CHAPTER XXXVI
Qingyan bent down to help her up, "If you really don't want this dress, I'll give you the money back, it's just ...... I look like you have something else on your mind......"
Before Qingyan could finish speaking, the woman grabbed her sleeve and interrupted her, "Miss is kind, it's just a family matter, and Miss is afraid that she doesn't want to hear it."
Qingyan glanced at the pair of rough and thick hands that grabbed the sleeves, and remembered the aunt who once raised her, because the perennial farm work also grew like this, although the aunt treated her badly, she still raised her.
She later thought about being filial to her aunt, but she waited for the news that her aunt's family was killed, and it was her good husband, the county prince of Zhilan Yushu.
"You say, I listen".
The woman wiped her tears again, staring at the ground under her feet with empty eyes, "The concubine's husband is a petty officer in the Northland military camp, managing more than a dozen people, although he is short-tempered, but he is also considered to the concubine, and he will give what he should give for food, drink, and clothing, but a few days ago, the husband suddenly broke off the concubine's money, and the family couldn't open the pot, so he went to the camp and asked him if he wanted it, but he didn't want to see him holding a woman, and the concubine followed them closely and chased them until the south city, and saw them enter a house, and the concubine secretly hid there, I waited a whole day to see them come out......
The concubine thought at the time, the husband was afraid that he had another lover, and he would no longer care about the two children in the family."
As she spoke, the woman began to sob again.
"Twenty years of husband became someone else's in the blink of an eye, how can I be willing, I followed him to the barracks again, and stopped him in the camp for questioning, but he was beaten in front of everyone and didn't say anything, and he also said cruel words, saying that he would divorce the concubine when he went back.
I dragged my body and was about to go home, but a military master who was with my husband in the past gave me two taels of silver for me to go back to see a doctor and buy some food for the children, and then told me that my husband had the blue eyes of the city lord's wife, and was rewarded with two taels of silver, not to mention, but also gave him a new house and a beautiful woman, so that I could be at ease and not go to hit the stone with an egg again."
After the woman finished speaking, she laughed miserably, "The pillow person for more than 20 years is not as good as a stranger for the sake of profit, do you think it's ridiculous?" ”
Qingyan was silent, she was thinking about the city lord's wife she said, Li Qinghua, what did this woman's husband do for her to get such a reward?
There was something unusual about it.
"I ask you, if your husband turns his mind and goes back to you, will you still want him?"
Qingyan looked at her eyes and asked her calmly.
The woman was stunned for a moment, "This ......" she twisted her hand, looking hesitant, as if she hadn't made up her mind what to do, "The concubine will want him, after all, he is the father of the child."
In the end, the woman chose this expected answer.
Qingyan's expression was calm, and he didn't feel strange, "Okay, if you still want him, then you take me to Nancheng, and I'll help you bring him back."
The woman's eyes flashed with surprise, and she asked her, "Is what the young lady said true?" Are you really willing to help your concubine? ”
Qingyan nodded.
The woman jumped off the ground with joy, rubbing her hands and planning to kowtow to Qingyan with tears in her eyes, but Qingyan hurriedly helped her, "Don't be a big gift, go, go to Nancheng."
"Good...... Good".
She wants to see what Li Qinghua has come up with and what he has done?
Then, Li Qingyan took Biqing and went out from the back door to the direction of Nancheng.
After they left, two men in black also left from Yun Yao's back door, one went straight to the outside of the city, and the other continued to follow behind Qing Yan.
The house that the woman spoke of was nothing but a very simple courtyard, with a large apricot tree in the courtyard, and the apricot branches extended from the courtyard to the outside of the courtyard wall.
The woman pushed open the wooden door at the signal of Qingyan, and at a glance she could see everything in the courtyard, and Qingyan walked in generously.
The courtyard was empty, and there was a lock on the door of the closed house, Qingyan stepped forward and shook it a few times, and when he saw that it was really locked, he turned to the window of Lingge.
How can you see inside with the paper?
As she was thinking, the woman had already come and poked her finger into the paper window, poking open a large hole.
Qingyan was stunned, it was so simple.
The woman squinted her eyes again and leaned closer to the paper window to look in, "Miss, there is no one in the house, and this courtyard is empty?" What should I do? The husband won't run away with that woman, right? ”
The woman was so anxious that she stamped her feet and stepped in place.
Qingyan was pondering, the owner was not there in broad daylight, locked the door but did not lock the courtyard door, I was afraid that there was something urgent and just went out, and the yard was clean but it looked dilapidated, not like a new yard, how could anyone reward such a dilapidated old yard, unless this yard was once new, and it was old and broken.
That......
She glanced at the woman who looked flustered, her husband had been with another woman for many years.
Then why did that military master say that Li Qinghua rewarded a woman?
That woman and the woman in this courtyard are probably not the same person.
And where did the newly rewarded woman go?
"Miss, come on!"
Suddenly, there was a cry of Biqing behind him, as if he was extremely shocked, Qingyan looked for the sound and quickly arrived at the place where Biqing was squatting, here is a vacant space behind the house, originally probably planted with flowers and other plants, and for some reason it was uprooted again, clods of soil were scattered everywhere, and there was a bluestone slab in the middle of the scattered clods, Biqing was squatting on the side.
Qingyan circled around the bluestone slab, and always felt that it looked a little familiar, similar to the underground palace of the concubine who was once hidden in the dwelling.
Will?
Qingyan's heart was excited, and he instructed Biqing, "Go and see, is there anything that can pry open this bluestone slab?" ”
Biqing searched around neatly, and then the woman also came, and she stood on the edge of Qingyan Station, and suddenly bent down and grabbed the bluestone slab with both hands.
Qingyan hurriedly stopped her, "Eldest sister, this thing is not light, I'm afraid you can't lift it with your strength."
The woman smiled sharply, "Miss, you underestimate me too much, I'm at home, but I've moved something heavier than this, you can rest assured."
Qingyan stopped her and stepped aside.
As the woman herself said, this bluestone was only a slight force on her, and it was lifted to the other side under Biqing's shocked eyes.
A dark hole appeared in front of him.
The entrance to the cave was leading down, not an entrance to the dungeon, but a cellar, and the bottom of the cellar was connected by a black wooden ladder, and at this moment, the sound of a woman whimpering came from the cellar.
"Miss, there is a woman's voice inside, I think it's that slut, the concubine goes down and brings her up."
The woman was full of hatred.
"Wait a minute, let's go together", Qingyan called the woman, called Biqing, and the three of them carefully stepped on the wooden ladder to the ground.