Feng Qing Shaoyi

Chapter 105
While Su Wanqing was looking for traces of cinnabar, Fang Yunni was also looking for it in a hurry.Fang Yunni was taken aback when she saw many officers and soldiers coming in from Fangfu, but these officers and soldiers just stood quietly and orderly with weapons in their hands, and did not make any moves.

Seeing this, Fang Yunni felt relieved, she just wanted to help the Cao family catch the criminal.Suddenly, she seemed to see a familiar figure, wearing a dark long dress, with a big bag on her back, looking through the crack of the back door, planning to run out through the back door of Fang's house.

Because the person left in such a hurry, the dress was covered with dust, and a gap was exposed in the bundle.From that small slit, it can be seen that the inside is full of silver notes and gold and silver jewelry.

Fang Yunni looked at Mrs. Pan who was lying on the back door looking out, and said in a daze, "Mother,... what are you doing?"

Immediately Pan was startled by Fang Yunni's voice, she stood up straight immediately, turned her head and said with a smile, "Yunni, why are you here? Actually, it's all right, the old woman next door doesn't really like our Fang's mansion. Is it a peony? It is often said that the boss can smell the fragrance of peonies from far away, and my mother saw that the peonies are blooming well, so she wanted to send some to Mrs. Wang."

"Send peonies to Mrs. Wang, do I have to watch from the back door? Mother, don't you hate Mrs. Wang next door the most? You often say that she behaves rudely, like a country woman. Why did you think of giving peonies to Mrs. Wang today? And why didn't you want to give peonies?" I see you have it in your hand." Fang Yunni said doubtfully.

"Oh, look at my mother's mind, I was only anxious to see where Mrs. Wang is, and I even forgot to pick peonies. My mother will pick a few flowers and send them away." Pan laughed awkwardly and hurriedly left the topic.

"Mother, don't lie to me. You didn't send peonies to Mrs. Wang at all. How can you send peonies with gold and silver on their backs? You want to escape from the back door of Fang's house, right?" Fang Yunni said with some dull eyes.

"No, why did my mother run away? My mother is really going to give peony to Mrs. Wang. Yun Ni, you have to believe my mother, my mother is really..." Pan Shi said and saw officers and soldiers in the distance , I was so scared that I wanted to run through the back door.

Fang Yunni immediately stopped Pan, "Mother, there are officers and soldiers at the back door, and Mr. Chu from the Ministry of Punishment has already arrived. There is no way to escape through the back door."

Mrs. Pan was stunned for a moment, then continued to smile and said glibly: "Yun Ni, what do you mean by that? Why did you run away? My mother just wanted to give to Mrs. Wang..."

"Mother." Fang Yunni roared suddenly, and supported Pan's shoulders. Pan was also startled by the movement, "Tell my daughter the truth, did you kill Mrs. Cao's family with cinnabar?"

Mrs. Pan seemed to be stunned, seeing that Fang Yunni had been silent for a long time before she said, "Yunni, why do you think that way? We have no grudges in the past and we have no grudges in the present, why would you want to kill Mrs. Cao? The death of the eldest lady has nothing to do with being a mother."

"Mother, you are still lying to me." Fang Yunni's eyes were full of tears, "Now the Cao family is standing outside the door and watching, the Ministry of punishment has let officers and soldiers enter the mansion, and the Fang family is doomed. Only by handing over the murderer can the Fang family be saved." A ray of life."

"I don't want to, I don't want to go to jail. I didn't kill Mrs. Cao's family at all, I don't know anything." After speaking, Pan ran to another direction.

Fang Yunni hurriedly followed, Pan's older age is naturally not as good as Fang Yunni's nimbleness and agility.Fang Yunni caught Pan after a while.

"Yun Ni, let go of your mother, Chen Shu's death really has nothing to do with your mother. Let go of your mother." The captured Pan yelled hysterically.

But Fang Yunni didn't seem to hear it, she grabbed Pan's collar and pulled it into the nearest cabin.This hut is where Fangfu usually puts firewood, and the place is relatively remote, so no one saw this scene.

"boom--"

Fang Yunni pulled Pan into the hut, slammed the door shut, and then turned around to look at Pan in distress.

