Lady Zhao

Chapter 92

In the past half a month, Zhao Wenwan, apart from focusing on investigating the matter of his elder brother being poisoned, also really felt sorry for Zhao Yuanli who spent so much time reading and forgetting to eat and sleep, and didn't want him to waste his body for Chunwei, but Zhao Yuanli refused. Someone, he needs to work harder.

In fact, Zhao Wenwan knew in his heart that his elder brother was doing this for himself, for Yongping, and for his father's expectations.After a few days of persuasion, there was no result, but nothing happened, so I specially asked Bailing to make more walnut-based food, and sent them to Qingfengju every day.

Today, Zhao Wenwan wanted to go with Baochan to see his elder brother because he had nothing to do. Zhao Zhongshou saw the eldest lady shaking outside the door, looking like she wanted to cry but had no tears.Baochan blinked curiously after approaching, and stretched out a finger to poke Zhao Zhong's fat cheek, "Well, brother Zhao Zhong, you seem to be wider."

Zhao Zhong suddenly lost his face, pursing his lips in a look of grievance.Wide...does this describe a person?

"It seems to be a bit fat!" Zhao Wenwan smiled and followed up with the knife.

Zhao Zhong couldn't tell what he was suffering from, a speechless sense of desolation welled up in his heart, how could he find a wife if he went on like this, he held his face in sorrow.

Zhao Wenwan sneered, and then stepped into Zhao Yuanli's study.Zhao Yuanli was holding a copy of Sun Tzu's Art of War and was studying it carefully. From time to time, he would pick up a brush to make some annotations on the book. After a while, he found someone beside him. His eyes turned and landed on Baochan behind Zhao Wenwan, his smile froze, his hands trembled slightly, and finally he called softly, "Wanwan."

Zhao Wenwan smiled deeply, and stared at Zhao Yuanli with sparkling eyes, "Brother is really deaf to what's going on outside the window, and only reads the books of sages. Reading is important, and don't forget to fill your stomach, but you can't." Because he didn't want to eat it, he gave it to Zhao Zhong, look at what he has grown up, brother, can you bear it?"

That stern and serious speech made Zhao Yuanli feel very guilty. Zhao Zhong who was guarding outside really had tears in his eyes, and the young miss really has piercing eyes!Does he not need to eat anymore!

After finishing speaking, Zhao Wenwan waved her hand to ask Baochan to put the exquisite food in the food box on the table beside her, a plate of walnut diced rabbit, jade white color, delicious and smooth meat, a plate of amber walnut, crystal clear emerald skin, It looked very tempting, and the last thing brought out was a bowl of porridge with walnuts, wolfberries, and jade in a plum-shaped white porcelain bowl, "I made this bowl of porridge myself. Brother, you can't let me down. I want to eat all of it." Only light will do."

Zhao Wenwan finally added a sentence seemingly casually, with a smile on his face, "If you insist on exhausting your body and reading, being a younger sister can't help you, so you can only work harder on eating. Bailing will make you a walnut dish."

Zhao Yuanli's eyes skipped over the food, sighed silently, and then looked at Wan Wan's indifferent expression, and finally lost, "Forget it, big brother just agrees with you, and I will never leave the study room after Shen Shi." Stay here, and don't let Bai Ling bring food over."

Zhao Wenwan's indifferent face finally smiled with satisfaction, left a bowl of porridge, and told Baochan: "Take it and let Zhao Zhong eat this last meal."

Zhao Zhong kept his ears open all the time, and he almost fainted after listening to his neck. It is easy to be weak if you are fat!
"What has Wanwan been up to lately?" Zhao Yuanli changed the subject, and he was busy at the moment, so he didn't care too much about Zhao Wenwan, but he cared all the time.

Zhao Wenwan lingered on the pile of books piled up in front of her elder brother with her fingertips, feeling that the ancient imperial examinations were also a fatal matter, so she blurted out after listening to the question, "I'll wait for fourth uncle to come back..."

"Waiting for fourth uncle to do?" Zhao Yuanli was slightly surprised and asked.

