Chapter Fifty-Four: The First Hearing of the Phoenix
Xu Yong grabbed her clothes, stared at her viciously, and asked viciously, "What's the obvious?" ”
That Wang's mother was glared at by him, and she suddenly fainted without taking a breath.
Wake her up and ask! Fu Lingyun said sharply.
A bucket of cold well water was splashed over, and Wang's mother woke up with an agitated spirit, coughed up a mouthful of bloody cold water, and shivered on the ground, not knowing whether it was cold or afraid. With a white mist in his mouth, he looked at the people on the steps in fear.
Fu Lingyun and Xu Yong glanced at each other, knowing that this girl was afraid that she was about to loosen her mouth, so she hurriedly struck while the iron was hot and continued to interrogate.
Back then, there were many spies who caught the Mexican country on the battlefield, and there were not a few who had been tortured in his hands, and it was easy for him Xu Yong to judge this girl!
Lian Feng has been friends with him for many years, and his methods are clear, seeing his posture, he hurriedly untied the horse whip from Fu Lingyun's waist and handed it to him.
"Horn" Xu Yong first shook the air twice on the ground, and then began to slowly put away the whip, and while collecting it, he looked at Wang's mother and asked slowly: "What did you just explain?" ”
"Obviously......" Mother Wang looked at the whip in his hand and hesitated for a moment.
"Snap" a whip slammed into her face without thinking, leaving a red and swollen whip mark, but it didn't break half of the oily skin!
This measure is half the point.
Wang's mother was whipped in front of the door, and she cried in pain and rolled on the ground. Xu Yong stepped on her body, froze her figure, and asked again: "What did you make clear just now?" ”
Mother Wang looked at his life-chasing face, and said in a trembling voice: "Obviously, taking that medicine will only cause stomach cold and vomiting......
"Who gave you that medicine!"
"Yes Miss!" At this moment, Mother Wang's face changed and changed, and suddenly she seemed to be a different person, looking like she was at home!
Xu Yong raised his whip and was about to pull it down, but was stopped by Fu Lingyun.
His face sank: "Uncle Xu, send it to the Criminal Department, don't get your hands dirty!" ”
There are means in the criminal department, and I am not afraid that she will cling to it indiscriminately. The punishment in private is too much, in case one person dies, I am afraid that it will be unfavorable to Qingruo if he goes to the court.
Xu Yong received the order and Lian Feng to escort Wang's mother and a group of people related to the case to the criminal department.
After Chu Qingruo watched them leave, he hurried back to Qingsong Garden.
The old lady had already changed her shroud and was laid flat on the couch where she often lay down, and Yan's mother combed her hair to the slightest, and inserted her favorite hairpin as if she was asleep.
From now on, she never had the love of her grandmother again, never again.
Thinking of this, Chu Qingruo couldn't help but cry again, and the sky was dark when he cried, and the whole person fainted with sobs.
Everyone panicked, and carried her back to their yard, Fu Lingyun ordered someone to go to the cellar of the princess's mansion to get ice cubes, put them in the old lady's house, and waited for the criminal department to come to the autopsy. asked Yan's mother to take care of Qingsongyuan again, and then went back to visit Chu Qingruo.
Seeing that the sleeping little man was also sobbing in his dream, his heart was indescribably distressed. In front of everyone, he couldn't hug her into his arms to comfort her, so he had to go home depressed.
When I returned to the General's Mansion, I saw the candlelight in the main hall from a distance, and the eldest brother and sister-in-law, as well as the two nephews, knew that something had happened to the Chu family, and they all rushed back.
Compared with Chu Qingruo's loneliness and helplessness, and meeting such a confused father, he felt that he was really very lucky, with enlightened parents and a sibling family who loved him.
Before he met Qing Ruo, he never even thought that there was really such a parent in this world who didn't love his children no matter what, and thought it was just a book written indiscriminately to make people cry. The first Nikkei came down with his own eyes, and in addition to deep surprise, it was more incredulous.
But it doesn't matter, when Qingruo's filial piety expires, she will also be a part of the Fu family, and his family will definitely love Qingruo as much as they love him.
Thinking of this, he was depressed again, the old lady left, and their marriage was going to be postponed again. Qingruo has to suffer for a while more in that home. Alas......
Raising his feet and stepping into the main hall, he saw that his family was anxiously waiting for him to come back, and his sister-in-law saw him first: "Junde, Wenyuan is back." "Junde is Fu Lingyan's word.
The family gathered around and asked with concern, how is the Fu family now, when will the old lady be mourned, and do you need help to take care of it? Fu Lingyun's heart was warm.
On the second day after the old lady died, someone from the criminal department came, and he took the work to the old lady to inspect it, and called the whole house to inquire about it.
Soon there was news from the Criminal Department, and Mother Wang, whose mouth was as tight as a clam shell, couldn't hold back the punishment and finally confessed, and it turned out that the mastermind was really Cao Xiulian.
On that day, Cao Xiulian escaped on the way to be escorted and secretly returned to Cao's house to meet her mother. Wang's mother's death deed was originally in the hands of Liu's mother. At the beginning, Mother Liu installed Mother Wang into the Chu Mansion, just to help Cao Xiulian gain a better foothold in the Chu family, but she didn't expect that it would be used today.
