Chapter 24 Chapter 24
At this moment, the auspicious time has come, and the bride is about to leave the house. According to regulations, when the woman gets married, there will be uncles and brothers from two clans who will send her off. The higher the status of the person who sends her off, the more beautiful the new bride will have.
Fu Wuniang is the legitimate daughter of the son and Duke Dingguo. The person who sent her to the bride was already determined to be the second and fourth uncles of the Fu family. These two, the former is older and the latter is more powerful, and they have a very good face to send brides.
However, at this moment, they found that Fu Si had not seen anyone, so they sent his servants to search for him, but they still couldn't find him.
"Where has the fourth brother been?" Prince Fu asked the servants. Now the carriage was about to be sent to sedan chair, but the person who sent the wedding was not there, so he was naturally unhappy.
"I didn't see anyone after searching for a while. There should be something important." Mr. Fu came forward to be a peacemaker and said, "If there is too little time, it's the same for me to let my third brother or Silang go and send it off."
Now that time is coming, I can only do this. Ding Guogong said in an inward voice: "Then the third brother, let's go together."
As soon as this matter was resolved, the sedan chair was out soon. The lively sound of blowing and beating gradually faded away, and the Duke of Ding slowly became quiet.
This is marrying a daughter.
Prince Fu sighed and complained to his wife: "This fourth brother is really the case. At the critical moment, the person is not here. I am just such a daughter. If he goes, he can give Wu Niang a long face, so that those with the surname Qi will not dare to bully our Wu Niang in the future."
The prince's wife next to her wiped the corners of her eyes and said, "You only have one daughter, but I have two. If Sanniang is still there..."
"Don't mention that unfilial daughter," Prince Fu scolded, "her face has been lost to our Duke Ding Mansion. Even if she comes back in the future, I will not recognize her."
After being scolded by him, the prince's wife silently said, but her tears were wiped even harder.
As time gradually approached, when the sky was dark, Mr. Fu, who had never been found, finally returned to the Duke's Mansion. As soon as he returned to the mansion, he went to the main courtyard to find his elder brother.
After receiving the news, Prince Fu felt angry and said that he was uncomfortable and refused to see him.
But Mr. Fu had already come in directly.
As soon as he saw him, Prince Fu snorted coldly and said, "You are so busy that you can forget the fact that you send your niece to marry."
"Brother," Mr. Fu didn't care about his sarcasm and went straight to the point, "I've found Sanniang."
Prince Fu was a little surprised, but soon said angrily: "My daughter Sanniang is dead, please let her get out of here."
When Mr. Fu heard this, he thought of Sanniang's experience and felt a delicate pain in his heart. At this time, the wife of the inner room rushed out and asked anxiously: "I heard you are talking about Sanniang, what's wrong with Sanniang? Uncle Fourth, have you found her?"
After more than half a year, she finally heard about her daughter again, and now she couldn't help but want to know how she was.
"Whether she dies or lives has nothing to do with us, and I don't want to know her affairs." But Prince Fu didn't want to know about her eldest daughter. He asked his wife to send her back to the room and threatened: "You are not allowed to see her. If you dare to go, I will leave you."
"That's my daughter. Do you still have the heart?" How could the prince's wife be willing? She struggled and refused to listen to him.
Seeing them like this, Mr. Fu suddenly felt that Sanniang would become like this, and everyone here has a responsibility.
"Brother, sister-in-law," he said, "Let's go see Sanniang together." Without waiting for their response, he continued to add, "Go to meet for the last time."
When he picked up the person just now, Sanniang was as cold as ice, without any popularity. He said before that he had heard Sanniang's voice before confirming his identity. Sanniang's tongue was gone, so how could she speak?
Even though he did not believe in ghosts and gods in his life, he had to believe it once at this time.
Perhaps his tone was too heavy, which made Prince Fu notice something was wrong. He looked at his fourth brother for a while, and saw that he was silent all the time, and finally did not refuse.
After they left the mansion three times, they got on a carriage. After about two quarters of an hour, the carriage stopped. When the prince and his wife got off the carriage, they found that they were in front of the Qi family.
"Didn't you say you want to see Sanniang, why did you come here?" They are Wu Niang's parents. According to the rules, they cannot follow the bride to their son-in-law's house.
Mr. Fu did not reply.
The guests in the Qi family have almost left, and the last one is Mr. Fu Er and Mr. Fu San who came to see him off.
Mr. Fu Er and Mr. Fu San were sent to the door by Qi Shuangbai and others. As soon as they went out, they saw their elder brother and fourth brother were there. They were stunned, "Why are you..." This does not conform to the rules.
"Go in and talk." Mr. Fu said, and walked inside first.
The others didn't know what he was selling, but seeing that he had already entered the gate, they had to follow them all.
"You guys are..." When the guests who were drinking with the Qi family couldn't help but look at each other. But compared to the Duke Dingguo Mansion, they were all small people, and even if they were dissatisfied, they could only be kept in their hearts.
In the end, Qi Shuangbai noticed something was wrong and sent his relatives back first, and followed him to the main hall.
When he arrived at the main hall, the four uncles and uncles of the Fu family were all together, and his mother was looking at him with confusion.
"You all go down first." After Qi Shuangbai sent the servant away, he personally poured tea for several people from the Fu family, and said to his mother: "Mom, I'll just come here to entertain you, you can go and rest first."
Qi's mother was not from a high school. Although she knew something had happened in her heart, she was worried that she would embarrass her son, so she left here.
