Chapter eighty-two, the dead again, the fire again
Dead, a dead man was found in the lake!
It's a coincidence that during the day, something happened in the backyard. A rogue man appeared at the gate of the backyard. After slandering Yu Xijiao, it was discovered that it was the mother-in-law next to Ning who did it. Although the mother-in-law is dead now,
The scoundrel was also sent to the Yamen, but the aftershocks of the incident are still there.
The backyard door has become a focus of attention, lest someone sneak in through the back door again.
The woman guarding the back door originally wanted to go back for dinner, but she didn't dare to leave at this time, so she just kept waiting in the backyard.
The other servants ate their dinner one by one, and after everyone had finished, someone sent dinner to the woman guarding the back door.
It wasn't completely dark when we went there, but it was already dark when we came back. The woman at the back door gave the maid delivering the food a lantern and asked her to hold it to light the way.
The people holding the funeral were all in the front yard, and the back yard was very quiet. The maid had never delivered a meal to the person guarding the back door. It was quiet here at this time. Thinking of what happened during the day, and the inexplicable fire in Lanxuan County Jun's yard,
There were many rumors in the house, and the maid became more and more panicked as she walked away. She felt palpitated when she looked at everything, as if something was wrong.
Shivering slightly, he looked from side to side, one foot higher than the other and walked back, even breathing cautiously.
Occasionally, I looked up and seemed to see something in the lake. My nervous face turned pale, but I still picked up the lantern and took a photo. The blurry figure seemed to be a figure that fell into the lake. The clothes were white and the black.
Huhu hair...
Did someone die in the lake?
The maid screamed in fright, and ran out without even caring if the lantern in her hand fell to the ground.
The strange things happening in front of the mourning hall have already made people panic, and now there is news that people have died in the lake. Everyone, look at me, I look at you, and all you see are the pale faces of others.
"Go to the stewards and see who it is." Seeing that no one spoke, Yu Ruiwen ordered.
"Find out what's going on?" Yu Zhongyang reacted and said hurriedly.
Several stewards from the two houses followed the maid to the lake to check.
"The reason why the coffins are bleeding is unknown." Yu Ruiwen looked at the two coffins with his hands behind his back, frowned and said, "Clean them up first."
"Come here, wipe... clean." Yu Zhongyang waved his hand, walked to Ning's side, and asked, "Has anyone suspicious been here?"
"No one...everyone...is normal. There is no suspicious person." Ning's legs were so frightened that her legs were weak. At this time, her face was pale and her whole body was trembling.
Yu Zhongyang glared at her fiercely and asked again: "There must be something wrong with this matter. Go and check the people guarding here today. Did you see anyone sneaking over and acting sneaky?
Who is approaching the coffin without any reason?"
After calming down, Yu Zhongyang became more and more disbelieving that it was blood.
Sensing the coldness in Yu Zhongyang's eyes, Ning took a deep breath, tried her best to calm down her mood, and suppressed the fear in her heart. She must have experienced the incident after all, and it happened so suddenly that she was stunned.
Everyone was in panic, but now I felt a little more at ease when I saw Yu Zhongyang.
His eyes swept over everyone present, and finally landed on Yu Xijiao's face.
The voice suddenly became louder: "Miss Yu San from the Xuanping Marquis Mansion was in the mourning hall just now."
"What's so strange about my daughter being in the mourning hall? Could it be that your family members are not in the mourning hall?" Yu Xijiao hadn't spoken yet, but Yu Ruiwen was unhappy and walked over.
When Yu Xijiao heard that she was mentioned, she lifted up her skirt, walked over slowly, and stood quietly behind Yu Ruiwen.
Ning extended her hand and pointed at Yu Xijiao: "Hou Xuanping, when we were having dinner just now, Miss Yu left this place alone first, and the mother-in-law who came here to guard the mourning hall left. If anyone wants to
Miss Yu is the most likely to do anything."
"My daughter is most likely? What is it possible? You call this kind of thing a trick? I wonder if Mrs. Ning can perform this kind of trick for us on the spot?"
Yu Ruiwen snorted coldly, pointed to the place where the servant in front of him was cautiously exploring, and said.
Ning's face turned red and she opened her mouth.
Yu Xijiao gave her a generous salute, raised her body and said softly: "Mrs. Ning, why is it involving me this time?"
What happened in the morning was just before our eyes, and now it happened again. Except for Ning herself, many people looked at Ning in a wrong way.
The Ning family of the Zhengyuan Marquis Mansion was really upset and went crazy. Why did she go up against this Miss Yu San of the Xuanping Marquis Mansion? It seems that there is no direct relationship between the two of them. If there was a relationship, it would be the Qian family at most.
, now I looked around, but I didn’t see Qian’s figure, but Ning rushed out again.
"You... you pushed the mother-in-law away before, what did you do?" Looking at everyone's faces, Ning was anxious and annoyed. The only accident she could think of was that of Yu Xijiao.
"I was feeling unwell and didn't use much of my dinner, so I went back to the mourning hall. People around me saw that the mother-in-law who was guarding the mourning hall had not eaten, so they asked her to go and eat first. I walked around in the mourning hall and felt that there was still time.
