Xie Mulin pushed open the window and looked at the sky outside, and breathed a sigh of relief: "The rain seems to have stopped!" The clouds have dispersed, Amitabha! ”

When Wen heard it in the back room, he couldn't help but chant the Buddha: "It's rained for a few days, and people don't dare to go out, but now it's stopped!" She immediately got up and went to find Ma Lu Yao and his wife, and asked them to ask the people of the boat company when the fleet would depart again.

Xie Xianzhi walked over from the wing, and he also heard the news: "Can we prepare to leave?" ”

Xie Mulin smiled: "It should be okay, right?" These days have been dark clouds, strong winds, and torrential rain, and now that the sky is bright, there should be no more violent storms. If it was just a light rain, then we could barely carry it by boat through the canal. She couldn't help but sigh as she spoke, "Who called us unlucky?" In May, I encountered the first typhoon of the year, and I don't know where the typhoon made landfall. ”

Xie Xianzhi vaguely understood her words: "No. 1...... Typhoon? Why is the word "typhoon" used to describe it?

Xie Mulin coughed and changed the topic: "I don't know if there will be such a storm that lasts for a few days over there?" ”

Xie Xianzhi's attention was really diverted: "I hope not." Huyin County is on the edge of Taihu Lake, right? I heard that it is also a water town, if it rains for several days in a row, I am afraid that there will be waterlogging, it will be bad! I once asked my third cousin about the situation in his hometown, and according to him, most of our people's fields are on the water's edge. In case of flooding, this year's summer harvest will not be saved! ”

Then the siblings began to discuss what measures they should take to deal with the disaster in their hometown. Xie Xianzhi knows all the knowledge taught by books or teachers, Xie Mulin is from modern times, and he is much more familiar with various disaster relief operations than him, but most of them are on paper, and there are some differences with the habits and practices of this era, so the two discussed for a round, and they both felt that each other was beneficial.

As he spoke, even Xie Jinzhi, who had caught a little cold due to the wind and rain recently and had been staying in the house to rest, also ran over to participate in the discussion.

It didn't take long for Xie Huizhi to walk in from outside the yard with a borrowed wide-brimmed hat on his head, two trouser legs rolled up, and barefoot on the newly bought clogs, followed by the almost dressed little girl Qingliu.

Xie Huizhi left Qingliu under the porch, ran into the house by himself, and said to the three brothers and sisters: "I just came from the boat line, and I heard them say that if it doesn't rain heavily tonight, we can set off tomorrow!" ”

All three of Xie Mulin's brothers and sisters have to chant Buddha. Because of the typhoon weather, they have been delayed for four or five days before and after Suzhou, and if they stay any longer, they are afraid that the elders of the clan should be in a hurry.

Xie Huizhi took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Xie Xianzhi: "This is handed over to me by the person from the boat line, saying that a descendant from the eldest princess's mansion came from Beijing and wanted to send it to the eldest brother." I saw the handwriting on the envelope, which looked like the handwriting of the big sister, so I brought it back to you. After speaking, he lowered his voice and added, "I didn't tell my wife." ”

Xie Xianzhi took the letter and looked puzzled: "Did my eldest sister reply to me?" But what is there to hide from your mother? He noticed that the envelope was sealed, and there was a piece of wax on it, and the wax surface had the pattern of a seal, which was the birthday gift he had given to his eldest sister two years earlier—the mark of a free seal that he had carved with his own hands.

Obviously, Xie Yinghui has taken measures to prevent others from peeking at this reply, and it is quite effective. He could be sure that the letter had not been opened.

He smiled, opened the letter and read it carefully, and as he looked at it, his expression became serious.

Xie Mulin hurriedly asked him, "What's wrong?" Is there something wrong with my grandmother? ”

Xie Xianzhi wanted to speak and stopped, but after all, he still didn't speak, but silently handed the letter to the three younger siblings and let them read it for themselves.

Xie Yinghui had doubts about Xie Yingrong, and was suspicious of the other party, and she couldn't spit out the breath in her heart. Although she was stimulated by the behavior of Mrs. Ping Nanbo's mother and son, she was discouraged and had no intention of paying attention to Xie Yingrong's conspiracy, but she was also unwilling to be calculated. So after she arrived at the summer village of the eldest princess of Yongning, she immediately wrote a letter to her family, recording everything she knew, and Toma Yurong came forward and sent someone to send the letter to the ship in Suzhou. Even if Wen and Xie Xian had already left, the people from the boat would have delivered the letter to Xie Xian.

After reading the letter, Xie Mulin didn't know whether to be angry or feel funny!

Xie Yingrong actually fooled all of them, and after sending them away, he continued to hide the so-called truth about the Taoist temple from Mrs. Xie, and scared Mrs. Xie out of the city to escape the summer.

If it is because a few days ago, she was tortured too hard by Mrs. Xie and didn't want to continue to endure it, so she schemed to take people away, it is not incomprehensible. But what happened to Mrs. Jiang's inexplicable injury and coma?

After Xie Huizhi read the letter, he was the first to express his opinion: "Mrs. Jiang was injured, it must be the ghost of the third sister!" Otherwise, she didn't have to plant a blame on her big sister's head, and she would retract it if she couldn't do it, as if everyone else was a fool and would forget what she said before when she turned her head. ”

Xie Mulin asked: "Then she injured people because she was afraid that after Mrs. Jiang learned the truth from her eldest sister, she would go to the old lady to tell her the secret?" But she just knocked people unconscious, not killed, at most, she pushed back the time of Mrs. Jiang's whistleblowing by a few days, and it would still happen sooner or later. Besides, she was just lying, but now that she is hurting, the old lady will not let her go easily. What is she trying to do with this? She doesn't seem to be the kind of person who doesn't have half a calculation, and lives a day at a time. ”

After finishing speaking, Xie Mulin's heart moved slightly, guessing that if Xie Yingrong had calculated this matter, would it be that in the past few days in his previous life, something had happened in the capital that would make Xie Yingrong profitable in this life? Therefore, she would rather risk spending Mrs. Xie for a few days than remove the obstacles in order to achieve her goal. When she succeeds, she doesn't need to worry about Old Lady Xie's threat anymore?

What will happen in the capital?

Xie Mulin fell into deep thought, while Xie Xianzhi frowned and said, "The eldest sister can't tell what's going on, the old lady doesn't mention it, and even Mother Jiang doesn't know the inside story." I'm afraid that only the old lady and the third sister in the world know what the third sister said, which scared the old lady into what she is now. But it is wrong to deceive the old lady, and if the third sister still hurts Jiang's mother, it is even more wrong! As the eldest brother and sister, we can't watch the third sister go wrong! Although we are not with her, as long as the old lady knows the truth, she will definitely be able to discipline her. ”

Xie Jinzhi proposed: "Send someone back to Jinling City to ask what's going on?" Although only the third sister and Mother Jiang know where the old lady lives at the moment, Mother Jiang is only injured and will wake up sooner or later. As soon as she wakes up, the family will know the whereabouts of the old lady, and tell her the truth when the time comes. Speaking of which, we would have agreed to the third sister's request and not tell the old lady the truth for the time being, although there were reasons for being deceived by the third sister, but it was not without fault. Take this opportunity to make up for the loss, and save the old lady from being angry with us in the future. ”

The brother and sister agreed, and immediately discussed it together, wrote a letter, and informed Wen. Wen was startled, and after reading the letter they wrote, he did not change it, and sent a clever servant among his entourage to rush back to Jinling City with the letter.

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