"You ......" Li Mao's heart trembled suddenly. You really know what to say. ”

Fang covered his ears and shook his head desperately.

"Fang Wan!" Li Mao pulled away Fang's hand, "You and I are husband and wife, this matter is very important, you can't even hide it from me!" ”

Fang Shi looked at her husband's hand, and the surroundings of her eyes were already sunken, so when she stared at Li Mao's palm, those apricot eyes became deeper and deeper. Li Mao saw that his wife had fallen into this situation, and he really couldn't say anything serious, so he had to pat her hands, just like he had done countless times in the past.

Fang bit her lip, grabbed her husband's hand, and recalled softly:

"The night my sister-in-law fell into the lake......"

The night my sister-in-law fell into the lake, she tossed in bed for a while, but she couldn't sleep.

During that time, her husband stayed in North Park to serve her father-in-law, who was getting sicker and sicker. Since she married Li Mao, she has never been separated for so many nights. Even when she was pregnant and confined, her husband never moved out of the bedroom.

She decided to go to North Park to find her husband.

At that time, she had just been married for a few years, and she was shallow, and she felt that it was really embarrassing to go to her in-laws' place in the middle of the night to find her husband and come back to sleep. She was not a duchess at that time, and the personal girls in the inner room were the ones who accompanied the marriage, she said to the girls that she was depressed, walked around the yard, and went to the North Garden alone.

If you go all the way from the main road, the whole house will know that she is going to look for her husband in the middle of the night, so she is going to go around from the verandah in the West Garden, as long as she knocks on the corner door, she can enter the carved bow tower. Her uncle has passed away, and there are only orphans and widows in the West Garden, so there should be no taboo for her to take a detour.

Unexpectedly, she had just walked halfway through the verandah when she suddenly saw the figure of her sister-in-law.

If she marries into the Xinguo Mansion, what she can't adapt to the most is this, it must be this sister-in-law Zhang Jing.

Sister-in-law Zhang Jing has exquisite wrists and neat actions, if she is good to you, it is a spring breeze and rain, and you all feel ironed. In the boudoir, there are really few such women. The Zhang family is a big family that stretches for several dynasties, and before the Hu people rebelled, her sister-in-law's ancestors were all high-ranking officials of the previous dynasty, and countless children in the family were famous. And her family can only be regarded as a scholarly family, and the real success depends on her father's work as a dragon, but even if his father can finally ascend to a high position, it is because she married into the public mansion.

In front of such a woman, how could she not be ashamed of herself, and the horse's head was looking forward?

But even though she never thought of robbing her sister-in-law's housekeeping power, and she didn't even stretch out her hand, she could still feel her sister-in-law's defense of her.

Later, when she gave birth to a child, she always felt that her sister-in-law looked at Ming'er very gentle on the surface, but her eyes were cold, which made her very afraid. She didn't even dare to let her children be alone with this sister-in-law.

But everything is her speculation, and she can't complain to anyone because of such feelings, so she can only try to contact her sister-in-law as little as possible, and she never cares about things at home, and only does what her brother-in-law should do.

After that, the sister-in-law was really kind to her.

So when she saw her sister-in-law, her first reaction was to hide, instead of going up to say hello. She couldn't say anything like "I'll go to North Park to see my husband" with her sister-in-law.

It is too cruel to talk about the love of husband and wife in a newly widowed person. But if she didn't say this, she wouldn't be able to explain why she came to the West Garden.

She dodged and hid behind the "Who Sits Xuan" and hid. Unexpectedly, after a while, the sister-in-law also pushed the door in, and did not light the lamp, but just sat on the windowsill.

She was so frightened that her legs were numb, and her mind kept guessing what her sister-in-law came here for. Is it to hang on to her husband, or is it like her who can't sleep and go out for a walk?

About a quarter of an hour later, someone suddenly came to the Xuan Xuan. And it's a man's voice.

Now, she was even more scared.

In the middle of the night, the newly widowed sister-in-law and a man had a private meeting in the verandah of the West Garden......

If you find out, you'll kill someone, right?

She could only cover her mouth, and she didn't even dare to hide behind the screen.

"It's been half a year, and I thought you had given up." Zhang Jing said lightly. "I can't do what you want me to do."

"You are now a housekeeper, and the old lady in this house is so stupid, why can't you do it?"

"You've all killed my husband, why do you ......"

"It was an accident! Zhang Jing, you have to remember your identity, don't fake it! ”

Fang Shi felt that his heart had jumped to his throat, and he almost fainted.