Zhao Wenwan immediately realized that she had said something she shouldn't have said. Ever since she came back that day, she had accumulated more and more doubts in her heart. The investigation was carried out without the knowledge of Zhao Yuanli, who was not allowed to investigate. On the contrary, there was nothing to discuss. Uncle came back to inquire, after all the truth may be related to Fourth Aunt...

It's just that the spring is coming, and Zhao Wenwan didn't want to disturb Zhao Yuanli with this matter. She blinked and said with a smile, "The fourth aunt said that the fourth uncle brought a gift, and she is curious and wants to know what it is!"

Zhao Yuanli rubbed Zhao Wenwan's head, and suddenly heard a servant girl outside the door rushing to report, saying that the old lady asked the eldest son to go to the garden. An ominous premonition flashed in Zhao Wenwan's heart, and he asked, "What's the matter?" ?”

The little girl froze and explained, "It seems that someone in the fourth grandma's garden had a commotion, and a woman was lying on the ground crying for a while, saying that the fourth grandma bought medicine to murder... the eldest son, but her own family was killed because of this incident. The victim was miserable, the old man was paralyzed, and he was a woman with no way out, so he came to ask for money and our fourth grandma refused to give more. For some reason, this incident caused a big commotion. He bumped into a pillar and passed out, everyone who was yelling at this moment knew about it, and the old lady asked the servants to ask the eldest son to go to the front hall for questioning."

Zhao Yuanli frowned tightly, "Wanwan, I'll go to the front hall first, you stay and wait for me."

Zhao Wenwan's face turned slightly restrained, "I'm going too, I'm sure I won't be able to sit still here."

The two brothers and sisters couldn't care less, and hurried out of the study.

When the two arrived at Mingxu Garden, Mrs. Leng was kneeling on the ground, her expression was sad but calm, no matter what the old lady asked, she refused to say a word, as if she was hiding something.

Everyone was already pointing at the side, you said something, I said something, thinking secretly, because this matter is indeed a strange one.

"I really can't believe it. How could the fourth grandma harm the eldest son? Didn't she not marry into the Duke's mansion at that time?"

"That's right, that's right, what the hell is going on, if it's true, it's too cruel!"

"Could it be that someone framed our fourth grandma, who is so generous and kind?"

"Oh, but look at Fourth Grandma's appearance, it doesn't look like she has been wronged, she is clearly someone who knows the inside story."

Some people didn't believe it at all, and directly said firmly: "Anyway, I believe that Fourth Grandma will not do things that hurt nature and reason."

Ye's face looked worried, stood up amidst the discussion of the crowd, approached Leng's side, and persuaded: "Sister and sister, you should say something! Mom asked you if you really bought medicine to harm Yuanli?"

Leng knelt on the ground motionless, her face turned pale, she knelt straight in the center of the hall, her lips, which had lost color with her face, never moved and closed.

Mrs. Zhao was obviously angry. Yuan Li's sudden onset was because someone took medicine. She was heartbroken and full of shock and apology. As soon as Zhao Yuanli came in, the old lady asked the siblings to sit down with a clanging voice, " This matter is a big one, if you don't understand it, the old lady will be speechless to face the ancestors of the Zhao family after her death."

The eldest grandson of a family means the future of the family's incense, how important it is!

Seeing her grandmother coughing and coughing angrily, Zhao Wenwan hurriedly stepped forward to comfort her. After a while of talking, the masters of each house and garden came slowly, looking at Leng's with different eyes.

Mrs. Zhao patted the table heartbroken and asked again, "I just want to ask you, did you hurt Yuan Li?"

Leng Shi remained silent.

The atmosphere was stiff as if frozen, and no one dared to say a word.

Zhao Yuanli, the victim, spoke first, "Grandmother, your body is important, so don't get angry anymore. My grandson believes that my fourth aunt is definitely not the one who hurt me, and she has no reason to hurt me."

