In the nineteenth year of Emperor Qingxu, at the end of summer. Kyoto.

The outer gate of the Zhuang Mansion.

Compared with daily life, the outer door of the Zhuang Mansion is less noisy than in the past, and the cold and deserted gate is guarded by only an old man's family. But whenever a pedestrian passes by on the road, they can hear the coughing of the old man's family, and nothing else.

Suddenly, he saw a carriage with a blue shed parked on the side of the steps, and the butler got down from the carriage first, took the pedal from the coachman's hand, put it on the ground, and politely invited the people in the carriage to come out. I saw two people coming out of the carriage, an old man and a young man, the older man put his hand on the back of the butler's hand, lifted his robe with one hand, trembled and stretched out his legs to get out of the car, and the young man behind him carried a wooden box.

The housekeeper kept politely answering: "Old lady Bai, you take it easy." ”

The teenager who did not get out of the car also helped to carry him. When she finally got out of the carriage, the old lady stroked her beard and sighed, "Alas, why didn't you come to me earlier!" Our Bai family and Zhuang Mansion can't do it! I said that I didn't have a foreign doctor, but I didn't say that Zhuang Fu was an outsider, why did you Zhuang Fu and me become estranged! You old ladies know that. ”

The housekeeper nodded and said yes again and again. The three of them had not yet gone up the steps, and a few people rushed out of the door, and when they looked at it, they saw that it was Zhu'er, Xianglian and a few little girls, all of them with depressed faces and anxious that they didn't know how to describe it.

Zhu'er lifted her skirt, stepped down to support the old lady Bai, and said, "You can come." ”

Old Lady Bai was concerned: "How is it now? ”

Zhu'er turned her head, cried a few times, and pinched her handkerchief to cover her eyes. On the steps, Xianglian pointed to the girls and said, "Hurry up, hurry up!" ”

The girls hurriedly came down, and helped the old lady Bai for Zhu'er, and just went to the gate, they saw Zhuang Pu running out of it, panting and sweating. He was lazy as usual, and he didn't greet people politely, but accused the housekeeper Zhu'er and others: "What time is it, and you haven't invited the doctor in." Isn't it the one who has the heart? ”

The rest of the people were speechless, only Xianglian said with a bitter face: "Master, didn't you just arrive?" Which house should you go to first? ”

Zhuang Pu said angrily: "Confused things, where else can you bring, go to the old lady first!" ”

The girls hurriedly helped the old lady to go to Shouzhongju. Zhuang Pu stomped his feet and sighed, followed a few steps and dragged the housekeeper, and ordered: "You go and bring all the people from all the prefectures to Shouzhongju, the old doctor has no skills, and if you go so tremblingly, you won't see the results next year." ”

The housekeeper wiped his sweat and nodded, and when Zhuang Pu's words stopped, he ran forward, greeting everyone and running all the way when he saw it.

What happened in the Zhuang Mansion? Not to mention that outsiders don't know, even the old man who guards the door doesn't know everything.

On that day, the old man was ordered to come out to see the door, but before he could keep a stick of incense, he saw the second wife Cao Shi pointing to a group of slaves to drive out the two people with their heads and faces covered. At that moment, Cao was furious and gave a death order, so that the gatekeeper was not allowed to let even a fly in. After Cao left, the old man who guarded the door looked out through the crack in the door and saw two girls.

Those two girls are not anyone, but Yu Qi and the girl Sanxi who are Jinghua Xie.

The two of them were about once beaten, their skin was blue and their faces were swollen, they were pushed outside the door of the house, fell to the ground, and couldn't get up for a long time, but when they saw that they had the strength to get up, they stumbled to the door and screamed to open the door. Where did the guards dare to open it, only to see the two of them clapping and shouting for a while, and the people fell to the ground. Later, Cao Shi and his wife came to take a look, glanced through the crack in the door, and ordered: "Go away, don't open the door." If they call again, you will take them to the officials! ”

The gatekeeper doesn't want to find trouble, and he doesn't manage. After that, when the two woke up or died, or how they disappeared, the gatekeeper did not know. In the blink of an eye, after a long time, they did not appear again, presumably dead.

Happen. Today, the housekeeper went to invite the old lady Bai to come to the house, and the door was open for a while, but who knew that the two girls came.

