Before the execution of Aunt Cui, Master Shi was told about this matter by Aunt Li in a roundabout way. Aunt Lin nervously invited the imperial doctor to wait in the wing room of the Cherished Treasure Pavilion early.

"Master, I complain that we have been hiding it from you, and I don't want you to hear it sad, originally we also wanted to turn a blind eye, but I didn't expect that concubine to live in our house, and if the two of them go on like this, sooner or later it will spread outside. So we didn't tell the master, we did it ourselves. ”

"You already knew?"

Aunt Li bit her lip and didn't gnaw, and said after a long time: "Master, except for you, who doesn't know?" If you ask Sister Lin, if she doesn't know, it's an exaggeration. Sir, you've overspoiled yourself. Think about it, you took her into the house in March, and Shaosong was born in less than eight months. ”

Aunt Lin frowned and said, "Sister, the master just drank the medicine, let's say a few words......

Master Shi lay in a chaise longue with a thick blanket covering his body, his chest slightly undulating. Seeing this, Aunt Lin felt that it was not good, so she hurriedly grated a bowl of ginseng soup and brought it to the teacher, and the moment she handed it to the teacher, Aunt Lin covered the teacher's hand.

Master Shi glanced up at Aunt Lin and understood that she was telling her not to be angry. After taking a few sips of ginseng soup, the ups and downs on his chest gradually calmed down. Aunt Lin mentioned that the heart of her throat and eyes was slowly packed into her stomach

Master Shi was holding the ginseng soup, unusually calm. After a long time, he put it to his mouth and said to Aunt Li: "The old rule of the ancestors, Shentang." There are a few fish ponds in the grange on the outskirts of town, so throw them there. He doesn't have a father or mother at home, so tell her brothers to go to the Grange to collect the corpses......"

"Master, I told her brothers yesterday that they don't want to take care of this. also said that when she was beautiful, she only cared about eating meat for herself, regardless of the life or death of her brothers, and now she has done such a thing to ruin the reputation of her ancestors, so she wants them to wipe their butts? ”

“……”

"Master, what about her children?"

Aunt Lin's heart, which had just been put into her stomach, was raised to her throat again.

"Send it to my hometown in Jiangnan, find someone who does my duty, and send a few money."

"Hey, I understand, the slave family will do these two things."

"Is there anything else?"

"Oh, no sir."

"It's okay, let's go."

"Master, then I'll go down, you can rest."

Seeing Aunt Li walk away, Master Shi said to Aunt Lin weakly, "Go and call the housekeeper over." ”

At the time of a pillar of incense, the housekeeper wore a horse coat and carried a robe, and hurried to the Treasure Pavilion. Entering the warm pavilion, he stood a few steps in front of the master with his hands down.

"Your errand is getting better and better." Master Shi said softly.

The housekeeper was so anxious that he quickly knelt down, his face was flushed, and the words popped out of his mouth: "Master, you can beat me!" Hit me! ”

"Such a big thing, everyone knows about it, do you think I'm old and confused?"

On the butler's forehead, a layer of sweat mist appeared, and he lay on the ground and said: "Master, I am a slave in the family, and you are a master all my life. ”

"What the hell is going on?"

"That day, Aunt Li brought a few mothers-in-law and said that she had a relative who came to join her, and now she was living in an inn on the outskirts of the city, so she asked me to go and greet her quickly. I didn't dare to delay, and I didn't dare to ask which relatives it was, so I rushed to the place in a panic, how did I know that my little aunt was in the house? I didn't know what was going on from start to finish! It wasn't until a few mothers-in-law wrapped the little aunt in the sheets that I was stunned, and hurriedly asked the little maids to tie up Master Wang and wrap it in cloth, throw it in the stable at home, and wait for the old man to fall. ”

"According to what you say, only these mothers-in-law and maids in the family know?"

"There should be these mothers-in-law and servants at home, and the inn outside is in Gen'er in the south of the city, and there are no people around."

"Got it, you know what to do."

