Dong Lianyue hurriedly turned her head to look, and her eyelids jumped suddenly, because it was not someone else who followed her, but the eldest master Dong Wen, who also had a bad smile on his face similar to them, and seemed to be following them to eavesdrop.

He is the elder brother of Dong Taishi, the longest, and he is the patriarch of the entire family. Although he is a person with status, he is nearly twenty years older than Master Dong, but he is not very respected in the mansion.

It's just because he didn't learn well, he took the Xiucai exam when he was young, and served as a small official, and then he didn't want to go out to do things, so he worked as a housekeeper in the Taishi Mansion. But he is not a dutiful housekeeper, usually he drinks two sips of soju, and wanders around the house, and everyone he sees goes up to read poetry.

Seeing that he was holding an inch of long beard in his hand, and it seemed that he had three points of poetry, Dong Lianyue hurriedly stopped him: "Uncle, don't read poetry, we're busy, you look like you're drunk again, don't follow us!" ”

Yu Wenzao also chimed in: "Yes, what if you burp and go crazy, and we are discovered?" ”

When the eldest old man Dong asked, his eyes were drunk, he tilted his head and smiled: "A glass of peach and plum spring breeze wine, just two taels of sweet sorghum, drunk but never drunk, just slightly drunk." ”

Yu Wenzao said: "We are going to eavesdrop, since you are the elder of this family, you should go and listen openly, don't go with us!" You go openly, we go secretly, two ways in parallel! ”

Dong asked: "Don't you hear that it is better to meet by chance, do you go together?" Go with you. ”

"No way!" Yu Wenzao disagreed, and showed a selfish face, "I won't take you there!" The three of us are already very eye-catching, and with you, we will be found out if you are not even! ”

Dong Qianmo supported his forehead, this Zaojun King's loud voice, lest others not know that he was planning to eavesdrop. This Dong Mansion is open and secret, I don't know how many pairs of invisible eyes there are, and no one can overhear him if he continues to shout like this. What a more than a bad guy.

"Alright, let's go together." Dong Qianmo stopped Yu Wenzao from continuing to entangle on this issue, "Anyway, the eldest uncle is an elder, if he is really discovered, he is our talisman, and the old lady will not scold the patriarch of the Dong family." ”

As soon as Yu Wenzao heard that it was reasonable, he immediately felt that Dong Wenshi was a very useful person, so he changed his rejection and pulled him up and walked forward.

They walked too fast, Dong Qianmo and Dong Lianyue walked small, seeing that they were going the wrong way.

Dong Lianyue chased after her and shouted: "Wrong, wrong, Yiheyuan turn left!" ”

Dong Qianmo was holding his forehead again, and he was very skeptical in his heart, when they walked to Yiheyuan so noisily, would they be able to eavesdrop smoothly like the last time.

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I didn't expect to sneak in smoothly, but this time, the eavesdropping position was changed to the wall of the main hall. It's a bit crowded, but you can still stand up for four people.

Yu Wenzao complained: "Why is it such a narrow wall, what is it used for here?" ”

Dong Lianyue told him: "This is what I found when I was playing last year, and no one else knows, it may have been left empty when the house was built, so that the house can be warm in winter and cool in summer." ”

"Shhhh Dong Qianmo said.

So one old and three young stood side by side in this empty wall.

The four of them held their breath and listened to the movement outside.

First of all, it was the voice of Mrs. Dong: "The little quarrel between wives and concubines has alarmed the mother again, and the son is very frightened, please put her body first, don't worry about such a trivial matter anymore." ”

Then the old lady's cough, she coughed heart-rending for a while before she said, "I'm old, I can't control you, anyway, this family is yours, what can I say?" This is the mansion given to you by the Holy God, you are a great official, and you have the final say in this family. ”

Mrs. Dong said in a panic: "The mother is angry, the son is unfilial, which makes the mother sad!" ”

The old lady coughed again, and said while coughing: "I can't cough for a long time, and after swallowing this breath, no one will be angry with me." One day I lay down in the coffin, do you three still chase me to the coffin and let me judge? ”

Mrs. Dong said over and over again, "My son is not filial", Song didn't say a word, and Aunt Tang cried and said, "What did I do wrong?" What am I doing wrong? ”

Yuwen Zao was not enough to listen to, so he used his index finger to point out a small hole in the thin clay wall, and watched and listened through the hole.

