There was still no one in the courtyard. Judging from the decoration, it should be the main courtyard where the owner lives. The absence of anyone just made it easier for her to move around.
Bai Qianwu pushed the door and entered a room. It looked like a study room. In addition to the books on the entire wall, there were also a few paintings hanging on the wall.
They were all landscape paintings, and there seemed to be nothing strange about them. Bai Qianwu opened the scroll and saw that there was a flat surface behind the wall, with no hidden spaces. Bai Qianwu was worried and even knocked on it.
Well, solid.
The pens, inks, papers and inkstones were neatly placed on the wooden table. She also flipped through the account books on the table, which recorded the expenses and income of the house.
There were a lot of books on the bookshelf against the wall. Bai Qianwu didn't want to look through them, so she casually glanced at the cover and stopped reading. There were books like the Three Character Classic and the Tao Te Ching on them.
A large blue and white porcelain vat in an inconspicuous corner contained a few dried lotus pods and several scrolls of paintings inside. Bai Qianwu took out a scroll and opened it to look at it carefully. The woman in the painting looked quite familiar. The brides are somewhat similar, so there should be a relationship between the two.
After putting the scroll back to its original place, Bai Qianwu took out the other paintings and looked at them one by one. There were three scrolls in total, and they all showed the same woman. Judging from the painting style, they were painted by the same person.
Judging from the attitude of the lady, she obviously has a grudge against the bride. The bride and the woman in the painting are very similar. The painting paper is slightly yellowed for some time. If nothing else, the woman and the bride are mother and daughter. relation.
Why did the portrait of the bride's mother appear in the study room of the main courtyard? Bai Qianwu didn't think it was because the mistress of the family had a crush on the mother of the bride. It should have something to do with the master of the family.
Footsteps were heard outside the house, heading here. Bai Qianwu quickly packed her things and jumped out of the window the moment the door opened.
The lady entered the house and found nothing wrong. She closed the door and walked to the blue and white porcelain vat. She took out a scroll of paintings, opened it, put it on the desk and began to mutter to herself.
Bai Qianwu squatted by the window and listened to the sounds inside. She didn't need to deliberately get close to hear the sounds inside.
"Li Chun, your daughter has been tortured to death by me. She is lucky enough to be able to come back as a ghost tonight. Tonight I will make sure that she never comes back and will never be reincarnated. Hahahahaha, bitch, you two, mother and daughter. They are all bitches, one seduces my husband and the other seduces my son, you can’t possibly treat me like a clay Buddha.”
From the wife's soliloquy, Bai Qianwu probably knew a secret.
The master and his wife were family friends. When the master's family fell into decline, the wife's parents did not dislike breaking off the engagement, but firmly supported their marriage. The only condition was that the master married into their family. They only had one daughter, and all their property was left to her daughter. As for the They don't force him to change his surname, he can just follow his parents' surname.
The master's family was in a state of poverty and had no money, and they could no longer afford to eat. He felt that marrying into his wife was an insult to him, but if he didn't marry into his wife, he couldn't bear to part with the life of fine clothing and fine food. After all, he still married into his wife, but he was just a married woman with resentment. of.
After only a year or two after the marriage, the wife's parents died one after another, and the master also had evil intentions. He wanted to swallow up the wife's family's property, so he took advantage of the wife's parents' death and she gave birth to a son early and took the initiative to shoulder the responsibility. Moved, he gave half of his power to him.
The master obtained the power and secretly cultivated a group of his own people without his wife's knowledge. He also fell in love with the bride's mother Lichun at first sight. He placed Lichun outside as his outer chamber, and the next year he gave birth to a daughter who was the bride.
Li Chun died in childbirth, and his wife didn't even know that he had a woman outside and gave birth to a bastard.
The master sent Su Xin to a confidant's house to raise her until she was five years old before taking her into his home. He told his wife that she would train servants for the family, and she readily agreed without much thought.
It happened that her son was born with a weak heart and had no peers of the same age to play with, so it was okay for this little girl who was only one year old to play with him.
Su Xin has always been raised by his wife's side, and she also loves her very much. The master then proposed that Su Xin be his adopted daughter. The wife said that she would consider it, but she actually agreed in her heart. She also specially prepared a dowry for Su Xin, and the specifications were correct. The dowry specifications of the young lady from the aristocratic family can be said to be that she is raised as her own daughter.
The accident happened when the young master and she were seventeen or eighteen years old. The two had been in love for a long time, and they even secretly did such things and were caught by the madam. The madam was angry at first, but later she was watching. The grown-ups knew the basics, so they agreed to be together and told the master about the matter.
The master was furious and ordered the two of them to separate. He also called Su Xin to the study to talk. The wife was afraid that Su Xin would be punished and immediately went to the study to plead for mercy. Unexpectedly, what she heard made her feel like she was struck by lightning.
Suxin is the master's daughter, and Suxin has always known that she and the master are father and daughter. In other words, she did such a thing even though she knew that she and the master were brother and sister.
The lady did not realize that the frail young master was following her. They and their son heard what was said at the same time. The young master fell to the ground with a thud, clutching his heart, attracting the attention of people inside and outside the house.
The scene was a mess. The young master managed to save his life after receiving treatment, but he could not wake up for a long time.
When the master saw things like this, he simply said what he had been holding in his heart for a long time. He hated their family. Her parents were actually killed by him with chronic poison. If he wasn't afraid of outsiders becoming suspicious, he would kill her directly and let her family go. Reunion.
He dared to tell the whole story because he had absolute confidence that the madam could no longer pull any tricks. He would get the remaining property in her hands sooner or later. As for his son, he really loved him. He was such an only child. He I'm still thinking of changing my son's surname back to his own.
The wife is going crazy. Her husband cheated on her and brought her illegitimate daughter to her home to keep her. There was an unfaithful relationship between her son and the illegitimate daughter. Her husband took away most of the family's property from her. Her biological parents were killed by him.
The master ordered his wife and Su Xin to be grounded. The wife begged the master to let her go to his son's yard to take care of his son. After all, the master still cared about his son, so he agreed to his wife's request.
The young master finally woke up after half a month under the careful care of his wife. He was very thin due to a serious illness. He never mentioned Su Xin from the beginning to the end, and only looked at his mother's gray hair with distress.
The master and his wife thought that their son was developing in a good direction, but they did not expect that he committed suicide by diving into the water while the family was not paying attention.
The night when the young master committed suicide, the madam turned completely dark. She sent her husband away with her own hands with a glass of poisoned wine. Once the master died, his property naturally returned to her hands. As for his body, she chopped it up and threw it in a mass grave. The beast ate it and buried it in an empty coffin.
