After Gao married the prince, the sick and weak concubine lost her horse

Chapter 219 219 Peeping
Shen Qingci almost had goosebumps all over his body.

He doesn't want to just hug, what else does he want to do? ? ?
When Shen Qingci thought of his hidden illness, he originally wanted to remind him, but then he thought that it might be related to other people's dignity and pride, so he couldn't mention it.

So entangled again and again, she didn't know how to deal with it.

Fortunately, Sheng Tingye only sighed softly in the end.

"Go to sleep."

I don't know if it was Shen Qingci's illusion, but there was a bit of helplessness in this sound.

After such a toss, Shen Qingci not only didn't dare to move, but also didn't dare to think too much.

However, she was not as energetic as she imagined.

Within a quarter of an hour, sleepiness struck, and she nestled in Sheng Tingye's arms and fell asleep.

Hearing her long breathing, Sheng Tingye sighed silently.

He seemed to be rejected again?
But with her, he has enough patience.

It's just that the pain in his heart continued, tormenting him so much that he couldn't sleep or eat.

Especially when she was still in his arms, even the fingertips holding her were painful.

However, he was unwilling to let go until his death.

Even if she was his poisoned wine and had to go through life and death, he would admit it.

Even more leaking sound, the long night is long.

Some people have a good night's sleep, while others have trouble sleeping.

When Shen Qingci woke up, Sheng Tingye got up at some point and disappeared.

Shen Qingci was happy and at ease.

She dressed quickly and got up.

Ting Lan, who was waiting outside, heard the movement and inquired. After getting Shen Qingci's permission, she pushed the door in and waited on Shen Qingci to clean up.

"Where's the son?"

Shen Qingci asked casually while eating breakfast.

Ting Lan lowered her eyes, and said respectfully: "I was invited by the governor of Zhao County early in the morning, and the young master ordered me to stay in the mansion and listen to Miss Axi."

Hearing this, Shen Qingci, who took a sip of hot soup, couldn't help squinting his eyes.

This man is smart.

Knowing that she must have made some moves when she came back from Taihetang yesterday, so I sent her a helper.

She noticed Ting Lan's use of the word "we will wait", indicating that there are still people in the dark.

Shen Qingci raised his hand, pulled Ting Lan closer, and lowered his voice.

"Find someone to watch Taihetang's every move, especially that mother Qian. If you find her going to Yixing courtyard, let me know immediately."

Ting Lan nodded, and was about to give orders, but was stopped by Shen Qingci again.

"Have you placed maids in this mansion?"

Hearing this, Ting Lan nodded without any hesitation.

Shen Qingci raised his hands to support his cheeks, "That would be much easier."

She hooked her fingers, and after Ting Lan stepped forward, she continued: "You let her spread it out quietly, just say that Yixing Courtyard is haunted. The more vicious the spread, the better. It's best to make people panic."

Shen Qingci thought about it, instead of waiting for the movement from Taihetang, it would be better to take the initiative to make things worse and see the reaction from Taihetang.

She wants to see what this "ghost" is.

Hearing this, although Ting Lan was puzzled, she nodded quickly in response.

For the next few days, Sheng Tingye left early and returned late, while Shen Qingci stayed at Wang's house with peace of mind. On the surface, he was accompanying Wang Baozhu, but in fact he was observing the reactions of everyone in the Wang family.

As the rumors of haunting became more and more intense, Wang Qici couldn't suppress it anymore. In the end, Ponzi came forward, reprimanded several maids who were frightened and cried in public, and threatened to sell them. So far, no one dared to make trouble It's on the bright side.

However, that night, Shen Qingci felt drowsy and was about to fall asleep when he heard Ting Lan's knock on the door.

Sheng Tingye was reading the official document before the case.

Hearing the movement, Shen Qingci immediately regained his spirits.

She rushed to the door in one stride.

Ting Lan leaned against the door and said in a low voice: "Girl, Pang took Mama Qian out of the Taihe Hall and was heading towards Yixing Yuan."

Shen Qingci's eyes lit up.

She subconsciously turned her head to look at Sheng Tingye.

Sheng Tingye wanted to say that it was snowing outside and the wind was bitingly cold, so he just asked the people below to follow.

