Chapter 308: Gu Shao's Calculation (II)

Facts have proved that Song Yi smiled in a word.

A few days later, Qiu Zhiyin, the only heir of the Qiu family, died violently in the room!

The cause of the violent death was poisoning.

Because Qiu Zhiyin hasn't been out recently, the number of people he can reach in Qiu Mansion is limited. So Jingzhao Mansion quickly found out the murderer: Liu Wei, the daughter of Liu Zhong, an old servant of the Liu family.

Liu Yu is not a person who serves Qiu Zhiyin closely, and she can poison Qiu Zhiyin because she was very familiar with the Liu brothers and sisters when she was a slave in Liufu when she was a child. Later, Liu Zhong made a contribution, and the family got rid of slavery and moved out of Liufu, but they still worked for the Liu family.

When the Liu family was changed, because their family was no longer a slave of the Liu family, they were not greatly implicated.

Soon, Qiu Zhiyin contacted them privately, and they still regarded it as the main thing when they remembered the old love - Liu Yu was twenty-eight years old, Qiu Zhiyin was only one year older than her, one was young and beautiful, the other was young and handsome, and they had feelings when they came and went.

And although Qiu Zhiyin can't marry Liu Yu as his wife, he may promise to give her a name.

Who wants the court to change, Emperor Xianjia personally gave the marriage of Qiu Zhiyin and Gu Tongxu - anyone with a discerning eye knows that whether the Qiu family can be preserved in the future and whether it has a future depends on the daughter-in-law's maiden grandfather! In this case, Qiu Zhiyin was afraid that he would offend his wife and would not get much help from the Gu family in the future, so he decided to draw a line with Liu Yan.

"Then Liu Yu gave him everything, this time Qiu Zhiyin said that she didn't want her, but how could she swallow this breath?" Xie Yiren took the time to visit Song Yixiao, and relayed to her the excitement of the imperial capital that was watching one after another, "It's also Qiu Zhiyin's bad luck, and those who have a weaker personality on the stall are most likely to die by themselves!" But what Liu Yu was thinking about was how to get out of this breath and then die-so although Wen Yan cried for a while, she finally agreed obediently, and promised that Miss Gu would never know about the matter between the two. ”

She sneered at this and said, "This kind of greedy and lustful man is stupid!" Although Liu Yu was a slave earlier, since her father was able to earn a break for the whole family, it shows that he is also capable among the subordinates! How can the daughter of such a person, who is nominally a slave, endure hardship? People who are more ordinary outside, I'm afraid the treatment is not as good as her! Later, she resumed her status as a good family and lived in a separate courtyard, and her family bought her a little maid to serve. Although she can't talk about Miss Qianjin, she is also pampered, how can she not hate it if she suffers such a big loss? But Qiu Zhiyin is wishful thinking, thinking that Liu Yu doesn't dare and is reluctant to embarrass him! ”

Song Yi smiled and asked, "What about later?" How did Liu Yu poison him? Listen to what you just said, Qiu Zhiyin died in Qiu Mansion, right? ”

Qiu Zhiyin only said that Liu Wei didn't mess with him, so Liu Yan said that he would finally make him his favorite snack, and he would respond. Xie Yiren showed a hint of mockery, "Liu Yu made him a pastry that didn't need to be hot when eating, according to her later confession, she said that she was afraid that the eldest prince Qiu would respond in person, and when she turned around, she felt cold and was too lazy to call the kitchen to heat it, so she threw it away directly or rewarded it to other people." ”

She sighed as she spoke, "This Liu Yu is really scheming: she not only made pastries, but also only made two pieces, and told Qiu Zhiyin that she wished him and Miss Gu a couple for the rest of their lives, and they would grow old." In fact, I'm still afraid that I'll do too much, Qiu Zhiyin can't eat and reward people alone, and he accidentally harms irrelevant people, and Qiu Zhiyin is a big thing if he exposes his flaws and poisons the immortal! ”

And after Qiu Zhiyin took the pastry back to Qiu Mansion, he didn't eat it immediately for various reasons, and it took three or two days to remember - now it's cold in the wax moon, and the pastry is not easy to spoil, and then Liu Yan's tearful eyes said, "This is the last time you will make a snack for you", so she entered her mouth with emotion.

