Mistress

Chapter 77

Wang Yingying played with Ye Mingzhu for a while, fearing that Qing'er's illness would overwhelm her, so she put Ye Mingzhu into the food box again, and then went out.

At this time, the old woman invited a doctor to come over to check Qing'er's pulse, and then prescribed some medicines and left.

The old woman was very enthusiastic about getting the silver taels, and she also helped go to the kitchen to make medicine for Qing'er. Anyway, it was raining, so she didn't have to go out to work.Her wife usually picks bricks for others, and finally he doesn't have to work when it rains, so he needs to have a good rest, so he sits in his room smoking dry cigarettes and doesn't do anything.

The sons were selling pork in the east of the city and came back at night.

Wang Yingying moved a rough stool and sat under the eaves to watch the rain. The rain has not stopped since yesterday afternoon until this morning.The old woman also moved the stove under the eaves, and while fanning the hearth, she asked, "Girl, what is the name of the relative you are looking for? Do you want me to find out for you?"

Wang Yingying turned her head quickly, and said pretending to be distressed: "Uncle's surname is Wang Mingzhi. We used to come to play when we were young, but now more than ten years have passed, and we can't find it. Maybe we looked for the wrong place."

The old woman's curiosity didn't stop there, she asked again: "How did you three sisters come to find an uncle whom you haven't seen for more than ten years? You are all so handsome, so you are not afraid of encountering bad guys?"

Wang Yingying grimaced, is she making up another story?She gritted her teeth, racked her brains to make it up, and said: "The three of us sisters lost their mothers when we were young. My father saw that there were a bunch of daughters in the family without a son, so he continued and bought a big yard to live in. The three of us sisters have no mother." I lived in a small courtyard. I could live in this day, but my father died of a serious illness a few years ago, and my stepmother kicked us out. She said that the small courtyard should be reserved for her son to marry in the future. Fortunately, before Our father didn't do too badly, he often gave us some money so that we could make money to find uncle."

Seeing Wang Yingying's pained face, the old woman thought she was recalling something sad, so she stopped asking.

Li Yan frowned when she heard it in the room, and thought to herself, this Wang Yingying is really a gangster, she always tells lies, who died when her mother was young, and now her father is dead?He cursed her and Qing'er's parents well.

Oh, Qinger seems to have lost her parents a long time ago. As for herself, Li Xiangrui and his wife are not real parents either. Her biological parents are alive and well in the 21st century.Thinking of her parents, and her own situation, where life and death are uncertain, she couldn't help feeling sad for a while, and couldn't hold it back, she burst into tears.

Qing'er was lying on the bed and wanted to cry, but now she couldn't help seeing Li Yan crying, sobbing, "Husband... elder sister, do you think we can still...?"

Li Yan understood Qing'er's meaning, Qing'er wanted to ask how many days the two of them could live, fearing that they were not far away from death.

Li Yan tried desperately to wipe away her tears, but the tears flowed endlessly like a faucet with the valve not turned off.She shook her head while weeping, how could she know?

How Wang Yingying wanted to use them, and how to attract Xu Cheng, Li Yan really couldn't figure it out, because Xu Cheng is now the high emperor, if Wang Yingying really dared to attract him, wouldn't she be sent to death?Xu Cheng will definitely bring thousands of troops to trample this place down.

If Wang Yingying's plan fails, she may still be killed.

For the first time in several months, Li Yan cried out of sadness and fear.In the prime minister's mansion, she either was the head of the house, or got along with Xu Cheng sweetly and warmly, accompanied him through the change of dynasty, and watched him sit on the throne; in the palace, she was lost, heartbroken, and hated. Did not cry.

Unexpectedly, on the second day after leaving the palace, she would cry torrentially.She misses home, misses her parents, wants to survive, wants to eat the last meal and have her life to eat the next meal.

Wang Yingying was listening to the master and servant crying outside, and was about to go in and yell at them.But the old woman hurried in and comforted her: "You sisters, don't be sad. Although you have no father or mother now, and you can't even find your uncle, you have money on you. As long as you have money, you can live anywhere If you want me to say, don’t go to any uncle, but don’t let him take all your money and drive you out. You can stay at my house, and I will ask the matchmaker to find a good husband’s house for you in the future. Isn't the day over?"

