In the golden autumn of Yunzhou, the sky is high and the clouds are light.

Xiao Wan, who ran all the way from the western suburbs to the gate of the mansion, rushed to the gate of her mother, Mrs. Xu, and saw the people in the courtyard sweating and carrying pots of blooming flowers.

Even if she was in a hurry all the way and didn't have the heart to take a second look, when she entered the door of Mrs. Xu's studio, Xiao Wan's sleeves were already dyed with clear chrysanthemums, but her angry chest and cheeks flushed with running showed that she was not elegant.

"What are you doing in such a hurry, there are no rules!" , Mrs. Xu glanced at her daughter, and refocused her gaze on the tender yellow that was being traced under the barrel of the pen.

Mrs. Xu was originally a scholarly lady who was very good at arranging the interest of life in the backyard, even if she presided over the public mansion and managed a bunch of concubines for her husband, she never pulled down because of her busyness every year from the first month of the year.

And Xiao Wan, who was spoiled by her husband when she was young because she was the firstborn daughter, was really crooked by Jing Guogong's vulgar indulgence in her eyes.

Just like now, when the mother just drank a word, Miss Xiao was already angry and broke the green tendons on her neck, and waved her horsewhip to catch up with the maids and grandmothers who were serving in the room.

Mrs. Xu imperceptibly nodded to the powerful grandmother beside her and listened to the eldest lady, and the people in the room who were tense on their backs were relieved and hurriedly retreated.

Seeing that the people were gone, Mrs. Xu put down her pen in a good time, and asked gently and calmly while washing water and cleaning her hands, "Wan'er, do you have something to find your mother?" ”

Mrs. Xu's steadiness suddenly made Xiao Wan, who originally wanted to lift the table, frightened, stayed at the side of the desk, pulled the bellows on her chest, and then said in a low voice: "Mother." You...... Drugged me! Elixir? ”

The middle-aged woman was slightly stunned, and then nodded with a smile. Instead, he stepped back and sat back in his chair.

I didn't plan to hide the drug, and even took the initiative to mention it in the letter sent to Luo Jing to Xiao Rui.

Mrs. Xu has been waiting to see who will be the first to ask the guilty, and from now it seems that there is an essential difference between being a daughter and being a daughter-in-law.

Zhou Manyun, who was aware earlier, chose to avoid it, but Xiao Wan knocked on the door directly.

"Why?" , Xiao Wan took two steps forward, getting closer to her mother. A look of unbelievable sadness.

As soon as she knew that she was poisoned, Xiao Wan immediately thought of her mother, Mrs. Xu.

She lives in her mother's house in Yunzhou, and it is impossible for the Qin family's hand to reach out, and Xiao Tan, who stayed in the city, has to call her Sister Sheng, and only Mrs. Xu is suspected of "giving medicine" in terms of status.

But suspicious, Mrs. Xu's simple confession still gave Xiao Wan a head-on blow.

"Why? It should be your lover who helps you see the reason, right? The heirs of the miracle doctor are really not in vain. Mrs. Xu sneered: "Speaking of this, you don't have to explain it more clearly for your mother, right?" ”

Xiao Wan's delicate shoulders fell, and she sobbed: "If my mother wants to give medicine, it will be clear." Why hide it secretly. I never had any plans to have any more children, I just couldn't figure out why it was my own mother ...... me."

Xiao Wan, who was dumb and complaining, burst into tears and couldn't cry.

Marriage existed in name only, but it was only three years ago that she and Qi Yan went from being young friends to becoming real lovers.

The divorce and remarriage that I once fantasized about have been delayed again and again, and recently Qi Yan proposed to her to break up and part, saying that she would really go to the mountains and cultivate the Tao. Just when she was trying to keep her lover, she diagnosed the medicine that her mother estimated to have given her recently.

Qi Yan's expression when she lowered her wrist at that time. It made Xiao Wan heartbreaking. Mrs. Xu's medicine is not to kill her son, but to stop her hope.

