After this toss, the mother's body deteriorated, and it was impossible to give birth again. My father was a man of little affection, and soon he married into a concubine's room. This second aunt is a very scheming person, on the surface she is very docile and does not compete for favor, but in fact, she uses this means to invite people's hearts. Later, when she saw that everyone in the family praised her and that her mother was a kind-hearted person, she always persuaded her father to come to her room. In this way, the second aunt successfully became pregnant, and later gave birth to my third brother. ”

It turns out that of the three brothers of the Lu family, only Lu Yanyi is a descendant, so it is no wonder that the Lu family has so many disputes.

"After giving birth to the third brother, the second aunt's appearance gradually declined, and her father didn't like her very much, and married the third aunt, and the fourth aunt entered the door one after another, the third aunt was quite honest, but the fourth aunt was even more restless."

Hearing this, Qingwan couldn't help but interject: "Mrs. Lu is not an ordinary woman, why don't you take the personal girl into the room?" That way, I can finally be more intimate. ”

"At first, my father didn't like it, but my mother has always been considerate of my father, so I didn't force it. Later, when I saw that there were many aunts, my mother had a sense of fear, and gave a personal maid to my father to take a house, but in less than half a year, the maid died."

"Dead?"

"Yes." Lu Yanyi nodded, "This matter is still a mystery in my family, but everyone rumors that the fourth aunt killed it." The second aunt lost power in old age, and the third aunt was cowardly, and the father gradually handed over the power of management to the fourth aunt. I was only four years old when my mother died that winter! ”

"How did Madame die?"

"I just remember that it was a very cold day, it was snowing very hard, and I was in the pharmacy with my grandfather and father, when I saw someone from the house, saying that my mother was seriously ill, and by the time we rushed back, my mother was gone! After the incident, my grandmother also tortured several aunts harshly, but she found nothing, but it always made people feel strange. Two years passed in a blink of an eye, when I was six years old, children were playful, one day, I sneaked home from the pharmacy, wanted to go to the pond to find the lotus pod, unexpectedly, I happened to meet a person, sneaky, to send a letter to the fourth aunt, I kept an eye, and after the people left, I took out the letter, ran to the upper room in one breath, and handed it to my grandmother, who was furious when she read it! ”

"What is in the letter?" Qingwan's heart also hung high.

Lu Yanyi's voice did not carry the slightest warmth, as if he was talking about a distant and strange thing, but his eyes faintly flashed with hatred: "It was a letter asking for silver from the fourth aunt." According to the above, the fourth aunt once bought the highly poisonous Heding red in his hands, which is a well-known rare and expensive poison, although the fourth aunt is a housekeeper, but the grandmother has always been very strict with her, and the money in and out must be carefully checked, so the fourth aunt does not have so much silver in hand at all, and it has not been able to pay evenly, it is believed that she has come to ask for it several times, and there is still a difference of three hundred taels. With this letter, the grandmother imprisoned the fourth aunt, who knew that she herself had poison on her, and that night, before committing suicide, she went crazy. ””

"And then?" Qingwan then asked.

"The matter is exposed, who can keep her? The grandmother had the madman thrown into an old house in the backyard, and he died a few days later. It was because of this incident that my grandfather felt guilty about my mother, so when he was dying, he passed on the cure to me for snake venom. Two years later, my father married the fifth aunt again, the fifth aunt was born in poverty, and she has been in charge of family affairs all these years, and there have been no mistakes. ”

From the words, it can be heard that Lu Yanyi doesn't seem to have a bad impression of these five aunts: "Three years later, she gave birth to my sister and studied with us, just like that, they all reached more than ten years old in a blink of an eye." My family rules, when I am fifteen years old, I can only be in charge of the store, although my eldest brother is old enough, but my father only let him take care of some housework, when I was fourteen years old, I was preparing to take over, one day, my brother suddenly came in a panic, saying that my family in the capital booked a batch of medicinal materials went wrong, my father asked me to hurry up to see, I wanted to go home to ask about the situation, but was stopped, saying that the matter was urgent, I had to hurry into Beijing. At that time, I was young, and I didn't think about it so much, so I left home in such a hurry. As a result, I rushed to the capital day and night, and just found the guy in the capital, and before I could ask what was going on, I was immediately imprisoned, saying that my family was buying inferior medicinal materials at a low price, and I wanted to sell them at a high price. ”

"Your brother is going to frame you!" Qingwan blurted out.

"Naturally. But I was young at the time, I didn't know much about the world, and in a panic, I didn't think of that at all. Lu Yanyi said: "I only have one thought, which is to quickly solve the crisis at home." Sure enough, as soon as he entered Beijing, he fell into a trap. The people in the yamen are too lazy to distinguish between the innocent and the innocent, and they only know torture, and I am weak, even if I have a thousand mouths, I can't distinguish those people. ”

"You've been tortured?" Looking at Lu Yanyi, who exuded a noble atmosphere in front of him, it was difficult for Qingwan to associate him with the word torture.