"As soon as he entered the mouth like this, I am afraid that Liu Yu made pastries for him for the last time, not that the two would never get along with each other again, but that he was going to kill him!" Xie Yiren sighed again when he said this, "The most pitiful and innocent person is Miss Gu, who has traveled thousands of miles to the imperial capital to prepare for marriage, and it has only been a few days?" The fiancΓ© died first! I don't know how this matter will end next, but I want to care for my granddaughter, don't tell her to keep watch! ”

Song Yixiao smiled faintly when she heard this, and said: "This family business was originally done by His Majesty himself, but now that something has changed, how can Your Majesty not care?" Even if Gu Xiang doesn't mention it, I don't think the Queen Mother and Her Majesty will be cold to Gu Xiang's heart! ”

Although the design of Qiu Zhiyin this time was Gu Shao's handiwork, but killing Qiu Zhiyin must have been the intention of the Queen Mother and the Emperor!

Whether these two know the inside story or not, since they want to use the marriage to let Gu Shao look back at the Qiu family, how can they let Gu Tongxu watch over the widow?

So Song Yixiao was not worried about Gu Tongxu's future at all.

Xie Yiren didn't know it, but she and Gu Tongxu were only one-sided, and because of Song Yixiao, she didn't say a word to the other party at all, and she was just casually worried about Gu Tongxu at the moment - no matter how busy she was, she was always entangled in everything before and after the New Year, so after talking about this matter, she cared about Song Yixiao's pregnancy and said goodbye.

Three or two days after she left, Jingzhao Mansion officially closed the case of Qiu Zhiyin's death, and of course Liu Yan's family did not end well, and several subordinates of Qiu Mansion who served Qiu Zhiyin were also sold to a distant place by Qiu Shuxia and his wife on the grounds of "not serving a good child".

As for whether it was sold far away or disappeared, it is not known.

After that, Qiu Shuxia's wife Jiang entered the palace to cry to the queen mother: "The courtiers are blessed, and they have been entering the door of Qiu's house for decades, but they have never been able to continue the heirs for their husbands. It's easy to get an heir, although it's not the blood of the Qiu family, in the end, it can also continue the family reputation for my husband and wife - who wants to say that it is gone now, the courtiers and husbands are no longer in the prime of life, what will I do in the future? After the courtiers went, when they went underground, how could they explain to the ancestors of the Qiu family......"

Jiang Shi said while crying, which made the Queen Mother cry too, and now Yuguo and the others were in a hurry, so they hurriedly persuaded - some people who were gossiping suggested that the Qiu family should have another heir.

The Qiu family is now Qiu Shuxia alone, and if he agrees to this kind of problem, it will be no problem, and the Jiang family came to the Queen Mother to cry, just to express their respect for the Queen Mother.

Of course, the point is to hope that the marriage between the two families can continue.

And the queen mother agreed that Emperor Xianjia would facilitate the marriage of the two families, because it was for the sake of the Qiu family, and she would not refuse.

So wiping the days before Chinese New Year's Eve, the Qiu family once again passed the heir!

This time, the heir is Jiang's maiden nephew, originally named Jiang Zong, and later changed his surname to Qiu, and Qiu Shuxia re-named him Qiu Cihua.

Qiu Cihua is handsome, and his appearance is even higher than Qiu Zhiyin-Qiu Shuxia and his wife also took a fancy to him, so they picked him among the sons of the Jiang family.

And he has always been clean, sensible and filial, and he is also very attentive in his studies: he is only eighteen years old this year, and he is already preparing for the examination. Such an achievement is certainly nothing compared to Su Shaoge's heavenly posture, but it also belongs to the young man among ordinary people.

So for this new heir, not only the more Qiu Shuxia and his wife looked at it, the more satisfied they became, but at the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, Gu Shao nodded happily when the Empress Dowager asked whether to continue to let Gu Tongxu marry Qiu Cihua.

Since Gu Shao nodded, taking advantage of the joy in the first month, on the third day of the first month, Emperor Xianjia issued another holy decree to marry Qiu Cihua and Gu Tongxu on the grounds of sympathy for the old man and the innocent of the weak girl.

