Chapter 005 Wishful Thinking

Zheng is dead?

As soon as she heard the news, Wang Qifang was stunned immediately, and an indescribable feeling surged in her heart - she died? How could she have died?

"Zheng 'died'? What disease? ”

Wang Qifang stared blankly at a corner of the study and muttered.

"Mrs. Hui, she was poisoned by snakes, and when the doctor arrived, she was already out of breath, so ......"

Seeing Wang Qifang's sluggish expression, Ziyuan was very worried, and hurriedly walked closer, gently reminded Wang Qifang's ear, "Madam, you, are you okay?" ”

Wang Qifang's appearance, in the eyes of uninformed outsiders, is nothing more than hearing the news of the death of 'mother' at the first time, and she is so sad that she is in a trance.

But Ziyuan is not an outsider, she followed Wang Qifang back to her hometown in Qingyuan, knowing the grievances and grievances between Wang Qifang and the eldest lady Wang, and she knew better that even if a subordinate of the Wang family died, Wang Qifang would be sad and sad, but this Zheng family died, she was already kind if she didn't applaud.

"I'm fine," Wang Qifang felt the breath of Ziyuan blowing on the back of her neck, and hurriedly came back to her senses, twisting her brows and asking, "What did you just say?" Medium snake venom? How could she get snake venom? ”

Although the Jingshui Nunnery is a little remote, it is not a barren mountain or a wild mountain, where are there so many poisonous snakes? Besides, the Zheng family is no matter how depressed she is, nominally she is still the housemother of the Qingyuan Wang family, but she is not in good health, so she came to Jingshui Nunnery to recuperate her body, and Jingshui Nunnery got a large amount of incense money from the Wang family, so she should treat the Zheng family well. Even if you don't offer her as a grandmother of the God of Wealth, you will never deliberately abuse her...... Well, if you don't work, you don't go out, and there are temple slave guards in the nunnery, how can you be bitten by a poisonous snake?

"The slave didn't know either, the person who came just said that Mrs. Wang had passed away because of snake venom, and didn't mention the reason." Zi Yuan shook her head, and said with some doubts, "Moreover, it sounds like the meaning of the people, as if Mrs. Wang passed away, and her bad rumors in Qingyuan were suddenly eliminated, and in addition, the old lady also let out words, saying that the Zheng family is benevolent and righteous, and wants to give her a beautiful funeral." ”

"Huh? The rumors are gone? ”

When Wang Qifang heard this, she was stunned again, she paid more attention to the deep meaning of this sentence than the news of Zheng's death, and somehow, when she heard Ziyuan's simple relay, she actually had an ominous premonition.

And immediately afterwards, I heard that the old lady also changed her attitude towards Zheng, and said that she was kind and righteous, something was wrong, very wrong.

Outsiders don't know that because of the rumors and the treasury, the old lady can be said to have a deep resentment towards the Zheng family, otherwise, she would not have sent her away so decisively. Now there has been a reversal, from resentment to praise?

"Yes, this news was sent by the shopkeeper Li of Li Kee Pawnshop. At that time, the slave maid didn't understand why the shopkeeper Li specially sent a flying pigeon to send such a message, after all, Mrs. Wang had already been punished, and the matter of Qingyuan had come to an end...... Now that I think about it, there may be some connection between Mrs. Wang's death and the disappearance of rumors. ”

As she spoke, Zi Yuan took out the flying pigeon book she had just received today from her sleeve pocket, and handed it to Wang Qifang with both hands.

Wang Qifang took the note and browsed the text above, Li Da's shopkeeper's words were very concise, only six words, 'rumors are scattered, things change'.

"Things have changed? What's up? Does it mean that Zheng's reputation has reversed, or does it imply that there has been a change in his relationship with Li Jingtian? ”

Wang Qifang threw the note in the charcoal basin in the house and burned it out, and kept thinking about various possibilities in her mind.

"Madam, the person who came is still waiting outside to see you, saying that Master Wang still has something to tell you!"

Seeing Wang Qifang's eyes squinting and falling into deep thought, Zi Yuan thought that there was still something to do outside, so he hurriedly reminded him.

"Oh? My father still has an explanation? ”

When Wang Qifang mentioned this father, a cold light flashed in her eyes, she stood up and said coldly, "Okay, then let's go and listen, what instructions does Master Wang have!" ”

is different from Wang Jinyu, Wang Qifang just learned that her mother was killed by her father who changed her mind, if it weren't for Wang Jinyu pulling her to death, saying that she already had a way to avenge her mother, she would have been unable to help but kill her father.

Although she has never seen the Li family, Wang Qifang can taste the strong maternal love from the Li family's careful arrangement, as well as the endless regret of not being able to accompany her daughter to grow up in person, to be honest, as early as when she got the life-saving treasure box, Wang Qifang had already regarded the Li family as her mother.

That day, she suddenly heard that her mother's death had another hidden secret, and it had something to do with Wang Mingchuan, and an uncontrollable impulse welled up in her heart - revenge, revenge, revenge!

After Wang Jinyu's repeated persuasion, Wang Qifang finally gave up her plan to take revenge with her own hands, but she couldn't face Wang Mingchuan normally, let alone guarantee whether she could still keep her sanity when she saw this dear 'father'.

In fact, Wang Mingchuan's order was very simple, there was only one sentence, ordering Wang Qifang to return to Qingyuan for funeral.