But seeing her look like this, his heart softened, and he grabbed a big cloak and put it on her, "Let's go."

The two turned their backs onto the ridge of the roof, flew over the eaves and walls, and took a shortcut towards Yixing Courtyard.

Before coming to Wang's house, Sheng Tingye had already seen the distribution map of Wang's house, so although he was not familiar with it, he could still find the place.

But to his surprise, Shen Qingci seemed to be very familiar with this house.

But thinking about it, she has been staying here for the past few days, so it is not surprising that she is familiar with this place. Naturally, Sheng Tingye didn't think deeply about it.

Pang's health is not good, and he is old again, and he walks tremblingly.

Therefore, even if they went out before Shen Qingci and Sheng Tingye, it was the latter who reached the wall of Yixing Courtyard first.

Shen Qingci raised her finger and pointed to the place where she stayed the last time, and said in a low voice: "It's here, and there, when I went in, it was a whirlwind."

Sheng Tingye looked carefully into the little plum forest with the faint light.

At first, he thought there was some formation here.

But nothing special has been found so far.

But thinking about it, how could someone as shrewd and overly cautious as Xiao Qingyang set up formations outside his study so blatantly? Isn't this intentionally eccentric to arouse suspicion?

There were soft footsteps not far away.

Sheng Tingye half embraced Shen Qingci's body, and the two hid in the shadows together.

Not long after, Pang Zi walked slowly with the support of Qian's mother.

The movements of the two were very light, as if they were afraid of disturbing others, they were clearly the mistress of the family, but they looked a little sneaky.

Shen Qingci watched their steps with wide eyes, for fear of missing something important.

She really couldn't figure out why she was trapped in this plum blossom grove, and these two old women who didn't seem to be very strong and couldn't even walk well could enter the yard smoothly.

The snow at the door creaked under their feet.

Mother Qian opened the courtyard door with the key, then quickly backed away, covered her mouth and nose and stood outside the courtyard door.

"Old lady, please slow down."

From the looks of it, she didn't intend to go in.

Pang Zi nodded, she covered her mouth and nose with one hand, and leaned on the door frame with the other, and stepped into the yard.

Shen Qingci and Sheng Tingye, who were hiding in the dark, exchanged glances... The problem is the smell? ?

The last time Shen Qingci jumped directly from the courtyard wall, of course he couldn't avoid inhaling the surrounding air.

At that time, she only smelled the strong plum fragrance, and didn't notice anything unusual.

By the time she realized something was wrong, she was dizzy for no reason, her limbs were weak, and she saw that the plum branches around her had turned into tentacles, grabbing at her horribly.

But looking at Ponzi's calm and composed demeanor, it is obvious that nothing is going on.

Therefore, Shen Qingci suspected that someone might have given a drug powder that could cause hallucinations and fainting in this yard.

Although she has a special constitution and can detoxify, but this detoxification process also takes time.

Not all poisons can be resolved instantly by her, so she was in that state at that time.

Seeing that Pangzi had successfully entered the yard, he walked along the small gravel road in the middle of the Merlin to the main house not far away.

Shen Qingci and Sheng Tingye looked at each other, and after getting a positive answer in each other's eyes, neither of them hesitated, easily avoiding Qian's mother's sight and turning over into the yard.

Of course, both of them held their breath this time.

At first, Shen Qingci was a little nervous.

But with the wind blowing under their feet, they easily crossed Xiaomeilin and reached the roof of the main house, nothing unusual happened, and Shen Qingci's heart was completely relieved.

It seemed that they guessed right, the problem was in the powder.

After going up the steps, Ponzi took off the veil and opened the door of the main house with the key.

Shen Qingci and Sheng Tingye also found the exact location, untied a tile, and looked underneath.

Although Pang Zi was just an ordinary person with no kung fu and was old and infirm, their movements were still very light without any carelessness.

After the door of the room was closed by Pang Zi, she took out the torch and lit the oil lamp in front of the case.

The light is as small as beans, but it is enough for people to see clearly the situation in the main house.

But a simple living room.

The position where Ponzi stood was the space separated by several rows of bookshelves.

