Chapter 70: Xiang Zero
"Chengdong, come here!" , Mrs. Zhou's gaze was staring directly at her husband coldly, calling for her eldest son, who had been emaciated in the past two days.
Zhou Song stood up hesitantly, slowly walked to Mrs. Zhou's side, and as soon as he stood firm, his hand was suddenly pinched in the palm of Mrs. Zhou's hand.
"Song'er doesn't have to go into the mountains to guard the grave tomorrow! You just stay in Huocheng, this ancestral house is where you should stay! Your dad is crazy and confused, don't pay attention to him! Mrs. Zhou raised her voice and said, with a bit of anger between her eyebrows.
Zhou Song is Mrs. Zhou's first child, at that time, her mother-in-law presided over the middle feed and did not let her touch her hands, and the young Zhou Xian was not interested in the upbringing of his children in addition to official affairs. It was Mrs. Zhou, who was a first-time mother, who devoted her heart and soul to bringing Zhou Song up. For a long time, only Zhou Song accompanied her through that difficult time, so Zhou Xian didn't feel sorry for Zhou Song, she felt pain in her heart.
"Chengdong went to serve his grandmother's spiritual bed, which is his duty as the eldest grandson!" , Zhou Xian brushed his beard and responded indifferently.
"Duty? You dream! Who should be filial, who will go up the mountain and stay! ”
mentioned that she wanted her eldest son to guard the grave of her mother-in-law Meng, and Mrs. Zhou was even more bored. At the beginning of beating her into the door and becoming the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family, the Meng family never gave her a stumbling block, and supported Zhou Xian to take the concubine Huang, and as soon as the Huang family died, the Meng family took the little big Zhou Yang back to Huocheng, and when she was stunned, she was put on a hat of unvirtuous and unfilial piety among her relatives.
Mrs. Zhou, who has never brought her eldest son, only took her eldest grandson Zhou Yang, and thought that her grandson Zhou Song would stay in front of her grave, which is simply ridiculous.
Mrs. Zhou sneered: "Zhou Shirong, you are sick. It's time to rest and enjoy your old age, and your children and grandchildren will have less to worry about! If it is for that little mongrel to enter the genealogy. If you want to find a reason to punish Song'er, you will be exempted! What Cheng Tsu did. At my behest. I'm not as good as you, I will take a mongrel child as my own grandson, and I feel like gold and jade. I, Xie Wan, just can't tolerate my descendants, there are Hu people, dirty blood, and mixed blood! ”
Looking around, her eyes deliberately lingered on Man Yun and Du Shi for a while, Mrs. Zhou slowly stood up and said proudly: "What's more, that child may not be my own grandson." Zhou Xian'er, you haven't been in charge of Chengdong asking for evidence, then I'll tell you the evidence! ”
"Zhou Xian! I want to be at the beginning. You were demoted to Songya, I stayed in Beijing and didn't go with you, you complained that I couldn't share weal and woe, so I lost the relationship between husband and wife. But have you ever thought that the reason why I stayed in Beijing was also to help Zhang Luo recover from your recovery. Zhe'er went to Songya with him, and I also took care of his family affairs in Beijing. However, you made your own decision in Yanzhou and hired Du Shi. I rebuked the messenger. Only then did I know that she ......"
Mrs. Zhou's angry fingertips trembled and pointed at the tip of Du's nose, and said, "I just knew that she was relying on Shangzhe'er." I refused to admit my relatives in a letter, at most I took the runner as a concubine, and carried her to the entrance. But the letter was a step late. She and Zhe'er still became husband and wife. Then, this little mongrel was born! ”
Man Yun, who was scolded, straightened his waist and propped his hands on the table. Calmly wait for the following. Mrs. Zhou said that she was very interested in the evidence.
Mrs. Zhou hooked the corners of her mouth. With a smile on his face, he said, "This little girl was born." When relatives and friends visited the house, there were always people who deliberately praised her for her white skin and big eyes, which made me ashamed and angry. Because of the concern that the Du family is a new upstart in the DPRK and China, it is not good to ask Xiao Wu to divorce his wife, if something happens to Du Shanshan, the Du family will not want to take a break. I secretly called Zhe'er and said that I didn't want to add another such seed. ”
Thinking of the dead young son, two lines of tears slid down Mrs. Zhou's cheeks, she looked at Du Shi fixedly, and said word by word: "Zhe'er has responded!" He answered! ”
"He took the elixir from me and gave it to you. He also promised me that after seven or eight years, on the grounds that you could no longer have children, he would take another concubine and give birth to a child, so as to continue the incense! ”
Gao's eyes, which were sitting next to Du, widened in disbelief, and he almost screamed.
