Chapter 34: Discovering Adultery
In the memory of his previous life, there was no secret of the Hou Mansion raising the dead, and he couldn't find a clue if he wanted to inquire.
Xiao Yuanmu was sent away in the middle of the night, and Lutang almost didn't fall asleep.
After hastily eating breakfast, according to what was said yesterday, Lutang accompanied Ziqian to the treasury to choose a dowry. Contrary to her imagination, she did not rush over early in the morning, but grinded and chirped until the afternoon.
Purple coriander has shallow eyelids, whether it is clothing and jewelry, antique calligraphy and painting, wooden furniture, what you see and what you love. Ling'er took a pen and paper to follow the record, and pasted the selected cages with red seals.
But Lutang set her sights on the servants who followed her.
In addition to the maid mother-in-law, there is another man who follows closely, that is Gong Kunyu, the head of the music class.
"The third lady has been listening to music all morning, and this palace minister is very attentive to her." Ling'er whispered.
Wen Hongyao gave the troupe to Ziqian as a dowry, which is already suspicious, but there is a versatile and beautiful man among them, how could Lutang not see the mystery?
Since Ziqian got the promise of the King of Jin, she is flying and domineering, and everything is just a brain. This beautiful man's plan, she is afraid that she will not be able to dodge.
Wen Hongyao has already made a move, and he will never make Ziqian a side concubine. Lu Tang smiled secretly in her heart, she was afraid that she would not be able to take away the second-room property in the warehouse.
Of course, Ziqian was not the only one who was worried about the property in the second room, and she had only left for a while, and Aunt Liu secretly ran over.
Liu's pregnancy is getting older, and he can't hide it anymore. Wenhou was very happy, but it made Mrs. Wenhou and the other concubines jealous.
Her melon seed face became round and jade, and she deliberately wore loose clothes to cover her figure.
"How can the second lady promise to give half of the family property to the third lady!" She sighed and complained, "The third miss is a concubine, separated by a layer of mother's belly, and the second miss is not the same heart!" ”
She was so calm that she didn't come to ask for this until today.
Lutang smiled and blew the tea foam without opening his mouth.
Liu continued to stroke his palms and sighed: "The daughter of the third young lady Houmen's boudoir, she went out of the pavilion with her body in her arms, and she still has the face to compete for the dowry and family property!" ”
Lu Tang sneered: "Wealthy families, there are a lot of messy things. What is the young lady afraid of when she is pregnant, as long as someone recognizes someone and wants it, she can still get married. If you are pregnant with a son that no one wants, it is miserable and there is no way to live. ”
Liu thought that she was alluding to Wen Hongyao, so he hurriedly cleared it up and said, "We don't dare to say these things, for fear that the eldest lady and eldest lady will be heartbroken." ”
Lu Tang looked at her with a smile, and laughed twice.
"There is even that clever man, who can't get rid of his son with a sin, and even looks for a father for his child everywhere. My aunt said how clever this kind of person is! ”
When Liu Shi heard this, his face immediately turned pale and his eyes flickered, and he said embarrassedly: "The second lady is a girl, and even I can't understand what she says." ”
Lu Tang smiled: "The sixth aunt has been in the house for several years, how can she not understand? ”
The two replied a few words, and a little bead of sweat oozed from the corners of Liu's forehead, and he bowed his head and said: "I am a concubine in the Hou Mansion, and the child in my belly is born to the Hou Ye, so I can't listen to these gossip." ”
Lu Tang nodded and smiled: "It's also a concubine, my aunt is a serious person in the end, and she has more rules than Ziqian." The third girl relied on her pregnancy to force His Royal Highness the King of Jin to accept her as a side concubine, and wiped her tears from the big sister's angry crying. Even the Hou Fule team was asked by her. Those girls who play and sing are just that, but they are accompanied by a man who teaches music to serve by their side, what is the daughter of the boudoir? ”
Liu's face turned from white to red again, and his eyes were confused.
Before she finished drinking a cup of tea, she excused herself from feeling unwell and left in a hurry.
Su Su came over to wipe the table and change the tea, and sneered: "Fortunately, Miss inquired about it earlier, and she was really going to be deceived by her." She wanted to be blind and want to give birth to the child for adoption. Sooner or later, let the eldest lady find out, and she must be killed alive! ”
Liu's pregnancy is suspicious, and Lutang has already found out. Wenhou is greedy for concubines, and the Liu family has long been unfavored, how could he be the first to get pregnant?