If you don't believe me, you can ask Mrs. Ning. I also saw a few maids on the way, mother-in-law."
When she went there, she deliberately avoided everyone. When she came back, she put down the box. Yu Xijiao deliberately took Qingyue for a walk. On the way, she bumped into several servants from the Zhengyuan Hou Mansion.
"You insist that it's man-made, so I have to ask you, how can you get this thing up there?" After hearing Ning's repeated questioning of her daughter, Yu Ruiwen quit, her face immediately sank, and she asked.
How the blood stains got there, no one knows.
"This... this seems to have never happened before." A timid voice came.
Everyone looked over and realized that it was the trembling little Taoist nun who had screamed and screamed just now.
"It did appear later. When I entered the door, I looked...it didn't seem to be there."
"It's true that it didn't exist, it just came about later."
"So many people saw...it happened later, so...it came out of the coffin on its own." After hearing what the little Taoist nun said, others also whispered, and everyone felt that the blood stains were not from them.
What I saw when I came in was that it clearly appeared out of nowhere.
Such a bright red color, and in such a white gauze, if it existed before, how could it not be seen?
"Would you like to open the coffin and take a look?" someone suggested timidly.
In one sentence, the entire mourning hall became quiet, and many people's faces became paler. Can such a thing be opened at will?
"It's better not to use it, just wipe it... clean." A clan elder said, his pale face looked a bit gray under the swaying shadow of the lamp.
"But...Miss Yu..." Ning said in a nagging tone, still feeling that Yu Xijiao was the most suspicious.
"Mrs. Ning, could it be that I have offended you?" Yu Xijiao directly took over her topic, looked at Ning generously and asked, "I went to the Marquis Mansion twice, and got into trouble twice, including this time.
It’s the third time.”
As soon as he said this, Ning didn't reply. Yu Ruiwen's anger aroused and he stopped calling Yu Zhongyang brother: "Master Yuanwailang, if you feel that our Xuanping Marquis Mansion's coming to help is really unnecessary, then we will go back first.
Already."
"Jiao'er, let's go." After saying that, he turned around to leave.
Seeing that he was really going to give up and leave, several clan elders became anxious. Now that Marquis Xuanping was the only promising member of their Yu clan, how could they really let him leave like that.
"Zhongyang, you still haven't admitted your mistake to Marquis Xuanping." Someone with seniority directly rebuked Yu Zhongyang.
"Ignorant women and children have not apologized to Marquis Xuanping." It was Ning who also had a high status and reprimanded him.
"Marquis Xuanping, Ning has misunderstood this matter. Please forgive me, Marquis Xuanping." Yu Zhongyang responded quickly and saluted Yu Ruiwen, looking sincere.
He still needs Yu Ruiwen's help. How can he really let Yu Ruiwen stop caring about the Zhengyuan Hou Mansion?
"My lady seems to have always been prejudiced against Jiao'er." Yu Ruiwen didn't really want to leave. As long as he was still the leader of the Yu clan, he couldn't leave without caring at this time.
Yu Zhongyang glared at Ning and reached out to give her a hand.
Only then did Ning react. She looked at Yu Xijiao. Yu Xijiao was heartbroken, but she had to suppress the anger in her heart and said softly: "I just misunderstood. This matter has nothing to do with Yu San."
It doesn’t matter if you’re a girl.”
As she said this, she turned sideways and bowed to Yu Xijiao. As an elder, Yu Xijiao naturally did not dare to accept the gift. She turned aside and instead bowed to Mrs. Ning: "I only hope that Mrs. Ning
Don’t misunderstand me again in the future.”
He said this very magnanimously and had no intention of pursuing further investigation. Hearing several clan elders of the Yu clan nod their heads, the children raised by the Xie clan in Jiangnan were indeed aware of etiquette and did not pursue the Ning clan.
.
After all, Ning's words just now almost directly pointed out that Yu Xijiao had tampered with her. Coupled with what happened in the morning, it is difficult to rule out Ning's involvement.
"I will. In the future, if anything involves Miss Yu, I will definitely investigate it." Ning had to say this, and she had to say it in front of all the clan elders, otherwise Yu Ruiwen looked like he was not a good person.
Forget it, she blamed herself for being frightened just now, so she pointed out Yu Xijiao when she opened her mouth, which made Yu Ruiwen angry.
Now I have to speak softer and gentler.
Ning only regretted that she was not the wife of Zhengyuan Hou Mansion, otherwise there would be no need to suffer such grievances.
Seeing that she was subdued and her words were quite pleasant, Yu Ruiwen waved his hand generously, "It's best for Mrs. Ning to think so, so as not to have something like this happen again in the future and damage the harmony between the two families. Your beloved.
This matter is not decided by me alone, so don’t blame me if Mrs. Ning doesn’t like it.”
In one sentence, Ning's face turned blue, and then turned red...
This was such a slap in the face that Ning was so angry that she couldn't match Yu Ruiwen's identity. Her teeth bit into her flesh, but she had to suppress it.
Seeing Mrs. Ning like this, Yu Xijiao laughed in her heart. Mrs. Ning actually swallowed her anger again...