The doorkeeper felt familiar, and after thinking about it for a long time, he remembered that it was the two who were blasted out by the second wife that day.

It's Yu Qi and Sanxi.

At this moment, Yu Qi and Sanxi saw the door open, and they didn't greet the doorman, but just went on a rampage. When the gatekeeper saw it, he hurriedly went to pull it, but he was afraid that someone would come in outside, so he pulled them two times and ran back to close the door, and when the door was closed, the two people had disappeared.

As everyone knows, the two of them are working hard to turn the road and run to Shouzhongju.

Just outside, they heard the old lady Bai's words, and knew in their hearts that the old lady's life was dying. However, this is not what Yu Qi cares about, she cares about someone else the most.

All the way in, bypassing the avenue to trace the trails, these paths of Zhuangfu are very familiar to Yu Qi. She stayed in this mansion for more than two years, and in order to find an opportunity to take revenge and settle grievances, she carefully observed everything; She remembered where every stone in the mansion was. At that time, Yu Qi was bent on overthrowing the Zhuang Mansion, even if he could not avenge his father and mother, he would also destroy them, so the first step in the action against the Zhuang Mansion was to find out the terrain and interpersonal relationship inside.

At that moment, the two turned a few doors, avoided a few groups of people, and approached Zhongfu.

Sanxi couldn't help but worry, and said nervously: "Girl, let's not go to Shouzhongju!" Ask the third master, he may still have some feelings to say. ”

Yu Qi snorted: "Ask who is useless." I can't let the old lady think that I am such a person, and I want to kill him, and I have to explain to the old lady. ”

Sanxi said: "But we didn't come in to ......"

Yu Qi said: "I know, it doesn't matter anymore. It's best to do it together. I got in this time by luck, and next time I won't be so lucky. ”

Sanxi had no choice but to follow and look left and right in case anyone found out.

When the two came to the outside of Zhongfu, they saw the girls and servants coming in and out, as if rushing to the market, but they were all very anxious. The two of them were afraid of being seen, so they hid in the flowers, and because they wanted to hear what the girls said, they had the courage to trot close to the old locust tree and hide behind the tree.

So, I heard two girls talking at the door.

The girl who was a little taller said: "The old lady just took a look, just shook her head, I can't see it!" ”

The shorter girl booed and whispered: "Don't say it, they will hear it later, and they will have to pick up people again." ”

The girl who was a little taller said angrily: "I'm not cursing the old lady, I'm worried about her old man!" You say, the old lady is not good on this side, but can the two sides be good? It's all the same! ”

When Yu Qi heard this, his fingers scraped the trunk of the tree.

Sanxi was afraid that Yu Qi would hurt her fingers, so he quickly held her hand.

After a while, I saw that the Dongfu trail came up and lifted the child, five or six servants carried it, Zhuang Yu helped the eldest grandmother to follow the head behind the child, and the Qin family and Aunt Xi followed crying.

The girl who had just been talking saw someone from Dongfu, the taller girl turned around and ran in to call someone, and the shorter girl walked quickly to help. They didn't stop stepping, and hurriedly stepped into the gate of Zhongfu and went inside.

After a while, Qin's cry came from inside, and after a few sounds, he heard a rush of footsteps and the panicked cries of the girls.

I only heard a shout: "My wife has fainted!" My wife fainted! ”

The chaotic sound did not stop, and a sedan chair was carried by four servants on the Xifu Jingdao, carried away by four domestic servants, and the county lord cried and cried to follow, and the girl such as Baozhu and Jiangzhu fell crookedly beside the county lord, and Zhuang Yu's girl Jin Paper held a large oil-paper umbrella to block the sun for the people on the board.

Although I looked at it from a distance, I could clearly see that it was no one else who was lying on the bowl, it was Zhuang Jue.

I saw that Zhuang Jue's face was pale, there was no blood, the hair on his head was messy, his forehead was covered with a piece of jade-inlaid forehead, he was wearing a white shirt and underwear, and his hands were on his stomach. From a distance, it looks like a corpse that has been dead for a long time.

Yu Qi's eyes seemed to be in a daze, and her eyes moved along the route of everyone in Xifu, her mouth opened wide, and her throat seemed to be stuck with fish bones, unable to pull out, unable to swallow, choked in her throat, and felt uncomfortable.

