At the door of the new house, Li Shen stopped. He lowered his head, looking a little tired. After a half-silence, he looked up at the happy word posted on the new house and let go. One end of the silk fell to the ground, and the bride at the other end also lowered her eyes.

"Send Madame in!"

"Sir—"

"Didn't you hear me when I said to send Madame in?"

Several maids glanced at each other and bowed their heads.

Li Shen turned around and returned to the front hall, where there were still guests he needed to deal with. Even if he doesn't want to, today is also the day he gets married, and his mother is still sitting there, if he doesn't go, maybe something will happen again.

The bustling voice came to his ears from the front hall, and for a moment, he felt as if he had returned to the time when he married Wan'er. At that time, he was not Master Li but Li Shen, and there were not as many guests who came to watch the ceremony as there are today, so he led Wan'er back to the simple wedding room, staring at the red hijab at a loss. In the end, it was only in the sound of others that he had the courage to lift the red hijab. Under the red hijab, Wan'er looked shy, as nervous as him.

Li Shen didn't know if the lady he had just brought back to the new house was as shy and helpless as Wan'er at the beginning, he only knew that he couldn't lead his new wife into the happy house like he did when he led Wan'er. He always felt that his Wan'er was standing somewhere in this courtyard, and he couldn't bear Wan'er to be sad, let alone break her heart again.

Wan'er, you see, although I married that girl into the door according to my mother's wishes, don't worry, I will not become a real husband and wife with her. Wan'er, I have already failed you once in this life, and I don't want to, and I don't want to lose you a second time.

"Husband, why do you suffer for yourself?"

In the flickering light and shadow, Wan'er appeared. She stood there, quietly looking at Li Shen.

"You're here."

Li Shen stopped again and looked at Wan'er in the light and shadow.

"Wan'er, where have you been? Is that place okay? Will you take me with you? ”

Wan'er shook her head at Li Shen.

"Where Wan'er went, my husband can't go for the time being."

Li Shen's heart ached, and when he looked up again, Wan'er was gone, replaced by his mother's concerned face.

"Sir, are you tired? Mother doesn't look at you very rightly. ”

Li Shen took a light breath.

"It's okay, mother doesn't have to worry."

"I'm your mother, how do you tell me not to worry."

"It's the child who said the wrong thing, don't be angry."

"Mother is not angry, mother just feels sorry for you. Mother knows that you are busy, even if it is a big day to get married, you can't delay official business. Listen to the people around you who are waiting, you stayed up all night last year. Gentleman, although my mother expects you to go further and glorify the lintel of our Li family, but the body is also important, if it is broken, what is the use of a great future. It's also useless for the mother, picking and choosing, and only picking a daughter of the Xin family. Although the old man of the Xin family has a good errand, his grade is still lower, if he is in the future...... Alas, forget it, let's talk about the future later. If this Miss Xin family can't bear greater blessings in the future, your mother will be able to calculate a family affair with you. ”

"Mother!" Li Shen couldn't help but raise his voice: "I'm afraid it's a little inappropriate for my mother to say this today." ”

"It's a little unlucky, but what my mother said is the truth, and she is also thinking for you." Old Madam Li stared at her son: "This woman should have sacrificed for her husband's future, and my son deserves a better girl." ”

"That being the case, my mother shouldn't have gone to the Xin family to propose marriage in the first place."

"Oh?" Old Madam Li looked at her son suspiciously.

Li Shen took a slow breath and looked at his mother's face, "Mother should wait for the child to ascend, and wait for the child to marry this princess back to you as a daughter-in-law." ”

Old Madam Li smiled, the kind of smug and satisfied.

"My son is really ambitious, but my mother heard that there is no princess of the right age in this palace. Anyway, it's not impossible to consider the younger ones. is a princess, no matter how ignorant she is, she also counts. ”

Li Shen sneered, but in his heart.

"Mother really thinks that a child can marry a princess?"

"Look at what you asked, don't say it's a princess in this world, even a fairy in the sky, my son can also marry."

