Mistress

Chapter 10

For the next whole night, Li Yan was thinking about where the female relatives should flee when the time came to escape.

The Xu family seems to have a few relatives on the Lizhou side, and their family backgrounds are not bad.Did she follow everyone to join her relatives, or did she take a pair of children to the northwest to join her natal family?

Although she is very unfamiliar with the parents here, they are Li Nianyun's real parents after all, and they should not be bad for her and the children. Moreover, her father Li Xiangrui is a first-rank general Jingyuan, so no matter what, she and her parents will not suffer. children.

In the early morning of the second day, she had just finished her breakfast, so she ordered Madam Cui to call Aunt Zhang, and she wanted to discuss with Aunt Zhang how to arrange Xu Cheng's funeral.Ancient people seem to take death less seriously than modern people, and they are not taboo. Many people start preparing for funerals before they die.

It's just that Aunt Zhang hasn't found her yet, but Xu Ze ran over excitedly.

Yesterday he came here in a daze, but today he was as excited as a child, first went to Mrs. Tai's place, and then ran to Jinxiu Courtyard in three steps.

"Sister-in-law, elder brother...he has no fear of his life! Those groups of troops suddenly broke into King Zhaoxin's camp. They came to help elder brother and the magistrate, and they supported the Ye Dynasty and the emperor. They were not traitors." Army! It is said that the reason why they hold the banner of King Zhaoxin is to confuse King Zhaoxin, and all this has long been under the control of the emperor! The emperor is indeed wise and powerful, we are wrong!"

Xu Ze said a lot excitedly, and Li Yan understood that King Zhaoxin thought he was about to conquer the world, but he never expected that he would be no match for the emperor after all. His so-called allies had already colluded with the emperor and pretended to conspire with him , In fact, everyone has already planned to destroy him before, to eliminate harm for the emperor.

This good uncle is about to die!

Li Yan suddenly felt that the emperor might have known that King Zhaoxin had the intention of treason, so he sent Xu Cheng to Jiaoyang City as a bait, saying that it was to reward Wei Ji for his achievements in combating the drought and to celebrate Wei Ji's birthday, but in fact it was just an excuse.Didn't everyone say that Xu Cheng is the emperor's most capable courtier? When he left the court and went to Jiaoyang City, King Zhaoxin couldn't bear his temper and wanted to catch Xu Cheng.What's more, Jiaoyang City has always been a place where military strategists fight and is the best place to be the capital city. King Zhaoxin couldn't hold back for a while, and fell into a trap. He believed too much in his so-called allies.

But the emperor and Xu Cheng conspired to make King Zhaoxin expose his evil intentions early, and then wiped him out.

Of course, this is all Li Yan's guesswork. Maybe she watched too many historical dramas in her previous life, so she can't help but think about it.

At this time, Aunt Zhang was invited by Nanny Cui. She was here to discuss the funeral of the master, but she didn't expect to know that the master would not die. Several groups of troops in Jiaoyang City were besieging King Zhaoxin, and the master will return triumphantly in just a few days!

Aunt Zhang was incoherent in surprise, and asked Xu Ze over and over again, "Really? Is it accurate? Master is really coming back?"

Immediately after thinking about her transfer of property in the mansion, she suddenly rolled her eyes and fainted from fright.

She was afraid of Xu Cheng, afraid of his shrewdness, afraid of his wisdom.He is the most capable person around the emperor, a person under one person and above ten thousand people, can she not be afraid?She thought she could escape anyone's eyes, but she definitely couldn't escape Xu Cheng's eyes!

She thought Xu Cheng would definitely die, but she was really hurt because she had him in her heart, he was the father of her two children.Now that she knows that Xu Cheng will not die and is coming back, she should be happy, but... she feels that she is the one who deserves to die.

Nanny Cui and Qi'er hurried forward to support the limp Aunt Zhang. Li Yan was a little unexpected. Aunt Zhang looked as tenacious as a "Xiaoqiang" with a strong vitality. She probably wouldn't be frightened by Mount Tai, why? Can you faint so easily?
Xu Ze was helpless, he only heard that some people fainted from fright or extreme grief, what happened when Aunt Zhang fainted suddenly?

Li Yan sat down and took a sip of tea, "It's okay, Aunt Zhang fainted from joy, Qi'er, hurry up and find Dr. Zeng!"

Passionate with joy?It was the first time Xu Ze heard about it, and he had never seen him grow up this big.

The prime minister's mansion, which had been dead for two months, finally returned to its former bustle.

Aunt Ji was going to go to the palace to see Yu Concubine this morning, but now she suddenly said to postpone her trip for a few days, the reason is that the master was able to escape from danger, and upon hearing such a happy event, she would definitely rejoice with the whole house , but also waiting for the return of the master.

Aunt Song, who returned to her natal family yesterday afternoon, got the good news from nowhere, and brought her two sons back this morning.Her two sons ran happily as soon as they entered the mansion, shouting incessantly, "Daddy is coming back, Daddy is coming back!"

Aunt Song herself was very happy, as long as Xu Cheng was still alive, he would not treat their mother and son badly.What's more, she still hasn't done any of the things her father urged her to do.

