The twenty-third spring of the Republic of China. Suzhou.
On the morning of March in the spring, the continuous haze of the drizzle for several days has dissipated, and the bright sun has hung on the branches early.
The chirping of birds and the faint fragrance of flowers swept in the wind, accompanied by the opening of the morning market with people coming and going. It is located in a square in the suburbs of downtown Suzhou, which imitates the characteristic courtyard of the former Beijing period. People have already been busy with the cleaning work at hand, mixed with the strong coriander of the rice floating in the big kitchen, and a new day has begun.
Overlooking the famous "Home of Suzhou Embroidery" in and outside Suzhou City, the Su Family Mansion, several small courtyards are distributed in an orderly manner, among which are winding green brick paths, interspersed with elegant and delicate pavilions and lake pavilions. On the side are lush and neat bushes of flowering trees. I have to say that the person in charge of the Su family mansion is a person who knows how to enjoy and appreciate it very well.
"Where's your young lady?" Su Tingyi, the grandson of Su's father, ignored the maids and servants who greeted him good morning, and hurried into a small and exquisite courtyard, into a bright and bright embroidery room facing the rising sun, and toward the two who were cleaning up The maid of embroidery asked.
The two maids looked at each other, feeling rather strange, one of the maidservants who was slightly taller quickly lowered her eyebrows and replied, "Back to the eldest young master, the young lady got up early in the morning and picked up the large-scale Su embroidery that will be exhibited in the day after tomorrow, and went to the old lady. In the courtyard, it was said that the young master sent someone to let her go." After speaking, his tone was low, and looking at the young master's face, it must have been someone else who brought the young master's name to let the eldest miss go.
Su Tingyi raised his eyebrows, and then hurriedly turned around and went out to the old man's courtyard, the oldest in the Su family.
Before entering the courtyard, I heard exclamations from far and near. Su Tingyi frowned, and the pace under his feet became faster.
"Afen, go and tell the master and the eldest young master, I'll go back to my wife."
"Hey!"
Following the sound of hurried footsteps, two maids with terrified expressions rushed towards the courtyard gate from the direction of the old man's main courtyard.
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"What's wrong?" Su Tingyi called to these two maids who were hurrying with their heads down and didn't pay attention to the person coming.
"Ah! Eldest young master!" The two maids seemed to have grasped the backbone and almost wept with joy.
"What happened? Did you see the eldest lady? It's the old man... " Su Tingyi asked eagerly, ignoring the rudeness of the two of them grabbing his sleeves.
"Eldest young master, it's... it's the eldest lady... the eldest lady she..." One of the maids was already in shock, and the other maid answered a few words incoherently.
After Su Tingyi grabbed a few words, he stopped asking them, pushed them away and hurried to the old man's hospital. damn it! It's all his fault that he didn't realize it. If, if Shui Lin had any good or bad because of this, he would definitely not let the mother and daughter go, no matter how much favored Eryi was.
Thinking angrily all the way, the old man's main courtyard appeared in front of him. Su Tingyi pushed open the gate of the main courtyard, strode in, and shouted eagerly, "Shuilin! Shuilin!"
There was no hall, no side hall, no left wing. Su Tingyi searched one by one until he came to the right wing with the curtain half hanging. He smelled a fishy smell and stepped in quickly. The scene that appeared made him almost fall to the ground.
"Shui Lin... Shui Lin..." Su Tingyi trembled with his hands, took a few steps forward, suddenly knelt on the ground, gently held the ground and lay down on his knees, his head seemed to hit the corner of the table, and a bloody eye was "gurgling" There was blood on the ground, dyeing her turquoise blue clothes red, and whitening her small oval face.
"Shui Lin, you'll be fine. Big brother will take you to the medical center. You'll be fine." Su Tingyi turned pale for a moment, picked up the woman on the ground, and muttered to himself in a hurry. Go to the door.
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Along the way, he shouted in all directions: "come here, prepare the car immediately." The figure quickly ran out without a pause, occasionally looked down at the pale and bloodless sister, and frowned.
"Mother, do you think she will..." Su Tingyi ran all the way, and after passing by an exquisite artificial rockery, a mother-daughter conversation came out.
"If it's true, then it's better. I'll see who is pressing you in the future." A middle-aged lady in luxurious clothes showed her face first, with hatred in her eyebrows.
"However, the old man will not ignore this matter. After all, something happened to him." A young woman of sixteen or seven years old pouted. Looking slightly flustered.
"What are you afraid of? No matter how you investigate it, it's still an accident. There is no evidence, so it's possible that we will be punished for the accident? Besides, Su Shuilin is dead, and your talent will be appreciated by the old man and your father. , without Su Shuilin, you are the rightful chief of the Suxiu Family. How can they catch you and punish you." Madam Gui threw off her veil, stretched out her index finger and nodded at her panic-stricken daughter, hating Tie. He insisted firmly: "If the old man and your father ask about it, don't miss it, remember? As for the picture of 'Across the River at Qingming Festival', send it out and deal with it."
"Understood, mother. But I'm afraid of aunt and eldest brother..." When I think of my half-brother, and that aunt who doesn't speak much but looks serious, seems to be able to see through his mind at a glance - the current member of the Su family As the mistress of the house, Su Shuiyan couldn't help trembling.