"Mother, you can tell your daughter the truth now. Did you kill Mrs. Cao's family?" Fang Yunni roared loudly.

It was also the first time for Pan to see Fang Yunni like this, although Fang Yunni quarreled when they disagreed when they were young.But at that time, Fang Yunni had the stubbornness and reluctance of a little girl in her eyes, but now Fang Yunni's eyes are full of tears, full of disappointment and intolerance.

Even though the two have been at odds, but blood is thicker than water, they are mother and daughter after all.Seeing Fang Yunni like this, Mrs. Pan didn't know what to do for a while, and she, who was usually the best at heresy, couldn't say those words.

"Yun Ni, listen to my mother, she doesn't know anything, she didn't do it on purpose."

"You mean that Mrs. Cao's family was killed by you, right?" Fang Yunni's tears that kept swirling in her eyes also flowed down her eyes.

"No, no, I don't know anything. I didn't do anything at that time, Yun Ni, I didn't do anything for my mother." Pan looked at Fang Yunni and said incoherently.

"If you didn't do anything at that time, how could Mrs. Cao's family die?" Fang Yunni cried.

"How did Chen Shu die? I don't know, I don't know anything..." Pan covered her head and yelled, then bowed her head and cried and stopped talking.

"Mother, you talk, why don't you talk? What happened at that time? You talk quickly." Fang Yunni knelt down and cried while shaking Pan's shoulder.

"It can only be her own fault, not me." Pan raised her head suddenly and roared, "If she hadn't come to Fang's house half a year ago to show off her power and tell me that I am not worthy to be the old lady of this Fang's house, what would she do?" Cinnabar in the meeting?"

Pan's slightly aged face was finally filled with tears. What happened at that time started from the fact that she had symptoms of insomnia and dreaminess and went out to buy medicine.

"Doctor, I have been suffering from insomnia and dreams recently, and I can't sleep even if I want to sleep. Am I going to die? That's not okay. My old man died early, but I still want to live for a few more years." Sitting on a chair in a pharmacy Tilting his head on the backrest, he said.

"Old Madam Fang, do you have any troubles recently that make you unable to sleep well?" said an old doctor with a sheep beard.

"Trouble? That's not right. My daughter-in-law has been mad at me after she got married. It's normal for me to have insomnia and dreams."

"...Old Madam Fang, this is actually not a big problem. As long as you go back to the garden and relax, you will be able to rest in peace on weekdays, and you don't need to take any medicine." The old doctor said after thinking for a while .

"What? You don't need to take medicine. Don't fool me, you quack doctor. The old lady is sick. How can she not take medicine when she is sick. Let me tell you, my son is in the military department, and the soldiers at the border all want to see how my son is. Thin noodles. If you dare to lie to my old lady, believe it or not, I will ask my son to knock down your medicine store." Mrs. Pan immediately straightened up and said, her weak appearance disappeared immediately.

"This... How about this, Mrs. Fang. I'll prescribe some medicine for you to treat insomnia and dreaminess, but one of the medicines can't be used too much..." The old doctor was also afraid that his precious medicine shop would be stolen, so he said hastily.

Before the old doctor finished speaking, Mrs. Pan took the words impatiently, "Prescribe any medicine quickly, and don't give this old lady a lot of trouble."

The old doctor could only sigh, got up to prescribe Pan's medicine, and wrapped the cinnabar in another medicine bag.

"It's not some expensive medicine, so why give it just a little. Why? I'm afraid that my old lady won't be able to pay for it." Pan yelled from behind.

"...No, it's the medicine..."

"No, just put on more. You look mean, and you're still a famous doctor in the capital. In my opinion, it's better to be a butcher in the west of the village? A butcher can also see a doctor, which is much cheaper than yours. .” Pan said relentlessly.

Now the old doctor was annoyed, saying that he was a quack doctor, but he was still a doctor anyway.What does it mean to be a butcher? They are not even doctors.Since when is he not as good as the pig butcher in the village?Why does the old lady of the Fang family look like this?He is illiterate and compares a doctor with a pig butcher.

Annoyed in his heart, he acted quickly, and the old doctor didn't want to quarrel with Mrs. Pan again, so he simply went down with a medicine shovel to fill up the medicine bag.

