Concubine's three acres of pastoral garden

Chapter 273 Poison Cake (3)
Some arrangements are absolutely confidential, and neither Hui Ling nor Xu Che know about them.

Huiling seemed to understand, and nodded blankly.

Xu Che asked: "Miss, what are we doing these days, are we just waiting?"

Xiang Lai said: "No, there is still a lot of preparatory work to be done, we won't be too idle."

As he spoke, he ordered Xu Che and Huiling to do some things at their convenience.

As soon as she made arrangements here, Huiling went out to run some errands, and Lian Xiu came over to "care" about Xianglai.

He entered the door and asked hypocritically: "Lai'er, I heard that your maid died here, what's going on?"

Xianglai also perfunctorily said: "I have been to the officials, my father should know that my elder brother's concubine gave me a box of poisonous pastries, but it happened that my daughter was not at the house at the time, and was stolen by a greedy maid. The servant girl lost her life for her daughter."

Lian Xiu blushed and said, "Oh? It's Na Zhixiang again. My father has long thought that something is wrong with her. Why did this person enter the Lian Mansion back then, and not many of them are dead now!"

Xiang Lai laughed and said: "But she is not dead yet, besides, she said that she did not give the poisonous cake to her daughter, but sister-in-law ordered her to send it."

Lian Xiu immediately sullenly said, "Hey, how can Laier listen to Zhixiang's nonsense, your sister-in-law has no grievances with you, how could she possibly harm you, it is clearly Zhixiang who did it and dare not admit it!"

Xianglai said: "Really, but Zhixiang has no grievances or enmities with her daughter."

Lian Xiudao: "Well, prostitutes in brothels are mostly malicious. Maybe when they see her with a wrong look, she will hate you. Those who are envious or jealous may have murderous intentions. They are different from girls from good families!"

Xiang Lai smiled and said, "Didn't elder brother say that she is the daughter of a down-and-out scholar from Zhixiang? My father said that she is a brothel prostitute. Where did the news come from?"

"Uh..." Lian Xiu hesitated for a while, and then said as if nothing happened: "Your aunt found out this. As the saying goes, if you don't want others to know, unless you don't do it yourself, if you are uneasy and kind, you will reveal your truth sooner or later."

Xianglai also said: "Father is right, and my daughter has also heard people say that the sky net is well-established, and it is not leaked. Whenever a person does something wrong, there will always be a day when he will pay it back. If you want to pretend that it never happened, you can live with peace of mind. It's also impossible."

Lian Xiu couldn't hold back anymore, his face changed a few times, and he said vaguely: "Well, well, Lai'er just died here, there must be a lot of things to deal with, so I won't stay longer as a father. If there is anything you can't do by yourself, go to the father, uh... I'll go first."

Xianglai sat there without moving, and said: "Father, go slowly, my daughter will not be seen off."

After Lian Xiu got out of Laide Hospital, the more he thought about it, the more his scalp became numb. Just now, looking at Xianglai, he somehow remembered Lian Fuxue who was killed by him. He is begging for life.

Because of this feeling, he didn't dare to pass by Ningfang Garden when he returned to the main house, and made a big detour before going back.

When he returned to Zhu's room, he was still in a cold sweat.

Zhu Shi saw that his face was not right, and asked: "What's the matter, master, didn't you say to find out about Lian Xianglai's tone, why is your face so ugly?"

Lian Xiu said with lingering fear: "Don't mention it, I was testing that girl just now, but she is also testing me."

Zhu said: "Master, what can she test?"

Lian Xiu said: "She, what she said seems to be talking about the two dead ghosts in Dafang."

Zhu's complexion also became extremely ugly, and said: "How did she know?"

Lian Xiudao: "Maybe... Maybe it's like you said, the third child knew the truth about what happened back then, and he told this girl!"

Mrs. Zhu hesitated: "Then this girl approached us to avenge those two dead ghosts?"

Lian Xiu nodded and said, "Maybe so."

Zhu Shi said: "But, but who is she? Could it be that the third child came here to deal with me?"

Lian Xiu said: "It's very possible, maybe the third brother colluded with Yang Mengwan to deal with us when he saw that she looked like the Lian family."

Mrs. Zhu thought about it and said: "Probably so, it seems that we have to get rid of this woman as soon as possible, otherwise she might do something to us!"

Hearing her words, Lian Xiu was suddenly startled, and said: "No, my property is still mortgaged through her, and I must redeem it as soon as possible!"

Saying hello to Jing Sheng, said: "Go and call the coachman Wang Shi, I have something to ask him to do."

Jing Sheng responded and went out, and came back after a while and said: "Master, Wang Shi asked for leave to go out of the house to see his wife, and he won't be back until evening."

Lian Xiu said: "Look at his old lady? Where does his old lady live? Send someone to find him back!"

Jing Sheng said: "I asked the people in the carriage house, but Wang Shi is a mute, no one talks to him, and no one knows where his family lives."

Lian Xiu felt more and more uneasy, and asked Zhu, "What about Wang Shi's deed of sale, did it say where he used to live?"

Mrs. Zhu quickly found out Wang Shi's deed of selling himself and handed it to Lian Xiu. Lian Xiu glanced at it and saw that Wang Shi was from Qingshipu outside the west city, so he told Jing Sheng, "Send someone to Qingshipu to look for it. Bring him back to me as soon as you find him."

Jing Sheng responded and went out to look for someone again.

Lianxiu's Mrs. Zhu waited anxiously, but the servant who had been looking for someone in the afternoon did not come back. After coming in, he reported to Lianxiu: "Master, we didn't find Wang Shi, and we didn't see his old lady. The house is vacant and no one lives there, we found someone to find out that her mother moved away the year before last, and Wang Shi hasn't been back since then."

After hearing this, Lian Xiu turned pale with fright, and thought in his heart that something was wrong, and shouted: "Look again, send more people there, if it doesn't work, report to the police, and definitely bring him back to me!"

These people had no choice but to go out again against the cold wind.

Zhu Shi said: "After all, he is a slave of our family's death contract. It's useless to run away. He will be a member of our family until death."

Lian Xiudao: "That's what I said, but I'm afraid that he will be used by people."

Zhu sighed and said, "If I was used, I'm afraid I would have used it long ago, but now I realize it's too late."

Lian Xiu bowed his head dejectedly, and said after a long time: "I hope he really went to see my old lady, and he will be able to find her soon..."

In this way, the two waited with the last chance of luck, but there was no news until midnight, and the hearts of the couple were completely chilled.

Two days later, Lian Xiu came to Xianglai again, with a smile all over his face, more gentle than a loving father, and asked Xianglai with a smile, "Has Laier communicated with Yuan Dongqi recently?"

Xianglai knew that although he smiled amiably, he didn't have any kind intentions inside, but he still said calmly: "Two days before the Chinese New Year, he sent me a letter, saying that someone brought a deed to repay the money. But neither I nor the owner Wang Tongzhou asked me what was going on, and I was also wondering, I wanted to wait for my father to come back and ask, but I didn't want to have the opportunity to see my father when something happened to Nian Tong, which made me take all these things I forgot, just ask my father now, the person who went to pay back the money that day was sent by my father? Why didn't you find me?"

(End of this chapter)