Chapter 14: The Sorrowful Concubine of Cui Mansion (12)
Cui Da looks like a young and greasy middle-aged man because of various reasons such as fat and puffy, cloudy eyes, and obscene expression.
He pulled out a self-righteous smile at Meng Hui, revealing a mouthful of uneven yellow teeth, and his face was shiny so oily that he could be blinded in the sun.
Before Meng Hui could come up with an excuse to approach him, he took the initiative to find him.
Cui Yuzhen and Cui Da are not familiar with each other at all, and the relationship between the two is not as close as Meng Hui's to the aunt who bought the finger cakes.
"I don't know...... I don't know what my eldest brother is looking for me? Meng Hui habitually pretended to be afraid, and suddenly thought that Cui Da didn't know Cui Yuzhen at all, and she didn't need to be too cautious.
"Well, ahem, there's something going on." Cui Da swallowed, his eyes kept glancing at the courtyard where the girls lived, and his mind was not on Meng Hui at all.
He stammered for a long time and couldn't speak, Meng Hui didn't bother to urge him, secretly rolled his eyes, and pinched his fingers to recall everything about him.
Cui Da came out of Aunt Li's belly with a roar two years after Cui Yuying was born, don't look at his huge size, in fact, he is a premature baby.
Meng Hui didn't know what happened because Cui Yuzhen had no relevant memories. But she felt that this incident would definitely not be caused by the backhouse competition.
After Mrs. Xian gave birth to Cui Yuying, her health has not been very good, and she has no intention of taking care of the house, and the affairs in the backyard have been handed over to Aunt Li to be managed by Master Cui.
Aunt Li was busy during her pregnancy, and it is very likely that she will be born prematurely.
After all, Mrs. Xian didn't even want to care about her daughter, and she had no feelings for Master Cui at all, how could she have the heart to clean up her pregnant aunt? As for Aunt Yun, she is stubborn and bronze, and she wants to fight with Aunt Li in the silver rank.
Aunt Li couldn't compete with them for favor, so she took care of the affairs of the house, and never deducted Aunt Yun on the surface, but let Aunt Yun get pregnant soon after she gave birth.
When Cui Da was about to turn one year old, the kitten-like Cui Yuzhen was born, and another year later, first his wife died, and then the Wang family entered the door.
As soon as the Wang family got married, he had the momentum of the new official to take office, first dismissed Aunt Li's position, and found a lot of reasons to clean her up, and then recorded the two concubines in their names, leaving only an embarrassing eldest daughter and an even more embarrassing eldest son to ignore them.
Aunt Li is thoughtful, for the sake of her children's future, she would rather they all get the status of concubines, regardless of whether she can raise them herself. But she knew in her heart that the Wang family was not stupid, and people would have a chance to have a son in the future, so why should they rush to recognize her son?
Therefore, the Wang family did not open his mouth to discipline the concubine, and Cui Da stayed with Aunt Li until he moved to the outer courtyard when he was ten years old.
At that time, the Wang family's own son Cui Er was five years old, and the subordinates outside the family had long been firmly controlled. arranged a few people in the outer courtyard at random, and made the stupid fufu Cui Da confused, and only knew that Yan Ruyu didn't know the book all day long.
For Aunt Li, a pair of children have been taught by the Wang family to be incompetent, so that she can't look down on her as a maid, where can there be no hatred in her heart?
And whether it is Cui Yuwei, who has the status of a concubine, or Cui Da, who has lived in the outer courtyard for five years, they have already looked down on their low-born aunts in their hearts, and sometimes, they even only think that she is a subordinate who has touched some relatives.
Cui Yuwei often asks Aunt Li to work, which is not polite at all; Cui Damo, when he didn't have any silver, he went to Aunt Li to ask for it, sometimes he took broken silver, and sometimes he used the accumulated jewelry to sell.
Aunt Li is such a son, and she often can't see each other, how can there be any reason not to be favored? Last year, I was afraid that Cui Da would be looked down upon in the college, so I cut materials to make new clothes, and sent someone to buy a good jade to play jade pendants.
Meng Hui remembered that during that time, Cui Da wore new clothes, wearing a shiny jade pendant, and walked with the wind every day. Sweep it to his waist now, huh? Why didn't he wear his most proud jade pendant?
"Yuzhen, I see that you have nothing to do all day long, just do me a favor and go to the eldest sister's yard!" After hesitating for a long time, Cui Da finally opened his mouth, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he was not very pleasant.
What does it mean to be idle? It's all about talking about heaven to death!
Meng Hui felt that he was going to be laughed at by the popularity in Cui's mansion. But what was he going to do? "Going to the big sister yard? Who is Big Brother looking for? Biqing and Bilan were sent out of the house, and there was no one there. ”
"I know, I'm not looking for them!" Cui Da pretended to be kind for a while, and he was a little impatient. "You go find something for me."
Meng Hui blanked his eyes and said, "What is it?" ”
Cui Da's eyes dodged, and he said: "It's an indigo-blue ruyi knot, with a jade pendant, and there are three tassels underneath." ”
Meng Hui's heart moved, and he immediately pursued him while he was showing his weakness. "Since it is with a jade pendant, what about the jade pendant?"
"I've found the jade pendant!" Cui Da slammed after speaking, and spit out again.
"That...... I ...... before Before, I asked my big sister to help me retype. Later...... "He thought about it for a long time, and then he found a rare excuse." "Later, when my eldest sister died of illness, I went to her yard to bring back the jade pendant."
"Then why didn't the eldest brother take the wishful knot back by the way?" Meng looked back at his face for a while white and purple, and said in his heart that he was so bold, he was not as good as his aunt and sister.
"I was ...... I still had something to do at the time, and I forgot about it when I took the jade pendant. I've been busy lately and don't have time to look for it. Cui Da seemed to be unwilling to bother to make excuses, and urged urgently, "If you want to go, you can go quickly, and find someone to send me to the hospital!" ”
Cui Da waved his hand impatiently, and without waiting for Meng to answer, he turned around and left.
"Girl, shall we go? I was a little scared. Ning Lu was timid, pinching Meng Hui's sleeve and trying to persuade her not to go. Otherwise, let's tell Mrs. Liu to go. ”
Mrs. Liu is the daughter-in-law of the porter Uncle Qin, and she often walks to the backyard of Cui's mansion to chat with people about gossip, as long as she gives a little benefit and a small favor, she is very willing to help the people in the mansion.
"Forget it, where do we have so many good things for Mrs. Liu? Go back first, you stay in the yard after eating, and I'll go with Ningzhu. Meng Hui didn't want to miss such a good opportunity.
Cui Da's jade pendant and Ruyi knot must have fallen in the bamboo forest on the night of the crime, and he only found the jade pendant that morning, but not the Ruyi knot. He had a ghost in his heart, and he didn't dare to go to Cui Yuying's yard to find something, so he found a clumsy excuse for her to go to Cui Yuying's yard to find it.
It is possible that Cui Yuying grabbed Cui Yuying from his body and held it in his hand when his head was smashed, and was later collected as a relic.
This is the most important evidence at the moment, as long as she can find it, she will have a way to borrow the sharp claws of the Wang family to make Aunt Li and Cui suffer a big loss. She believes that Wang is very willing to cherish this opportunity.