In front of the gate of Zhengyuanhou Mansion, a group of government officials are guarding it. The Zhengyuanhou Mansion has been under guard for the past few days. No one is allowed to go out at will. Now only a few purchasing servants can come out of the house. Even the others can
Even the master cannot come and go at will.
Someone was pointing in the street in the distance, talking about the marriage between Zhengyuanhou Mansion and Xinkangbo Mansion. There was everything said about this marriage. Even though it has been a few days, many people are still very excited when talking about it.
, the noise was quite loud.
A maid wearing heavy mourning passed by them. Someone noticed and looked at her curiously.
There was a funeral at the Zhengyuan Hou Mansion, but the few servants in the house who came out for shopping did not wear heavy mourning. This maid went to the Zhengyuan Hou Mansion, which immediately attracted more people's attention.
Someone who was brave enough to do something good took a few steps forward and walked behind this maid.
When the maid came to the gate of Zhengyuan Hou Mansion, she was immediately stopped by the Yamen servant, "Who are you and what are you doing?"
"This slave is here to report the funeral." The maid stood still and wiped her tears.
"Announcement of mourning? What does it have to do with the Zhengyuan Hou Mansion?" The yamen servant looked at the maid up and down and felt that she looked familiar.
"Our girl is gone... This servant came to announce the funeral of Madam and Master." The maid began to cry sadly, knelt down with a plop, kowtowed to the government servant in front of her, "please ask some officials."
The master asked the slave to go in and announce the funeral for the wife and the master."
"Who are you girls?" A government official couldn't help but asked after seeing her crying sadly.
"Our three girls, the third girl who married Xin Kangbo Mansion...are gone." The maid cried while wiping her tears.
With one sentence, there was a huge uproar, and the number of people watching behind him immediately increased.
"Is this the girl from the second wife who succeeded Shang Xin Kangbo in marriage?" The trouble between the two families was so big that the yamen guarding in front of the Zhengyuan Hou Mansion also heard about it. In the past two days, when the yamen had nothing to do,
We would also stand together and chat about something like this.
"Yes, it's our girl...our girl committed suicide by throwing herself into the lake at Xin Kangbo Mansion that day after the county king's funeral..."
The maid burst into tears.
Yu Lanyan threw herself into the lake and committed suicide? Everyone was shocked.
"Dead?" the Yamen servant asked in surprise.
"He is dead. When we returned to the house that day, our girl... threw herself into the lake in the middle of the night. We didn't find out until today... today," the maid cried.
Throwing himself into a lake in the middle of the night and discovering it a few days later originally revealed some problems, but these problems were not a problem in the face of Yu Lanyan's own problems. What everyone was more concerned about was Yu Lanyan's death.
Yu Lanyan, who has been scolded by everyone in the capital these days, is dead. This is a big deal!
"Yan'er, my Yan'er." The door of Zhengyuan Hou's Mansion suddenly opened. Mrs. Ning came out crying with several maids. Someone had just gone in to report the news to her.
Some government officials wanted to step forward to stop her, but when they saw that Ms. Ning did not rush out and was only crying at the doorstep, they stepped aside.
"Madam, the third girl is gone." When the maid saw Ning coming out, she became anxious and took two steps forward, knelt down in front of Ning, and kowtowed three times to her.
"She...how could she be so obsessed with it...she..." Ning held a woman's hand and almost fainted from crying. She took two steps forward and came to the maid, tears falling down her face.
Come down.
"Madam...Miss...Miss, she..." The maid also cried uncontrollably, and the master and servant cried together.
The spectators were not that sad. What happened to Yu Lanyan before was so disgusting, but now she felt that her death was her own fault and she could not blame others.
"Madam... people can't be resurrected after death, please show your condolences!" A woman was advising Ning from the side, and said to the maid, "Hongxi, please explain everything clearly."
Hong Xi wiped her tears and then explained the reason clearly.
After Yu Lanyan returned to the house that day, she entered the house alone and drove away the people around her. When she entered the house, the people in the house heard from the little maid guarding the yard that Yu Lanyan had jumped into the lake, and they hurriedly sent people to salvage it.
Nothing was found that night, so the next day and the third day continued. Only today did we see the floating person. Although his face was very swollen from the soak, he could tell from his clothes that it was Yu Lanyan.
"Xin Kangbo Mansion... they... how are they looking at my daughter?" After hearing this, Mrs. Ning was very sad and her face was angry.
No one believes that Kang Bo Mansion is slacking off.
However, Yu Lanyan herself was not upright, and something like this happened again, and it seemed that it was no wonder that Xin Kangbo Mansion was slacking off. At that time, Xin Kangbo Mansion was able to take Yu Lanyan in, which was already considered good.
"Madam... people cannot be resurrected after death. For now... let's deal with the funeral first!" the mother-in-law continued to advise.
"Yan'er... Yan'er is no longer here. I... I'm going to Xinkangbo Mansion to see her for the last time..." Ning looked at the government servants on both sides, tears fell, and she cried endlessly. After speaking, she fell back.
, the maid, the mother-in-law screamed in panic, and there was a chaos in front of the Zhengyuan Hou Mansion.
Onlookers also looked at each other and saw that Yu Lanyan, who caused such a big scandal, actually threw herself into the lake and committed suicide...
Xuanpinghou Mansion
Qian hurried to the study room in the front yard.
