Because time was urgent, after Wei Changying rushed to the room, Mrs. Su, who was dressed in fine clothes and hairpins, hugged her eldest granddaughter Shen Shujing and only said lightly: "Be careful on the road. When you see me later, take more care of Ming'er and Yan." son of them.”
Sitting in the first seat next to her, Ms. Liu, who was as gorgeously dressed and well-dressed as Mrs. Su, didn’t know if it was because her only son was far away in Xiliang and her husband was willing to stay with her mother and daughter. The knot was resolved, and instead of being frightened or desolate, there was a hint of joy in his expression. He smiled and nodded to Wei Changying: "I'll be naughty tomorrow, so I'll ask my three younger brothers and sisters to give me more snacks from now on."
Huo Qingling, the Sixth Young Madam, has been in very poor health since the middle of last year. Probably for this reason, she did not appear here at this moment. The rest of the concubines were all sobbing silently, and they had no right to talk much here.
Mrs. Su saw that Gu Rouzhang and others were already waiting with anxious expressions, and the most impatient Gu Rouzhang was about to speak, and Ximen's killing cry was also very close, so she ordered: "There is nothing more to say, Chang Ying, hurry up." Let’s go with them!”
Wei Changying bit his lip and said, "Yes." He added, "My wife, these two maids will learn martial arts and riding skills..."
"Then I'll take them with me so that I can protect and serve you." Mrs. Su said calmly without batting an eyelid, "There are already four horses prepared for you outside so you can change them. Anyway, staying here is just an advantage for the Rong people. "
After receiving permission, Wei Changying glanced at Shen Shujing who was above him - such a young niece - but when Shen Shujing caught her aunt's gaze, she just smiled, leaned forward and said, "My niece, I sincerely wish you a safe journey! My niece must I will stay to serve my grandmother and the elders, and I won’t send my aunt off!”
Seeing that neither Mrs. Su nor Mrs. Liu asked them to take Shen Shujing with them, they were obviously not optimistic about the escape of their group, or thought that they could escape after joining Shen Shujing, who had always been at home. may be greatly reduced.
Guard Chief Ying's heart ached and he stopped talking. He knelt down and kowtowed three times to Mrs. Su. After standing up, he whispered to Gu Rouzhang and others, "Please wait a moment. Let's go!"
"Sister Wei, you're welcome. Mrs. Su, everyone, I'll say goodbye later!" Gu Rouzhang and his party didn't waste any time. They all stood up immediately, bowed to the hall, and said in a deep voice.
Just when they walked to the door, a lame old servant holding a dark-colored cloak suddenly came in from outside - Mrs. Liu was surprised and said: "Zhao Wuxin, why are you here?"
It sounds like this old servant is a servant of the big house.
Of course Wei Changying and the others would not pay attention to him at this time... Just as they were about to pass by him, they heard Zhao Wuxin say in a deep voice: "Third Young Madam, please stay!"
Guard Chief Ying was startled, her feet slowed down, and she heard Zhao Wuxin speak quickly: "Old slave's son was killed in the battle just now among the people who followed the eldest son this time! But the war horse he was riding on was taken care of by old slave all the time. So, he dragged the body of Lao Nu's son back to Lao Nu's residence at the back door! Although this war horse is not as good as the third young lady's 'Red Flame', it is still more powerful than the four horses outside the house! The slave's son suffered a bad fate. He was shot by the soldiers as soon as he came up. There was no fierce battle, and the horse was almost not damaged!"
When Gu Rouzhang heard this, she said happily: "This is really great. Where is the horse?" Her rouge horse was not snatched by anyone. Pei Yu and others were also their usual mounts. This time, they took Wei Changying with them to break out of the encirclement. What they are worried about is that the Shen family will take away the "Red Flame" and leave all the prostitutes behind, so they will not be able to keep up.
Now there is this war horse, even if it is not as good as "Chi Yan", it is definitely better than the one that Mrs. Su brought out from the stable just now.
As a result, Zhao Wuxin did not answer after hearing Gu Rouzhang's words. Instead, he stared at Wei Changying and said, "I have a request."
The expressions of Mrs. Su and Mrs. Liu, who were the top leaders, changed and they were about to scold him.
But Zhao Wuxin shook the big cloak in his hand next, and what he said was not permission to go with him, but: "Please Third Young Madam, please bring Miss Grand Sun with you!"
"There is no one guarding the door at the Xinyi Pavilion at the moment. The old slave was brave enough to go in and look for this cloak worn by the female family members. I don't know if it belongs to Miss Da Sun. But it can also cover up Miss Da Sun's gorgeous clothes!" Zhao Wuxin He said word by word, "Miss Sun cannot ride a horse and must ride with others. Originally, Madam could only bring out four horses. If Miss Sun were allowed to go with her, both Young Madam and Miss Sun would be unlucky! But there are The war horse that killed Lao Nu's son is enough to take Miss Sun out of the imperial capital!"
