Ah Gui raised his head, looked at his wife, opened his mouth but didn't say anything, and finally he said in a low voice: "Ah Bi, it's not that I deliberately hide it from you, it's just that it's useless if you know about this matter, but you are scared in vain, and the family is not at peace." ”

"I see!" Abi smiled slightly: "If you think it's better not to talk about me, then don't say it." It's just that you think I'm the kind of ordinary mediocre woman who will rush around and pull you back when something happens? ”

"This-" Hearing his wife's rebuttal, Ah Gui couldn't help but be dumbfounded, as Ah Bi said, she and Ah Gui can be regarded as a couple in distress, and they met in the middle of the dangerous city, and outside was the fierce and vicious Houjin army; The city is the Guanning generals with different hearts, there are those who want to fight to the death, some want to surrender, and there are those who want to sell at both ends of the first rat, and want to wait for the price to sell, as the saying goes: "It will be the courage in the army", the generals are confused, and the soldiers below are even more self-preservation, Abi as a weak woman from a rich family in the city, was taken captive to be the singer of the ancestral family, and was immediately given to the meritorious soldiers. Their own fate is like duckweed on the water, drifting with the wind and waves, unable to be autonomous. But when Ah Gui left the ancestral mansion and expressed her willingness to let her go, she was not at a loss like most young ladies who grew up in the boudoir, but tightly grasped Ah Gui's tree. She knows very well that in this chaotic world, the enviable wealth, knowledge, and beauty of the past will not only not bring happiness, but will bring disaster. In the following days, she committed herself to marrying and became Ah Gui's virtuous helper, saving her chastity and life, and supporting a family for Ah Gui. Ah Gui also understands that his wife is by no means an ordinary mediocre woman, she has seen people, and she has discussed many things with her, and she has been nicknamed "afraid of his wife" outside. But if this incident leaks out, not only will your life be lost, but your family will also be unlucky, but if you don't say it, you will definitely not be able to pass this hurdle today. He thought about it, and finally sighed, and said, "Okay, I'll just say it, anyway, you and I are already husband and wife, born together, and died together!" Then, he recounted his experiences in the Jokhang Temple one by one, and finally sighed and said: "I am also helpless, now I am like a mouse in the bellows, angry at both ends!" ”

Ah Bi couldn't help but smile when she heard this: "I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. ”

"Not necessarily a bad thing?" Ah Gui was stunned for a moment and asked, "This is going to lose your head, how can it not be a bad thing?" ”

"What you're doing is a headless business!" Ah Bi laughed: "It's true to let the Jurchens know that you want to lose your head, but if it weren't for the fact that Nachesang Lama wanted to use you, your head would have been cut off by the Ming people a long time ago, right?" ”

"That's right!" Listening to his wife's words, Ah Gui couldn't help but be stunned, and then smiled: "In this way, I still earned!" “

"Not really!" Abi smiled like a flower: "Besides, Na Chesang Lama has spent so much effort on you, and others may not be able to get the news even if they fight for their lives, but he has carefully written it for you to memorize and bring back, and he must have deep hopes for you." It's like doing business, if you buy something for fifty taels of silver, you won't sell it for less than fifty taels. ”

"That's right!" Ah Gui smiled bitterly: "But no matter how you say it, it's just goods." ”

"What happened to the goods? In today's world, except for the Great Khan and the Great Tomorrow, who is not a cargo, even your boss Mr. Fan Wencheng Fan, why is it not a cargo? It's nothing more than whether it's worth a lot of money, and it's better to make a cargo of fifty taels of silver than to make a copper plate. You see, didn't this Jurchen also promote your officials and reward your Zhuangzi and servants? Let's put it this way, the more you become an official and the more things you can know, the more that Chesang Lama will value you, the more he will try to keep you from being exposed, and he will even think of ways to make you make some meritorious contributions and rise faster, so that you can be of great use in the future. “

"That's right, what the lady said is right!" Ah Gui looked at the wooden box on the table on the side, which contained the title deed and arrow that had just been sent, not to mention the comrades of the Guanning Army who were thrown together in the Daling River at that time, even if it was the orthodox white flag of Huang Taiji, it was impossible for ordinary Niu Lu to have such a good treatment, let alone enjoy the double salary, that was the soldier who had already been from the dragon when Nurhachi was in the time of Nurhachi, and had survived a hundred battles and made countless military exploits. This is the real reason why the guards of the white flag are so affectionate to Ah Gui, they who run around Huang Taiji all day long are the most well-informed, knowing that this Mongolian descendant has recently become very popular in front of the Great Khan, so they treat each other like this.

