Gel makeup

Chapter 28
Siqing and Xiaying rushed to help, but Xiao Yi only felt buzzing in his ears, and he staggered and fell to the ground.Ling Zhen went up to help him to sit down, and the crowd rushed to ask for the imperial doctor, but after a while Dou Concubine Ding Angui woke up, after all she was old, so she was more open-minded, and persuaded Xiao Yi and Si Qing: "The fifth girl is not blessed. , I went to find her mother who died early, so don't be too sad." He advised Si Qing, "You don't have to be too sad about your father. He didn't suffer, and he is gone all at once, which is also a blessing. "

Xiao Yi had a ghost in his heart, wiped away his tears, and asked Siqing: "I heard that your brother Ye Lancheng wrote a letter to anger your father, and he got sick. What letter did your brother write?"

Siqing then took out the letter from the bottom of her sleeve and handed it to Xiao Yi, and Concubine Ding'an said, "Third Brother, read it, and I will listen to it too."

Xiao Yi unfolded it, and saw that there was only one song from the Five Ancients and one song on the letter, which was full of satire on Ye Xiufeng's insatiable greed, so he read: "Take advantage of the danger and sigh Wang Yang, and come to Wang Zun. Commit yourself to a wrong road, loyalty and filial piety are difficult." Discussion. There is a guest who sent gold to Guanxi Gate by mistake. If you speak harsh words and know the truth, please post it to your descendants.”

Siqing frowned, and Xiao Yi read again: "Take the mouth of the mud swallow, cut off the iron needle, scrape the face of the golden Buddha and search carefully, and you can't find it. Quail crops look for peas, and the leg of a heron chops the meat. Inside the abdomen of mosquitoes It's fat and oily, thanks to the old gentleman."

After reading, the three of them fell into silence.

Siqing herself was at odds with Ye Xiufeng, but she never noticed that her brother Ye Lancheng also had a lot of dissatisfaction with her father Ye Xiufeng.Ye Lancheng, who seems to be reticent, is even more ruthless than Siqing when she speaks meanly.

Ye Xiufeng suffered from palsy and often had seizures, but no one suspected the cause of his death, they just thought it was too coincidental.Chaoli fell into a strange silence, there was no court meeting, and no one invited Xiao Yi to report on the matter.Xiao Yi didn't sleep all night, so he couldn't help feeling sleepy, so he said to go to sleep, and told Siqing to go over the house quietly to have a look.

Siqing felt that it would be nice to go back at this time, so she asked Lingzhen and Xiaying to go back together, and told Lingzhen: "That's all for the side, you have to take care of the old man's books and other things in the study room, pack them up and send them away. Go to Nanshan Zhiyuan."

In Xiao Yi's dream, he vaguely saw Shen Huanhua coming to salute with the child in his arms. He was still wearing the same clothes as when they met for the last time. He smiled and said, "Third brother, our group of sisters are all unlucky. When I came , met the fourth sister, she said that she was not doing well in Dingfan's house, she just cried. I came here, and met the sixth sister, guess what, the sixth sister said?"

Xiao Yi hurriedly asked: "Where are you, Fifth? What did the sixth sister say?"

As he spoke, he woke up with cold sweat all over his body, and when he looked up, he saw Si Qing sitting beside him, all dressed up.Xiao Yi was taken aback, got up and asked, "Didn't you go back?"

Siqing shook her head: "Shen Yuanxi's wife has come to Beijing."

Xiao Yi said softly: "Siqing, if you are sad, don't hold back."

Siqing just said lightly: "'There are joys and sorrows everywhere in love, so why bother to sigh. Yesterday, when I passed the book drying place in the west of the city, countless silverfish reported safety.' I happened to be reading here that day. Lingzhen came back from the mansion and said, Hua felt that today was a muddled day, and she forgot about Qixi Festival, and only realized in winter that she didn't publish books this year." She took off the comb from her temples and brushed Xiao Yi's frizzy temples, and said softly: "I haven't reported your safety, It's my fault that I didn't pick her up to live in Nannei. It's just...it's such a coincidence." After two lines of tears welled up, she hurriedly turned around to wipe her tears, and said, "I heard...the Ye who forced me to recognize him as my father. Xiufeng is also dead, I don't feel anything."

