Chapter 135

Let's say that after Yuan Changqing went out, he went to the old lady's yard.

At this time, it was already the middle of the night, and the old lady's courtyard was still brightly lit, and all the maids and servants came and went, and their faces were panicked. Seeing Yuan Changqing coming, a clever mother-in-law hurriedly reported to the courtyard, and the others all lowered their hands and called "uncle" in an orderly manner, but they all peeked at Yuan Changqing from the bottom of their eyebrows and eyes irregularly.

The most favored second master in the family was thrown into the lotus pond, and when he picked it up, the blue nose and swollen face were obviously beaten. The invited imperial doctor said that the second master only broke a leg and two ribs, plus some skin trauma, and he would be fine in some time, but the second master was still unconscious at this point.

And there was such a big thing at home, and the old lady was anxious to find the uncle, who was obviously at home, but he always avoided it.

Everything in a family can be hidden from outsiders, but it is impossible to hide it from others. So what is the relationship between the old lady and the old man and the uncle, I am afraid that no one knows the inside story better than these people, so those who are more active will inevitably put the two things together, and deduce a set of "rich family grievances" in their hearts......

Yuan Changqing didn't seem to notice the gazes that fell on him, he was so calm, and he lifted his robe and went up the steps. He had already seen that someone had reported the news of his coming, but there was no sound at all, and it was obvious that the old lady wanted to pinch him. And at this moment he was not in the mood to deal with these people anymore, so he swept his eyes to the maid standing by the curtain of the door.

The maid was swept away by his eagle eyes, shook suddenly, and before there was a sound inside, she hurriedly opened the curtain for him.

Yuan Changqing entered the house and was almost smoked out by the aroma of fat powder in the house. He looked up and saw that among the women in the room, there was only one man, the fourth master. On the top Luohan couch, the old lady and the fourth lady were sitting opposite each other and weeping; Yuan Yongmei sat behind the fourth lady and rested her head on the fourth lady's shoulder. At the next place, the widowed second and third aunts were each entrenched in a rose chair, and they were counting the Buddhist beads in their hands with their eyes closed in the same posture.

In addition to these masters, there are maids and women who are standing behind their masters in twos and threes.

In the silence of the room, only the sound of the second and third aunts touching their rosaries was heard.

Seeing that Yuan Changqing came in without listening to the greeting, Yuan Li, who was pacing back and forth, suddenly stopped, and shouted with a calm face: "The old lady called you for a long time, why did you come here?" ”

Yuan Changqing looked at him calmly and said, "Something?" ”

"Your second brother fell into the lotus pond!" Yuan Li said.

"He's not a three-year-old." Yuan Changqing said.

"You!" Yuan Li's face changed.

Yuan Changqing suddenly hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled slightly, raised his hand to touch the shallow groove on his chin, and said, "Does Fourth Uncle think this is familiar?" He raised his eyebrows and looked at the fourth lady, "This is what the fourth aunt said to my nurse back then." ”

He didn't touch his chin, Yuan Liyuan hadn't thought about it yet. Seeing him touch the scar on his chin, he suddenly remembered. When Yuan Changqing was pushed to the steps by Yuan Changxing and knocked out this scar, the fourth lady did say something similar.

The old lady's cheeks twitched slightly, and she squeezed and smiled: "You kid, why do you still hold a grudge?" How many years ago did that......"

The corners of Yuan Changqing's lips curved again, and he looked at the old lady and said, "The old lady is afraid that she doesn't know, in fact, I have always held a grudge." ”

The reason why he has tolerated them all these years is that he is not yet an adult, and he is not yet old enough to break with them; Second, they haven't touched his bottom line yet. And now, he is no longer alone after he is married, he has something to protect, but these people have stretched out their black hands to his scales! So he wasn't going to tolerate them anymore.

In the past, when Yuan Changqing faced them, he always had a somewhat indifferent attitude, and it can even be said that he often deliberately reduced his sense of save, so that many times, the Yuan family couldn't remember that there was still him at home. But now he suddenly became sharp. The old lady couldn't help but exchange glances with Yuan Li.

"Do you know about Brother Xing'er?" The old lady asked Yuan Changqing.