Mrs. Ye couldn't wait to grab the words, "Yuan Li, no one said it was the fourth daughter-in-law who killed her, but her attitude, not saying a word, is really puzzling." After speaking, she glanced lightly. Taking a look at Mama Sun, she originally bribed the old woman, but she didn't let the old woman testify like this. Now that the matter has developed, even Mrs. Ye has a headache, so she can only bite the bullet and follow it step by step.

Zhao Hongsheng also hurried in at this time, and sat down on the seat next to the old lady with a serious face. As the head of the family, he heard that the eldest son was killed by the fourth wife. Knowing what he said in a low voice, Mr. Zhao raised his eyebrows, and the people present were so shocked that they didn't dare to breathe loudly.

"Sister-in-law, you should explain this matter to everyone carefully, and if you are wronged, you can tell it. Isn't your attitude acquiescing?" Mr. Zhao gritted his teeth word by word, "Is it because Why do you want to kill my son Yuanli!"

"Mother, it is the daughter-in-law who is unfilial, and the daughter-in-law is willing to bear the responsibility alone." Leng slammed her head suddenly and said such a sentence resolutely.

Is this an admission? !

All of a sudden, there were discussions like an explosion, one after another, but Mrs. Zhao's eyes were gloomy.Before everyone could react, Leng slammed into the pillar, everyone covered their mouths and screamed in shock, but at the very moment, a servant blocked it quickly, and Leng failed to hit the pillar. The two fell to the ground separately, and Leng passed out.

"Ma'am, fourth grandma was wronged!" At this time, a woman ran over and hugged Mrs. Leng, and everyone saw that she was not Mrs. Jia who had just entered the mansion.

Mrs. Zhao was the first to recover from the shock, and hurriedly called for Dr. Yuan. Mother Jia said with a choked voice, "It's not our fourth grandma who hurt Mr. Zhao, but..."

Zhao Hongsheng said angrily, "Hurry up!"

Seeing that things were finally back on track, Mrs. Ye still felt uneasy.

"Yes...it's Uncle Leng!" Mother Jia bit her lip and said desperately.

Suddenly hearing the person Jia Mama mentioned, everyone in the seat looked stunned. After a moment of reaction, Mr. Zhao shouted anxiously: "What's going on?"

Mother Jia shivered and quickly knelt on the ground, glanced at the fourth grandma, as if she had made up her mind, "Master, you should still remember the old man of the Leng family who was an official with you ten years ago? His eldest son, now and The eldest son of our mansion is about the same age and has not yet married, just because...he is lame."

As soon as I heard this, I saw that the eyes of the old lady and Zhao Hongsheng were darkened at the same time, as if they were caught in the memories of that time.

At that time, the master of the Leng family was still working in Beijing. There was a banquet hosted by the Duke of Dingguo, and the Leng family brought their family members to the banquet. Among them, the young master Leng was about the same age as Zhao Yuanli, who was quite famous at that time, and the two of them could naturally play together. They got together, but for some reason, the servants didn't have to keep an eye on the two little ones, so the two of them climbed to the rockery to play.

Unexpectedly, there was an accident on the way, Young Master Leng fell from the rockery, and everyone ran over in panic to see, Mr. Zhao and Mrs. Ye did the same. After careful questioning, some servants who passed by and saw it was Young Master Leng himself. Be careful not to slip and fall, the couple hastily summoned the doctor, and comforted the grieving Uncle Leng for a long time.

However, the result of the doctor's diagnosis was not satisfactory, the young master of the Leng family's leg - was broken.Speaking of it, it was Young Master Leng who said that Zhao Yuanli went to play above, so the fault of this matter cannot be attributed to the Zhao family. The master of the Leng family looked at his crying son and didn't say anything else. It seems that he is also a sensible person, knowing that he can't blame others for this matter, he took his son with a broken leg and left first, and then all the Leng family were transferred from the capital to serve as officials.

Zhao Hongsheng, who had a long history, never cared about it at all. Even if someone mentioned it today, he was suspicious, but he only vaguely remembered what happened that day, and he couldn't figure out what it had to do with Zhao Yuanli's murder.

