Zhe Jinchun

Chapter 449 Aunt Wen

Zhou Yu slowly stopped talking, and an imperceptible trace of fear crossed her plain and old face.

The scene of dead bodies all over the place and the stench blowing on my face, until now I think of it, it is still like yesterday.And as long as she thought of the clothes found from those dead bodies, she couldn't help but feel cold in her heart, the cold went to her bones.

Qin Su listened to Zhou Yu's words indifferently, without showing any surprise at all, only with a sneer on her lips.

Sure enough.

She knew it was not that simple.

At this time, Zhou Yu's voice sounded again, still with a little emotion and horror: "After this happened, the patriarch didn't say much. At that time, the wildfire had already destroyed the fields on the slope of the Qin family. It was scorched, it was really a barren land, and there was no food to be found, and everyone was busy all day for food, and no one thought about it at all."

"Yes, I've heard that those days were very difficult." Qin Su couldn't help but also sighed, with a trace of sadness floating on his face.

After natural disasters, nothing more than man-made disasters.

The direct branch, the partial branch, the major clan, the minor clan, the descendant, the concubine, the righteous, the partial...

When everything is going well, these contradictions are not yet apparent, but when a catastrophe falls from the sky, will those people who have been despised, humiliated, and suppressed continue to let others step on their heads?
Presumably they are unwilling, and they may even resist. If you can't resist openly, you can always come secretly.

Qin Su looked sideways at Zhou Yu, but saw that she still had a sad face, and her voice became lower and lower: "After the mountain fire burned the fields, one day, I went out with a few servants to find food. There is a pretty good-looking woman, although she is thin, she is very fair. I heard people call her "Auntie Wen", but I don't know which branch she is from. She followed us all the way, pawing trees. Skinning, digging Guanyin soil, everything can be done, and it is impossible to see that it is half a master. But at that time, no one cared about these identities, as long as they can contribute, they must do their best."

Wen's...

Holding the railing beside her lightly, Qin Su looked at the clear water in front of her with a slightly bewildered expression.

The few pieces of news I got before, those fragmented pieces, gradually pieced together into a circle in Zhou Yu's deep voice.

Even though there are still things that are not clear, every section and every arc in that circle can correspond to the corresponding person, and each person has a corner, which is indispensable.

This really... didn't surprise her at all.

At this time, Zhou Yu's narration was still going on, and it was still Aunt Wen who was talking about it: "...we were walking, and then we got separated. Aunt Wen didn't know where he went, and everyone was so hungry. I was dizzy, and I couldn't care about her anymore. Who would have thought, just when we were about to go down the mountain, we suddenly heard a woman's scream from the back of the mountain."

At this point, Zhou Yu suddenly stopped talking, her cloudy eyes looked straight at a certain void, her lips trembled, her face became a little distorted, and she tremblingly said: "It was really chaotic at that time. Hungry, crazy, cannibal. We didn't want to worry about it, but someone said 'Auntie Wen is gone'. After all, Auntie Wen is also a half-master, so we didn't dare to leave her behind, and we all worked hard together Boldly ran to the shade of the mountain, only to find that Aunt Wen had collapsed on the slope near the river, with a big hole in her head, she seemed to be dead, and beside her body, there was a blood-stained piece. the stone, and there is a... a... bloody handprint left on the stone..."

At this point, Zhou Yu's voice trembled even more, and her voice was as soft as a whisper: "Auntie Wen...she...should have been stoned...to death."

She murmured, her voice trailing off.

The Bishui Pavilion fell silent.

The thin sound of water passing by lightly, the east wind blows, and the fragrance of flowers fills the sleeves.

However, how could the two people in the pavilion perceive this gentle look?Qin Su's face was serious, but Zhou Yu's face was full of desolation and fear.

"Then what happened afterwards?" Qin Su asked softly after a long time.

Zhou Yu was shocked by her words, and smiled at her miserably: "What else is there to do? Everyone is dead, and we went back and reported to the patriarch, but the patriarch didn't say anything. Then The time is really too chaotic, there are people who kill people for a sip of water, even the [-]th hell, I'm afraid it won't be as good as Yingchuan back then."

Qin Su gave a soft "huh", paused for a while, and asked again: "What about the future?"

Zhou Yu sighed a little tiredly, raised her hand to caress her gray hair, and said weakly: "Afterwards, the patriarch also died of illness, some of the clan members died of starvation, and some of them went out to find food but never came back. The temple was occupied by people. Therefore, Lord Tailang said that Yingchuan is no longer possible. He also heard that my hometown is in Jiangyang County. Jiangyang County has been a rich place since ancient times. The few tribesmen who came down went all the way south, and they didn't gain a firm foothold until they came to Qingzhou."

Qin Su tapped the railing lightly with his fingers, his face contemplative.

"That's all I know about the old things in Yingchuan. Mrs. Tai also knew about these things, but the things back then were too miserable, and Mrs. Tai didn't like to mention them." Zhou Yu said slowly, taking back the cloth towel in the sleeve.

Qin Su turned her eyes to look at her, hesitated for a moment, and finally asked: "Aunt Wen, is she... the concubine of which room?"

Zhou Yu's complexion was as usual, and she said plainly: "I only found out later that Aunt Wen was originally the concubine of the fourth wife of the first branch, and she has a son under her knee, who is the old master."

In other words, the Wen family is Qin Shihong's biological mother.

"Speaking of which, Mrs. Tai doesn't really know Wen's very well." Zhou Yu's calm voice continued, without any emotion, "The Qin family's house in Yingchuan is really too big, and the second and fourth rooms are almost in the same room. Although the two ends usually walk around each other, they are just a concubine's room, and they are shameful after all."

Qin Su nodded slightly.

Indeed, even in the Qingzhou Qin Mansion, the rules of the concubines are extremely strict, and they are absolutely not allowed to leave the courtyard. This may be from the family rules of the Yingchuan Qin Clan.

It's just that Wen Shi is also Qin Shihong's biological mother after all, but when Zhou Yu talked about her, she didn't have the slightest respect, as if she was talking about an insignificant person.

"I would like to ask you one more question, how are my grandmother and Wen's getting along well?" Qin Su asked abruptly, her clear eyes fixed on Zhou's body.

Zhou Yu shook her head when she heard the words, and sighed: "I don't know about this. After all, there are very few contacts between the two places, and how can I know things that even Mrs. Tai doesn't know? However, Mrs. Wu will wait for Dalang first. The Lord is wonderful, it can be said that he treats her as his own, just like treating my aunt now."

(End of this chapter)