"Zhao Wuxin, you!" Ms. Liu stood up in shock!
Wei Changying took a deep breath, suppressed his excitement, looked back at the hall, and said in a deep voice: "Jing'er, come here quickly and put on your cloak!"
"Thank you so much, Mrs. Third Young Master!" Zhao Wuxin heard this and handed the cloak to Qin Ge. Only then did he burst out in sorrow for his son's death. He leaned back against the door leaf tremblingly, sat down slowly, and choked with sobs. He said, "In this case, if the old slave's son is not good at martial arts and dies in the hands of his opponent, it does not mean that he has not been able to help the eldest master!"
Before he finished speaking, he was already crying!
In the hall, Mrs. Su went back and wiped her face, pushed Shen Shujing hard, who was speechless due to shock, and shouted sadly: "My child, go quickly! Zhao Wuxin only has one son, you must not let him down." Good intentions!”
Shen Shujing walked down the hall in confusion and walked to Mrs. Liu: "Mother..."
"Go with your third aunt quickly! Mrs. Gu and the others have been waiting for you for too long!" Ms. Liu cried with joy - she had just stood up because of surprise, and now she simply dragged her daughter to the door and took the song from the piano singer. He covered his daughter with the big cloak, pushed it to Wei Changying, and said deeply, "Thank you, my third brother and sister!"
He knelt down with a plop and kowtowed to Gu Rouzhang and others, "Thank you all!"
But Mrs. Liu had just kowtowed her head. Aunt Guo, who had only been sobbing softly before, suddenly became louder and cried angrily: "Young madam, since you can take two maids with you, you can also take the moon with you." Come on!"
"Shut up!" Before Wei Changying could reply, Mrs. Su, the superior, suddenly shouted, "Stop her mouth with me!"
Although Mrs. Su had a clear attitude, Shen Shujing had always been used to letting her younger brothers and sisters go. Hearing this, she trembled and subconsciously said to her aunt, Wei Changying, who was pulling her out: "Third aunt, Yue'er, she Smaller than my niece…”
"Let's go quickly!" Wei Changying bit his lip hard, but ignored Shen Shujing's humility, and instead pulled her tightly and strode towards the door of the mansion!
Shen Shujing hesitated for a moment, then struggled hard: "Third Aunt, please take Yue'er away, she..."
Wei Changying frowned, but Gu Xinian snorted coldly and said: "Niece Xian, don't be confused! Zhao Wuxin gave the horse to Sister-in-law Wei, and the request was to take you with her instead of your cousin! It’s like being loyal to someone’s trust! Besides, who can blame you if you don’t have such a loyal servant in your second house?”
... Being gradually left behind by them in the upper room, Aunt Guo watched the door being dragged open by Mrs. Liu herself and then slowly closed by Zhao Wuxin. She still refused to give up and struggled desperately, shouting: "The second room is already like that - Madam, you..."
"Kill her!" The two women Mrs. Su came up to didn't know whether they were frightened by the fate that followed. They couldn't hold Aunt Guo down for a moment, and shouted angrily with a stern look in their eyes!
This order was easier to execute than blocking Aunt Guo's mouth. One woman hugged Aunt Guo's arms from behind, and the other woman took out the dagger from her sleeve and stabbed Aunt Guo several times in the heart - a nearby concubine. They were all frightened and screamed and ran away. Aunt Guo was covered in blood, but she still didn't give up and shouted: "Rou'er is crazy, Yi'er is dead! There are only a few months left. Now the two servants can leave." , Why can’t Yue’er go! Yue’er is young and not as heavy as Miss Sun, who is already an adult... Didn’t Miss Da Sun say that she would let Yue’er go?”
Mrs. Su looked coldly at Aunt Guo, who was lying in a pool of blood, struggling and shouting, her breath gradually weakening, with hatred and disdain in her eyes: "This is the person Li Er personally saved when he was in Xiliang, enduring the loss of his only son. He came here to save Jing'er's life just to repay Li'er's kindness! Why did he give it to the second room! If it hadn't been an emergency, I would have... Rou'er was scared to death, but he could still take Yue'er away... But he was also crazy and ran to the front yard, and others had to take care of him on the way! Such a father, Rou'er and Yue'er followed us on the road. , maybe it’s better!”
Ms. Liu didn't even look at Aunt Guo, and stepped forward to persuade her: "Mom, please calm down, no one expected what happened to the second wife this time, and Aunt Guo couldn't bear the blow, so she started making such a fuss. Anyway, the three younger siblings have gone far away now..."
