Cai Xiang is hostile to Hongdou, and Hongdou is aware of it, and tries to avoid it as much as possible on weekdays, not to conflict with her, and to tolerate it everywhere.

The more this is the case, the more Cai Xiang is domineering, letting the maids around him chew the root of his tongue, saying that red beans are not solemn in the wine shop, saying that he is singing, and actually doing some things with the guests, no face and no skin, who is the surname of the fetus in the womb, or two words.

These words were discussed by the maids and servants, and Li Qingzhao heard them, and he was not allowed to talk nonsense, and ordered him to slap his mouth, but the maid was not convinced, and defended: "I'm not talking nonsense, since she made it, why can't she say it?" ”

It was Cai Xiang's maid, Li Qingzhao couldn't control it, so he could only tell his mother-in-law.

Zhang's chest gasped, took a rattan and pumped the maid, Cai Xiang came forward to block it, and asked Hongdou in front of everyone, "You dare to swear to the sky, the fetus in the womb must be owned by the official?" ”

Hongdou burst into tears and cried, "There is only one man who has ever been an official." ”

Cai Xiang scolded: "Ridiculous and cheap, like you look, the official will take a fancy to you if he is blind?" Let's go outside for a walk, but how many men can like it? It wasn't that when he saw the mercy of the officials, he made up lies to coax him. ”

Hongdou was scolded and cried, Zhang's body trembled angrily, and ordered Cai Xiang to shut up, Cai Xiang didn't listen, the angry Zhang raised a rattan to beat her, Cai Xiang was immediately angry, and held his belly, "Let's come here, I beat the only flesh and blood of the official, and I also save worry, it's okay if it's gone, it's a hundred." ”

Zhang's angry stomping, encountering such a brutal shrew, can't deal with it at all.

Hongdou didn't know where she offended her, she just cried, and when she saw that the old lady was embarrassed, she went back to the room by herself.

It was also a coincidence that Yuanfeng came to invite Hongdou home to live again, Cai Xiang was angry, and he didn't shirk it, so he followed Yuanfeng back to Cai's house.

After Cai Xiang left, Zhang comforted Hongdou, and when Li Qing said to his face, "My son I know, he won't talk nonsense, he told me personally, you are her woman, and the fetus in the womb is also his, so it will never be wrong." You just have to rest in peace, and I'll take care of the rest. ”

also discussed with Li Qingzhao, now that the family income is low, those maids and slaves who should be dismissed will be dismissed. This is the prestige of disliking Cai Xiang's servants who are too many and have too big shelves, and they want to kill her.

Li Qingzhao knew that Cai Xiang left with only one personal maid, Qiu Xiang, and the others stayed in the Hou Mansion, so he summoned them and sent them five times each, asking them to leave on their own.

The maids and servants wept bitterly and were reluctant to leave, Li Qingzhao was ruthless, did not stay, cried a lot, and several people packed up their bags and left.

At this point, only the porter and the groom were left among the men in the family, and there was only one Cuilian among the maids, which was a lot quieter. Whether it is cooking or housework, the old lady Zhang will help, and Li Qingzhao does not dare to be idle when he sees this, and does what he can.

Cai Xiang got the news on the second day after returning home that his maids and servants were all dismissed, and he found Cai's mansion again, and jumped to his feet angrily, saying that his mother-in-law deceived people too much.

Yuanfeng said at the right time, "Since this is the case, I won't go back, Xiangye said that you can stay as long as you want." ”

Cai Xiang was also angry, and asked Yuanfeng to send a message, since her mother-in-law didn't like Xiang'er so much, Xiang'er didn't want to annoy her mother-in-law, so let Xiang'er be alone in someone else's house.

The water spilled by the married daughter, that is the Zhao family, how can they live in the Cai family? Zhang's family was alone with the children, and he would rather ask for food than go back to his uncle's house, what he wanted was integrity. Now how can Cai Xiang do this, let Li Qingzhao ask him to represent him.

