stormy clouds

Chapter 1
In early summer, Chang’s house is full of flowers and trees, especially the two rows of tall osmanthus trees beside the bluestone-paved road. The leaves are as green as washing, and the green shade spreads across the ground, making the whole courtyard even more quiet and peaceful.

But the silence was quickly broken by the sound of chaotic footsteps.

"Girl, girl," a thirteen or fourteen-year-old servant girl ran over in a panic all the way, "Old lady. Old lady is not well."

The half-closed door of the side room opened with a "creak", and a girl wearing a water-colored satin beige and light grass green pleated skirt had strode out, "Bi Yan, what do you think is wrong with grandma?"

"Old lady. Old lady fainted suddenly." Bi Yan ran in a hurry, pressed her hands on her chest hard, panting heavily.

"How did you faint? During the noon just now, grandma was in good spirits, and she drank an extra bowl of duck soup today." The girl became anxious when she heard this.

"I also just heard from Sister Qianhong. Sister Qianhong said that Dr. Xu has already come to see her, and she said that if she doesn't wake up tonight, it might be dangerous." Bi Yan breathed a sigh of relief, and finally spoke quickly .

The girl didn't ask any more questions, and ran out in two steps in three steps.Bi Yan followed behind, shouting anxiously, "Girl, girl, slow down."

The Chang family's courtyard was originally small, but the year before last, Mr. Lin who was next to the Chang family was promoted. His family originally had an ancestral property in the capital, and the family did not plan to come back after moving.A few months later, the Lin family spread the word that they were selling the yard, and Chang Pu, the second master of the Chang family, bought his yard. Once the two yards were connected, the Chang family's house would more than triple in size.

Chang Pu gave the Yincui Pavilion located in the Lin family's courtyard to Chang Luoyun, the eldest daughter.

It's just that this Yincui Pavilion is very good, but it is opposite to the Jinyu Hall where the old lady of the Chang family lives, and it takes half an hour to go there.

When Chang Luoyun arrived at Jinyutang, he wasn't panting like Biyan, but he was in a hurry and was sweating.

The old lady of the Chang family had the habit of taking a nap, after noon, Jin Yutang was very quiet.When people are old, their sleep is light, and maids and servants are also very light when they do things, for fear of disturbing the old lady's sleep.

The curtains in the old lady's bedroom were half-drawn as usual, and as soon as Chang Luoyun came in, she could smell a strong smell of medicine.

Qian Hong was holding a bowl of medicine, bending over in front of the couch to feed the old lady Chang with a spoon, a spoonful of medicine was poured down, most of it flowed out from the corner of her mouth.Qian Hong wiped it with a handkerchief, and took another spoonful to feed.

Seeing Chang Luoyun, she dipped the corner of the old lady's mouth with a sweat towel, straightened up, and called out "Fourth Miss" with a strong nasal voice.

Chang Luoyun walked gently to the bed.The grandmother in front of her was still as radiant and kind as she was at noon.At this time, her eyes were slightly closed, covered with an autumn-colored brocade quilt, she might feel uncomfortable, her eyelids trembled slightly from time to time, and her face was also white with a tinge of blue, showing gray.

Chang Luoyun burst into tears. She sat on the couch, took the old lady's hand, and said softly, "Grandma, what's wrong with you? You said at noon that your granddaughter looks good wearing hibiscus flowers." , When the hibiscus blooms in the yard, you want to give your granddaughter hairpins yourself, why did you fall ill."

Qian Hong turned around, bit her lip hard, tears fell down again.

"Qian Hong, what's wrong with my grandmother?" Chang Luoyun wiped the corner of his eyes with his fingers, "Why is my grandmother not here when my grandmother is sick?"

Qian Hong stood silently.

"I heard from Bi Yan that Dr. Xu was invited here. Where is Dr. Xu? Why isn't he here?"

Qian Hong was silent, and said, "Doctor Xu prescribed some medicine, let me try it first. Miss, you go back first, it doesn't matter to the old lady, when she wakes up, she will definitely call you."

It doesn't matter, why did Bi Yan say that her grandmother's condition is critical?Moreover, looking at the situation of grandma, it is not unimportant.

In the past, when someone was sick in the family, if it was a little serious, the doctor would stay at home to watch over it, but now they don't stay.

Chang Luoyun was puzzled, frowned and stood up.She bent down and pulled the quilt off the old lady's body, "It's been hot these days, and it's easy to sweat if you cover it thickly, but it's cold at night, so remember to close the windows."

Qian Hong agreed.

Chang Luoyun sighed, "I know you are the most careful, but when the patient is not as good, you should be more careful than usual."

