Qi Sanniang nodded with tears in her eyes and said, "That's right, it's the fourth young lady Luo Baishao, who died so miserably." ”

He Angelica's face turned pale, and Qing'er hugged her and asked quietly, "What's wrong?" With such a bad face, why did she mention Luo Baishao immediately as soon as she said that Miss Fourth was dead? Didn't Luo Baishao enter the palace as a mother? ”

He Angelica remembered the nightmare he had last month, and his heart was full of mixed feelings, and he also quietly replied: "I heard about it in a dream last month...... Luo Baishao died, in a military camp of Mongol soldiers. ”

Qi Sanniang also heard He Angelica's whisper, and asked with wide eyes: "That's right, that's right, how did you know, Third Miss?" After a pause, she continued, "After the slave family lives on the street with their children, they have no food and clothing all day long. Thinking of my hometown Luzhou, there may still be some relatives and land properties, my mother is the main room, and she also prepared a dowry for me, but she didn't touch it back then. I wanted to go back to Luzhou, but I didn't dare to go on the road alone, so I used all the money on my body to buy a car, two horses, and hired a coachman, and wanted to wait for acquaintances from the east and west to go out of the country, and go on the road together, but in the end it was the car of the second miss, the fourth miss and the miss Qi, who went to Beijing as a mother. ”

"Who is Miss Qi?" Qing'er asked, she had always been curious about who the Luo family had found to replace He Angelica's draft spot.

Liao Zhiyuan paid attention: "The selected mother of the Luo family died in the Mongolian military camp? How is this possible. ”

Qi Sanniang said: "It's true, they are the first batch to be sent to the capital, the carriages and horses accompany everything from simple, it is said that the Luo family in order to thank the heavens for the mighty, so they cut the use of the east and west mansions, and donated 20,000 silver for disaster relief." The carriage of the four young ladies was also prepared by the house, one for each of the three young ladies, and a few maids and grandmothers were waiting in the car, and only the person who drove the car was the father-in-law they sent. Miss Qi's name is Qi Mu'er, she is the new cousin in the Dongfu who has returned to her ancestors, and it turned out that the late old man Luo Duzhong had a good relationship with a fish girl outside and gave birth to a daughter named Luo Qiang. Luo Qiang is an illegitimate daughter, she became the outer chamber of Qi Salt Merchant, and gave birth to a daughter, Qi Muer, who is still an illegitimate daughter. ”

Qing'er listened very incredible, looked at He Angelica and exclaimed: "She is also the granddaughter of the Luo family?" Isn't that just like you? ”

"It's different," Qi Sanniang continued, "Old Mrs. Luo has always known that there is such a concubine as Luo Qiang, and she also knows the existence of Qi Mu'er, but Third Miss, your mother is from Mrs. Da Luo, and Luo Qiang's mother is a thorn in Mrs. Luo's eyes." This matter has already spread all over our Xifu, for many years that Luo Qiang has been hoping to recognize her ancestors and return to her ancestors, but the old lady did not dump her at all, and later Luo Qiang gave birth to a beautiful and pleasing daughter, and led her daughter to see her grandmother. The old lady was also reluctant to cope, saying that Qi Mu'er couldn't talk to her about recognizing her ancestors and returning to her ancestors, since Qi Mu'er's surname was Qi, she naturally had to go to the Qi family to ask for her identity. ”

Qing'er pondered and said, "When Qi Mu'er was in Chengxu, she also gave you a stumbling block, is it because of this incident that I have a grudge against you?" ”

He Angelica smiled indifferently: "If everyone with the same experience becomes an enemy, then the person's heart and eyes will be smaller than ants, and I am not a baby bump in Luofu, why should she take me as a pawn." ”

Qi Sanniang continued: "So this time, the third lady, you went, the old lady remembered her again, and asked the eldest master to bring her over with money, worship the ancestral hall, officially recognize her granddaughter, and set off on the second day of the fourth month of April, and went to Beijing to be a mother." The slave's carriage followed them far behind their carriage, trying to be brave, halfway through, I heard them making noise in the carriage from a distance, I looked at it, it turned out that the fourth miss had a quarrel with Miss Qi, and asked the second lady's female bodyguard to tie up Miss Qi's grandmother, and the fourth miss personally hit Miss Qi with a big ear scraper, and the nosebleed on the face. The next day, I heard from the car in front of me that Miss Four's person was gone, and they frantically searched for it, but they couldn't find it, so they discussed and reported that Miss Four was infected and died of the epidemic, and her body was cremated. The second lady didn't follow, and those fathers-in-law said that if she reported another one that she was also infected with the epidemic, she would send it back to her family directly, and she couldn't renegotiate marrying her relatives, so she had to be a sister-in-law in the temple, and the second miss was so frightened that she didn't dare to say anything. ”

