One Hundred and Eight: The Wind
The robbery of Su Qianyao caused a lot of waves in Xunjing, a place where powerful people gathered, and even the royal family was shocked.
Some people say that it was Su Yao who offended people, which caused the trouble, and some people said that it was Ning Guogong who provoked people, naturally, it was the lord of Shuyang who provoked people.
The most serious theory spread outside is that there were many families who wanted their daughters to marry into the Sheng family in the past, but Sheng Changyu couldn't look down on them, and the county lord of Shuyang didn't give him a good face at all, otherwise how could Su Qianyao die unexpectedly?
There are also many people who say that Su Qianyao lost her virginity, and all the people who said that the Ningguo Mansion endured it, but they couldn't bear it.
After all, Su Qianyao committed suicide for this.
A few people who talked about it in the teahouse were arrested by the people of Jingzhao Mansion, and they were casually charged with a crime, and then put in prison for two days.
This kind of non-beating and non-scolding made those people no longer dare to talk about this matter.
Sheng Guizhi also talked about the truth about Su Qianyao's suicide, and everyone who listened to it admired it, and in the blink of an eye, the wind went down, and they all praised Su Qianyao's goodness.
In the eldest princess's mansion, Liu Lingtong was so happy because of Su Qianyao's death that she had to eat two more bowls when she ate, and she had a round stomach in two days.
She also found the few people who passed the word in the teahouse, but it was too unproductive, and she was scared when she went to Jingzhao Yin's Mansion, and the other ordinary people naturally knew that this was the handiwork of Ningguo Mansion, and they didn't dare to talk nonsense.
The maid came in with a bird's nest and placed it next to Liu Juetong.
"There must be such a big thing happening to the Su family, it must be a mess, right?" Liu Yingtong's words were full of schadenfreude: "That Su Yunyao used to speak disrespectfully to me in Jubao Zhai, and now she still has the face to say this." ”
Originally, the house was red, but because of Su Qianyao's death, it all turned white.
Cao Qianlian woke up, but no matter how noisy Su Yao was, she didn't come to see her, her children all knelt in the family ancestral hall to reflect, kneeling because they wanted to die, and no one let her out.
She asked someone to contact Qiu Li, the most powerful person around Su Yao, but Qiu Li only said that let her be healthy and sick, and the other lords would call the shots.
Although the current situation is not optimistic, Cao Qianlian understands that she has removed a stumbling block on her daughter's high marriage, as long as she survives this time, there is nothing to be afraid of.
This time the robbery was the head of the snake on the hill outside Beijing, and there were also reasons for the poor supervision of the imperial court, and the emperor ordered to suppress the bandits twice, and the harvest was not small, but it was not all caught in the net.
Those of them who are snakeheads are very smart, and they only gather in the mountains when they receive work occasionally, and they pretend to be ordinary people on weekdays, and they should do farm work and farm work, and they will not delay marrying and having children, and the government will not be able to find them at all.
This is also a very strange point for Su Yunyao, she has heard some about the snakehead, and her uncle Qin Xunteng also told her that everyone has to receive money to participate in this matter, unless it is the boss of the snakehead who speaks, otherwise each of them must receive enough money to help do things.
So Su Yunyao felt that either Cao Qianlian had enough money to pay them, or the boss of the snake head had a relationship with her.
The old lady has been raising for more than half a month, and her body is barely better, Qin Manhuai is seriously ill, and she has been lying in bed, during this period, Qin Manliu and Cheng Huaiyuan have barely managed the upper and lower parts of the house, but it is not a mess. These days, Cao Qianlian's children have been reflecting on the family ancestral hall, and I heard that sometimes they can't walk when they stand up.
Hearing the news, Su Yunyao only had a faint expression, their pain was nothing, what she wanted was to make everyone in this incident pay the price.
"You go and spread some news to Yingxiaju, just say that my father wants them to kneel for two months."
Lisheng didn't ask much about this errand, so he went to find Huaixiang.
This kind of thing has never been able to go out in person. Huaixiang walked around the kitchen, saw the two mothers-in-law who had a good relationship with her in the past, and talked about it, saying that she heard from Yu Hongyuan's maid, and the two mothers-in-law also talked about it when they heard it, and it happened that it was time to take lunch, and the maid of Yingxiaju really listened to the two mothers-in-law when they went to the kitchen, and Huaixiang had already withdrawn.
Back in Yingxia Residence, Cao Qianlian was furious, and he couldn't care about the injury on his head, so he fell into his job, "What does the lord think?" The cuckoo is dead, this matter has nothing to do with Yingxiaju, why do you want my Xiao'er to kneel in the family ancestral hall? ”
The maid who delivered the message said, "The kitchen man said that it may be because the five girls are resentful, so they need to chant sutras and pray..."
As she was talking, she didn't dare to say anything when she saw Cao Qianlian's eyes staring at her coldly.
"Su Qianyao, that slut died, she deserved it! It's because she didn't accumulate virtue in the past! What are my sons and daughters doing? If the lord doesn't believe it, I'll go to him myself! ”
In this way, it didn't take long for Qin Zhuxuan to get the news, saying that Cao Qianlian ran to Yu Hongyuan with the cotton cloth on her head, crying and begging, seeing that Su Yao was unmoved and made a big fuss, the angry Su Yao asked her to drive her out.
