Empress Jinghua: The eunuch is nine thousand years old

Chapter 32 Rumors Spread
The end of Prince Lin's grand wedding has just passed, and it seems that the people in Shangjing were infected by this grand wedding, and everyone's face is a bit festive.

On this day, the gnocchi breakfast stand on Berlin Street was full of white steam. The stall owner put a long pole that was as long as his arm into the boiling water pot, and scooped up one by one. Fingernail-sized gnocchi, shake the bamboo spoon, drain the water, then put the gnocchi into a porcelain bowl, top with sesame oil, coriander, minced garlic, and a few drops of bright red chili oil, and finally sprinkle Served with white sesame seeds, a bowl of steaming and fragrant gnocchi is out of the oven early.

"Guest officer, come early!"

The waiter served the prepared gnocchi in front of a middle-aged man who was waiting on the wooden table, and served it with a bowl of hot bone soup.

"Hey, Brother Bai! Are you eating gnocchi here too?"

The middle-aged man was stretching out his chopsticks to pick up a piece of gnocchi and put it in his mouth to chew, but he heard someone calling him in front of him. He raised his head and saw that it was indeed Li Bowen, a know-it-all on the streets of Berlin. He also greeted Li Bowen cheerfully. Invite him to have breakfast together.

"Brother Bai, little brother, I saw your ruddy complexion today. I think life should be smooth!" The waiter Xiao Er quickly brought him a bowl of noodles. After sniffing the fragrant mist, he buried his head and ate the noodles.

"Hey, my young lady just got married two days ago, didn't she? Although she is a side concubine, she can be regarded as a concubine after all. My master is happy to marry his in-laws, so naturally he doesn't treat us servants badly. No, everyone appreciates it." There are a lot of things, your eldest brother and I are very lucky, and I have received a full reward of ten taels of silver!" This middle-aged man surnamed Bai with a happy face is a servant in the residence of Minister of Rites Bai Xianren, named Baiguihai, Baifu is on the upper street of Berlin Street, only a hundred and eighty steps away from this noodle breakfast stall.

"Then you should congratulate Xixi, brother Bai!" Li Bowen clasped his chopsticks and said cheerfully, "But the lady in your mansion has always been stingy, why didn't she stop your master from rewarding him so generously this time?" people?"

Bai Guihai took a sip of the fragrant big bone soup, let out a quick breath, raised his hand and said, "What kind of wife is she? She used to be the first aunt in the mansion, and she couldn't change her daily behavior. She's petty, and she's far worse than the serious lady in our White Mansion in the past."

Li Bowen bowed his shoulders, nodded thoughtfully, chewed a few lumps, and suddenly approached Bai Guihai's ear, and whispered: "However, your original Mrs. Bai died very strangely. I heard that Mrs. Bai passed away back then, but it was all done by this Liu who replaced the superior."

Bai Guihai's hand eating the gnocchi trembled in fright when he heard these words, he looked around nervously, and made sure no one was eavesdropping, then he lowered his voice and said, "Brother, you can just say this in front of me, Don't dare to talk nonsense in front of others, the current wife, Mrs. Liu, is a hot-blooded person, if we let her know that someone is talking about her, I'm afraid it will cause trouble for a long time!"

Li Bowen waved his hands indifferently, took another piece of gnocchi in his mouth, and exhaled hotly: "Hey, I'm not talking nonsense, my brother. Now it's probably spread in the capital, besides, I This know-it-all title is not in vain!"

When Bai Guihai heard it, he immediately became interested, and hurriedly moved the stool closer to Li Bowen, urging him: "Since you know this secret thing, tell me quickly, I've been whetted by you, and I can't help it itch!"

"Since that's the case, I'm not stingy with my saliva, so I'll talk to you." Li Bowen drank a big mouthful of bone soup, and said slowly, "It's said that more than ten years ago, Mrs. Bai, who was deeply in love with Bai Shangshu and his wife, gave birth Suddenly, a stillborn baby was born and passed away. The midwife insisted that Mrs. Bai had insufficient energy and blood during the month of pregnancy, and the head of the fetus was stuck in the birth canal. It came out, but the fetus was suffocated in the birth canal for too long, and it was suffocated to death after it was born, Mrs. Bai cried out, and she also had a hemorrhage in her lower body, and she followed it after an hour, right?"

Bai Guihai nodded repeatedly. On the day Mrs. Bai died, the master sat in the delivery room for a day and a night holding his wife's cold body covered in blood. This loving couple, whom everyone envied, has been separated so far. These servants can't help it. She burst into tears, not to mention the desolation and pain in the master's own heart.

"But what does this have to do with Mrs. Liu?" He asked puzzled.

