Ye Wumian had a strange look on her face and thought to herself, "Is Mrs. Jingyi afraid of fire? Not only have I never heard of this, but even the lady may not know about it."
I didn't know how to reply for a while, so I had to listen to what the madam said next.
The Madam may have been emotional just now, but after saying so much, she was tired and did not continue.
She looked at the Maitreya Buddha statue, remembered the warnings in the couplets on both sides, and hurriedly said twice: "Sin, sin!"
Shaking Suosuo, he propped his hands on the ground, knelt down on the futon, and began to recite Buddhist scriptures.
Ye Wumian had no choice but to stand aside and wait patiently for her to finish praying to the Buddha. Then he helped her stand up and sat back on the chair again.
He smiled bitterly and advised: "Mrs. Madam, in the alternation of autumn and winter, it is more important to be still than to be active. It is better to nourish the mind and avoid emotional ups and downs. You should cultivate a mind that is not impatient and calm down difficult emotions. In this way, even though the Buddha has not yet arrived, , blessing has come first."
The madam laughed dryly and said, "Okay, okay. I know, I must have annoyed you by moving around, standing up and sitting down again."
"Don't dare! Don't dare!"
The lady said: "Now I sit down and talk, no longer excited."
She grunted and spit out a few mouthfuls of thick phlegm accumulated during the Buddha ceremony, and then said: "Jingyi was most afraid of fire, but she burned herself to death. It is almost certain that she did not commit suicide, but committed suicide."
Ye Wumian didn't dare to fully confirm it, but couldn't dismiss it either, so he could only nod.
The madam looked at him and then outside, and was about to stand up again, but Ye Wumian's quick eyes and quick hands stopped her in advance.
"Madam, it is more important to be quiet than to move. It is better to focus on nourishing the mind!"
The madam coughed several times in a hoarse voice. Recalling his advice just now, she coughed and laughed: "You, you!"
"Well, since you won't let me stand up, I can only ask you to go to the futon in front of the Buddha and get the booklet." The lady pointed and said.
Ye Wumian lifted the futon, and sure enough there was a thin booklet underneath.
I got the booklet, the material is slightly damp and has an old look to it. There are a few words on the cover that are vaguely legible: "Record of Forgotten Things".
Ye Wumian said: "Madam, is this word written wrong? It should be "Record of Past Events"."
The wife said: "It's not wrong. The things recorded in it are all things that I should forget, and they have been dusted. This time, Jingyi is gone, so I took it out of the box and read it again."
She indicated that Ye Wumian didn't need to give her the booklet.
The lady said: "In the past seven days, I have read this booklet over and over again, and I really feel that everyone in it may be the murderer of Jingyi!
Now, I ask you to spend fifty years checking the names in this book one by one and find out the murderer! "
Ye Wumian looked at the old lady and saw the serious look on her face before confirming that she was not joking.
He was about to refuse, but then he thought to himself: "The Madam's request is absurd, but it is also useful to me at the moment, so I just use this as a reason."
After thinking for a while, Ye Wumian put the "Record of Forgotten Things" in his arms, raised his fists, and said solemnly: "It is a matter of loyalty to someone who has been entrusted by someone. Even though fifty years is a long time, I still fight for the day and night! Madam, Without further ado, I can't delay for a moment, I'm leaving now.
I just hope that you will tell the lady when the time comes that it was not Amian who left without saying goodbye, but that you appointed me to find out the truth. Don’t let her blame me! "
With that said, he straightened his clothes and retreated out the door.
The madam quickly said "Hey" and said: "Stay, stay!"
Ye Wumian asked, "Do you have any other instructions, Madam?"
The lady said: "I said fifty years, and you agreed? You didn't bargain with me? Please note that you are a woman, you only have five years of youth, but you have to spend ten times your youth to investigate one thing for others, you... ...Are you really willing to do this? Are you trying to deceive me?"
Ye Wumian thought: "It turns out that the Madam herself knows that this matter is unreasonable."
He smiled and said: "How dare you deceive the madam? As the saying goes, 'Three inches of energy can be used in a thousand ways.' In the next fifty years, I can investigate cases and eat; I can kill enemies and make friends; I can Running around for the wife's affairs, you can also drink and sing, the geometry of life...
Of course, although there are distractions for other purposes, Amian can guarantee that he will not neglect his duties. "
Seeing that she was stunned on the spot, Ye Wumian solemnly bowed and said, "Mrs. Madam, Amian will take my leave now. I would like to say more, I hope that Madam Taimai will be there for me to explain clearly to her and explain that I It's not that I left without saying goodbye, but that I was entrusted by the Madam to attend to important matters.
Amian worked hard for Mrs. Tai and wanted nothing more than this one thing. I begged Mrs. Tai to convey the message, otherwise even though A Mian was rushing ahead, her heart would be frozen behind. "
After finishing speaking, he felt a little verbose.
But thinking of Luo Xiangzhu's crying face and his decisive tone of "If you leave without saying goodbye, we will never see each other until we reach the underworld", he had no choice but to talk too much about it.
Seeing that he didn't seem to be cheating, the wife took a long breath and came up. I am grateful that he agreed so happily and finally got a wish.
He nodded and said: "That's very good. Although you are Xiangzhu's maid, I know that you are called master and servant, and you are actually sisters. I will not let you feel cold. I will definitely explain to Xiangzhu that I was the one who ordered you to come before me. Going to do errands.
Xiangzhu lives in my Tan Mansion. As long as I am alive, I will not teach anyone to bully her; I will not force her to do anything she does not want to do. Her life is my life! Anyone who dares to have trouble with her will have trouble with me. "
The madam groaned heavily, her cloudy eyes were full of sternness, and helplessness gradually filled her eyelids.
"I no longer have Jingyi, and I can no longer live without Xiangzhu."
After receiving the formal promise from the Madam, Ye Wumian felt a stone fall in her heart. Then he bowed his head and said, "Thank you, Madam!"
The Dowager's face was shrouded in sadness, and she said: "When you kill your enemy, I will most likely be buried. When the time comes, please sacrifice me under the spring."
Ye Wumian puffed up his sleeves and said, "Madam, see you later!"
The madam finally said: "You are young and I don't have much time to live. We should be together forever."
Sleepless night and silent farewell.
Two maids accompanied him out of the courtyard. At this time, the moon was high in the sky, and it was almost midnight. The autumn wind is blowing cold, and the fairies in the Moon Palace may not be able to withstand it.
A big dark cloud floated over, covering the bright moon. Looking around, I saw wind and smoke billowing, and above the moon, it seemed like there was a war. Suddenly I couldn't see my fingers.
Ye Wumian tightened her clothes and asked the maid, "Sisters, do you know where the stables are?"
A fat maid said: "Because of Mrs. Tai's influence, there are not many lights in the house at night. Even if I show you the way, I'm afraid you won't be able to find it, so I'd better give you a ride."