At first, she came to form an alliance, saying that she was pregnant for a month. Judging from the pulse, it is clear that it is more than two months.
Lutang asked the maids in the West Garden to inquire in many ways, and finally found out the clues from the eighth aunt of the other Wenhou Inner House.
The eighth aunt Bo is just pampered, and there is no door on her mouth, so she accepts some beads and gold bracelets, and her mouth is like a river:
"The Liu family is a fox goblin. At the beginning of the year, in order to control the Hou Ye, he had to learn to play the gonghou. Up and down our Hou Mansion, only the king of the palace surnamed Leban can play. ”
"Gong Kunyu and her hand-in-hand teaching Gong Hou, lonely men and widows are in the same room, what good things can be done? In the east garden flower viewing building above the top of the house, two faceless goods, I don't know how many times! ”
"This Wang Ba surnamed Gong was originally sent by the eldest lady's mother's family, Prime Minister Yan's mansion. I don't know what is arrogant, I actually brought a green hat to Hou Ye. Now in Liu's belly, I'm afraid I don't know which evil seed it is! ”
Gong Kunyu is the eyes and ears sent by the Yan family, and Yan Shuqin said that it was premeditated to help Wen Hongyao solve the troubles of Ziqian.
Since the servants were dismissed, lunch in the West Garden has been simplified.
On this day, Lutang was eating, and Su Su came in with a food box, saying that Aunt Liu had sent someone to quietly send it and invite the second lady to eat.
Three delicate side dishes, a bowl of shark fin soup. Ling'er saw that the soup was delicious, so she brought it over and put it in front of her.
I put a spoon on my lips and I tasted the red taste of the crane.
"It's poisonous, throw it out."
Lu Tang dipped his mouth with a handkerchief and sneered twice. It seems that the Liu family just looks smart, but in fact he is as stupid as Ziqi.
Ling'er raised her eyebrows, Su Su picked up the knife in her hand, and immediately went to fight hard.
Lu Tang stopped them and said, "When I see her for a while, don't get angry and don't beat and scold." ”
She personally led the two of them to Liu's courtyard with a food box with great fanfare, and as soon as she entered the door, she withdrew Liu's maids, leaving only Susu and Ling'er to serve.
"I was grounded by my uncle and aunt, and the servants in the West Garden let out a lot, and there was only one cook left in the small kitchen to deal with. Fortunately, Aunt Six loved me and made my favorite shark fin soup. ”
Liu Shi was flustered and didn't expect her to come over suddenly, and her face was already pale.
"In order to thank Aunt Six's heart, I specially asked the cook to make a bowl of fish soup, please let Aunt Six taste it!"
With that, Lutang took out a bowl of soup from the food box.
The box is the original box, the bowl is the original bowl, and the soup looks even more different.
When Liu saw it, where did he dare to eat? panicked and shirked, only saying that he had eaten.
Lu Tang naturally refused to follow, and persuaded her to take a bite, but the first persuasion was still full of smiles, and then her face changed abruptly, and she sneered: "The sixth aunt refuses to eat, is she afraid that it will be poisonous?" ”
"No, no, no, the second lady is too careful! I didn't! ”
"Susu, feed the sixth aunt!"
Su Su and Ling'er were already in a hurry, one went over and pressed it, and the other person poured the soup bowl into Liu's mouth.
Liu's desperate efforts couldn't withstand the strength of the two of them, and a few mouthfuls were poured down their throats, pushed away with all their strength, half a bowl of soup was scattered all over the ground, and the porcelain bowl was shattered.
"Our young lady is kind, but the sixth aunt is so ignorant?" Su Su raised her eyebrows and scolded, "The shark fin soup given by the sixth aunt, Miss has drunk it all!" ”
When the Liu family saw that Lutang was fine, they knew that they must have noticed it, and they took revenge with the poison soup at this moment. Although he dropped the bowl just now, a few mouthfuls fell down his throat, and his hands and feet trembled in fright, and he only cared about his throat.
At this time, a tortoiseshell cat came running outside, and the fat cat smelled the delicious fish soup all over the ground, and licked the ground greedily. The cat licked only three or five mouthfuls, and when it landed, the fluff on its whole body stood up, and it fell down and died.
