green bamboo dream

"I was in the water today, it seemed like I saw my mother... Now that I think about it, she was the one who kept me safe when I choked on the water." A happy smile appeared on Yunxiang's face, as if recalling The gentle expression of the mother when she was young.

Zhou's mother interrupted her quite distressed, "Your parents are blessing you, you have to be good..." But she was worried that she might have collided with something unclean.

"Let's not talk about this." Yunxiang wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with her hand, and said with a forced smile: "...Actually, I have a relative who lives far away, but he still misses me. , I dare not take care of it openly, and burn paper for my parents and brother every year and festival."

She took Zhou Mama's hand and begged: "I know it's embarrassing my mother, but today is my mother's death day. I can't burn paper for her when I'm in such a body. I also ask my mother to send a letter for me, so that they can help me." Burn more, it's all in my heart."

"You silly child..." Zhou's mother moved, trying to persuade her not to be so concerned, her mother would definitely not blame her, and in the end it just turned into a long sigh... That's all, it's not a big deal anyway, and it's okay to help a group. "Okay, I'll go after you sleep." Mother Zhou helped her tuck in the quilt, and seeing her eyes closed, she stepped out lightly.

Yuzhu returned to the main room, and sat down on the grand teacher's chair covered with soft ink and fine cloud brocade and silk. Recently, she has been very lazy, and she is especially prone to sleepiness.

He simply asked Hua Ruo to make the bed, twisted the gold and silver thread and slipped the silk brocade quilt to take a nap.

It felt like Hua Ruo was shaking him awake before he had slept for a while.

"Ma'am, something happened, Mother Zhou sent someone to arrest the second master," she said in Yuzhu's ear.

Yu Zhu shuddered, her drowsiness was completely frightened, and she woke up completely: "What's the matter? Where's the second master?"

"Second master hasn't come back yet, so he sent a servant to come back and say something."

Which song is this sung again?

Yu Zhu frowned and picked up the clothes hanging beside the bed to put on by herself, while motioning Hua Ruo to continue talking.

"...It was said that Mrs. Jing'an's house in Mao'er Hutong was being searched. Zhou's mother suddenly came to the door and was caught. She kept saying that she was looking for relatives of Ruxiang. The second master suspected Zhou's mother If there is any shameful underworld matter with Mrs. Jing'an, I will take it back for interrogation."

Getting involved with Yunxiang again, Yuzhu thought slowly, the little jacket in his hand was tied in a mess, Hua Ruo hurried forward to help.

Just as he packed his upper body and was about to lift the quilt out of the bed, a man's footsteps came from outside, followed by Cheng Xunxun with a serious face, lifting the curtain and entering.

"Don't get up, sleep for a while when you're tired, I'll come back to see you, and I have to go to your mother's side later." Cheng Xunxun's voice was warm, and he quickly walked to the bed and sat down, "Woke you up?"

"No..." Yu Zhu mumbled, and asked Hua Ruo to prepare hot water and tea, and then asked him, "How's Mama Zhou, have you asked me clearly?"

Cheng Xunxun nodded, a gloomy look flashed in his eyes, and he said in a deep voice, "I really didn't expect that Rue Xiang would be involved."

"Fortunately, my mother ordered her to keep her mouth shut and not to talk about it, so I found out by chance." Speaking of this matter, Cheng Xunxun's expression was slightly solemn, "...the house that I checked today was owned by Mrs. Jing'an, and sometimes she and her disciples Settling down there, I collected a lot of women's dresses, as well as drinking orders, throwing pots, dice and other playing tools."

He paused, with cold eyes, "It's said to be another courtyard, but it's actually a sensual den, and the neighbors have seen men come in and out at night... As for Zhou's mother, she really didn't know about it, she was just being lied to." .”

"You mean Rue Xiang?" Yu Zhu opened her mouth wide in surprise, it was Rue Xiang who asked Mama Zhou to go, yes, Rue Xiang didn't know that Master Jing'an's sale of Mixiang to Aunt Chen had already been discovered.

In other words, Rue Xiang was acquainted with Mrs. Jing'an before, or she was acquainted with Mrs. Jing'an's young apprentice.

"Yeah." Cheng Xunxun nodded slightly, "I've asked someone to ask, but... I think it's something to do with it." With a stern look on his face, he reached out and touched Yuzhu's forehead. I'll go to Siqian Hall again...you are too tired to bear the body, so please sleep for a while."

After finishing speaking, he got up and went out without even bothering to take a sip of hot tea.

Yu Zhu stretched out her head to look at the hourglass in the corner, it was three quarters to unitary time.But after being so frightened, he didn't feel sleepy anymore, so he simply sat on the bed and thought about things.

Seeing her frowning tightly, Hua Ruo didn't dare to intervene, cleaned up the water basin that had been brought up just now that had run out of heat, and quietly backed away.

After a while, Ruan's mother came in from the outside with a smile, squatted down and said, "Madam, the girl in the early garden woke up and asked for porridge. I tried it, but she didn't have a fever. I think she's all right."

Yu Zhu smiled and nodded, "It's good that it's okay, Mama Ruan, you should work harder and make her a pot of porridge with red dates and japonica rice, she's the most greedy for your porridge."

"It's done, it's boiled on the stove." Ruan's mother smiled brightly, stepped forward to tuck Yu Zhu in the quilt, and asked Yu Zhu if she was hungry, and if she wanted to eat something.

Being pregnant, she always eats more than before. Hearing Mama Ruan's question, Yu Zhu unceremoniously ordered.

"Okay, servant girl will do it now." Mother Ruan repeatedly agreed and withdrew.

Later, Qinsi brought over a small plate of roasted chestnuts, which were still boiling hot, and they smelled burnt before they were peeled off.

