Concubine Biography

Chapter 34

"Why do I see you absent-minded in doing things these two days, are you tired?" Fu'er looked at Chunmei, and the more she looked at her, the more something was wrong.

"Ah!" Chunmei shook her body, and the azure four gentlemen plum vase she was wiping in her hand fell to the ground and shattered.

Chunlan, who was making tea, looked at her suspiciously, "What's wrong with you?"

Chunmei panicked and squatted down to pick up the pieces, whispering softly, "No, nothing."

Chunlan put down the teapot in her hand, walked over and squatted down and said angrily, "Don't you know how to use a handkerchief as a cushion? What if you cut your hands?" As she spoke, she pushed Chunmei's hand away and used the handkerchief as a cushion. Carefully picked up the broken porcelain and held it out.

Chunmei looked at her back, bit her lip, and finally said nothing.

"Chunmei, do you have something on your mind?" Fu'er put down the embroidery she was doing, and looked at Chunmei who was out of her mind.

Chunmei lowered her head, her eyes looked around, her hands loosened and tightened at her sides, her chest heaved violently, and Fu'er just looked at her quietly. For some reason, she felt that Chunmei was very strange today. , let her heart faintly have some bad premonition.

The atmosphere became more and more stagnant, and Chunmei's cold sweat rolled down her forehead.

"Slave..."

"It's done!" Chunlan clapped her hands and came in from outside the room with a smile, breaking the stalemate in the room.

Fu'er calmed down, and looked at Chunmei, "I see that your complexion is not very good, you should go down and rest."

Chunmenonuo walked away, Chunlan looked at her back strangely, "Why do I always think Chunmei is weird, but I can't tell what's wrong."

Fu'er nodded with deep sympathy, "I think so too. Could it be that you are nervous about getting married?"

Chunlan curled her lips, "Why aren't the servants nervous?"

"You think everyone is like you, heartless." Fu'er laughed at Chunlan.

Chunlan was only embarrassed, and soon raised her head and smiled, "He should be nervous! Why are you nervous? He is a second-married widower, and he is a big girl. It is his good fortune to marry me. He's nervous!"

"I'm not ashamed, I'm not ashamed of your face..."

Chunmei leaned dejectedly against the wall outside the house, listening to the chatter and laughter coming from the house, she lowered her head after a long time, and whispered softly, "Don't blame me...you look down on me...I'm not wrong! Just give you some Look at you, you have never been better than me since you were young, and this time too..."

Taking advantage of Fu'er's afternoon nap, Chunlan tiptoed out, turned her head and saw Chunmei leaning against the wall, and couldn't help wondering, "What are you doing here?"

Chunmei hesitated for a moment and asked, "You... want to go out now?"

Chunlan nodded, "That's right, the paper in Madam's room is used up, she's going to get up to practice calligraphy in a while." After speaking, she couldn't help but be angry with Chunmei, "It's not like you don't know Madam's habit, why are you so obsessed Stand here and ask me, is there anything I can help you with? Tell me, do you still want a snack? I’ll go to the big kitchen to get it for you.”

Chunmei shook her head hurriedly, then nodded after a while, then shook her head again quickly.

"Oh, you made my eyes dizzy. I'm going out. I'll come back later and bring you something delicious." Chunlan walked away with a smile.

"Chunlan, you..."

Chunlan turned her head, Chunmei bit her pale lips, but did not say the second half of the sentence.Chunlan smiled at her, turned and left.

Chunmei watched Chunlan leave the yard, wrung her fingers and stood under the wall for a while before turning around. When she turned around, Nanny Liu was looking at her coldly.

Chunmei was startled, and recovered quickly, put her hands on her waist and said fiercely, "You stand behind me like you're dead! Are you trying to scare me to death?"

Nanny Liu looked her up and down, and snorted coldly, "You are not afraid of the shadow slanting, you have nothing to be afraid of if you haven't done anything wrong!"

Chunmei choked, and ran away cursing and fleeing.

After Fu'er took a nap, Chunlan waited on her to practice calligraphy. Chunmei brought a bowl of white fungus soup, and stood at the door for a while before going in.