Zhang Jing was silent for a while, and finally spoke: "I can't kill him." He has people around him all the time. ”

"What about the little ones?"

“…… I'll figure it out. ”

"You've got to hurry, he's going to do something to us. If the government of the faith country is not chaotic, it is we who will die. ......The man sighed, "You have to believe us, it's really an accident. No one knew that Li Meng would pounce, he was not a person who would do that......"

"No, you don't know him. He's the one who does that. You killed him, I really regret ...... in the first place."

"This is the end of the matter, and it is useless to say more. Who doesn't regret the beginning, but there is no arrow to turn back when you open the bow. The position of this Xinguo Gong can only belong to your son, if not, this Xinguo Mansion will no longer need to exist. The man also seemed to feel that he was pressing too hard, and his tone was a little softer.

"Think about it, although you are a new widow, according to the importance of Li Meng and the old prince, if your father-in-law folds, the position of the prince must be Li Rui's. You can't change Li Meng, can't you change a child? Your son is the Duke of Xinguo, you are the head of the mansion of the Duke of Xinguo, although you can't stand on top of the court as a daughter, but you are already a human being......"

"Let's go. I'll think about what to do about it. Next time, let Mei Hong come to me, you come in person, if someone sees me, how can I tell clearly! ”

“…… I got it. I'll go back first, and if you succeed in this, put three stones in the old place. ”

The Fang clan hid behind the screen, the more she listened, the more frightened she became, what was above the tens of thousands of people, what if the Faith Mansion was not chaotic, it was them who died, she couldn't understand every word, but every word made her thrilling.

She held her breath and waited there quietly, waiting for Zhang Jing to leave as well.

But when she lost sensation in both legs, Zhang Jing still sat on the window, without the slightest appearance of leaving.

"Ridiculous......"

Fang Shi was shocked, thinking that Zhang Jing had discovered her trace.

"It's ridiculous that I have had some ambitions in my chest since I was a child, but when I get to the bottom, I can only fulfill myself in this way." Zhang Jing said self-deprecatingly: "Where in this world can there be a woman who can stand in the court one day, after all, it just depends on men." They have ruined my life and want to ruin my son. ”

There was the sound of something being dragged in front of the screen.

Fang's eyes widened in horror, waiting for the moment when he was discovered by his sister-in-law.

Do you fight to escape, or fight to the death? Or shout loudly?

But nothing happened, just a muffled sound on the platform.

"I can't resist you, can't I leave a good road for my son?"

After Zhang Jing's sneering, there was a sound of "poof".

When Fang heard the sound of water, he knew that the sister-in-law was afraid that she was looking for death for, so she hurriedly stood up and prepared to go out to call someone, but she squatted for too long, and suddenly stood up and the world was spinning in front of her, wanting to reach out to help something, but she fell back to the ground, and she didn't know who was going to do it.

When she woke up, she managed to move to the window, and she could see a figure somewhere!

She scanned the room and noticed that a square chair was missing from the screen. Thinking about the muffled sound again, I am afraid that my sister-in-law jumped into the lake with that chair and didn't want to live anymore.

When she first heard her sister-in-law jumping into the lake, she was ready to run out of the lake to save her immediately. But when she woke up after a dizzy, she began to think of something else in her head.

What does it mean that the old ones can't get their hands on, and the small ones? The oldest person in the Xinguo Mansion is her father-in-law, the youngest...... Small...... Could it be her husband?

Fang gradually changed from shock to fear, from fear to fear, cold sweat was about to break out on his back, and his heart almost jumped.

She only thinks that this sister-in-law's face is so terrible, she is so virtuous and virtuous, it turns out that it is all fake! She thought that she was just because she had been a housekeeper and had not allowed others to get their hands on the power in her hands, so she was quite wary of her, and she didn't think that she wanted to use this to harm others!

She glanced at Xuantai, gritted her teeth, and finally did nothing, and returned to the Splendid Courtyard.

"That's what happened that night." Fang closed his eyes. "I didn't save my sister-in-law later, but if I do it again, I'll still do it."

"After my sister-in-law died, I thought that my father-in-law would definitely fold it up and let Li Rui inherit the throne of the son. Because after all, only when he becomes the son of the world can he have a life to rely on in the future. Unexpectedly, my father-in-law folded it up and let you inherit the title, and I was relieved. ”

"After I took care of the house, I drove away all the slaves who were not born of the family, and I didn't dare to add people, so I trembled for many years, and when I saw that you finally had nothing to do, even the sister-in-law's maiden family rarely asked about this nephew, so I believe that those people will not come to us again."

