Chapter 173

Out of the garden, there are two ways to go to the old lady's Xuanyi Hall. One is from the west and the front door, and the other is from the east and the back door. In the past, everyone was accustomed to walking through the front door, but today the old lady took everyone to the road leading to the back door, and explained to everyone with a smile, "It's all my own family, so I don't pay attention to those. ”

Shanniang frowned slightly. To enter through the back door on the east side, you must first pass by the old lady's East Warm Pavilion. Others don't know what it is, but she knows, since she failed to calculate her in the East Pavilion last time, but Yuan Er suffered a big loss, the old lady ordered someone to seal the East Pavilion, and she didn't even let the East Pavilion be mentioned. I'm actually going to pass through the East Pavilion today, and I can know with my heels that there must be something wrong inside.

It's just that at this moment, Shanniang is worried about Yuan Changqing, and she can't care about that much, so she can only take one step at a time, and first determine Yuan Changqing's safety.

Sure enough, as soon as she entered the back door, the old lady said "Huh" and asked the mother-in-law next to her: "Who opened the East Pavilion?" ”

The woman smiled: "It is said that the uncle is drunk and is temporarily resting in the East Pavilion." ”

The old lady frowned and said, "The East Pavilion has been useless for a long time, where can I stay with people?" He added, "Is Da Lang actually drunk like this?" Han Cuixuan is not far away. ”

The fourth lady smiled: "I'm afraid it's because of the snow on the ground that the master arranged it like this." Then he turned back to Shanniang and said, "Let's go and have a look." As he spoke, without waiting for Shanniang to react, she helped the old lady, and everyone went to the East Pavilion.

After coming back from Sanhe and saying that Mother Hua and Lu'an were gone, Wufu became nervous, and couldn't help but subconsciously clench Shanniang's arm at this time. It wasn't until Shanniang shook her hand back that she reacted, and couldn't help but call out "girl", which turned out the old name again.

Shan Niang shook her hand again soothingly, and the three of them looked at each other, and all followed the old lady in silence. At this time, they can't do anything, and they can only adapt to the situation when the time comes.

The people of the Yuan clan didn't notice the subtle tension between the old lady and the daughter-in-law and Shanniang at all, and everyone laughed as usual and entered the East Pavilion together. I saw that there was silence in the East Pavilion, as if Yuan Changqing was asleep in the house. Shan Niang first noticed that the snow on the steps was trampled in a mess, as if someone had just fought here. So she and Sanhe Wufu silently looked at each other again.

When they came in, none of them deliberately lowered their voices. In this chaotic area, no one was able to come out of the house to check, so the old lady stopped at the bottom of the steps, frowned, and said, "Is there no one guarding it?" ”

The fourth lady also pretended to turn her head to look left and right, and said, "Xu is seeing that the uncle is asleep, let's be lazy in the tea room." As he spoke, he called a little maid who was only ten years old and said, "Go in and see who is on duty." ”

The maid agreed, and just about to go up the steps, Shanniang hurriedly said, "I'll go." ”

Suddenly, the fourth lady glanced at the old lady quickly. The corners of the old lady's lips curled slightly, and she nodded to Shanniang: "It's okay." The fourth lady stopped the maid again.

If she hadn't stopped the maid, Shanniang might have really rushed in before the maid. Now that the fourth lady wanted to ask her to be the first to enter the house, she immediately changed her mind, and refused to be the pioneer. So she stepped on the steps with one foot, but pretended to be accidentally slipped by the snow on the steps, and held her waist for a while.

Sanhe Wufu didn't know whether it was true or not, so he hurriedly hugged her and helped her to ask anxious questions. The other clansmen also hurriedly surrounded them, and Aunt Jiu even said in a loud voice: "Hurry up and help you into the house." ”

Shanniang pretended to exhale pain, while observing the old lady and the fourth lady from under her eyelashes without a trace.

As the host, some guests flashed their waists, and at this time, they should have brought the guests into the house first, but the old lady and the fourth lady didn't seem to hear Aunt Jiu's words. The old lady still pretended to be a kind person as always, and asked Shanniang anxiously, "But did it flash to the waist?" Why so careless? "I actually avoided ignoring Aunt Jiu's construction. Shan Niang noticed sharply that she seemed to inadvertently glance at the mother-in-law behind her while she was talking. When the woman received the old lady's gaze, she quietly withdrew from the crowd, and then turned around and walked out of the East Pavilion while no one was paying attention to her.