"Now there are no outsiders. Didn't you say you should take me to see Sanniang? Where is Sanniang? Is Sanniang in the Qi family?" Prince Fu asked first, "Or are you just fooling me."
His words changed Qi Shuangbai's expression, who was serving tea to him.
"What are you saying, "Sanniang is in my mansion?" Qi Shuangbai suppressed his emotions, raised his head and said in surprise.
"Who knows what he sells in the gourd?" Prince Fu said unhappily.
Qi Shuangbai immediately looked at Mr. Fu.
"I just want to ask clearly," Fu Shilang said calmly, "I got the news that Sanniang disappeared was related to Wu Niang. These two are my nieces, and I don't like anyone else, so I came to ask clearly."
"Fifth Lady?" The prince's wife was a little confused. She was born rich and was held in her palm since she was a child. She was not so meticulous, so naturally she didn't hear the hidden meaning behind this.
But she didn't understand, but everyone else understood it. Sanniang's disappearance was related to Wuniang. It was obvious that Wuniang made Sanniang "disappear".
"Then can you ask a different time?" Mr. Fu tried to ease the atmosphere. "Today is Wu Niang's happy day. We can ask when she returns to the door."
"That's right, it's too ugly to come up like this. If this is to be spread, how can Wu Niang be a human being in the future?" Fu San also echoed.
However, their words were obviously not strong enough. Mr. Fu only looked at his elder brother and didn't say anything, obviously asking him to make an idea.
Although Prince Fu's qualifications are a bit mediocre than his youngest younger brother, he has been the prince for so many years and understands that his fourth brother is not such a brainless person. He is trying to lose face and wants to make trouble here.
"Okay," said Prince Fu, "What if you wronged Wu Niang?"
"Then I will apologize to the Qi family and Wu Niang in front of everyone." Mr. Fu promised.
The atmosphere in the hall suddenly condensed. Master Fu Er and Master Fu San suddenly understood that today's incident could not be concluded easily. However, they are indeed a little curious about what happened now.
"Shuangbai, go and bring Wu Niang." Prince Fu said to his son-in-law.
Qi Shuangbai's expression did not change and bowed, "Then father-in-law, you may have to wait a while. No matter what happens, I have to lift Wu Niang's veil to complete the wedding."
"Yeah." No one has any objection to this.
After Qi Shuangbai turned around and left, his expression gradually became darker. It was beyond his expectations that Mr. Fu came to the door for Sanniang's affairs. The most important thing was that he didn't know how much Mr. Fu had found.
When he arrived at the wedding room in the backyard, he walked away from the girl and threw the veil on Fu Wuniang's head aside.
Fu Wuniang was already full of expectations, but when she saw that he was so casual, she immediately said dissatisfied: "What do you mean?"
Qi Shuangbai lost her thoughts of silence at this moment. "Now, your good fourth uncle is asking you to go over in the hall. I want to ask your Sanniang how she disappeared." Speaking of this, he smiled, "I disappeared, he said that he was missing, not elopement, which means he was at least guessing whether Sanniang was dead."
"What?" Fu Wuniang's face became very ugly. "How can I be so good, will the Fourth Uncle interfere in this matter?"
"Yes, I wasn't on him either." Qi Shuangbai sneered, guessing in his heart that it was Liu Fuyun who was doing it in the middle. "Sanniang's body must have disappeared. You threw that dagger into the deep lake. There was no corpse or evidence. He might just want to cheat us now, so you must keep calm."
Fu Wuniang narrowed her eyes, "I know."
They cannot admit this matter, even if they are suspected, they cannot!
In about one stick of incense, the two of them arrived at the hall.
As soon as he arrived at the hall, Fu Wuniang looked at Mr. Fu with all his eyes and said with tears in his eyes: "Fourth Uncle, have you found the third sister? Where is she now? I didn't expect that she would come here specially when I got married."
Seeing her face full of tears, Mr. Fu's heart was not at all ups and downs, and he said, "You can tell me what you know first."
"What, what?" Fu Wuniang looked like she didn't understand.
"How did Sanniang disappear at the beginning? Tell me everything you know." Mr. Fu said.
Fu Wuniang immediately went to see her father next to her, but saw her father nodding slightly to her. After knowing that this was her father's agreement, she said, "Okay. Last year we went to Yangzhou to visit relatives. Uncle San sent us all the way, but something happened between Uncle San. In order not to waste time, he asked the manager to send us sisters to the next day first, and he came back to catch up with us.
"We left first. When we passed by Yangui Mountain, the third sister said that since we were here, we should go up the mountain to see the scenery on the mountain, and wait for the third uncle. I agreed. After we arrived on the mountain, we met a scholar. The scholar saw the third sister's face and wrote a frivolous poem on the spot to give it to the third sister. They were all in charge of this matter and could testify.
"After we went up the mountain and went back to the inn in Lishui to rest. The next morning we opened, we found that the third sister was missing. The doors and windows of the room were closed, and there were no other traces. When we went downstairs, we heard other guests say that Sanniang left the inn in the middle of the night yesterday. No matter how much we looked, we couldn't find Sanniang's whereabouts. We had to go to Yangzhou first and ask our uncle to help find someone."
These words are no different from what she said before.
After saying that, Fu Wuniang said with a worried look on her face: "Uncle Fourth, what did you do about this? Did the third sister have something happened to me?"
Mr. Fu nodded, "Now that you have finished speaking, we should also hear what Sanniang said."
Chapter completed!