Yuan Changqing said: "I don't know." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the fourth lady jumped up and shouted in a sharp voice, "How could you not know? Why is my brother Xing'er in your way? You beat him like that, and threw him into the water, you ......" She wanted to scold him for being a "cheap seed", but looking at his cold eyes and the old lady's frowning brows, she had to press down this voice and said angrily: "You are deliberately trying to kill my brother Xing'er!" Thinking that Yuan Changxing was still in a coma until this moment, the fourth lady couldn't help crying, and said in a loud voice: "My poor brother Xing'er, what a sin this is, God is pitiful, it's just an obstacle to people's eyes, people want your life......"

Yuan Changqing frowned, looked at the old lady and said, "Why can't I understand the words of the fourth aunt?" What do you mean I hurt Brother Xing'er? When did I hit him again? I don't even know what's wrong with him, and I don't dare to accept this basin of dirty water from the fourth aunt. ”

"You have the courage to do it, but you don't have the courage to admit it?!" The fourth lady suddenly stopped crying, slapped the table and asked Yuan Changqing.

Yuan Changqing still didn't look at her, only looked at the old lady and said, "The old lady thinks the same way?" The old lady also thought it was me? ”

The old lady's loose cheeks trembled slightly, and she looked at Yuan Changqing and said, "You really didn't do it?" ”

Yuan Changqing stared at the old lady silently, and for a while, he suddenly sneered, looked back at Yuan Li and said, "Fourth uncle, report to the official." ”

"What?" Yuan Li was stunned.

"Report to the officer." Yuan Changqing said, "It seems that this family has determined that I am the murderer." In that case, report to the police. ”

His resolute attitude made the old lady puzzled for a while, and said, "It's not you, it's your daughter-in-law!" ”

Yuan Changqing's eyes narrowed, he turned his head and looked at the old lady coldly, and said, "Don't you think what the old lady said is too strange?" What ability does Thirteen Er have to injure Yuan Changxing? Is Brother Xing a three-year-old? Can you be injured by such a weak woman as Thirteen?! Not to mention that Thirteen Er has never gone out in the inner house, what is Yuan Changxing doing when he runs into the inner house in the sky? ! ”

"He ......"

Before the old lady could answer, the fourth lady hurriedly said, "He came in to greet the old lady." ”

"He asked the old lady to say goodbye, and he only stayed in front of the old lady, what does this matter to Thirteen?" Yuan Changqing said.

"Your daughter-in-law is too." The old lady said.

Yuan Changqing raised his eyebrows, "What does the old lady mean is that Thirteen Er beat Brother Xing in front of the old lady?!" ”

"Naturally, it's not ......," the old lady paused, and then said, "But she has been copying scriptures in my Buddhist hall all afternoon." ”

"So, do you mean that Thirteen Er injured Yuan Changxing in the Buddha Hall?" Yuan Changqing said again, "That's weird, you said that Brother Xing'er came to ask the old lady for peace, but Thirteen'er copied the scriptures in the Buddhist hall at the behest of the Queen Mother, okay, what did Brother Xing'er do in the Buddhist hall?!" ”

The old lady was stunned. If this matter is said, I really have to ask Yuan Changxing if it is. She hurriedly said: "It's not in the Buddha Hall, it's in the East Pavilion." I saw that your daughter-in-law was working hard to copy scriptures, so I specially ordered someone to open the East Pavilion as a resting place for her......"

"That's even more wrong," Yuan Changqing intercepted her words, "Since it is the old lady's resting place arranged for Thirteen'er, the uncle and sister-in-law avoid suspicion, what did he Yuan Changxing do?!" Besides, when I came to pick up the thirteenth child from the old lady this afternoon, I didn't see Yuan Changxing's person. Something happened to him, and he didn't ask him what he did, so why did he ask about our husband and wife?! Or do you have any opinions about the two of us with the old lady and the fourth uncle and aunt, and now they don't ask about it, but they just pour dirty water on the two of us? If there is anything we don't do, we should be taught by a few elders, and we can only listen to the juniors, but now we can't do this, that is, a few elders have to do a good job of this matter, and for the sake of the reputation of me and Thirteen, we can't be good. Fourth uncle, please report to the official! ”

Yuan Changqing has always given people the impression of being taciturn, and almost no one in the Yuan family has heard him say more than ten words, but now he has such a long speech without a pause, and every word is pricked with needles, which shocked the old lady and the fourth old man and his wife for a while, and even the second and third aunts who have been pretending to be wooden people have forgotten to fiddle with the rosary in their hands.