"I raised Li Rui badly, and it is also because of this, only if he is stupid and stupid, can your position as the prince of the country be stable. I am selfish, and I am carried away by the name of the Duchess of this country, but I spare my life even more. At first, I didn't want to kill Rui'er, I have raised it for so many years, if I say that I have no feelings at all, it is also false. But then I saw that he was getting bigger and bigger, and he was about to move out of the road to live, and before I knew when someone would come to provoke him to deal with you and me, I had evil thoughts again. ”

"My mother has never cared about any affairs in the house before, as soon as Li Rui came out of the East Garden, she suddenly stretched out her hand and took care of Li Rui again......"

"That's because you did something in the medicine and your mother saw it!" Li Mao reprimanded with a calm face, "If she doesn't stretch out her hand, Li Rui will be killed by you!" ”

"No, haven't you paid attention to the way your mother looks at Li Rui now......" Fang grabbed Li Mao's hand and said with a panicked expression: "That's not like looking at your grandson, it's like looking at your son!" ”

Li Mao was like being in the clouds for a moment, fluttering and flickering, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

"I never told anyone about that night. But after all, this matter has become a knot in my heart, and it haunts me every day. Before that night, who didn't exaggerate the virtue of his sister-in-law? Who doesn't say that she is the uncle's virtuous helper? But even the uncle's death has nothing to do with her. Can assassinate the emperor, how powerful is that? How can a sister-in-law marry into the mansion? ”

"She deliberately approached the uncle, for what!"

"And mother! Now my mother knows words again, and she can do a wrench again, and what will she say "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", I ...... I'm afraid that Zhang Jing's ghost will not go away......"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" When Li Mao heard this, he glared at Fang Clan: "That's my mother!" I see you've been forced by this for too long, and you're already a little suspicious! ”

"Even if it's not Zhang Jing's soul coming back, it's the old lady who has that side by her side! Otherwise, why did the old lady suddenly become so strange! Fang gritted his teeth and said, "They still refuse to let us go, they just want to let the Xinguo Mansion fall!" I found a goddess to exorcise the ghosts, and everyone is framing me for using witchcraft! They want me dead! ”

"They must have known that I was there that night!"

"You're thinking too much, it's not good for the fetus in the womb." Li Mao sighed and touched his wife's hair, "You're tired tonight, you better rest early." We'll go back and discuss this matter, and I'm in turmoil right now......"

"What fetus? Where do I have any children! Are they hiding it from you? Listen to me......"

"Fang Wan! You're pregnant! You have children! Li Mao grabbed his wife's shoulder with one hand and her hand with the other and put it on her stomach.

"You have a baby in your belly, it's true! Mother never jokes about her heirs! Li Mao saw that his wife had been stunned to such a point, and couldn't help but say sadly: "When I was dying nine times, I was still thinking that there were you and children waiting for me to come back at home, and I ran away desperately. You are also a mother, and you are pregnant, can't you know the Tao? ”

"Fang Wan, you have ruined yourself too much, you are stuffy in your heart, apart from hurting yourself and others, what else can you change? You said they wanted you to die, it seemed to me ......" Li Mao's eyes instantly became red and swollen, and he could hardly speak.

"They've killed you several times, Fang Wan."

Li Mao held Fang's hand and trembled.

"They killed your reason, killed your gentleness, killed your kindness, and turned you into another person."

"When you first married me, we were in love with each other, and your personality was so gentle and lovely. Although my qualifications are mediocre, I have never been unwilling because of this, I am the posture of a Chinese person, and I live the life of a Chinese person. You and I are husband and wife, and soon after we got married, we gave birth to Lin'er, how hearty and high-spirited I was at that time, and how satisfied and happy you were......"

"Now that we have attained the position of the prince of the kingdom, ask yourself if we are even happier than we were then? My brother and sister-in-law can only end up like that, how can you prevent those people alone......"

"Fang Wan, you shouldn't hate anyone, it's those people you should hate!"

Fang felt empty inside. The tear-stained cheeks stabbed like a knife. She was dazed and wept, not even knowing what she was crying for.

She touched her belly, twitched her lips, and asked timidly, "Is it really a child?" Didn't the queen and the mother join forces to deceive everyone? ”

Li Mao nodded heavily.

Fang Shi suddenly felt that all the strength in his body had been drained, and he collapsed on her husband's body at once.

"I ...... What the hell did I do! ”

Li Mao hugged his wife and watched her fall asleep.

