The daily life of the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, thick black

Chapter 64 The Second Letter
Aunt Gu didn't come suddenly.

This aunt, whose boudoir name is Gu Jiao, was also a great beauty at the beginning, but since she got married, she has lost the word "back", and has never been successful.Her husband's family was gone, but she survived, so she was said to be Kefu.At any rate, Gu Zhenguan had some brother-sister friendship with her here, and it happened that her first wife died, the eldest sister in the family was sick, and the third sister was naughty, so Gu Jiao took care of the house for three or two years.

Originally thought that this widow would die like this, but she didn't want to go too soon.

I heard from the servant girl below that when a person was discovered, his body became cold and hard, and it was impossible to save him.

When Gu Huaishu found out about this, he didn't want to go back immediately, so he sent someone to look at it.

After all, she is already married, and she can only go back and have a look when she waits for Gu Jiao's funeral. Zhang Tingyu seems to know that she is in a bad mood, and she has nothing to say in the past few days.

It stands to reason that the relationship between Gu Jiao and Gu Huaixiu is really not good. After all, this wall of grass has been tossed and tossed. She did a lot of things that made things worse. .

When Gu Yaofang was strong, didn't Gu Jiao follow her and stomp her hard?

Now Gu Huaishu felt that he didn't feel pity for her, but just felt that it was too sudden.

It's okay to be alone, if you say no, you will be gone.

Gu Huaixiu frowned, and had already changed into clothes.

Today is the day of Gu Jiao's funeral. After all, she still wants to call Gu Jiao aunt, and told the Zhang family that she will go with her.

Before dawn, Gu Huaishu got into the carriage and left, returning to Gu's house.

It will take a while for the coffin to be moved out. Gu Zhenguan stood outside wiping tears, as if he didn't want others to see him, but he just focused on Gu Huaishu.

The father and daughter looked at each other for a while, and then Gu Zhenguan sighed: "Go and see your aunt."

In fact, Gu Huaixiu didn't care much about things like life and death. Apart from feeling sudden, he really didn't feel anything else.

The relationship between her and Gu Jiao has always been very weak, not as good as Gu Zhenguan and her being brother and sister.

Taking advantage of no one, she lit a stick of incense, burned a few pages of paper money, and then withdrew.

The time for the funeral arranged by the Taoist priests arrived, and Gu Jiao's funeral seemed very shabby, with no father, no mother, no children, no husband, only one elder brother, all the way out from Gu's house.

According to the rules, Gu Huaixiu and the others were not allowed to follow, but Gu Zhenguan said that they would give it away anyway.

She also let people drive the car quietly, and followed him half a mile away.

Before walking for a long time, he stopped.

"Why did it stop in front?"

Gu Huaishu sat in the car and asked a question.

The young man from Gu's mansion went to inquire for a while, but said: "The guards who bumped into the returning safari in the palace in front said that we were unlucky, so let them avoid them. Now stop for a while and wait for them to pass before we leave. .”

In the palace?

Gu Huaixiu felt unlucky.

The dead are great...

Forget it, where can it go?

Gu Huaishu simply sat down in the car, and saw Sun Lianqiao sitting next to him, who hadn't moved.

"What happened to sister-in-law?"

Sun Lianqiao withdrew her gaze that was floating in the void, and with a white flower on her head, she said: "Since I came in, although I don't think my aunt is a good person, I don't think my aunt should go like this."

He committed suicide by hanging himself. As for various reasons...

She glanced at Gu Huaixiu, "I asked someone to interrogate the maid, and said that two letters were sent from outside, and someone sent a rhino horn hairpin, but the maid accidentally lost the rhino horn hairpin, so... my aunt hanged herself gone."

Rhino horn hairpin.

When Gu Huaishu heard this word, she understood it. She asked Sun Lianqiao, "Does father know?"

Sun Lianqiao shook her head: "I dare not tell."

People are gone, what dare to say?
Gu Jiao, a widow at home, was found to be having an affair with another person. This is a serious matter, and the reputation of the Gu family will be ruined.

Gu Huaishu doesn't seem like someone who cares about these things, not to mention that she has an amulet that the emperor Jin Kouyu said, not like Sun Lianqiao.In comparison, Sun Lianqiao is just a very ordinary girl in the back house, or...

woman.

Gu Huaixiu knew in his heart that death was like a lamp going out, so it was meaningless to say these things.

She just lowered her eyes: "Can you find that rhino horn hairpin? I'm afraid that the servant girl lost something important, so my aunt didn't think about it for a while, she was anxious and scared, right?"

If someone finds out what was given and received privately, it would be a serious matter.

