145, contempt
The third old man took the letter in Mama Su's hand suspiciously, unfolded it and took a look, his face changed, his head was still high just now, he lowered it, dense beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and he staggered and stepped aside.
Everyone was surprised by his change, and saw the third master say to Xiao Yue with difficulty, "It's the third uncle who was blinded by lard, and the third uncle is wrong."
The third uncle is not angry that you sat on the throne at a young age, so he wants to slander you as the illegitimate son of the eldest brother, which not only defiles the eldest brother, but also disturbs the mother.
Yue'er, you are the head of the family, how do you punish the third uncle, the third uncle has nothing to say. ”
Xiao Yue squinted, he didn't want to argue with the third master about these things at the moment, now, the most important thing was to let his grandmother settle in the ground first.
He said, "The third uncle doesn't have to blame himself, I didn't have a father since I was a child, the third uncle is my elder, it's good for the third uncle to know his mistakes, after all, the bastard hat is too big, I can't wear it." ”
After speaking, he turned around and ordered Mr. Yin Yang to lift the coffin.
The people who watched the excitement below were disappointed, thinking that they would watch a good show, but they didn't expect that there was only a small storm, and there was no more.
Without the thorn of the third master, the next ceremony went smoothly.
On the first seven days, the Jin Dynasty did the first seven rituals in Izumo Temple, and after one night, he returned to the city the next day.
Gu Nian was pregnant, and pregnant people could not participate in these things, so she did not go out of the city, but sat in the palace.
However, even if she doesn't do anything, she is still tired enough, and she still follows the old lady when the old lady is there, and lets the grandmothers take care of it, and she is in charge.
After a funeral, the number of people was reduced a lot. Not to mention Xiao Yue, although the second master and the third master are also on the council, Xiao Yue still has to decide many things.
Almost everything is pressed on Xiao Yue, the eldest son of the generation, Xiao, and now the head of the Jin Mansion.
During the day, he was very busy, Gu Nian could hardly see his figure, and at night, he just went back to the room, closed his eyes a little, and got up on the fourth watch to arrange the next day.
In the past few days that the spirit has been at home, it has been like this every day, and after careful calculation, after Gu Nian and Xiao Yue came back, they didn't even say a few words.
On the eighth day, Gu Nian was having breakfast, and heard the voice of someone outside asking for peace, it was Xiao Yue who came back.
She put down the dishes and chopsticks, and was just about to get up, when she saw Xiao Yue open the curtain and stand at the door, "Don't move." ”
Xiao Yue stopped Gu Nian from coming out, he stood at the door, stomped his feet, took off the big on his body, shook off the cold on his body, rubbed his hands, and then entered the house.
Gu Nian hurriedly asked Qingye to add a pair of dishes and chopsticks, and asked the small kitchen to get some hot ones for Xiao Yue to use.
It wasn't until Xiao Yue cleaned his face, washed up, and sat down opposite her that she looked at his face carefully.
His cheeks were sunken, his eyes were bloodshot, and his voice sounded hoarse.
Last night, I sat until dawn, and the night before I went back to the room for the third watch, and got up before the fourth watch.
How long has it been since the two of them sat down like this and had a good meal?
Gu Nian was distressed, and said in a low voice, "Today, you can rest at home for a day, and don't worry about anything else." ”
Xiao Yue smiled slightly, and said to her soothingly, "I'm fine, it's okay, you just take care of yourself and the child." ”
When the breakfast was over, the two sat on the kang and gossiped, Gu Nian stubbornly let Xiao Yue lie down, his hands gently rubbed on his head, and the two of them had a sentence, not a word of talking.
Xiao Yue put his face on her stomach and listened, then rested his head on her lap, probably too tired, and slowly fell asleep, snoring slightly.
Gu Nian didn't move, he was too tired during this time.
The second room and the third room have always been very low-key, and the second lady and the third lady never found fault with her when she was in charge.
But why did a person who has always been kind be provoked to make trouble at the old lady's funeral?
Moreover, the reason for the attack turned out to be so specious.
Even if the third master later apologized, saying that it was his fault, the rumors eventually spread.
She didn't even go out, she could already imagine that the words that were circulating in the high gate today were probably specious.
Ji is dead, have the people behind the scenes started to find other targets in the Jin Palace?
Then why didn't you move the chess piece of the Ji family for a long time? Isn't it easier for the world to believe what Ji said?
She suddenly thought that day Ji said that she would not make Xiao Yue feel better even if she died, so she kept her back.
The third master made such a difficulty, is it Ji's backhand?