"It's useless!" Mrs. Gui, the second concubine of the Su family's master, Deng Yun squinted at her daughter, and the handkerchief in her hand was crumpled into a ball. "Go back. I don't think the house will be peaceful for the past two days. You can stay in the embroidery room for me to practice. The old man will definitely let you go to the national standard competition the day after tomorrow. Don't lose your mother and my face." Deng Yun squinted at his daughter, if it wasn't for her to find a good husband's family in the future, instead of being a concubine like himself, he would not be able to raise his head in the end, why did he plan so hard for her
Su Shuiyan lowered her head and responded lightly. I was also anxious in my heart. Even if my eldest sister, who is always taller than me, is lucky enough not to die, I am afraid that I will not be able to participate in the national standard competition in the future. Well, mother is right, prepare yourself well, if you become famous in the national standard competition, the chief of "Su Embroidery Home" will not be captured? As for the eldest young master of the Wang family, he would definitely choose himself instead of Su Shuilin. After all, Su Shuilin was chosen by the Wang family as a standout for Su embroidery! Su Shuiyan was full of confidence and made her arrogant. Followed his biological mother back to his small courtyard.
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The large study in the main courtyard of the Su family.
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"Crack!" There was a loud noise on the table, and the blue and white porcelain cup shattered instantly. The one who glared at the main seat was the old man of the Su family.
"Who is spreading the word? Let Shui Lin go to my courtyard? Although this family is the boss, I'm not dead yet!" Although the old man was over eighty years old, he was still full of anger when he cursed.
"Father, calm down!" The head of the Su family, the eldest son of the old man, Su Fanghua hurriedly got up from the old man's left side and bent over to ask forgiveness from the old man: "My son is busy arranging the national standard competition to be held the next day for the past two days. , I really don't know what happened to Shuilin. According to my son's thorough investigation, it was Tingyi's maid who went to Shuilin's courtyard that day, saying that Tingyi was at his father's house, and Shuirong went to his father's courtyard, but there was no Tingyi and his father. It's just that I don't know how it hit the corner of the table, causing the bleeding to stop... This, my son hasn't figured it out yet."
Su Fanghua told the old man the truth he had found, but he also had doubts in his heart. According to Shui Lin's calm temperament in the past, he would never go out in a hurry without a maid. Moreover, according to the statements of the two maids next to Shui Lin, when Shui Lin went out, he brought the large-scale Su embroidery that was going to be exhibited. But after the incident, according to the first discovery of the two maids and eldest son Su Tingyi who were on duty in the courtyard of the old man, neither of the giant Su embroidery was found. This is probably not an accident, but a deliberate plan by someone with a heart. only now...
"Where's that maid from Ting Yi?" The old man also thought of the twists and turns and asked immediately.
"When my son sent someone to find such a maid, he had already fallen into the lake and was out of breath."
"You bastard!" The old man slapped the table angrily and stood up: "This is still an accident, it is clearly a murder! This girl Shui Lin... ah... hurry up, send more people, and find out the reason at any cost." The old man frowned and ordered. With the eldest son, at the end, he added another sentence: "The day after tomorrow's competition... Let the girl Shui Yan prepare well. In any case, the Su family can't go without anyone."
"Yes. My son will tell her now." Su Fanghua lowered his head and replied.
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"What did the doctor say?" In the lounge outside the operating room of the hospital, a wealthy wife in her forties grabbed Su Tingyi's hand and asked eagerly. This is the current head mistress of the Su family, Li Ruxi, the wife of Su Fanghua. At this time, she still has the appearance of a calm and quiet eldest wife. Her face is full of anxiety about her daughter whose life and death are unknown.
"Mother." Su Tingyi clenched Li Ruxi's cold hand and called out softly, but couldn't go on, just shook his head.
"Yi'er, what do you mean?" Li Ruxi couldn't hold it any longer, tears welling up in her eyes. The maid next to her also looked at her eldest young master nervously, hoping that the result would not make the wife despair.
"The doctor said..." Su Tingyi organized what the doctor said just now, and picked out some words that were not so shocking that you would faint: "The doctor said, my sister, my sister has hurt her head, and she may be in a coma before the blood is gone. A few days." This is only one possibility, and the possibility is very small. The biggest possibility is... Since then, I will become a living dead. If there is no improvement in half a year, I am afraid... Su Tingyi couldn't help but wave when he thought of this possibility. Punch to the concrete wall beside him.
"Eldest young master!" The maid next to Li Ruxi exclaimed when she saw this.
Li Ruxi looked at her son, and after listening to his words, her mood eased a lot. Seeing her son like this, she also said that he was angry with those who hurt Shuilin. Then he comforted his son: "As long as there is no danger to life, it's fine. For the rest, I think, we can't just sit back and wait. The servant girl who called the message died in a strange way, and the master behind it can't be guessed, it's that bitch. I'll be back tomorrow. Your grandfather's house, I heard that the two unworthy sons of the Deng family joined some organization, and they were raising money all over the world some time ago... Hmph, I don't believe that they can't catch that bitch, so they will bite each other's tails. ." Li Ruxi snorted coldly. Eyes full of frost swords. Dare to hurt my daughter, live impatiently!