Return of Jin Yi

Chapter 96 The Cleanest Season

"Ma'am, the Crown Princess of the Nanjun Palace would like to invite you to the Chu Mansion. This is a post, do you want to have a look?"

In Cheng Enhou's Mansion, a maidservant in emerald green clothes presented a greeting card to the Second Lady Ren who was sitting at the table flicking the incense burner, her voice was clear and gentle.

The Second Madam Ren heard the words, looked up at the post, but didn't take it, she just said contemptuously, "I don't have time, throw it into the wastebasket!"

Cui Zhu nodded and put away the post, but she didn't leave immediately.

"Why, is there something else?" Mrs. Ren, who has always loved Cui Zhu, asked lazily when she saw this.

Cui Zhu bowed again, and then said, "Going back to Madam, Zhejin next to Shizi Concubine has told my servant that if you don't want to go to the appointment, I will ask my servant to mention someone's name to you."

"Oh? Who's name is it?" Mrs. Ren stopped fiddling with the aloes in the incense burner and asked leisurely.

Cuizhu looked into Mrs. Ren's eyes, and slowly pronounced the unremarkable name - "Akang".

Akon...

As soon as these two words came out, the blood on Mrs. Ren's face immediately receded, turning livid.

Her back was straightened, her shoulders trembled violently, and she kept muttering, "Akang, Akang..."

Then, tears fell down like pearls with broken strings.

"Ma'am?" Seeing her master's appearance, Cui Zhu couldn't help calling softly, and asked suspiciously, "Ma'am, who is A-Kang, why did you lose your composure when you heard his name? "

Mrs. Ren did not answer her words.

She was still in the same dazed state, weeping with grief.

After a long time, as if remembering something, wiped away tears with a handkerchief, and commanded Cuizhu sternly, "Go and prepare the carriage for me now, I will go to the Chu residence to attend the appointment!"

"Ma'am?" Cuizhu called out again, with a suspicious look on her face, "Is there any trap in this?"

"It's a trap, I'm going too...don't ask any more questions, go and prepare a carriage for me immediately!" Second Mrs. Ren ordered Cui Zhu without question.

Cuizhu had no choice but to turn around and prepare the carriage.

About an hour later, the carriage of Marquis Cheng'en's Mansion stopped at the gate of Chu's residence in the east of the city.

Cuizhu helped Mrs. Ren get out of the car, and went to call the door.

The mute had already received Chu Ci's order, opened the door, and learned that it was the wife of the Ren family, so he immediately brought the second wife in.

But Green Bamboo was blocked from the door.

Mrs. Ren didn't have the heart to think about it at all, after hearing the rules of Chuci, she only told Cuizhu to wait steadily, and then walked in impatiently.

Xie Ci lived in the flower hall, and Chu Ci put down the book in his hand when he heard footsteps.

"I'm here for the appointment!" After entering the flower hall, Mrs. Ren didn't say much, she went straight to the point, and ran to the subject, "If you have anything to say, the concubine, you might as well just say it."

Hearing this, Chu Ci raised his head and looked at Mrs. Ren.

He took a deep look at her, pointed to the seat below him, and said, "Madam, let's sit down first and then talk!"

Mrs. Ren was under the eaves and had to bow her head. She gritted her teeth and walked forward quickly. After sitting down, she looked into Chu Ci's eyes and said word by word, "I'm sitting down, the princess can now say What? You asked the servants to leave my name 'Akang', what does it mean!"

"What do you mean..." Chu Ci sneered lightly, with strong sarcasm.

Then he took out a booklet from his cuff, threw it at Mrs. Ren and said, "What do I mean, Madam will know after reading this booklet!"

Mrs. Ren took the letter suspiciously, opened it, and read it at a glance.

Page after page was turned quickly.

She recognized that this was Ren Yihua's handwriting.

And what is recorded in this book are all Ren Yihua's inhumane secrets.

For example, how he induced his aunt to kill three-year-old A Kang, and then blamed his elder brother A Ming.

