The maid lowered her head tremblingly, then turned to look at the general's wife. Seeing the general's wife looking melancholy, she took a deep breath and then said slowly:
"The cause of the matter is that the eldest son lost all his family wealth, and he was too embarrassed to borrow money everywhere, so he decided to take it home..."
She gritted her teeth and continued: "It's just that the general and his wife knew that he was a gambler, and they had stopped him countless times. They even cut off his monthly salary and confiscated all the valuable things on him. In order to stop him, If he continued to act recklessly, they would simply put him in solitary confinement until he couldn't even get out of the door."...
"The eldest young master's friends don't dare to come to the general's mansion to make trouble, let alone come to the general's mansion to find him, because the general has warned those friends around him many times. Most of the time, he sneaks around on his own. When I go out, sometimes I end up in a mess just to climb over the wall..."
"Can you get to the point?"
Bai Quan interrupted her impatiently. These women are talkative.
I'm afraid that if I don't interrupt her, she will still make a lot of nonsense.
The maid kowtowed and said tremblingly: "Yes, yes..."
She swallowed her saliva and glanced meaningfully at the general's wife again.
Seeing that the general's wife had no reaction, he slowly said: "Because the general did not give the eldest son monthly money, and the wife also confiscated all the valuable things on him, he could no longer go out to gamble, so he started stealing. It is precisely because of this bad idea that things will cause the plague that follows..."
Bai Quan narrowed his eyes, "What do you mean? How did stealing cause the plague?"
The maid looked at the general's wife cautiously, obviously embarrassed to say it.
The general's wife sighed heavily and finally nodded, "Now that we've said it here, let's continue."
With the consent of the general's wife, the maid became much more courageous. She said in a serious voice:
"The eldest son has always had the habit of petty theft, so the people around the madam have always been wary of him. He has no way to steal anything from the madam, but he doesn't dare to bring his idea to the general's head. ,so……"
Speaking of this, the maid suddenly lowered her head very low, "So the eldest son made the idea to go to the ancestral hall..."
As soon as these words came out, the whole audience was stunned.
But most people's eyes are still full of curiosity, and they seem to be wondering what valuable things can be found in the ancestral hall?
"What happened next? Can you put it simply? It was so annoying."
Bai Quan rubbed his head speechlessly. It was already midnight and he was already very sleepy. It was really a headache to have to deal with such a mess.
The maid said tremblingly: "I don't know what the eldest master and the others were thinking, but they actually dug out a box of gold buried in the ground, and then..."
"Wait a minute, I want you to describe it simply. I don't want you to describe it so simply. What do you mean by suddenly jumping the topic so far? A box of gold? Or dug out of the ground? What do you mean? Is there gold buried under the ancestral hall?"
The maid nodded, "Yes, Your Majesty, I don't know much about that box of gold, but I know that everything starts from that box of gold."
"Speak clearly."
Zuo Yu also spoke impatiently.
The maid glanced at the general's wife again, and then continued: "Since the box of gold was dug out of the ground by the eldest son, the eldest son has returned to his old days of spending money like water. He sneaked out of the house again and again, and once again The next time I gambled with that gold...”.b.
"At first, neither the General nor his wife knew about this matter. Even if they knew that he had sneaked out, they felt that he had little money on him and could not make any big noise. Until later, he suddenly appeared day and night. Coughing..."
"Including the servants who served him, they also got sick one after another.
At the beginning, not many people fell ill. Later, almost all the people around the eldest son fell down, and only the eldest son himself remained. "
Having said this, the maid sighed deeply, and then continued:
"Although the eldest son is uneducated and incompetent, his physical condition is quite good on weekdays, so even if he gets sick, his condition does not get worse after a while. In addition, he is treated in a timely manner, so he has been breathing a sigh of relief. .”
"But then the eldest son's servants were not so lucky. At first, those people just fell ill one after another. Later, those servants died one after another, and the disease was like a plague, unknowingly. It infected half of the people in the general's house, and gradually caused the people in the house to fall ill..."
Bai Quan's face became increasingly ugly, and everyone present also frowned. Everyone stared at the maid intently.
Only then did she continue to say:
"At first, no one took the disease seriously. It wasn't until more and more people died that the general and others felt fear. At that time, they speculated whether it would be contagious, so they isolated themselves. We opened the door and tried our best to prevent the spread of the virus."
"But later on, people outside gradually became sick, and at that time, the General also started to cough. At that time, he secretly felt that something was not good. After sending people to conduct an in-depth investigation, it was discovered that the first batch of people who got sick were all related to the General. The young master had some dealings with each other, and only then did he realize that the eldest young master had actually dug out the box of gold from the ground..."...
In the surprised eyes of everyone, the maid continued to say word by word:
"It was not until that moment that the General knew that all the viruses came from that box of gold, and almost all the people who had come into contact with that gold had died. Only the eldest son was still dying, hanging on various precious medicinal materials. The tone..."
"Gold?" Bai Quan murmured to himself, his tone full of surprise.
The maid nodded and continued: "Everyone in the house thinks that the eldest son dug up the gold buried in the ground and disturbed the ancestors, so he was punished. Therefore, no one dares to mention this matter. , which is also the main reason why everyone keeps silent about it.”
"But now, the prince has come to investigate the matter in person. I know that if this matter is kept hidden, it will only be more detrimental to the general's mansion. Moreover, such secrets cannot be kept secret. I only hope that after knowing the truth, the prince can Keep an open mind!"
After saying that, the maid kowtowed to the ground again.
"This is all I know, I hope your lord will understand!"