Dong also learned from him when he asked, a little heavier, but unfortunately he broke his finger and snorted in pain. Yuwenzao let out a sneering sneer.

Yu Wenzao, although the grass grows in his head to the point of hopelessness, but he is born with divine power, and he is a person who practices martial arts, how can others learn those things that he can easily do.

Dong Qianmo frowned slightly, displeased with the two restless people. Is it okay for the eavesdropper to be a little conscious?

Fortunately, the old lady coughed loudly, drowning out the cries of pain and laughter.

However, in the main hall, Mrs. Dong, who was kneeling in front of the old lady's seat, suddenly frowned, and his afterglow also swept to this side.

The thick-leaved Yuwenzao was unaware, and the others couldn't see beyond the walls at all, let alone know that they might have been in danger of being discovered.

Yu Wenzao yawned at the small hole he poked, and when he saw the usually majestic and majestic Master Dong, he repeatedly kowtowed to the old lady, and pleaded, "My son doesn't dare, there will never be a next time, mother is angry!" ”

The old lady's face was better, but Mrs. Song's face suddenly deteriorated again.

The wounds on Song's face had been bandaged, but they still looked miserable.

I saw that she also left her seat, knelt next to Mrs. Dong, and said to the old lady word by word: "Is it bearable, which is unbearable?" For what the fourth brother did, the concubine has endured it for a long time, and last time he actually made the maid Baotong in the concubine's courtyard pregnant, and the concubine swallowed her anger and gave Baotong to him. If you still endure it this time, it is better to give him all this Taishi Mansion, and it will be clean! ”

Yu Wenzao inquired curiously: "Who is her fourth brother?" ”

Dong Qianmo and Dong ignored Dong when he asked, and Dong Lianyue quietly told him: "It's our fourth uncle, my father's fourth brother, Dong Badou." ”

"Oh, it's that drunken Qinglou," Yu Wenzao also lowered his voice and said, "Dong Badou, who fought with the National People's Congress for an Oiran, it turned out that he was the younger brother of the Taishi, I heard that he was demoted to Jiangzhou to manage the river, and the two carriages took away the fourteen concubines, but I didn't expect that there was also his sister-in-law's maid among them, who was really romantic." ”

Dong Qianmo said: "Silence." ”

Regarding that Dong Badou, Dong Qianmo has also heard of it, and it is said that he is a very talented and profligate person. The emperor valued his talent, and in order to sharpen his temperament, he demoted him out of Beijing several times, and when the court encountered problems such as weather and water conservancy, and there was no reliable person to preside over it, he would call him back.

However, this person is talented, not very reliable, every time the emperor entrusts him with a heavy task, he does a good job in the first half, and in the second half he deserts and drinks a flower wine, and finally messes things up, which makes Long Yan angry, and wants to cut off the head of this lazy man several times, and considering the rarity of talents, he finally didn't cut it.

This person is also very lustful, relying on his natural good skin, and once seduced the female official next to Princess Zhaoyang, which made the princess unhappy and entered the palace to complain to the emperor. Everyone else thought that Dong Badou was dead this time, but they didn't expect that the emperor still didn't behead him, and the official was demoted to three levels.

It is a miracle that such a lazy geek is the younger brother of a meticulous and middle-of-the-road person like Dong Sanbian.

