Date: 212-12-16

Jiang Yanming was stunned, Fat Hong and others came and went from him, busy taking the bedding, checking the door and tea back and forth, the lights were turned off everywhere, not long, the room was dark and quiet, the bright and cold moonlight was haloed into a ball of light by the cotton paper on the window, Jiang Yanming moved, took half a step back, took another half a step, moved to the front of the kang with difficulty, sat down suddenly, hung his head, and sat for a long time before pouring back onto the kang. \[\]

Before dawn the next day, Li Danruo and Jiang Yanming had already gotten up to wash, Zhu Yi and Yu makeup packed up the outer kang and put breakfast on the table, Jiang Yanming drank a bowl of porridge and pushed it away, looking at Li Danruo, I didn't know what to say for a while, Li Danruo ate breakfast quietly, retreated from everyone, took a box and put it on it, looked at Jiang Yanming and said in a low voice: "There are 23,000 taels of silver tickets here, on the night of the inspection, my wife asked me to take out these silver tickets to sew clothes, this silver is the Jiang family's life-saving silver, and it must be used until the wife nods." ”

Jiang Yanming's face flashed with a hint of embarrassment, and he looked at Li Danruo and said, "How can I be the one who cares about the general situation?" Li Danruo lowered his eyes, and Gu Zi continued: "Do you have any plans today?" ”

"Well, I thought about it all night last night, and you said it was true, if that rumor was intentional...... If this is the case, we don't know anything now, and we don't know who is the really useful person, walking around will only be harmful, but it is better to wait and see what happens, I want to go to the prison of the Criminal Department for a day, to see if I can see the eldest uncle and them, if I can see them, it is more useful than anything. ”

"Well, that's what I thought, so be it." Li Danruo said, called into Doulu to collect the box, and ordered him to prepare to leave for the prison of the Criminal Department. Jiang Yanming then stood up, hesitated, moved half a step forward, approached Li Danruo, and whispered, "Danruo, yesterday...... I'm not, if you get angry, come out, don't hurt your body. ”

Li Danruo turned his head to look at Jiang Yanming and smiled lightly: "I'm not angry, I'm just bored and tired, besides, didn't I say it, things change with time, today is different from the past." Jiang Yanming looked at Li Danruo in a daze, Li Danruo thought about it, sighed, turned to face Jiang Yanming, and patiently explained gently: "You don't have no, don't think about it, my temperament, looking gentle, in fact, I can't be stubborn inside, my father is very good to my mother, and never wants to hurt my mother in the slightest, even when my mother was pregnant with me, he didn't touch other women, he said that if you want to be really good to my mother, you can't stab her in the heart, I have a lot of temperament with my father, and I am also a person who can't be stabbed by others, but like my father, How many are there in this world? I'm a woman, and I can only do this, no matter who I marry, but I just want a peace between the two sides, the responsibility of a wife, and now in this situation at home, I am already physically and mentally exhausted, and let me do some for you, I am also tired, I can't take care of it. ”

"But two maids...... The world is ......" Jiang Yanming struggled to argue, Li Danruo squinted his eyes and looked at him and smiled: "Naturally, the world is like this, I didn't say whether you have it or not, but, although you were born as jade and I am tile, this person's heart is the same, if the world is reversed, I recruit countless talented and beautiful men to accompany me from time to time, you are a husband, can you be happy and take care of a group of talented and beautiful men for me?" Watching me rejoice in their bed, as long as I am happy, you are happy? ”

Jiang Yanming's face turned purple: "What are these words?" Outrageous? ”

"I'm just going to say it, how can you be reasonable, wasn't that the case when the empress was in power in the previous dynasty? At that time, wasn't that the world? Li Danruo looked at Jiang Yanming mockingly and chuckled: "Don't think about it, now is the time to help each other in the same boat, let's get through this difficulty first and then talk about other things, it's not too early, there are old people and children in prison, I have to hurry over." Li Danruo said, turned around and went out, put on a cloak, and rushed to the prison of the Criminal Department with food and clothing.