He came back from the palace, he had not washed, he had not changed his clothes, he was covered in dust, and his face was covered with weather. But he just hugged his wife like this, and he didn't want to let go at all.

I don't have enough wisdom and vision, and I can't understand the things that my father and brother are talking about since I was a child. His wife is the eldest sister, a woman who was raised to be a husband and a child, and she has not experienced any major events, and she can marry him, because she already has a woman in the family, and she can only add a woman from a noble background.

Their husbands and wives are mediocre people, if they live in Jingnan's hometown like their cousin's family, and be a wealthy couple with peace of mind, they will be harmonious and beautiful in this life, and live a good life with their husbands and wives.

But they inherited the title.

This is like an old ox pulling a cart, if the cart is too heavy, the ox will only die of exhaustion.

If it is the Taiping Mansion, his wife also has the ability to take care of the house, and she can be a Duchess of the country with peace of mind. But it was only today that he realized how many ghosts there were in the Dao Mansion.

Sister-in-law, Mama Liu, who has been picking up her wife for doing evil, Mei Hong, who doesn't know the identity of the Dao, the man that night, and the witch Gu placed in the side courtyard......

If you are an outsider, how can you know the birth date of the eldest prince of the mansion!

He was in danger this time, and he had learned that he had many shortcomings, and his father's evaluation of his "mediocre qualifications" before his death sometimes really made him extremely frustrated and unwilling.

No one taught him! No one had taught him exactly how to deal with it all!

The elder brother has the Duke of Jin and the father has the former emperor, and before they got ahead, they all met and saw their Bole. Even if he was just a colt, he was already trying to run forward......

But as soon as he stood up, he suddenly found that there was a puddle of mud under him, which pulled him and couldn't move forward.

His wife became like this, and he was guilty.

He couldn't let his wife rest assured, and he speculated in vain about what his wife must have done that night, and even thought that if he was old enough to hide it, he wouldn't hurt anyone.

Unexpectedly, the damage has already been done, and there is no turning back.

What is the identity of the sister-in-law? Who is it that wants to deal with the government?

Did they find out that the Xinguo Mansion was about to stand up again, so they jumped out in a hurry, and took advantage of his absence to attack and want to destroy the Xinguo Mansion directly?

Where does the enemy come from? Does it have anything to do with the rebel?

There is also the Zhang family......

Fang Jia......

Who exactly could he trust? Even his wife has been tormented day after day and can no longer trust anyone. Is it that one day, he will become like this, and he will be killed countless times by them, and even this self called "Li Mao" is no longer there?

If the rapids retreat bravely at this moment......

Li Mao hugged his wife and stayed awake all night.

Li Ming chatted with his brother until midnight yesterday, and he didn't even know when his father would come back. In the morning, someone came to report that his father went to Zhiyun Temple first, and then hurriedly returned to Jinxiu Temple, and he immediately came to Jinxiu Yuan when he was worried.

When he arrived in the courtyard, he saw Sixiu guarding the corner room outside the house, and the doors and windows of the bedroom were also tightly closed, so he was so frightened that he hurriedly knocked on the door.

Li Mao didn't sleep all night, and when he heard someone knocking on the door outside, he was afraid of waking up his sleeping wife, so he hurriedly got up in his clothes and opened the door.

"What's the matter?" Li Mao saw that it was his son, and tried to pull out a smile, "It's Ming'er, your mother is asleep, come back in the afternoon if you have something." ”

Li Ming pushed his father away, ran straight to the bed, and was relieved to see that his mother had indeed slept deeply and had not suffered any blows.

Seeing his son's appearance, Li Mao hesitated and asked, "Do you know anything about your mother?" ”

Li Ming nodded.

"Grandmother doesn't hide anything from us. Mother kissed her, she did something wrong......" Li Ming choked up and said, "Can my father just lock up my mother and not divorce her?" Don't be angry with her? She wants me to inherit this position, but I don't want it, I will give it back to my brother. ”

"It's not just about this position." Li Mao felt uncomfortable and touched his son's head. "Dad doesn't blame your mother, and Dad won't divorce her. Dad will only have your mother's wife. As for this title......"

"Our family owes your brother a lot, and it's time to pay the debt."

In bed, Fang Shi, who was asleep, silently slipped a tear.

Li Mao took his son's hand and asked him to wait outside. He had something on his mind, and although his body was extremely tired, his spirit was so high that he could not sleep.