And when Shanniang paid attention to the mother-in-law's movements, she didn't see it, and the fourth lady turned around and gestured to the maid who was still standing under the steps.

The maid curtsied, and then hurried up the steps. When Shanniang turned around, she saw that half of the maid's back had disappeared behind the brocade curtain hanging on the door.

To everyone's surprise, the maid had just stepped into the house with one foot, but suddenly she screamed, turned around and ran out again. The other foot was already in the threshold, and she tripped over a dog to eat. The little maid didn't care about the pain, but she actually jumped down the steps with a rolling belt, hugged the fourth lady's leg at once, and shouted in panic: "Ghost, ghost!" There's a hanged man in there! ”

Everyone couldn't help but be stunned.

The fourth lady kicked the little maid away in disgust and shouted, "What nonsense?!" What the hell are you living in broad daylight? Where did the hanged man come from? Then he turned back to another mother-in-law, "You go!" ”

The woman glanced at the little maid who was kicked by the fourth lady and sat on the ground with her arms propped up, so she approached the door curtain suspiciously, and carefully picked up the door curtain and looked inside, but she immediately screamed, turned around and ran down the steps, and said to the fourth lady with trembling hands: "Really, there is really a hanging, hanging ghost ......."

"Nonsense!" The fourth lady shouted angrily, and before the curse could be spoken, the woman had already corrected: "No, no, yes, it's a person hanging from the beam......"

With a "hum", the people who were originally around Shanniang were in an uproar. A few bold mothers-in-law immediately threw themselves out of the curtain and looked inside, and then they all stepped back in exclamation, shouting "Dead, dead."

At this time, Shanniang couldn't care about pretending to flash her waist anymore, and hurriedly raised her voice and asked, "Who died?" ”

A mother-in-law said, "Yes, it's a maid." ”

Suddenly, Shanniang breathed a sigh of relief. But thinking that Lu'an's whereabouts were unknown, she immediately raised her heart again and asked, "Who?" ”

The old lady even asked the woman the same sentence in unison.

The woman had the courage to open the curtain and look inside, and said, "No, no clothes, I can't see it." ”

Suddenly, Shanniang felt that almost everyone's eyes were on her.

Aunt Jiu came over and held Shanniang's hand, suggesting that she should not be impulsive, while asking the woman, "Is there anyone else in there?" ”

The fourth lady hurriedly answered, "Yes, didn't you say that the uncle was resting inside?" ”

The woman had to pick up the curtain and look inside, turned around and said, "There is no uncle outside, outside...... paused, and said, "There are men's clothes on the ground......

"Hum", everyone whispered again, and the eyes that looked at Shanniang became even more ambiguous.

"I'll take a look!" Shanniang wanted to break free from Aunt Jiu's hands, but Aunt Jiu held her hand and persuaded her: "Don't go ......"

Wufu gritted his teeth, stomped his feet and said, "I'll go!" So saying, he went up the stairs in three or two steps.

She stood by the curtain of the door, and was about to reach out to open the curtain when she suddenly heard a "squeak" sound behind her. Wufu was frightened, and when he looked back, he saw that the closed door of the ear chamber next to him was suddenly pulled open from the inside. Then, she saw that Lu'an was holding the back of his head and staggering out of the ear room.

"Lu'an!" Wufu shouted.

Lu'an was startled, looked up at Wufu in a daze, as if he didn't recognize her for a while.

"Why are you here?! Didn't you say that you were waiting for the master? What about the master? Wufu rushed over and grabbed Lu'an, and there was a flurry of questions.

Lu'an had a pale face, how could she stand her shaking and asking like this, only muttered "I want to vomit", then pushed Wufu away, held the pillar and retched for a while, while reaching out to touch the back of the head.