At this time, there was a soft sound outside, as if something had been knocked down, and it was like a thunderclap on the ground in the ears of Ah Gui and his wife, and their faces turned pale with fright. Before Ah Gui jumped out of bed, Ah Bi had already rushed to the door quickly, and opened the door, only to see the maid standing at the door, two bowls broken on the ground, her face was innocent, and she didn't know if it was because of Ah Bi's abrupt action or what she had just heard.

"What's wrong?" Abi asked.

"Madam, the maid brought hot soup to Lao Yehe, accidentally broke the dishes, and asked Madame to punish her!" The maid was on her knees, and she was already on her knees.

At this time, Ah Gui also arrived at the door, looked at the maid on the ground, and didn't know what to do for a while, and then he heard his wife's voice: "That's it, you didn't mean to, clean up the debris on the ground, be careful, don't tie your hands!" ”

"Thank you, ma'am!" The maidservant kowtowed, and then squatted on the ground to pick up the pieces, and when Gui saw it, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, as if his wife had made some important decision for her. Suddenly, Abi picked up a whip hanging by the door, and strangled the maid who was squatting on the ground behind to pick up porcelain tiles. The servant girl was strangled by the neck, hurriedly grabbed the whip with her hand, and struggled, although Abi was older, and it was a sudden attack, but after all, she was born in a beautiful girl, and she didn't want the maid to do things on weekdays, and her strength was smaller, so she couldn't hold on to each other for a while. Ah Gui was stunned by the sudden change, and he didn't know what to do for a while. Seeing this, Abi couldn't help but shout: "Come and help me, this's strength is not small!" ”

"Lady, why do you have to do this?"

"Husband, you are so confused, if you don't kill her and let her leak what she just said, you and my lives will be difficult to protect, even if you don't care about your own life, can you bear to let our children be a miserable life without a father and a mother?"

Ah Bi's words touched Ah Gui's key point at once, he hurriedly stepped forward, grabbed the two ends of the whip, and strangled it hard, his strength was much greater than that of his wife, and it only took two breaths for the maid's tongue to stick out, and the whole person softened. Gui pressed hard for a while, and only then did she let go until the maid's eyes had completely lost their brilliance.

Looking at the corpse on the ground, Ah Gui suddenly felt that the whole person was about to fall apart, since he joined the army with a small bundle of hair, there were not a hundred or seventy or eighty lives on hand, but he had never been so tired as now, and the heavy guilt almost crushed his shoulders.

Syllable!

Ah Gui raised her head in surprise and saw her wife lifting a delicate vase on the cabinet next to her and slamming it to the ground, the one next to her had turned into a pile of fragments on the ground, this pair of celadon vases were one of the few souvenirs left by her mother's family. Ah Gui hurriedly stepped forward and snatched the vase, and said sharply: "Ah Bi, are you crazy?" Why do you want to drop this, you like this pair of vases the most on weekdays! ”

"It's because I like it that I'm going to fall, and I can't care about it at this time!" Ah Bi stretched out his hand to take back the vase, Ah Gui hurriedly raised the vase high and persuaded softly: "Ah Bi, you are tired, go and rest first, I will clean up here!" ”

"Give it to me!" Abi hurriedly said: "What are you throwing the vase for?" Not for her? With that, she stretched out her hand and pointed to the corpse of the maidservant on the ground.

"For her? What does this vase have to do with her? ”

"If someone dies in the family, even though he is a servant girl, how can no one gossip in the neighborhood? The Jurchens know about it, how do you deal with it? Speaking of this, Ah Bi snatched back the vase from Ah Gui's hand and slammed it to the ground: "Later, you will whip a few lashes on the corpse of this, and say that she accidentally dropped my beloved vase, so I whipped a few lashes on her face, and she committed suicide by hanging a beam in the house in a hurry, naturally no one suspects!" “

"This-" Ah Gui looked at his wife with admiration and a little fear, the traces of suicide and strangulation by outsiders were almost indistinguishable, and he hadn't come back to his senses yet, Ah Bi actually thought about everything at once. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh and said, "Ah Bi, I really don't have the face to be a man in front of you!" ”