Behind the screen not far away, there is a canopy bed, a set of Eight Immortals table, and a few simple decorations.

On the wall next to the bookshelf, there is a Buddhist niche.

It's just that what is enshrined on the wall is not a god or Buddha, but a tablet.

The light was dim, and Shen Qingci couldn't see the words on it clearly, but there could only be one tablet placed here aboveboard.

Pang walked to the altar, put his palms together, and said in a rather helpless tone, "Cheng En."

"You are at the bottom, have you been having a bad time recently?"

"If you're not happy, if you lack something, just entrust it to me. Why are you scaring those children in the mansion?"

Having said that, Ponzi sighed.

"You don't know, I often dream about that time recently."

"My days are numbered. I've never done anything to apologize to you. Even...but you should be clear below that those are just pretending."

"To be honest, he has treated Sujin and Afu very well these years."

"Even if he took your name, he also brought up our Sujin, and now Afu has become Princess An. On the other hand, none of his Suyi and the child are left behind. Even if you are angry, It should be gone too."

In the end, Ponzi was sobbing.

And Shen Qingci was lying on the beam of the house, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

If she understood correctly, the tablet at the bottom was given by Pang Zi to the real Wang Chengen.

Moreover, according to her, Wang Sujin is Wang Chengen's blood.

And her aunt, Wang Suyi, not only does not belong to the Pang family, she is not even Wang Chengen's. Her father is Xiao Qingyang who later took up Wang Chengen's identity.

Before that, Shen Qingci had always thought that her aunt Wang Suyi and Wang Sujin were biological sisters.

Although Xiao Wang doesn't look like her aunt, there are many twins who don't look like each other in this world, and no one has ever thought about it.

Back then, the pair of sisters married into Yong'an Bo's Mansion together. From sisters to sisters-in-law, I don't know how many people have envied them.

Xiao Wang's to Jiang Yuwan is both a aunt and an aunt.

In all fairness, for so many years after A Niang left, she really treated herself no worse than Jiang Yuzhi, and she did not owe her anything.

It was only later that greed was born in people's hearts.

Jiang Yuzhi turned to the second prince Sheng Tingjing, and everything in the Jiang family began to change quietly in the dark.

But the upbringing and care for the previous ten years were not all fake.

Now he suddenly told Shen Qingci that the so-called family relationship of more than ten years may not be true.

"I know, you must still be mad at him for treating everyone in the Wang family well."

"However, if this is not the case, I am afraid it will be difficult to conceal his identity."

"It's ridiculous to say that I still don't know his last name. Even after he left, I tried to quietly erect a monument for him, and it was impossible to make up a memorial tablet."

Having said that, Pangzi opened the secret compartment under the altar.

There is also a tablet inside, but unfortunately, there is nothing on it.

She put it next to Wang Chengen's tablet.

"My boss is narrow-minded, but he is not bad-hearted. I know you are capable. It's because I've kept the secret for you for so many years. Don't bully him."

"You have taken care of our orphans and widowed mothers for so many years, and the kindness owed to him has long been paid off. Now that your family is reunited below, don't come here in the future."

……

Ponzi babbled on a lot.

The oil lamp flickered on and off, and her voice was intermittent.

At first, she could still lean against the altar, but she couldn't support herself behind, so she simply sat on the ground.

It was like talking to two old friends, talking to those two tablets.

Xu Shi knew that her time was short, so she poured out all the words that had been suppressed in her heart for these years in one breath.

And Shen Qingci also pieced together the general course of events from her fragmentary fragments.

It's actually not complicated, but it sounds unbearable.

Back then, Xiao Qingyang carried Wang Suyi, who was still a baby, who was Jiang Yuwan's mother, all the way to escape the assassins and fled to the Jiangbei area.

Just happened to meet Wang Cheng'en who was offering a fortune-telling stall on the street.

With the help of Wang Chengen, the father and daughter escaped, but when they turned around, Wang Chengen, who was helping, was killed by the assassin.

Xiao Qingyang may have been out of guilt and self-blame at the time, or maybe he had resorted to tricks when he was desperate.

He found Pang according to the address Wang Chengen gave before.

At that time, Pang had just given birth to Wang Sujin.

