Chapter 3 Two Lives
If you are at the scene, you can hear how recognizable Lu Shang's second sister-in-law's voice is, her voice is beautiful like a nightingale singing, not like me, she has a gentle face, but her voice is rough and rough.
When you don't hear it, it's too difficult, and you live in a compound, and you can't look down and see it, so it's not good. I didn't listen to Lu Shang, re-lit the candle, and then went to open the door.
You can see that the person who entered the door was such a woman who was dressed up in a fancy way, with a very good figure, and a small fan in her hand. You can also smell the pungent smell of perfume on her body. It is said that she could not sleep without this perfume. And what I think is that she is addicted to this perfume and can't sleep.
The second sister-in-law is here. I tried to be as kind as I could, and took her by the hand and pulled her into the room.
Lu Shang is not good at this, people who don't like it, don't want to talk about it, don't want to see it, and even went back to the back room to sleep when I opened the door, and snoring like thunder.
I said to Xian Yan, who was full of suspicion and looked at the door of the inner room that was not closed: Second sister-in-law, please take a seat.
Judging from the way she dresses, you know that the name Bright is really not called in vain, she is really brightly dressed!
I poured her tea and sat down: Is there anything wrong with the second sister-in-law coming over so late?
She shook the small fan with one hand, and took the tea bowl with the other hand tremblingly, and tried hard for a long time, but she still didn't pick it up.
Then, to your surprise and me, she got up and moved in front of me, and fell to her knees with such a loud voice that I had to wonder if her knee was broken!
She didn't have much energy from the moment she entered the door, and when she knelt down, tears flowed down, and she sobbed and said: Third sister, help your nephew.
I said, "Second sister-in-law, you get up first and speak slowly if you have something to say."
According to the usual routine, she should say that if I don't promise her, she won't get up, or that if I don't promise her, she will kneel and die here. However, you are wrong, and I am wrong. Xianyan didn't follow the routine, she listened to me, and before I could reach out to help, she got up.
Ignoring my surprised look and nowhere to put my hands, she sobbed: Thank you brother and sister.
I didn't promise her, I didn't even understand what she was saying, and you can tell from my face that I was confused.
Second sister-in-law, I didn't hear what you just said.
Your nephew has been sick for several days, and he is getting better, so he wants to eat the almond white rice crisp made by her third aunt, I made it for him at noon, and this little cub said that it was not delicious, sticky teeth, and grinded me for a day to let me find you. I fell asleep just now, and I woke up again, I don't want to come to you, I don't want to disturb, but the child wants to eat, and I, the mother, can only come to you. Alas, mothers are like this, they can do anything for their children. You see, you haven't been a mother, and you can't understand it when I tell you.
It's not that I haven't been a mother, and I can never be a mother. What an obvious irony! If you see her sarcastic face, you'll want to slap her as much as I did.
She gently shook the small fan, picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, then took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of her mouth: Brother and sister, the second sister-in-law begged you for the first time, don't you not agree.
You say, she laughed at me, should I help her?
Who made me naturally kind, moreover, it was her son who wanted to eat almond white rice crisp.
When sending Xianyan out, I repeatedly emphasized that tomorrow she would definitely let her son Lu Mo wake up and eat the almond white rice crisp that had just come out of the pot, and Xianyan left with confidence.
I closed the door and blew out the candles, and the room was dark, but you could see that my face was full of tears.
Next.
I put the washed white rice in a pot, slowly fry it with a leaf fire, and after the rice grains slowly changed a little color, I put it out, put water and sugar in the pot, boiled it thickly, put the white rice and pine nuts in it, quickly mixed well, and put it on a rectangular plate next to it.
The plate was brushed with oil in advance, and when it solidified, a square piece of almond white rice crisp was poured out with a light buckle and a pat.
I cut it into evenly sized squares with a knife and stacked them neatly on the plate. When you see the almond white rice crisp I made, you can't hold back your saliva and want to take a bite.
Brother and sister, you're done, let's go. She picked up the plate and went to her second sister-in-law to sit down.
I said, "No, I'll have to go to the inn later."
Then I will thank her third aunt on behalf of the child.
It's okay, it should be.
She took a piece and ate it: it doesn't stick to her teeth at all, why do I make it sticky and bitter.
I said, "It must be too hot, and the next time you do it, you will use leaves."
She nodded, "That's what happened." The younger brother and sister are really capable, no wonder they can open an inn. Unlike me, I know to be at home with my kids all day long.
You say, 'Shall I go up and snatch the almond white rice crisp?'
Gentle and beautiful, beautiful and dignified, of course I won't, and said with a smile: Yes, the second sister-in-law Gu family, Gu children. I knew that opening an inn would benefit the people.
The younger brother and sister have great love, and the second sister-in-law dare not compare with you.
As soon as Xianyan walked out of the kitchen, she ran into Lu Shang, and Lu Shang coughed: Second sister-in-law. Bright nodded and left.
Lu Shang is not an iceberg's cold character, but he has a daunting face. Especially when you don't speak, it's even more scary. But as long as he smiles, you will find that he is a very cute big boy.
