Chapter XXXVIII

Speaking of sadness, Mrs. Wen couldn't help but choke up again, her eyes were already full of traces of time, and she looked even older at this time.

"Old lady, we don't ask! Don't be upset. Xia Shen frowned and waved his hand.

"I'm sorry girl, the old woman didn't help you."

"What are you talking about, take care, we're leaving."

Xia Shen couldn't bear it, although she was eager to find clues, but she couldn't see the old man so sad, so she had to exit the yard first.

"Let's find a clue again!" Xia Shen shrugged.

Su Dong said lightly: "If you touch something, you will leave traces, and then think of other ways." ”

In this matter, Ah Jing ran in a panic.

"Second master, second master, something is wrong!"

"What, the sky is falling?" Su Dong opened the folding fan and raised his eyebrows.

"No, our horses may have been given laxatives, and now they can't stand up at all!"

"No wonder this horse can't run fast in the morning." Su Dongdao.

"Second master, this must be a chronic medicine, the horse first showed uncomfortable symptoms in the morning, and then became ill."

At this time, Su Dong and Ah Jing looked at Xia Shen together, and she hurriedly waved her hand and said:

"You're afraid you don't suspect me, do you? How could I have done it! ”

Su Dong said: "Of course I know it's not you. ”

"Then why are you..."Lin Rong'er's beautiful but sour face suddenly appeared in Xia Shen's mind: "Oh yes, you suspect that it is my sister?" ”

"Hmm!" Ah Jing nodded heavily, looking solemn, but it was very funny.

"Girl, don't you think it's strange that she didn't come out to make trouble when we set off today?"

"I thought she was stopped by me last night!"

In this way, Ah Jing had no choice but to go to the city to buy horses, and Su Dong accompanied Xia Shen around Changle Village.

After about a quarter of an hour, Xia Shen and the others did not wait for Ah Jing's carriage, but waited for a team of carriages pulling goods, which happened to stop at the mouth of Wenfu Hutong.

I saw more than a dozen strong men jumping down from the carriage, and one of them shouted in a rough voice: "Come on, come on, take a hand!" ”

Soon, they carried seven or eight large boxes in groups of two and swayed through the alleys of Changle Village.

"It's the direction of the fourth family of Old Wen, second uncle! Let's take a look. Xia Shen said.

Sure enough, the group went to Wenfu.

"Old Mrs. Wen, Steward Wen, all the goods have been pulled over! You dot! The strong man who took the lead wiped the beads of sweat and said respectfully.

Old Madam Wen was still guarding in front of the spirit, only glanced at it, and then raised her hand to signal.

The housekeeper said in understanding: "Just put it in the courtyard!" A few hard work, come on, take a few to the account room to receive the reward! ”

"Old Madam Xie, Steward Xie Wen!"

After the strong men retreated, the butler had been brewing in his heart for a long time before he tentatively spoke:

"Old lady, what do you think of these visiting bills?"

"Since this is left by the old man when he was alive, and now that he is gone, then let these things outside his body go with him, and set them on fire!" Old Madam Wen said slowly.

"Never!" Xia Shen said loudly.

Scold! If it weren't for Lin Rong'er's design to drug the horse, they would have left in the carriage earlier, how would they know that Mingyue Xiangpu would still have a visit ticket.

The people in the Wen Mansion stared at the uninvited guests at the gate again.

"Why are you again?" The third son, Wen Shaokun, asked.

After Xia Shen stood still, he said: "We are still here to find Mrs. Wen, dare to ask if what is in this box is the visit ticket of Boss Wen's incense shop for decades?" ”

"What does this have to do with you? Girl, please go back, don't disturb my father's sleep. Wen Shaokun saw that his mother did not have a seizure, and his tone was not good and too tough.

"San'er, it's none of your business here!" Old Madam Wen scolded, turned her head and said softly: "This is indeed the bill for the old man to open the incense shop, girl, if you need it, just go and see it!" ”

Wen Laosi was friendly during his lifetime, especially to the guests, although he is no longer there, but Mrs. Wen is very thoughtful, and she definitely doesn't want to break his rules.

"Great, thank you old lady, Qing'er is grateful!" Xia Shen couldn't help admiring this sensible old lady in his heart.

"Girl, it turns out that your name is Qing'er, I don't know what you are asking for?"

"My mother was pregnant back then, she was killed by her stepmother, one corpse and two lives, the most suspicious thing is the box of incense sent by her stepmother, by the way, second uncle, take the incense box to the old lady to see!" Xia Shen said and took the box from Su Dong's hand and handed it to Mrs. Wen.

"What? Did this box of incense really kill people, and also kill two corpses? When the old lady heard this, she clutched her chest and said in a panic.

Xia Shen forcibly suppressed the hatred of overturning the river and the sea, and said calmly: "No! There were three lives in total, and the cause of death was all this box of incense! ”

Looking at the familiar incense box in front of her, Old Madam Wen remembered something in an instant, took the incense box with trembling hands, choked her throat and couldn't speak.

After a while, she stood up, grabbed Xia Shen's arm, looked up and down with complicated eyes, and said with a crying voice: "Girl, did we really kill someone?" ”

Xia Shen hurriedly explained: "Old lady, Qing'er is not here to make trouble today, although this incense is from Boss Wen's hand, but it is also my stepmother who spends money to do things, Boss Wen does not mean to harm people, I will definitely not blame Boss Wen!" ”

"Old man, you've been guilty for half your life, but it's still here after all!" Old Madam Wen stretched out her hands with uneven joints due to years of hard work, and gently stroked the spiritual position of Old Man Wen.

"The old lady knows about this?" Su Dongdao.

"If my wife remembers correctly, this happened ten years ago when the plague was rampant!"

"Exactly!" Xia Shen said.

"That incident happened in my courtyard back then, and it was really a sin to say!" Old Madam Wen recalled the past, shook her head and said regretfully.

Ten years ago, the plague was prevalent, and people everywhere were panicked, but Wen Shaoqing, the youngest son of Wen Laosi, unfortunately contracted smallpox, which was an incurable disease, just when they were in a hurry, one night a lame man came to the Wen Mansion, as if he was a clever plan, and knew their family affairs well.

The man promised to find someone to treat their children, but there was a condition, requiring Wen Laosi to wear a fake "evil incense" and add a musk to it with a special process.

With Wen Laosi's character, he can't do such a thing, musk will cause a pregnant woman to have a miscarriage, exchange the lives of other people's children for his own children, don't do to others what you don't want, how can you harm others if you can't accept it.

Thinking about it, Wen Laosi was in a dilemma, but his six-year-old son was very sensible, endured the pain to smooth Wen Laosi's frowning brows, and told him in a milky voice, Daddy don't worry, Qing'er must grow up quickly and help Dad earn a lot of silver, so that Dad doesn't have to worry.

Looking at the innocent child in front of him, how could Wen Laosi watch him being tortured to death by illness.

He finally lost the last shred of his reason and chose to make incense for men.

Later, the lame man hired a doctor out of nowhere, and after checking Wen Shaoqing's pulse, he left the medicinal materials and how to take it, and the child's illness was cured, but Wen Laosi began to haunt him from then on.

He wanted to know if the box of incense had killed people, but he was afraid of seeing the last thing he wanted, so he never had the courage to inquire, and finally went into the coffin with this heart disease.