Sang Nuanyue returned to Rose Garden, almost exhausted.
Su Xin and Dong Xue saw that their master and servant were all distracted, so they curiously gathered around and asked questions. Even Qing'er, who had been concentrating on studying in the yard, couldn't help but open her curious eyes and listen to her sister's words.
Sang Nuanyue just smiled and waved her hands, "I'm so thirsty after walking all this way. Let me drink some water to moisten my throat first. By the way, I forgot to take the medicine after breakfast. Is the medicine still warm on the stove? "
As soon as she said these words, she immediately attracted everyone's attention. Neither Su Xin nor Dong Xue Chun Yu bothered to ask them about their experiences as masters and servants. They hurriedly prepared warm water for Sang Nuanyue and brought the medicine that had been warm on the stove. Su Xin also muttered, "I haven't forgotten it in the past. I don't know what happened today, but I forgot all about it. Girl. After I left the house, I remembered that I was originally going to chase the girl back and let you drink the medicine before leaving. But I thought it would be too late to say hello to the old lady, so we didn't chase you."
Sang Nuanyue nodded lightly and drank all the dark soup in one breath. The medicine looked very bitter. If Qing'er drank the medicine, she would make a fuss after taking one sip. On the other hand, Sang Nuanyue drank it all in one breath as if she couldn't feel the bitter taste.
She didn't feel bitter, but the maids were different. Su Xin quickly stuffed a candied fruit into her mouth and joked, "Give the girl a sweet mouth too."
Sang Nuoyue ate the candied fruit with a smile, then checked her brother's study status this morning, and answered his questions by the way.
Her level is indeed not very good, but in this situation, she does not feel comfortable sending her brother to a private school to study. Mrs. Wang Xu would not let go of any chance to catch her. That woman was completely crazy.
Now she only hopes that Mr. Wang will notice this earlier and restrain the Wang Xu family out of fear of the Wu'an Hou Mansion; or that Uncle Wang will find his eldest brother and they will have a backer again...
Otherwise, she would never let her brother out.
Sang Nuanyue went back to study, and Qing'er was asked by her sister to go outside for a walk and rest.
Only then did several maids get together and talk privately about going to He Yan Tang.
Su Jin directly threw a bomb, "We met my aunt." She didn't say anything about meeting the Marquis, in case there would be more trouble.
Chun Yu said "Ah" when he heard this, and immediately understood why Su Jin and the girl both looked like they were about to collapse. She nodded with lingering fear, "My aunt is a bit..." Arrogant, difficult, and mean. In short, all derogatory words seemed to be suitable for my aunt.
But Chunyu naturally didn't dare to say these words, but the expression on her face was really hard to describe. Even Dongxue looked like "Why did I meet my aunt? This is so unlucky."
No wonder Chunyu and Dongxue changed their expressions when they mentioned the aunt. It was really the auntie who was too irritable and harsh. The maids walked louder, spoke louder, brewed tea hotter or colder, kneaded them too softly or too hard. Anyway, if one of them didn't agree with her, she would be beaten, scolded, punished, kneeled, and deducted monthly money. The operation is simply routine.
Su Xin was startled by Chun Yu and Dong Xue's hint, but Su Jin said, "We have been in the house for almost a month, but I have never heard of my aunt being so..."
Arrogant and domineering, stingy and picky, unstable in mood and anger, unclear about rewards and punishments... My mistress has all the qualities that people dislike the most in my master.
Chunyu explained in a low voice, "That's not it. The last time I was humiliated by the Marquis, my aunt became 'seriously ill'. I heard that my aunt has been quiet during this period and has been staying in the house, just for fear that the Marquis will come over." The secret was exposed during the visit." The result was good, the Marquis didn't go at all.
Then, Chun Yu also mentioned why the aunt, a married woman, had been staying with her natal family in the Hou Mansion.
——Has her husband’s house been ransacked?
Su Jin interrupted at this time, "What crime did the adults in my aunt's family commit?"
Chunyu said, "You should have heard about that. The girl is from Huizhou, right?" The girl Sang she is serving now is a direct cousin to the third lady. I heard that Miss Sang grew up in her uncle's house, that is to say. Miss Sang is also from Huizhou. As for my aunt, she married to Lingzhou before.
Lingzhou and Huizhou are two neighboring state capitals, and the same Linghui River runs through the two state capitals.
Chunyu continued, "My aunt's father-in-law was the governor of the rivers in the south of the Yangtze River."
The River Governor is responsible for dredging, repairing, grain collection, river management, security patrols and other affairs of all rivers in the area under his jurisdiction.
It turned out that my aunt's father-in-law was a corrupt official, and he swallowed more than half of the money allocated by the court for water conservancy projects. The remaining silver went through many different hands, and in the end, less than one-tenth of the money was actually used on the river. I heard that many rivers are built with rice bran. Without clay or cement, how can rivers be prevented from flooding? As a result, a heavy rain burst the embankments, flooding tens of thousands of acres of land on both sides of the river, and causing hundreds of thousands of casualties.
In such a heavy casualty incident, according to the court law, it would not be an exaggeration to marry off the whole family of the aunt, wife, and husband. However, because the Wang family followed Taizu to conquer the world in his early years, all the descendants of the family were almost extinct. Now he couldn't bear to let the Wang family die, so he confiscated all the Wang family's illegal gains and strictly ordered the descendants of the Wang family within the third generation not to serve in official positions, so the matter was lightly revealed.
Chun Yu whispered about this incident, Dong Xue and Su Xin were both filled with indignation, but Su Jin only felt a thump in her heart...
At this time, the closed door of the west wing was suddenly pushed open from the inside.
Su Jin quickly got up and ran over, "Girl."
However, Sang Nuanyue pushed her away and walked quickly to Chun Yu. Her face was pale, her whole body was shaking, and her figure was shaky. Almost holding on, he gritted his teeth and asked Chunyu, "In what year did the incident you mentioned happen?"
Chun Yu and others were all frightened by Sang Nuanyue's appearance. Su Xin had followed Sang Nuanyue since she was a child. Almost as soon as the girl asked this question, the familiar feeling she had heard about just now came out of her mind again. .
Su Xin immediately looked at Chun Yu, took her arm and asked, "Chun Yu, think about it carefully, when did the incident you mentioned happen?"
Chunyu was really frightened. The two of them were stunned.
She felt that she had said the wrong thing, so she hesitated and didn't want to speak again. In the end, Dongxue thought for a while and said, "My aunt brought Miss Wang to the house five years ago. At that time, I remember some women chatting and said that they thought that my aunt would return to her parents' home if the Wang family was in trouble. Who would have thought that it took my aunt almost ten years to come back. If you think about it this way, the embankment breach happened about fourteen or five years ago."
Fourteen or five years ago.
To be more precise, fourteen years ago.
In that sudden heavy rain, the water level of the Linghui River surged and the dam burst in an instant. Torrential floods swarmed out, submerging all the surrounding farmland and people, leaving corpses strewn across the fields.
Sang twisted Yue's body, and her whole body fell straight down.
She was covered in sweat, and her face was as pale as a dead person. She breathed weakly and fell backwards.
"girl!"
Su Xin and Su Jin rushed over to catch her, but her chest was filled with a thick air of death at this moment, which made her weigh heavily. Su Xin and Su Jin did not support her, and she fell straight down. to the ground.
