(Voiceover-)

Lin Chen looked at the Taoist priest, then at Xu Aqi, and said with a smile: "Look, I was very popular with women in my last life!" ”

"That's it! In the neighborhood, who doesn't know that Tailor Zhao's family has a surprisingly handsome offspring! The eldest daughter, the little daughter-in-law ran to Tailor Zhao if she was fine! Do you know why Tailor Zhao's business is getting better? The Taoist priest said,

"Good craftsmanship?" Lin Chen said.

"He's a good tailor, but he's not the only tailor who has a good craft! There are more tailors with good craftsmanship! ”

"It can't be because of me, right?" Lin Chen laughed.

The Taoist priest also laughed.

Lin Chen, laughing and coughing, finally stopped, and said, "It's true!" ”

"It seems that women are more lustful than men!"

That's true! You'll find out later! The Taoist priest said.

"Back? What's going on next? Did Ding Shujiao really live with my father? Ay! I'm a priest, I'm anxious! Tell me, do they really live together? ”

"Well, we're living together!"

"In other words, that hard-working woman named Ding Shujiao has become my stepmother?" Lin Chen wondered.

"Hmmm! This stepmother finally wants your father's life! ”

As soon as the Taoist priest said this, Lin Chen was excited.

"Why? It was me in my previous life who saved her life! How could she take revenge and take my father's life? Lin Chen stood up angrily.

The Taoist priest sighed and said, "The world is unpredictable! Knowing people, knowing faces, not knowing hearts! ”

"That is, it's me! Did I bring her home? Did I kill my father? ”

Xu Aqi asked the waiter to bring tea to everyone, poured a cup for Lin Chen, brought it over, and motioned him to calm down. Lin Chen pushed the teacup away, angry.

"Why? How can this be? This femme fatale! ”

The Taoist priest got up and pulled Lin Chen back to the chair and sat down, and said calmly: "This happened a long time ago, it has really happened, and how many years have passed. ”

"But..."

"Yes! Whether you like it or not, it's already there! The fat man followed.

The Taoist priest said slowly: "Everything is a dream, an illusion!" The same is true of life, and the same is true of death! ”

"Alright! Keep talking! I want to know why! Lin Chen said.

......

(Story continues-)

The Meng family

At night, Qiu Shui'er opened her eyes.

She tossed and turned, unable to sleep, and simply sat up. It was quiet on the other side of the partition, and the second wife was already asleep. Outside the closed window, you can hear the sound of the branches of the trees blowing in the wind.

It was already late autumn, it was very cold outside, Qiu Shui'er lowered her head, covered her neckline, stepped on the smooth stone road and hurriedly walked forward, and when she walked to the backyard, she smelled the strong smell of burning.

She came to the door of a room, paused for a moment, and gently pushed the door open.

This is a Buddhist hall, and on the Buddha shrine directly opposite, there are Buddha statues, and the right side is full of tablets. In the dim light, Qiu Shui'er stepped forward slowly and stopped in front of a brand-new tablet. On the tablet, the name of the second young master Meng Jiagui is written.

"Second Young Master, I'm coming to see you!"

Qiu Shui'er groaned.

At this moment, her tears couldn't help but flow, and her heart hurt so much that she couldn't breathe.

"Second Young Master, the woman you should marry is me! In the entire Meng Mansion, except for the lord and the eldest wife, I am afraid that it is my Qiushui'er who is the most sad about your departure! I really love you! I think about you almost all the time, during the day, I pretend to be calm, I don't dare to be too sad, I'm afraid of being pointed at by others, I'm just a humble person

Girl! I cry for you every night, I love you so much, how can you bear to abandon me, marry another woman, and how can you bear to leave me! Gone so suddenly! ”

Qiu Shui'er was right, Meng Jiagui didn't expect it until he died, but his occasional abuse made this beautiful and uninvolved girl really fall in love with him, but his decision and departure broke this woman's heart. It's really ruthless, not like affectionate and bitter, and an inch is still tens of thousands of wisps.

Just as Qiu Shui'er was muttering sadly, a pair of cold hands reached out from behind, covering her mouth, and a deep voice came from her ears: "In the middle of the night, what are you doing here?" Is this where you can casually come in as a girl? ”

Qiu Shui'er was so frightened that she thought it was haunted! His legs were weak, and he almost didn't sit on the ground. When she mustered up her courage and looked back, she realized that it was the eldest lady who was standing behind her unconsciously.

She hurriedly got down and said timidly: "Big lady, the slave doesn't dare!" The slave knows her mistake! ”

Since that accident bumped into Qiu Shui'er and the second young master in front of the flower stand**, the eldest lady has paid special attention to this girl named Qiu Shui'er, she has repeatedly reminded Meng Jiagui not to associate with this girl, bad family style, loss of façade, from Meng Jiagui's disdainful look, the eldest lady understands that the second young master really did not take this girl too seriously, and she is relieved.

But she also found that Qiushui'er is not a simple girl, she is very clever, and she is by He Qingping's side, if she can be taken into use, He Qingping's scheming will not escape the eyes of her eldest wife. So, at that dusk, she called Qiu Shui'er, who came back from buying dried tofu, to sow discord between her and her second wife, Qiu Shui'er was really smart and quickly understood what Chai Lanying meant. In addition, she was also a little dissatisfied with the second wife, and the two quickly agreed to a tacit understanding.