But at this moment, the most curious thing about the four people in the wall is that the Song family noisily scolded Aunt Tang as a "faceless slut" before, saying that she was not pregnant with the son of the Taishi in her belly, and she gambled on the position of the wife, and she also wanted the Taishi to chase Aunt Tang out of the house.

Later, the Song family didn't know what to show to Mrs. Dong, and even Mrs. Dong changed his face, calling Aunt Tang a "shameless slut", and no longer had a trace of pity for her.

According to this inference, Taishi Dong had already believed Song's words and felt that Aunt Tang's child was not his.

Why did he run in front of the old lady now, instead of revealing Aunt Tang's short child, he opened his mouth and closed his mouth to say that the fourth old man Dong Badou also mentioned that he made the maid pregnant, is it ...... Could it be ......

The onlookers seemed to understand what was going on, but Aunt Tang, who was the person concerned, was still crying and asking over and over again, "What did I do wrong?" ”

Did she really not understand, couldn't understand Song's hints, or was she pretending to be confused?

Yu Wenzao quietly initiated the topic of discussion again: "Do you think that little concubine is innocent, or is Mrs. Taishi wronging her?" ”

Dong Qianmo said coldly: "Isn't your question the same meaning before and after, can the county king keep your mouth shut." ”

Yu Wenzao analyzed: "I think there is something wrong with the concubine, if I am that concubine and I am wronged, I will definitely not say a word, and I will be beaten first by picking up the person who framed me." But she didn't do anything but cry, obviously because her heart was empty. ”

Dong Qianmo said coldly: "It seems that the county king's understanding of the situation of women is somewhat biased, and the concubine room is only one level higher than the subordinate in our court." If she was really wronged, she wouldn't dare to beat her, at most she would just seek death and life. ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard Aunt Tang suddenly cry-

"Do you want to soak the pig pen? Do you want to cut it twice? I'm not alive, why am I alive? Xian Pei is gone, and I am still here to be bullied by you! I might as well go underground and find my daughter! ”

As she spoke, Aunt Tang hid her face and cried bitterly, and ran out of the main hall quickly.

The old lady was so anxious that she slapped the table in the back and scolded: "I'm still stunned, why don't you bring her back soon!" Do you want to me off too! ”

Dong Taishi and Song went out one after another, and the old lady also followed behind and chased out tremblingly, and the main hall was empty in a blink of an eye.

said that it was too late, Yuwenzao opened the wall, rushed out with an arrow, grabbed the square brocade bag on the table quickly, took out the book inside and began to flip through it, only read two pages and froze.

Dong Lianyue hesitated, and also slipped out on tiptoe, leaned to Yu Wenzao's side, crossed his arm to read the book, and screamed "ah" after just looking at it, and ran back to the wall with a red face.

Dong Qianmo saw her like this, and he didn't need to look at it to know that it was a picture of the Spring Palace.

But how could an ordinary Spring Palace album provoke the anger of Master Dong, and how could it involve the fourth master Dong Badou?

Dong Qianmo had a flash of inspiration, frowned and asked Dong Lianyue: "The painting on the painting, could it be Dong Badou and Aunt Tang?" ”

Dong Lianyue's face was so red that she was dripping blood, and she shook her head stiffly and said, "Lianyue didn't see it, the fourth sister asked the county king." ”

Yu Wenzao flipped through it from beginning to end, put the things back in and put them back in place, and then returned to the wall.

He closed the side door and replied, "The man is Dong Badou's face, and the painting is quite similar." There are all kinds of women, basically one for each picture, but I was too anxious to see it, and I didn't find the face of the concubine who was looking for death. However, there is a letter signed by Dong Badou, with the title called 'Xiao Ru Wu Ai', and the content is so sour that he loses his teeth. ”

The more Dong Lianyue listened, the more stunned she became, and she couldn't care about blushing, as if she remembered something, and hesitated to say: "Two months ago, the fourth uncle went home to live for half a month, and once I saw him outside Zhiluoju. ”