Sanxi called out softly, "girl", and Yu Qi blinked his eyes, and tears fell desperately.

Seeing that everyone was about to carry Zhuang Jue into the door, Yu Qi remembered that he should follow him to see what was going on, so he pushed Sanxi away.

Sanxi grabbed her to death, where to give her a chance to move around. Sanxi has already taken precautions.

Sanxi said: "Girl, we have to find another place to hide, if the old lady wakes up, we will beg her." In case it doesn't work well, we quietly go and pick people out. I will never enter this mansion again. Don't go out, girl! ”

Yu Qi and Sanxi pulled a few times, but was finally pulled by Sanxi, sat on the ground, gritted his teeth and held back his crying.

I don't know how much time passed, but I heard the wailing from Shouzhong Curie, and the men and women cried constantly. Yu Qi's heart tightened suddenly, his whole body was numb, and he begged Sanxi eagerly: "Sanxi, you let go, I'll take a look." Just a sneak peek. ”

Sanxi doesn't go.

Yu Qi gritted his teeth and pushed her away. Freedom, Yu Qi rushed to the gate of Zhongfu. As soon as I arrived at the door, I immediately saw a group of girls and servants gathered in the courtyard, crying and wiping tears, humming constantly. Yu Qi wanted to step into the door, but when he saw Cao walking out of the Shouzhong living room, holding a handkerchief in his hand, he pointed at the people below and said angrily: "What are you crying about!" No one is doing anything, and you cry. When something happens, you will cry. Right now, you are standing and crying and watching the excitement, so it's better to go down and do your job well! ”

Yu Qi was stunned outside the door, and heard very clearly, perhaps, the people inside were fine, but he was too worried.

The girls listened to Cao's words and wanted to disperse.

At the right time, Cao Shi looked out of the door, and Yu Qi stood there with the help of the door, motionless. This can shock the Cao family.

Relieved for a moment.

Cao's eyebrows were upside down, Yinling was angry, and he scolded with a crooked mouth: "Dead, dead!" It's all rice buckets that only eat and can't cook! You can't keep the door, what's the use of staying alive! Then he pointed to the scattered people and commanded: "Take down this thief's hoof, take her quickly!" ”

Yu Qi was panicked and in a trance, only to see the people inside turn their heads to look, and another family member came to hold her.

When Sanxi saw it, he rushed over and pushed those people away, and opened his hand to block in front of Yu Qi to protect her.

Cao Shi said again: "It's terrible, it's terrible!" Hurry up and take it! Where's the stick rope? Find it! ”

Those servants listened to Cao's words, added men and horses, and some went to find sticks and ropes. At that moment, the county lord, Zhuang Pu, Zhuang Yu, Zhuang Xuan, Zhuang Ying, Aunt Yi and others all came out when they heard the voice.

Seeing that there were all kinds of people, there must be someone who missed the old love, so he raised his head and shouted to the front: "Madam, let me go in and have a look!" ”

Cao said: "Look? What else to see! How many died or didn't die? What a vicious rotten hoof! In the past, old ladies and wives were not thin on you! And thou hast repaid it like this! ”

Yu Qi cried: "The old lady knows, the old lady knows." If you don't believe me, let me go in and ask the old lady, and let the old lady tell you. ”

Cao Shi chirped: "You have calculated whether the old lady will wake up or not, I tell you, I am in charge today, you want to have a good out!" Come on, take it! ”

In an instant, the servants formed a group of three or five, pinched Yu Qi, and pressed down the three joys. In the blink of an eye, the two were pressed to the ground.

Cao Shi walked down slowly, raised his foot and stepped on Yu Li's face, and said: "A good way for you to go, you don't want to go, now, don't blame us for not being emotional!" ”

Sanxi burst into tears and said, "If you don't look at the old lady, you won't look at it, then you will return the girl to us." We took the girl out and never came back again! ”

Cao squatted down in a hurry and slapped Sanxi in the face.

Suddenly, Sanxi's smooth cheeks were red with two handprints, and his nose was also bleeding from the palms.

Yu Qi struggled: "Mrs. wants to beat, you beat me!" It's not about the three joys! If your wife wants to relieve her hatred, follow her wife's actions, and when her wife relieves her hatred, please return Zisu to me! Let me meet Zisu! ”

When Yu Qi pleaded.