Lu Yanyi sneered: "I was tortured for six or seven days, and in the end, I was almost unable to move!" ”

"If you don't hear from you, your father didn't come to save you?" Qingwan was a little strange.

"They had already planned it, and I left with my front foot, and they told my father with my back foot that I knew a famous prostitute, and suddenly took the money from the shop and left. My father was naturally furious, and all the news was isolated by them, where could he come to save me? ”

"And how the hell did you end up getting out?"

"I was in prison at the time, and in desperation, I thought of my aunt. She married into the Bai family in the capital, and her uncle Bai Dingxing was the judge of the Tai Hospital, and I only had this family of relatives in the capital, so I could only think of writing a letter to the Bai family. Although my aunt basically doesn't go back to her hometown, after all, she is the same mother as my father, and she should come to save me no matter what. On the day I was imprisoned, I kept an eye on it and secretly hid a silver ingot, ready for an emergency. After writing the letter, I bribed the jailer with the money, and finally delivered the letter. ”

"Did Lord Bai save you?"

Lu Yanyi sneered, with a hint of chill in his eyes: "Save me? They simply ignored me. When the jailer first told me the news, I didn't believe it, and begged him to tell it again, but the man didn't want to go again because he didn't have much money. ”

"And what did you do?" I had just relaxed a little, but I was nervous again.

"I'm really desperate, I don't know anything about the outside world. I was also sentenced to imprisonment. ”

"Huh? What the? Qingwan couldn't help but cry out.

As if he hadn't heard, Lu Yanyi continued: "I don't have any hope at all. On the night when the jailer refused me, at the time of the third watch, a person suddenly sneaked in from outside, it was a swordsman Su Brother I knew when I was buying medicinal materials in Hangzhou, when his silver was stolen and his mother was critically ill, I cured his mother and gave him a sum of silver. Unexpectedly, my in-laws' family did not come to save me, but such a stranger, who only had a one-sided relationship, risked life and death to save me. Although I also practiced martial arts since I was a child, I didn't have the strength to be tortured in those days, and he still escaped from prison with me on his back. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Yanyi paused, and when he talked about the old man, his mood seemed to become heavy: "After escaping, we were afraid of being discovered by the government, so we temporarily settled in a small inn, but I still don't give up, I suspect that the prison guard did not deliver the letter, and in the end I begged Brother Su to take me to the Bai family." ”

"Could it be that the jailer didn't deliver the letter?"

"It's hard for Brother Su, I came to the Bai family with all kinds of hard work, and it turns out that everything is too naïve for me to think, just based on my previous impressions, knowing that there is such a family, I thought that I would not stand idly by. But I didn't think about it, my aunt actually didn't go back after she got married. I want my uncle to help me avenge my grievances, but it's unknown. But what I didn't expect was that even if I didn't want to pay attention to my relatives, even if I didn't want to interfere for fear of being involved, I wouldn't want to go to the yamen to denounce me immediately! ”

Qingwan was not shocked at this time: "How many relatives are like this." ”

Lu Yanyi looked at her with a slight surprise: "I was not deeply involved in the world at that time, and I didn't understand the warmth and coldness of people. You've probably seen a lot of relatives with this kind of face, right? ”

"It's more than that, it's more than that!" Qingwan took a long breath: "Don't stop if you don't put people to death!" ”

Lu Yanyi subconsciously wanted to ask a few questions, but Qingwan remembered to listen to his past: "I'll tell you about me in detail another day." I want to hear you finish. ”

"Okay," Lu Yanyi continued: "When I arrived at the Bai family, I realized that my aunt thought that she was married to the high gate of the capital, and she had always been afraid that people would look down on her, and she avoided my family, for fear of getting involved with this poor relative in the countryside. ”

Qingwan's heart was heavy when he listened, and he continued to listen: "The road of the Bai family is completely broken, and when we return to the place where we live, we discussed, and finally came up with an idea, Brother Su took me to find the house of the director of my family's capital, and in the middle of the night, he quietly entered, and sure enough, in his study, he found several letters, all of which were with my eldest brother and the medicinal herb merchant!" ”

When Lu Yanyi said this, he breathed a sigh of relief: "I don't want to believe that this is the case, but the facts are in front of me, so I can't believe it." It was they who conspired and wanted to kill me, and I handed these letters directly to the Criminal Department, and the evidence was conclusive, and finally I was acquitted. ”

"What about your eldest brother?" Qingwan hurriedly asked, "What happened to it?" ”

"When the conspiracy was revealed, my eldest brother was taken out of the house. According to the law, he should have been beheaded, but my father learned the ins and outs, and traveled all the way from home, spent a large sum of money, and finally atoned for his sins, and finally let him go. ”