The Yuan family was originally a military family, but now the generation is not as good as the generation, and the daughters have been pampered for a long time, but there are also women who have been stationed in the barracks with their husbands back then. Then there was someone who had seen some of the world and said, "Who hit the head here?" "Don't touch her at this time, find a place for her to lie down." ”

The fourth lady frowned and said, "What the hell is going on?" Who is the person hanging in the house? What about Dalang? ”

Three questions immediately drew the attention of everyone who was distracted by Lu'an back to the strange situation in the main house.

Shanniang said: "Someone has to go in and see what is going on." So saying, he went over.

Aunt Jiu stopped her, and before she could speak, the old lady who had been silent suddenly said loudly: "No one is allowed to go in!" ”

It wasn't until everyone turned their heads to look at her that the old lady continued: "Since someone is dead, it's not a trivial matter, and it must be reported to the official." If we go in so hastily, we may destroy some important evidence. As far as I want, none of us should go in. After a pause, he glanced at Shanniang meaninglessly, and said, "Don't ask the people inside to come out." She looked at a mother-in-law and motioned to her, "I'll wait for the master to come over." ”

The woman bowed smartly, and hurriedly turned away.

Shanniang couldn't help but grit her teeth for a while. When she was clamoring to go in before, neither the old lady nor the fourth lady stopped her, obviously convinced that Yuan Changqing must be inside. And at this time, if she wants to go in again, it is equivalent to confirming that the person inside is Yuan Changqing. At this moment, she couldn't think of any way to get the people in the house out of trouble......

When she frowned and pondered the countermeasures, she suddenly heard a chaotic noise outside, and it was the fourth master who had arrived early.

The old lady hurriedly greeted the fourth old man and said, "You came quickly." Did you know something was going on here? ”

The fourth master said with a calm face: "I didn't know, but now I know." Then he ordered the people he had brought, "Fence off the East Pavilion, and let no one enter or leave!" Then he turned back to the old lady and said, "Da Lang is drunk, I see that the road is slippery in the cold weather, so I asked someone to send him to the old lady to rest for a while." Later, his maid came over, and I asked Wang Er's family to send her to the East Pavilion as well, but Wang Er's family heard the movement in the house outside the door, and was afraid that something would happen, so he went over and invited me over. At that time, I was talking to a few elders in the hall, and I didn't pay attention to her for a while. When I was free and knew what was going on, I met someone sent by the old lady on the way, and then I knew that someone had died. ”

The old lady frowned and said, "Are you sure the person in the middle is Da Lang?" ”

Aunt Jiu couldn't help but say, "Let's send someone in to take a look." There is such a big movement outside us, if Da Lang is really inside, why is there no sound? ”

The fourth old man sneered: "He is drunk like that, it's strange if there is movement!" He waved his hand again and said to a long-faced woman, "You tell everyone everything you heard." ”

The long-faced mother-in-law immediately stepped forward and saluted everyone, and said eloquently: "That's the case, the uncle is drunk, the lord is worried that Han Cuixuan is far away, and the road is slippery in the cold weather, so he asked the little ones to send the uncle to the old lady's yard to rest for a while." After the uncle came in, he had to rest in the East Pavilion, and the Mingxia girl in front of the old lady was very embarrassed at first, but the uncle was drunk like that, and it was not easy to reason with the uncle, so the Mingxia girl had to rely on the uncle, opened the East Pavilion, and then the little one went back, leaving Mingxia here to take care of the uncle. The little one returned to the hall, and the maid next to the uncle came over. The old man instructed the little one to send the little maid over, and when the little one came over, he first heard Miss Mingxia crying in the house, and before the little one entered the door, he called the uncle's little maid to block the outside. The little maid only let the little maid in and drove the little one away. The little one originally wanted to go, but he thought that he seemed to have heard Miss Mingxia's cry before, and he felt that something was wrong, so he turned back and looked in through the window, and saw the little maid in front of the uncle holding the little maid, and the two were laughing. When the little girl untied the maid's clothes, the uncle suddenly came out of the room naked, and saw the little girl and the maid hugging each other, and he was angry, and knocked both of them unconscious, and then I heard what Miss Mingxia said inside, the uncle was angry, and said, 'If you have the guts, you will die', I didn't sound right, and I didn't dare to go in like this, so I had to go back to find the master to make the decision, but the old man was not empty at that time, who knew that something really happened......"