Wishing You Eternal Happiness

Mrs. Meng led the people and strode towards Mrs. Xin's courtyard. The servant girl in the courtyard saw her red eyes, gritted her teeth, as if she was eating people, all were shocked, and no one dared to come forward and ask questions. In the end, the woman surnamed Ding next to Mrs. Xin courageously stopped: " Madam is ill, and was scared by the fire just now. I'm lying down now. The second madam has something to do. Tell me first, wait for me to report..."

Before she finished her words, she ate a loud slap, leaving a clear five-finger print on half of her face.

The woman was beaten up and blindfolded-I need to know that although the two sides don't talk very much on weekdays, but when they do this, they still turn their heads and cover their faces. Watching Mrs. Meng's group of people rush in and push the door open. .

Mrs. Xin was sitting on the bed with a headkerchief on her forehead, very anxious, patted the edge of the bed, urging people to go out and look for Brother Quan — Brother Quan is now fourteen years old, and I don’t know when to start, and she was instigated. , At a young age, got into the habit of gambling. In the past, I only secretly called the young men to gather together at home, throwing dice to bet on small money for fun. Since last year, I saw my father drunk all day long and that young concubine named Yunniang gave birth to a stillborn child, and then disappeared. In the house of his stepmother Zhou, After three days of troubles, my grandmother's body was getting worse by the day, and she couldn't control herself, so she had the courage to sneak out and go to those private dark courts to gamble on money. The people inside knew that he was the grandson of the Palace of Weiguo. Seeing that he was young and a fat fish, all of them held him up with words. At first, they deliberately let him win some money. When the sweetness was tasted, the whole brother was actually three days old. Two ends slipped out, the more the bet, the bigger the money was, and the money was gone, he started stealing antiques from the house, and without any conspicuous things, told him to steal the key to the storeroom, so he secretly matched a handful from the storeroom. Taking it out without knowing it, Mrs. Xin also used some things at the end of last year and found that she was missing. Only then did she find out about the matter and told Pei Xiuzhi. Pei Xiuzhi beat Brother Quan and locked him up. Someone was asked to take over the casino again. It’s just that kind of place, changing the venue for three days, the choice is still the open field with the vertical and horizontal terraces, some people specially let the wind at the four corners, and they also set a secret signal that only their own people know. The officers and soldiers have not arrived, and people have already fled around. .

Brother Quan was locked up at home in the next few years, and he didn’t have half a penny on hand. Looking at Ben, Mrs. Xin thought that his grandson had taken care of her, but she didn’t expect that she had asked him to sneak out the day before. He has not returned. , I must have gone to gamble again. I checked it again, but there was no loss of property at home. It was a bit strange. Mrs. Xin was very anxious and sent the people available to her house. She went out and searched all possible places without seeing him. Suddenly seeing Meng clan led a group of people, broke in angrily, was taken aback, asked someone to help him up, and coldly said: "The second child, what do you mean? I know the public housing warehouse. There was a fire, and Xiuluo was a bit bad. I was the only one who asked people to put out the fire. You came to me to ask if I was guilty?"

The second wife was full of anger, no longer seeing her usual amiable appearance, gritted her teeth and said: "You wicked woman! I used to be for the sake of my ancestors, and this is what I can do with you! You see my son has a good life, your heart I was dissatisfied. That’s why people locked my son in the storeroom and wanted to burn him to death. Isn’t that right? You are so vicious, you are not afraid of retribution on your children and grandchildren? Pity my Luoer, who is he to provoke? Who, why was so cruel!

The mother and the son are connected, and the second wife burst into tears thinking about the horror of his son's life is worse than death.

A woman rushed to Mrs. Xin's ears and talked in detail about what happened just now. Mrs. Xin heard that Pei Xiuluo's face was completely burnt, and most of her body was also terrible. Hearing the meaning of the doctor, his life is at stake, and she realized that When the problem became serious, I was taken aback. At this moment, I didn't even care about the whereabouts of my grandson. I sternly asked people to call Zhou Jiao'e and that girl, but a dry slogan came from outside the door: "Madam, it's not good!" The door of the mistress's room was buttoned upside down, and no one answered the call. She just opened it. The mistress... was hanged on the beam of the house!"

Everyone was taken aback and turned around. Mrs. Xin was supported by someone and ran to her son's room in one breath. Seeing that Zhou Jiao'e had been taken off, she was lying straight on the ground, her face was black and her tongue was sticking out. Her toes were straight, and there was a deep bruise on her neck. When she watched the premature breath, there were a few girls and servants running around like a headless fly. Her daughter threw herself on the ground, shivering. Cry non-stop.

