In the early morning, Gangneung City was exceptionally quiet, and it seemed to have a lot less vitality than before, and the soldiers of the prefect hurriedly headed south with solemn expressions.

The people were afraid that something big had happened, but no one dared to ask more, so they silently followed out of the city and waited to see the excitement.

A warm yellow carriage slowly drove in from the west of the city, looking at the soldiers and the crowd heading south, with a puzzled face.

"What's going on in the city, why are all the people from Jingzhou Mansion dispatched?"

Meng Yutang rubbed his three-layer chin lightly, and glanced angrily at Hua Shiyu, who was sticking out his head to look at the lively Hua Shiyu: "Go to the Shu family today, you have to behave well, don't let the old lady of the Shu family dislike you." ”

"A-Niang, in a few days will be the birthday of the old lady of the Shu family, what are we going to do so early?"

Hua Shiyu pursed his lips dissatisfied.

"You know what."

Meng Yutang glared and said: "Your cousin is now messing around with the little goblin like Rujin all day long, if you let the old lady of the Shu family nod, you won't have a chance, this time if you are like your eldest sister again, you don't need the old lady to strangle you." ”

Hearing her mention the matter of her eldest sister, Hua Shiyu couldn't help but raise her eyebrows: "But I seem to have heard the people in the village talk about my cousin yesterday...... The little goblin has returned to the Dou family, and my cousin shouldn't marry her again. ”

"Where can their words be trusted?"

Meng Yutang looked cautious: "This girl has made a big fuss since the fight a few days ago, as if she was possessed by a ghost, not only is her fierce eyes disrespectful, but her heart and eyes are also a lot more, then Ye Zhixian has approved the remarriage documents, and she must have run back to the Dou family at this time because she must feel that the old man Dou is about to die, and wants to occupy the property of the Dou family and then seduce your cousin, I have long heard that the old man Dou is getting worse and worse because of the third son's matter, and now there is a second son's matter, I am afraid that the limit is approaching." ”

"This shameless little goblin."

Hua Shiyu suddenly became anxious: "Ah Niang, what should we do then, my cousin is now fascinated by that little goblin." ”

"I have my own way."

Meng Yutang smiled sympathetically.

While talking, the carriage arrived at the Shu family, and soon after the people passed the courtesy, they met the old lady Tao of the Shu family in the back hall of the inner courtyard.

After eating half a cup of tea, after a few words of greeting, Meng Yutang looked at the extremely clean Shu family compound, and deliberately asked softly: "Old grandmother, why are they not here in the early morning, I heard that Yuchen's daughter-in-law also came back from Beijing to pay tribute to the old grandmother's birthday, and I still saw this girl when she got married." ”

Hearing her mention her eldest grandson and eldest daughter-in-law, Tao's expression darkened, and in an instant, the corners of his mouth showed a gentle smile:

"I heard that my grandson came to the house to say that there was a bustle in the south of the city, and even the prefect was alarmed, and they all rushed to see the bustle, saying that the new prefect of the county had found the women who had disappeared in the county over the years, and the devil who mutilated these women was none other than the old member of the Dou family and the old Huang Dao in Huangliu Lane, it seems that those women were also planted with Gu worms in their bodies, and it was not good to return them directly to the bitter master's family, so they could only let the family members claim the corpses and cremate them by the Chu River in the south of the city and take them back for burial."

"Outside the Dou Yuan?"

Meng Yutang was about to drink a mouthful of tea that almost squirted out, and he forcibly held the tea cup calmly: "No...... No, Dou Yuanwai is a well-known good man in our county. ”

"I don't know my heart if I know the face, I don't know the specifics until a few of them from the Yuchen family come back."

Tao glanced coldly at Meng Yutang's swaying arm: "I heard that Rujin's girl married into the Dou family when she married into the Dou family, and his second aunt, you didn't have a lot of Zhang Luo, but now this child has also survived and can completely get rid of the Dou family." ”

"Ahem, I'm also kind, who knows that good intentions have done bad things."

Meng Yutang's eyes sank: "It seems that Jinxuan's child is lucky this time, although he married a widow and went home, but this Dou member went to prison, and eighty percent of the Dou family's family property had to be inherited by Rujin's girl, and then it would be both a person and the Dou family's property." ”

"What does his second aunt mean by that?"