This tacit understanding is that it will not make the second wife's life too easy.

"From the moment you entered the door of our Meng Mansion, I was very optimistic about you, and I felt that this girl was really well-behaved and good-looking, how good it would be if she was the daughter-in-law of the second young master! It's a pity that the master asked you to be a girl for the second wife, alas! I've really wronged you, but you don't have to worry too much, you just listen to me! Sooner or later, I will let the second young master marry you! ”

The insincere words that the eldest lady said out of selfishness made Qiu Shui'er grateful.

So, they had their first cooperation, and the result was the second wife's first miscarriage.

God doesn't know, ghosts don't know.

Everything was done naturally, no one doubted it, and no one found out.

Just now, when the eldest lady got up at night, she noticed a figure walking towards the backyard and followed.

Seeing Qiu Shui'er's nervous look, the eldest lady sighed, "Get up!" It's rare for you to be infatuated with our second young master! It's really distressing to watch! Hurry up! As he spoke, he leaned over and helped Qiushui'er up.

"Big lady, the slave just misses the second young master too much!"

"I know it all! The second young master has a spirit in the sky, and with your infatuation, he should be content! ”

The eldest lady looked out the window, turned her head and said, "I don't blame you, it's getting late, you hurry back to your room to rest, you and I are here, it's not good for others to see it!" ”

"Slave understands!"

With that, the two went back to their rooms.

A few more days passed.

On this day, Liu Peizhu, as usual, was sitting in her room combing her hair, when she heard someone outside shouting: "Oh no! Come on! Oh no! Come on! When I went out, I saw that people were running towards the house where He Qingping lived.

Chunying came to Mengfu with Peizhu, and at this time she was carrying a basin and ran back from outside in ignorance.

"What's wrong?" Liu Peizhu asked.

Chunying said with a panicked expression: "The second wife suddenly bleeds heavily!" ”

He Qingping

Massive hemorrhage!

Hearing this news, Liu Peizhu's heart trembled, she knew that although this woman named He Qingping was Meng Xichang's second wife, her status in the Meng family did not seem to be as simple as a concubine, as far as Liu Peizhu's observation was concerned, her position should be harder than that of the eldest wife, the reason was very simple, she was favored by the master, and now that the second young master is dead, Ding Shujiao's whereabouts are unknown, there is no one in the Meng family, and the child in the second wife's belly has become the hope of the master, the hope of the Meng family, she is naturally more favored, it seems that the Meng family is up and down, Except for Meng Xichang, it's her.

"Then, let's go over and have a look!" Liu Peizhu said.

"Hmmm! Just now, the old mother in the courtyard asked me to go and get the pot, saying that I would wait for it! ”

"Call you?"

"Hmm!"

"Then don't be in a daze, I'll go with you!" Liu Peizhu went into the house to get a piece of clothing, and went to He Qingping's residence with Chunying.

Outside the house where He Qingping lived, a few people were crowded, and this family, which was not very prosperous, was even more neglected after the absence of Meng Jiagui and Ding Shujiao. The empty courtyard looked particularly bleak on this depressed autumn afternoon, and an unnamed bird was "cooing-cooing" in the trees.

Everyone seemed to be whispering something.

Liu Peizhu was about to enter the house, but was stopped by her subordinates: "Young grandmother, please stay!" The doctor was treating the second grandmother, and the master said that no one would be allowed to enter! ”

"Oh!"

Liu Peizhu stopped, looked around, and then retreated.

"Yesterday people were fine, why did they suddenly bleed heavily today?" Someone whispered.

"I heard that I ate something, and it started to be wrong!"

"What did you eat?"

"I don't know!"

"How's it going inside?" Liu Peizhu's heart rose to her throat at this time, and she asked a subordinate next to her softly.

"I don't know! The lord is inside. ”

The second grandmother can't make any mistakes! Liu Peizhu thought, she even sympathized with the old man, although the second wife and her, the second young grandmother, have not had much contact, but Liu Peizhu still feels good about her, and she knows a woman in general.

A home needs such a woman. The eldest lady is not good, right and wrong are vulgar, and she can't be on the stage, but He Qingping can. If she were a master, she would have brought such a woman home.

Meng Xichang was already haggard after experiencing the heavy blow of his son's violent death, if He Qingping had three longs and two shorts, wouldn't this kill him.

Liu Peizhu was thinking, but when she saw the door curtain lifted, the old man walked out.

"Qiushui'er? Is Qiu Shui'er there? The old man lowered his voice and his eyes were slightly red.

"Yes! Master! Qiushui'er, dressed in a goose yellow jacket, squeezed out of the crowd.

"Did you bring the meal you took from the cook to the second wife's room today?" Meng Xichang's face was pale, and a sense of anger overflowed with words.

Leng Buding heard the old man call herself, and asked the second wife directly about the meal, Qiu Shui'er knew that things might not be good, she was slightly stunned, and said with a nervous expression: "Yes, master!" ”

"Have you ever passed someone else's hand in between?"

"This?" Qiu Shui'er was even more nervous, she didn't know what was waiting for her behind. "I don't know, sir!"

"How could you not know if you have ever done it?"

"When I went into the kitchen, there were other people!"

"Who?"

"Yes..."Qiu Shui'er scanned around with a busy expression.

Meng Xichang said in a low voice: "Say! ”

"Yes..."

"Who? Just say it! ”

"There's Chun Ying'er!"