Gu Nian slowly made clear one line at a time, and she suddenly remembered that the Ji family was dead, but Mama Tian was still locked up.
She moved her feet slightly, Xiao Yue, who had always been vigilant, didn't wake up, she slowly put his head on the pillow, then got off the kang, bent down and kissed Xiao Yue's forehead.
After she got off the kang, Xiao Yue's eyes opened, a smile appeared on the corner of her lips, she turned sideways, and looked at Gu Nian, who was still slender from behind, and went to the outer world.
When she arrived outside, Gu Nian softly instructed Astragalus to drag Mama Tian over, she thought that Xiao Yue was resting in the inner room, and asked Astragalus to take people to the side hall next door.
Mama Tian has been like a mouse in the bellows for the past few days, panicking.
When Ji died that day, she was in the next room, and she heard a voice, Ji's death was not honorable, she was still the biological mother of the prince.
Thinking about his status as a slave, he still doesn't know how to die.
The more she thought about it, the more scared she became, and during this period of her life, the guards watched her very strictly, so that she didn't even have a chance to die.
Hearing that Gu Nian sent someone to mention her, she couldn't help but be frightened, and when she arrived at Suiyuan Hall, everyone along the way was eyeing her, which made her even more frightened.
Gu Nian was sitting in the side hall, and after Mama Tian came in, Aoba kicked her foot and made her kneel.
Gu Nian looked at Mama Tian who was haggard on the ground, and said, "Do you know why I was looking for you today?" ”
Mama Tian secretly raised her eyes and looked at Gu Nian, and replied, "I don't know." ”
Gu Nian laughed, "You old guy, you don't forget to play tricks with people when you are dying." ”
She put the hand stove for warming her hands on the side, and said, "Your master is dead, how did she die, I believe you should know, you say, what will I do with you?" ”
Mama Tian's liver trembled when she heard this, and she said, "Slave, there is no way." ”
Gu Nian didn't talk nonsense with her, only said, "Don't worry, when you should die, I will naturally let you die, but, I don't understand, don't say what you explained, you betrayed your master so neatly, don't feel sorry at all, is there anything else you haven't explained?" ”
Mama Tian lowered her eyelids, but the moment she lowered her eyes, the panic she showed still fell in Gu Nian's eyes.
"Slave maid...... The slave has already explained everything...... Moreover, I am our girl's slave, not the king's slave...... You don't have the right to deal with me......"
Gu Nian said 'hehe' and said, "You sold a secret as big as your master, it must be to cover up a bigger secret, otherwise, you don't have to do it at all, because if you say it, you will die, and if you don't say it, you will die." ”
"What the hell are you hiding? You're just trying to divert our attention?
It's a pity that you did this, not only did you get the reputation of betraying your master, but also made the Ji family hate you.
She didn't forgive you until she died. ”
Gu Nian looked at Mama Tian condescendingly, "You have been following the Ji family for so long, you know everything about her, and you must know everything she wants to do."
She kept her hands back, you must know that, didn't you? ”
Mama Tian's face was white and transparent, and she looked at Gu Nian like looking at a ghost.
Gu Nian's eyes cooled, and he said, "Your life is injured in me, the same number of sticks are beaten, some are killed on the spot, and some are not angry for the time being, and they will slowly die after three or five hours, and they will slowly die after tasting the pain of all five organs."
Others fainted to death on the spot, but occasionally picked up a dog's life when thrown into the field. ”
Mama Tian sweated like rain.
"Slave maid...... Slave ......"
"Say."
"The slave maid has a concubine outside, who manages the shop for the master, and is also loyal to the master, a few months ago, the master asked me to bring him a letter."
"I secretly read the letter inside, and the master told him that if something happened to her, when the time came, he would tell the second and third masters the news that the prince was an illegitimate child."
"In this way, the prince does not want to continue to be in the position of the prince."
Gu Nian stood up, walked up to Mama Tian, kicked her over, stepped on her chest, and said, "In this way, the third master made trouble in the mourning hall that day, just because your concubine had already told the third master about the matter?" ”
Seeing Gu Nian trembling on Mama Tian's body, Astragalus was startled, and hurriedly stepped forward, supporting Gu Nian, and said,
"Princess, what do you want to do, just let the slave and maid come, be careful of hurting your body."
Mama Tian was stepped on by the astragalus and gasped, "No, we are fine, we are ready to ask the master for a favor, and the two of them will go back to the countryside to live a good life, I said at the time, it doesn't matter if the master is dead, only when the news of my death comes, I can say it." ”
"He shouldn't have let go out yet......"
Gu Nianqi's grinding teeth, such a dog minion, is really bold.