Xiao Qingyang not only replaced Wang Chengen's identity, but also recorded his children Wang Suyi and Wang Sujin together and entered the household.

This Pang family was sold by her natal brother to a rich family as a maid since she was a child.

I have long since lost contact with my mother's family.

It was this kind-hearted family who asked her to redeem her body with the monthly silver she had saved after she reached the age of Ji, and returned her body deed.

After gaining freedom, she did not return to her natal family, but met Wang Chengen, and they lived a poor but warm little life with Wang Chengen.

I never thought that when I met Xiao Qingyang later, Wang Chengen was robbed.

After the identity matter was finalized, Xiao Qingyang took Pang and his two children all the way to Qingzhou, and only then did he have the story of getting rich by cheating the world.

As for Pang's natal family, they had never seen the real Wang Cheng'en, even if they found him later, they certainly wouldn't notice anything wrong.

The reason why Ponzi was able to help conceal and act for so long was also for the newly born child.

Without Xiao Qingyang, how would she, who has lost her husband, live as an orphan and widow?
On the one hand, there is no need to worry about food and clothing, and on the other hand, it is homeless.

Ponzi had no choice.

Moreover, Wang Sujin and Wang Suyi, who didn't know the truth later, grew up together, and they are better than real sisters if they are not real sisters.

Both of them also married the young master of Yong'anbo Mansion, and got two good marriages.

I can't say anything more about this.

From Pang's point of view, since Xiao Qingyang lived in hiding in Tibet before, he was either a gangster or a criminal of the imperial court.

If his identity is revealed, it will be their mother and daughter who will be affected in the end.

For the sake of the prosperity and wealth of her and her daughter Wang Sujin, she had to keep this secret tightly.

What's more, Xiao Qingyang treated them well.

It's just that this secret has been kept in her heart for too long, and her body is getting worse day by day, so she is always suspicious.

From time to time, I dream of Wang Chengen.

Tortured by the enormous mental pressure, she could hardly sleep or eat.

So, she enshrined the tablets of the two of them here, and was afraid of being disturbed, so she asked Mama Qian to sprinkle some medicinal powder in the yard.

Like this time, when she heard that Yixing Courtyard was haunted, she was even more disturbed, and rushed over overnight to have a look.

He rambled on for half an hour.

Pang's body couldn't hold on any longer, so he finally got up.

"No matter how this lawsuit is resolved, let's talk about it when I go down. At that time, I have to ask carefully, who is he...?"

When it came to the end, Pang Zi's voice was already choked with sobs.

"But before I leave, I still want to wait to see my Sujin and Afu, so please wait for me for now."

Pang sighed and stood quietly for a while before finally extinguishing the candle and retreating from the room.

Not long after, there was also the sound of locks being locked outside the courtyard.

Ponzi and Qian Mama have gone far.

But Shen Qingci on the beam of the house did not recover for a long time.

Since she was a child, she felt that her grandmother treated her differently from Jiang Yuzhi.

She will always treat Jiang Yuzhi with such warm and loving eyes.

Although it's not bad for her, there is always a kind of politeness in it.

She also thought it was because of preference.

After all, she has a flamboyant and evasive personality, not as well-behaved and sensible as Jiang Yuzhi.

Only now did she know that her grandmother was not her biological grandmother.

No wonder, when mentioning the dead Jiang Yuwan, she didn't show the slightest bit of grief like her grandmother.

She even inadvertently said half a sentence - she wants to see the only person she misses.

It turned out that Xiao Wang and Jiang Yuzhi were the ones connected by her blood.

Shen Qingci's mood was indescribably heavy and complicated.

Even though she was wearing a wide and thick cloak, she felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar.

Suddenly, her icy shoulders suddenly warmed up. Sheng Tingye sensed what was wrong with her and held her in his arms.

Shen Qingci, who came back to his senses, shook his head, indicating that he was fine.

The two waited for a while, guessing that Pang Zi and Qian's mother had gone far away, and then they got off the roof, then pried open the window, turned over and jumped in.

As the windows were closed again, the raging wind and snow were also kept out.

Shen Qingci's icy body did not feel warmer because of it.

(End of this chapter)