In the memory of the past life, there is no secret about the Hou Mansion raising the dead soldiers, and even if you want to inquire, you can't find a clue.
After seeing Xiao Yuanmu off in the middle of the night, Lutang was barely asleep.
After a hasty breakfast, Lutang and Ziyuan went to the warehouse to choose a dowry as mentioned yesterday. Contrary to what she imagined, she did not rush over early in the morning, but lingered until the afternoon.
Zi Daan has a short eyelid, and she loves whatever she sees, whether it is clothing, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and painting, or wooden furniture. Ling'er followed the records with a pen and paper, and put red seals on all the selected boxes and cages.
Lutang, however, focused on the servants following her.
In addition to the maid and mother-in-law, there is another man following closely, and that is Gong Kunyu, the leader of the music class.
"The third lady has been listening to music all morning, and this palace minister is very fond of her." Ling'er whispered.
Wen Hongyao arranged for the troupe to be used as a dowry for Zi Yuan, which was already suspicious, but there was also a handsome and versatile man among them. How could Lutang not see the mystery behind it?
Since Ziqian got the permission from the King of Jin, she has been so domineering that she can do everything without thinking. She might not be able to avoid this beauty trick.
Wen Hong Yao has taken action and will never let Zi Daan become a concubine. Lutang smiled secretly in her heart. She was afraid that she wouldn't be able to take away the second-bedroom property in the warehouse.
Of course, Zi Yu was not the only one who was worried about the second wife's property. She had only left for a moment when Aunt Liu sneaked over.
Liu's pregnancy is getting older and she can no longer hide it from others. Wenhou was very happy, but it made Wenhou's wife and other concubines jealous and unstoppable.
Her oval face became round and round, and she wore loose clothes to cover her figure.
"Why did the second young lady agree to give half of the family property to the third young lady!" She complained with a sigh, "The third young lady is a concubine, separated by a layer of mother's belly, and the second young lady is not of the same mind!"
She was so calm that she didn't come over until today to ask for this explanation.
Lutang smiled and blew the tea foam without opening her mouth.
Mrs. Liu continued stroking her palms and sighing: "The third lady, the daughter of a noble family, came out of the palace pregnant, and she still has the nerve to fight for the dowry and property!"
Lutang sneered and said: "There are a lot of messy things in a rich family. What do you have to worry about when you are pregnant? As long as someone recognizes someone who wants you, you can still get married. If you are pregnant with a son that no one wants, you will be miserable and have no way out. .”
Mrs. Liu thought she was referring to Wenhong Yao, and quickly clarified: "We dare not speak about these things, for fear that the eldest lady and eldest lady will be upset after hearing it."
Lutang looked at her with a half-smile, and then laughed heartily twice.
"What's more, there is a smart person who can't get rid of his evil child, so he goes everywhere to find a father for the child. My aunt said how clever this kind of person is!"
When Ms. Liu heard this, her face turned pale and her eyes wandered, and she said awkwardly: "The second young lady comes from a girl's family. Even I can't understand what she's saying."
Lutang smiled and said: "Sixth Yiniang has been in the house for several years, how can she not understand?"
The two of them exchanged a few words, and beads of sweat began to appear on Ms. Liu's forehead. She lowered her head and said, "I am a concubine in the Marquis's Mansion, and the child in my belly is the Marquis's own son. I cannot listen to such gossip."
Lutang nodded and smiled: "It's the same as being a concubine, but my aunt is a decent person after all, more well-behaved than Ziqian. The third girl took advantage of her pregnancy to force His Highness the King of Jin to accept her as a concubine, which made the eldest sister cry with anger. . Even the music troupe of the Hou Mansion was taken over by her. Those girls who play and sing are just fine, but there is a man who teaches music to serve them. What do you call a boudoir daughter? "
Liu's face turned from white to red again, and her eyes were filled with confusion.
Without finishing a cup of tea, she refused to feel uncomfortable and left in a hurry.
Su Su came over to wipe the table and change the tea, and sneered: "Fortunately, the young lady found out earlier, she really was going to be deceived. She wanted to give birth to the child for adoption. Sooner or later, the evil son will let the eldest lady find out, and he won't be able to do it." Cut her alive!"
Liu's pregnancy was suspected, and Lutang had already found out. Marquis Wen was biting off more than he could chew on his concubine, and Mrs. Liu had long been out of favor, so how could she be the first to get pregnant with her?