He didn't even care about the life and death of his master.
Xiao Yue opened the curtain and came in, he gritted his teeth and looked at Mama Tian on the ground, raised his voice in exchange for a dark one, and said, "Immediately take people to guard the city gates on all sides, and then find a person with a face to go to Shuntianfu, just say that the woman in the family was raped, and she is a man in her sixties, what is it called?" ”
He asked Mama Tian.
Seeing that Mama Tian's face was gray, she didn't ask, but just went with the dark, "You go and ask Zhang Changshi, who used to give Ji's shop a pipe, and then post a notice, if there is anyone who reports the whereabouts, a reward of 100 taels of silver." ”
Mama Tian didn't expect Xiao Yue to make such a resolute move, her concubine would have to wait for her news to come, and she must stay in the capital, so that she could find the third master and the second master to spread the news.
And now, when Shuntianfu received a report, he must have wanted to arrest him, and he didn't know that he had already explained the matter, how could he think that it was the Jin Wangfu who was arresting him?
She moved, begged Gu Nian for mercy, and wanted to hug Gu Nian's legs, but was stopped by Xiao Yue halfway, and stepped on her arms, and suddenly, one of her arms was snapped and broken.
"Drag it down, wait until you catch her concubine, and beat them both to death together."
Xiao Yue commanded coldly.
Mama Tian was dragged out, and the room was still immersed in silence.
Mama Tian and her concubine can't run away, but the problem left over, if according to Mama Tian, the concubine hasn't gone out for a walk yet, where did the third master know?
Gu Nian felt sorry for Xiao Yue in her heart, Ji knew that Xiao Yue was her biological child, but she still kept her hand like this, did she hate Xiao Yue so much? Or, does she hate Xiao Yi so much?
ruined Xiao Yi, and ruined Xiao Yue!
Tiger poison doesn't eat children, but Ji's family, this is not as good as a beast!
"Let's go and ask the third uncle directly." Gu Nian said.
Xiao Yue pondered for a moment, took a deep breath, and nodded.
Since the third master made such a fuss in the mourning hall, after reading the old lady's letter, he shrank his head and never came out.
Xiao Yue didn't go to him, he thought about it and ordered someone to call the second old man and his wife over.
The third lady came in after the third master, her face was pale and she had a handkerchief wrapped around her forehead.
The second and third masters have not achieved the first and second grades, but they have also sat in the key positions of the sixth department for many years.
When the third master saw Xiao Yue, his face was a little unnatural, and he naturally sat far away, wishing that Xiao Yue couldn't see him.
It was the second lady who said to Gu Nian very enthusiastically, "During this time, you are tired enough, if you want to help with anything, just tell the second aunt that we are all a family." ”
Gu Nian thanked the second lady and let the maid serve tea.
After a while, the patriarch of the Xiao family and the Zongzheng Ling, who managed the clan, also arrived in the hall.
Xiao Yue invited these people over to let them preside over the separation, and most of the valve leave in the court was like this.
The elderly are here, and there is no separation of families. Now that the old lady is gone, the palace is inherited by Xiao Yue, and they inherited the palace in this vein, and the second and third rooms moved out to live separately.
In fact, when the old lady was there, she had already divided the finances very clearly, and what each room should get and what it shouldn't get had already been written in a booklet, so that the clan elder and Zongzheng could come over, just to be a witness.
After all these things were explained and the clan elder and Zong Zhengling also left, Xiao Yue stopped the second and third masters.
"Third uncle, I didn't mean to settle accounts with you when I was in the mourning hall that day, but the person who provoked you behind your back, please tell me honestly."
Xiao Yue said.
The third master was still flustered at first, thinking that Xiao Yue was going to settle accounts with him, but he didn't expect that it was just to divide the family property, and half of the big stone in his heart fell, but he didn't expect that Xiao Yue still smashed the stone down.
He blushed and said hesitantly, "Yue'er, this matter is something that the third uncle did wrong, you can punish the third uncle as much as you want, and please don't ask the person behind it again." ”
Xiao Yue narrowed his eyes, and Gu Nian said with a smile, "Third uncle, if the person behind this gives you benefits, then we don't ask, if the person behind this threatens you, then we have to ask."
You are our elder, and we cannot stand idly by in the face of your safety. ”
The third old man was Ai Ai, but he didn't say it, pursed his lips, looked at Xiao Yue, and looked like he was helpless.