Fu'er tasted very refreshing and couldn't help but praise, "This soup is made by Madam Liu, it tastes like she made it."

Chunmei took the bowl and smiled, "The side concubine just sent someone to say that the eldest son is going to have a banquet with a few younger sons today, and they all praised Liu mama for her tea and dinner skills, so she asked Liu mama to help. As soon as I fell asleep, I made up my own mind, and Nanny Liu has already passed away."

Fu'er nodded, "I should help, you did a good job."

Chunmei twitched the corners of her mouth and smiled stiffly, "Mrs. Xie."

Chunlan suddenly stopped rubbing ink, and walked towards the door, "It sounds like there are many people at the door..."

Bang!
The bowl in Chunmei's hand fell to the ground, and at the same time, the door of Fu'er's yard was knocked open vigorously.

Immediately afterwards, she saw a woman with disheveled hair rushing in like crazy, Chunlan exclaimed, "What are you doing...ah!"

Before she finished speaking, she was slapped down by the woman and fell to the ground. Before she could put on her shoes, Fu'er felt a pain in her scalp, and she was dragged off the kang by her hair.

"Let go of me! It hurts..." Fu'er reflexively grabbed the hands of the visitor, but was kicked several times on her body, and then she heard the woman crying.

"You cruel poisonous woman! You killed my son! Mrs. Chen, I am at odds with you! You kill a thousand swords, my poor Zhe'er...you were poisoned to death like this, how can you let your mother live?" what……."

Zheer?Li Peizhe?died?
Fu'er was so shocked that she forgot to cry, forgot to feel the pain, and she was pulled out of the room by Mrs. Wang just because she was so distracted.Seeing that the situation was not going well, Chunlan quickly got up from the ground, rushed up and pushed down Mrs. Wang, and shouted, "Sister Chunmei, come out and help!"

Chunmei, who had been stunned to the side the whole time, woke up like a dream, and hurriedly rushed to wrestle with the maid beside Wang.

The courtyard was filled with servants everywhere, Chunlan was protecting Fu'er, but Wang's hand was so strong that she tore off a handful of Fu'er's hair while pulling, and blood flowed down instantly.

Chunlan's eyes were red, and she rushed forward to beat Wang Shi with a groan, "If you dare to hurt my wife, I will fight you!"

Fu'er has never seen such a fight, she just protects herself with instinct, but Wang has already fallen into a state of madness, her two maids plus Li Peizhe's nurse and maid, but for a while, Fu'er The three masters and servants have already suffered a big loss.

"Presumptuous! What are you doing!" With a scolding, Su Shi appeared with a face full of anger, and with a wave of his hand, the strong women around him immediately rushed up and tore away the people who were beating Fu'er's master and servant.

The three of Fu'er were seriously injured, not to mention that their hair and clothes were ripped apart. Fu'er's head was covered with blood, the corners of his mouth were blackened, and the fingerprints on his face were very obvious.Looking at Chunmei and Chunlan again, the injuries were even worse, especially Chunlan, she had been trying her best to protect Fu'er, and she couldn't even stand up.

Seeing Mrs. Su appear, Mrs. Wang immediately seemed to have found her backbone, knelt and crawled over, crying, "Your Majesty, you want to be the master of this concubine! This poisonous woman!" Mrs. Wang stared at her blood-red eyes and pointed to Fu'er, "She Instigated her maid to poison my son to death! Mistress! I beg you, please make the decision for me! Zheer is still so young, he is so obedient, he is your son too! Mistress! Mistress! Kowtow to you, I just ask you to be the master of my body!..."

"Don't cry!" Mrs. Su glanced at Mrs. Wang with disgust, and Nanny Su who was beside her immediately stepped forward to support Mrs. Wang, and comforted her softly, "My Madam, don't worry, I will be there for you. It's up to the Second Young Master."

As if seeing hope, Mrs. Wang immediately stood aside obediently and stared at Fu'er fiercely.

"Ah! What's wrong with this?"