Xiao Yi stared at Siqing's bright black eyes.

"I was surprised that he died like this. I thought about it...Third brother, why are you looking at me like this?"

Xiao Yi hurriedly set his eyes elsewhere: "I never thought you would be so calm and not feel sad for your father at all."

Siqing sighed, "Maybe I never had a father." After speaking, she stood up and put down the comb, and said softly, "After the funeral, some important things can be done."

Xiao Yi looked at Siqing suspiciously, and Siqing actually smiled at Xiao Yi.Xiao Yi felt that something was wrong with Siqing who was on the verge of falling, he stood up abruptly to help her, but Siqing's body softened, and tears flowed down uncontrollably.

As soon as Jiang Feng entered Beijing, he went to Ye Xiufeng's mansion first, and when he got halfway there, he learned that Shen Huan's painting was gone. He felt a roar in his ears, and he was relieved when he heard Huaying's cry. He hurriedly ordered someone to tell Shen Jiangdong .

When Jiang Feng arrived at Ye Mansion, a coffin shed was set up in front of the mansion, and it was completely surrounded by white curtains.The servants of the mansion wear hemp and filial piety, paste door gods everywhere, hang prayer flags, and release sedan chairs to attract souls.Not many people came to express condolences, there were not many sedan chairs at the gate of the mansion, and no one greeted Jiang Feng when he got off the sedan chair. They only heard people commenting that "Mr. If you get sick, you need to call a doctor."

When Jiang Feng walked into the courtyard, he saw that the monks who chanted the scriptures and the priests who practiced the law had already been invited.On the contrary, Siqing's dowry maids, Ling Zhen, Lu Chu, and a half-aged aunt were always talking in front of the mourning hall.Seeing Jiang Feng, Ling Zhen hurriedly came up to salute, and then yelled at the boy: "Why don't you ask someone to go to the door to meet the guests." Turning to Jiang Feng, she said, "It's just a matter of time. My uncle and wife are here so early."

When Jiang Feng entered the mourning hall and thought of Shen Huanhua, he couldn't help crying with Xiaying.Lingzhen persuaded her, and then said: "It's already a small funeral, my uncle and wife are sorry. When my uncle comes to Beijing, my uncle and wife are kind enough to persuade me." Jiang Feng said: "What kind of board do you use?" Lingzhen said: "In a hurry , I found a pair of Zhenyuan boards." Jiang Feng said: "We still have a pair of Yang Xuanyu in our house, you can figure it out." Walking out of the mourning hall, he handed over the funeral ceremony prepared in advance by the housekeeper of Jiaguo Mansion, and saw how suitable it was at this time The leading officials came to express condolences one after another.She didn't want to interact with him, so she just said to Ling Zhen: "If you are short of manpower, just go to my house to ask for it." After speaking, she walked back to the corridor and left the house.

For a while, some people entered and exited the mourning hall, pointing and talking about the Buddha's name, and the whole street became chaotic.Sitting in the sedan chair, Jiang Feng saw the archway of the gate of the mansion submerged in a sheet of white snow.Old Xia, the butler of the Jiaguo Mansion who was following the sedan chair, said: "After Ye Xiang died, the court has changed again. I heard that Xu Shangshu was the first to get cold. It's a pity that the eldest girl in our mansion..."

"Old Xia," Jiang Feng called across the sedan chair, "You don't need to talk about it, let's talk about it when Yuan Xi comes back."

Jiang Feng never went to the palace after returning to Beijing. Siqing kept something from her all along, and she was usually indifferent, and did not look for her.When Shen Jiangdong returned to Beijing the next day, he couldn't help crying a lot.Hearing that it was the landslide of blood after childbirth, he wept with Jiang Feng: "My mother died of illness after giving birth to her, but I didn't expect Huanhua to be like this." Jiang Feng persuaded a few words, but he didn't know what to say.In the end, Shen Jiangdong went to see Xiao Yi in the ban, but Jiang Feng didn't go to see Siqing either.