On the contrary, Mrs. Zhao had a little understanding. After Jia's mother said this, she seemed to understand all kinds of associations. She glanced at Mrs. Leng who was being helped to the back room by her servants, and sighed softly.

"The old slave just heard in the mansion that Uncle Leng felt resentment towards the fact that the young master broke his leg. If it wasn't for the fact that I saw the woman who came to the mansion to make trouble with the fourth grandma today, I wouldn't be sure. At that time What medicine did Uncle Leng buy from the woman and the man, the woman came to the mansion to make a fuss once, the old slave looked at her argument today, and thought it was like this, the specifics... the old slave is not very clear, but It can't be done by Grandma Four!"

"The old slave has been on duty at the Leng's house for many years. Originally, he shouldn't be so indiscriminate in his master's right and wrong, but the fourth grandma... her life is too hard! The old slave dared to say something that shouldn't be said... At that time, the fourth grandma still lived In the Taoist temple, if you don't ask about world affairs, how would you know that the Leng family doesn't care about the fourth grandmother. The sins you have committed will cost you your life."

Zhao Wenwan asked Niu San'er that day, and what he heard was the same. He glanced at Zhao Yuanli and saw that his elder brother's face was still calm, but there was a trace of dark and unclear emotions in his warm black eyes. Seeing something strange, I heard the grandmother next to me speak in a low voice, "So the fourth daughter-in-law is for the Leng family..."

Ye thought it was time, she knew the truth a long time ago, when Mama Sun came over that day, she mentioned that Mama Jia happened to see a woman who was going to beg for money in the fourth grandma's garden in the mansion, and she let it go, saying that it was at Leng's house. I have seen it, and heard that the man's wife used to sell medicine for a living, so Mama Sun asked a few more questions carefully, and she found some clues, and followed the clues to find the instigator who caused Zhao Yuanli's body to be like that.

Seeing Sifang throwing money to that greedy mother-in-law like this, she must know the truth, so she protects her brother, what face does she have as the daughter-in-law of the Zhao family!
So, he and Mama Sun figured out how to reveal this matter. Human calculations are not as good as heaven's calculations. There are always some things that Ye Shi can't figure out. Leng's medicine is really a big joke, which makes everyone feel incredible.Forget it, that woman is a lowly ant at first glance, unable to get on the stage, flustered slips of the tongue are nothing, but Leng's miserable life experience is so let go, the original prepared speech can only be changed up.

"I didn't expect my younger siblings to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the Leng family." She first sighed, and then took a deep look at Zhao Hongsheng, "But...but younger siblings are determined to cover up the murderer knowingly, don't they think of themselves as The Zhao family, we Yuanli have suffered so many years of wronging in vain."

Zhao Wenwan squinted at the past, and secretly sneered in his heart. Compared with the poison that hurt his body first, her years of poisoning and murder are the real crimes. Wait, let her taste it when she collects all the evidence. It hurts people to swallow the bitter fruit.

Mama Jia couldn't care less about the rules. Hearing what Ye said, she hurriedly spoke up for her former lady, "Old lady, the fourth grandma is just too kind. Even if she wanted to protect her, she just wanted to pay back the young master with death." What's more, the fourth grandma just bears the name of Leng's family, how could she really enjoy herself in Leng's family!"

Some servants who were often favored by the Leng family stood up and knelt on the ground to intercede for the fourth grandma under the presence of Mama Jia. People, Ye Shi looked at these servants and shook his fingers angrily, and said angrily: "Is there any more rules!"

Suddenly, Mrs. Leng walked out from the inner room, her expression was calm, and her steps seemed weak, "Mother, my daughter-in-law is unfilial, what my sister-in-law said is that my daughter-in-law is willing to be punished."

Mrs. Zhao looked at Mr. Zhao.

Zhao Hongsheng was speechless, sighed helplessly, and said, "But it's up to the mother to decide."

Mrs. Zhao thought for a while, moved her lips, and still blurted out her words, everyone heard a low voice outside, "Mother, no! The person who should be punished...is me!" The Xuanqing robe was drawn in the air With an arc, the man knelt on the ground when he hurried over, together with Leng.