"Everyone believed what the midwife said, thinking that Mrs. Bai died in an accident. Later, Mrs. Liu succeeded in soothing Mrs. Bai's cold and broken heart with tenderness, and then succeeded in ascending the throne. But Mrs. Bai didn't know, The person next to the pillow is the real murderer who killed his first wife!"

When Li Bowen said this, he stopped abruptly, and started to eat noodles, so anxious that Bai Guihai shook his arm, almost spilling the whole table.

"Brother, don't just say half of what you're talking about, keep talking quickly!"

Li Bowen wiped his greasy mouth, and continued: "Actually, the midwife who delivered Mrs. Bai was found by Mrs. Liu. Mrs. Liu bribed her with 1000 taels of gold and asked her to give birth to Mrs. Bai after she gave birth to a child. Straight away strangled to death, and then pretended to be suffocated in the birth canal! As for Mrs. Bai’s hemorrhage, it was also because the midwife gave her strong red peony. It’s going to bleed profusely!”

At this moment, Bai Guihai was already in a daze when he heard it, his mouth was opened wider than an egg, with an expression of disbelief.

He only heard Li Bowen continue: "After the midwife received the money, she was afraid that Mrs. Liu would kill someone, so she fled to northern Shaanxi that night. After many years, she did not dare to come back. After the midwife left Shangjing Every day, I feel guilty that there is a ghost in my heart. Every night, I dream that Mrs. Bai and her children come to claim her life. I used to go crazy for a while, and I kept talking about telling Mrs. Bai not to kill her and not to take her away. It’s all right again, I went to a nunnery to practice atonement.”

After listening to Li Bowen's whole story, Bai Guihai's heart felt like a turbulent sea. This matter was not as simple as an ordinary house fight. He poisoned Mrs. Shangshu and conspired to kill the newborn Shangshu's child. They are all first-class sins.

"Brother! Is what you said true?" Bai Guihai asked while shaking the fat man, his hands tightly grasping Li Bowen's arm.

"Then if I know everything, can I still have a fake?" Li Bowen patted his chest and said impassionedly, "My aunt is from Shaanxi. Isn't it going to celebrate the Chinese New Year? Her old man came to Beijing. This matter is her own I heard Master Huirui from the Shaanxi Nunnery say that this Master Huirui is the midwife who gave birth to Mrs. Bai!"

However, Bai Guihai believed in the truth. Li Bowen's reputation as a know-it-all was well-known in this area of ​​Berlin Street. No matter what the crooked things were, there was nothing he didn't know about. The real thing.What Li Bowen said about Mrs. Bai's tragic death is that there are noses and eyes, and there is no falsehood.

Now that such a shocking secret is in his arms, Bai Guihai can only feel that his whole body is shocked, he can't wait to tell others immediately, so that everyone in the house can clearly recognize the sinister face of this vicious woman, Mrs. Liu.

"Brother, thank you for speaking frankly today. I still have something to do in my house, so I'll leave first! Let's catch up on the old days!" Bai Guihai put a few copper plates of gnocchi money on the table and left in a hurry.

Li Bowen looked at his back as he hurriedly walked into the mansion, grinning, grabbed a handful of peanuts on the table, threw them into his mouth, and chewed them.

When Bai Guihai was far away, a young man with a bamboo hat sitting at the table next to the two of them got up, walked up to Li Bowen, took out an ingot of gold from his sleeve pocket, and quietly handed it to him.

"You did a good job. Remember, when the other people from other houses come to have breakfast later, they will say the same thing again. If they make sense, they will give you an ingot of gold. Do you understand?"

Li Bowen nodded again and again, quietly put the gold in his hand to his mouth and bit it, his teeth were so painful that he knew that it was real gold, he felt flattered in his heart, and his attitude became even more attentive.

"Don't worry, my lord! I, Li Bowen, am an expert in this field, and I will keep it for you and promote it in a decent way!"

The young man nodded in satisfaction, and sat back on his original seat.He picked up a piece of gnocchi and ate it together with the big bone broth. The morning in mid-winter is the coldest, so eating a bowl of breakfast like this will keep you warm throughout the day.

The wind blew up the black gauze on the young man's bamboo hat, and gently rolled up a small corner. If you look closely like this, who is that familiar face if it's not the little Huanzi in Mosheng Garden?

Xiao Huanzi ate the delicious and chewy gnocchi contentedly, while Li Bowen caught another servant in the adult's house, and began to narrate the secret of Mrs. Bai's tragic death. What he said was full of sighs and sighs.

He ate on his own, just waiting for Li Bowen to finish his work and pay him.This is where everyone in the capital is the most connected. In a house, the subordinates are the most powerful. As long as the servants of a mansion know about this, the whole house will soon will know.

Xiao Huanzi looked at the Shangshu Baifu standing a hundred steps away with a lump in his mouth, shaking his head and sighing, the sky in this Baifu might change soon.

(End of this chapter)