held down all kinds of emotions in their hearts and gave the money to the people.

After Gu Qing finished distributing the silver, he excused himself to get up early and go back to the house to rest. In fact, he couldn't face Derpy's excited expression.

She was going to go back to the Cloud Courtyard to think about how to talk to Li Xiaodao about the Fang Clan.

It's so hard. This Fang clan has created a sin!

Li Ming saw that Gu Qing had returned to Zhiyun Courtyard, and the people had also dispersed, so he suddenly felt bored, and ran back to find Li Jun to play.

Among them, how Li Jun took off his clothes and was tickled by Li Ming, how Li Xiaodao pitied his cousin for tickling him, and how Li Jun was scratched by Li Xiaoduy, so he didn't mention it.

This night is destined to make countless people unable to sleep well.

The first one who couldn't sleep well was the Fang family of the Splendid Temple.

It is said that in the side courtyard, Fang's family was "protected" by several healthy women and returned to the Splendid Courtyard. The servants and wives in the courtyard were originally very happy, they had already received the news of Fang's "pregnancy", thinking that the population in the house was so small, and the lady was finally going to add Ding again, and everyone was overjoyed.

Only the Four Embroidery Zhilu Dao Fang clan had only come to Kuishui last month, and it must not be a good thing to lie like this, so his face was very ugly, and he was not happy that he could receive a lot of more silver today.

As soon as those healthy women entered the Splendid Courtyard, they took the two gates of the Splendid Courtyard. The mother-in-law and the maids who were originally on the door were all driven into the courtyard, and the latch on the door was also lowered.

The Splendid Courtyard has its own kitchen, at most it receives some ingredients, and from today on, they will strictly follow the old lady's instructions to "protect" the Fang family's pregnancy.

This time, no matter how dull the subordinates of the Splendid Courtyard were, they sensed that something was wrong.

Ever since the Fang clan came out of the side courtyard, he had already lost his spirit.

What is the easiest way to let a woman die?

Of course, it is "death in childbirth".

Although her mother's family is also very simple, she often went to her aunt's house when she was a child, and she had a cousin, who was born with a difficult birth. That aunt is quite favored at home, and she died silently, not to mention that the thing she committed this time involved witchcraft, and the old lady who assassinated Li Rui before also knew about it......

She wanted to bet that the lord would intercede for her, but these two things were the most taboo things for the lord, and she didn't know whether her husband would still protect her like before.

This night she was frightened and frightened, as soon as she closed her eyes, she saw countless mothers-in-law and subordinates holding things to suffocate her. She even dreamed of her own mourning hall, where her son Li Ming knelt below, wailing and crying. Her mother-in-law hypocritically said, "My good daughter-in-law, why did she die in childbirth!" His husband was sad, and when he turned around, he married a young and beautiful wife, who was not good to Li Ming, beat and scolded, and married him an ugly and fierce wife.

Fang Shi woke up countless times in one night, his head, face and body were covered with sweat, it was as if he had died countless times.

Sixiu took a sweat towel and clean clothes to change for her, she suddenly saw that the towel looked like white silk, and suddenly saw that the sweat towel looked like a murder weapon that suffocated people to death, and screamed not to get close to Sixiu.

Sixiu persuaded them bitterly for a long time, Fang Shi just shouted and scolded them to go away, no matter how loyal they were, they were scared by Fang Shi for a day and two nights, and they were tired anymore, they persisted for a while, and saw that Fang Shi seemed to be the kind of person who was in a bad mood, slightly hysterical, and he didn't dare to persuade them anymore, so he listened to Fang's words and retreated.

Only Yu Fang's eyes widened, staring at the tent with melons and vines at the head of the bed, and sat on the bed until dawn.

And at this moment, Gu Qing hugged Li Ming, who was crying silently, and didn't know how to explain.

The author has something to say: many friends talked about the problem that Fang did not step down and bow, but in fact, Fang was under house arrest in the courtyard and basically had already stepped down and bowed. She has Zhang Jing tied to her body, and she can't die yet. Li Mao didn't come back, Gu Qing wanted her husband to decide whether he wanted the child or not, I don't think there was a problem. The child's thread is necessary, but it used to be made to die, but maybe I am really the Virgin, it was not written, and the child will stay.

If it really ruins your three views, I can only bow, I don't mean to wash the Fang clan, you are really depressed, it is better to fatten up, wait for the Fang clan to bow and then read this article.

Woo woo woo, it's better not to, without you abrasive goblins, I don't even have the motivation to code words......