"Hey, sir, the slave understands. The minions must be guilty of their crimes. ”

After the master was concerned, he lay down in the recliner and fell asleep. Aunt Lin took the time to go to the kitchen to get a plate of honey and three knives, and carried the food box to Wanying's attic.

As soon as he entered the house, he played Red Hibiscus and Qi Qiuli to work outside.

"This is the sweet bun you like to eat, I vomited when I didn't eat lunch, come and eat two pieces of grain......

Wanying pulled Aunt Lin to sit at the head of the bed, and said matter-of-factly: "Qing'er dreamed last night that Aunt Cui was strangled to death before she threw it into the pond. ”

Aunt Lin looked at Wanying suspiciously, and said, "Don't talk nonsense, she is still locked up in the firewood room, and the master just ordered her to be sent to the grange on the outskirts of Beijing." ”

"Mother, Qing'er really dreamed yesterday that Aunt Cui was thrown into the fishing lake, and her body was eaten clean by the fish in the lake."

"Nonsense, if you do this again, my mother will beat your palms with a ring ruler!"

Wanying didn't dare to tell Aunt Lin about her weird dream, but said to Aunt Lin with palpitations: "Mother, Qing'er drowned that year, it was Aunt Cui who pushed me behind my back, Qing'er may have accidentally bumped into her, she and the man said in the back garden, Shao Yang is not Daddy's child." Then Aunt Cui pushed Qing'er into the lake. ”

Aunt Lin's thoughts and eyes sank, and she said gloomily: "Sure enough, it's her." ”

"Mother should understand in her heart, right?"

"Confession is always just a shadow, after you fell into the water that year, Aunt Cui came to visit every now and then, and provoked that Aunt Gao was 'guarding and stealing' and pushed you into the water by herself, and then rescued you."

"Qing'er remembers a little when she fell into the water, and she saw Aunt Gao on the opposite side of the lotus pond, and it was impossible to push Qing'er."

"Mother knows, she won't. Although she had some discord with her mother, she knew in her heart that her mother was not sorry for her. And my mother has known her for so many years, and she also knows what kind of person she is, and her heart will not be so bad as that. ”

"Mother, there is one more thing, I listened to Aunt Li and Mrs. Li yesterday, I am afraid that I already knew about this matter, and even Aunt Gao seems to know, right?"

"How so? Family, I'm afraid your father doesn't know, and your father dotes on Shao Yang and Wanping, so we don't dare to talk nonsense. ”

"Mother also knows?"

When she came to the house, Bacheng was already pregnant with a child, and the first time the whole family sat down to eat together, she couldn't help but vomit. A woman's morning sickness will not show symptoms until she is at least half a month or a month pregnant. ”

"Mother, didn't you say that when a woman is bad, her child will vomit?"

"At that time, she was only in the mansion for the second day, how could it be?"

"I see!"

"It is estimated that at that time, Mrs. and Aunt Li paid attention, as for Aunt Gao, how did she know? It is estimated that after a few years with her sisters and sisters, she can more or less catch some clues. ”

Wanying took a cup of tea and ate a few pieces of honey. Aunt Lin saw Wanying eating, and went downstairs to work on the dowry with satisfaction.

In the afternoon of the same day, Master Shi woke up uncharacteristically calm. Let the housekeeper Lian Jin take Aunt Gao away, and from then on, she can't go out of Dongbaolou again. Wanfen is temporarily taken care of by Aunt Zhao.

The crowd was puzzled by the significance of this move. The teacher did not explain.

Without Wanyun, no one in the family came out to speak for Aunt Gao. Aunt Li, who has been getting along with Aunt Gao recently, can't take care of herself, where can she still care about distinguishing for her.

This scandal of catching rape was forgotten in the most remote house in Dongbao Building along with the crowd of people who came and went to congratulate and give gifts. Although Aunt Li was lucky not to be implicated, she was also panicked all day long and couldn't sleep at night.

At this time, there was news in the palace that Wanyun was promoted to Guiyi for more than a month, and she had to be given the title "Zhen", and she suddenly won the honor, and she was in the limelight, and she was afraid that it was also hot in the palace.