Gu Huaixiu said in his heart that the Gu family was really hopeless, but he didn't know what to say later.

Sun Lianqiao asked: "The maid..."

Gu Huaishu raised his eyes and looked at her. Sun Lianqiao didn't speak for a long time.

After a long time, Gu Huaixiu lowered his head again, slightly hooked his lips, and said, "Sister-in-law, do whatever she thinks. You are the one in charge of the Gu family."

She is just a married daughter, and she has no reason to point fingers at her natal family's affairs.

What's more, such a thing...

She would not refute Sun Lianqiao.

It's just that she couldn't help thinking of something, but Sun Lianqiao didn't know what Gu Huaxiu was thinking.

Gu Huaishu gently opened the car curtain a slit, but saw a suspicious figure, she pondered for a moment, and then slowly put it down.

The funeral people still stopped halfway, and the boys went to the front to inquire about the news.

In the distance, the funeral procession stopped behind, but there were quite a few people standing on the long street ahead.

The guards with swords on their waists cleared the long road, and the cars in the palace drove in under the protection of everyone.

The prince's car is still in the middle, and behind him are the concubines, maids and concubines.

On the way, the driving team stopped for a while. In the car in the middle, Yaofang Lin Jiashi was falling asleep. She felt that the car was not shaking, so she only frowned: "Bixiu, what's going on outside?"

"I heard that we bumped into the funeral procession and asked them to retreat for nine miles, so we're leaving here." The round-faced maid was a little cute, she said softly, and then laughed, "I just listened to the guards walking outside scolding, What kind of widow who takes care of the family..."

The widow of the Gu family?
Gu Yaofang frowned, and sat up all at once: "But Gu Jiao?"

"That's right, that's the name..." The maid was a little surprised, "How do you know?"

Gu Yaofang smiled covertly: "My father and the uncle of the Gu family are old friends..."

died?

Gu Jiao actually died?

It's hard to accept...how is it possible...

Just after delivering the letter, she hanged herself?

unlucky!

Before the car could say a few more words, the front began to walk again. There were people all the way, and the funeral procession was far away and invisible.After more than half an hour, the people in front passed by, and when it was the turn of the funeral from the Gu residence, the sun came out.

Gu Huaishu and Sun Lianqiao never went out, they just stayed in the car.

About another hour passed before turning the car around and heading back to Gu's residence.

It seems that Gu Jiao has already been buried.

It wasn't until they returned to Gu's mansion that Gu Huaishu and Sun Lianqiao heard someone say: Because they were delayed for more than half an hour on the road, they didn't catch up with the good time for the burial, and they were almost buried at an unfavorable time.At that time, the sun was half covered by dark clouds, which was really frightening to death.

Before Gu Huaixiu got angry, Sun Lianqiao had already said, "What's the point of talking nonsense during the Chinese New Year? If you don't think it's enough, I'll drive you out to be a beggar and sing along the street for three days and three nights of the lotus flower falling!" "

The boy quickly confessed his crime, kowtowed all the way, calling for the young mistress to forgive him.

How could Sun Lianqiao spare him?I just asked people to delay the beating, and finally ordered half a month's monthly payment to be deducted, so I gave up.

It would be very unlucky to die before the New Year's Eve, and she hanged herself in the mansion, and there were a lot of gossip, but because Sun Lianqiao suppressed the words uttered by the maid, no one knew about it, so there was nothing out of the ordinary .

Now what are you talking about when there is a bad luck during the burial?

Seeing that his sister-in-law was in a bad mood, Gu Huaishu could only sigh: "Sister-in-law, don't take it to heart, such things can never be taken seriously."

The aunt said she would go, and there was one less person in the house, and she felt a kind of deserted on the road.

Walking to the front of the house, Sun Lianqiao said: "I guess you have to go back too. You have been tossing and tossing and tossing for a while, but what you said before to deal with that maid, I..."

"Sister-in-law, let's go, I'm going back here too."

Gu Huaishu didn't intend to intervene, after all, these are the affairs of the Gu family.

She got up and bid farewell to Sun Lianqiao.

Such a decision was actually expected by Sun Lianqiao.

She sent Gu Huaishu off, only came back here, and went all the way to the woodshed.

The maid who committed the crime is here, Gu Jiao's personal maid.

Asked someone to unlock the chaimen, and Sun Lianqiao walked in.

The light is not very good, it is dark inside, and there is a strange smell.It was not the medicinal smell that Sun Lianqiao was familiar with, but a damp musty smell.

"take out."

Gag the rag.

Sun Lianqiao stood three steps away from Yun'er who was tied up, and did not speak.