When Shen Jiangdong came back in the evening, Jiang Feng said, "I thought about it and thought it was too much of a coincidence, but I asked carefully, and there was really no flaw."

Shen Jiangdong looked tired, and asked softly, "Who do you think it is?"

Jiang Feng said: "It's either He Shizhi or Duan Wang."

Shen Jiangdong shook his head and said, "Impossible. He Shizhi didn't have the guts, and King Duan didn't have the motivation to do so. If someone killed Ye Xiufeng and blamed He Shizhi on He Shizhi, it would be the same as King Duan. After all, Ye Xiufeng is dead now." , He Shizhi and Duan Wang became the targets of public criticism."

Jiang Feng murmured, "Is it really a coincidence?"

But Shen Jiangdong said: "I just regret it. If I didn't agree to marry Huan Hua to Ye's family, how could I be here today..." Tears fell again, "Why did Lan Cheng suddenly write that letter to Ye Xiufeng?"

Jiang Feng sighed and said: "The girl from the fourth room is going to get married, and the dowry is short. The mansion can't turn around money for a while, so Ye Xiufeng wrote to ask my uncle to find a way to get more money from the south, which annoyed my uncle, so my uncle wrote The letter said his father."

Shen Jiangdong heaved a long sigh.

On March [-]th, Siqing went to the Taiye Pond and cut open the ice to release the water lamp.

She wrote on the lamp the sentence "Wanting to sacrifice to the suspicious king, Tianya is crying at this time", put the lamp in the pool of Taiye, and saw that little star-like light merged on the surface of the pool, and countless water lamps and lamp flames were reflected in the water. In the sparkling water waves that emerged, he was silent and independent for a long time.

Si Qing took a sip of her lips, and there was saltiness between her lips and teeth, and it was only then that Si Qing realized that she was crying.Departing from Jiahe in July and a half of that year, he went north and returned to the Imperial Capital. It was the first time he entered the prosperous and prosperous Ye Mansion, the first time he saw Ye Xiufeng walking away from the twelve heavy silk landscape screens. Recalling this, I feel dizzy .It turned out that I was staring at the sparkling water for a long time, and I was a little dizzy.

Seeing Shen Huanhua's smiling face again in a trance, thinking back to where he had returned to the imperial capital, Shen Huanhua knew what Ye Xiufeng was thinking and had been silently defending himself.When it was not possible to leave the capital, Shen Huanhua tried to ask Concubine Ding'an to recognize her as a righteous daughter, trying to help herself get rid of Ye Xiufeng's schemes, but unfortunately she didn't plan for those evil spirits in the end.However, overnight, bright eyes and bright teeth will return to the loess.

Her dowry maid Yun Chu approached and said, "Girl, sister Lingzhen said that the uncle has returned from the south."

Ye Lancheng rushed back to the imperial capital before his father and his wife were invited to see Siqing, but Siqing refused to see him.Since Siqing was gone, Xiao Yi was afraid of making Siqing angry, so he didn't see Ye Lancheng either.After Ye Lancheng returned to the mansion, Siqing sent Ling Zhen to say to Ye Lancheng: "The girl said, she burned the letter. It's about the master, the girl doesn't hate you, but I want to thank you." After speaking, Ling Zhen immediately took a few steps back , said in a low voice, "This is what the girl said, and the servant is just ordered to pass on the word."

A Ru kiln porcelain cup shattered at the sound, Ling Zhen stared at Ye Lancheng who was thin and thin, turned her head and ran out of the house as if fleeing.

Ye Lancheng smashed up without thinking, and the crowd couldn't persuade him.At this time, someone said from behind: "Let him smash it, or he won't be able to vent it."

Ye Lancheng looked up and cried, "Brother."

Shen Jiangdong couldn't help crying, and reluctantly said: "This is your sister-in-law, you haven't seen it yet?"