However, the tenth day is the wedding day, and Aunt Lin sits by the fire, sewing a honey-colored cotton silk bedgown in her hand, and the silver-white wrong pattern is the bamboo leaves that are cool when you see them in summer. Aunt Lin said: "Although Sujin is good, it does not absorb sweat, it is not as good as cotton silk, and it is comfortable to sleep in this at night in summer.

Wanying was comforted in her heart, but there was something else in her head: "Deyan Zhou Zheng said 'Zhen', Hengde said 'Zhen', Sister Yun's title is indeed excellent." ”

Aunt Lin didn't look up, her thoughts focused on the needle and thread in her hand, the fine and dense stitches, hidden in the original texture of the cotton silk, if you didn't identify it carefully, you wouldn't be able to see it at all.

"The word chastity is naturally a reputation for chastity and purity in temperament and tranquility for women, but if it is for men, there is an exhortation to be upright and unyielding. In the "Analects", it is said: "The gentleman is chaste but not forgiving", and Sima Qian's "Historical Records" says: "The virgin does not change the second husband". Zhuge Kongming even comforted the young lord and approached the ministers of the Zhenliang Death Festival. Wanying thought selfishly, the emperor Longen, chose the word 'Zhen' as the title of Sister Yun, I am afraid it is very useful. The so-called loyal ministers are not the two masters, most of them are beating their fathers, right? ”

Aunt Lin didn't raise her head, and said softly: "Qing'er is right, the little master who has always been promoted to the title of Guiyi, regardless of whether he has a title or not, he will always bear his mother's surname." If the emperor favors Wanyun alone, he can risk the world's disapproval to promote her. At this moment, the word 'Zhen' is given to Wanyun, which is nothing more than to let others know that this is a special honor for her, and since it is an honor, it is inevitable that it will fall into the suspicion of deliberateness, and it is deliberately like something to be seen by others. ”

"Isn't this someone else Daddy?"

Aunt Lin nodded, still buried in the needle and thread in her hand, and after a while, she said: "What worries my mother is not this 'title'. ”

Aunt Lin didn't say anything, but she also guessed eight or nine times: in the past few days, many familiar noblewomen who were destined to become more popular because Wanyun suddenly became favored, and they were eager to make friends with the mother of the emperor's new favorite concubine. But my father still refused to let go, so the people were also vague, covering it up, and only saying to the outside world that the mother of the little master of Zhenguiyi had committed an old illness, so she couldn't accept the congratulations.

Originally, such a court was crowded with people, and it was a good time for Aunt Gao to show off her power at home, but unfortunately, she was trapped in Dongbao Building, unable to get out of a single step, and no one knew what her father planned in his heart.

Thinking of this, my heart suddenly chuckled, as if something had stumped my thoughts, but I couldn't figure it out, what was it? It's obviously related to Wanyun, what is it?

Wanyun's confessional box. A thousand threads were finally found in a dead corner of memory.

"Mother, before leaving the palace, Wanyun has a box to give to Aunt Gao."

"What box?"

"It's about silver money jewelry or something."

"What do you say? Smuggling of property in the palace is punishable. Which box, you take it. ”

It happened that my father went upstairs and heard the mother and daughter talking, and when he entered the house, he said, "What kind of crime is it for?" Let's listen to it, look at the old man, the dismissed Shuntianfu Yin, who can't be decided? ”

Dad didn't hear the ins and outs, thinking that Aunt Lin was admonishing Wanying, and deliberately joked to ease the atmosphere.

Aunt Lin took out the teapot on the stove, poured a cup of boiling tea, and handed it to the teacher. said in his mouth: "The old man warms his hands, just better, why do you move around again?" Where is the case, before Qing'er left the palace, Wanyun gave a box, saying that it was handed over to Sister Gao. ”

Master Shi, you hold the tea bowl, gently lift the lid of the teacup, a clear smoke curls out, and the fragrance of tea wafts out faintly.

Wanying held the box and put it on the small table, and the master took a sip of tea and said, "Open it." ”

"Daddy, this is Sister Yun's box for Aunt Gao."

"If you are told to open it, you will open it."