Li Yan was crying sadly, she was so amused by this old woman that she wanted to laugh, and she even got involved in finding her husband's family.

Seeing that Li Yan stopped crying, the old woman said again: "Look at the three of you sisters who look like the beauties in the painting, you will definitely find a good husband's family. It's not good to cry too much. Wait a little longer for your sister to die." It’s more important than anything else to be able to drink the medicine and take care of your body.”

After the old woman persuaded her, she came out to make medicine, and Wang Yingying followed her in. She wanted to laugh when she saw Li Yan and Qing'er's eyes were swollen from crying, but she held back for fear that the old woman would hear, and said delicately: "Sister! , don’t make your sister cry, you’ve taken care of yourself, how about letting your aunt marry you first?”

Qing'er pursed her mouth, tears were about to come out again.

Li Yan squinted at Wang Yingying, and said in a low voice, "How dare you!"

Wang Yingying came over and whispered in Li Yan's ear, "If you don't marry her, do you still want to keep her as an old girl, and you won't be able to marry her in the future?"

Li Yan stretched out her hand to push her away, she was not used to the enemy being so close to her.

But she couldn't push it at all, so Wang Yingying smiled and said, "If my sister wants a man, I'll find you one tonight, okay?"

Li Yan raised her hand to slap her, but Wang Yingying grabbed her wrist and couldn't even slap her.

Wang Yingying let her go, looked at Li Yan with a look of contempt, and said slowly: "It's just you who can't even count as a three-legged cat kung fu, and dare to fight with me, you are really overconfident. Let me tell you, you If you honestly stay here for two days, Xu Cheng will definitely come!"

After Wang Yingying finished speaking, she went out again, chatting with the old woman, and she was in a surprisingly good mood.

After waiting for an hour, the medicine was ready. Li Yan fed Qing'er and drank it. After helping Qing'er to lie down, she took the bowl and prepared to send it to the kitchen. When she got up, she suddenly felt pain all over her body. My heart is like a fire.

She opened her palm and found that it was blue in color, and rolled up her sleeves to see that her body was also blue.She suddenly realized that Wang Yingying had poisoned her!

She looked at Qing'er's palms and arms again. Although Qing'er was ill, her complexion was normal, white and tender, only her eye sockets were a little dark.

It seems that Wang Yingying didn't poison Qing'er, so it's not considered a heinous crime.

Qing'er asked in a low voice: "Ma'am, what's the matter?" She struggled to get up.

"It's nothing, you lie down, I just want to see how your body is doing. Don't worry, you look good, you should take medicine for a few days and you will be fine." Li Yan pressed Qing'er down and lay down.

She came out to put the bowl into the kitchen, and seeing that the old woman was no longer in the yard, she must have gone to her own house.Thinking of the heavy rain in the yard, the old woman couldn't hear the voices outside the house, so she stood in front of Wang Yingying and stared fiercely at the person in front of her.

Wang Yingying probably knew why Li Yan had such a gloomy face, and asked with a smile, "What's wrong, the drug has taken effect?"

"What kind of poison is it?" Li Yan asked her word by word. If she could be killed by sight, Li Yan would have killed her thousands of times.

Wang Yingying stretched out her hand to catch the rain, and said leisurely: "Poison is medicine that can kill people. Why do you ask so much? You won't live long anyway."

Li Yan knew that she was lucky to be able to live from yesterday to today in the hands of Wang Yingying, but she still wanted to know the date of her death, so she asked: "Since it doesn't last long, it means that I can still live. I'm mentally prepared."

Wang Yingying grabbed Li Yan's hand, looked at it, and said with a smile, "Looking at this color, it's only been for more than 40 days."

Li Yan glared at Wang Yingying angrily for a while, she gritted her teeth, but she couldn't move Wang Yingying, and finally turned around and entered the room, sitting on the edge of the bed in a daze.

Qing'er was not asleep. Just now she vaguely heard someone talking outside, so she asked, "What did Wang Yingying tell you? What exactly does she want to do to us?"

Li Yan managed to squeeze out a smile, and replied: "It's nothing, she won't kill you, you have to live well, and so do I."

Only then did Qing Er rest assured that she closed her eyes and went to sleep, as long as she was alive.

Xu Cheng read Li Yan's letter over and over again. He guessed that Li Yan was lying to him, saying that she had a man she liked outside before marrying him, and now she was looking for that man.She thought that Xu Cheng just gave up his heart, and he could have those beauties who lined up to please him as he wanted.