The third lady was sick and leaned crookedly on the chair, and when she saw the appearance of the third master, she patted her thigh and said, "You old thing, if you don't say it, I will say it." ”
The third master glared at her and said, "If you dare to say it today, Lao Tzu will divorce you." ”
The third lady's eyes widened angrily, and she replied, "Even if you divorce me, I will also say, I can't see those people, hide behind my back, and be a good person!" ”
After speaking, she angrily threw herself to the second lady's side and said coldly, "Second sister-in-law, when my mother was here in the past, I looked at her old man's face, I put up with you everywhere, what's good, I, as a younger sister, also let you." ”
The third lady and the third master, although they are noisy, but the relationship between the two is still good, he did something wrong, but it was also used as a gun, it makes no sense that they are being questioned now, and the culprit is still at large.
I only heard the third lady's eyes widen, and her fingers poked at the door of the second lady's face, looking excited, "A long time ago, you muttered to me, saying that the sister-in-law treated Yue'er like that, isn't Yue'er not biological?"
At that time, I was still scoffing, but you often nagged in my ear, and I believed it, but I still had a trace of doubt in my heart, obviously Yue'er looked like her sister-in-law, where could it not be her own?
Even if Yue'er is an illegitimate child, it should be born by the sister-in-law and someone else.
Second sister-in-law, what did you say? Maybe Yue'er is an illegitimate child, born by her sister-in-law and someone else.
This time, why did our lord make trouble in the mourning hall, wasn't it what your husband and wife said to him? ”
The second lady was constantly leaning back by the third lady's fingers, her face turned red and white, white and red, changed several times, and sneered, "Don't push the fault on me, when did I say such a thing to you, you are not happy with your feelings, and you want to drag us into the water together?"
She suddenly turned to Gu Nian and Xiao Yue, "Yue'er, Niannian, don't believe her, you should know what kind of people we have been for so long." How could we possibly do such a thing? This crazy woman, she spews blood, and wants to slander us. ”
She turned her head, looked at the third lady, and sneered, "We are doing right, sitting upright, whatever you want, your few empty words are just a few empty words, and you still want to pour sewage on me, do you want to harm us and Yue'er?" You're too vicious.
Today, I look at Nian Nian and Yue'er, I don't care about you, if you want to say half a bad word again, I will tear my face hard, and I will never give up with you. ”
"Third uncle, you have to take care of your third brother and sister, this is not good, you always have to take care of your relationship with your second brother."
"This brother, are you still going to do it?"
The second old man looked kind, and he frowned at the moment, looked at the second lady, and said angrily, "Don't say a few words, you are a sister-in-law, what's wrong with your younger siblings?" She's angry now, she doesn't know what she says, are you more serious? ”
After speaking, the second old man swept his eyes, and said to Xiao Yue, "Yue'er, your third uncle also made a mistake for a while, the eldest brother went, I am the eldest brother, your third uncle did something wrong, and I, the second brother, will discipline him." ”
"Third brother, my second brother disciplines you, are you convinced?"
The third master only spit out one word, "Serve." Then he buried his head low.
The third lady's face turned pale with anger, her fingers poked at the second lady, she kept trembling, and she couldn't say a word.
She stared at the second lady viciously for a moment, slowly turned her head, and said to Gu Nian and Xiao Yue, "Yue'er, so far, I don't have anything else to say, when Yue'er was fifteen years old, the incident that happened, whether it was up or down the house, was determined that the sister-in-law didn't like Yue'er and did it deliberately." The old aunt's life was also harmed by the sister-in-law.
In fact, the sister-in-law was wronged, and now, I tell you that the sister-in-law does have a lot of mistakes, but she should not bear this one. ”
She stared at the second lady and said, "You slut, that thing was not done by the sister-in-law at all, and it is even more impossible for Yue'er to do such a thing, who else is there in this mansion besides you?"
It's just that for so many years, I haven't understood why you forced that concubine to death.
Now, I know, you want the throne. Because if the matter spreads, then Ah Yue will be ruined, and there will be no place for him in this palace.
He can't be the prince, so someone has to be the king of Jin, who else can he be besides the second uncle?
I kept an eye on it at the time, and specially asked someone to touch the old aunt's body, the old aunt was still a virgin, and she was not humiliated by someone to hang herself, maybe she was killed by someone, so she blamed Yue'er. ”
The third lady looked at Gu Nian, and two lines of tears rolled down.
"Yue'er, we did something wrong that day, and now I don't have the face to ask for forgiveness from your husband and wife, even if I go underground in the future, I don't have the face to see my mother-in-law, I only hate myself for being too stupid, our husband and wife are stupid, and we were actually cheated."