And how did he harm his aunt, just because his aunt could adopt him without any grievances, and use all the resources of her natal family on him...

After reading the last page, Mrs. Ren's hands trembled.

Her eyes were scarlet, she raised her head, looked at Chu Ci sharply, and asked, "Are these all true?"

"What do you think?" Chu Ci looked at her sympathetically, and asked back, "Ren Yihua has been brought up by you since he was six years old. I heard that he was worried that you could not sleep well. Since he was six and a half years old, he would sleep every month. Thirty volumes of Buddhist scriptures will be offered to you in the small Buddhist hall...you know his handwriting best, don't you?"

The second lady Ren heard what Chu Ci said, and the last bit of hope in her heart was extinguished.

She really didn't expect it.

She couldn't even dream of it.

The son who brought up by herself, brought up by herself, and put in almost all her efforts would be the murderer of her own son.

Ren Yihua, this beast is not as good as pigs and dogs.

How old was Kang'er when she fell ill and died? She was five years old, or five and a half years old.

This young child has such vicious scheming.

Not only harmed Kang'er, but also blamed Ming'er, who was smarter than him and lost his biological mother early...

Ren Yihua, that's too poisonous!
She was so stupid, she even kept a poisonous snake by her side, and let it go for 15 years!

……

She raised her hand and tightly covered her mouth.

He didn't want to cry in front of Chu Ci.

Chu Ci turned his head away, saying that a poor person must have something to hate, this sentence is really appropriate for Mrs. Ren.

But even though she thought so, for the sake of Lu Zhaohua's future, she kindly handed her a handkerchief and said, "The deceased is gone, Ma'am, please mourn!"

Mrs. Ren heard what Chu Ci said.

He reached out and took the handkerchief in her hand.

After wiping the corners of his eyes vigorously, his sanity returned a lot.

Looking at Chu Ci coldly, he said, "The concubine Shizi found out this matter for me, shouldn't it be out of kindness?"

Chu Ci nodded, "You're right, I will investigate your second wife's affairs, it's really not a good intention."

"Just tell me what you want to do! Just treat it as a favor I owe you, as long as it is something I can do, I will help you, and I will pay you back the favor."

Hearing what she said, Chu Ci frowned slightly, and said, "Madam, speak quickly, then I will go straight... I want Madam to help testify that Zhaohua did not leave the city on the day of the Sixteenth Dynasty celebration. Xia Shanzhuang, but I went to Zhen Guogong’s mansion to deliver the medicine for Miss Yang Liu’s asthma.”

"And the reason why you proposed marriage for Ren Yihua is because he is a toad who wants to eat swan meat, so he intentionally made up rumors to slander Zhaohua."

"Okay, I agree to everything you say." Mrs. Ren nodded and said without hesitation.

Chu Ci let out a "hmm".

The Second Madam Ren wiped the corners of her eyes again with a handkerchief, then looked at Chu Ci and said, "Shi Zifei can also cure asthma?"

Chu Ci glanced at her, and said in a very distant tone, "Second Madam Ren, our deal has been completed, so I don't need to answer this question for you, right?"

Mrs. Ren's face darkened when she heard what she said.

She pinched her palm, paused for a while, and then said, "Then I'll make another deal with you."

"What deal?"

"You help my little brother cure his asthma, and I'll return Miss Lu's sweat towel to you."

Chu Ci: "...What's the matter with this sweat towel?"

Mrs. Ren glanced at her indifferently, and said bitterly, "That bastard Ren Yihua stayed here on purpose, wanting to use it as evidence that the two of them secretly handed over secrets, and there was Miss Lu's boudoir name 'Zhaohua' embroidered on it... ..."

In this case, things should come back.

Chu Ci gave a soft "Yes" helplessly, "Then trouble Madam, please return the sweat towel as soon as possible. After I confirm with the eldest lady that nothing else is missing, I will follow you to check your natal brother's pulse."

