Volume II, Chapter 191: Mourning
Chiang remembers her teenage years.
The neighbor raised a black dog, she was a little scared, a trip to the mountains to deliver food to her father, the black dog smelled the meat and followed her all the way, but suddenly a snake jumped out of the mountain road, directly attacked her calf, it was the black dog who came forward to fight with the snake, the black dog was bitten by the snake, and the snake was also bitten in two by the black dog, and then the black dog's wound was abscessed, and the black dog almost did not die, Jiang Shi knew that it was a poisonous snake, and the black dog saved her life.
Since then, she is no longer afraid of black dogs, her father and brother make a living by hunting and selling game, and their family is not short of meat to eat, so she often uses meat steamed buns to "repay" black dogs.
Later, the black dog was killed by her brother.
The brother was disgusted that the black dog often followed her into the mountains, frightened away the prey, killed the black dog and cooked it into a pot of meat, Jiang couldn't eat dog meat, but she didn't tell her neighbors about the fate of the black dog.
Later, my father and brother disappeared inexplicably, and I don't know if they died in the mouth of a fierce beast in the mountains.
Jiang married the son of a neighbor, she has been hiding the black dog, she feels that if her husband finds out, she will despise her for being ungrateful, but she can't betray her brother because of a dog.
But later, when her mother was seriously ill and her husband's family decided to stand by and watch, she did not raise any objections, she thought that since she was married to her husband, her husband's family had no moral obligation to take care of her widowed mother.
She has always had "standards" and knows "proportion", for example, when she was employed by Qinmen to obey the orders of the Wang family, she was already widowed, and she understood that the eldest lady was her only reliance in the future, and she had to be obedient to her employer.
This gradually became an obsession in her heart.
All the ideas of the eldest lady influenced her, and she had an almost fanatical obsession with dependence, such as the fact that she gradually began to devote herself to planning for the happiness of her daughter, and that she could sacrifice everything, even her own life, for her own daughter.
All the reliance she has met in this life is indeed someone who has overcome her.
The elder brother was only seven years old and was able to hunt roe deer and help his father feed his mother and her; When her husband was alive, she had no worries about food and clothing, and never worried about being warm, so she enshrined her husband's words as a golden rule, agreeing that her mother should reunite with her father and brother earlier than her lonely life; The eldest lady was a noble person she could not have imagined to be able to meet before, and relying on the eldest lady, she did live a rich life that was difficult to achieve before.
She relied on one person after another, and lived for many years, most of her life.
Of course, she understands that the eldest lady's mind is not so sober, and she has also been anxious, but obedience to the order has penetrated into her bone marrow, not to mention the eldest lady's determination to break the kettle this time, and let her daughter and son-in-law inexplicably harvest the large amount of property that the eldest lady has accumulated over the years.
Jiang believes that as long as she has the determination to die, she will definitely be able to do great things, she is nearly sixty years old, how long can she live if she spares her life? Even if she lives again, it is impossible to fight for such a large fortune for her daughter, the eldest lady is right, no one has died in life since ancient times, as long as a person dies well, there is nothing to regret.
Jiang had already seen the eldest princess's car, and stopped at the gate of the annex.
The eldest princess is still like that, she doesn't like the style of hugging before and after, and today because she is mourning the dead, and does not let the accompanying Wei Yu follow up with the other garden, the two masters and servants of the Wang family seem to expect that the eldest princess will have this "hypocrisy", so they have the confidence to succeed, Jiang Shi stepped forward at this time, but saw that the servant woman who helped the eldest princess get off the car and walked into the main door was not the elderly nurse, Jiang Shi because of the ghost in his heart, he was sensitive, so he said: "This envoy is a face." ”
"Grandma has been feeling a little unwell recently, and I let her recuperate." The eldest princess still responded with a kind demeanor.
Jiang was relieved again.
"Madame is arranging the hall of mourning, and she can't greet your lord in person, but she still hopes that your lord will take care of it." And she saluted respectfully.
The eldest princess helped Jiang up: "It's okay, take me to the sacrifice hall." ”
Wan Yi didn't look around at the surroundings because she wasn't in the mood for that.
When she first met the Seven Princes of Western Xia, she didn't know the true identity of that man, although she also saw that he was a foreigner, but she was willing to talk because he could speak Wei and indeed had a deep understanding of Taoist righteousness. When she was a girl, she actually did not worship Buddhism and Taoism, let alone dabbled in Taoist righteousness, but in the long years of solitary confinement, she was really tormented and desolate, and slowly began to study Taoist classics, wanting to rely on the wisdom of the sages to comfort her heart.
It's hard for her to meet someone who can talk deeply.
Later, the seventh prince confessed to her that it was the last time they would see each other.
Whether she regrets it or not, Wan Yi herself can't tell, she doesn't dare to think about it deeply, she can only treat the prince of Western Xia, the person who recklessly broke into her life, as a passerby who met in Pingshui.
She didn't expect that the prince of Western Xia would propose a peace relationship, and actually designated her as a candidate for peace and marriage.
She didn't hesitate to choose to obey, she thought that she was willing to assume the bond of reconciliation between the two countries because of her responsibility as a royal princess, but then in the dead of night alone, she found that she really didn't feel at all at a loss about the future, and she didn't hesitate at all because fate fell into the unknown again, she began to face her heart, and she found that she was looking forward to and rejoicing.