Ah Bi listened, and also guessed a little bit of Ah Gui's thoughts, knowing that if he didn't prick this root away at this time, there would be trouble in the future, so he stepped forward, leaned on Ah Gui's chest, and said softly: "I also have no way, if she doesn't die, you and I will die in a family of three, at most in the future, when we worship the gods, add her, and have some incense with her!" “

"That's all there is to it!" Ah Gui nodded, hugged his wife's soft body, the tenderness in his heart suddenly appeared, and said softly: "You go and rest first, here I am!" “

Ah Bi nodded, she was indeed a little tired, and walked to the kang to lie down. Ah Gui followed his wife's instructions and did everything properly in a short time. The husband and wife were laid down together and did not mention anything all night.

In the early morning of the next day, Ah Bi pretended to be panicked, ran to the neighbor's house and shouted "Dead", and when everyone entered Ah Gui's house, they saw a corpse hanging in the air in the ear room where the maid lived. Rizheng asked, "What's going on?" Why did she hang herself from a beam? ”

"It's all my fault!" Abi sobbed: "Yesterday, the official and a few guards with white flags went out to drink, and when I came back from drinking too much, I asked her to cook some hot soup to relieve the official's hangover, but I didn't want her to be clumsy and break the two celadon vases left to me by my mother's family, so I whipped her a few times in anger, I didn't want her to be so hard, and she actually committed suicide by hanging a beam in the house!" ”

"Her two celadon vases were shattered?" That Li Zheng knew about the two vases in Abi's house, and couldn't help but say: "That's okay, what's wrong with this cheap maid whipping her twice, it's not just your vase that is sold by the pound." Abi, don't worry, the old man is here, and I will testify for you! ”

"But, but the vase is just a thing, she is a human life after all!"

"You can't say that, you didn't kill her, but what is it worth with a few whips?" There was a few words of encouragement and asked, "Where is Master Ezhen?" Where did he go? ”

"Ah Gui went out early in the morning, he should have business! Why don't I call someone to call him back right away?" “

"No, no need!" There was a smile and patted his chest: "I've heard that Master Ezhen is a celebrity in front of the Great Khan, how can he delay his business." Mrs. Abi, don't worry, this matter is on me, you go back to the house to rest first, and I will deal with the messenger when I come! ”

"Thanks to Mr. Lizheng!" Abi Chaoli was blessed with a blessing, and said softly: "When Ah Gui comes back, he will definitely let him come to your house to thank him!" ”

"How dare you do that!" Li Zheng was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly smiled: "Madam, you go in quickly, there is me here!" ”

There was a few praises from Abi, and he suddenly felt a lot stronger, turned around and dispersed the idle people, took a bench, sat down in front of Agui's house, and called a well-spoken young man to report to the government, and after a meal, he saw a team of messengers with a protruding belly, he hurriedly got up and greeted him, and described Agui's identity and what happened, and the messenger at the head turned back and said: "Lao Liu, you go to examine the corpse, move quickly, don't delay it for a long time, Let the host's family get bad luck! “

The servant, who was also awake, took the two messengers into the maid's room for a short time, and then came out with the corpse in his hand, and said to the head, "Indeed, he was hanged to death, with strangulation marks on his neck, and whip marks on his face." ”

The leader was about to speak, and Abi's voice came from inside the house: "Master Lizheng, it's hard to send people, you can get five yuan for me, please drink a cup of tea, and wait until Ah Gui comes back, and then serve it, the concubine is a little unwell, forgive me!" ”

"Madame, rest assured!" Li Zheng responded, asked the messenger to wait for a while, went back to his house and took the money, put his hands on it and said with a smile: "There is only one woman in the house, forgive me!" ”

"Well said, well said!" The leader got the money, arched his hand and said, "Then this matter will be understood, and I will take my leave!" With that, he led his men to carry the corpse and left, without mentioning it.

After a few days like this, Ah Gui didn't see all kinds of troubles, and the worries in his heart gradually disappeared. This morning, he finished washing up and was about to go out, but he heard someone knocking on the door, pushed the door and looked, but saw a young man, and said respectfully: "Mr. Fan, please!" (To be continued.) )