As soon as Yun'er loosened her mouth, she quickly shouted: "Young Mistress, this servant doesn't know anything, this servant really doesn't know anything, please spare this servant, please spare this servant..."

"...Where did I mean to force you?" Sun Lianqiao smiled slightly, but there was no smile in his eyes.

Then, she took out the previous letter from her sleeve that was found in the house, and put it in front of Yun'er together with the envelope: "I remember you said that you gave the letter to your aunt, right?"

"Yes, yes, the servant sent two letters to my aunt, but the servant really didn't know anything. It was the aunt who asked the servant to get the letters. She hanged herself because she lost the rhino horn hairpin... Young Mistress, please forgive me Passing slaves..."

Sun Lianqiao secretly sighed, admitting that it was all like this.

She took out another bottle of medicine from her sleeve, poured out a pill wrapped in red paeonol, handed it to the maid beside her, and said: "Feed it to her, righteous servant dies for the Lord."

After speaking, Sun Lianqiao turned around and left.

The servant girl only yelled twice, and stopped after a while, and then swallowed the medicine.

Sun Lianqiao carefully looked at the steps in front of her feet, walking, as if she was afraid of stepping on an ant to death.

She pinched her fingers and walked out slowly. She suddenly pinched the envelope in her sleeve, and her heart trembled.

a letter?

two letters?
Sun Lianqiao walked back quickly, and was about to ask "Is the person dead?" when she saw the maid lying on the ground bleeding from all seven orifices.

broken.

Sun Lianqiao didn't speak for a long time.

"Young lady, what's the matter?"

After waving her hands, she said, "According to the previous plan, let's bury her."

After speaking, she left.

The car on Gu Huaishu's side had just left Gu's mansion, and she thought of Sun Lianqiao.

When I saw the parrot shot down by Nian Gengyao at the Mingzhu Mansion, I was quite frightened, but today I treated a maid so cruelly and casually, how can I look like a benevolent person?
"Medicine can heal people; it can also kill people."

It is said that doctors are benevolent, but maybe not all of them are right.

Gu Huaishu pondered for a while, then she lifted a corner of the curtain, and suddenly said: "Stop!"

"Call-"

The handlebar style in front was taken aback, and only asked, "Young Mistress?"

Gu Huaishu said, "Catch me the one in the blue robe in front immediately!"

This was said so harshly and urgently that people couldn't figure it out, but all the servants below had gone.

There were not many people on the street, Gu Huaishu and his car pulled over, and no one around stopped to look.

When the man was caught, his eyes were still red.

Gu Huaishu sat in the car and did not get out. Sun Lianqiao also showed her the evidence that Sun Lianqiao had found before, the correspondence between men and women.

When this person was caught in front of the car, Gu Huaishu had already guessed his identity: "During the funeral, you were the one who walked quietly along the road and cried quietly, right?"

Before, their car followed quietly behind, which was against the rules, but it was strange that someone followed behind them.

At that time, Gu Huaishu took a careful look at him, and even ran into him when he didn't want to come back. How could he let this person go?

There was a man below him, he didn't look very old, he was wearing a blue robe, and he looked like a dilapidated scholar.

"You...you care about the mansion, you are too deceitful! You must have forced her to death!"

"...Heh..." Gu Huaishu suddenly sneered for some unknown reason, "Qing Dai, go up and slap him twice, get into the car after the fall, let's leave."

Qing Dai was startled, but seeing Gu Huaishu's unfriendly expression, she still went down and slapped the man on the face.

Zhao Zhoushan was completely bewildered, he didn't even know what happened.

It is said that men don't flick their tears lightly, but they haven't reached the point of sadness.When he first heard about Gu Jiao's hanging himself, he felt like a knife was twisting his heart, but now he gritted his teeth with hatred.

"Bullying! You are bullying! Tell me, did you kill her!"

Gu Huaixiu had a headache, if he hadn't taken into account the current situation, he would have been beaten to death with sticks.She just sneered and said, "Your name is Zhao Zhoushan, right? That rhino horn hairpin was lost, and you have forgotten about the past. Don't cause trouble for my aunt..."

Either way, people die.

And let her go clean.

Gu Huaishu closed his eyes, felt that Qing Dai had come up, and the carriage started to move forward again, and then he slowly regained his strength.

Gu Jiao was buried before the New Year's Eve, but the survivors continued to prepare for the New Year's Eve.

Gu Huaishu came over without any haste, taking care of the corresponding matters, and helping the mansion prepare for marrying Chen Yuyan.

At the beginning of March, Mrs. Chen came in.

(End of this chapter)