With a delicate exclamation, Yang hurried over with the help of her maidservant. Seeing the scene in front of her, she was so surprised that she seemed to faint. She hurriedly saluted Su, and Yang asked hurriedly, "Sister, my sister helped you today." The eldest son entertained several young masters, but he waited left and right but couldn't wait for the second son to come, so he sent someone to ask to find out what happened, so, what happened?"

Su Shi glanced at her indifferently, then scanned the surroundings, those who should come and those who should not have come.

Finally, the eyes fell on Fu'er. Fu'er barely stood up under Erchun's service. Because of Chunlan's serious injury, the two almost supported each other, and Chunmei supported Fu'er, her eyes were full of disbelief. .

"Chen, what do you have to say?" Su said with a cold face.

Fu'er brushed her hair, suppressed the fear in her heart, and said calmly, "Back to the princess, I have never done anything to harm the second son, let alone ordered anyone to do such a thing."

"You vicious woman! Do you dare to do it or not to admit it? You are black-hearted..." Wang was about to rush over while crying and cursing, but Su Momo stopped her tightly.

"Mr. Wang, you said that Mrs. Chen killed the second son. What evidence do you have? How is the second son's situation now? Don't talk nonsense. We have never had such a shameful thing in our house. Be careful." Talk a little bit." Su Shi looked at Wang Shi and said coldly.

Mrs. Wang knelt on the ground with a plop, "At noon today, Chunlan, the maidservant next to Mrs. Chen, sent a box of snacks to my yard and said it was for the second son. My wife has always believed in Mrs. Chen's character, and I have never tested this. The snack, I fed it to the Second Young Master immediately, but...the Second Young Master only used half of it, and in a blink of an eye, his face turned blue and he vomited blood..." Wang's tears fell down, " The concubine, the concubine was terrified, and hurriedly ordered people to find the doctor, but before the doctor came, the second son went away..."

There were a few snorts around, and everyone turned their attention to Fu'er.

"No servant!" Chunlan shouted loudly, her face full of disbelief.

Beside the crowd, Yan frowned and asked Lingyue, the maidservant beside her, in a low voice, "Go to the study quickly, and let Young Master Qin go and call you back quickly, and just say..." Yan rolled her eyes, "Just Say something happened to Mrs. Chen!"

Lingyue whispered back suspiciously, "Don't you want to talk about the Second Young Master?"

Yan whispered in her ear, "You first say that Mrs. Chen has had a serious accident, and her life may not be saved. I will talk about the second son later. Remember, remember the master's reaction carefully and come back to me. "

Lingyue nodded knowingly, lowered her body, and got out from the crowd of onlookers.Yan Shi looked around as if nothing had happened, then turned his gaze to the courtyard.

"Your Majesty, please let the servants distinguish. The servants brought two knives of rice paper for our wife at noon today, and then went to the big kitchen to beg for a plate of snacks to eat when they came back. On the way, they met sister Ruolian next to Madam Wang, because the servants were engaged. , Sister Ruolian said that she wanted to add makeup to the maidservant, so she invited the maidservant to sit in Mrs. Wang's courtyard for a while. The maidservant greeted Mrs. Wang first, but she didn't bring a snack when she greeted her. Sister Ruolian brought the snack. Later, the servant girl went to sister Ruolian's room, and the two of them finished eating the snacks before the servant girl left." Chunlan kowtowed and looked at Ruolian who was beside Wang.

Ruolian burst into tears, "You lied! When you went, you clearly said that the dim sum was given to the second son by your wife! You put the dim sum on the case yourself, when did I eat dim sum with you? After my wife greeted you, I even added makeup to you, but I never had snacks with you!"

Ruolian knelt down and turned to Su Shi, "Your Majesty, I swear to the heavens that everything I said is true, or I will let Lei Gong kill my servant, and after I die, my body will be exposed in the wilderness!"

Everyone present believed in Buddhism, Ruolian made such a poisonous oath, everyone couldn't help but believe it a little bit.

Chunlan looked at Ruolian angrily, bit her lip and wanted to swear poisonously, but Fu'er blocked her with her hand.

"Swearing a poisonous oath does not mean that what you say is true, empress, please listen to my words." Fu'er knelt on the ground slowly, looking up at Su Shi.

(End of this chapter)