Her heart is no longer on Xu Cheng, and Xu Cheng can also enjoy all kinds of beauties to his heart's content, no one will dictate his behavior in the palace, and he no longer has to worry about her and be ashamed to spend nights with beauties Shengge, isn't it just what he wanted?

Thinking of Xu Cheng's kindness to her before, he probably wouldn't send someone to chase her down.

She begged Xu Cheng to announce to the world that she was seriously ill and died.

But Xu Cheng didn't really believe her words. He only knew that Jiang Ziheng had always liked her, but he had never heard that she had liked other men before.If she wasn't Li Nianyun, maybe... It's really possible that she already has someone she likes in her heart.

He went to Chengyuan Palace to sit for a while, listening to Nanny Cui and Qi'er crying, his heart ached even more.Although he didn't accompany Li Yan these days, once he learned that he might never see her again, he suddenly felt that these days were very difficult. Why did she leave him after the promised couple love each other? ?Did he really fail her?
After thinking about it again and again, he sent someone to look for Li Yan.

Li Yan also said in the letter that because she was unfaithful to the emperor, she also expected that the emperor would not make Xiao'er the crown prince, but only begged the emperor to send Xiao'er to a safe place and let Xiao'er be his happy prince. , stand aloof from the world.

Li Yan knows Xiao'er's heart, and he doesn't think much about being an emperor in the future, and he has always shown his true nature and doesn't know how to maneuver. Even if he is on the throne, once Xu Cheng dies, Xiao'er may not be able to sit still .

Since she was leaving the palace, she couldn't protect Xiao'er for the rest of her life, so she could only hope that Xiao'er would live a safe life in the future. She believed that Xu Cheng loved her son and would agree to her.

The only thing she didn't expect was that Xu Cheng was very possessive, no matter if she had other men in her heart, he didn't want to lose Li Yan.

The people sent out searched all night, and reported back that they found nothing.

He was hesitating whether he should let go and let each other live their own lives, or send more people to find them.If it wasn't for the unstoppable sadness in his heart and the unstoppable miss of her, he would think that this is actually very good, because he no longer has to worry about the power of the Li family. Once Li Yan leaves, the Li family will have nothing to rely on; he doesn't have to worry Can Xiao'er sit in a stable position, because he can absolutely agree to Li Yan and send Xiao'er to a safe place to spend his life at leisure.

But when he heard "no result", he was so restless, he couldn't calm down to do anything, so that he couldn't go to him this morning.

He blocked the news to prevent anyone from reporting that Li Yan would not return after leaving the palace, saying that Li Yan was only listening to the abbot's lecture on Buddhist scriptures in the Ziyin Temple, and also sent money to the Ziyin Temple, so that the people in the temple would also Shut up.

Afterwards, he sat alone in Chunhui Hall and licked the wound in his heart, the wound of Li Yan abandoning him.

Unable to bear it any longer, he sent another 3000 people to Gezhen and the village where Li Yan stopped halfway to search again.

In addition, he also sent Su Bai to secretly take a group of people to the old city of Yange to search for it.

This old city is the closest to the capital and densely populated. If it was him, he would hide in the old city.Because the village has a small population, it is relatively easy to find, and it is not suitable to stay in the mountains for a long time, not to mention the heavy rain, unless she does not want to live.

Only Yange Old Town is the best hiding place.Thinking about it, if Li Yan really wanted to hide, hid in a small courtyard, and then was helped by a kind owner to hide her in some dry well, firewood pile, or dark cell, then there was really no way to search for her.

Now it was approaching noon, and another group of people came to report, but there was still no result.

At this time, Eunuch Qu saw the emperor's sad face, and thought that he had not been close to women recently, so he went to find Yuyu on his own initiative, and said to Yuyu, "Go and wait by the emperor's side, and relieve the emperor's boredom. "

Yuyu came to Xu Cheng's side with very light steps, and said softly, "Yuyu has seen the emperor."

Xu Cheng was feeling bored, looked up to see Yuyu, and thought that Li Yan had just left in anger because he thought he was lucky enough to be Yuyu, so he yelled at Yuyu, "Get out!"

Yuyu knelt down in fright, then rolled and crawled out, crying into tears.