"This time, your third uncle will do such a thing, it is clearly your second uncle's pluck, because your second uncle has long been involved with the fifth prince, and he has said many times that you should let your third uncle go too.
But your third uncle didn't agree, but this time, your second uncle said that if your third uncle did it, the position of the prince in the future will be done for your third uncle.
That's it, your third uncle jumped out like a fool. ”
"My words, every word, are all true, if there is half a falsehood, I will not die well."
With that, she slammed into the cabinet on the side.
However, he was stopped by Xiao Yue like lightning.
Gu Nian was shocked!
She didn't expect that there would be such twists and turns in the matter of the old aunt, and Xiao Yi didn't touch the old aunt......
She had sighed before, feeling that except for the difficult point of the Ji family, everything else in the Jin Wangfu was really good, although the third lady was sometimes a little more powerful, but in the end, it was the aunt in the next room, and the old lady was also there, so she didn't pay attention to it all the time.
For the second lady, she also thinks that this is a kind woman......
Xiao Yue's heart is not quite bad at this moment...... He has not had a 'father' since he was a child, and he spends more time in the palace, but every time he comes back, this second uncle also talks to him with a smile, so that he has something to look for him.
Later, after his unbearable reputation spread, the second uncle often talked to him and warned him that he must not fall into his father's reputation.
Unexpectedly, there was such a disgusting intestine wrapped under these kindnesses.
After the third lady was stopped, she collapsed on the ground, crying bitterly, and the second lady suddenly screamed strangely, and pounced viciously towards the third lady, beating her while scolding angrily, her face was red, her hair was scattered, and there was still a little bit of the demeanor of a noblewoman.
"Stop it." The second master suddenly scolded.
The second lady shuddered, stopped, and sat on the ground with the third lady without an image, but fortunately, Xiao Yue was about to ask about something just now, and sent everyone far away.
The second master stood up calmly, with a hint of a smile on his face, and he looked at Xiao Yue, who was sitting on Wei Ran.
The fragile boy back then grew into such a man, calm, calm, and forbearing.
No matter how bad his reputation is on the outside, he is still very good.
However, the second master is not in the mood for any appreciation now.
From this face, he vaguely saw the shadow of his brother.
The widowed mother put all her hopes on the elder brother, and everything was the elder brother, and in the light of the elder brother, no matter how good he was, it was overshadowed.
It was his brother, and he confessed.
But why, later, the elder brother had passed away and was gone, and his mother was still unwilling to give him the title?
Isn't it normal for a brother to end up with a brother? It doesn't matter if the nephew is old, it's clear that the nephew is still a child.
But this title still won't be his turn.
At first, he didn't think much about it, thinking that it would be okay if he couldn't get on the throne, but later, his nephew was such a person, fierce and cruel, and the relationship with his sister-in-law was still like that.
He almost thought that it was not his sister-in-law's biological child, he traced it for a long time, and there was no clue that his nephew was not his sister-in-law's biological child.
It doesn't matter, being biological can also make him not biological, anyway, their mother-son relationship is so bad.
He knew that the old aunt was a thorn in the eye of his sister-in-law, so he killed her, but he didn't expect this trick to be very useful.
And then ...... Later, the fifth prince came to the door and said that he could help him get the throne!
He believed. He took the third brother and went out and did this.
Xiao Yue looked at the stunned second master, ignoring it, he stood up and took Gu Nian's hand, and said, "Tonight's matter, that's all, grandmother just left, I don't want people to say a bad word about the Xiao family." ”
"Second uncle, what kind of thoughts do you have, I know very well, if it was in the past, it would be okay to give you this title, but I promised my grandmother that I would let the Jin Mansion continue to be glorious, so, I'm sorry to disappoint you."
When Gu Nian passed by the second master, he stopped, and said slowly with seven points of disgust and three parts of contempt,
"You are in vain as a descendant of the Jin Palace, if you have the slightest grandfather's manhood, you will not have such thoughts.
The pain that the prince has experienced, from childhood to adulthood, is so much, but he is still living calmly, I advise you, instead of complaining about injustice all day long, it is better to think about the ancestors of the Xiao family, how heroic they are.
If you continue, what kind of face do you have to meet the ancestors and ancestors under the Xiao family? ”
After she finished speaking, she walked out with Xiao Yue.
The second master kept smiling on the corners of his mouth, and when they left, like an angry lion, he kicked towards the table and chair on the side.
Back in Suiyuan Hall, Gu Nian frowned and said, "I didn't expect the fifth prince to be locked up in the palace and not stop, and secretly contacted the second uncle, and now he has a bad relationship with the fourth prince, is this for himself to seize the world?" ”