Qian Hong raised her eyes and looked at her, then lowered her head, "The old lady treats people very well. If it weren't for her, I don't know if I would have survived to this day. Don't worry, girl, from now on, if the old lady takes soup and medicine, I will take care of it myself. .”

Chang Luoyun nodded, but if Qian Hong didn't say anything, she would naturally have a way to know.She went to ask A Niang, and A Niang would tell her everything.

Just as Chang Luoyun was about to turn around, a shrill voice came in crying, "Grandma, grandma, my poor grandma, you have always been so kind to us, why did the eldest lady want to kill you?" The figure opened the curtain and rushed in with a gust of fragrant wind.

Qian Hong turned pale with shock, "Fifth Miss, don't talk nonsense," she raised her head in a panic to interrupt her, "These are all things that don't exist, who do you hear talking nonsense?"

With a "boom" in Chang Luoyun's mind, he took a step forward and approached the fifth girl, Chang Luoyao, "What did you say? What does grandma's illness have to do with my aunt, can you say it again?"

Although Chang Luoyun was only half a year older than Chang Luoyao, she was half a head taller than Chang Luoyao. At this moment, under her fierce gaze, Chang Luoyao felt the pressure.

She lowered her eyes, bowed her knees and saluted, Fang covered her mouth with the juan handkerchief in her hand, said "Oh", and said in a sobbing voice, "Fourth sister, I was also impatient and lost my voice."

"Aphasia?" Chang Luoyun sneered, "Did you come here specially to pass on a message to me? Say, is it Daddy or Aunt Pei?"

Chang Luoyao shook her head and raised her head, "Who else is there to say now? Even the servants are talking about it, saying that her mother looks generous and gentle on weekdays, but she has a heart of snakes and scorpions, and even her own mother-in-law is poisonous." kill!"

"You..." Chang Luoyun pointed at Chang Luoyao and said angrily, "You're just talking nonsense."

"I didn't believe it at first, but the evidence is convincing, so I can't help but believe it." Although Chang Luoyao's tone was soft, but there was a trace of provocation in her eyes, "The poison was put in the bowl where grandma drank tea, maybe mother I didn't expect that someone in this family would dare to investigate her and put the remaining poison in the dressing table, but as soon as the investigation was found out, Huan'er ran away in fear."

Chang Luoyun laughed back angrily, "There are many loopholes, such a clumsy trick is believed by some."

"Fourth sister doesn't believe it, but we all believe it." Chang Luoyao looked directly at Chang Luoyun, and smiled, "I respected and loved my mother since I was a child, how did I know that my aunt would do such a thing, you said , if this matter gets out, you and I, as well as sister Luoxia from the uncle's family, and even Wen Yun, the entire Chang family may be destroyed."

Qian Hong heard that her words were getting worse and worse, so she came over and said, "The fifth girl misses her grandmother and came to visit. The old lady is naturally relieved, but now that she has seen it, the two girls should return. "

She winked at Bi Yan who was standing at the door, and Bi Yan understood, and hurried up to help Chang Luoyun, "Fourth Miss, these are just people gossiping, it's totally unbelievable."

Chang Luoyao curled her lips and did not speak.

Chang Luoyun's ears were buzzing, and she was helped out of the Jinyu Hall by Biyan. After walking for a while, she suddenly stopped and turned to look at Biyan, "You know that, don't you?"

"I"

"is not it?"

Bi Yan's knees softened, she knelt on the ground, and answered in tears, "Yes."

"You believed it too, so you didn't tell me, did you?"

"Girl, it's not like this," Bi Yan took two steps on her knees, fell in front of Chang Luoyun, and cried, "I don't believe that Mrs. Han will poison the old lady. I know Mrs. Han is wronged, but I am also afraid that the girl will be sad, so .I can only hide it from the girl first."

Chang Luoyun looked at her for a long time before slowly saying, "Get up."

Biyan grew up with her, and she doesn't believe in anyone, and she doesn't believe in Biyan.

She turned around, broke off a branch from the tree by the roadside and held it in her hand, and walked all the way, grabbing the leaves on the branch and throwing it on the ground, "I don't believe it either, but I can't think of it for a while, who is it?" To kill my grandmother and my mother."

Bi Yan followed behind and dared not speak.

"Tell me, what will they do to my aunt now?" Chang Luoyun squinted his eyes, looked up at the westward sun, and stopped in his tracks.

"I heard from Ziyan in front of the fifth girl that the second master shouted to open the ancestral hall." Bi Yan glanced at Chang Luoyun and said cautiously.

"Open the ancestral hall?" Chang Luoyun was taken aback for a moment, then paused for a moment while holding Ye Ye's hand.

(End of this chapter)