437 The Truth About Maple’s Mother’s Sickness and Death! The Headline Party Comes Again
Liu'er's appearance at this moment almost drove him to a dead end.
Even he himself found it difficult to convince himself of the absurd lie he just made. He deliberately involved Liu'er in order to increase the credibility of the lie, and Liu'er's appearance at this moment was not to make his lie appear real.
Reveal it?
There was a look of despair in Hong Yan's eyes, it seemed that he was in "a big disaster".
Feng Hongluan no longer believed him. At this moment, as long as he asked a question in front of Liu'er, Hong Yan would probably be thrown into death row completely.
As expected, when Feng Hongluan saw Liu'er, a sneer appeared at the corner of her mouth, and she greeted Liu'er: "Liu'er, come here."
Liu'er looked at Feng Hongluan in confusion: "Princess, why are you here?"
"Just come here." Feng Hongluan said calmly, glancing at Hong Yan from the corner of his eye. He was so flawless in telling such a ridiculous lie. With such little effort and being as smart as him, it would be better to kneel down and beg for repayment.
It's better to come.
As Liu'er approached, Feng Hongluan looked directly into Liu'er's eyes and said sternly: "I want to ask you, do you have a sworn brother?"
Liu'er was startled, glanced at Hong Yan cautiously, then looked back at Feng Hongluan, and replied: "Have you told your Majesty, Your Majesty? There is such a brother who is born feminine and is meant to be presented to the Emperor.
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This time, Feng Hongluan and Hong Yan were stunned.
I originally thought that Hong Yan was talking nonsense and telling a lie that no one would believe. However, seeing Liu'er's confirmation now, Feng Hongluan was really speechless.
Hong Yan was also surprised. Liu'er, this kid, originally thought he was here to kill him, but he didn't expect it to be like this.
He felt confident at once, looked at Feng Hongluan and said, "I won't lie to you. Just look at you and make your own guess."
After saying that, he came up to hug Feng Hongluan with a playful smile, but Feng Hongluan ducked away.
Feng Hongluan glanced at Liu'er suspiciously. Liu'er looked a little panicked and said hurriedly: "Did that boy offend the princess? If the princess wants to punish you, I will go find the boy now."
Feng Hongluan was silent for a moment and finally shook her head: "No need."
Does this count as believing Hong Yan?
Judging from her obviously softened tone and her obviously restrained coldness, it probably was.
Yes, Feng Hongluan really believed Hong Yan in Liu'er's words.
She knew that even if Hong Yan dared to lie to her, Liu'er wouldn't have the guts. Moreover, when she came in just now, although she saw a woman, both that woman and Hong Yan were fully clothed and kept a certain distance.
Besides, the door was open, so she must have been overthinking it.
Seeing Feng Hongluan's expression gradually softening, Hong Yan took the opportunity to step forward and hugged Feng Hongluan's waist: "You are really making me anxious. If you don't believe me anymore, I will have no choice but to find Liu'er to help me."
I’m here to prove it. Fortunately, Liu’er showed up in time, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to clean myself up even if I jumped into the Yellow River.”
After saying that, Hong Yan gave Liu'er an expression of appreciation. Liu'er, who was very aware of current affairs, raised his hands and said to Feng Hongluan: "I didn't know that the princess was here, so I went to make a cup of tea for the princess."
As soon as Liu'er left, Hongyan hugged Feng Hongluan tightly without any scruples.
The lovesickness penetrates into the bones, and every inch turns into blood.
God knows how much he missed her during these few days of separation.
Holding her in his arms, he just wanted to rub her into his chest, rub her into his bones and blood, and never be separated again, but he became worried.
"Why did you come out? The plague has not passed yet. Do you know that I am very worried about you?"
Feng Hongluan felt sorry for her suspicion just now. She stretched out her hand and hugged Hong Yan, but instead of following his topic, she apologized: "I was stingy and I misunderstood you."
"Fool, haven't you cleared away the clouds and seen the blue sky now? I won't say anymore. Now that you're here, come in quickly. I just have something to give you."
"What?" Feng Hongluan looked at Hong Yan curiously.
Hongyan smiled and didn't answer, just took Feng Hongluan's soft hand and walked into the house.
The house is clean and tidy, with a rustic atmosphere. It is hard to imagine that the prince, who is accustomed to fine clothes and fine food, would get used to such a rough life of common people.
But looking at Hong Yan's self-satisfied look, one can tell that he has probably become accustomed to it.
Holding Feng Hongluan's hand, he took out a box from the closet, and his face suddenly became a little heavy: "You have always wanted the truth, and now the truth is revealed, but I'm afraid that you will feel sad when you think of the past.
Body."