Dow faintly sensed that something was wrong.

"Yo, grandmother doesn't know yet."

Meng Yutang replied with a smile: "Jin Xuanla has been living in our house since he came back from Beijing this time, and his ability is great, not only helped his little uncle divide the family, but also gave Rujin the master to get the county remarriage paperwork, this time he designated that the Dou family was indispensable, otherwise with the grievances between our Hua family and the Ye family, how could the son of the Ye family change the verdict of this case, our Hua family remembers this love." ”

Hua Shiyu also hurriedly interjected: "Not only that, cousin, he also helps his cousin...... That little goblin deceived my mother for more than two hundred taels of silver. ”

Just before the words came out, he was glared at fiercely by Meng Yutang, and quickly stopped his mouth.

Dow's eyes were half-squinted, and he gradually fell into deep thought.

Although it is clear that the mother and daughter are not good, and they must have lost the money to come to him to tell the truth, but the grandson has indeed not been home for several days.

Moreover, the son of the Ye family changed the sentence of Rujin so quickly, not because he was afraid that the eldest grandson had entered the palace now.

Thinking of this, she became more and more uneasy in her heart, and glanced at Meng Yutang with a wry smile: "Today, there is still a mess at home, and the old body will not leave his second aunt, and he will definitely come to the house in a few days." ”

"Ouch, I'm also very busy at home these days, so I thought about coming to see my grandmother in advance, so as not to have another accident when I got it, so I wouldn't delay your old man."

Meng Yutang secretly glanced at the congratulatory gifts on the table, then got up, pulled Hua Shiyu to say goodbye, and hurriedly left Shufu.

With a gloomy face, Tao called his subordinates to inquire, packed up some silver taels and immediately went to the south of the city.

......

On the Huangli Gang in the south of the city, Ye Chengwei had asked the county officials to escort Dou Yue's master and servant, Huang Laodao, Gu Langxi and others back to the city with all the coffins.

On the empty and messy post, only Hua Rujin, Shu Jinxuan, the old beggar, and the four servants of the Shu family and Ye Chengwei left the aftermath.

In the dug grave, the headless male corpse had been taken away, Shu Jinxuan asked the coffin that had begun to decay to be moved out of the tomb, and then sorted out Dou Yuanqian's remains and put them into the empty coffin brought by the Dou family for burial.

While the Shu family and the servants were filling in the soil, Hua Rujin went to the jungle next to her to pick some wild lilies.

Looking at the re-raised mound, Hua Rujin personally carried a few handfuls of mound of soil to the grave, and placed the collected wild lilies in front of the tombstone, quietly in a daze.

Although he has never lived with this person, he has repeatedly shown mercy to his subordinates, and he is also a respectable person.

Seeing that this girl was lonely, the old beggar also stepped forward with a gloomy expression, staring at the tombstone: "Instead of letting him live in pain with half human and half ghost, it is better to let him be reincarnated earlier, there is no panacea in this world, it is just the infatuation of the old man of the Dou family, not to mention his son, and let so many innocent little girls suffer." ”

Shu Jinxuan also learned from his cousin to pick some wild lilies and put them in front of Dou Yuanqian's grave, although he was jealous of the Dou family in his heart, but the third son never hurt this girl until his death, and guarded his cousin's reputation, worthy of being a humble gentleman.

He was grateful to Dou Yuanqian from the bottom of his heart.

"I only hope that you will be able to join a good family in the next life, without illness or disaster, and smoothly."

Shu Jinxuan read a sentence silently, turned his head to look at the flowers in red makeup, charming and moving, as if he had changed his person compared to before.

He had fantasized about today's scene countless times, but it was a pity that she was not wearing it for herself, and he couldn't help but sigh with a gloomy expression: "It turns out that my cousin looks good in a wedding dress, I used to ...... I didn't find out. ”

Looking at his infatuated eyes, and casually glancing at the two neat big holes behind the old beggar, Hua Rujin covered her mouth with a smile: "Let's go back." ”

"Girl, what I just said in the tunnel counts, you don't have to think about it anymore."

The old beggar shouted as he chased after the brother and sister.