When she came to form an alliance, she said she was one month pregnant. But judging from the pulse, it is clearly more than two months old.
Lutang ordered the maids in the West Garden to inquire in many ways, and finally got clues from the eighth aunt in Marquis Wen's inner house.
The eighth aunt, Bo Shi, was showing her favor to her, but she didn't keep her mouth shut. She collected some pearls, hairpins, and gold bracelets, and began to talk eloquently:
"Mr. Liu is a charming fairy. At the beginning of the year, she wanted to learn to play the konghou in order to control the Marquis. In our Marquis's house, only the bastard named Gong, Leban, can play it."
"Gong Kunyu and her are teaching each other hand in hand. How can a man and a woman be alone in the same room? How many good things can they do? They are stacking a room above the flower-viewing building in the East Garden, and these two shameless people have been doing this for who knows how many times!"
"This bastard surnamed Gong was originally sent by the eldest lady's mother-in-law, Prime Minister Yan's house. I don't know why she was arrogant, but she actually cuckolded the Marquis. Now Liu's belly is afraid of who knows who's evil seed!"
Gong Kunyu is the eyes and ears sent by the Yan family. Yan Shuqin said that he had already planned to help Wenhongyao solve the future troubles of Zidan.
Since the servants were dismissed, lunch in Xiyuan has become simpler.
On this day, Lutang was eating when Susu came in with a food box, saying that Aunt Liu sent someone to bring it quietly to treat the second lady to eat.
Three exquisite side dishes and a bowl of shark fin soup. Ling'er saw that the soup was delicious, so he brought it over and put it in front of him.
Put a little of it on your lips with a spoon, and you can taste the taste of Hedinghong.
"It's poisonous, throw it out."
Lutang put his handkerchief to his mouth and sneered twice. It seems that Mrs. Liu only looks smart, but is actually as stupid as Zi Daan.
Ling'er immediately raised her eyebrows, Su Su picked up the knife at hand and was about to go for it.
Lutang stopped them and said, "When you see her later, don't get angry, let alone beat or scold her."
She personally led the two of them, carrying the food box, to Liu's courtyard with great fanfare. As soon as she entered the door, she dismissed Liu's maids, leaving only Su Su and Ling'er to serve.
"I was grounded by my uncle and aunt, and many of the servants in Xiyuan were let out. There was only one cook left in the small kitchen to cope with it. Fortunately, my sixth aunt loves me and specially made my favorite shark's fin soup."
Ms. Liu was in a panic and didn't expect that she would come over suddenly, and her face was already pale.
"In order to express my gratitude to Sixth Yiniang, I asked the cook to make a bowl of fish soup for Sixth Yiniang to try!"
After saying that, Lutang took out a bowl of soup from the food box.
The box is the original box, the bowl is the same bowl, and the soup looks the same.
When Mrs. Liu saw it, where could she dare to eat it? He shied away in a panic, saying only that he had eaten.
Lutang naturally refused to obey, and tried to persuade her to take a bite. She was still smiling when she first tried to persuade her, but then her face changed suddenly and she sneered: "Sixth Yiniang refuses to eat it, is she afraid that it is poisonous?"
"No, no, no, the second lady is too worried! I'm not!"
"Susu, feed Sixth Yiniang!"
Su Su and Ling'er were eager to make a sound. One of them went over to hold it down, while the other held a bowl of soup and poured it into Liu's mouth.
Mrs. Liu was so desperate that she couldn't withstand the strength of the two of them. Several mouthfuls were poured down her throat, and she pushed it away with all her strength. Half the bowl of soup spread all over the floor and the porcelain bowl shattered.
"Our lady is kind-hearted, but Sixth Yiniang is so ungrateful?" Su Su scolded with raised eyebrows, "Miss Sixth Yiniang gave her the shark's fin soup, but she drank all of it!"
When Mrs. Liu saw that Lutang was fine, she knew that they must have noticed and took revenge with the poisonous soup. Even though I dropped the bowl just now, a few mouthfuls of it fell down my throat. I was so frightened that my hands and feet were shaking, and I just grabbed my own throat.
At this moment, a tortoiseshell cat ran outside. The fat cat smelled the delicious fish soup on the ground and licked the ground greedily. The cat couldn't take more than three or five licks, and suddenly the fur all over its body stood up, and it fell down and died.
When Mrs. Liu saw that the cat that had licked the fish soup was dead, she was so distraught that her knees went limp and she knelt on the ground, vomiting out everything in her stomach.