Mrs. Ren nodded, "When I finish dealing with that bastard Ren Yihua, I'll have someone bring it to you."

Chu Ci has no objection.

She took a look at Zhe Jin, "Second Mrs. Ren still has to deal with housework, so please send her out."

"Yes, girl!" Zhejin agreed, and led Mrs. Ren out.

As soon as Mrs. Ren left, Queen Lu Xiaojun came out from behind the screen in the flower hall.

He diligently poured a cup of tea for Chu Ci, handed it to her, and said with a smile, "My lady is exhausted, drink a cup of tea to moisten your throat."

Chu Ci snorted softly, took the tea, and drank it slowly.

After finishing drinking, he looked at Duke Lu Xiaojun who was sitting beside her, and asked again, "Did you send the letter to Qin Fang?"

Lu Xiaojun said kingly, "The dark guards set off at noon yesterday, riding a fast horse of [-] miles. In a few days, there should be news."

Chu Ci let out a "hmm", thinking of the small book stolen by Qinglongwei, he couldn't help but sigh, "But this Ren Yihua is really a ruthless person, he is only five or six years old, and he can think of so many things. Here comes the vicious idea..."

King Lu Xiaojun nodded sympathetically, "That dog looks like a human, but I didn't expect it to be more sinister than the most poisonous snake."

After a pause, he patted his chest again and said, "Fortunately, the brothers of the second uncle's family didn't have such vicious schemes, otherwise, I'm afraid I would have died a dozen or twenty times already!"

"Bah, bah, what are you talking about!" Chu Ci couldn't get used to his frustrating words.

He stared at him and said, "The reason why the second wife can't protect her own son is that she never thought that the submissive concubine who was suppressed by her would murder her eyeballs, but you are different from him. You are grown up, not only protected by your grandmother, but also cared by your grandfather, who knows how many secret guards are around, and those people in the second room did not harm you, so it's your fate, it's obviously their fate!"

"Okay, okay, what the lady said is that no matter what the lady says, she is right!" Lu Xiaojun Wang looked at Chu Ci dotingly, as if the lady said what she said.

Chu Ci was shrouded in his tender eyes, no matter how thick-skinned he was usually, he couldn't help but blush now.

Humming softly, he glared at him and said, "What are you looking at, your eyes don't even blink!"

"Look at my lady!" Lu Xiaojun Wang said casually.

Chu Ci snorted again, "I have nothing to see."

"My lady is beautiful!" Lu Xiaojun blurted out.

Chu Ci's face turned even redder immediately, and he grabbed the corner of the handkerchief with both hands to cut a barrier between the two of them, annoyed, "Don't look!"

"No, I have to see it!" Lu Xiaojun Wang said, pulling the handkerchief from her hand, and then looked at it seriously with one hand on his chin, "My lady is so beautiful, even if I look at it for thousands of years Years will never tire."

"To tell you the truth, if there were not so many trivial matters, I really wish I could move a small bench and sit in front of the lady like this, watching it for a year or two."

Chu Ci: "..."

Mrs. Ren did not deliver Lu Zhaohua's sweat towel until the next day.

Chuci unfolded it from the box and took a look. The rose lace in the lower right corner was indeed embroidered with the word 'Zhaohua'.

She breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Zhe Jin and said, "Have someone prepare the car, I have to go back to Nanjun Palace."

Zhejin took the order and left.

An hour later, Chu Ci got off the car at the gate of Nanjun Wangfu.

She took the folding brocade and walked directly towards Luoshenyuan.

Xu Luoshenyuan's servants got Lu Zhaohua's orders, seeing her, they invited her in without asking a single word.

At this time, just after lunch, Lu Zhaohua had eaten and was walking in the dormitory to digest.

Seeing her open the curtain, her eyes lit up, and she immediately stepped forward and called "Sister-in-law".

Chu Ci nodded slightly at her, then helped her to walk to the brocade couch, and after they sat down respectively, she took out the wooden box in her cuff and handed it to her.

