Chapter 237: Misleading
Mrs. Xie has been living in the courtyard of this slightly old mountain house for three days.
It was the best temporary home she could find in a hurry, and it had been a disgraced property that had not been inhabited for several years. There are servants guarding and cleaning in the yard, so the houses are not dilapidated, there are all the furniture that should be there, there are dense mountains and forests around, there is a river not far from the mountain, there is a small ferry, there are boats that can go directly to the Qinhuai River and the Yangtze River waterway, and there is a small market to buy daily necessities.
Aside from the fact that the rent is a little expensive, there doesn't seem to be anything bad about this place. It was only when Mrs. Xie moved in that she found that there were many mosquitoes, rats and ants in the yard, with cicadas chirping during the day and mosquito bites at night. If she had done enough preparation in advance, she should have been relatively comfortable, but who told her to move in in a hurry? I didn't bring the incense to repel mosquitoes, I didn't have a long pole to fight cicadas, I didn't eat well, I only had a girl and a mother-in-law around me, and I had to go down the mountain with all the clean water I used every day. Hire someone to do it for you, and the people in the neighborhood will have to charge a high price. In the face of tall and tall coolies, Mrs. Xie's master and servant did not dare to bargain.
She has been pampered for many years, and she didn't suffer too much even when she was in trouble, and she has been on the verge of collapse after three days in this courtyard.
At this time, Xie Yingrong wrote from the city and told her bad news. Originally, they were just frightened in private, but now it is clear that danger is really coming to the door. Old Mrs. Xie's tense nerves were really about to break.
She didn't sleep well all night, and the next day she immediately sent a message back to the city to ask Mrs. Jiang, who was staying in the mansion.
Mrs. Jiang hurried out of the city to meet her and report to her the latest news in the house.
The people from the Eldest Princess's Mansion in Yongning did come to find the eldest lady Xie Yinghui every day, and invited her to go to the eldest princess's summer village tomorrow to stay and accompany the eldest princess's beloved daughter, Miss Ma.
After Mrs. Xie left the mansion, Xie Yinghui went to Jinxuantang for a few days, either looking for Mrs. Jiang or Xie Yingrong, and she was asking where Mrs. Xie went. Mrs. Jiang took the order and closed her teeth. Xie Yingrong broke up with Xie Yinghui several times.
The Yongning Eldest Princess's Mansion did not invite Xie Yingrong to go to the summer village with her, and Xie Yingrong herself did not see any action to pack her luggage. However, the third girl seems to have sent Yahuan beeswax to spread the news, saying that she was ordered by her grandmother to copy the Buddhist scriptures a hundred times and send them to the Buddha for worship, and it is inconvenient to go out for the time being.
Mrs. Jiang actually didn't know what secrets there were between Mrs. Xie and Mrs. Xie Yingrong, she just told Mrs. Xie everything she knew. However, Mrs. Xie, who had read Xie Yingrong's letter, had a preconceived idea and drew a conclusion from her words that even she didn't know:
The eldest princess of Yongning was indeed wary of the Xie family, and sent someone to contact Xie Yinghui for several days, so that the latter could inquire about the whereabouts of the old lady Xie whose current whereabouts are unknown. Xie Yinghui didn't know it, and she became the accomplice of the eldest princess in a daze without knowing it. In order to conceal the truth, Xie Yingrong had a conflict with Xie Yinghui, and also found an excuse to copy Buddhist scriptures on the orders of his grandmother, so as to avoid going to the eldest princess's Zhuangzi with Xie Yinghui to live.
From this point of view, what Xie Yingrong wrote in the letter is true!