Cai Xiang said: "In that family, there is her without me, with me without her, you know who I am talking about." ”

Li Qingzhao was embarrassed, "Good sister, she is pregnant with Liujia, where can she go?" ”

Cai Xiang said: "That's not the flesh and blood of officials, you can't fool me, officials like to be beautiful and white-skinned, she is like that?" ”

It doesn't make sense, Li Qingzhao was sad, and went back to report to his mother-in-law, but Zhang was also blind, and said that the family was unfortunate, and there was nothing to be done about this evil woman.

When Hongdou heard this, he didn't dare to make a noise, he cried secretly, and was seen by Cuilian, and wanted to tell the master, but Hongdou hurriedly stopped, "Don't say it, it's already difficult for the master to do it, and it's even more difficult to do it." ”

Cuilian is a subordinate, most understand the grievances of the subordinate, think at the beginning, she was married as a big girl in the room, when she got married, the old housewife confessed, in the inconvenient days of the master, to do it for her, maybe she will be an aunt in the future. For more than two years, she is still a maid.

Seeing the red beans and thinking of herself, Cuilian also cried and complained to each other without mentioning it. That night, Hongdou asked Cuilian to sleep with him and say some confidant words.

The two women shared the bed and talked to each other in the middle of the night, and then rested. Cuilian works during the day and falls asleep quickly at night. The fetus in the belly of the red bean is formed, moving from time to time, tossing and turning. In addition, Cuilian slept suddenly, swinging her hands and feet, Hongdou didn't dare to share a bed with her, for fear of hurting herself, so she got up and got out of bed and went to sleep in the maid's room.

It was this night that something happened.

said that Wang Han was innocent and died, Cai Jing relaxed, knowing that the overall situation had been decided, his heart relaxed first. Yuanfeng invited Cai Xiang back, only to be born one day, and came to cry on the second day, saying that the Zhao family's mother-in-law dismissed all the maids and servants around her, making it clear that she was embarrassed.

Cai Xiang didn't mention it, but Cai Jing thought that Wang Han still had a posthumous son in the world, this matter can be big or small, but after all, it is a variable and does not conform to history. So he summoned the black robe and said, "Wang Han is dead, and there is still a posthumous son in the world, you do it." ”

The black robe wondered, "A baby, it won't have an impact, right?" ”

Cai Jing said: "It's better to be careful, it's better to do it." Otherwise, twenty years later, another good man will come to harm us, and it will also be troublesome. ”

The black robe also said: "Indeed, there are still twenty years before the fall of the Song Dynasty, you should be cautious, and I will be her tonight." ”

In the middle of the night, the black robe sneaked into the Hou Mansion, according to the news revealed by Cai Xiang, the smallest room in the West Chamber was inhabited by red beans, so he touched it, silently, looked in through the window, and in the hazy moonlight, there was a woman dressed as a maid sleeping with her face sideways, her hair covering her face. On the head of the bed, there are a few baby belly pockets, small shoes and hats, and you know that this is a red bean.

Without delay, he took out a bamboo pipe from his back waist and blew out a puff of green smoke on the mouth and nose of the red beans, all of which were sucked by the red beans. Within a minute, Red Bean woke up from his dream, clutched his throat and coughed, rolled off the bed, and screamed in pain.

Seeing this, the black robe turned around, jumped onto the wall, and floated away.

Cuilian's shout woke everyone up, and Hongdou was the first to arrive at the scene, and when she saw Cuilian's seven orifices bleeding and her death was terrifying, she immediately screamed.

The others also arrived one after another, all of them were stunned, bleeding from seven holes, which was a symptom of poisoning and death, but no one knew what poison was in the cuilian and who gave it down.

Zhang was about to report to the official, but the red bean panicked, and begged the old lady, "If Madame really loves the child in my womb, give me some silver taels and let me leave here, otherwise, the next person who bleeds from seven holes should be me." He also said why he slept in another room with Cuilian tonight, and as a result, Cuilian died tragically, which stunned Zhang.

After thinking about it left and right, he shook his head and sighed, "That woman is really vicious, it's just that, I can't protect you, so let you go." ”