Mrs. Xu looked at her daughter coldly. complained: "I can't figure out why I have a daughter like you who doesn't abide by women's morals!" ”

"Not keeping women's morals? When Xiao Ze took me out of the Qin family, he was already about to force Qin Yu to write and leave the book. It was you who rushed to stop and said that the timing was not right, it was not good to fall out with the Qin family, let me wait, I waited for seven years......"

"Shut up!" , heard the daughter mention the eldest son. Mrs. Xu's resentment was even heavier, "If it weren't for you at the beginning, Jimin would not have fallen into the Qin family and would not have fallen into a bad reputation of arrogance and rudeness in front of his relatives." ”

Xiao Wan bit her lip fiercely, as long as the old things are mentioned, Mrs. Xu will always be haunted by the grievances that Xiao Ze fought for her back then.

The so-called favored eldest daughter is nothing in front of the eldest son who really bears the family inheritance. The eldest brother's name seems to be more important in the mother's heart than her life.

Xiao Wan shook her head. Throwing away the jealousy of her brother in her heart, Xiao Wan knelt on the ground, took two steps on her knees, held Mrs. Xu's hands tightly, and pleaded again.

"Mother! My daughter has already taken the medicine and doesn't ask for a solution, even if it is the punishment I deserve for ruining the reputation of the Xiao family over the years. But please have mercy on me once! Now as long as Daddy says a word, the Qin family will sign the letter of separation. Otherwise, if Qi Yan wants to leave, he will really leave me behind......"

"Your father sent a letter two months ago, saying that he would definitely enter the county lord for you, and perhaps the holy decree had been issued by Luojing at this time. Xiao Wan, do you think for yourself that the chief county lord under King Jing's knee is suitable for changing county horses? ”

What's more, this is just a transition, maybe in the near future, Qin Yu, who has been separated from Xiao Wan for a long time, will become a colt.

When Jing Guogong ascended to the throne of King Jing, her daughter Xiao Wan should have the consciousness of quickly breaking off with her lover, if she didn't move, Mrs. Xu could only move for her.

"If the surname Qi is willing to leave like this, it can be regarded as an opportunity, otherwise, the medicine given by the mother will not be given to you, but to be given to him. The famous doctors who were poisoned by medicine in all dynasties were not inferior to him. ”

"Mother!" , Xiao Wan bounced up, covered her lips with her hands, and her eyes widened in horror.

"Madame!" , Cuiluo, who stood at the door to report, said cautiously: "The second master has something important to ask to see!" ”

"You wait here, I'll go meet your second brother first!" , Mrs. Xu got up gracefully and proudly brushed her head past her daughter, who was more than half a head taller than herself.

Xiao Wan stood in a daze, like a stake that had been drained of all its life......

Xiao Tan asked to see his mother-in-law, but he told him a piece of news that was not too good. Several counties in the northern part of Yunzhou discovered enemy traces from Yanzhou at the same time, and instead of disturbing the people and burning and plundering as in previous years, they directly pounced on the state capital.

The city's defenses have strengthened the daily patrol curfew, and Mrs. Xu has to cooperate with the subordinates in the palace to control properly.

The news of the enemy attack sounded solemnly almost every year. But every year it comes to naught in the middle of the year.

Mrs. Xu didn't take it to heart too nervously, and after sending Xiao Tan to her, she arranged all the things in the mansion according to the practice of previous years, but she only emphasized that she would directly leave Xiao Wan, who had entered the mansion, behind.

As for the cadres living in the courtyard in the western suburbs, Mrs. Xu just sent someone to quietly bring Xiao Wan's children in, and the rest of the people should not have a ward. As if the news was leaked.

Xiao Wan, who had found an opportunity to go back to the courtyard in person several times, had been trapped in the Jingguo Mansion since the third day of the first month of October and could not get out.

And on the tenth day of October, the capital city of Yunzhou was surrounded by 20,000 puppet Qi troops from Yanzhou and turned into iron buckets.

This has never been the case in previous years. The enemy who came to attack Yunzhou was the most fierce, and he only attacked Wanxian, which was still a hundred miles away from Yunzhou.

