Chapter eighty-eight, the maid who has long backed the master
"Father!" Yu Ruiwen came in, and Yu Xijiao stepped forward to salute with red eyes.
"What's going on?" Yu Ruiwen asked hurriedly when he saw his daughter's pale face.
"Father, is there another hidden reason for the death of the county king? Was he murdered?" One look at Yu Xijiao's face showed that she was frightened. She was still young after all, and her eyes were straight when she spoke, "How could...
...How come you have repeatedly warned, Zhengyuan Houchu...who...who wants to kill Lanxuan County Lord?"
"Nonsense, there is no such thing." Yu Ruiwen trembled in his heart and hurriedly scolded, but seeing his daughter's pale look, he felt distressed and his voice became softer, "What nonsense are you talking about? Where did the warning come from that you said
My finger is bleeding, where is the blood?"
The person who came to report just now was frightened and frightened, his teeth were trembling, and he couldn't speak fully.
Yu Ruiwen was actually afraid. If possible, he would have wanted to run home, but now he had to stay and deal with the matter. Fortunately, he brought all the people from the Yu family who were passing by along the way.
Yu Xijiao stretched out her fingers, and her white and tender fingers were just washed clean. She said in a wavy voice: "Father, they were just washed."
"No more?" Yu Ruiwen looked at Yu Xijiao, and then at Yu Lanxue. Compared to her daughter, Yu Lanxue was her elder sister, older and more sensible.
Seeing Yu Ruiwen looking at her, Yu Lanxue quickly collected her emotions, bowed to Yu Ruiwen, hesitated for a moment and said, "Maybe... we just saw it wrong."
"Did you see it wrong?" Yu Ruiwen frowned, nodded and called a woman next to him, "What on earth is going on?"
"Maybe... maybe the slaves saw it wrong. Just now... there was trouble after one of the maids screamed." The mother-in-law knew that she had seen it right and they all saw it clearly, but this moment was gone.
Moreover, when the eldest girl opened her mouth, she did not dare to give in. She could only vaguely follow Yu Lanxue's words.
"Jiao'er..." Yu Ruiwen didn't believe it. So many people got it wrong?
"Father, is Mr. Lanxuan County wronged? Father, please help find out. If Mr. Lanxuan County died unjustly, you must help Mr. Lanxuan County redress his injustice." Yu Xijiao grabbed Yu Ruiwen.
On his sleeve, he begged, "Father, my life was saved by Mr. Lanxuan County. She...she must have warned me."
"This kid is talking nonsense again." Yu Ruiwen's heart trembled again, and he hurriedly stopped his daughter from continuing, saying at the same time: "Come here and help the third girl back to rest. The third girl's health is not good to begin with, how can she be allowed to stay here all the time?
Funeral hall?"
Nanny Xu and Qingyue hurriedly stepped forward, supporting Yu Xijiao one by one and advising: "Girl, let's go back and rest first."
"Girl... your body can't hold it any longer. Go back and rest first!"
Yu Xijiao didn't want to leave yet, but Nanny Xu and Qingyue held her tightly, and with Yu Ruiwen, she had no choice but to be helped away.
"Jiao'er is not feeling well, but she is still guarding her. Where are the other girls? Why don't they come to guard her?" Yu Ruiwen calmed down and said with a bad look.
The faces of the clan elders were not very good, with a somewhat tragic paleness. This kind of thing was unheard of, and they had long been frightened to death, but they also knew that they should not say such things nonsense.
I can only grit my teeth and look for other clan girls in the mansion. I can't leave the mourning hall empty.
There is no one in the big room of Zhengyuan Hou Mansion, there are second and third rooms, and even other clan sisters.
So, except for Yu Lanxue who was still there, three more clan girls were chosen to come over. However, one of these three fell down and fainted just before they arrived in front of the mourning hall.
The other one shivered and walked to the mourning hall. After walking a few steps, he almost fell into the brazier and his clothes were burned. After putting out the fire, he had no choice but to send it down.
The last one was the daughter of the third wife. She forced herself to kneel in front of the brazier. Although her face was pale, luckily she didn't faint.
With the identities of Mrs. Zhengyuan Hou and Yu Lanxuan, there were originally four clan girls, but now except for two, all the other clan girls have had accidents. They were either unwell, fell while walking, or fainted due to sudden illness.
There was actually not enough time to gather the four clan girls.
There was no other way but in the end, only the second and third daughters of the Zhengyuan Marquis Mansion stayed in the mourning hall.
Yu Xijiao was helped directly back to Xuanpinghou Mansion.
After sitting down and taking a sip of tea, Yu Xijiao asked: "There are no traces left, right?"
The powdered medicine on the coffin had actually been wiped off, but when Yu Xijiao got up, her fingers were already stained with the powdered medicine. The first time she applied it, she wiped the powder on the coffin.
When Yu Lanxue followed her and applied it again, some of it was also stained.
The originally small amount of powder would not change color even if the temperature in the mourning hall was high. However, since both she and Yu Lanxue were burning paper money, their fingers would inevitably face the flames, so no matter how small the powder was, it would still change color.
"Don't worry, girl, the white cloth has been burned and the water has been poured out. Even if someone checks the coffin, there will be no change in color." Nanny Xu whispered, "Everything was done according to the girl's instructions, without any mistakes.