His mother must have known what she was saying, so she began to make some movements frequently. His mother didn't even hide everything from Li Ming's child, and now they believe that the Guogong Mansion is like an abyss, what else does he have to hide?

Putting his wife in this splendid courtyard is not a kind of protection?

He's got to talk about it, talk to everybody.

Li Ming and Li Rui, they will all grow up one day. His father had not taught him how to deal with this, and he had always been sheltered by his brother and had never been independent, and now he regretted it so much that he could not let his sons and nephews taste this in the future.

Li Rui has already shown amazing qualifications in this Fenzhou incident, why can't he be a Bole?!

"Sir, someone outside is asking to see you!" Li Mao's long entourage ran in from outside the second gate, and said with a look of surprise and inexplicable: "It's Wu Xianggong and Chen Xianggong!" ”

This Chang Sui has followed Li Mao since he was a child, and he is very clear about the old people in the house.

When Li Mao heard what he was reporting, he couldn't believe his ears.

Wu Xianggong and Chen Xianggong? Isn't that the guest secretary in the house back then, the head of the staff of his father and brother?

His father also reminded him very sternly that he was not firm enough in his heart and decisive enough to be unable to convince the public, and keeping these people was just a scourge. Although he was a little disappointed at the time, he did not have any other thoughts. He had never disobeyed his father's opinion, and his father was terminally ill at the time, so how could he make him anxious about such a thing.

So although there are disappointments and regrets, he can only regard himself as having no fate with these people. He thought that as long as he guarded the mansion well, there would always be staff or something.

When he was filial, he realized that it was easy to find a Taoist and a staff member, but it was really difficult to be talented and virtuous, dare to use it himself, and be able to provide what others wanted.

Li Mao hurriedly went back to the house and put on suitable clothes, he didn't even need to wash, he tied up his hair towel and walked out.

At this time, these two people must not have come to catch up.

Li Mao ran to the front hall, and when he saw that it was really those two familiar faces, he was at a loss for a while, and he was speechless.

Wu Yuzhou saw that Li Mao was still as confused as when he was young, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Xin Guogong, I haven't seen you for a long time, don't come to harm?" ”

Li Mao was pleasantly surprised, and called softly: "Mr. Wu!" Mr. Chen! I haven't seen each other for many years, but the two of them are still the same as before. ”

These two people said that they were Keqing, and they were actually old enough to be his elders. His father saved a lot of people back then, and these two were one of them, and they have been assisting his father and brother in various matters.

When their father died and the two said goodbye to him, he had a real sense that the edifice was going to collapse.

"Shin Kok Gong is so happy to see us, and we are very comforted." Chen Yi looked at Li Mao with a smile, he obviously came in a hurry, they could get such attention, and naturally their faces were full of red light.

Chen Yi and Wu Yuzhou glanced at each other and took out a letter from their arms.

"We've kept it for years, and we thought it would take many more years before we could get it to you. I can't imagine that you really deserve to be the child of the old prince, and you have achieved such an achievement after only two years of re-emergence from the court. Chen Yi said with a smile.

"I know you have many questions, and you will know this letter when you open it."

Li Mao looked at the unsigned envelope, tore it open, and couldn't help tears burst out of his eyes.

This familiar handwriting......

"Wu'er Li Mao:

Were you shocked to see your father's letter? I think after I die, when you come out, you must be like a headless fly everywhere, and even hide in the quilt and secretly scold me for being biased, and I won't teach you more things since I was a child. ”

"I think you're probably not suitable for the court, and you'll be disheartened if you stay for two days, and you'll no longer be out of office. When the new emperor sees that you are not an available person, he will give up on you. In this way, you can be a rich idler with peace of mind. ”

"But I thought about it again, Lao Tzu's son, maybe like Lao Tzu, the more adversity the more he can forge ahead. Your brother and I thought we were clever back then, and we erected a lot of enemies, and I'm afraid that it will cause you a lot of trouble now, so think about it, it's better to make some arrangements for you in advance before you die......"

Li Mao grabbed the letter, and even blew his breath for fear that the letter would be damaged by himself.

He was obviously past the age of standing, and suddenly he seemed to have returned to the time when he was drooping, and he could only watch his father laugh and scold him with his eyes open.

"Daddy......"

He held the letter in his hand and wept silently in front of the two gentlemen......

The author has something to say: Ahem, of course, Lao Guogong's letter is in classical Chinese, but in order to facilitate everyone's reading, I will automatically translate it into the vernacular.

Everyone: Get out! Obviously, you can't write classical Chinese!