The women's prison is the same as yesterday, Li Danruo should go in smoothly, the nurse took the hungry and cried Brother Min and fed it, Yao Huang, Fat Hong and others were busy handing the food and clothes to the prison, Li Danruo carried a small suitcase, handed the food to Mrs. Cheng, looked around from the corner of her eyes, close to the prison fence, Mrs. Cheng was eating, her eyes were staring at the door of the cell, and she leaned over with her ears sideways, Li Danruo's voice was almost inaudible, and she said a few words about the steamed bun paper group last night.

Old Madam Cheng's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light, and she paused for a moment before she took a sip of porridge and explained in a low voice: "Don't talk about this matter to others, tell the fifth brother?" Li Danruo shook his head, and Mrs. Cheng said: "Don't mention it again, it will rot your heart, if sister, if the Jiang family can escape, it must be a blessing to you." ”

"My wife can't say that, our family is all flying and causing trouble." Li Danruo persuaded in a low voice, and Mrs. Cheng sighed heavily: "Don't talk about this, the disaster is coming, it's coming, you have to bear it, and you are not afraid, life and death are fate, rich and noble, there is no difficulty that cannot be passed." ”

"The wife said that it is very ......" Li Danruo whispered some gossip, and saw that Yao Huang and the others had put away the dishes, and then left the women's prison and went back.

As soon as Li Danruo entered the courtyard gate, Li Yuju's face was blue and gray, her eyes were red and swollen, wrapped in a gray sackcloth cloak, she came out of the gatehouse, rushed over and grabbed Li Danruo's hand, her lips trembled for a long time before she spoke: "Say you're fine, I don't see you, I'm ......" Before the words were finished, Li Yuju choked up tears and rippled, Li Danruo hurriedly helped her and said, "Why don't you go into the house and wait for me?" There is no charcoal basin in this gatehouse, so let's go in and talk. ”

"Grandma refused to go in, saying sit here, you can see it when you come back." Chunyan explained to the back, Li Danruo's heart was sour and unbearable, and it was soft and couldn't be touched, so he grabbed Li Yuju into the upper room, Wei Zi hurriedly brought hot water over in person, and waited for Li Yuju to clean her face, Li Yuju took a long breath, and then spoke: "I only heard the letter last night, and it was too late to rush into the city, and I didn't close my eyes all night, I was afraid, I rushed over in the morning, went to Jiang's mansion first, put a seal, and no one, I was frightened, and then asked Chunyan to inquire, saying that you and the fifth master returned to the Yao family of the Marquis of Weiyuan, I rushed to the Marquis of Weiyuan's mansion again, saying that you moved here, came here, and said that you went to prison, I didn't see you, how could I let go of this heart? ”

"Second sister, don't cry, I'm fine, okay." Li Danruo gently persuaded Li Yuju, Li Yuju nodded again and again: "It's good to see you, what happened to the Jiang family?" How's it going? In the future, you? ”

"I just said that I was attached to Prince Jing, but I don't have a letter so far." Li Danruo replied simply, Li Yuju grabbed Li Danruo's hand and said in a low voice: "That's a big crime!" If sister, sister can't help you, do you have enough money? If you want to dot up and down, I still have some ...... there."

"No, I have the silver, except for those bulky household belongings, the dowry has been brought out, it's okay, don't worry about the second sister, don't talk about you, I can't help either......"