Madam Xin turned pale when she saw this, but Madam Meng's eyes widened, her fingers poked before Madam Xin's face, her expression became more and more excited: "Sure enough, I didn't expect it! You killed my son first, and turned her head. Forcing your daughter-in-law to death again, if you take it like this, you can leave yourself alone? Afu! Afu!"

Madam Meng turned her head, crying, while calling Jiafu loudly: "Afu, you have seen it! When Youan comes back, you have to be fair and speak for your aunt, my poor Luoer..."

She fell into a chair and hid her face in sorrow and weeping. The servants who came with her persuaded her.

Jiafu arrived, looked at Zhou Jiao'e's upright appearance, was shocked, and hurriedly asked someone to take the girl away to comfort him, and then hurriedly called the imperial doctor to come over.

The imperial doctor arrived quickly, rolled his eyelids, touched Zhou Jiao'e's neck with his fingers, shook his head, and then stepped back.

When Zhou Jiao'e died like this, Jiafu couldn't believe it for a while. When she saw a woman taking a piece of cloth and covering Zhou Jiao'e's corpse on the ground, she still smelled the stench in the room, making it hard to breathe. , Turned around and just went out, but saw that the lady next to Madam Xin grabbed a girl's arm, dragged it in from the ground, and pushed it to Madam Meng's feet.

Mrs. Xin followed, and ordered all the girls to go down, and only a few confidants were left to deal with others, and Ding severely pinched the **** the ground. That girl was the person next to Zhou Jiao'e, who was caught in the evening. Seeing the one who went to see Pei Xiuluo, he hid while crying: "The second grandmother and the third master got married a few years ago. The third master will be weaned last year, and the second grandmother asked me to secretly send it to the third master in the evening. A message saying that I would meet at the storeroom at night, and when he came, I would return to him the things the third master gave him. If the two of them were in trouble, I only sent a letter. As for how the third master was detained later Go in, I don’t know how the fire started in the storeroom, grandma, grandma, second wife, please forgive me..."

Granny Ding stuffed a piece of cloth into the girl's mouth and pulled a rope to tie her up.

Madam Xin's face was still pale, but compared to just now, she finally recovered a little bit of energy, staring at the second lady who was still dumbfounded: "Meng, you also heard it. It's the blame for this. It's your own son who actually came. Seduce my daughter-in-law, now one must get out, and the other refuses to let go. The dog bit the dog, and it ended up like this!"

She sneered, "If you want to make matters worse, I am barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes! If I have to keep a little face, I will admit myself bad luck here. You can take care of your son if you go back, and the food will be too ugly. ."

Madam Meng's complexion changed a lot from red to white, white to red.

Pei Xiuluo is a gentleman on the surface, but in fact, in private, he is lustful, and especially prefers women. There used to be a steward under Mrs. Meng. The mother-in-law at home was a little bit charming. After coming and going, Pei Xiuluo actually hooked up with the woman. Fortunately, Mrs. Meng found out that she sent the couple in charge far away. That's all.

No one knows a child better than a mother. Pei Xiuluo has this bad habit, how does Mrs. Meng know? It's just that she never dreamed that her son would get along with Zhou Jiao'e.

Mrs. Meng suddenly turned to Jiafu: "Afu, you must not believe her! How can our family, Xiu Luo do such a thing? This crazy woman, she is **** and wants to slander Luo'er!"

She turned her head, looked at Madam Xin, and sneered: "Zhou Jiao'e has been hanged. You can arrange it as you like. A few empty words from a girl, how do you count? You want my son's life to be counted, but it is ruined. His reputation and his intentions are so vicious! I looked at You'an and Afu's face, so I suppressed things at home. If you dare to say that he is not good, I will tear my face with you. Don't let it go!"

Madam Xin's angry face turned pale again, and her finger poked Madam Meng, shaking constantly, unable to say a word.

"Ma'am, ma'am, my brother is back!"

At this moment, there was a noise outside, and Mrs. Xin hurried out and saw that Brother Quan had returned, but he was sent back sideways. Two servants were carrying him, his head wrapped in blood-stained cloth. He was tied up, his face was like gold paper, and his face was blood stained, and his body was covered with dried mud, as if he had rolled back in the field, his eyes closed tightly, and he was unconscious.

Yang Yun followed behind.

Mrs. Xin was taken aback and rushed up to "Quan Geer" and "Quan Geer" yelled a few times, and she straightened her throat to make people call for a doctor. The imperial doctor was still observing Pei Xiuluo's burns and did not leave. He hurried over when he heard the news, and ordered his brother to be brought into the house and put down to treat him.

The imperial doctor dealt with Brother Quan's injury with an extremely solemn expression.