Zhou Zhe and Du have always been a loving couple in the eyes of Gao's family, especially after giving birth to Man Yun, they had no children in five rooms for five years, and Zhou Zhe did not take a concubine to find a room, which made her respectful. The Gao family has always taken care of the Du family, but in addition to falling in love, it is also because of the envy of the feelings of Zhou Du and his wife.
Zhou Manyun was also frightened. She regretted it now, if she knew that Mrs. Zhou would say these words, when she ran to ask her mother for sweet soup just now, she would not have secretly moved her hands and feet to let the silver with the floating drunken toxin steal her grandmother. At that time, she thought that since it was a Hongmen banquet, she might as well let her grandmother explain in front of everyone the purpose of poisoning her sweet soup.
Man Yun jumped to his mother who was bowing his head and held Du's hand, trying to make the mother suffer less of a blow.
"I don't know what kind of evil she found to cure the pill and give birth to that blue-eyed freak! Originally, I knew that she was pregnant in Fengjin, so I thought about waiting for Zhe'er to come back and interrogate her. Later, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that that little bastard was not Zhe'er's! ”
Seeing Man Yun's nervous appearance, the tears on Mrs. Zhou's face immediately stopped.
She looked at Zhou Xian with disdain, and said, "If you want to rely on Zhe'er, you won't let her conceive and give birth again!" ”
Mrs. Zhou deliberately raised her voice and shouted, which suddenly made everyone's faces change in unison.
The few children in the hall who still didn't know what was going on also tensed up, and they didn't dare to come out, they didn't understand much, but they knew that it was not light.
Man Yun's small hand was firmly grasped back by Du Shi. Then, Du Shi slowly stood up, left his seat, saluted Mrs. Zhou with tears in his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Mother! What you said, the medicine that my husband gave me should be called 'Xiang Ling', right? ”
Mrs. Zhou looked at Du Shi in surprise, then snorted between her noses, and said, "The person who gave you the antidote to the medicine told you?" ”。 The person who took action to relieve Xiang Ling, Mrs. Zhou has always suspected that it is a lie.
Du Shi smiled dismally, looked up and said, "It's just that I have never taken Xiangling." Mother, on the day you asked your husband to take back the incense, he told me the truth and gave me the medicine. ”
Du Shi touched the top of Man Yun's hair and continued, "Sister Yun! Your dad has always been a good husband, a good daddy. He never had the slightest thought of disliking our mother and daughter. It's just that my mother's life cannot be violated, and he took pity on me when I gave birth to you. Therefore, I found another prescription to avoid children and use it first. ”
"As for those who take concubines and give birth to children, it's just your mother's own words. The husband has never responded. He just made an appointment with me, and after a few years I was a little older. It's just a matter of adding younger brothers and sisters to Sister Yun. ”
"It can't be! Zhe'er can't lie to me! Mrs. Zhou rushed in front of Du Shi, her eyes bulging, like a mad demon.
"Xiang Lingyi medicine is dedicated to the absolute son, which is very domineering. None of the women who have served will be able to conceive and give birth to children again. Since the mother gave her daughter-in-law this medicine, how could she not know? This medicine is rare in the world now, and there are not many people who want to come to your place. At the beginning, I was afraid that you would ask again in the future, but the bottle you rewarded is still pressed at the bottom of your daughter-in-law's box. Intact. ”
"Impossible! It can't be ......", Mrs. Zhou roared angrily, and pounced on Du Shi with her arms outstretched.
Man Yun gently pulled down his mother and flashed to the side together. Mrs. Zhou threw herself on the back of the chair, and Zhou Song, Xie Shi and others hurriedly rushed up and held her firmly.
"Mother!" , Du Shi still called, meekly frowned and said: "The husband also informed his father-in-law about the medicine you rewarded his daughter-in-law that day. I'm afraid that he will worry about the lack of heirs under my knees. The daughter-in-law took child-avoiding medicine in Luojing at first, and the medical case prescription that was later redone for conditioning was kept one by one. In order to be safe, the husband also asked Doctor Zhang, who specializes in this department in Tai Hospital, to give advice, and you can check it. ”
Mrs. Zhou was stunned. He sat back in his chair and cried as he leaned on the back of his chair.
