Chapter 255: Chrysanthemum Pillow (23)
Su Qianqian inadvertently learned that the reason why Su Jingbo left the Su family to live in the temple was because he missed his deceased wife, and on the other hand, because he was also poisoned by Juxiang pillow. Although Su Jingbo did not question Su Qianqian in person, the pillow was given by Su Qianqian, even the most stupid person knows that this matter is absolutely inseparable from Su Qianqian.
So, Su Qianqian was anxious, she asked the third young master of the Su family, that is, Su Jingrui, to meet at the abandoned Yuelao Temple in the mountains, which was a place where the two of them had countless dates, or plots, but this night happened to be the night of the full moon, and it was also the time when Ning Xiang practiced there.
Su Qianqian looked for Su Jingrui, originally wanting him to help him come up with an idea so that he could get rid of the matter of the chrysanthemum pillow, but he didn't expect to be ridiculed by Su Jingrui. Su Qianqian was annoyed, and when Su Jingrui was not paying attention, he stabbed him with the small dagger he carried with him, and Su Jingrui saw that Su Qianqian still had some usefulness, and did not embarrass her too much, but after pushing her to the ground, he hurriedly left covering her wounds.
Then, Su Qianqian accidentally discovered Ning Xiang, a huge spider that had been hiding behind the bushes, and under the fright, the soul actually left the body and fled for his life alone.
Seeing this, Ning Xiang had to first attach her Yuan Shen to Su Qianqian's body, driving her body back to Su's house, and then Yuan Shen left to find Su Qianqian's soul. But what Ning Xiang never expected was that Su Qianqian's soul also fled back home, and subconsciously hid in the red bone umbrella.
"In this way, the red bone umbrella should be in the Su family, why did it appear in the broken temple again, and it was picked up by the merchants who went to the business."
"I don't know about that!" Su Qianqian shook his head, "Probably after Su Qianqian was sick, the maid in her yard cleaned up her things and threw out the red bone umbrella, and was picked up and taken to Yuelao Temple, and then picked up by a passing merchant." ”
"I think it may have been Su Qianqian's own doing." Foxes don't speak easily, and when they do, what they say is the key.
"How so?" Xing Ruyi looked at the fox, the corners of his mouth went up, and a smile bloomed.
"Creatures are out of the body, and they are frightened, and there will be a certain amount of confusion or even blankness in their memory. When Su Qianqian's soul left her body and returned to Su's house to find that no one could see her, she must have been extremely frightened in her heart. At this time, she is like a young child, and she will find a place where she thinks she is safest, or where she can give her the most security. ”
"The Red Bone Umbrella!"
"That's right! The umbrella she asked for from Su Jingbo's hand, and it was naturally her beloved thing, and it was a symbol of Su Jingbo's pampering of her, so she attached it to the umbrella. But as time passed, she would gradually calm down and think. She would guess if her body was still in the Yuelao Temple, so she used the energy of the ghost to hypnotize the maid next to her, and tricked the maid to find someone to bring the umbrella to the Yuelao Temple. ”
"That's a great idea!" Xing Ruyi nodded, and at the same time his eyes narrowed: "But it seems that there are some small flaws in Su Qianqian's plan!" ”
"That's right, she underestimated people's hearts!" The corners of the fox's mouth pulled up: "The maid that Xing Ruyi is looking for must be Liu'er, Liu'er was driven by Su Qianqian's soul and found the passing merchant." From Su's house to Zhidian Town, you will just pass through a mountain forest, if you guess correctly, the Yuelao Temple is in that mountain forest. Since it is a Yuelao Temple, the location must not be too remote, at least it was originally easy for pedestrians to reach. ”
"That's right, the old temple was easy to find, and there would be passing merchants to rest during the day, so I only chose to go there to practice around the time of the child." Ning Xiang added on the side.
"There was nothing wrong with this arrangement, and there was nothing wrong with the person Liu Er was looking for, the fault was wrong, and the person Liu Er was looking for was also greedy. He was a merchant who went to a paper shop to purchase, and he happened to meet someone who gave him an umbrella and asked him to help put it in a ruined temple, whether it was a desire for money or simply appreciating an umbrella, from the perspective of a businessman, he couldn't bear to give it up.
From Su Qianqian's narration, we know that her soul did return to that Yuelao Temple, which shows that this merchant really planned to put her there at first. But in the end, he couldn't resist the drive of his heart, so he turned back and brought the umbrella out. So, there was the scene when we were in the paper shop town and she looked at Ruyi you with pitiful eyes. ”
"So, I'm really nosy." Xing Ruyi lowered his head, regretting why he was so impulsive that day.
"If you manage it, you will manage it, and you should relieve my little Ruyi of boredom." The fox stepped forward and touched Xing Ruyi's head, Xing Ruyi grimaced, and turned to look at Su Jingrui and the housekeeper, who had turned into a donkey.
"What about them? Do you let them continue to be donkeys, or change them back to their original appearance, and let Brother Su take them back to the yamen for trial."
The fox gave Xing Ruyi a look that you don't have any opinion on how to dispose of it, and Chang Tai was inclined to bring these two people back to the yamen, after all, there was still a case of the nurse being killed. If these two people have always been donkeys, the case of the nurse can only become an unsolved case.