Unexpectedly, this old lady Fang also said, "Just one bag is enough, pack seventy or eighty bags for this old lady, and drink slowly when you go back."

The old doctor: "..." Drinking cinnabar, you are not afraid of being poisoned to death.

Thinking that Mrs. Pan is an old lady from a wealthy family, Zhu Sha must know her, so she packed a dozen bags and handed them to Mrs. Pan as Mrs. Pan said.

Mrs. Pan also accepted it happily, "Hmph, you're all delicate, fragile, sick all the time? My old lady will too."

After asking the maid behind her to pay the money, Mrs. Pan took the medicine and returned to Fang's house. She had just boiled a bowl of medicine and was about to drink it.I saw Chen Shu walking in, dressed in jewels, with smooth skin like a woman in her twenties, not at all like a 40-year-old.

But this time Chen Shu was holding a handkerchief in her hand, covering her mouth with the handkerchief from time to time, looking very delicate and charming.Pan couldn't help cursing the old goblin in her heart, that even a 40-year-old person is still so pretentious.

"Hey, Mrs. Fang is also sick. What a coincidence, my wife accidentally caught a cold a few days ago. I'm afraid she was busy with managing the affairs of Cao's back house on weekdays." Chen Shu said while covering her hands tenderly. Mouth.

"Hmph, since you're sick, you still don't stay in the mansion honestly, you run around, and you're not afraid to expose your illness to others." Pan said with a hint of sourness.

Because she has never studied, the affairs of the backyard are usually managed by the nanny hired by the master of the Fang family.After finally waiting for Fang Jingzi to marry a wife, he thought in his heart that in order to give his mother-in-law a prestige, he should leave the affairs of the backyard to her.

Unexpectedly, the master of the Fang family happily handed over the affairs of the backyard to Su Wanqing, so how could she, a mother-in-law, hold her head up in front of the new daughter-in-law?Therefore, not being able to manage the backyard is Pan's heart disease, and Chen Shu just brought it up in person.

When Chen Shu heard what Pan said so directly, she also secretly scolded you, an illiterate shrew, but still said with a smile on her face: "Actually, my wife doesn't want to care about these trivial matters. My wife has been delicate and expensive since she was a child. I've been busy on weekdays, but my family loves me very much, and I can't do anything without me. Am I not in charge of this business?"

Pan's expression turned pale when she heard the words. She just died and her husband became a widow, so Chen Shu started to show off here.

Chen Shu seemed to think of something when she looked at Mrs. Pan's bad face, and she exclaimed, "Ah, I forgot that Mrs. Fang no longer has a husband. It's hard to be a widow. It's not like I gave birth to two My family hastily bought me half a year's worth of medicine, regardless of whether I could finish it." He lowered his head and smiled shyly as he spoke, waving to the maid behind him.

The maid also spread out all the half-year's medicine on the table, as if she was afraid that Mrs. Pan would not see it.

"Really? Your husband really loves you. But my son is not bad. Knowing that I have suffered from insomnia and dreams recently, he bought me a dozen packs of medicine, no matter how expensive the medicine is." The maid spread out the medicine on the table.

"Oh, Jing Zi is indeed a filial son, the medicine he bought for his mother contained so much cinnabar, and the medicine cinnabar is indeed very expensive." Chen Shu smiled pointedly.

But Mrs. Pan didn't hear it, and said complacently: "That's not true. Jingzi has always been filial, so naturally the medicine he bought is the most expensive. The daughters here are filial. Mrs. Cao may not understand it. After all, Mrs. Cao My sons and daughters are all incompetent, and my son has not even passed the exams, let alone entered the officialdom. Unlike my Jingzi, who is now an important official of the Ministry of War, even Lord Shangshu looks up to him. .”

Chen Shu was about to explode when she heard this.Mrs. Pan is right, although she can manage the affairs of the Cao family's rear house, she can cover the sky with one hand in the Cao family.But God gave her a pair of incompetent sons and daughters, and the daughter was deceived into innocence by the man before she could grow up.Pregnant before getting married.

If you find that man, you can only be a concubine, but the Cao family is many times better than that man's family.Chen Shu naturally knew how embarrassing it was for a woman to conceive before marriage.So even if she doesn't like the man anymore, she can only push her daughter in.In the end, the man's family didn't even want to give the dowry, and the Cao family put up a lot of dowry before sending it in.