When the imperial physician was busy, Yang Yun came to see Jiafu and said that Master Pei knew that secret gambling was becoming more and more rampant in Beijing. From the white-haired old man to the ignorant young man, many people went bankrupt, and the children of Quan Xun participated in it, and the poison was endless. He also mentioned Brother Quan to Yang Yun, and ordered the Five-Army Capital Governor's Mansion to clear the block with all his strength and asked him to join him. If he saw Brother Quan, he would be captured. Yesterday, Yang Yun and the people from the Five Army’s Capital Governor’s Mansion received the news and rushed to a mountain col a hundred miles away from the west of the city. With hundreds of gamblers, when searching for the escaped nearby, in a stinking ditch, he found Brother Quan who had been thrown in.

Brother Quan's head was smashed into a hole by a big rock. The man not only made an extremely heavy move, but also planted him upside down into the ditch, apparently trying to kill him. Fortunately, he was discovered in time and he was treated. Only then did he barely save his life, and Yang Yun sent him back overnight.

The imperial physician was busy, re-dressing Brother Quan’s wound, and blowing some powder into his nostrils. After a while, Brother Quan finally woke up slowly, but his mouth and eyes were crooked, the corners of his mouth were drooling, and his eyes were fixed on Mrs. Meng who was on the side. , Her mouth kept opening and closing, as if trying to speak hard.

The imperial physician said that he suffered a serious head injury. It is not easy to wake up like this. This face is also a sequelae of severe head damage. Not to mention whether he can be cured in the future, or whether he can survive, but also depends on God’s will. After speaking, he sighs. With a sound, he shook his head and walked out.

Mrs. Xin's heart broke, she stepped forward to hug her grandson, but listened to the whole brother struggling and vaguely said: "The third uncle and stepmother are good together... I saw it before... I just let the third uncle ask for some money... …The third uncle wants to kill me..."

After Brother Quan finished speaking, he turned his eyes and he passed out again.

The room fell into a dead silence, leaving only the sorrow and cry of Madam Xin.

Gaffer was stunned.

This night, accidents were connected one after another, making people overwhelmed.

At this point, the context of the matter finally became clear.

It seems that Pei Xiuluo and Zhou Jiao'e started to have an affair many years ago and were discovered by Brother Quan, but he did not say anything but blackmailed Pei Xiuluo. Pei Xiuluo could not be bothered, and he was even more afraid that if he was told to go out, his future would be ruined. So arranged for someone to wait for the opportunity to start with the nephew in the casino outside the city to eliminate the troubles.

At the same time, it should be that he was anxious to get rid of Zhou Jiao'e, but Zhou Jiao'e refused, perhaps because the conditions were unsatisfactory, perhaps she really fell in love with the third master, was forced to be anxious, and couldn't think about it for a while. Only then did such a lose-lose thing happen.

Mrs. Meng remembered her son’s injury, but she wanted to leave first. Suddenly, she heard her son mentioned by Brother Quan, and then stopped and listened carefully. When she heard it clearly, she was furious, rushed up and shouted sharply. "You big rooms, one by one, are going to take turns and put my son to death? I can tell you, my son was born a dignified scholar, he was a good man and sat downright. No matter how you bite, he is innocent. , I pledge my life for him!"

Mrs. Xin stared at him and passed out into a coma. She rolled her eyes and kept twitching her hands and feet. Her eyes turned black. She grabbed a nearby woman and settled, turning her head slowly, staring at Meng fiercely. The wife looked at it for a moment, then suddenly turned to Jiafu and said, "The eldest daughter-in-law! I have nothing to say now! What happened when You An was 16 years old, whether it is the old lady or your couple, I am afraid They all agreed that I did it, and that concubine’s life was also my cause!"

"I was wronged! I didn't know it at the time, but now I want to understand it. I am confused. Not only did I get caught up in the divorce, but I was also taken advantage of by others.

Scenes from the past twenty years ago came to mind.

At that time, Mrs. Xin had just lost her husband, but her grief couldn't make her suppress her hatred for the eldest son who took everything from her son.

While that kind of hatred kept gnawing at the bottom of her heart, in the middle of the night, she was woken up by a woman next to her and told her that when she came out, she actually saw the concubine of the country's father and hanged her by the eldest son. Before the yard.

Mrs. Xin was shocked at first, and she immediately went to inform the old lady, but the woman said that the eldest son must have been upset and offended the aunt left by the late father during the period of filial piety. Otherwise, she would be so good, why would she have to hang herself? Before the eldest son's yard? If this matter is spread, I am afraid that the eldest son will be ruined and there will be no place for him in this government mansion.

Mrs. Xin was moved by these words.

