"Crack!" With a sound, the peach wood sword broke into two pieces, one of which bounced right back into the Taoist priest's hand. He held his right hand, spinning in circles in pain.
Seeing this, the officer pulled out his sword and put it on the Taoist priest's shoulder: "Who are you? What are you doing here? Who let you in?"
"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, it's all misunderstanding. This is Taoist Luan, a friend of our master. The young master specially invited him here." The housekeeper trotted in. When he saw the yamen servant, he saluted and apologized: "He's bleeding. , Sir, put down the knife first."
"Don't you know this is the scene of a murder? I've told you several times that no one can enter this place, especially no messy people like this." The officer angrily put the knife back into its sheath: "Get out!"
"Sir, please don't be angry. We didn't go in, and Master Luan was just doing what he did in this courtyard." The housekeeper still laughed with him: "It's not that we have to influence the housekeeper's handling of the case, but something unusual happened in this yard. "
The housekeeper looked around, took the yamen servant to the side, and muttered for a long time before letting the yamen servant back. The yamen servant's face looked a little ugly, and when he passed by Daoist Luan, he looked at him deliberately. Taoist priest Luan covered his hand that was pierced by the peach wood sword and said angrily: "You can still live if you do evil by God, but you can't live if you do evil on your own. I have no control over this matter in Tan Mansion. The wooden sword has been broken. The evil spirits are hard to get rid of, so I would like to ask Master Tan to hire someone else."
After that, he picked up the broken sword on the ground and left without looking back.
Looking at the Taoist priest's back, the Yamen servant's face became more and more embarrassed.
"He said evil spirits?" Zhou Yu'an looked at the courtyard.
Furong Garden is the only place among the five courtyards in Tan Mansion that is named after a flower but does not have a flower planted there. All the herbs planted here are non-flowering herbs. The Tan family is a medicinal material merchant, and it does not seem unusual for the mistress of the family to grow medicinal herbs in her yard. However, through Zhou Yuan's contact with Mrs. Tan, she concluded that the lady did not know medicine, did not understand medicine, and was even somewhat resistant to medicinal herbs. Her illness It is because I am unwilling to take medicine that I am getting more and more delayed.
Later, she heard two stories from Mrs. Tan and Tan Xingzhi that were similar in content but completely different in details.
Mrs. Tan is not Master Tan's sweetheart. The one he likes, desires, and wants to marry is Mrs. Tan's sister. In Mrs. Tan's story, her sister is a very talented but vain woman. She eloped with another man while she was already engaged to Mr. Tan. In order to give an explanation to the Tan family, the parents had no choice but to let their youngest daughter replace her elder sister in the cabinet. Although this marriage was not what Mrs. Tan wanted, it was their family and her sister who owed it to Mr. Tan.
Because of his sister's affairs, Mr. Tan made things difficult for Mrs. Tan after their marriage. It was not until Tan Xingzhi was born that they managed to reconcile in face and heart.
Later, something happened to the Tan family, and it was Mrs. Tan who single-handedly turned the tide. After that, Mr. Tan began to show kindness to Mrs. Tan, but her heart was already dead, and she was unwilling to give Mr. Tan another chance, nor was she willing to give him another chance. Don't waste any time and energy on your body.
In Mrs. Tan's narration, this is the story of a younger sister who got married for her older sister, suffered injustice on her older sister's behalf, never left her husband when he was in trouble, and finally gained her husband's sincerity, causing him to pursue his wife in turn.
In Tan Xingzhi's telling, there is another version of this story.
They are the same two sisters, and they both admire their elder sister, but the one who loves her vanity becomes Mrs. Tan. Her original husband was a scholar, a farmer, an industrialist, and a merchant. A scholar seemed to have a better future than a businessman. But the scholar was lame, and because he saved her, he missed his official career. A scholar who has no future is just a poor scholar. Mrs. Tan is not willing to suffer hardships and hardships with the scholar.
She persuaded her mother to set the date for her and her sister to leave the court on the same day, saying that they were sisters and were reluctant to let her sister get married first. On the wedding day, he deliberately made his sister enter the wrong sedan chair, and she got her wish and married into the Tan family.
She and her sister are twins who look almost identical, but have different temperaments and different hobbies. She knew that Master Tan liked her sister, so she pretended to be his sister and had a bridal chamber with him, and cooked the raw rice into cooked rice. When Master Tan noticed something was wrong, she was already pregnant, and everything was irreversible.
Before Xiucai High School, the two of them lived a life with many bumps in the road, but they were able to get through it. After all, she looks like her sister, and her temperament can be copied to a certain extent. The most important thing is that she cares about money rather than people. For the sake of money, she can also be very kind to Mr. Tan, who has a bad temper and is deliberately looking for trouble. tolerate.
But Xiucai is in high school. Not only is he in high school, he is also ranked first in the list. He is the number one scholar appointed by the emperor. Her sister who only knew how to handle medicinal herbs suddenly became the first lady and became the official wife that everyone envied. Even the scholar who had been passionately devoted to her fell in love with her sister and promised never to take a concubine.
Mrs. Tan became angry because her sister had robbed her of her marriage, and it was Mr. Tan who had delayed her. In order to not be inferior to her sister, she forced Mr. Tan to pursue an official career and tried her best to buy him an official position, but she almost destroyed the Tan family's foundation.
Because of this incident, the relationship between Master Tan and Mrs. Tan fell to a freezing point, and Master Tan took the daughter of a medicine farmer as his concubine. The girl looks ordinary, but her temperament is exactly the same as Mrs. Tan's sister. She not only loves to study various medical books, but also likes to play with medicinal herbs, and she gets along very well with Mr. Tan.
It was a welcome sight for a new person to come in, so Mr. Tan naturally ignored Mrs. Tan and even warned her that if she made trouble for his concubine, he would divorce her on the grounds of jealousy.
Mrs. Tan, who was so arrogant and arrogant, could not swallow this sigh of relief, but Master Tan took good care of the concubine and even took her with him when going out for business. But she is a woman after all, and if she is a woman, she will be pregnant, and when she is pregnant, she will give birth to a child.
Mrs. Tan waited for ten months before taking action until the day she gave birth.
She originally wanted both mother and child to die, but the woman endured the severe pain and had a caesarean section to take out the child, and surprisingly the child survived.
Mr. Tan lost his lover and was so depressed that he even ignored the child that his beloved risked his life to give birth to. When he remembered the child, the child had been sent away by Mrs. Tan. As for where it was sent, only Mrs. Tan herself knew.
In order to keep the child safe, Mr. Tan and Mrs. Tan made a deal. Mr. Tan promised not to take concubines anymore, to do business well, and to be a loving couple with Mrs. Tan in front of others. He promised to never bring the child back to the Tan family. Mrs. Tan told him the whereabouts of the child and allowed him to visit the child every six months.
Of course, Mr. Tan is not the kind of person who wants to be controlled by others. He has tampered with Mrs. Tan's decoction. This is also the reason why Mrs. Tan fell ill and did not dare to use medicinal herbs to treat illnesses.
The herbs in the yard were planted by Mr. Tan, who said they were brought back from the medicine garden. The medicine garden was managed by Mr. Tan and his concubine. After the concubine died, Mr. Tan did not bury her in the Tan family's ancestral grave, but in the Tan family's medicine garden. Mrs. Tan sent someone to look and found that the herbs had been moved back from the concubine's grave.
