"The princess of the county spares her life!"

"Spare your life! The slave didn't dare. ”

The two hurriedly begged for mercy in unison. The princess watched them kneel on the ground, kowtow like pounding garlic, and pin her face away.

"Hold them down, hit!" Her voice was cold, without a hint of warmth. The family set up two benches at the door of the mourning hall, and the two of them lay on top of the board, and let out a few screams from time to time.

In the house, a huge brazier was erected, and from time to time paper money and ingots were thrown into it, which burned and turned into ashes. Yi Huan threw two pairs of crooked boots into it.

"I always complain about my father, but I have never been a filial daughter. These two shoes were made for several months, and in the end they could not be delivered. She leaned on Xie Hanci's shoulder and whimpered.

"The king of the county loves you, he knows that you are free by nature, love to play and lively, and have never restrained you with rules and etiquette. Your heart, he will receive. Xie Hanci watched the tongue of fire gradually devour the upper of the brocade, and comforted in a low voice.

Bao'er held a pipa, Tingting walked in front of the person, found a stool, put her left leg on her right leg, and hugged the pipa horizontally. Between the conductors, the sound of the pipa sometimes turns like a hundred birds, and sometimes it is like the waves of the sea, swinging people's hearts.

"Isn't the pipa always played vertically, how can she hold the pipa horizontally? Could it be some kind of weird-looking new instrument, not the lute? I've never heard this song either, and the instruments played by the people are weird. Yihuan was tired of crying, and asked when she saw Bao'er's strange posture of playing the pipa.

"This is the pipa, but it is the northern sound pipa, which is popular in the Mobei area. Northerners are rough and heroic, not limited to form, like to listen to majestic and generous, magnificent songs, she plays "Jingwei", which is a famous song in the north. Xie Hanci explained.

"You know that!" Yi Huan was surprised, and looked at Bao'er sitting on the carved round stool, and said with emotion: "It's a good play, it's that this pipa song and the sound of the board are mixed together, which makes people's hearts hairy when they listen to it." ”

Xie Hanci looked out, only to see that the uneven bluestone slab in front of the door had formed a puddle of blood-red water, and the family who was hitting the board on the little guy suddenly stopped, grabbed the collar of the little guy and threw it at the feet of the princess.

"Princess Jun, spare a little life, I really can't stand it. I say, I say it all! The little guy was a blur of flesh and blood from the waist down, and there was blood foam on the corner of his mouth.

Bao'er happened to end the song, sat on the stool, and looked lively.

The princess glanced at the person at her feet, and added two handfuls of paper money to the brazier without hurry.

"The little fourth master strayed into Qiyun Pavilion during the day, and when he went back, he bled more than once, and the king of the county also went to see the little fourth master, and it only happened at night. So, there are rumors that ... .......He stopped to look at the princess's face, for fear that the words that came out later would cause even greater trouble.

The princess of the county was like frost, and she said directly to the burly family on the side: "It seems that it is still not enough, drag it down, and fight for a while." There is no way to accept him as a loyal servant who has been martyred by his body, and when the time comes, he will be buried thickly. ”

"Princess of the county, I say!" The little maid desperately avoided the big hand of the family, pulled his throat, and shouted hoarsely: "There are rumors that the princess of Xianjun died unpeacefully at the beginning, and turned into a ghost after her death. At night, people always saw her wearing a red dress and wandering in Qiyun Pavilion. ”

"Nonsense, my mother died of illness, why is it not peaceful to die." Yi Huan stepped forward in two steps, pointed to the little guy on the ground and scolded.

"Princess Xianjun cut off the scalp on the top of her head with a dagger before she died, saying that she was ungrateful, harmed her sister, and was not worthy of reincarnation, and should be tortured in hell for 10,000 years." The little guy swore to the sky.

Xie Hanci was also surprised, but he didn't expect it to be such an "unpeaceful" method.

The princess of Xianjun was born in Mobei, and the people of the north believe in shamans, believing that people's souls are hidden in the hair on the top of their heads, and if they cut off their scalps, then this person will not be able to enter reincarnation again, and they will never be reborn.

"Shut up, my mother is the only daughter of the Mobei Bai family, where did she come from?" Yi Huan scolded angrily.

The little girl's face was full of grievances, and his knees reached Yirong's feet.

"The third lady was young at the time, and the young master was also studying in the academy and was not in the house, only the eldest lady saw the appearance of the princess of Xianjun when she died, and the second lady can testify that the princess of Xianjun was a blur of flesh and blood on her head at that time, and she was buried after inviting a special person to make up for the ceremony."

Yirong was silent, her face was already dark to the extreme, she kicked the little guy out, and snorted coldly: "What, you deserve me to testify to you." ”

The place where the little guy was kicked was just in the lower abdomen, and he suddenly grinned in pain.

Li Mingchen, who had never spoken, opened his mouth at this moment: "When I went home, my mother was lying in the coffin wearing a huge hair crown that covered her entire forehead, and I wondered why she was dressed like this. Dad has never mentioned his mother's death for so many years, this little guy may not be lying. ”

"Who is the sister that the mother is talking about? How come I never met this aunt? Yihuan asked incredulously.