The bleak rest of her life finally has another outlet, God loves her, so that she can return to the country after suffering and marry a confidant.
So she was even more sad for Fangguan, she wanted how good it would be if Fangguan hadn't been killed back then, Fangguan would definitely be able to get out of prison and meet her beloved, their happiness just came a little later, not lost in the end.
Before leaving Lin'an, she should indeed mourn a deceased friend, her savior.
Wan Yi is not familiar with the servant woman who followed her to the other garden today, the servant woman was recently transferred to the eldest princess's mansion, the nurse was sick, and recommended this servant woman to take care of her, Wan Yi actually felt a little uncomfortable, especially this servant woman seemed to be extremely strict, although there were no offensive words and deeds, but always with a straight face, Wan Yi couldn't help but think of the Liao monks and nuns who guarded her when she was in the Liao Kingdom.
But Wan Yi trusted the maid, and she felt that the maid must have thought about her by recommending this servant.
But the servant stopped a glass of sake that Madame Wang handed her.
"Drinks are exempt, the safety of the eldest princess at this time is very important, and she should not eat and drink in the foreign trade of the mansion."
"Today is the little girl's taboo, and the eldest princess should accompany her with a cup of sake." Wang insisted.
Wan Yi glared at the servant woman with reproachful eyes, and reached out again to take it.
"Mourning for the dead, when the deceased like to sacrifice, the eldest lady of the Xiangdi is quite good at poetry, the eldest princess has prepared a long endowment as a sacrifice, enough to do her best, but Mrs. Wang forced the eldest princess to drink, and the servant suspected that Mrs. Wang had bad intentions." The servant woman was still holding the glass of wine that Wang had handed her.
At this time, before the sacrificial table, Wang and the eldest princess were facing each other side by side, the servant woman was slightly in front of the eldest princess's right side, the eldest princess was behind her, Jiang was originally kneeling and burning paper money in a copper basin, seeing the servant woman forcibly stopping the sake, Jiang was anxious, and after receiving Wang's gaze, he took out a dagger from the bottom of the copper basin and stabbed at the eldest princess.
The eldest princess didn't know anything.
The servant woman not only snatched the wine cup in Wang's hand with lightning speed, but also took half a step back, turned around, raised her foot, and kicked Jiang Shi with his back facing the sky and almost fell his head directly into the copper basin.
Wang was stunned for a moment, pulled out the silver hairpin on his hair, and stabbed at the eldest princess like crazy.
Wan Yi stood there and didn't move.
She was really stunned.
The servant woman threw out an object, hit Wang's wrist, blood splattered, and the silver hairpin fell to the ground.
"Yi Juan Gao, you killed Guan'er and now you are here to harm me, you can't die well!!" Wang was tied by her own belt, completely lost the ability to attack, and could only vent her resentment with hideous curses.
Wan Yi didn't come back to his senses until this point.
Gradually, the servants and maids who heard the movement approached the hall, and they were all shocked when they saw this scene - although they had been on duty in the other garden and listened to the orders of the old lady and the Wang family, and did not dare to obstruct the Wang family's entry and exit, but they were all good employees, and no one dared to become the accomplice of the Wang family's plot to assassinate the eldest princess Wanyi, and the Wang family also knew that only the Jiang family could help her commit the murder, so they just separated these servants and maids.
The Wang family wanted to use the power of her and the Jiang family to assassinate the eldest princess.
The reason why he did not use poison directly, but used drugs, was to let the eldest son Qin Ze fall behind the credit of sacrificing his life to protect the eldest princess, so that Qin Ze could be spared from punishment.
The Jiang family didn't know martial arts, but the Wang family thought that the eldest princess's master and servant also didn't know martial arts, and they took advantage of their unpreparedness.
But the plan failed.
The servant women beside the eldest princess are skilled, which can only prove one thing, that is, the eldest princess took precautions and understood her plan, but she still came to this death covenant, in order to catch a conclusive evidence when she committed the murder, and Yi Juan Gao clearly wanted to put her to death!!
"Lou Niang, what's going on?" In the midst of Wang's vicious curses, Wan Yi blankly asked the servant woman who saved her life.
"Go to someone, notify the guards outside, and invite His Royal Highness the Prince, Qin Xianggong, and Qin Sanniang to come here." Lou Niang's face sank like water.
She responded to the eldest princess politely: "The servant is to obey the order of the prince and protect the safety of your lord, as for other things, please wait for a while to know the ins and outs." ”
"Yi Juan Gao, you are still pretending to be confused until now, what are you pretending to be confused?" Wang was still smiling: "What face do you have to live?" You should have died a long time ago! You still want to happily marry Xixia as a princess, how can you be worthy of my guan'er? Haven't you had nightmares over the years? How can you be so at ease?! You don't have a heart and liver, you don't have a heart and liver!! I can't kill you, I can't avenge the blood hatred for Guan'er, but you won't end well, God has eyes that can't spare you Yi, you must not die well, you must not die well!! ”
On the sacrificial table, the white ash was still spontaneously combusting, a drop of candle tears slipped down, and half an inch of incense ash fell silently, and the slanting sun was already dim at this time.