The stench of the embroidery room was filled with filth. Lutang covered her nose with a handkerchief and said with a smile: "Sixth Yiniang had a few quarrels with me, and then she wanted to reward me with poisonous soup. I thought you were some kind of vicious female hero! No! To think that he is also a coward!"
As for the toxicity of Hedinghong, even if you only take two bites, you will have an attack at this moment. Ms. Liu was shaking all over, and her mind was broken, but she had no abdominal pain for a while and was still intact.
After a stalemate for about two-quarters of an hour, Susu pinched Liu's neck and ordered her to pick up the dead cat on the ground. Ms. Liu struggled and cried and refused, so Ling'er went over to pick up the cat and threw it into her arms.
The kitten, which had just died, suddenly trembled slightly with its ears, looked into the sky with its little paws and crawled a few times, then opened its mouth and yawned.
Ms. Liu was in shock and couldn't imagine what kind of trick Lutang had done. She hugged the cat and lay on the ground, shaking into a ball.
The fish soup brought is naturally not poisonous.
The tortoiseshell cat was picked up by Su Su in advance for show purposes. Give the cat some sedative medicine before entering the house. The kitten "died" after licking the fish soup, but it was actually just falling asleep due to drug addiction.
"The evil seed in my belly belongs to Gong Kunyu. The Marquis has not entered my room for more than a year, so I had to ask him to teach me how to restore my favor. He seduced me several times and took advantage of me. He always asked me for money. He said that he would take me out of the Marquis's Mansion after he had saved enough money. Later, when I got pregnant, he asked me to find the second lady and make the child adopt the second wife and inherit the family property. There were rumors about this matter in the inner house. I was afraid that the Marquis and the elder would Madam knows. Please let the second lady let us go and let him take me away!"
Ms. Liu lay on the ground crying, desolate and broken, regardless of her face. Her originally exquisite facial features were twisted like an innocent ghost.
Lutang sneered disdainfully: "Gong Kunyu was sent by Prime Minister Yan's Mansion, how could he leave? Sixth Yiniang is so crazy."
"He will take me away, I have his child!" Mrs. Liu sobbed and cried like a ghost crying at night, extremely miserable.
"Please ask my aunt to freshen up, and I will take my aunt to see a peep show?"
Lutang smiled lightly and ordered someone to wipe Mrs. Liu's face and rinse her mouth. She also asked Susu and Ling'er to support her and carry her all the way to the east courtyard where Zi Yuan lived.
The summer evening is cool, and the tinkling music and singing in the east courtyard are euphemistic. In the music class, they played the piano, tuned the zither, and sang new lyrics.
Zi Daan was sitting in the ventilated area of the corridor, practicing calligraphy with a pen in hand.
There was a tall man behind her, Gong Kunyu, half-hugging her body, entwining his right hand with hers, teaching her how to write.
"Mr. Gong, do my handwriting look a bit like His Highness the Prince of Jin?" Zi Yuan's soft words were charming and moving.
"Third Miss has only practiced for three or four days, and she has already mastered the essence of His Royal Highness Jin's calligraphy. As long as she works hard at giving birth, she will be able to fake it when she gets married."
Gong Kunyu's voice was graceful and graceful, and her lips accidentally touched Zi Yuan's temples, as if a couple in love were flirting.
Although Zi Daan has some tricks as a little girl, she can only endure the humiliation and live an ignoble existence with His Highness Prince Jin.
Gong Kunyu, who is both talented and beautiful, is used to working hard on women, and a master in love is best at being a low-key. The two of them were perfect for each other, but after only a few days, they were already in love.
"It's getting late, and the night wind in the courtyard is too strong. Please go to the room and practice calligraphy by light. The third lady is in critical condition," Gong Kunyu advised.
Zijian responded with a smile, and said softly: "Yes. I have been writing for a long time, and my waist is a little painful, and my eyes are also very sore."
Gong Kunyu was considerate and asked her maid to prepare hot chrysanthemum water for her eyes, and then she personally helped Purple Dian into the room.
After a while, the maids serving in the room filed out. But Gong Kunyu didn't come out.
When a man and a woman live together in the same room, you can probably imagine what the scene will be like.
Mrs. Liu watched from the door of the moon cave and collapsed on the ground again.
The day after tomorrow is Chinese Valentine's Day. Lutang pursed her lips and smiled coldly. The window paper was probably going to break!