Zhuang Xuan walked down from above and said viciously: "You can't protect yourself, see her again!" He turned to the Cao family and the wives and girls behind him, and said, "We let the two of them go that day, and we came back today." It can be seen that the thief's heart is not dead. Now, my wife should not be soft-hearted, and deal with them the same way she dealt with that sub-element. lest you bring evil to other people's houses! ”

After hearing this, Yu Qi felt cold, stunned, and muttered, "What's wrong with Zisu?" What did you do with Zisu? So she struggled to get up, but the servants were so strong that they held her down, and she could not move no matter how much she struggled.

On the steps, the county lord wiped his tears, there was no pitiful expression, but Zhuang Yu stood on the side, frowning, seeing some different emotions, the aunt just looked, and the rest of the girls looked frightened; Zhuang Pu was also watching outside the door, Zhuang Qi spoke properly, he threw up his sleeves and sighed and went into the house, with a sense of being out of sight and out of mind.

Zhuang Pu went in for a while, ran out again, and smiled at everyone: "The old lady is awake!" The old lady is awake! ”

When the ladies heard this, they hurriedly turned around and went in.

Before Cao left, he said to the servants: "Tie it up and throw it in the cellar, and wait for them when I am done with this stall." ”

After speaking, Cao also went in.

Zhuang Xuan didn't leave, she saw that the wives had entered the house, and then she smiled and said to the servant with the stick: "They have a lot of cunning methods, I'm afraid that if you don't bring it halfway, they will run away with tricks!" Fight here, fight me to death! ”

After hearing this, the servant with the stick raised the wooden stick and smashed it wantonly on Yu Qi and Sanxi like a heavy rainstorm.

Sanxi Protector was anxious, and struggled to move over to block for Yu Qi, but after all, he didn't move half a step, and a stick smashed on her head.

Blood burst out in front of Yu Qi's eyes, dripping and sprinkling.

Yu Qi couldn't tell whether it was Sanxi's blood or his own blood, anyway, his eyes were red, and at the same time he felt a hot breath gushing out of his head.

Visions began to blur.

Hearing Zhuang Ju's laughter in a daze, he commanded the servant and said, "Fight!" Hit hard! Fight to the death! ”

Not long after, blood was all over the ground, and a pool of heavenly light was reflected on it.

Seeing that Yu Qi and Sanxi were motionless, Zhuang Qi asked the servants to take a break, and went to the Shouzhong House happily. and commanded that the dead bodies should be carried into the cellar.

Zhuang Xuan crossed the hall of Shouzhongju and turned into the back room.

Inside, I saw everyone gathered around the old lady's bed. At this moment, the old lady woke up.

The old lady squinted her eyes vaguely, she was angry and spoken, her voice couldn't come out, and Zhuang Pu leaned her ears to her mouth. Seeing that the old lady finished moving her mouth, Zhuang Pu repeated: "Where is the girl?" …… I want to see the girl! ”

When Zhuang Qi came in, he heard Zhuang Pu's retelling words, and quickly replied, "Sister Qi?" Just killed! Sanxi was beaten to death with her girl! ”

The old lady had just woken up, her soul had not yet been condensed, and when she heard Zhuang Xuan speak, she rolled her eyes in fright and her limbs collapsed......

For the rest, the crowd cried and shouted. Old Lady Bai was busy looking forward and backward.

You must know that there are two people next to the old lady's bed, one is Zhuang Yu and the other is Zhuang Wei, I don't know if they are dead or alive.

And among those who don't know whether they are dead or alive, there are not only those two, but three people.

At this moment, they are locked up in the Beifu wine cellar.

The cellar is where the gold paper drunken wine is stored.

The person Yu Qi and Sanxi came in to find this time - Zisu, she was only a wall away from them, and now she was dying and was pickled in the wine vat.

If only the three of them had known that they were in the same place, and that they had never died, what a wonderful thing it would have been if they had seen each other! But fate does not have such an arrangement, and what awaits them will be a round of life and death; Zhuang Yu, Zhuang Pu, Zhuang Yu, Zhuang Qi, Zhuang Ying, Zhuang Yu and others were also implicated, and even a dog or a parrot could not be spared......