Chapter 162: Resentment
Ping Nanbo's wife, Cheng Shimu Ran, sat in front of her husband's tablet and couldn't even cry tears.
She didn't know why things were the way they were. When Ping Nanbo received the summons of Cheng Enhou, there was nothing unusual at all, and he still had the leisure to complain about the arrogance of his eldest brother, just like countless experiences in the past. On the side of the big room and the second room, there was no leak, showing that there was a grudge between their brothers.
Then Ping Nanbo, who was supposed to return home as usual, suddenly turned into a cold corpse, and was sent back by Cheng Enhou with his henchmen. Cheng Enhou only said indifferently that the third brother had a sudden emergency, and asked his brother-in-law to hurry up to handle the funeral, and then took the entourage into Ping Nanbo's study and copied everything inside.
Mrs. Cheng Nanbo wanted to cry, make trouble, and want to ask why her husband died, but she could only get an indifferent response from the Chengenhou Mansion: "What taboo did he commit, as a wife, don't you have any points in your heart?" What's the fuss? When he dies, all the tribes will be safe. Could it be that you still want to follow him to hell?! ”
Mrs. Ping Nanbo looked at the poison bottle that had just been copied out of the eldest uncle's hand, and suddenly seemed to understand something.
Cheng Enhou told Cheng and Cao, who rushed to hear the news: "The emperor in the palace already knows that this matter is the queen's mother herself." For the sake of the entire Cao family, we can only eliminate the black sheep of the third brother. If you want to blame, you can only blame him for being too bold and daring to do such a rebellious act. ”
Mrs. Ping Nanbo trembled, and couldn't help grabbing the sleeve of the eldest uncle, defending her deceased husband: "Uncle, this is also ...... For the sake of the Cao family! ”
"Nonsense!" Cheng Enhou glared at her fiercely, "Hugh is going to defend his arrogance." He just wants to fight for power for his own fame and fortune. If he really thought about the Cao family, how could he not inform the queen and me in advance? When Donggong Liangdi was first chosen, he was still secretly making trouble! Isn't it all for himself?! Our Cao family has been loyal and good for generations, and will never give birth to any rebellion. Only the third child will be consumed by profit, and will do nonsense! You are an insider, but you don't know how to persuade your husband, but you still want to help him to abuse, causing him to embark on this road of no return, and I haven't cured you yet! ”
He shook his sleeves and threw his brother-in-law away: "It's a blessing to have this result." If it weren't for the queen's begging, the emperor wouldn't necessarily let it go gently. You all be honest with me, and don't talk nonsense in front of outsiders. If it really spreads, everyone in the Cao family will be stigmatized, and the third child will really die without a place to be buried! ”
He left a low-key and simple funeral instruction, and left without looking back. Later, someone from the Chengenhou Mansion came to help Pingnanbo's Mansion prepare for the white affairs, but any decision made by Mrs. Pingnanbo to let her husband go more beautifully would be rejected by the other party, and later even the right to organize the funeral was lost. Obviously, the Chengenhou Mansion didn't want any changes in Ping Nanbo's future, and he didn't worry about Mrs. Ping Nanbo, so he simply overstepped the situation and put the latter in the air, which also saved the Sanfang family a chance to make trouble.
Cao Wenheng was unwilling, he didn't know the real reason for his father's violent death, and he was clamoring to go to the big house to ask for an explanation. But before he left the house, he was surrounded by four, five, and six cousins who had come out of the house.
In order to choose the East Palace to accompany the study, several of the heads of the concubines who were still inclined to the third room from time to time completely had a grudge with the third room. Because Cao Wenheng was brushed off in the first round and got the "good name" of a straw bag, many cousins were discussing in private, if he hadn't forcibly squeezed them down, maybe some of them would have been able to choose through companion reading with real learning, instead of being eliminated in shame like Cao Wenheng. Sanfang is a descendant, and he doesn't take his brothers seriously, but after all, Sanfang still has a title, and with the support of Duchess Chengen, they don't dare to openly go against Sanfang.
It's a different story today. Ping Nanbo made a big mistake and was secretly executed. The queen acquiesced, and Cheng Enhou acted with his own hands, which shows that the third room has completely lost power. If you don't retaliate now, when will you retaliate? If Cao Wenheng is abolished, the title of Earl Pingnan may fall to the side of the Shu branch?
