The autumn is high and cool, and the golden garden is full.

The big girl of Langqiu Pavilion, Daiqiu, was sitting on the stone bench in the courtyard reading a book.

The chrysanthemum was fragrant, soft and colorful, and a flower butterfly happened to land on her wrist, fluttering its wings.

Dai Qiu suddenly played with his heart, and got up to take a silk fan to flutter the saucer.

After fluttering for a while, the butterfly flew higher and higher, and could no longer reach it.

Dai Qiu was not annoyed, he felt a little tired, so he simply fell asleep on the wisteria flower stand chair.

In the haze, she felt as if she had stepped into the main courtyard of the main mother, Mrs. Xi, and the Qin family.

The room was very lively, in addition to Mrs. and Aunt Wang, the second girl Xi Congshu, the third girl Xi Fangling, the fourth girl Xi Huiyu, and the big housekeeper Lebo, as well as the housekeeper Han's mother and others were there.

They all had solemn faces, and the youngest four girls hid in Qin's arms and cried earnestly, crying on their little shoulders, which was very pitiful.

Dai Qiu didn't dare to squeak, and hurriedly walked behind his master and stood quietly, hoping not to attract the attention of others.

But I never thought that the three girls would bounce up from their seats with a "vacancy", slap the table and say angrily:

"Daddy is an honest and honest official, and he loves the people like siblings and nephews, how can he be corrupt and bend the law? This must be the Pei family's trick! Seeing that we refused to agree to the marriage of the eldest brother to his daughter, he came to force us to give in, hum! I don't think so! ”

Dai Qiu was frightened, and hurriedly wanted to bypass the coffee table and reach out to persuade him.

But it was obvious that the girl was close at hand, but Dai Qiu couldn't pull her sleeves, and she couldn't help but feel very strange in her heart.

The third girl was born to the concubine's aunt, with a beautiful face and a kind heart, but she gave birth to a jealous and hateful character.

At the beginning, the Wang family took a fancy to himself, although he was young, he had a stable temperament, so he was assigned to serve in the courtyard of the third girl.

That's three years.

After the third girl's voice fell, Qin had not yet spoken, but he heard the second girl on the side speak:

"Mother, now that my father and three brothers are not in the house, only a few of us are left, and it is really inconvenient to find out the news, why don't you send someone to invite the eldest sister back to the house to discuss, see if you can let your brother-in-law deal with it first, and then it is not good, maybe please ask the Jia family to help."

The temperament of the second girl is the same as that of the Qin family, she was born with a moth eyebrow, a gentle and virtuous temperament, and quite the style of a housewife.

Dai Qiu heard it even more foggy.

The eldest girl Xi Ruoqian has been out of the cabinet for five years, and although Jia Congjian, the eldest son of the Jia family, and the second girl have been engaged to each other, they have not yet married.

Everyone in the family values face the most, what is the big thing in the family, and you need to go to the in-laws' house to deal with it?

The Qin clan sat upright, with a solemn expression, and waited quietly for them all to finish speaking, before saying, "I recruited you all here today to let you prepare first. ”

Her voice suddenly fell a little lonely, and she seemed to be trying her best to forbear: "We have been handed down for a hundred years, but I am afraid that we will be defeated once." ”

Everyone's body was tight, the horror was beyond words, and the room was so quiet that it could be heard falling pins.

Qin Shi first glanced at the second girl, "I have never seen the icing on the cake, but I have never seen charcoal in the snow, and now that our family is in danger, we must not pin our hopes on others, your marriage with Jia Congjian will be stopped!" ”

The second girl's pink and round little face was so white that there was no drop of blood in an instant, her body was shaky, and her voice was a little shorter: "Mother's ......"