In her subconscious, she also did not believe that the 16-year-old innocent boy would do something like this. There must be another reason for the death of the concubine and the hanging corpse outside his door, but the other voice in her heart did not. She stopped urging her and let her choose to believe this statement, so she acquiesced, as if she didn’t know, the next day, terrible rumors spread throughout the whole province, and Mrs. Pei didn’t even have time to suppress the people’s mouth. This news was just It has reached Yushitai's ears.

Madam Xin turned to Madam Meng whose face changed slightly, her eyes were bleeding, staring at her viciously, and forced to her.

"You bitch! I didn’t do that thing, this Pei’s family, who else besides you? It’s just for so many years, I’ve been wondering why you guys are so good at killing that concubine? I was trying to make sure nothing went wrong. I even asked someone to touch that little concubine's lower body. Wei Guogong obviously never touched her, but she was lost at the time. Now I can figure it out! It must be your son who killed a thousand swords who touched it. Concubine, maybe he strangled her to death. You are afraid of being known and ruining your son's future. So you came up with such a poisonous scheme, which not only framed me, but also framed Youan, and also turned me against his mother and son. It's a stranger to this day!"

Madam Xin looked at Jiafu, two lines of regret and tears rolled down.

"Old folks, I know I can't help Youan, and now I don't have the face to ask you and your wife to forgive me. I only hate that I was so stupid that I was seen by others and set up this venomous plan, so I got in. That woman has long been gone, and now I want to come, it was hers at the time. In order to save her son, she not only harmed me, but also harmed You An who had nothing to do with her! Your aunt has a vicious heart, and now You should have counted them. I just said those words, every word, every word, they are all true, and if there is a part of it false, it will make me hard to die!"

Gaffer was completely shocked.

She had always thought that the person who forced the death of Wei Guogong's concubine and framed Pei Youan was Mrs. Xin, but she did not expect that there would be such a twist in the middle.

She looked at Mrs. Meng.

In her impression, when she was young, her mother mentioned in front of her more than once, saying how gentle and meticulous her sister who was married into the Guogong Mansion in the capital was when she was in the boudoir. , I remembered later, still miss it very much.

What happened to make a boudoir sister who can remember her mother for so many years, become such a lustful, extremely selfish woman who ignores the life and death of others?

Madam Meng suddenly screamed, and rushed towards Madam Xin viciously. While beating her, she yelled at her, her face was red and her hair was disheveled. Where was there a little bit of a court-desired demeanor?

"Stop it all!"

Gaffer couldn't bear it, and screamed.

Madam Meng shivered, stopped, slowly turned her face, and looked at Jiafu for a moment, her face gradually pale, and she kept shaking her hands: "Afu, you must not listen to her! She! Full of nonsense, she lost her heart! She hated me so much, and hated you and You'an so much. Now, she is still instigating discord!"

Gaffer ignored him, took a step back, looked around the confidants of the two ladies present, and saw all of them look like mourning concubines, and said coldly: "Tonight's matter is limited to this. When the uncle comes back, I will meet him. Explain, what should be done, everything is up to him. If half a sentence is passed, all of you who are present will be killed, regardless of right or wrong!"

The servant wives knelt down in a hurry, saying they didn't dare.

Mrs. Meng's second wife sat on the ground, her eyes straight and motionless.

"Second Madam, Third Master is not good—"

Suddenly there was a Zhang Huang call from outside. Meng clan struggling to get up from the ground like being stabbed by a needle, muttering "Luo'er, my mother is here, my mother is coming--" pushing away the person in front of him, he stumbled and ran out.

Jiafu turned and went out of the house, passing by the road, and seeing Pei Xiuzhi still drunk on the ground, a small boy next to him kept calling out, but he closed his eyes tightly, screamed and fell asleep, and stopped. , Asked someone to bring a basin of cold water, and poured it over his head.

Pei Xiuzhi screamed, opened his eyes, sat up, and looked up to see Jiafu standing in front of him, frowning, looking down at him, his eyes were clear, seven-point disgust, three-point contempt, he couldn't help being ashamed, and he didn't dare to fight with him. She looked at each other and slowly lowered her head.

"Pei Xiuzhi, you are in vain as the son of the prince of the country! As long as you have the slightest masculinity of your father, you will not live such a waste, harm others and yourself! The pain my husband has experienced since childhood will only be better than you More! I would advise you, instead of blaming the heavens and others and hating the injustices all day long, it is better to think more about your ancestors of the Pei family, how you, as descendants of your children and grandchildren, should do the same. Otherwise, you will not regret your death, but ask you What face is there to meet your ancestors and ancestors under your Pei family?"

After Jia Fu finished speaking, he turned and left.

Pei Xiuzhi stared at her back blankly, dripping water all over, sitting there motionless.