On the morning of the Ye Mansion's funeral, the famous banners and various paper bundles were brought out, and the monks who chanted sutras and the drummers who played music dressed up and waited for them early in the morning.The Jingzhao Mansion sent people to clear the way, and the relatives and colleagues who attended the funeral all took carriages and horses, occupying most of the streets and alleys.Mr. Yin Yang got up at the time of day, and there were road sacrifices set up by various families along the way. The funeral procession was sent to the family temple outside the city to stop the coffin, and returned to Yongzhou after a hundred days to bury the ancestral tomb.Shen Jiangdong and his wife also went out of the city to see each other off on this day. The wine was handed out in mournful voices, and the funeral relatives and friends dispersed one after another, but Shen Jiangdong and his wife stayed till the end.

Ye Lancheng went into the main hall to comfort the spirit, everyone sacrificed to the gods and cleaned up, and dismissed the monk Le Ren, Lu Chu stayed in the mansion, Ling Zhen returned to the forbidden center first, and the Xia Ying painted by Shen Huan was also renamed Xia Chu and went with Si Qing. .

The spirit was settled here, Ye Lancheng said to Shen Jiangdong and his wife: "The funeral is almost over, thank you brother and sister-in-law for your trouble these days."

Ye Xiufeng passed away, and Ye Lancheng followed the rules of Ding You.Shen Jiangdong nodded and said: "The situation in the imperial capital is unknown, you should return to your hometown of Yongzhou after a hundred days."

Ye Lancheng only said: "It doesn't matter if you don't know. When my father left, the vitality of the Ye family was gone; when Huanhua left, most of my heart died. The imperial concubine never admitted that she was from the Ye family. From now on, I will follow her." go."

When it comes to Shen Huanhua, Shen Jiangdong also chokes up.Jiang Feng persuaded: "The dead are gone..." Shen Jiangdong interrupted: "Ye Xiang passed away, and everything before that ends here. The imperial concubine will definitely enter the central palace, and you don't need to bother about the imperial concubine."

Ye Lancheng said: "Her plan, I am astonished, never dare to bother for her."

Shen Jiangdong persuaded: "She said angry words, and you also said angry words. Isn't it interesting that you two are so upset? What's more, your family owes her, so why do you care about her angry words? "

Ye Lancheng said bitterly: "It's all retribution."

Seeing this, Shen Jiangdong stopped persuading him, and brought Jiang Feng to speak with him, and Ye Lancheng sent him out of the mountain gate.

When Shen Jiangdong and his wife boarded the car, Jiang Feng couldn't help but said: "Although the appearance of the eldest son Ye and the imperial concubine are very similar, their temperaments are different after all."

Because of the funeral that day, Jiang Feng only had two silver picks on his head.In the evening, she sent Huaying out, pulled out the hairpin in front of the mirror, and Shen Jiangdong suddenly walked into her room and said: "It's so cold, don't catch a cold."

Jiang Feng was feeling uneasy, and Shen Jiangdong said to himself, "I regret it now, if I didn't agree to Huanhua's marriage at the beginning..."

"If you don't agree to this marriage, Huanhua might marry to Dingfan, do you have the heart?"

Shen Jiangdong sighed, turned around to wipe away his tears, only to hear Jiang Feng say again: "You don't have to think about it anymore. Thinking about it again is nothing but repeated self-blame."

Shen Jiangdong said: "I can't do it, I only have this one biological sister."

Jiang Feng suddenly asked: "I want to know, does Ye Lancheng have other festivals with the imperial concubine?"

Shen Jiangdong knew that Jiang Feng deliberately changed the subject, so that he wouldn't let him think about Shen Huanhua anymore, but he still answered: "There shouldn't be any holidays. Lan Cheng is silent, and the imperial concubine has an out-of-the-box temperament. Naturally, the two don't get along. Besides, the imperial concubine I'm afraid I might look down on Lan Cheng."

Jiang Feng thought for a while and said, "The two look alike, but apart from their looks, they don't look like real brothers and sisters in any way."

(End of this chapter)