"That's not enough." Su Yunyao thought about something, "I must think of a way to make them unable to turn over!" ”
Su Yao knew that he hadn't said anything to make his children kneel for two months, so good people had to kneel for a problem, how could he bear it?
So when Cao Qianlian came over to 'Xingshi to ask for guilt', he just thought it was an excuse she came up with again, and came to fool him into soft-heartedness.
On the twentieth day after Su Qianyao's death, Su Yingxiao and his two younger sisters were released from the family ancestral hall.
I haven't slept well these days, and I haven't eaten much, most of them are some porridge and vegetables, and I can see that the two pieces of meat are all good, and the three of them are almost all thin, Su Yuyao was the richest in the past, but now she has become a hemp stick.
Cao Qianlian was distressed and let them have a good meal, and after learning that they were interceding for themselves, and killing the cuckoo to extinguish their mouths, they were relieved and said, "Mother didn't raise you in vain!" If your eighth brother is half as sensible as you, why don't you worry that this family is not in our hands? ”
Su Huiyao said, "Mother, these few times we have made a move, we have all found out the clues of that Yun Yao, if she doesn't get rid of it, how can we do it?" My daughter has killed someone after all, and I have nightmares every night, and if those officers and soldiers come to arrest me, I... Her own sister is dead, and I can't guarantee that she won't step on me. ”
Cao Qianlian touched her head, "Don't be afraid, her mother is already a wasted person, the sick man is lying on the bed, not our opponent, Mo Yao's dead girl has no brains, we don't have to be afraid, as for this Yun Yao... She's just a little girl who hasn't reached the end of her life, how smart is she, how capable can she be? Besides, you didn't kill the cuckoo, who made her die badly and couldn't survive? No one will doubt you, don't worry! ”
"But mother, I'm afraid..."
"Your mother and I have lived for decades, can you fight her as a little girl who has just emerged?" Cao Qianlian said, sandwiching a piece of braised pork in her bowl, "Eat more, see how thin you are!" ”
Most of the people stayed at Sheng's house that day to prepare for a banquet, but they didn't see the groom come back for a long time, and they didn't know what happened until Ning Guogong and his wife went out.
Qingde Houfu also went that day, so naturally he also knew.
Mrs. Qingdehou Gao came to visit Qin Manhuai, and He Nianning also came, looking at the haggard appearance of Qin's mother and daughter, it is not difficult to see how sad they are.
He Nianning brought the fruits that Su Qianyao liked very much before her death, Su Moyao has always loved to eat these pastries and fruits, but when she looked at them, they were tasteless.
"Sister Mo Yao, you have to be strong!" He Nianning said sadly, "Your sister doesn't want to see you like this, she will definitely be sad." ”
Su Moyao looked at He Nianning, her face was expressionless, her eyes moved slightly, and then she slowly picked up the fruit.
may have been stimulated by her sister's death, Su Moyao, who has always been very arrogant, now has very few words, and sometimes she doesn't answer when she asks her anything, even if she answers, she will only have two or three words sporadically, except for Su Yunyao and Qin Manhuai.
Several people are now very emaciated, unlike the children of the Cao family, they are completely hungry, they just have no appetite, they can't eat, let the kitchen do their best to make a lot of their favorite food, but each time it is a few bites, and the amount of food for the three people is not as much as one person before.
Su Yao has come to see them a few times, and he is also very haggard now, and there are many colleagues who sympathize with him, but there are also individual schadenfreude, except for saying this in front of him, the rest is not less nonsense.
When I returned home to see my wife and daughter, I was tired one by one, and my mood naturally didn't get better.
Especially a few days ago, Cao Qianlian clamored to see him for three days, begging her to release her children, and saying that his body was uncomfortable, and he had no patience for grinding.
Kang Jinglan took the medicinal herbs to Su Ning Yuan, handed them to Qiu Xia and asked her to boil the medicine, and comforted their mother and daughter, "Look away, people can't be resurrected after death, and your body can't stand it all the time." ”
Qin Manhuai smiled reluctantly, "I know you mean well, it's just..."
As she spoke, she was about to burst into tears again.
Su Yunyao quickly changed the topic and said, "What did the third lady send today?" ”
Kang Jinglan smiled lightly and said, "It's not a good thing, it's just that my mother's family has some mountain ginseng, and there are seventy-seven eighty-eight medicinal materials, I thought that you are weak now, so I sent it, but you have to take good care of your body." ”
"There is Lao Sanniang." Su Yunyao had a smile on her face, but the smile did not reach the bottom of her eyes, "If everyone in this family is like the third lady, the fifth sister will never do anything like that." ”
How did Kang Jinglan not know that this matter was inseparable from Cao Qianlian? But now everyone is scolding the rampant thieves, but no one is investigating whether Cao Qianlian hired a murderer.
A thousand words turned into a sigh, Kang Jinglan only said that they should take care of their health, and they didn't know what to comfort if they were more, this kind of thing was a hurdle for anyone to put on their relatives, if her daughter Su Jinyao died, she would be like this herself.