The brothers and sisters in the mansion all came out to play snowballs and fight snow battles, laughing and laughing.

The servants and maids hurriedly swept the snow and cleaned the courtyard, even though their hands and cheeks were flushed from the cold, they were still very happy.In their eyes, the master is like the blue sky, as long as he can come back alive, all worries can be solved, and they don't need to worry about being kicked out of the mansion due to lack of money.

When Mrs. Tai heard the good news, her whole body felt as if she had been injected with chicken blood. She sat up suddenly and immediately drank a bowl of porridge.It wasn't until this time that she learned about Dr. Xu and Sun Deng's affairs in the mansion, and she slapped the table angrily, "You bastard! How dare you do such looting of the prime minister's mansion under my nose, are you tired of it? Check it out for me!"

Li Yan felt a little overwhelmed, it seemed that she couldn't be a widow anymore.She is an unmarried woman who went to ancient times to pick up a husband who was a prime minister. Should she be happy or worried?
When she thought of this man having one wife and three concubines, she couldn't be happy no matter what.She is a person who is extremely serious about feelings, and her man must only have her alone, whether in heart or body.She knew that in this ancient time, and the other party was still a high-ranking prime minister, the possibility of this was almost zero.

Aunt Cui was so happy that she didn't know what to do, she just desperately cleaned the arhat chair that Xu Cheng loved to sit on.

"Huh? Ma'am, Master Fu finally escaped from death and is about to return. This is a great happy event. Why do you still look worried?" Cui Nanny looked at Li Yan puzzled.

Li Yan immediately showed her face and smiled, and after a short pause, she thought about the reason for the prevarication, "I'm worried... When the master comes back, he will blame me for not taking care of the affairs of the house, so that these big things happen. trouble."

Cui Nanny looked happy, and whispered: "Madam, there is no need to worry about this matter. This happened under the hands of Aunt Zhang. If the master wants to blame it, Aunt Zhang should be blamed. It has nothing to do with you. I still want to see See how the master reprimands Aunt Zhang, you have to put an end to her arrogance that has risen up recently."

"That's right." Li Yan smiled slightly, but her heart was in a mess, it was like a mess.

After Zhang Yuliu fainted, she was carried to her own Fuliu Pavilion.When she woke up, she was still shivering all over, and the servants thought she was so cold, so they put charcoal into the brazier desperately, and covered her with a thick brocade quilt.

She was extremely anxious and afraid, and she kept asking herself, what should I do?What should I do!It seems that not only the master will not die, but also Mrs. Tai will not die. When the master comes back to question the affairs of the mansion, how should she respond?
Presumably there is no need for her to reply. With the master's shrewdness, he can find out the truth in a few days, and then she will be finished!

Thinking that there were still two letters in her sleeve, she quickly took them out and told Li Qing's family to hide them.It was given to her by Mrs. Tai, who wanted to go to the emperor to deal with Jun'er, but she didn't want to do this. When the time comes, show this to Xu Cheng and put everything on Mrs. Tai's head!
Thinking of this, she calmed down a little, and hurriedly got up from the kang to have breakfast, and then took the antiques pulled by the two-horse carts of the servants to play as pawns, and came to her natal home by the way.

At this time, Chief Zhang was also running around in a hurry, pacing around in the study with his hands behind his back, turning around and around.When a little girl brought too hot tea into his hand, he became furious and smashed the teacup.The little girl was pulled down and slapped four times, her face was swollen like a basin, she hid aside and bit her lip, not even daring to cry.

When Zhang Yuliu arrived at her natal home, she didn't have time to meet her mother, let alone greet her sisters-in-law. Instead, she avoided people and asked the servants to carry her directly to the main courtyard, and then went straight to her father's study.

"Father, save your daughter quickly!" Zhang Yuliu knelt down as soon as he entered the study, with tears in his eyes.

Chief Zhang looked outside and quickly closed the door. He was also very anxious, and he couldn't help but speak more seriously, "Yu Liu, you are doing it yourself! If you had been more cruel, you would have sent Li Nianyun to the Lord of Hell." There, where does it need to transport the family property out of the house, and where does it encounter the current situation?"

Zhang Yuliu saw that her father was so anxious that she had no idea, so she burst into tears in fright, "Father, if this matter is found out, our Zhang family will have no face to see anyone again, and maybe we will go to jail!"

"You're in a hurry now. Dad said a long time ago that kindness and softness will lead to disaster! Alas, it's too late and useless to say these things. You'd better hurry up and plan a countermeasure with Dad."

Chief Zhang frowned, his cold eyes were rolling, and he was racking his brains to find the best of both worlds.

Zhang Yuliu supported the chair and got up, sat down with his hips slanted, and regretted it: "It's all my daughter's soft-heartedness, thinking that the master will not come back, and Li Nianyun and Mrs. Tai will die of illness sooner or later. I didn't expect... I didn't expect They are all alive. Dad, where are Dr. Xu and Sun Deng now? Have they set off for the south?"

Chief Zhang seemed to have come up with an idea, and suddenly sneered.

(End of this chapter)