He glanced at the few white rice grains left in the pot: You came to the kitchen early in the morning to cook for her?
I said: It's Xiaomo who is sick and wants to eat. I am the third aunt, how can I not do it.
Won't she do it herself? Why should you take care of your own children? In the future, pay less attention to her.
I said, "It's all a family, so it's not good."
What she says to you, she doesn't treat you as family. Lu Shang said, listen to me, just stay away from her.
I can't agree with Lu Shang's approach, but there is a reason for this.
When Xianyan was sixteen years old, her father died of illness and was sold to a brothel by her stepmother, which was also a coincidence, on the first day she was sold, Lu Shang's second brother Lu Tu accompanied the two buddies to go shopping, ransomed her back for 1,000 taels of silver, and was whipped by my father-in-law, became a parent, and gave birth to a child. In the second year of giving birth, Lu Shang discovered her "adultery" with a good buddy of Lu Tu, so he didn't like her in the first place, had a bad impression of her, and seriously doubted the child's life experience.
I have always been neutral about unfounded speculations, even if Lu Shang is clear-sighted.
Lu Shang often said to let me stay away from Xianyan, but I still think that concubines should get along well, so occasionally go to her room to sit, she is enthusiastic, and talk to me, but when she talks about the child, she may not know what her tone is, but if you hear her words, you can hear it is all mockery.
I really want to stay away from this person.
What happened next, though, was something I didn't expect.
Lu Mo is dead!
That's right, Lu Mo, who wants to eat almond white rice crisp, is less than four years old Lu Mo.
Xianyan reported to the official as soon as possible, and conducted an autopsy, but the cause of death was poisoning!
And the poisoning was due to eating the almond white rice crisp I made!
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I know that almonds are poisonous to eat, but I cooked them, and besides, I also instructed Xianyan not to give them to children more. However, my explanation was in vain, and I was arrested by the government.
I won't describe too much to you how I suffered after being in prison for several days, but I will only say what will happen next.
It's true that almond poisoning, but I firmly believe that it has nothing to do with me, as long as Lu Mo doesn't eat much, it's fine. However, Xianyan turned her face and denied anyone, saying that I had poisoned the almond cake, and knelt on the ground with me in the court and argued, even the county marquis was tired of it, let us go down and try it another day.
My mother's family is rich, and my husband's family is also well-off, so I can get out of prison with a little "little meaning". It's just that I am even more suspicious, and I want to prove that Lu Mo's death has nothing to do with me!
Before I could prove it, I was rescued by a man.
Smart you guess according to the routine that it must be either Lu Shang or Qiu Yue, Lu Shang doesn't know martial arts, so it's Qiu Yue.
On the night of the twentieth day of imprisonment, I was stunned by the incense of Akigoshi and taken away.
The first one to wake me up was not Qiu Yue, but Qiu Yue's child, Qiu Yu. It's ten years old.
Qiuyue's children are so old. The handsome boy back then has now become a father. However, I didn't see his wife. After asking Qiu Yue, I found out that her wife was no longer alive.
Qiu Yue still lives in the dilapidated place sixteen years ago, two and a half small grass houses, low and low, and you have to be a cat's waist to get in. I think her wife probably couldn't stand the poverty and left the father and son. You must not call me evil, Qiu Yue gritted his teeth when he talked about his wife, and he couldn't hide it.
After my clichés, Qiu Yue told the truth, exactly as I guessed.
The next thing, not surprisingly, is that he is going to hand over the child to me to raise.
Yes, as you might expect, so cheesy!
Naturally, I refused. I say:
Although I can't have children, the Lu family won't accept outsiders' children, I can't do this, please find someone else to help. If you want to ask me for favors, don't do it in this way, I don't accept it.
Qiu Yue actually knelt down to me:
Xiaoguan, you are a good person, and you will be a good mother, for the sake of me saving you, take in my child, if you don't want to, I will die in front of you!
Did you see that? He threatened me! Where did that little handsome guy go? How did you become so mean?
I don't believe it at all: if you die, the child will be left alone, and I don't believe that you will die.
You must have thought he was scaring me, yes, he was scaring me, but in a few days it won't be, he's really dead, but it's not the suicide you and I thought were.
Another murder case is inseparable from me.
I went into the cell again, and it was Qiu Yu who sent me in, a ten-year-old but very old child.
Dare to send the old lady to the cell, and say that I killed his father, this little rabbit cub who owes a beating!
Two lives, this time it is no longer a matter that money can solve. In fact, everything that money can solve is not difficult, and there is no way to solve difficult things with money.
The almonds are made by me, and they have an indirect relationship with me, I don't deny it, but there is absolutely no direct relationship, and I definitely don't have the idea of killing Lu Mo.
Qiu Yue's death has nothing to do with me, I don't know how he was killed, he was fine two days ago, but he was suddenly killed. Why did he rob the prison and let me adopt his child? Although his family is not wealthy, it is not so much that he cannot afford to raise children. Isn't it strange that he was killed a few days later?