Qin Si's face was flushed, she might have just come out from playing around in the morning garden, there was still a trace of laughter in the corners of her eyes and brows.Pi Li Pa La peeled the chestnuts for Yu Zhu.

The peeled chestnuts are golden and golden, and the rich aroma diffuses. The tempting rain bamboo is salivating, and it can't be hot. Pick up one and throw it into the mouth. Chewing, the mouth is full of fragrance, sweet and soft.

"Madam, it's still hot, just wait a while." Qin Si snatched back the plate and said angrily, "If it burns your mouth, Mother Ruan will definitely not do it in the future, and the servants will lose a lot of food."

……you are vicious

After eating roasted chestnuts and dinner, it was already evening.

Yu Zhuwo tossed and turned on the bed, unable to fall asleep, and finally asked Hua Ruo to go and check to see if he had figured it out.

After less than half a cup of tea, Hua Ruo came back with a strange look on his face.

"If the servant doesn't go, the old lady will send someone to tell." Mrs. Xie knew that she was a powerful maid beside Yu Zhu and was very trusted, so she didn't avoid her.

"It turns out that Master Jing'an's young apprentice is none other than the unmarried daughter-in-law of Yunxiang's elder brother Qin Bai, named Jiexiang... She is also a neighbor of the Qin family. The parents of the two families know each other well. The marriage was settled... The Qin family is very kind, even if the father of the Xin family died, the Xin family would only end up with an orphan girl, and they did not regret the marriage."

Well, Yu Zhu, a good man with love and righteousness, nodded, pointed to the tea on the table to signal her to drink, and asked, "And then?"

Hua Ruo was not too polite, took a sip from the teacup, and said in a low voice: "There is only half a month left before the good days, Qin Bai had that disaster, and Ruoxiang was taken to the Duke's mansion...Xin Jie Xiang didn't remarry, she went to Pudu Temple to become a monk, and worshiped under the master of Jing'an."

At the same time, Siqian hall is not peaceful.

Xie frowned, as if he couldn't believe his ears, and the old man also opened his lips slightly, with a shocked look on his face.

Cheng Xunxun sat on the grand teacher's chair, and continued to say expressionlessly: "...the place where the rules are clear, but there are actually filth and evil people. Prince Jing, together with a few monks in the temple, used incense to wantonly insult good women and young ladies...and even had sex with her. The female monks in the temple don’t know clearly.”

Firstly, the humiliated family does not know who the culprit is, and they are also concerned about the name of Pudu Temple. Secondly, it is a huge scandal, and they must not dare to let others know.Even if which one is not afraid, trouble will come out, the case will not go to trial, and there is nowhere to investigate—who would believe it?

"That Mrs. Jing'an is even more damned. She actually formed a relationship with a high-ranking family in Beijing, walked in the back house and secretly sold some pickled medicine and incense sticks. She also used this convenience to harm the two ladies."

Xie Shi suddenly felt dizzy and had a vague premonition.

Sure enough, Cheng Xunxun paused, looked at Mrs. Xie and the old man, his eyes were dark and deep, "The family is the eldest daughter of Mr. Wu's family, the master of Zhan Shifu, and it was originally assigned to the eldest son of Mr. Liao's family of Guanglu Temple Administration. Later, because the Wu family found out that the son of the Liao family already had a son and a daughter born in the same room, they divorced the marriage. The Liao family boy hated being swept away, so he bribed Mrs. Jing'an to deceive Miss Wu's family. I went to the temple to rape...the other is the fourth lady of the Qi family."

"Really..." Xie couldn't hold the prayer beads with trembling hands, and only clutched the armrest of the chair.

"Did Yurong's child be killed by that old thief?"

Thinking of Qi Yurong's sweet smiling face, Xie's heart felt like a knife was twisting. She really loved that child as her own daughter-in-law. Such a good child, but... unexpectedly, such a thing happened?

"What's the reason?" Xie's voice trembled, and he tried his best to stabilize his voice, as if it was squeezed out from between his teeth, he said in a hateful voice: "What's the reason to hurt her?"

The Duke of Qi's mansion is not an ordinary family of petty officials and officials. How can their daughter-in-law be so harmful?It's too hard for Master Jing'an to eat the ambition and courage, and this person who has no grievances or enmities, why did he end up being Miss Qi's family?

The old man also frowned. The good marriage with the Qi family was blown away, and the friendship between the two houses has been affected for many years. It turned out to be the fault of an old nun.

"Master Jing'an said that her apprentice must do it. She thought that she could justify the adultery by herself, so she didn't have to worry about being found out. The most important thing is that she still wants to keep that apprentice to please Prince Jing, so she agreed. .” Cheng Xunxun said quietly.

Master Jing'an's apprentice—it has been found out just now that he is Rue Xiang's unmarried sister-in-law.Xie Shi was dumbfounded, and lost his voice: "It's her, how dare... how dare..."

Mama Yang was serving the tea, she was heartbroken to hear this, and she hurried forward to comfort Mrs. Xie.

What the old lady wanted to say was that she dared to be so bold as to conspire with the nun against the unmarried mistress. Her elder brother took revenge and had such an argument with the old man; he kindly took her in the mansion to avoid disaster...

Even if she fell in love with the second master, she could only be an aunt at most. If she schemed against Miss Qi's family, there would be another lady to marry in. What benefits would she get?

Yang's mother thought of Cheng Xunxun's ups and downs in marriage, getting older and older, and suddenly caught a flash of thought in her mind-could it be that she wanted the second master to choose a wife with lower and lower conditions, and finally had to marry a A mistress with no obvious family background and poor methods? (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe and reward. Your support is my biggest motivation.)