Lu Zhaohua took the wooden box, looked at Chu Ci suspiciously and asked, "Sister-in-law, what is this?"

"Open it and have a look." Chu Ci said flatly.

Lu Zhaohua lowered his head and slowly pushed the box away.

After seeing the familiar sweat towel, before she opened her mouth, her personal maid next to her covered her mouth and said in surprise, "Isn't this the sweat towel that the girl has been looking for?"

Lu Zhaohua took out the sweat towel from the box, looked at it carefully, then nodded, then looked up at Chu Ci and said, "Sister-in-law, I've been looking for this sweat towel, why is it where you are?"

Chuci then explained all the deals she had made with Mrs. Ren.

After listening to Lu Zhaohua, he was both happy and scared.

After calming down, she thanked Chu Ci emphatically, and then threw the sweat towel in her hand to the maidservant with a look of disgust, saying,

"I don't want to see the things that bastard touched in my life. You burn them all for me. Also, I burn everything with the same design, color, and texture as this sweat towel. I take a look. I don't want to see them again!"

"Yes, girl!" The maid took the order and left with a sweater.

Chu Ci looked at her again worriedly, and asked, "Zhaohua, are you sure you lost only this sweat towel and nothing else?"

Lu Zhaohua nodded, "I'm sure, the only one missing is this scarf."

At the end of the sentence, she was afraid that Chu Ci would not believe her, so she explained one more sentence, "Sister-in-law, you don't know, for a girl like us, personal belongings are very important, and therefore, everything is handled by the maid. It has been registered and recorded...you can find out if something is lost or left behind by checking the booklet."

"So that's it!" Chu Ci came here halfway, and had never lived in Gaomen, so he was really not very clear about these details.

But now that Lu Zhaohua said that she did not lose any other personal belongings, she was relieved again.

Then, I sat with her for a while, chatted about other things, checked my statement by the way, and left.

Back to Chu House.

As soon as she entered the door, the dumb girl came up to her back, holding a few posts in her hand, and said, "Girl, these posts were collected for you after you left, take a look, which ones are useful , which ones are useless!"

Chu Ci heard the words and took the post in her hand.

After reading one by one, I found that they were all from the wives who gave her skin care products.

Without exception, she was invited to attend the Chrysanthemum Appreciation Party.

This Chrysanthemum Appreciation Party is a grand autumn festival held in turn by the rich and powerful in the capital.

Chu Ci was not invited last year because Concubine Yun treated her poorly and never thought of taking her out, and the other wives in Beijing were not very familiar with her.

But this year, because of her involvement with the Yang family, there were eight more wives who wanted to take her with them.

Zhejin was standing beside Chu Ci, and she also read the content of the post clearly.

"What do you think?" Chu Ci didn't know much about these people. After thinking for a while, he simply looked at Zhejin and asked for her opinion.

Zhejin thought about the situation of the eight wives' families, thought carefully for a while, and said, "I think that the girl can go with Mrs. Jiang, and the nine generations of the Jiang family will pass it on alone, which means that Mrs. Jiang will go alone at that time." Banquet, the girl goes with her, not only can she get her wholehearted care, but also can accompany Mrs. Jiang to relieve boredom..."

Hearing what Zhejin said, Chu Ci felt that it was feasible, then glanced at her, and said with a smile, "In that case, then you can help me reply to these posts."

Zhe Jin also knew that Chu Ci's background was rehabilitated, and he didn't understand these roundabout manners, so he agreed and took all the posts to the study.

Chu Ci went out for a while, and didn't think anything when he read the post just now.

Now put down the post and feel sleepy immediately.

She yawned gracefully.

Just about to go back to the room to take a nap, at this moment, the dumb girl opened the curtain and walked in quickly.

He bowed in front of her, and said, "Girl, the Mrs. Ren who came before is here again, did you see it or not?"

Mrs. Ren!
Hearing these three words, Chu Ci almost immediately remembered the second deal she made with Mrs. Ren that day.