When Liu saw that the cat that licked the fish soup was dead, he was so distraught that he knelt on the ground with his knees weak, and vomited out the contents of his stomach after searching his intestines and lungs.
The smell of filth in the embroidery room was filthy, Lu Tang covered his nose with a handkerchief, and said with a smile: "The sixth aunt has a few words with me, and she wants to reward me with poison soup, I thought you were some kind of vicious heroine among women!" I didn't expect it to be a coward! ”
If you talk about the toxicity of Heding Red, even if you only eat two bites, you will have an attack at this moment. Liu's body trembled and his heart collapsed, but he had no symptoms of abdominal pain for a long time and was still intact.
After a stalemate of about two quarters of an hour, Su Su grabbed Liu's neck and asked her to pick up the dead cat on the ground. Liu struggled and cried and refused, Ling'er went over and picked up the cat and threw it in her arms.
The kitten, who had just died, suddenly trembled slightly, crawled a few times with its little paws, opened its mouth and yawned.
Liu was so frightened that he couldn't think of what trick Lutang had done, so he lay on the ground with the cat in his arms and shook it.
The fish soup brought is naturally not poisonous.
The tortoiseshell cat was brought in advance by Su Su to make a play. Give the cat some sedative medicine before entering the door. The kitten licked the fish soup and "died", but in fact, it was just a drug attack and fell asleep.
"The evil seed in my stomach is Gong Kunyu's. Hou Ye hasn't entered my room for more than a year, and I have to ask him to teach him to restore his favor. He deceived me several times. He asked me for money, and said that when I had saved enough money, he would take me out of the Hou Mansion. Later, when I became pregnant, he asked me to find the second lady and let the child inherit the family property in the second room. There have been rumors in the house about this matter, and I am afraid that the Hou Ye and the eldest lady will know. Ask the second lady to let us go and let him take me away! ”
Liu Shi lay on the ground and cried, desolate and collapsed regardless of his face, and his originally delicate facial features were distorted like a ghost.
Lu Tang sneered disdainfully: "Gong Kunyu is a person sent by Prime Minister Yan's mansion, how could he leave?" The sixth aunt is so stupid. ”
"He'll take me away, I've got his baby!" Liu whimpered and cried like a ghost, crying at night, extremely desolate.
"Please freshen up and freshen up, and I'll take my aunt to see a Western view?"
Lu Tang smiled lightly, ordered someone to wipe Liu's face and rinse her mouth, and asked Su Su and Ling'er to support her, and carried her all the way to the east courtyard where Ziqian lived.
The summer evening is cool, and the piano in the east courtyard is tinkling and singing euphemistically. In the music class, he played the piano and tuned the zither and sang new words.
Ziqian sat in the ventilation under the corridor, holding a pen and practicing calligraphy.
There was a tall man behind her who was Gong Kunyu, half-hugging her body, holding her hand with his right hand, and teaching her to write with his forehand.
"Gong Xianggong, is my handwriting a little like His Royal Highness the King of Jin?" Zi Qian's soft words are charming and moving.
"The third lady has only practiced for three or four days, and she has mastered the essence of the font of His Royal Highness King Jin.
Gong Kunyu's voice was graceful, and her lips were unintentionally attached to Ziqian's sideburns, as if a pair of beautiful people in love were flirting.
Although Ziqian has some little daughter means, she can only endure humiliation and steal life by His Royal Highness King Jin.
Gong Kunyu, who is both talented and beautiful, is accustomed to doing kung fu on women, and the master of the love field is the best at doing small and low. The two are almost a perfect match, but it has only been a few days, and they are already in love with adultery.
"It's getting late, and the evening wind in the courtyard is too strong, please go to the room to practice calligraphy." The third lady is very important. Gong Kunyu persuaded.
Ziqian responded with a smile and said coquettishly: "Yes." I've been writing for a long time, my waist hurts, and my eyes are very sore. ”
Gong Kunyu was considerate, and asked the maid to prepare chrysanthemum water to warm her eyes, and personally helped Ziqian into the room.
When he was young, the maids serving in the room came out one after another. But Gong Kunyu didn't come out.
Lonely men and widows are in the same room, and you can probably imagine what it is like inside.
Liu watched from the door of the Moon Cave and collapsed to the ground again.
The day after tomorrow is the Chinese Valentine's Day, Lu Tang pursed his lips and smiled coldly, this layer of window paper is afraid to break!