Feng Hongluan frowned and looked at the box in front of Hong Yan, suddenly not knowing what was in it, which made Hong Yan sigh with emotion.
After staring at the box in confusion for a while, she raised her head, her almond-shaped eyes widening: "What is Dong's true intention to kill my mother here?"
Hong Yan nodded and pushed the box in front of her: "Open it and take a look. This has always been your worry, but it happened a long time ago and I couldn't find out clearly for a while. Fortunately, I have a lot of contacts and spent a lot of time.
It took a lot of effort to dig out the old accounts from that year. I have arrested the relevant people and am just waiting for you to say something."
Feng Hongluan's hands trembled slightly. The box in front of her seemed light, but to her, it was worth a thousand pieces of gold.
She stretched out her hand, with a solemn expression and anger in her eyes, and opened the clasp on the box. Inside was a letter and a bracelet.
The bracelet seemed familiar. Hong Yan saw her reaching for the bracelet and said, "This is what Dong Xueqin gave to Aunt He's family."
"Aunt He?"
He Jixiang’s biological father’s relatives.
He Jixiang's father is the only male in the family. However, in addition to He Jixiang's biological father, the He family also has two daughters, who are He Jixiang's biological aunts and aunt and sister-in-law.
Feng Hongluan has also met these two people, because Feng Mansion has always been supporting the He family in recent years, and He Jixiang also has connections with the He family, so people from the He family will come to Feng Mansion every few years.
In this case, it is not surprising that Dong Xueqin gave a bracelet to Aunt He's family.
But Feng Hongluan knew that things were definitely not that simple.
Otherwise, Hong Yan wouldn't have gone to all the trouble to get this bracelet.
Sure enough, Hong Yan continued: "At that time, I always thought that if what He Jixiang said before his death was true, then based on the year when your mother died, Dong Xueqin was in the concubine position, and your grandmother was always restricting her.
She stayed in the mansion like her daughter-in-law all day long. I asked people to investigate Dong Xueqin's situation in Feng Mansion. It seems that except for your mother and father, everyone else was not kind to her. Even your grandmother felt that your father
It would be unlucky and disgraceful to marry a woman with a posthumous son, so Dong Xueqin was not even allowed to leave the front door."
As Hong Yan said, Feng Hongluan also had vague memories. It was true that when her grandmother was still alive, she was very harsh on Dong Xueqin and wouldn't even let her go out. The only chance to let her go was the anniversary of Uncle He's death.
That day, Fengchenghui personally took Dong Xueqin to Hejia Village to pay homage to Uncle He. Grandma couldn't stop him. After all, grandma was a decent person. Since she refused to let He Jixiang change his surname to Feng, she didn't recognize He Jixiang.
He was from Feng Mansion, so she had nothing to say about He Jixiang going to pay homage to his biological father.
Could it be——
"Could it be that the poison Dong Xueqin gave my mother was given by someone from the He family?"
In the years before his grandmother passed away, Dong's only chance to go out was to the He family.
Even Jiang Nanzi didn't know what the poison in his mother was. It was probably a very exotic poison that could not be bought in pharmacies in the capital.
So she wondered if someone from the He family had given it to her.
"Read the letter!"
Hong Yan's face looked heavy.
Feng Hongluan hurriedly picked up the letter and took a look at it. It was like five thunders struck her. It turned out that when she was still young, when she thought she would become the Ling family's wife and be the same as Ling Che, the Ling family had already
He joined forces with Dong Xueqin to kill her mother.
This letter was written by Ling Che's mother, Bai Shi, to the He family's aunt. The letter said that he would give the He family a thousand taels of gold and ask the He family's aunt to persuade Dong Xueqin to poison her mother, Han Huiru.
The needle behind the wasp's tail is the most poisonous to a woman's heart. She felt very distressed. The person who took away her mother's life was none other than Bai.
"Aunt He's family has kept this letter because the thousand taels of gold in the letter has never been cashed. She is waiting that one day, if the family is desperate, she will blackmail the Bai family to get some money.
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"How did you get it?"
"It can be regarded as a coincidence. I sent people to Hejia Village to investigate, and it turned out that the aunt of the He family had a son who was an alcoholic. I wanted to start with the aunt of the He family, so I asked people to follow the son of the aunt of the He family. It turned out that the alcoholic
Many times, I went around bragging to people that the Ling family in the capital owed them a large sum of money. The people I sent were smart and felt that there must be something fishy, so they pretended to be drunkards and tricked him. As a result, they got it all for free.
time."
Skynet was meticulous and meticulous, and the mother's tragic death finally came to a conclusion.
She had always thought that her mother was just injured from traveling around with her father all these years, so she died before she could enjoy a few good years. It turned out that this was the truth.
She worked hard for revenge.
But in my last life, I was deliberately manipulated.