Yes, although Zheng is a stepmother, although she made a mistake, although she is sorry for Wang Qifang, but in the final analysis, she is still her nominal mother, and now that her mother has died, how can she, a daughter, not go back to mourn?

"Okay, I know, I'll leave for Qingyuan tomorrow!"

After listening to the person's relay, Wang Qifang nodded and said lightly.

"If Miss Seven doesn't have any other instructions, the little one will retire!"

The one who came to Peach Blossom Island to report was a second-class member of the Wang family, and he was also the son of the Wang family, and he was very clear about the grievances between the eldest wife and the seventh lady. To tell the truth, when he first received the errand, he was really a little apprehensive in his heart, well, after listening to the master's instructions, would the seventh lady find trouble with him, the messenger, because he was uncomfortable?

Now seeing that the seventh lady looked indifferent and spoke politely, the little family finally settled down, and when he heard Wang Qifang happily agree to go home, he didn't wait for Wang Qifang to send someone to send him, and he was busy giving gifts to retire.

"Well, Aster, send off!"

Wang Qifang was thinking about other things in her heart at the moment, so she naturally didn't care about Xiao Jiading's thoughts, and waved her sleeves to send away.

"Yes!"

Ziyuan hurriedly called a little girl, stuffed two coins of silver into the little family, and sent him out of Peach Blossom Island.

……

Three days later, Wang Qifang's huge carriage appeared in Qingyuan County.

"Madam, the palace has arrived, but there are too many carriages in front of us blocking the road, and our carriages can't get in."

Lei Jun was wearing a dark beard suit, a fur hat on his head, and a horsewhip in his hand, and when he saw three or four carriages parked in the alley, he pulled the reins and turned back to Wang Qifang.

"Oh? Since you can't get in, I'll get off here, and you drive the carriage to the back street of the palace, where there's a corner gate, and you can go in from there. ”

Wang Qifang lifted the curtains of the car and looked at it, and then commanded.

"Yes, ma'am!"

Lei Jun agreed, jumped down from the front seat, put down the stool, and helped Wang Qifang get out of the carriage.

Wang Qifang was wearing a plain skirt, a crow's long hair was simply tied in a mourning bun, except for the pearl earrings on her ears, she did not have any jewelry on her body, and she was completely a filial daughter who returned from a long distance to mourn for her mother.

"Oh, Seventh Lady, are you back?"

The person in charge of welcoming guests at the door was the housekeeper of the Wang family's big house, and I saw him wearing linen clothes and pants, with a white cloth tied around his waist, standing outside the gate with a smile on his face. As soon as he saw Wang Qifang coming over with a solemn expression, he hurriedly bent down to meet him, and took the linen shirt from the little maid and handed it to Wang Qifang, while greeting him in a dumb voice.

"Well, did my mother really go?"

Wang Qifang took the mourning dress with her own hands, and when she saw the raw edge on the linen clothes, she fell, no, this is clearly the heaviest cut in the mourning clothes, and it is the mourning clothes worn by the son and the unmarried daughter for the father.

You must know that according to the law of the Great Zhou, a married daughter is mourning for her mother (or stepmother), and she is in mourning, that is, a linen mourning dress with a lock edge, and the service period is one year, plus the father is still there, and she can also be lowered by one level, and she only needs to serve for nine months.

However, if it is according to the 'decay', the service period is three years.

'Decay' and 'decay' are fundamentally two concepts.

"Seventh lady, hurry up and change your mourning clothes, the old lady and the old man are still waiting for you in the mourning hall."

The housekeeper didn't seem to see Wang Qifang's doubts, and hurriedly lowered his voice and urged.

"Steward Wang, this—this doesn't seem to be in line with etiquette."

If she wears the wrong mourning clothes, to put it mildly, it will only teach people to speak and make people laugh. To put it mildly, it's clear that he is cursing his father to death.

Therefore, this 'declining' mourning dress is not worn casually.

"Back to the Seventh Lady, this is the meaning of the old lady, and it is also the meaning of Princess Qi, not only you, but also the fifth lady, the sixth lady, the seventh lady and several other ladies are like this, on the basis of the original mourning, each has raised a level!"

"That's right, seventh sister, hurry up and change your mourning clothes."

Wang Fufang, who was supposed to wear a 'great merit' mourning dress, greeted her in a burlap mourning dress with a lock edge, grabbed Wang Qifang's arm, helped her put on the mourning clothes, and carried her into the Wang family compound together.

"Fifth sister, what the hell is going on?"

Slowly, the Zheng family is the stepfamily, that is, the wife is dead, there is a high hall, and the husband is still there, so it shouldn't be like this. Wang Qifang looked at the white of the courtyard and asked a little puzzled.

"Hmph, sister, you don't know yet, this is the eldest lady's 'last wish'," Wang Yufang put a handkerchief on her forehead, lowered her head, and made a crying appearance, but in fact, she leaned into Wang Qifang's ear and whispered: "If it weren't for the future of her children, family affairs, and the restoration of her reputation, how could she sacrifice herself to save Princess Qi?!"

See, I'm the married girl in the next room who has taken 'Qi Decline', and I have served three more months of mourning for no reason, you are even more miserable, you are clearly a married girl, and she was classified as an unmarried woman in one sentence, and she has an extra two years of service for no reason, and she can't get married within three years...... Tut-tut, the eldest aunt is really shrewd, and she has to be so calculating when she is dying! ”

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