"Unfortunately, the child is not as good as the mother thinks." The sneer finally climbed to the corner of his mouth from the bottom of his heart: "A child is a treasure in the mother's heart, and the girl of another family is also a treasure in the heart of her parents." Mother didn't want to say anything more. ”

Mrs. Li was a little unhappy, feeling that her son was rushing into her and teaching her a lesson. Thinking of his current identity and the fact that today is his happy day, as a mother, she endured it.

"It was my mother who said this too early." Mrs. Li straightened her body: "There are a lot of distinguished guests here today, and my son needs to be careful to entertain, don't slack off." ”

Li Shen nodded, and walked over to Old Madam Li without saying a word.

In the happy room, Xin Xiaoru lifted her hijab. She stared at the screen in front of the bed for a moment, then got up and walked around the screen to the outside. I looked at a painting, a picture of a beautiful woman hanging in a conspicuous place in the room. In the painting, a woman dressed in plain clothes stands under a blooming begonia tree, and it is strange that the woman in this painting has no eyes.

Xin Xiaoru looked at the painting and took another step forward, and as soon as she landed on her feet, she heard a woman's scream from outside the house. She came back to her senses, walked quickly to the door, and pulled the door open at once.

Outside the door, the girls were running around, and across the two courtyard walls, they could hear that there was also chaos outside.

Xin Xiaoru thought for a while, and ran out of the house with her skirt. She grabbed a little maid with a panicked look and asked, "What's wrong, what's the mess in this courtyard?" ”

When the maid saw that it was a new lady, she replied, "Someone is dead!" ”

"Someone died?" Xin Xiaoru first repeated, and then asked, "Who died?"

"I heard that it was a maid, a maid who was waiting at the old lady's side. Madam, you better go back to the room first, this kind of thing will be handled by the master, madam, you must not be unlucky. ”

Xin Xiaoru let go of her hand, and the maid hurriedly ran away after seeing the salute.

Xin Xiaoru looked at the little maid, and only when her back was about to disappear did she purse her lips and follow with the corner of her skirt. The place of the incident was in the backyard of the house, and when Xin Xiaoru arrived, there were already many people around. There were guests who came to watch the ceremony, and there were also people in the house who joined in the fun, and the people who were surrounded in the middle were her mother-in-law and husband.

The man has been taken down, leaving only a rope still dangling from the branches. The tree, Xin Xiaoru recognized, was the begonia tree that had just appeared in the painting. Unlike the painting, there are no blooming begonia flowers on this begonia tree at this time, and even the leaves are sparse.

The one who hanged herself was the maid Dongmei who was waiting in front of the old lady. No one knows when she ran from the front hall to the backyard, no one knows why she committed suicide, only that she died a little ugly. The tongue bulged out because of the hanging neck, and the eyes turned up, and there seemed to be a hint of fear in it.

"Why is this happening?" Xin Xiaoru muttered.

"I heard that this girl named Dongmei has always been uneasy." Xing Ruyi and Xin Xiaoru stood side by side: "Li Shen's mother didn't like her first daughter-in-law, especially when she couldn't see that daughter-in-law and her son being close to her, so she tried her best to arrange people in Li Shen's house. This Dongmei is the one who wins the heart of the old lady the most, because she has desires/hopes and means, and many times she knows what to do without the old lady's click. I also heard that this maid named Dongmei once took advantage of the opportunity to deliver food to Li Shen and drugged his meal, and also designed it for the previous lady to watch it herself. This kind of scheming is also in line with her fate today. ”

Xin Xiaoru's face turned a little pale, she stared at the begonia tree, and asked, "Why is Dongmei looking for death?" ”

"Is it death? How did I see that I was forced to catch up on Huangquan Road? ”

"Hurry?"

"Not really." Xing Ruyi wrinkled her nose slightly: "When you visited the church just now, I also heard that Old Madam Li was talking to this girl named Dongmei, saying that when your wedding period is over, let Li Shen accept her as a concubine." When this good thing came, she was happy and too late, how could she think about seeking death. ”