Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Back Garden is Dark and Secluded, and the Woman to be Married is Wrong
"That can't be said to be that I killed Ah Tuan......" Zhao was dying.
Shen Yuan looked at Zhao condescendingly, and there was a trace of compassion in his eyes.
Zhao's heart gradually cooled, and Shen Yuan looked at her as if she were a dead person.
This is the fourth aunt and grandmother she has never seen before...... Is she really the fourth aunt and grandmother of the Xiao Mansion who came out of the Shen family's small merchant family?
"No one has ever known that Ah Tuan was holding the jewelry I gave to Chu Lingxi in his hand before he died." Shen Yuan paced slowly and said slowly.
"I've never made a statement, even my closest personal maids, Ah Cai and Wen Zhu, I have never mentioned it. Even if the real murderer is really the person with this jewelry, he will only find that his jewelry is missing afterwards, worried about whether it will fall when he is entangled at the scene of the crime, and he will not know so surely and accurately that the earring pendant I sent out is in the palm of Ah Tuan's hand......
So...... How do you know, my young lady......"
Shen Yuan smiled slightly, squatted down and looked directly at Zhao, and said word by word.
Zhao showed a flustered look.
"Just because I helped Chu Lingxi and made her stand out on her birthday, you guys killed Ah Tuan, and then blamed Chu Lingxi and made me turn against her?"
Shen Yuan asked through gritted teeth.
Zhao's face was like ashes, "Since you have already guessed, why do you still come to ask me?" ”
Shen Yuan: "Who is the mastermind behind the scenes?" ”
Zhao sneered, "There is no mastermind, only me." It's because I don't want Chu Lingxi to marry into the Xiao family, and the prince is obviously deeply in love with you, if you turn against Chu Lingxi, he will definitely not agree to marry Chu Lingxi for you. ”
Shen Yuan didn't expect her to admit it so quickly.
Shen Yuan: "Who is that man in black?" ”
Zhao: "What do you mention him to do, it's just a negative person." After speaking, he looked up at Shen Yuan, "Are you still satisfied with my answer?" Can you take me out? I...... I want to go outside for a walk. ”
Shen Yuan nodded.
asked Zhang's mother to arrange the carriage, and Shen Yuan took Zhao away.
Shen Yuan: "Where do you want to go?" ”
Zhao: "Let's go for a walk by the river." ”
So Shen Yuan took her to the river in the western suburbs.
In early spring, the willows have already sprouted. It was very sunny at noon.
Zhao just walked with Shen Yuan.
At a glance, others thought they were just sisters walking side by side in the fields of ordinary people's homes.
Zhao: "The first time I met him was when I was 14 years old. At that time, I had just made a marriage to the eldest son of the Xiao Mansion, and I met my grandfather at his birthday banquet.
I followed my mother that day and had a few more drinks with a few young ladies, and the young ladies all joked about my relatives, saying that the eldest son of the Xiao Mansion was graceful and handsome.
I was so shy that I pretended to be annoyed and went to the back garden to let off steam.
In fact, where can it be really annoying, the foreign men are eating and drinking in the courtyard outside, and we only have the inner house girls here, and the relatives who have been booked have been ordered, and it is normal to make a few jokes.
Besides, I rejoiced in my heart, the little sisters heard right, my grandfather's husband for me was rumored to be a handsome person in the capital. Besides, although the Xiao Mansion has no power, at the same time, there is no risk in the court, and I am not a man, and it is also my heart's wish to live a stable life by relying on the shade.
This is due to the fact that I have been very clever since I was a child, and among all the granddaughters and daughters, my grandfather and father are the only ones who have doted on me. Other women's families, their mothers always hope to marry high, and they can also take care of their fathers and brothers in the court in the future. So no matter what kind of man he is, the family is the first thing. In this way, it will help the woman's family.
My grandfather chose Xiao Mansion, who has no soldiers and no power, but can be rich and stable all his life, and he is the eldest son, and he will inherit the title in the future, which shows that he really cares for me.
How can I be angry before it's too late for me to be happy?
I came out because I was so happy that I drank a few more glasses, but I couldn't hold it anymore, so I took the opportunity to walk around the back garden and sober up.
That's when I met him......"
Shen Yuan wanted to speak and stopped, but did not interrupt her.
Zhao's face flushed when he said this, and his expression was like going back to the age of fourteen.
"It was the first time I saw a foreign man, and I was ashamed and annoyed, but when he held my hand and took me into his arms, I felt the heat and security from a man that I had never felt before."
Shen Yuan: ......
Zhao: "I was very scared afterwards, he didn't leave his name, and he kept covering his face. I only guessed that he was some rich boy who had come to congratulate my grandfather on his birthday, and I did not dare to let my father and brother inquire, for if they knew that I had lost my name before I was married, they would have beaten me to death.
Shen Yuan said in her heart: "You still know! ”
Zhao: "But I can't control myself, and I often have trysts with him in the cave in the back garden......