"And then?" He Angelica asked, "How did you meet the Mongol soldiers?" ”

Liao Zhiyuan said in a deep voice: "The million-yuan soldiers of that year have all been completed, and only a small part of the cavalry was incorporated in the northwest and northeast for the Ming Dynasty, with less than 50,000 people, and they are jointly managed by the henchmen of the saint and the king of Ning, only guarding the border, and not passing through the state and province without a will, and there can be no Mongolian soldiers in the Central Plains." ”

Qi Sanniang burst into tears again, wiped her face and said, "The next day, the carriage of the second miss and Miss Qi entered the capital, and my carriage continued north. After walking for a few miles, when they arrived at a place where there was no human population, the slave suddenly yawned and was hot and uncomfortable. Then Ma Ping'an, the driver of the carriage, showed his face as a robber, pressed the slave family and committed violence, and when he was done, he took my burden and my son, drove away in the carriage, and threw the slave family alone in the wilderness. ”

"Yawning and getting hot?" He Angelica frowned, "You have been hit with an aphrodisiac." ”

Qi Sanniang nodded and said: "I was just about to commit suicide in shame, but the fourth lady suddenly came out of the grass on the side and said that she wanted to take me back to Yangzhou. Who knew that every few miles along the way, I would yawn once, have a seizure, and then passers-by would come to insult me, and every time at this time, the fourth lady was gone, and I couldn't even find someone to ask for help. I repeated this several times before I realized that she was drugging me and asking me to work as a prostitute to earn money for her passage. As soon as she got the business, she first collected enough money, and then used drugs to fascinate me, and let those scum bully me, and she hid to the side. ”

Qing'er shuddered when she heard this, and scolded: "Luo Baishao is really not a thing, she doesn't have to pay for her own food." ”

"So I want to die again," Qi Sanniang wiped her tears, "but before I died, I had to tease her once, I found her bottle of poisonous medicine, forced her to eat two bites, and pushed her onto the road." After a while, a canopy carriage came, and the coachman told her to give way, but she smiled and undressed, and the coachman asked the master what was going on. The master inside got out of the car, it was an extremely handsome young man, and suddenly said that she looked familiar. The man's entourage said that she was the fourth lady of the Luo family, and she had seen her in Luofu once, and last time she also used poison powder as a toy and drugged her own grandmother. ”

Why should Angelica frown, young man? I have also seen the old lady Luo Bai Peony, could it be that person is Zhu Quan?

Qi Sanniang's voice turned worried: "The fourth lady took herself off to only one belly pocket, and teased the young man on the road, the man thought about it and said, send it to the back." The entourage flew away with the fourth lady. When the carriage had gone, I was curious, so I looked over and looked, and after walking less than half a mile I heard the voices of a large group of noisy men, who sounded like drinking, gambling, and so on, but I could not understand a word of those words. When I walked into the field and saw more than a dozen yurts side by side in the field, the people who came out dressed as military masters were also wearing leather felt hats and curly beards, and I knew that they were Mongolian soldiers. ”

Liao Zhiyuan asked, "What place?" Where did you see it? ”

Qi Sanniang thought for a while and said: "It is on the edge of the official road to the northwest of the capital, less than a hundred miles away from the capital. ”

Qing'er was very concerned about Luo Baishao's fate and asked, "How did Luo Baishao die?" ”

"How else can you die, kill you alive," Qi Sanniang's face showed a little frightened, "I heard the voice of the fourth lady coming from one of the yurts, crying worse than killing a pig, I already know that it is not good." Those Mongolian soldiers patrolled back and forth on both ends of the road, I hid in the grass and didn't dare to go out, and I heard the fourth lady crying and scolding all night, scolding the Mongolian soldiers, scolding the old lady and the second old man and the second wife, scolding me, scolding Miss Chai, and scolding the third miss you. ”