Ling family!
The plain hands on the sides were pinched tightly.
If Ling Che and Ling's mother hadn't turned into ashes long ago, she would have really wanted to dig those two people out from the ground and whip their corpses until they turned into flesh and could not be reincarnated.
Although General Ling and his father were secretly unhappy because of the general's bias, in the last battle, it was General Ling who underestimated the enemy and was attacked from both sides and ended up like that.
If his father had not arrived in time and allowed General Ling to preserve the body, I am afraid that the people of the Sirius Kingdom would have dragged this arrogant and arrogant general to the camp commander and revealed that he was hung high on the city wall and suffered the consequences after his death.
Totally humiliating.
Taking a deep breath, she held the letter in her hands. Some truths were too cruel and came too late, but once she really wanted to reveal them, she would let the relevant people die.
"Where are those people?"
"I'm locked in a place, do you want to go now?"
"No, I won't go alone, I will take someone with me."
"who?"
"My dad!"
She wants Fengcheng to know that even if he thinks of a good wife and a good woman, even if he breaks his bones and raises his ashes ten thousand times, he still cannot be freed from the sin of patricide and wife-loving.
He Jixiang, Dong, Ling Che and Bai woke up now, and it was really easy for them to die.
You should cut off a piece of flesh and blood one day, and eventually cut off the limbs and soak them in a medicine vat. You can neither survive nor die.
She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and felt Hong Yan's strong and comforting hug on her thin shoulders. She placed her head on Hong Yan's shoulder, and the warm liquid slowly fell from her eyes.
"My mother is a very gentle woman. She was born in the south of the Yangtze River. She is a beautiful woman from the south of the Yangtze River, but she has a very strong temper..."
Tears fell more quickly because of the memories.
Hong Yan hugged her tightly: "Don't cry, be good, so I won't let go of anyone who has hurt you or your parents."
"Hongyan!"
Her voice was choked with sobs. Thinking of her mother's short life, the coexistence of hatred and pain, tortured her heart and made her heart ache, and she couldn't stop the tears from falling.
*
That time she secretly left the house. In just one day, she was lost in the sentimentality for her mother. She didn't even have a moment to spend time with Hong Yan. The sun went down and she had no choice but to go back home.
Hong Yan said that the plague will probably be over in a few days. This time there is a miracle doctor applying medicine, so the plague can be controlled faster.
Feng Hongluan asked if he was Jiang Nanzi, but Hongyan just smiled and didn't answer, with a mysterious smile: "You will know when the time comes."
It's already mid-March.
The spring color is getting thicker, the willows are clinging, and the flowers are blooming. On the day when Hongyan comes back, the sun is shining brightly and the birds are chirping. Now the measles in the capital has been completely controlled, and the death toll is the smallest in any previous measles.
The medicine also took her life, and the emperor and the queen were very grateful and asked Hong Yan to arrange a day to meet this miracle doctor.
These Feng Hongluan all know that after the measles warning is withdrawn, the house will no longer be so closed.
Hong Yan arrived home at noon, and Feng Hongluan flew into his arms like a bird. Ignoring the snickering expressions of the maid, wife, and servants, she hugged Hong Yan's waist and said, "Finally,
I'm back, I miss you so much."
Such enthusiastic Fenghongluan warmed Hongyan's heart and made her feel more comfortable than the April sun.
He also hugged Feng Hongluan's waist and said with a smile: "I didn't come back empty-handed. I brought you good news."
"What good news?"
"During the measles period, your father and Hua Sanniang spared no effort to provide money to help the poor buy medicine. Now that your father has great prestige in the city and the wind of plague has passed, the emperor can no longer shirk it. Today in the court, the minister
There are many people saying that your father's reward gift should not be delayed any longer."
"so……"
Feng Hongluan said happily, "Is my father a general now?"
"Well, I'll rush back to tell you after the court. I want to be the first one to share the good news with you."
Feng Hongluan could no longer care about whether the emperor was a spy or not. After all, he had obtained the tiger talisman. There was no way the emperor would withdraw the canonization of Fengcheng just because Fengcheng and his daughter reconciled.
Hong Yan looked at her lovingly: "In the future, everything will get better and better. Believe me, I won't let you be hurt in the slightest, and I won't let you shed a single tear. Who dares to make you sad?"
If I get angry, I will kill that person."
This sentence was meant for Feng Hongluan, and at the same time it was meant for certain people. I could see the corner of his eye scanning the corner of the yard coldly.
In that corner, there was a slightly stout figure, who shrank and hid.
"What's wrong?"
Feng Hongluan felt something strange about him and asked.
"It's okay, where is the child?"