He sighed helplessly—it was probably impossible to catch up on sleep.

"Forget it, you don't need to ask her to come in, you go directly to the pharmacy and tell Si'er, let him carry the medicine box on his back, and come out with me!"

The dumb girl agreed and walked outside.

Chu Ci watched her leave, went inside and changed clothes, and then went outside.

Outside, Si'er was already waiting. Seeing her coming out, she hurriedly asked her older sister, "Is my sister going to the doctor today?"

Chu Ci nodded, "Zhejin happened to be doing other things, so I can only ask you to come with me."

Hearing what she said, Si'er smiled softly, showing eight white teeth, "It's Si'er's honor to be able to work with my sister."

Chu Ci raised his hand and patted him lightly on the shoulder, without saying a word, he walked directly outside.

Outside, as a show of respect, Mrs. Ren got off the carriage and stood on the ground waiting.

Seeing Chu Ci come out with a medicine box on his back, she immediately came forward and called "Shizifei".

Chu Ci glanced at her, and said lightly, "I know what you want to say, lead the way, now go to your brother's house..."

Mrs. Ren nodded embarrassingly, and asked Chu Ci to get in the car.

Chu Ci didn't refuse, and stepped on the ladder to get into the car first.

After she was seated, Mrs. Ren came in.

After both of them sat down, the carriage rattled towards the Qu's house, the second wife's family.

In the carriage, the two sat opposite each other, neither of them spoke, only silence surrounded the carriage.

I don't know how much time passed, but the second lady couldn't help it, broke the silence, and said, "Concubine Shizi, believe it or not, I want to tell you that I am very grateful that you can visit my brother."

Chu Ci listened to her.

It's still a good thing to say.

He couldn't help turning his head, and looked at her carefully, only to find that after seeing her for only two days, Mrs. Ren seemed to be ten years older, and even had a third of her gray hair.

She is also a mother.

Seeing her like this, he couldn't help but sighed, "Siren has passed away, so don't be too sad."

When Second Madam Ren heard what she said, she seemed to know what she was thinking, and her eye circles immediately turned red.

Then, like opening a chatterbox, he chattered a lot.

She said that she didn't expect that she would be such a Zhongshan wolf after raising her for so many years and treating him as her own son.When she confronted him with the letter, not only did he not repent, he didn't even explain.

He was dazed on the surface, as if he didn't know why, but he had already prepared a sharp weapon behind his back, intending to kill her to silence her.

She said that if she hadn't brought guards to protect her in the dark, she might be a corpse by now.

……

She talked intermittently and said a lot.

Chu Ci listened quietly.

It wasn't until she realized that she was about to be unable to bear the huge change and psychological pressure that she suddenly opened her mouth, forcibly changed the subject, and said, "Tell me about your brother's illness. Is his asthma congenital or acquired?"

"Here, what's the difference?" Mrs. Ren took the veil handed over by Chu Ci, wiped her tears, and asked softly,

Chu Ci sighed, "If it's acquired, I'm [-]% sure it can be cured, but if it's congenital, I can only give him a prescription and let him take care of it."

Mrs. Ren understood what she meant, nodded and said, "My younger brother's asthma is acquired. When he was six years old, he fell into the water once. Because it was winter, he was rescued a little later and suffered from asthma. asthma."

"Once upon a time, some doctors said that she would not live to be 30 years old."

"Then how old is he now?" Chu Ci took up the conversation and asked.

Mrs. Ren said, "I'm already 26 years old."

"Then how has he been in recent years?"

Mrs. Ren went on to say, "That's how the body is. Twelve months out of a year, ten months lie in bed, and only two months in winter can I go out to bask in the sun."

Chu Ci knew what she meant by this.

For asthmatic patients, the most important thing is not to smell irritating odors.

Everything withers in winter, which is the cleanest season of the year.

It is also the season when many asthma patients can barely go out...

(End of this chapter)