Wang's mother's family was in Cao Xiulian's hometown, and they were held in the palm of Cao's mother's hand, so Cao Xiulian ordered her to secretly scatter the auspicious joy into the old lady's food. Just said that the old lady would fall ill, and she, the main mother, could return to Caofu in the name of service and regain the power of the family.
At the same time, he also took care of her, and after taking the medicine, he tried to secretly put the rest of the medicine in the little slut's Jiexiang Garden. If nothing happens, everyone will be happy, and when she comes back, she will slowly kill the little slut.
If the incident at the east window happened, it would be Chu Qingruo's instigation to let Mother Wang bite to death, so that the old immortal would be separated from the little slut from then on, and no one would protect her anymore.
Even if the old lady doesn't pursue it afterwards and continues to protect her, such a disobedient woman who murders her elders, I'm afraid that the emperor and the Fu family will never let her marry again. This marriage is yellow.
This little slut killed her son, and she will tell her to bury her son for the rest of her life, and she will never let her have a good death!
Of course, Cao Xiulian also threatened Wang's mother, if she is obedient, when she takes back the power of the family in the future, she will not only promote her, but also eliminate the slavery of her children, so that her son can go to study with those young masters, and in the future, her daughter may promise to tell her a good family matter.
If she didn't listen to her orders, or confessed to her afterwards, she would have crippled a pair of children in her hometown, and sent them to the alleys and small houses, where thousands of people rode and thousands of people pressed her.
Cao Xiulian didn't plan to kill the old lady so soon, let her toss and turn for a year or two before slowly letting her die, so that it is not easy to arouse the suspicion of others, who would have expected that the old lady would be weak and would go like this within a few days of poisoning.
Through the interrogation, the criminal department brought Li's mother, who was a witness with her, found out another thing.
In the early years, she had heard the drunk Mrs. He inadvertently say that Cao Xiulian had already had human life on her hands, but she was relatively clever and no one noticed it.
As for who it was, Mrs. He refused to say if she was killed. It is precisely because she knows this secret that Cao Xiulian treats her son very well, which is why Mrs. He can be so domineering in Chu Mansion.
The Criminal Department sent someone to ask if he wanted to mention Mrs. Xu for interrogation.
Chu Qingruo listened to the reply of the Criminal Department, and had a vague premonition in his heart that this Cao Xiulian might not have anything to do with her mother's death.
"Check, please ask the adults to ask Mrs. He again." Chu Qingruo said categorically.
As a result, Mrs. He was a smart person, unlike Mother Wang, who confessed to Cao Xiulian when she couldn't stand the torture.
It turned out that after Cao Xiulian and Chu Wenxuan got along, they knew that his original partner was still in the hall, and it was impossible for him to be the master of the Chu family.
So, out of nowhere, she got a kind of incense medicine called "Qinhuang". It was made into a sachet and worn all day long after taking the antidote. From time to time, I went to find Li Yuanyuan, that is, Chu Qingruo's biological mother. is called Please An, but in fact, she deliberately revealed her love for Chu Wenxuan between the words, constantly stimulating her.
Frequent sniffing of this incense will make people have a very depressed mood, and after a long time, the heart will be depressed, if the weak and thoughtful person smells it, it is easy to cause various diseases. Coupled with Cao Xiulian's frequent provocations and verbal stimulation, Li Yuanyuan finally became depressed and fell ill and soon died.
When the Criminal Department informed Chu Qingruo of the results of the trial, the Chu family was mourning the old lady.
On that day, the sky in the imperial capital city in late autumn was overcast. The thick clouds were like a heaviness that pressed on the hearts of everyone in the Chu family, and they couldn't be waved away or dispersed.
A crisp sound of broken tiles was accompanied by a painful spiritual sound, and the Yunzhou cypress coffin where the old lady's body was placed was slowly carried out of the gate of the Chu family by four young and strong family members.
At the front of the funeral procession, the two big-headed road-opening ghosts on the left and right swayed and walked, followed by two family members wearing linen and filial piety, holding two spirit flags. A large gong is followed by a group of drummers in uniforms.
Two laborers, who were also dressed in plain white, carried a basket of money to buy the road, and the snow-white paper money was forcefully sprinkled into the sky and fell to the ground like snowflakes.
Chu Wenxuan, dressed in plain linen filial piety clothes, held the old lady's spirit card, which read "Xianci Chu's Qu Xianjing's Spirit", and walked at the front of the coffin.
Followed by Chu Qingruo, who was supported by Zhou's mother and Han Ling'er left and right, crying silently, and the wide linen clothes made her look even thinner in the autumn breeze.
Fu Lingyun was dressed in black, only tied a white linen belt around his waist, and rode a horse all the way to the side of the coffin. He could not have used it, according to the customs of the imperial capital, he went to the funeral of the other party's house before he got married, and if the marriage was yellow in the future, he would be unlucky.
But he still came, not only did he come, but his whole family came, but he was the only one with the funeral procession.
There is no master mother in Chu Mansion now, and the two concubines are still pregnant and cannot participate in the white affairs, so up and down the Chu Mansion, no matter how big or small, the people from the Fu Mansion are helping Zhang Luo.
The funeral procession started from Chu Mansion, went out of the east of the city along East Street, and walked slowly towards the ancestral tomb of the Chu family in the east of the suburbs.