The third girl's eyes were horrified, and she hurriedly walked to the Qin family and knelt down, "Mother, the second sister and the brother of the Jia family have been childhood sweethearts since childhood, and they are in love, please don't let the second sister withdraw from the marriage." ”

Qin's chest ached, and his face was still solemn: "Wang, you have been in my house for twenty years, I pity you for your merits in reproducing heirs, and I will give you five hundred silver tattoos, and you will leave the Xi Mansion immediately, and it is irrelevant to marry from now on." ”

Wang knelt on the ground, tears like broken beads, "I beg Mrs. not to drive the slave and maid away, the slave and maid are willing to live and die with the Xi family." ”

Qin Shi was unmoved, and then ordered: "Second girl, third girl, fourth girl, I have arranged for my uncle to send someone to pick you up to go to the countryside, only allow you to bring some gold and silver, and the piano, chess, calligraphy, painting and embroidery in the house will all sink into the lake, and from then on you will live in farming and weaving, and you can no longer miss the prosperity of Beijing." ”

"Go to Luzhou Chaoti Academy to give the three sons, and they will flee for their lives at the ends of the earth, unless the lord is innocent and declares the world, he is not allowed to return home."

"The rest of the houses and rooms are miscellaneous slaves and maids, regardless of rank, each of them will be divided into ten taels of silver, and they will be given a deed of sale, get out of slavery, and go to the future!"

The ladies in the house all hid their faces and mourned, and Dai Qiu was also very uncomfortable, so she endured her tears and wanted to help the third girl.

Who knows, in the blink of an eye, the person has already stood in the outer courtyard.

The voice in the mouth of the messenger said, "The officers and soldiers are killing!" ”。

Like the sharpest blade, it struck straight through everyone in the yard.

After hearing this, the people who were sprinkling and sweeping instantly threw away the broom basin in their hands and fled for their lives.

Immediately afterwards, smashing and looting, the fire and black fog soared into the sky.

If the courtyard of the large Xifu is like a borderless place, the inner house is empty.

There was even the rampant ruffian hooligan, taking advantage of the fact that there was no one around, dragged the young maid who was washing clothes by the well to the side of the firewood room to do something unacceptable, and forced the poor girl to jump into the well.

The uncle and uncle of the Qin family came to pick up the girls, but before the carriage approached the corner gate, it was taken down by several officials under the pretext of being sent to the yamen for questioning.

Immediately afterwards, the loyal servant who went to Luzhou to deliver the letter also said that he encountered a roadblock halfway, so he had to turn back in vain, and the report failed, and the sons were also imprisoned.

A group of women and children in the inner courtyard, Qin's voice was miserable: "Heaven is dead, my Xi family!" "Loud in the sky.

Dai Qiu's whole body was agitated, and he opened his eyes suddenly, looking at the wisteria trelis above his head, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

"My good sister, why are you still sleeping at this time?"

A brisk female voice seemed to pull Dai Qiu back from that terrifying hell.

I saw that the peach branch was like a spring flower, dressed in goose yellow satin, tilted his head and smiled at her: "Sister really wants to sleep, she should go back to the house to sleep, although it is warm now, but it is easy to catch a cold when lying down like this, get up quickly, I will help my sister." ”

Dai Qiu looked at the person in front of him in a daze: "Xiao Tao, you, are you okay?" ”

Taozhi and Dai Qiu are both maids in the third girl's room, she is only a few months younger than Dai Qiu, and she is also sensible and considerate, and the relationship between the two has always been very good.

Taozhi sensed that something was wrong, restrained her smile, looked at it and asked, "Sister, why are you sweating so much?" Are you uncomfortable, I'll invite Lang Zhong to come over and take a look for you! ”

Dai Qiu's eyes were red, he shook his head with a smile, grabbed Taozhi's hand, and said straightly: "It's okay, it's okay if you're okay." ”

In the dream, Xifu was raided and destroyed, and many people were killed by officers and soldiers on the spot, and the corpses were piled up like a mountain and blood flowed like a river.

She seemed to see Taozhi and several maids, all surrounded by officers and soldiers, stripped naked, and pushed into the dark firewood room.

Crying, begging for mercy, the laughter of the beasts spilled through the crack in the door, it was too miserable to see.

It is said that dreams are reversed.

In this courtyard, there is a quiet time everywhere.

Fortunately, everything is just a dream!

Dai Qiu finally calmed down his emotions, but he heard a faint cry from outside:

"Officers and soldiers are killing!"