After besieging the city for three days, there were actually only 5,000 soldiers and horses in the city, and the news that the nearby garrison had no soldiers to adjust even if it was tightly covered still floated into the Jingguo Mansion.

Xiao Tan had red eyes and knelt motionless in the atrium. I couldn't wait to rush back to the yamen immediately to find out the villain who actually spread the news at the critical moment when the soldiers were approaching the city.

Although, now the object of the news report is only his mother-in-law, Mrs. Xu.

Madame Xu lost her former elegance, pacing uneasily in the hall, repeating once again the question that had been mentioned countless times. "Xiao Tan, have you really sent someone out of the city to deliver a letter to Xiao Hong?"

"Mother, it was sent ten days ago, and five groups of people were sent successively......"

Xiao Tan's one-by-one answer couldn't hear the emotion, and even maintained the same words as the last answer.

He explained many times that the enemy who came to attack was just to encircle Wei to rescue Zhao and force Xiao Hong to return to help, and Xiao Hong would decide to march at the judgment of the club, and Yunzhou had not yet reached the final critical moment. There is no need to mess with yourself.

But his mother-in-law didn't seem to trust him and insisted on coming back from his own parent-child, and she still didn't give up.

Tired to listen to. It's tiring to watch!

Xiao Wan, who was sitting on the left seat with her elbows propped up, raised her voice blindly: "Second brother, you go back to deal with official business first!" Mother is just worried too much here, in the future, you can send someone to report on time! ”

Mrs. Xu, who was dissatisfied, was hugged by Xiao Wan and made a look for Xiao Tan to hurry away, and Xiao Tan, who was already sleepy, got off the donkey.

"The current situation is not bad, and it is not a problem for Yunzhou City to hold on for two or three months." Seeing that there were only two mother and daughter left in the hall, Xiao Wan let go of her hands tiredly and persuaded, "Why bother to detain the second brother to the front from time to time!" Xiao Tan looked like that, and he hadn't closed his eyes for days. ”

"He?! It's just a concubine. Mrs. Xu snorted disdainfully.

"Yes! Xiao Tan is just a concubine. is still the second son who is closest to the eldest brother, so you are used to suppressing it since you were a child. Xiao Wan also replied in a negative voice, "Mother is not afraid that in this case, people will directly fake thieves to enter the mansion and get angry first." ”

"You're the one who wants to get angry!" , Mrs. Xu turned around and stared at Xiao Wan, her eyes burning.

Just last night, there was a fire in the western suburbs. Looking at the direction and the fire, Xiao Wan's courtyard should have been reduced to a white ground.

The resentment written in her daughter's peach-like swollen eyes can be seen by Mrs. Xu at a glance.

"What's the use of thinking!" , Thinking of her mother's deliberate house arrest for a few days to prevent her from letting the news out, Xiao Wan couldn't help choking up and said: "Don't worry, you are my mother, even if the enemy soldiers enter the city and enter the mansion, I will block in front of you and return your life!" ”

"And junior brother, don't be a god and muttering something to the people around you, I'm afraid that he has taken Man Yun away from Yunzhou Mansion, so maybe he won't come back. You can suspect anyone, how can you suspect him? He's going to think of saving your mother! ”

"Xiao Wan! What do you know! Wild seed ......" Mrs. Xu, who was almost speechless, gritted her teeth in annoyance and said, "I don't know what to do with that woman following Xiao Hong!" ”

Xiao Wan coldly hooked the corners of her mouth with mockery, turned around and strode out of the hall.

The haggard figure had just put his hand on the frame of the door, and suddenly stopped at the threshold again. Just a few steps ago, she suddenly thought of the abnormality of her younger brother and sister-in-law during the period before they left Yunzhou.

Xiao Wan turned her head with an incredulous expression, rushed back in three steps and two steps, grabbed Mrs. Xu's shoulders, and asked sharply, "Mother, you won't ...... You won't drug Man Yun too, right? (To be continued......)