"My mother's 'incense' that married me is very expensive, and there are only three small bottles in total. I've always saved it. Even Zhou Xian accepted Huang Xiyue's slut, but I just endured it and brought him in with the surname Bai again. I watched them give birth to a bunch of little mongrels in front of my eyes. I didn't want to use a drop and a half. For the sake of Zhe'er's name, I gave him a copy. He actually ...... It's ruined like this......"
Because I don't like daughters-in-law and grandchildren of interracial blood, is this the case? Man Yun glared at Mrs. Zhou, filled with righteous indignation.
With a sneer, Lao Zhou Xian said in a deep voice: "Xie Wan, since you don't want to be faceless, I will make it clear in front of my children and grandchildren." In your eyes, it is not only the Du family that you look down on, if I guess correctly, there is also a bottle of 'Xiang Ling' that should have been sent to the Qi Palace' by you when you were in Luojing, and you dislike the origin of the Yang family of the Princess of Qi as much as those stupid people in your mother's family. ”
"You and your good sister-in-law both think that they are complementary talents who do not wear headscarves, and think that they can influence the government in the back house. As everyone knows, Bixia was willing to let King Qi make a mistake and mistakenly hire the Yang family from the humble family of six officials as a concubine, but he didn't want him to be restrained by the daughter of the family anymore. If a bottle of absolute medicine goes down, King Qi has no heir, and he will have no capital to sit in that position. This one alone, ask yourself, is it enough to destroy the Zhou family? ”
In this matter, Zhou Xian knew in Luojing that he was inseparable from his old wife, but it was only after listening to Man Yun's relay to Xie's night party Manhua in Fengjin, and then combined with Mrs. Zhou's self-confession today, he dared to be 10% sure.
"Father! Plotting the emperor's heir is not trivial! You can't easily detain this crime on your mother's body! The frightened Zhou Song stepped forward in front of Mrs. Zhou, trembling his legs against the imposing old father.
"Zhou Chengdong! You are also forty years old, and you still have to be taught by your mother to recognize right and wrong? Zhou Xian pointed to his eldest daughter-in-law Xie and said, "If you look at your daughter-in-law's appearance of being a thief, you should also know that what I said is not false." ”
Everyone's eyes focused on Xie, and the pale-faced Xie fell to his knees, crying silently.
"Sure enough, it's true!" , Zhou Bai muttered softly, withdrew the foot that was going to stand beside Mrs. Zhou, knelt down at Zhou Xian's feet in pain, and cried out: "Father, please remember that my mother has been working hard for many years in housework, and she is confused when she is old, don't blame her anymore......"
"Confused?" , Zhou Xian sighed, stared at Mrs. Zhou, and said, "Presumably today you want to prove that Brother Kai'er is not the flesh and blood of the Zhou family, and then use this to make a fuss about locking me up, right?" ”。 Mrs. Zhou's previous heartbreak broke his heart very much.
"Yes! I just want to lock you up, an old immortal, if you don't tear down the stage everywhere, why would I leave Luojing. Zhou Xian, you are a gutsless rat, so you insist on forcing my children and grandchildren to go back to the countryside and be humiliated! ”
Zhou Xian quietly looked at Mrs. Zhou, who was flushed and crazy, for a long time, waved his hand astringently, and said, "Madame is guilty of hysteria, you can take her back to rest!" ”
Zhou Bai got up and walked past the eldest brother who was kneeling motionless on the ground with his eldest sister-in-law, held Mrs. Zhou's arm, and softly comforted his mother.
Mrs. Zhou waved her arm away from Zhou Bai, rushed to Zhou Xian again, and glared at her husband who had been married for forty years through gritted teeth.
Zhou Xian's indifferent face made Mrs. Zhou feel even more sad and angry in her heart. She looked around, and the light in her eyes gradually dimmed as she held her breath and remained silent.
It wasn't until her eyes fell on Man Yun that Mrs. Zhou slowly showed a weird smile.
Is there something to do now? Man Yun asked the silver secretly, feeling the silver curl up and form a spherical shape, she also covered her abdomen in the same way, and shrank fiercely.
With a bang, Zhou Manyun used his recent experience in practicing Roujin to hold his breath and fell to the ground, and the fine sweat on his forehead instantly rolled a layer.
In the midst of a panicked cry, Man Yun clearly heard his grandmother's smug daxiao.
"Du Shanshan, didn't you drink that bottle of 'Xiang Ling'? It's the same with your daughter! This little bastard will not regenerate in the future, and the little cub who ordered the ancestors to be ashamed is coming......" (To be continued......