Speaking of the child, Feng Hongluan was a little worried: "I don't know if the child is a picky eater. She only likes to eat Afang's milk. She is not even willing to eat mine. However, Afang's milk is not abundant, and the child has a good appetite."
very……"
Hong Yan chuckled softly: "She is picky about food at such a young age, which is a true inheritance from her father. I heard my mother said that I was the same when I was a child. Don't worry, I will find more wet nurses later to see which one suits the child's taste.
That person stays."
"That's all we can do. The baby is sleeping now. He was hungry last night and Fang couldn't produce milk. He cried all night. But now he is sleeping soundly."
"I miss my little glutinous rice balls. Take me to see them quickly."
Seeing Hongyanhou's anxious look, Fenghongluan felt full of happiness.
I hope that in the future, all unsatisfactory things will pass and everything will get better and better.
*
Maple Mansion!
Hua Sanniang was eating melon seeds. When the maid heard that the master had sent someone back and said that there was a banquet in the evening, she became quite impatient.
"There is never a clean day when there is a banquet. Some time ago, I was running here and there to serve those measles patients, and I almost risked my life. Now, it's good to have another banquet to celebrate a bird's egg!"
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The maid seemed to have been accustomed to Hua Sanniang's rudeness, and said with a smile: "Madam, isn't this the master who has made me a general to win over people's hearts?"
Hua Sanniang squeezed Guazi's hand for a moment, a flash of joy flashed in her eyes, but she soon turned serious again: "You are so proud of being granted an official position. I don't think that official position is as prestigious as it is.
I was in Heifeng Village at the time..."
As soon as the words came out, I suddenly felt something bad. Her current identity was the gentle and virtuous girl Lu Ying, not the thief Hua Sanniang who had stolen the treasury countless times...
"Heifeng Village, Madam, you have been to Heifeng Village."
"Screw you, nothing you hear can compare to the relaxation and joy I had when I was picking raspberries in Blackwind."
"Black Wind, what Black Wind?"
"It's the place next to my hometown where black wind often blows, and a lot of raspberries are planted here, so it's called black wind."
"Oh, that's it!" The maid looked confused and seemed to believe it.
Hua Sanniang secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
On the second day after the wedding, Fengcheng gave a cold instruction. Since the rice is cooked, he is not an irresponsible man, but he is a dignified court official who married a thief who has stolen national treasures countless times.
If the news about my wife gets out, it would be a small matter to lose her life, but it would be a big deal to lose her reputation, so let her take care of herself. Since she has taken Lu Ying's name, she will do it to the end for the rest of her life.
Fortunately, no one in the capital has seen Lu Ying except Wuming and Old Man Feng's daughter and son-in-law, and those few people will not tell anyone.
She would stand in for the time being, and when Mrs. Feng got tired of doing it, she would pat her butt and leave.
So far, it's really a bit boring.
She ate and slept every day, and the maid also asked her to do embroidery and work as a female worker.
Ah, hey, I might as well let her die happily.
That old bastard from Maple City didn't even come to see her. She was so suffocated that she almost turned into a bitter woman.
She was thinking that old man Maple City would put her aside as a day lily and go out to have some fun tonight.
Unexpectedly, the plan fell through and a banquet was held at home.
To win over the courtiers, Old Feng had such exquisite thoughts, it was just because he was happy and wanted to treat his colleagues to a meal.
"Did the master tell you when the banquet will be held?"
"The master didn't say that."
"Then did the master say how many people are coming?"
"The master said, there are about ten people. If you bring your family, there are only three tables."
"Okay, I understand. Tell the kitchen to hurry up and get three lambs. The old man is now a general. Today I will cook in person. Go."
"But, madam, aren't you pregnant?"
It's unlucky to go against Lu Ying's name, and it's unlucky to go against Lu Ying's belly.
She was really very restrictive, and the maid restricted her actions every day on the grounds that Madam should be careful of her children, Madam should be careful of her belly, and Madam should be careful of her body.
If she hadn't been Lu Ying, she would have knocked one of them unconscious with one palm.
Now, here we go again.
She smacked her lips in dissatisfaction: "Tsk, I'll let you sit and do it. What's wrong with pregnancy? What's so precious about it? It's not like the old guy doesn't have children. If I lose this one, I won't be as big as Hongluan."
Miss? Go!"
The corners of the maid's mouth almost twitched. Really, I have never seen such a tough woman. Is this really the gentle and virtuous farm girl that was rumored before she got married?
No matter how you look at it, you think she is a female robber or bandit.
"What, do you have any objections?"
Seeing that the maid was still moving, Hua Sanniang became even more impatient.
"No, no, I'll go right now, I'll go right now."
As they hurried down, the maids complained in their hearts. No wonder no one wanted to serve the master. How could anyone not take the child seriously? How could they explain to the master if the child was lost?