Qing'er said angrily: "Why did Luo Baishao scold her? ”

Qi Sanniang wiped her tears and shook her head: "Before people die, they have to complain to Lord Yan, and they don't bring everything that Su Ri doesn't like." She scolded Qi Mu'er for tricking her into getting out of the carriage, scolded the third young lady for seducing the young master of the Feng family, and scolded the second young master Guan for being useless, even the third young lady couldn't subdue you as a weak woman. After a while, the naked soldier came out of the tent and threw something into the grass, and I fixed my eyes on it, and it was a human hand, broken alive. Then he threw another hand, foot, and arm one after another, and finally the head rolled to my feet, and I saw that it was the head of the fourth lady, with no hair on it, no scalp, and stared at me with blood and tears, and I fainted with fright. When I woke up the next day, the barracks had been pulled out and left, and I picked up a few grains of silver in that field, and used the silver as a plate to entangle Luzhou. ”

The four of them were silent for a while, Qing'er shuddered and shrunk into a small ball, holding her brother's arm with one hand, grabbing He Angelica with the other and shaking, pleading: "Let's stop running around, let's go back to the boat to be safe, let's go back, call Meng Xuan as a bodyguard." "In ancient times, there was no law and order at all, and human life was not taken seriously!

Liao Zhiyuan glanced at He Angelica and asked Luo Baishao what outsiders were present when she took the poison powder medicine to her grandmother. He Angelica thought about it for a while, and told him in the smallest volume that there were two friends of the young master of the Cao Gang, Fengyang, who had been guests in Luofu for a while, and later according to his uncle Lu Jiangbei, one of those two was King Ning. Liao Zhiyuan's face suddenly turned solemn, and he clenched his fist under his sleeve.

Qi Sanniang hurriedly begged for help: "Third Miss, don't go anywhere, take care of me, now I have no relatives, only you are an acquaintance!" ”

He Angelica asked her: "Haven't you returned to your hometown, doesn't the family care about you?" ”

Qi Sanniang whimpered and said, "After hearing about what happened to me, my father gave me a hundred taels of silver, severed the father-daughter relationship, and drove him out of the house with a stick." I took the money and bought a courtyard house in the local area, hoping to open another tofu workshop. After settling down, I was worried about my young son, and went to the yamen to report to the officials, only to learn that the government had just intercepted a batch of abducted children, including my son. ”

"Amitabha," Qing'er Qi said, "the lost child was so easily recovered?" That's great! But why don't you live a good life and become beggars again? ”

Qi Sanniang cried: "In the county office, I said the birthmark characteristics on my son's body, and the enthronement procedures brought back my son, who knew that on the second day, my son had a high fever that did not go away, and he was talking nonsense, and asking the doctor to take medicine did not work." A goddess came knocking on my door, and when I opened the door, I saw that it was the horse goddess who forced me to sell my house at a low price in Yangzhou. She asked me if any of my children were sick and if I was in a debt for my life. I listened to her accurately, didn't I just take the fourth lady's life debt, and hurriedly asked her how to save her. She gave me a packet of powder, and I gave it to my son. It's just that the asking price is very expensive, ten taels of silver a pack is not counteroffered, otherwise the heart is not sincere, it will not work if you eat it, and my family will not be able to get the money after only eating five packs, but my son's illness has not yet healed. went to ask the Qi family for it, and scolded out if the door was not allowed in. ”

When Qing'er heard this, she hated iron and said, "What kind of gods and ghosts, you even believe this?" Luo Baishao is dead when he dies, and what does it matter about your son's illness, you don't believe in the doctor but believe in the god mother, just take out a family property for nothing, you really should be scolded! If I were your own father, I would be angry with you! ”

He Angelica patted Qing'er's words and slowly asked Qi Sanniang: "You mean, your son was abducted by a coachman named Ma Ping'an, and immediately became ill after he got back, and then there was a Ma Shenpo who came to the door with an elixir and asked you to buy her medicine at a high price?" ”

Qi Sanniang nodded, and begged again: "Be merciful, my son is the bloodline of the Luo family, and the third miss, you are also from the Luo family, so send mercy to save him." ”