"Fourth?"

"Fourth brother?"

"Fourth Lord!"

The voices were all in unison, especially Leng Shi, who looked flustered, "Get up quickly, this is all my fault."

"Where is your fault?" Zhao Hongshi looked at her, with complex expressions and emotions in his eyes, and shook her hand back, "You have suffered enough."

Leng's red eyes filled with tears again, she pursed her lips and shook her head, as if she didn't want to see the next scene.

However, Zhao Hongshi's eyes were firm, and regret gradually spread on his face, mixed with complex emotions, "I am the real culprit who poisoned Yuanli." He said every word in a calm voice, as if a thousand gold and heavy stones were pressed down, followed by Everyone looked shocked, Zhao Wenwan also didn't know what to say, his heart was overwhelmed, and there was a sudden force in his hand, Zhao Wenwan hissed with pain, and cried out worriedly, "Grandmother!" .”

Zhao Wenwan got close, and it was obvious that Mrs. Zhao's face had turned pale, but she suppressed her composure and never said a word.

Master Zhao asked in disbelief, "Why did the fourth brother do this?!"

Zhao Hongming didn't look at him, lowered his eyes slightly, and said quietly, "Brother, I especially remember that when you and I were fighting openly and secretly for official careers, I had great ambitions and high spirits, but I was young and arrogant, self-reliant and talented, and I didn't want to listen to you Persuasion, you run into obstacles everywhere in your official career, but seeing you with ease, I can't help but feel... jealous."

"I originally conceived the Sapphire Order back then, and I only mentioned it to my father, but in the end it was you who made a big splash in front of the Holy One. I know that my father is partial to you, but I can't bear to plagiarize me like this! I heard that Brother Leng was going to buy medicine to kill Yuanli. I was drinking in the restaurant and let me hear it. It aroused my devil's heart, and I also asked someone to buy the medicine, robbing him to kill him. It's... Yuanli."

"I did such a nasty and contemptuous thing in a moment of confusion. Thinking about it, I regretted it. But I didn't have the courage to admit my mistake, so I hurriedly fled the house."

Zhao Hongsheng recalled the matter of Qingyuling, which was his stepping stone in his official career. At that time, his father felt that something was inappropriate and discussed it with him. After he perfected it, it was no longer just an idea. Put your name up.After this incident, the relationship between the two at home became even worse, and Zhao Hongsheng felt a little guilty for him in his heart, but unexpectedly, it became the fuse to harm Yuanli, and he was even more depressed and oppressed. .

With a trembling voice, Zhao Hongshi kowtowed in one direction, and buried his head extremely deeply, "Yuanli, it's fourth uncle who has harmed you for so many years, he's a sinner..." With a hoarse confession, he could feel that the past ten years have been done to him. Say how deep the torture is.

Zhao Yuanli's figure slanted on the ground in the sunlight, his shadow swayed, his black boots stopped in front of Zhao Hongshi, and he bent down to help him up, "Fourth Uncle, don't blame yourself too much, in fact... I have forgiven you long ago. "

Everyone was shocked again, Zhao Wenwan's black eyes were as deep as obsidian stones, and his heart was trembling. No wonder the elder brother kept not letting him investigate, because he was afraid that he knew the inside story. Her trembling hands.

Zhao Hongshi's eyes rolled with layers of surprise, "You already knew?"

Zhao Yuanli nodded, "Yeah." With a soft sound, everything was erased.

"Nizi..." Mrs. Zhao popped out two words at this moment.

Zhao Hongshi trembled when he heard the sound, he knelt down in front of the old lady, and called his mother with his face lowered, but the astringency contained in that voice scratched his ears, and there were some different meanings.

Following Mama Yang's old lady's exclamation, Mrs. Zhao fell obliquely towards Zhao Wenwan, and the scene fell into chaos again.

Kneeling on the ground, Zhao Hongshi opened his eyes and looked at the old woman who was being carried away, his eyes dimmed, as if he wanted to get closer, but hesitated for some reason, his eyes were full of pain and a bit of grievance.

(End of this chapter)