A group of Cao family disciples surrounded Cao Wenheng and beat him into a pig's head. Fortunately, Mrs. Ping Nanbo heard that her son was going to the big house, and she was afraid that he would suffer a loss, so she sent someone to chase her, so she rescued her son in time and did not let Cao Wenheng get too seriously injured. But if he can be beaten once, he will probably be beaten a second time. Faced with the faces of the clansmen who instantly became indifferent and resentful, the masters of Pingnanbo Mansion were a little caught off guard.
Mrs. Ping Nanbo invited a doctor to come to her son to diagnose and treat her, appease her daughter, and sent someone to contact her mother-in-law - although Mrs. Cheng'en is Ping Nanbo's biological mother, but because it is the relationship between Cheng En's justice room, she is now raised by Cheng Enhou, the eldest son, and she also lives in Cheng'en Hou's Mansion on weekdays, and occasionally goes to her own son's house to live. Ping Nanbo had an accident, she couldn't have been unaware, but there has been no news so far. Mrs. Pinnanbo couldn't sit still.
However, the news brought back by the next person hit her even harder.
The subordinates of the Cheng'en Hou Mansion replied, the Duchess of Cheng'en heard that her son died of a sudden illness, and fainted under the excitement, after seeing the imperial doctor, although she had slowly woken up, she had a stroke, and now she can't even speak, let alone get out of bed and walk around. Therefore, she was unable to attend her biological son's funeral for the time being. Mrs. Chengenhou spoke as the eldest daughter-in-law, and no one was allowed to disturb the old lady's recuperation, and whoever did not obey would be unfilial to her children and grandchildren, and would be thrown out of the house directly.
After Mrs. Pinnanbo lost her husband, she lost her mother-in-law, her biggest supporter. The people in the house were busy preparing for Ping Nanbo's funeral, but she couldn't intervene at all. She couldn't do anything but sit in front of her husband's spirit, and her whole body was numb.
Cao Shi changed into a filial piety suit, walked in with red and swollen eyes, and cried to Cheng: "Sister-in-law, what can I do? I heard that my mother was sick and wanted to visit her, but I was not even allowed to enter the big house! I don't believe that my mother really had a stroke, this must be a conspiracy of the big house! We have to find a way to get my mother out! ”
Mrs. Ping Nanbo, Cheng Shiran, was speechless and did not give Cao any response.
Cao cried for a while, and when he saw that his sister-in-law was silent, he was stunned, and reached out to pull her sleeve: "Sister-in-law? What happened to you? ”
"Get out......" Cheng Shi squeezed out a sentence in a hoarse voice, "You get me out!" She suddenly had a seizure, "It's all you!" It's all because of you that Uncle will die! You me off...... Get out of here! ”
Cao was crying and shouting by his sister-in-law and vigorously pushed out of the mourning hall, and the whole person was stunned: "Sister-in-law...... What do you say? Sister-in-law! ”
Cheng ran to the back of the mourning hall crying, threw himself on her husband's coffin and cried.
She regretted it. Her husband seemed to have drilled the tip of a bull's horns, and he had to put Xie Pu to death, why didn't she stop him? If her husband hadn't had to kill Xie Pu, he wouldn't have used those poisons. If those poisons were not used, how could the emperor in the palace hear the rumors and become suspicious? The husband obviously didn't have time to do anything, so he lost his life because of a trumped-up crime, and he was personally killed by his own brother, which is really wronged! It's so wronged!
If the Cao family can control Wanqin's concubine, if the Cao family can choose a girl who is more reliable than Wenzhu, if the Cao family can successfully coax Xie Pu to write a marriage promise and confession, if the Cao family did not make a mistake when he stuffed a fake letter into Xie Pu's study...... Xie Pu has long been dead, does Ping Nanbo still need to spend so much effort? Everything is Cao's fault!
Even, if it weren't for the fact that the Cao family had an old relationship with Fang Wenshan, and the latter became the deputy commander of the Praetorian Guard, which made Ping Nanbo have the idea of controlling the Praetorian Guard through his in-laws and seeking greater power, none of this would have happened. Ping Nanbo has today's end, all because of such a sister!
Cheng hated it in his heart!
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