After a while, Yuan Li suddenly reacted, flicked his sleeves, and drank Yuan Changqing and said, "Nonsense!" What kind of official ...... report for this little thing?"

"A trifle?" Yuan Changqing sneered: "I'm going to end in April, if it is rumored that I injured my cousin at this time, does the fourth uncle think I can still end up smoothly?" If the fourth uncle refuses to report to the official, then I will report it myself......"

"Report!" Suddenly, the old lady slapped the table and said to Yuan Li: "Since Da Lang wants to report to the official, let's report to the official." Da Lang is right, it's not good to hurt his reputation in vain. Besides, Brother Xing and Dalang's daughter-in-law were originally in my yard, and Dalang didn't care about his daughter-in-law being questioned, what do we care about? But it was Na Shanniang who threatened Yuan Changqing.

Yuan Changqing sneered: "The old lady's words are not right. When Brother Xing'er had an accident, Thirteen'er had already asked me to take me home, why was it in the old lady's yard again? ”

"When did you pick up your daughter-in-law back? Can anyone see it? The old lady said.

"Does the old lady ask me?" Yuan Changqing sneered, "I didn't have time to say anything." When I came to pick up Thirteen's children, not to mention that there was no one to serve in the East Pavilion, Thirteen's maid also said that she saw a stranger enter the old lady's courtyard. Because it was the old lady's yard, we couldn't make our own decisions, so Thirteen asked her to report to the old lady. The two of us waited in the East Pavilion for a long time without waiting for the old lady to come, and we didn't see the people who were supposed to be waiting here in the East Pavilion. Thinking that since there was no movement from the old lady, I was afraid that the maid had seen it wrong, and it should be fine, so the two of us went back first. As soon as we went back, we said that something happened to Brother Xing. The old lady asked if anyone had seen me, we were juniors, and we were not qualified to call the old lady here, so I didn't know if anyone had seen me, but I didn't see anyone. It's just that I want to ask, our family is not the kind of unruly family, if no one tells it, I'm afraid that the people don't dare to steal that lazy, as for why I didn't meet a subordinate here, and who arranged where the person went, or because I was afraid of being hit by someone, and deliberately broke all the people, it is not even us juniors who dare to speculate. It's okay if Brother Xing'er doesn't have an accident, everyone is shaking the box, and now that Brother Xing'er has an accident, the old lady is suspicious that it was me and Thirteen'er who did it, so I have to ask who the suspicious person that the maid saw before was. The old lady doesn't mention the man at all, and it sounds like she's in a hurry to blame the two of us. As juniors, we don't dare to question our elders, let alone complain about what kind of private feelings our elders have hidden in their hearts, but even so, we can't bear this crime of harming people for no reason! "-The old lady wants to talk about Shanniang's innocence, and Yuan Changqing will talk about the old lady's innocence.

Not a word is on the topic, only between the lines of the sentence implied to make people think about the content, this was the old lady's forte, but now Yuan Changqing is treating her in the way of others, the old lady is so angry that she trembles all over, pointing at Yuan Changqing, and can't say a word for a long time.

Second Aunt Yuan and Third Aunt Yuan couldn't help but glance at each other - it turned out that their nephew was not a nephew who couldn't speak, but he usually disdained to take advantage of others, if he really wanted to talk about it, he was simply the reincarnation of Zhuge Liang, a group of Confucians, and Zhou Yu was angry, which was not a problem at all!

Because these two are widows who have been canonized by the imperial court, Yuan Li's family will not neglect them much, but they are both widows and unemployed, and both families are dependent on Yuan Li and the old lady to live, so they have to be cautious in their words and deeds. Over the years, although they also knew about Yuan Changqing's grievances, they had never expressed any opinions. Now seeing that Yuan Changqing suddenly became tough, the two of them were not only shocked, but also inexplicably had an indescribable sense of excitement. So, the two pairs of eyes that were usually forbearing, now looked at the old lady with a different kind of deep meaning like searchlights.

When the old lady saw it, she couldn't help but be even more angry. The deceased husband of these two daughters-in-law was not her own, and all along, the two of them have been cautiously looking at her face, and the reason why she detained them here today was to use their presence to put pressure on Yuan Changqing, but she didn't expect that she hadn't calculated Shanniang here, but asked Yuan Changqing to splash her dirty water on her head...... The two daughters-in-law, who had always pretended to be obedient in front of her, were still looking at her like that at this time...... The old lady was almost so angry that she turned her back on it.