Li Danruo and Li Yuju talked for a long time, seeing that it was approaching noon, if Li Dan wanted to rush to the prison to deliver food, Li Yuju said goodbye: "I won't delay you, every day or two, I will ask Chunyan to come over to listen to a letter, if you want silver, you just have to say, although it is not much, it can be of some use." ”

"I know, the eldest uncle and they are not, the second sister also has to take care of herself, and when she is busy with this, I will go to see you outside the city." Li Danruo got up and sent Li Yuju out, turned his head to look at Chunyan and explained: "Persuade your grandmother more, your body is important." ”

"Yes, Fifth Grandma ......" Chunyan agreed, and was about to continue, when Li Yuju interrupted: "The fourth sister is anxious, let's go back first." Chunyan swallowed the words, hurriedly bent her knees, helped Li Yuju into the car, saw Li Yuju and Li Danruo waved goodbye, put down the curtain, and then said in a low voice: "Uncle wants us to move out of the yard, this matter...... It can't be delayed. ”

"Let's move, let's move to the backyard of Potai Nunnery first, Master Ku Ming is a good person, let's do this is a trivial matter, we can't add thought to the fourth sister at this time, don't mention this matter again." Li Yuju lowered her eyes, commanded distantly and indifferently, Chunyan hurriedly agreed, and sighed softly for a while.

In the evening, Han Bi was wearing an indigo coarse cloth cloak, flashed along the wall to the courtyard gate, looked left and right, and gently buckled the door knocker, and after a while, the door opened from the inside, Han Bi lifted the cloak and hat back and whispered: "It's me." The woman who opened the door looked at Han Bi in surprise, hurriedly let her in, turned around and closed the door, and led her in.

Li Danruo and Jiang Yanming looked at Han Bi in surprise, Han Bi bowed his knees, put a very small burden in his arms on a few places, looked at Li Danruo and smiled reluctantly: "Our grandmother originally wanted to come and see the fifth grandmother, but she really couldn't leave, so she sent me over. ”

Li Danruo put aside the burden, there were a few red gold hairpins, pendants and a pair of red gold bracelets in the baggage, Jiang Yanming was stunned, stretched out his hand to cover the burden and was about to excuse himself, Li Danruo looked at Han Bi and said: "Go back and say peace to your grandmother for me, between sisters, I won't say thank you, let her take care of herself, the future will be long." ”

Han Bi breathed a sigh of relief, a smile bloomed on her face, and she bent her knees and smiled: "Then I'll go back, the fifth grandmother is blessed with a great life, and the great fortune is behind." Li Danruo smiled and thanked him, watched Yao Huang send Hanbi out, lowered his head and picked up the red gold hairpin, raised it and looked at it and said with a smile: "This is the year before the wedding, the three of us sisters have one branch per person, you see, in the end, it is a grown sister, although there is usually a trouble, until something happens, I have not sat idly by." ”

Jiang Yanming looked at the jewelry in the baggage, and only after a while did he smile bitterly: "It's hard to see people's hearts." ”

"Well," Li Danruo wrapped the burden heavily, instructed Fat Hong to put it away, turned his head to look at Jiang Yanming and said: "Today afternoon, my aunt sent someone over to pass on a few words, she went to the house of Lord Sun of the Ministry of Rites yesterday, and also met Lord Sun, Lord Sun meant, this matter was not put in the six ministries, I heard that it was handled by a few ministers personally, but Lord Sun meant, this matter is only afraid that it is the dictatorship of the sacred heart of the official family, let us not move around, it is harmful and useless to walk more, you also know that my uncle is now leading the Yongzhou Zhenwu Army Festival Envoy, My aunt said that she was just coming to see us, and if there was anything, she just quietly sent someone to pass the word. ”

Jiang Yanming listened intently, and Li Danruo continued: "In the morning, I asked Mama Shen to look for Grandma Lu, Grandma Lu is a righteous person, so I rushed back to find my father that day, and just sent Mama Shen back, and I also said the same thing, this matter, the whole criminal department, no one knows, and they should all act according to orders." ”

"Today, Zhu Wu looked for me, and he asked someone to inquire, and it was the same thing, and the six departments didn't know about it, it seems that ...... I'm afraid that this matter is from the palace, so I have to wait with peace of mind. ”

"Well, this case seems to have been decided a long time ago, but I'm afraid of it." Li Danruo said in a low voice, Jiang Yanming shuddered, opened his mouth, but didn't say anything, the Jiang family, I am only afraid of more than lucky.