There is also that son, who has the same mind as Cao Wanzu, and has also learned Cao Wanzu's idleness and promiscuity.Hanging out all day, he is almost 30 years old and has not even passed the exam. Fang Jingzi, who is a few years younger than him, is already an important food escort officer of the Ministry of War.Can she not be angry?

When Chen Shu was trying to calm down, she heard Pan continue to say: "And your husband, I don't know how many concubines you have raised outside. Others don't know, but I know it very well. Mrs. Cao must know it in her heart." One or two. Although my old lady is a widow, some people may not have a better life than a widow like me. Mrs. Cao, sulking all day long is not good for your health."

"You poor country girl, if your father hadn't saved the life of the old lady of the Fang family, do you think you could be equal to my wife just because of your worth? After all, you are just a lowly maidservant with no status. , I’m not even qualified to shine Madam Ben’s shoes.” Chen Shu raised her chin and looked down at Pan Shi and said.

"Chen Shu, you bitch, what are you talking about? Why is this old lady not worthy of the name of this old lady of the Fang family?" Pan was so angry that she took the case.

"Oh, am I wrong? In the capital, the wives of the rich families think highly of you. They come to see you only because you have a daughter-in-law who teaches in the Imperial College. What are you? Let me tell you, you have Su Wanqing This daughter-in-law is a blessing to your Fang family, and no other family can ask for it." Chen Shu said not to be outdone.

"Is this old lady not as good as that Su Wanqing?"

"Comparable, don't you have any points in your heart? Su Wanqing is the noble daughter of the Su family, and you are just a country woman. You will never be able to compare with her." Chen Shu sneered sneeringly.

"You..." As Pan said, she was about to raise her hand to hit someone.

"Heh, you still want to hit Mrs. Ben, but you are still a little tender." Chen Shu blocked Pan's waving hand with one hand, "I'm a little thirsty after talking to you so much, I'd better go out and have some tea Right. Mrs. Chu Chaben, who is not on the stage, can't look down on it."

As Chen Shu spoke, she proudly took the maid and turned around and left.

Pan was so angry that she patted the table, and when she saw the medicine on the table, she picked up cinnabar and poured it into Chen Shu's medicine, her eyes were fierce, "I'm lowly, I'm not even worthy to shine your shoes, am I? Okay, then let you Drink some medicine from a country girl, how much nobler do you think you, Chen Shu, are than me."

As soon as the medicine was poured in and wrapped, Chen Shu's maid ran in, and was a little surprised and puzzled when she saw the medicine bag wrapped, so she turned her head to look at Pan's side.

Seeing the servant girl looking at him, Pan sneered unnaturally: "Your medicine bags look like this, and Mrs. Ben didn't do anything. Let's see what Mrs. Ben does?" The rest of the medicine is gone.

The little maid didn't suspect him, so she took the medicine bag and left.

Pan didn't take this matter to heart either, maybe she did something wrong after all, Pan felt inexplicably flustered looking at the remaining medicine.So I didn't drink anymore, even if the servants persuaded Pan to stop drinking.

Fang Yunni looked at the haggard Pan with her head down, and didn't know what to say.Just because of some quarrels, one life was killed.On the day Chen Shu came here, she had a cold and was weak, and she drank too much cinnabar for half a year, which would have killed her.

"Mother, how could you do this? Don't you know that cinnabar is poisonous? Now that the Cao family and the Ministry of Justice have surrounded the Fang family, and the eldest brother is not in the capital, who can protect the Fang family? What do you want the Fang family to do? The Fang family What should I do?" Fang Yunni shook Pan's shoulder and burst into tears.

Not far from the hut stood a woman in a light blue dress. The woman listened to the conversation in a daze, keeping her head down so that her expression could not be seen clearly.

After a long time, the woman raised her head. The two lines of tears on her beautiful face were extremely conspicuous, and her eyes were still peaceful, but there was a complex expression that others could not understand, a bit sad, a bit desperate.

The sky is still blue, but the light blue soft skirt and the beautiful smile in the eyes are missing, and only the mournful cry is left.

"This is my life, Su Wanqing, is this the life you want?"

(End of this chapter)