Eunuch Qu was also so frightened that his legs went limp, thinking that he would never dare to bring a woman to the emperor's side again. The emperor's temper was totally uncertain, and he didn't know what he was thinking at all.

It is said that if you want to be a good job, you have to figure out the emperor's mind thoroughly, and do everything in line with the emperor's wishes, but you have to show that you don't dare to figure out the emperor's mind at all, and just make mistakes to satisfy the emperor Only then will it work.

Eunuch Qu wiped off his sweat and stood outside Chunhui Hall, not daring to get any closer.

It wasn't until evening that Su Bo came back and reported: "According to investigations, someone saw three women walking in the rain. The direction was Yange Old City. As for where they ended up, no one knew. I searched for a day, but to no avail. I'll guess." , Niangniang should settle in the city, but for some reason there is another woman, maybe there is no Niangniang among the three women, Niangniang has already taken Qing'er to another place, but... I feel that with the strength of Niangniang and Qinger's feet, It’s not going to go very far.”

Seeing that it was already dark, it was even more difficult to investigate.

Xu Cheng was depressed for a moment, and said, "Tomorrow I will personally go to Yange Old City to investigate secretly."

Su Bai was secretly startled, "How can the emperor leave the palace so easily? The past and present are not the same as in the past. In the past few months, the emperor has made more enemies than before. Once he leaves the palace gate, it will be very dangerous."

Xu Cheng stood up, with a majestic face, and said loudly and loudly: "I am the emperor, not a coward, how can I hide in the deep palace all the time. Not only am I not afraid of those defeated generals and dead disciples, but I also want to kill them all." Once eradicated, we will create a clean world for future generations, prop up a peaceful and prosperous age from generation to generation, secure the people and the country, and benefit thousands of people!"

Inspired by it, Su Bai clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty is mighty!"

The next day, in order not to disturb the courtiers or the people in the capital and Yange, Xu Cheng went to the court in the morning and met with all the officials. up the palace.

The rain finally stopped, but the road was muddy. Xu Cheng was wearing the uniform of a soldier, and he also wore the iron appearance of a soldier. If he didn't identify him carefully, few people would really be able to recognize him as Xu Cheng.

He, Su Bai and others rode horses all the way to the old city of Yange, but because the road was not easy, the horseshoe got stuck in the mud several times, and when they arrived in the city, night had already fallen.

Although Xu Cheng was a prime minister in the past, he was not a general who fought outside all the year round, but after he turned 13 years old, he often went to his father's barracks and learned a lot. Later, when he became an official and then a prime minister, he visited many times The barracks fought and strategized, which made the military divisions in the barracks feel ashamed.

As he rode his horse and walked, he smelled a murderous intent hidden in the dark.

He immediately ordered Su Bai to take the two of them back to find Jiang Ziheng first, and asked Jiang Ziheng to bring an army to surround Yan Ge without delay!

Su Bai also felt inexplicably nervous, and quickly disappeared into the night with the two of them after taking the order.

The reason why Xu Cheng sent Su Bo there was not because he didn't care about his own life, but because he was worried that sending someone with less skill would delay the matter. I can die here.

Xu Cheng sat on the horse and led dozens of people slowly on the streets of the old city.Because the sky was gloomy and it was evening, there were only a few scattered stall collectors on the street, which was very deserted.

At this moment, Xu Cheng suddenly found the word "§" scratched on a dirt wall, and he frowned. It turned out that his sense of smell was right, the former prince Yexuan is here!
Ye Xuan is not dead!Because this "§" character symbol is the code name of the former princelings.Others don't know, but he, Xu Cheng, knows.It is estimated that apart from the former emperor Yezheng and the princelings, only Xu Cheng and Su Bai could understand the meaning of this symbol.

This is the former prince Yexuan recruiting those who supported the Ye Dynasty, as well as those who were lost in the war.He didn't die after falling off the cliff, nor was he taken away by the beast, his life was really great!
Xu Cheng took a deep breath, it was not so easy to wipe out all the forces that wanted to oppose Xu Fuye.

Xu Cheng saw the terrain clearly, and immediately led the soldiers out of the street to a wide and flat place.If he goes deep into the streets and alleys and is blocked both front and back, then he will be unable to escape even if he has wings. Although he also has martial arts, it is not to the point of perfection.

(End of this chapter)