"Before marrying into the county palace, my mother was a female official next to the queen mother in the palace, and she became friendly with a concubine in the harem at that time, and married Jin Lan." Li Mingchen paused for a moment, and then added: "This concubine passed away before you were born. ”

"Who is this mother? Could it be that he was not favored during his lifetime, why has he never heard of it? ”

Li Mingchen smiled bitterly, "She is very favored, very favored." No one mentioned it because she was taboo in front of the emperor. ”

"Don't talk about it, Mingchen." The princess hurriedly stopped drinking, beckoned the family to drag the little servant back from Li Yirong's feet.

"You know a lot of old things. The ghost haunted him, what is the man-made disaster? There is no way to verify the ghostly thing, but if there is a rumor that it is a man-made disaster, it must be that someone saw and heard something. It is related to the death of the king of the county, and it must be strictly investigated. ”

The little girl looked up at the princess of the county, quickly lowered her head, slammed her head twice, and said, "I don't know, little one." The little one had just heard Sister Hui'er talk about it, and before she could ask clearly, the princess of the county rushed in with someone, and she really didn't know what was going on. ”

The princess sat on the chair of the Huanghuali wood prince, took the tea offered by Bao'er's hands, and raised her voice at the door: "Then bring in those who know." ”

The maid Hui'er was carried into the mourning hall by two mothers-in-law. Bao'er covered her mouth and chuckled sideways, "It's such a big face, why are you still bothering the two mothers to support you." ”

"Princess Jun, this maid has fainted." The mother-in-law replied resignedly and threw Hui'er to the ground.

The princess of the county tasted the fragrant tea in her hand and did not speak.

Mother Zhang opened her mouth and said to the mother-in-law: "Mother Wang is also an old man in the house, this master wants to ask, naturally she will wake up first, how can there be a reason for the master to wait for the next person." ”

When Mrs. Wang got the order, she immediately brought two basins of cold water and threw them at Hui'er, who was soaked with clothes and stuck to her body wet, still lying motionless on the ground. Mrs. Wang thought she was dead, so she hurriedly stepped forward and probed her nose, "There is still gas, but I just don't wake up." ”

Mother Zhang took two steps forward, kicked the maid's shoulder with her toes, and said, "It seems that this Hui'er girl still doesn't want to wake up, so she can only use our Qinghe Shen family's means." Mother Wang went to get a deeper iron bucket and found two thicker hemp ropes. ”

Li Mingchen has been serving in the Criminal Department, and he is very clear about the methods of torture. He looked at the princess of the county, frowned and asked, "Do you have to do this?" ”

The princess slammed the teacup on the table with a crunch.

"There are rumors up and down the house. If it is a false rumor, it would be good to solve the misunderstanding and then strictly rectify the discipline, but if it is not groundless, then you should ask clearly and understand, you go to see your father lying in the coffin, his eyes are not closed now, do you want him to be buried with his eyes open like this? ”

She looked at Li Mingchen, and there was only dignified and majestic in her eyes.

Bao'er came to her last night and told her that the county king was gone, and there were only two people who were most qualified to support the entire mansion, she, the young county princess, and the eldest son of the county king.

In other words, she is faced with two choices, to be a stepmother who is attached to her eldest son or the new owner of the county king's mansion.

When she was young, she loved that person for three years, but after he learned everything, he chose to escape. She was worried that he had done something wrong and took the risk of covering it up for him, but he was indifferent and even blamed her for many things.

She can be neither resentful nor resentful, but she is now a mother, and her children need to grow up safely under her protection.

"Mother Zhang, let's do it!"

Wang Pozi pressed Hui'er into an iron bucket full of water, cold water poured into her mouth and nose, she struggled to wake up in the water, and wanted to get up but was firmly held down by Wang Pozi, and her hands were tied behind her back with hemp rope.

"Now that you're awake, let's talk about it. What is this man-made disaster that killed the king of the county? As soon as the princess raised her hand, Mrs. Wang immediately let go of her hand, Hui'er straightened up and gasped, slowly opened her eyes, and looked around at the people in the room.

"Miss Hui'er, don't worry, you are still alive and have not yet entered the palace of Hades. But if you don't make it clear, then you can only go down and ask the king of the county to ask for guilt in person. Zhang's mother threatened with a strange yin and yang.

"I don't know anything, I just talk to people casually and make fun of me." Hui'er knelt on the ground and said in a weak voice, she knew that no matter whether she said it or not, she would not end well in this situation.

"Dumb talk? You make fun of the death of your master? Using this kind of nonsense to prevaricate, it seems that you haven't woken up yet. As soon as Zhang's mother finished speaking, Mrs. Wang lifted Hui'er's collar again, and saw that she was about to press her into the iron bucket again.

"The princess of the county, setting up a private court violates the "Dafeng Statute", and I ask the princess of the county to think twice." Xie Hanci couldn't stand it anymore and opened his mouth to stop it.

"Miss Xie, you said that there is a private court? But this is obviously the mourning hall of the county king, I will investigate the cause of the death of the county king, and you will investigate the murderer of Leki, which is not a conflict. Or did Miss Xie find some new evidence that could spare me this effort? ”