Seeing the old lady holding her forehead and pretending to be dizzy, Yuan Li came back to her senses, turned around and shouted at Yuan Changqing: "Is this your attitude towards your elders?!" ”

Yuan Changqing saluted him respectfully and said: "This is indeed not the attitude that the elders should have, but everything always has a cause, some things can be tolerated by the younger generation, and some can't." If the elders are unkind and have to pour dirty water on our juniors, if our juniors really respond regardless of it, then it is the real unfilial piety. He added, "Don't worry about the fourth uncle, I admit what I said just now, if the fourth uncle thinks that I am disobedient and unfilial, just send me to the government or to the clan." Those words can be said in front of the fourth uncle, in front of the clan or the government, I will still say the same, and I will never let the fourth uncle bear the name of false accusation. "--It's a frame that is not afraid of the height of the platform, but is afraid of a big deal!

Yuan Li choked suddenly. He didn't dare to ask Yuan Changqing to spread these words! Seeing that he was tough and refused to give in, Yuan Li had no choice but to soften his voice and said: "Da Lang misunderstood, your fourth aunt and the old lady are just dizzy, and Brother Xing'er is still not awake." ”

Yuan Changqing sneered, "He hasn't sobered up yet, the elders are thinking about pressing the charges on us, if he is sober, and then bite down on anyone's words, how can I and Thirteen Er still have a way to live?!" The fourth uncle should report to the official! ”

- Yes, with a word, he cut off Yuan Changxing's aftermath of biting out Shanniang after waking up.

Yuan Li and the old lady looked at each other. knew that if the trouble continued, no matter what happened to Yuan Changqing and Shanniang, I was afraid that the entire Yuan family and the old lady would have to bury them...... Thinking of this, Yuan Li gritted his teeth violently, simply pulled down his face, and pressed Yuan Changqing with the respect of an elder and said, "But a few angry words from the elders make you so unrelenting, what are these words?!" Don't mention the matter of reporting to the official again! ”

Yuan Changqing was silent, as if he had given in. After a pause, he sneered again: "Since the elders don't let the official, don't report it." But today, however, it cannot be left like this. As I said before, I am a man who holds grudges, and I have never believed in the inherent goodness of human nature, and if someone can slander us once, he can slander us a second time! I don't know what I and Thirteen Er did wrong, so that a few elders couldn't see each other like this. In this way, we move out, and it also saves the elders from looking at us as an eyesore, which is our unfilial piety! As he spoke, he turned around and slammed the curtain and walked away.

The old lady and Yuan Li looked at each other for a long time, and then they both suddenly understood, it turned out that Yuan Changqing wanted to move out when he made such a fuss......

If I had known that as long as the old lady leaked a word, she would have accused Yuan Changqing of being unfilial--Grandmother is still there, and she is making trouble to split the family-but now they have been held by him with such a big handle, but it is as if the couple has suffered a great grievance and was forced out of the house by the Yuan family......

"What should I do?" Yuan Li asked the old lady.

The so-called "wilting people out of leopards", because Yuan Changqing has always had no sense of zài in this family, it is inevitable that the old lady and Yuan Li will despise him, but now under their noses, he has become so sharp as if he has changed someone......

The old lady's eyes narrowed fiercely, and she said, "The wings are not hard yet, so I want to fly high, if they are really hard, I don't know how to make waves!" ”

As soon as the mother and son looked at each other, Yuan Li knew that the old lady wanted him to prevent Yuan Changqing from participating in the imperial examination. He nodded, and said, "What about Ming'er?" If he has to move out......"

"He dares! Someone blocked the door......"

The old lady snorted, but suddenly raised her hand, stopped and turned around to go to Yuan Li, who was about to command.

Before Yuan Changqing left, he put one last sentence, he held a grudge...... Thinking of Brother Xing'er's injury, thinking that he was still unconscious, and thinking of Yuan Changqing's murderous eyes, the old lady shuddered suddenly, for fear that if he was really not allowed to move out, Yuan Changqing, who had now become like a stranger, would do something drastic. The old lady sighed, shook her hand and said, "Forget it, there is no hurry at this time, let's ......think about it in the long run."