I don't know what his name is, I don't know what his name is, he wears a mask every time he comes, I don't even know what he looks like, but I can't leave him like a demon. I only know that he is very good, and he always comes and goes without a trace in the huge courtyard, and no one has been found.
A year later, I was finally getting married.
Once, I hugged him and cried. I told him that maybe this was the last time I would meet him, and that I was reluctant to leave him, that I didn't want to get married, and begged him to take me with me.
In fact, I was really crazy at that time, how could I go, if I left, my mother, my sister will suffer. But maybe it can also be that my father and brother will die of illness when I am sick, and the Yikang Hou Mansion may not be entangled.
Who would have thought that when he learned that I was going to get married, he suddenly forced me to take the sterilization pill. And said to me viciously, don't be whimsical, An An will marry well, otherwise my entire Zhao family will suffer.
I suddenly took the sterilization pill, and I couldn't believe that the man with whom I had been skin-to-skin for a year had ruthlessly deprived me of my rights as a mother.
For the rest of my wedding days, I spent my days in sadness, despair, and anguish and panic.
On the one hand, I was sad for his indifference, and on the other hand, I was sad that I would never see him again. On the other hand, I was also scared of the upcoming wedding night.
I'm an unmarried daughter, but I've been broken. I'm afraid that my husband will find out that I am not finished, how should I explain it......
I washed my face with tears all day long, and even wanted to kill myself many times.
Finally, one day my personal grandmother noticed it, and my grandmother was shocked, and I could only force me to die, so that I did not let my grandmother tell my wife that I was no longer complete.
It's a big thing, but if it comes out, I'm going to die.
I forced my grandmother to help me figure it out. My mother has raised me since I was a child, and I can't bear to see me lose my life, so I can only rely on me. Help me secretly.
On the wedding day, thanks to the presence of my close mother, she secretly played tricks and feet in my husband's glass of wine at night, and he fell asleep after drinking.
I took him and my own clothes back by myself, disguised them as signs of happiness, and smeared them on the mattress with the blood of the sheep that my grandmother had prepared for me in advance.
My married life went well, and my husband treated me like a jewel and treated me very well.
My father-in-law is not allowed to go out all the year round, and my mother-in-law is charitable, and the things in the house are also taught to me to do a little bit.
Yet I was always uneasy.
I know that I don't have children, and as a wife and childless, what will I face? Originally, I had already thought that in two years, if I still had nothing, I would pretend that I didn't know anything, and give my husband two concubines.
Whoever gives birth to a son, I will raise him, and then find a way to go to the mother and keep the son.
Who knew that it didn't take long for that person to appear again......"
Zhao talked about this person again, but she didn't have the joyful look she had when she first met at the age of fourteen, and her tone was full of fear.
Zhao: "It was the spring of the second year when I married into the Xiao Mansion, and Mrs. Xiao Laohou was still in good health, so she said that she would come to live in the temple in Xishan for a few days. I came a day in advance. That night, I spent the night in the temple room, but he stunned my maid and took me captive to the foot of the mountain and raped me.
Strange to say, the last time I saw him, it had been a year, and he was still dressed in black and masked, but as soon as I saw him, I recognized him, and I was not panicked and afraid, but my heart was extremely excited.
He didn't say much afterwards, just quietly sent me back.
Not long after I went back, my husband suddenly fell ill and died. I became a widow.
Later, he began to go directly in and out of the Xiao Mansion. He is so good that Xiao Fu can't detect it.
As soon as he saw me, he was forced to feed me another pill.
I was still in Dai Xiaozhong when he came to me, and while he was acting with me, he told me a terrifying truth.
That is, as early as that time in Xishan, after he was happy with me, he put poison into my body, and if anyone did anything with me, he would be slowly poisoned, and in time he would die violently.
What he gave me just now was the antidote to the poison that had been put into my body.
I was shocked and heartbroken at the same time.
Although I have already paid him wrongly, my husband took me with affection, and I actually killed him!
He ignored my emotions and told me that if I did what he said, maybe one day he would be happy and reward me with the antidote to sterilization.
I was crazy to have the qualifications to be a mother, but I never thought about what would happen to me if I became a widow now.
Since then, he has often come to tryst with me.
Because my husband has passed away, and I am widowed, and I have half of the power to manage the inner house, it is more convenient to act with him......"
Shen Yuan couldn't help but sigh faintly when he heard this.
Shen Yuan: "But now that you have ended up like this, he has not appeared again since the destruction of the Xiao Mansion, and he has abandoned you?" ”
Zhao: "From the moment he forcibly took my body, one of my hearts was also forcibly taken away by him. But he may have had a little delusion about me at first, but as I grew older, I also saw it clearly and became self-aware. ”
Shen Yuan had nothing to say.
Zhao: "It's rare that the water is clear here, can you allow me to take a bath by the river?" I want to wash away this filth and clean ......"
Shen Yuan: "I understand, you just want to be a ** again, and you want to set up a memorial arch......"