"
It was so chaotic that no one would notice that they were doing these things in an orderly manner.
Yu Xijiao nodded. By making such a fuss today, she was actually spreading yesterday's incident and attracting more people's attention to this strange incident. It would also help her in the future to investigate the unjust death in her previous life.
She will eventually avenge this revenge bit by bit...
"How many people know about Yu Lanyan's marriage?" He picked up the teacup, took another sip, and then asked again.
"There are quite a few people who know about it. I asked a few ladies-in-law, and basically they all knew something, but they didn't explain it very clearly. They all said that this third girl seemed to have made an arrangement with Xin Kangbo Mansion before.
But then, I don’t know what happened, the matter went nowhere again, and then something like this happened.”
Aunt Xu reported that she had been investigating this matter for the past two days. When she checked, she was shocked to find out that Miss Yu San's marriage was really full of twists and turns.
"We were going to be engaged before, but then suddenly we weren't engaged?" Yu Xijiao lowered her thick eyes, looked at the tea in the cup, and asked.
The tea cup in her hand was shaking, as if it reflected the day when she met Chu Zixuan and Yu Lanyan in the house in her previous life. She came out occasionally to pick a plum blossom for her mother, but she didn't expect to see these two people in the yard.
Let’s chat and laugh together while enjoying the scenery.
When they saw themselves, both of them were stunned for a moment, and then Yu Lanyan came over with a shy look on her face, and whispered affectionately in her ear, saying that Chu Zixuan was here for his second brother, and that he trusted the second brother of Kangbo Mansion.
The young master wanted to marry Yu Lanyan, but he asked himself what he thought, and said that he would be with him forever.
Yu Lanxuan didn't say anything at that time. After a few pleasantries, she went back to ask someone to inquire. The inquiry was true. She said that the two families were now preparing to settle down, but there were some things that had not been fully settled, and the marriage had not yet been finalized.
When Zhang Yang went out, the wife heard that she was inquiring about this matter, and even took out the appointment list from Xin Kangbo Mansion, indicating that the matter was in progress.
Now that I think about it, it was just a deliberate excuse in a panic. Everyone in the mansion who hurriedly publicized the matter because they were afraid of finding out later knew that my grandfather had not been in trouble at that time.
"That's what it means. The old slave also felt strange and asked specifically about it, but they couldn't explain clearly. Some said that the two of them were not suitable, another said that Mrs. Ning meant it, and then they said that it was Mrs. Xin Kangbo's meaning. Anyway,
It’s just to oppose the marriage between two people, and then it’s nothing.”
"Where is the county monarch's other personal maid, Hongxi?" Yu Xijiao asked softly, putting down the cup in her hand, and a cold and stern look flashed in her eyes.
Hongxi was one of Yu Lanxuan's two personal maids. Yuxiang was taken into custody along with Yu Lanxuan, but Hongxi was not. Later, she came to see her secretly, and sometimes she also waited on her in the small courtyard for a while, attentively.
She poured some tea and said that the madam was going to let her and her mother out soon, so that she could wait for a while.
If this maid had not repeatedly stated that nothing happened outside, saying that the madam was just temporarily deceived, and that the madam was about to release her and her mother out, why would she not even send someone to inquire, and just stay in peace?
The portions are waiting in the yard.
In the last life, where did the poison I got come from? My mother was not poisoned, but she was poisoned. Apart from Yuxiang, the only person who served me tea was Hongxi.
In the dream, Hongxi is Yu Lanyan's personal maid, and she is the first-class maid who accompanies Yu Lanyan to marry into the Xinkang Hou Mansion.
This girl has betrayed herself long ago!
"I heard that this maid had previously made an appointment to follow Miss Yu San to Xin Kangbo's Mansion, but then she didn't go with her for some reason. I heard that it was Miss Yu San's wish that she be in the mansion now. Lao Nu went over there to wait for her.
I was waiting outside Miss Yu San's courtyard door and found that this maid named Hongxi was indeed there, but she was so secretive that she didn't dare to see anyone, and the food was sent over by the little maid."
Aunt Xu said.
"She is in the courtyard where Yu Lanyan lives now?"
"Yes, it's right there. I waited for a long time to find it." Aunt Xu nodded affirmatively.
Yu Xijiao was silent for a moment: "Let Shiba go over and see this maid tonight."
In the past two days, Zhengyuanhou Mansion has been in chaos, and it is most convenient to enter and exit. Even if you see an unknown outsider in Zhengyuanhou Mansion, no one will come to inquire.
It must be the intention of Yu Lanyan and the Ning family that Hongxi, the maid, should stay in the Zhengyuan Hou Mansion. They should keep this maid in the house to check what's going on. If there is any trouble, they should rush to report it to Yu Lanyan. But what they didn't expect was that
Something happened to Yu Lanyan before she even arrived at Xin Kangbo Mansion, and now her reputation has been ruined. How can she still care about this maid?
I don't dare to send people off to Xinkang Bo Mansion now. I want to wait until the situation calms down before I think of anything else.
The maid's stay here implicitly represents her own wishes in the previous life. Ning and Yu Lanyan also wanted to rationalize their marriage to Li Daitao.
But she will not let this storm calm down...
Tonight is the key to opening the door. Isn't Hongxi the best breakthrough point? Doesn't Chu Zidan jump on it?