The boy saw Qian coming from a distance and hurried into the study to report. When Qian came, the boy was already waiting there.
"Madam, Lord Marquis please come in."
Qian left the people around him at the door of the study and went in alone.
"Master Marquis, please help my cousin." Qian wiped her tears as soon as she entered the door, "Yan'er is dead... She died in Xinkangbo Mansion for an unjustifiable reason..."
After reaching this point, I couldn't say any more, my voice was choked with sobs.
"Yu Lanyan?" Yu Ruiwen put down the soup cup in his hand and asked with a frown.
"Yes, just now people from the Xin Kang Bo Mansion came to the gate of Zhengyuan Hou Mansion to report the funeral. My cousin has fainted now, but she can't leave the house and can't even see Yan'er for the last time." Mrs. Qian cried, "Hou
Master, please help her and ask for mercy from the Minister of Punishment, even if you let your cousin take a look. After all, she is her daughter and she cannot be buried without taking a look."
"The Minister of Punishment will not listen to me. This matter has something to do with Prince Qi." Yu Ruiwen waved his hand impatiently.
He didn't want to get involved at all.
"Master Marquis, please go and ask your mother to help you talk. With my mother's words, even if the Zhengyuan Hou Mansion cannot be unblocked, it will definitely be possible to let my cousin come out of the house to see her." Mrs. Qian wiped her tears.
, begged.
"No." Yu Ruiwen flatly refused, "My mother is too old to get involved in this kind of thing."
"Master Marquis, please." Qian cried and knelt down, "My cousin just sent someone to beg at the side door. I... I really can't bear it."
"You can't bear it?" Yu Ruiwen said coldly, "If Yu Lanyan does such a thing, it will be a matter of time before she dies. She is no longer a daughter of our Yu clan. You will never let me say this.
Do you want to slap yourself in the face?"
"Master Hou!" Qian still wanted to speak, but Yu Ruiwen waved his hand impatiently, "Go down, this matter has nothing to do with our house."
"Master Hou, if you don't go and beg your mother, I...I'll go and beg you," Qian said through gritted teeth.
"Presumptuous!" Yu Ruiwen was furious, reaching out and slapping the table, "Ms. Qian, have you forgotten what I told you before, asking you to stay away from Zhengyuan Hou Mansion?"
"Master Hou..." Qian wanted to say something more, but when Yu Ruiwen glared at her, knowing that he would not agree if he continued, he could only grit his teeth and retreat.
When he stepped back outside the door, he stamped his feet vigorously, turned around and left. Suddenly he stopped again, stared at the boy with an unkind look and asked, "Who was here just now?"
"Yes... it's the third girl." The boy lowered his head and asked respectfully.
"She just brought soup?" Qian thought of the soup cup that was on the desk just now, a stern look flashed in her eyes, and she took a deep breath to calm down the anger in her heart.
"It's the soup specially made by the third girl and sent to Mr. Hou to replenish his health." Even if he concealed it, the boy replied clearly.
"Where is she?"
"I just left the house. It was about something in the shop." The boy said vaguely. He didn't understand the matter. The third girl went out from time to time in the past few days.
"What's going on in the shop that would warrant an unmarried girl running out all the time?" Mrs. Qian snorted coldly.
"I don't know!"
Mr. Qian snorted coldly and walked towards the side door angrily.
Ning was waiting anxiously at the side door. When she heard something coming from the Xuanping Hou Mansion, she hurriedly asked: "Is it my cousin?"
"Cousin, it's me."
"How's it going? Marquis Xuanping, are you willing to help?" Ning said with a crying voice.
Ning, who was opposite, sighed: "Cousin, our Marquis has always been cautious. You also know that he is not willing to get involved in Yan'er's affairs."
"But now this matter..." Ning gritted her teeth. The two sisters were separated by the door, and there were other people around them. She didn't dare to say some thoughtful words, so she could only cry, "Cousin, as long as you help me this time
, I will repay you no matter what in the future, just this time... just this once, I just want to see the last side of Yan'er."
"Seeing that the Marquis of Zhengyuan's Mansion is under the control of the Ministry of Punishment, even we, the Marquis, do not dare to let you in and out at will." Mrs. Qian was very embarrassed.
Opposite her, Ning cried miserably again, and after a while she said again: "Cousin, I don't want to embarrass you, I'm just here, but can you send someone beside me to check on Yan'er?
I'm afraid that Xin Kangbo Mansion will treat Yan'er's funeral harshly, and something like this will happen to Yan'er... Only now did the news come out from Xin Kangbo Mansion..."
Ning was speechless after saying this, and there was a lot of crying in the Zhengyuan Marquis Mansion.
Mrs. Qian let out a long sigh: "Cousin, I can let one or two people pass, but they can only be servants of the Zhengyuan Hou Mansion."
"Okay, let's send two people over first. Your cousin-in-law is already trying to accommodate the Ministry of Punishment at the front door. I can send a few people over if I don't want to, but I... can't wait any longer." Ning cried.
Hearing what she said, Mrs. Qian felt a little at ease. She knew that there was actually nothing serious going on in the Zhengyuan Hou Mansion. The main reason was that the Crown Prince of Qi was just venting his anger. In this situation, he would probably agree to let a few servants out of the house. There are many people at the front door.
Agreed, let alone borrowing a passage through the side door...