After a little entanglement for a while, Xing Ruyi finally approved Chang Tai's plan, and cast a spell to restore the two people to their original appearance, only letting the fox brush away part of their memories, and then handed them over to Chang Tai to take back to the yamen, on the grounds that he cooperated with the investigation of the discovery of an unknown female corpse in the Su family's guest room.
Su Jingrui and Steward Su never came out of the county government again, because Steward Su collapsed the moment he saw Junior Brother Su, and told all the things of the year.
The nurse was killed by Su Jingrui, and the reason for the murder was similar to what Xing Ruyi had guessed before, because the nurse discovered the secret relationship between Su Jingrui and Su Qianqian, and also knew the truth about the murder of the young grandmother by these two. Although Steward Su was not directly involved, he was an insider.
In Steward Su's words, he was forced, because Su Jingrui, the third young master of the Su family, would actually threaten the lives of his son and daughter, and with the inducement of interests, Steward Su acquiesced to the murder. Even, when Su Jingrui murdered the nurse in the room, Steward Su also acted as the janitor and the person who helped transfer the body.
Seeing that the matter was revealed, Su Jingrui was also frank and agreed, including the fact that he went out to buy poisonous chrysanthemums, poisons, and venom to murder the eldest young grandmother, and at the same time did not forget to pull Su Qianqian, who was in a coma in the Su family, into this muddy water.
Under Ning Xiang's pleading, Xing Ruyi went to help Su Guangcai's old mother see a doctor. The old lady's illness, in the words of later generations, is terminal cancer, although Ning Xiang has been using demon power to help her maintain it, but it can't last long. Mrs. Su has reached the limit, and she will stay in the past few days.
Ning Xiang didn't say anything about this result, only said that she wanted to take advantage of the last days to accompany the old lady. She planned to hand over the Dragon Gate Inn to the young man to take care of, and when she finished the aftermath for Mrs. Su, she would return to the mountains and forests to continue her cultivation.
Su Qianqian also woke up after the treatment of Xing Ruyi, but what was waiting for her was the officials of the county government and the heavy shackles. Before leaving, she begged Chang Tai to take another look at Su Jingbo.
At that time, Su Jingbo had already returned to the Su family, but because of the torture of the toxin, he lost his original handsome face, and the whole person was like a thin dead leaf, as if it only needed a gust of wind to blow him off the sedan chair.
Xing Ruyi once offered to help Su Jingbo see a doctor, but Su Jingbo refused, he felt that it was very good now. Afterwards, Su Jingbo told Xing Ruyi that in fact, he had long known that Su Qianqian was not the real child of the Su family, nor was he the child born and raised by Master Su and his cousin outside, as his mother, that is, Mrs. Su guessed now.
The reason why his father took in Su Qianqian was entirely because of the guilt he felt for his cousin deep in his heart. The cousin was really dead, and she was forced to die by their mother, who is now Mrs. Su. The father knew, so he had been estranged from his mother all these years, because he didn't want to make the same mistake again, and he didn't want his two sons to lose their mother. But because of guilt and because he couldn't face it, he has been treating Su Qianqian as his cousin all these years and trying his best to compensate for it.
He was kind to Su Qianqian, and it was his mother, Mrs. Su, who instructed him. Although her mother didn't like Su Qianqian, she could see that her father liked it, so she deliberately arranged for Su Jingbo to get close to Su Qianqian, take care of Su Qianqian, and please Su Qianqian, so as to use Su Qianqian to win her father's heart. He also knew that over the years, Su Qianqian's feelings for him had already surpassed the ordinary brother-sister relationship, but under the instruction of his mother, in front of the interests of the Su family, he acquiesced to this development, and even deliberately left Su Qianqian to think about it, and he was ambiguous with her far or near, until he met the girl he wanted to cherish the most in his life.
It's not that Su Jingbo didn't think about completely breaking Su Qianqian's thoughts about him, nor did he not see the strong jealousy and hatred that Su Qianqian had for his wife in his heart, but over the years, he has also become accustomed to obeying his mother's arrangement, although he was very reluctant in his heart, he still indulged Su Qianqian's love for him and hatred for his wife until a big mistake was made.
Right now, he's punishing himself and his mother.
Su Jingbo said that the Su family really has a curse, but it is not the female ghost who curses them, but the ** in the bottom of their mother's heart, and the ** in the heart of each of them.
When I left Su's house, it was just in time for the winter solstice. Xing Ruyi, Siniang, and Bell sat in the carriage making dumplings, and Li Mao, who overheard it, said: "Just now, the second son of the Su family sent someone to report, saying that the eldest son has gone!" He also said that when the eldest prince left, he instructed the second prince to put only two things in his coffin, the chrysanthemum pillow that killed the eldest young grandmother and the red bone umbrella that forced him to give to Su Qianqian. ”
"Why do you want to carry these two things?" Bell asked puzzled.
"With a chrysanthemum pillow, I want to remind myself that I carry a red bone umbrella because I can't give up my wife." Xing Ruyi lifted the curtain and glanced in the direction of the Su family behind him, "If you guess correctly, this red bone umbrella was not given to Su Qianqian, but to the young grandmother of the Su family." ”
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