After Song Yixiao heard about it, she smiled indifferently, but also had an unreal trance: in her previous life, when she was about to escape, she gave a blow full of shame and viciousness, and let her die unjustly at the age of sixteen.

She didn't believe that Liu Yan was the real murderer at all, and she didn't even believe that she had any personal relationship with Qiu Zhiyin - Qiu Zhiyin was very hard working after she succeeded to the Qiu family, as a child of an official family, how could she not understand the importance of marriage?

And he is not Qiu Shuxia's biological son, or even Qiu Shuxia's own favorite heir, but because of the political exchange, he continued the rich career of the eldest son. This succession was also known to the government and the opposition at that time, and it was impossible to hide it when it was said that it was a kiss, if you don't clean yourself and make efforts to make progress, how can you marry a wife who is well-born and valued in the future?

Most of the reason is that the Queen Mother thinks about the Qiu family, and she doesn't want Qiu Shuxia to have a reputation for treachery, so she deliberately chose such a scapegoat, so that Qiu Zhiyin's death can't be blamed on Qiu Shuxia's head!

Of course, Liu Yan's family is not necessarily innocent - eight times out of ten. Jiu's family is indeed doing things for Qiu Zhiyin, and even running for his contact with Liu Zhijin. In this way, he was selected to be the "murderer", which is a false accusation and a mouthful.

"I really told you about it." Song Yixiao's previous popularity made the eldest princess of the Jin Kingdom and Jian Xubai very nervous, for the sake of these entertainments before and after the New Year's Festival, the eldest princess even personally entered the palace to ask the queen mother to speak, so that Song Yixiao could only stay in the house to have a baby, and no matter the palace banquet or the banquet everywhere, she was not allowed to participate, so as not to have an accident.

So on the fourth day of the first lunar month, she and Jian Xubai were supposed to visit their relatives, but Xie Yiren and his wife took the initiative to come early in the morning, saying that they were afraid that she would work.

Xu Xiswore that he had Jian Xubai in front of him, and Xie Yiren entered the back hall to talk to Song Yixiao.

After the New Year's celebration was spoken, Xie Yi said, "The Queen Mother and Your Majesty really didn't embarrass Miss Gu, now this heir of the Qiu family, although I haven't seen it, but I heard my husband say that he is really a talent - the most important thing is that he was originally the maiden nephew of his cousin's aunt, but his cousin and his cousin grew up. It's much better for Miss Gu to marry him than to marry the one in front of her! ”

Song Yixiao didn't explain the inside story to this cousin-in-law, and only smiled when she heard this: "Isn't it?" ”

"But in the end, I have died a fiancΓ©, at the palace banquet a year ago, I saw that Miss Gu, the whole person lost a lot of weight, and she no longer coped with it properly at the birthday banquet of the county lord of Jinghui, and there was no sound at the whole banquet. Look at the unspeakable pity! Xie Yiren sighed again, "I don't know if it's better now?" ”

"Gu Xiang is relieved that she can always think of it, but she has never met Qiu Zhiyin in the end, but it is the order of the elders." Song Yi smiled and said, "Isn't this also the order of the elders now?" What's more, Miss Gu went north first, and her parents couldn't get away for the time being because they were the eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law, and they would also come to the imperial capital after the year to take care of Miss Gu's exit from the cabinet - when the time came, they would have to relieve her! ”

Xie Yiren thought about it, so he said other things - Song Yixiao chatted with her, but thought in his heart: "Gu Xiang is Gu Xiang in the end, this hand not only replaced the quasi-grandson-in-law he didn't like, but also put his granddaughter in a position to win sympathy, and it is too convenient to integrate into our people next!" ”

Gu Tongxu was born and raised in Hongzhou, and when he arrived in the imperial capital, he was a complete outsider.

The noblewomen and noblewomen here don't say that they look down on her, but regional xenophobia is a common thing - even if she doesn't offend anyone - but after her grandfather Gu Shao's calculations, now there are many people who think like Xie Yiren "Miss Gu is really unfortunate and pitiful", and when everyone thinks about it, their resistance and alienation towards her will naturally decrease.

Although sympathy and pity carry a condescending meaning, they are also the emotions that are most likely to eliminate distance and estrangement and bring each other closer.

- Now that this girl is putting on a humble posture again, and wants to make friends with everyone, who will refuse?