At this point, she knelt down and gave a big salute to Mrs. Su, crying and laughing, "Jing'er was leaving in a hurry just now and didn't have time to say goodbye to you, mother. My daughter-in-law made up for this gift on her behalf. My daughter-in-law thanked her mother even more." The three younger brothers and sisters were allowed to go alone before, otherwise Jing'er doesn't know how to ride a horse and has no friendship with Mrs. Gu and the others, so where would there be any hope? "
"There is a reason why I asked Chang Ying to go with them." Mrs. Su raised her hand to signal Mr. Liu to get up, then asked someone to bring the poisonous wine, and said softly, "The six lintels in the country have the same lintel, but the situation of each family They are different. Although the Song, Wei, and Duanmu families have private soldiers, they do not need to defend themselves against foreigners like our Shen family, Su, and Liu families. Therefore, in terms of money, the savings of these three families are far beyond what Shen, Su, and Liu can compare with. , just looking at Chang Ying's dowry, you can see how rich the Wei family is! If she is alive, the Shen family will not be afraid that the Wei family will not help... The world does not know how long it will be in chaos. How can we give up so easily since we have such an in-law? Furthermore, Gu Rouzhang mentioned 'Red Flame' in her words and refused to let Chang Ying go with them. Once they survive, the Wei family will know about it... "
Mrs. Su shook her head tiredly, "Your father and I didn't actually want to let Chang Ying die. We originally planned to let her gamble in the secret room like Ning'er and Qing Ling. But we handed over too much food before. , and I didn’t expect the Rong people to break the city so quickly. The storage in the secret room is very limited. Once the Rong people occupy the imperial capital for a long time... It may be God’s will that people like Gu Rouzhang come to the door... "
At this point, Mrs. Liu had already drank the poisonous wine and said with a chuckle: "Mother has good intentions." A prominent family with hundreds of years of history and a business in the imperial capital as long as Wei Zuo, of course there is a secret room in the Taifu's mansion. .
But the secret passage cannot cross the city wall and lead outside the city. Since it is inside the city, in the final analysis, it still has to go around the issue of food storage.
The male heirs used their skills to escape neatly, and the female relatives, their chance of survival is here.
But this chance of survival is just like the dangers that may be encountered when breaking out of an siege, and it cannot be predicted accurately.
It is unfortunate to be discovered, but even if it has not been discovered, there is still a problem...
"It was your father who had prepared all the preparations earlier." Mrs. Su gave a bitter smile. Watching everyone in the hall gradually fall down, she drank the poisonous wine in one gulp and murmured, "I am afraid that among all the families in the imperial capital, I am the only one in the Shen family. Regarding the preparation of food and fodder for the Xiliang army, there is enough food in the secret room for several months, right? It is useless for other people to have secret rooms... Can we take back the imperial capital in a few months?"
She set an example, and since she was impressed, she also forced her daughter-in-law and servants to accompany her to death, just to save more food reserves so that her daughter Shen Zangning and her sixth daughter-in-law Huo Qingling could live longer so that they could wait until the Wei people regained the imperial capital - only However, according to the arrangement of Shen Xuan and his wife, it was Wei Changying and Shen Zangning who should enter the secret room. This was not only because of Wei Changying's special status as a wife and because Shen Zangning was the couple's two beloved daughters.
Considering that in a dark and closed secret room, without companions, knowing that there are powerful enemies outside, and knowing that their relatives are separated, even if Wei Changying and Shen Zangning are cheerful women, they will easily collapse. At that time, he was just as crazy as he was because he knew that his mother had killed his concubine in order to let his father take him away, and was later beheaded by his father because of it. Before Wei Changying rushed to the room, Mrs. Su personally fed him Shen Shurou, who drank poisonous wine and was carried to the inner room, suffered the same fate...
But Gu Rouzhang and others came to ask Wei Changying to break out together; the Liu family had long wanted to die together; the Duanmu family was killed by her husband; Su Yuyin was far away in Xiliang; Pei Meiniang was deeply disgusted by Mrs. Su, and this companion Shen Shen The place for Zang Ning to enter the secret room undisputedly fell to Huo Qingling.
"Ning'er, I hope you are safe!" The experience of this life emerged and flowed in front of her eyes like water in an instant. The light in Mrs. Su's eyes gradually dimmed, and she uttered the last words inaudibly - as the soldiers shouted for death. Toward the Taifu Mansion, the glass wine cup slipped from her hand and fell into countless fragments. Each fragment reflected the fire that broke out everywhere in the imperial capital! (To be continued)