Old Mrs. Xie's breathing was a little short, and her heart was beating faster. She grabbed Mrs. Jiang's wrist and asked in a hoarse voice, "The people I told you to pay attention to before...... What's new lately? Say it! ”
Mrs. Jiang was startled, and hurriedly replied: "Yes, old lady, the younger ones have inquired, the second grandmother of the eldest princess's mansion seems to have been sick since after the Dragon Boat Festival, as if she had suffered from heat stroke, and the imperial doctor has been treated in the outpatient clinic, but there is no improvement." Her Royal Highness the eldest princess Yongning planned to take the family to Zhuangzi to escape the summer, so that Ma Er's grandmother could change to a cooler place to recuperate. ”
In addition, there are the two sons of Qishan Bofu. Mrs. Jiang only heard that Qi Shanbo had once again kicked her eldest son out of the house, and the latter was now staying at a friend's house. But I didn't hear anything about his second son, I only knew that Mrs. Qishanbo went out all day long to visit various high-ranking officials and eunuchs in Beijing, and the royal family of the clan. But every family didn't seem to welcome her to the door, and she was closed several times. She started crying at the door of the house, and the host had to ask Qishan Bo to lead the people. Qishanbo went to persuade her, but she pointed at her nose and scolded, saying that if she had another son, she didn't care about her son's life, and if her son really died, she would have to fight with him, Yunyun.
Jiang Pozi said as she exchanged glances with Pearl and He Pozi. Although they didn't know what was going on in Mrs. Xie's mind, they also knew that the master's family seemed to be on the go. There may be only the third girl Xie Yingrong in the family who is an insider, and even the eldest lady Xie Yinghui is kept in the dark, not to mention the Wen family and others who have left. They were all a little worried, they didn't know what trouble Mrs. Xie had caused, should it affect the whole family?
Old Mrs. Xie didn't know that the people waiting around her had become suspicious because of her words and deeds. She only felt that the news brought by Mrs. Jiang confirmed the conjecture in her heart: the eldest princess of Yongning would definitely not let go of the Bai family, and the Bai family is now sick, it must be a rumor deliberately released by the Ma family, and in the future, the Bai family will "die" in the summer village, and no one will be suspicious; As for Dong Huijie, his life and death are still unknown, and most of Qishanbo has given up on this son, but Mrs. Qishanbo is still unwilling to give up, and begged people everywhere to save her son, but no one is willing to help......
Mrs. Xie thought to herself: When the dog man and woman lose their lives, will the eldest princess of Yongning start to kill the insiders? She has already found Xie's door, no wonder Xie Yingrong will remind herself to escape!
Mrs. Jiang's report has been carried out to the second son of Xiao of the Zhuguo General's Mansion: "...... I haven't heard that he is sick or anything else, but I know that his family has arranged an envoy for him to serve in Jinshanwei, and he has already set off three days ago. ”
Old Madam Xie immediately sat up straight: "What did you say?" Xiao Ergongzi went to Jinshanwei?! ”
"Yes, old lady." Mrs. Jiang looked at her in confusion, wondering why she was so interested in the second son of General Zhuguo? The Xie family used to be the in-laws of the Cao family, and they had never had anything to do with the Xiao family in the Zhuguo General's Mansion, not to mention that Xiao Rui was still a concubine, and he had always been a figure that Mrs. Xie looked down on.
Old Mrs. Xie seemed to understand something: Xiao Rui was not involved in that scandal reasonably, at most he was a spectator, and there were Xiao Guifei, the third prince and General Zhuguo as backers behind him, so there was no need to worry about being wiped out. The Xiao family still arranged for him to go to Jinshanwei, and sure enough, he did do something in the Taoist temple, and most of them acted on the orders of Concubine Xiao. Now going out of Beijing is just a shelter from the limelight. But Xiao Guifei's willingness to arrange a future for a concubine's nephew is obviously a reward for his "merits".
The farce of catching rape on the day of the Zhoushan Taoist Temple, the water behind it is really very deep!
Old Madam Xie hesitated again. Even the Xiao family, which has the support of Concubine Xiao and the third prince, has arranged for her son to go out of Beijing, so she should still leave the capital and go to other places to avoid it, right?
But where should she avoid it? There are too few people with her, if she finds someone who is not familiar with the place, she is afraid that it will be easier to be calculated by the eldest princess's mansion, and I am afraid that no one will know when she dies!
What to do? What should she do?!