Meng Qiqi didn't take it seriously, she just snorted: "Don't break others, and ask the prince to handle it for you when you go back."
Several people were laughing and playing, and the raindrops outside fell into a bead curtain and slid down the eaves.
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The bamboo waterside pavilion where Madam Gao lived was silent at this moment.
Inside the house, Mrs. Gao was wrapped in a navy blue dress, sitting on the Luohan bed, taking a sip of meditation and concentration tea handed over by the maid next to her, frowning deeply. She was in a really bad mood. Ever since Gao Lan was arrested in the morning, she sent someone to get money to accommodate her in the afternoon, and she was sent back. When she thought of her daughter who was raised as a baby bump, now locked in a dark dungeon and tortured by rat ants, her heart seemed to be tightly twisted.
The first-class maid next to her lifted the curtain and came in, and the hem of her clothes was still stained with water that had just splashed outside. She quietly approached Mrs. Gao and whispered, "Ruan beside my sister asked to see you."
After finishing speaking, the maid added: "A while ago, the elder sister met the son of the Zhao family at night, and it was Ruan who passed on it in the middle. After that, she disappeared and didn't appear until the elder sister was arrested by the government today. People have been looking for her for a long time."
Mrs. Gao said coldly: "What are you doing here to see me as a bully who is deceived? Just drag it to the door and beat him to death."
The maid paused, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Madam, why don't you call in and hear what she wants. If she really is playing tricks in the middle, why does she dare to come back to see you now, there must be something important to do? Report back. You might as well listen, and it's not too late to kill you later."
Mrs. Gao's eyebrows closed, she thought so, she raised her hand and asked Ruan Tui to be sent in.
When Ruan came, he was ragged and disgraced. She knelt timidly on the ground, first kowtowed to Madam Gao three times, and then raised a face with tears in her eyes: "Madam, it's all Ruan's useless, it's Ruan's fault, I'm in such a situation, please Madam beat Ruan to death!"
Mrs. Gao sneered: "It is inevitable to kill you. Before that, let's talk about what happened first. Who gave you the guts to figure it out! If you are honest, I can still keep you a whole corpse, otherwise you will die. There will be no peace after death!"
Ruan trembled all over, and repeatedly claimed: "Sister and the son of the Zhao family had a relationship..." When she said these words, she quietly lifted her eyelids to see Madam Gao's expression, who listened quietly with a stern look on her face. , I don't have any attitude towards this matter, I think I have known it for a long time.
"But my sister and Zhao Gongzi were only in love and polite, and they never did anything. After Sheng Gongzi came, she fell in love with my sister. My sister also invited Sheng Gongzi to come to the building for a gathering, but was surrounded by Sheng Gongzi. Miss Meng blocked her back. Then one day, Miss Meng suddenly found her servant, it was Mr. Sheng who invited her sister to gather at night in the dark cloud and deep pavilion. The sister was pure and innocent, and the servant did not doubt whether what Miss Meng said was true, only truthful. I told my sister. But after my sister set off for Yunshen Pavilion that night, the servants accidentally heard that the two elder sisters who were serving Miss Meng, Mr. Sheng was in the room of Miss Meng..."
"The slaves were shocked at the time. If Young Master Sheng was in Miss Meng's room, who would Yunshenting meet with my sister at night!? At that time, the slaves did not dare to disturb you and the master, so they could only find them alone. But I didn't see my sister along the way, and the slaves almost died on the side of the road. The slaves knew that they had made a big disaster, and they had no face to come back to see the master and wife, so they begged outside to make a living. But... Until today, the slaves heard that people outside were all there Discuss, the Kochi prefecture has caught a murderer."
Ruan couldn't stop crying: "How could someone as weak as my sister kill someone!? Now that I think about it carefully, I'm afraid that everything was arranged by someone... Madam, it's not a pity for a slave to die, but the slave has to complete this matter. Let me tell you the whole thing, you must avenge your sister, otherwise the slave will not rest in peace when she dies."
After listening to the cause and effect, Mrs. Gao was wheezing and coughing again: "My Laner..."
Her Gao Lan grew up being spoiled, how could she be so shameless to seduce the short-lived ghost of the Zhao family! ? It must have been the design of the surnamed Meng who replaced the prince with the civet cat of Zhao Changrong and the civet cat, causing Lan'er to suffer the loss of being dumb, and now he has to bear a life! He was almost taken to be buried with the people of the Zhao family, which is really aggrieved.
I hate that Mr. Meng, who looks innocent all day long, but it turns out that she is carrying that charming and deceiving face, and harming people everywhere!
Ruan Shi said: "Slave, listen, Miss Meng is looking for the maid who is pregnant with the eldest young master's child. She seems to have asked people to inquire about her whereabouts..."
Mrs. Gao wondered, "What is she doing with that servant girl?" She was very angry with that servant girl again. What a humble status, she dared to learn from others and climbed into the master's bed, and she was pregnant. Mrs. Gao has a way to deal with such a maid who doesn't know the height of the land.
Ruan's soft voice fell into Mrs. Gao's ears like fluff, and it became the last flame that ignited Mrs. Gao's anger: "Perhaps it was the same maid who gave birth to a heart of compassion? Otherwise, Miss Meng would not do everything possible. Bad sister reputation…”
The more Madam Gao thought about it, the more angry she became, and the expression on her face became more and more terrifying. Rao Shiruan knelt at the bottom and looked up, and it was inevitable that his back would be chilled. She lowered her head quietly, knowing that Meng Eqi would not be able to escape Madam Gao's calculations, and a sense of revenge rose in her heart.
Meng Qiqi, if you want to blame yourself for being so beautiful, you are so fascinated by Mr. Fang.
Ruan couldn't forget that night, and Fang Bao categorically refused after knowing what he meant.
"Ruan, I'm afraid I won't be able to take you in. Besides, I have to send all the concubines in my house. I already have a favorite woman, and I don't want her to misunderstand me, although I have caused her enough misunderstandings. ."
Ruan's eyes widened in disbelief, and she asked dumbly, "Yes... Is it Miss Meng?"
Fang Bao was silent, and Ruan's heart sank.
In the end, Fang Bao took out a few pieces of silver from his arms and put it on the table: "I will arrange for someone to send you out of the high mansion, and then you will take the money and go to other places to make a living. You are clever and well-behaved and want to find a place to stay. Not difficult."
Fang Bao stopped, turned around and left. Ruan's eager eyes followed his back, expecting him to turn back, even once...
Until Fang Bao's figure disappeared into the dark night.
Ruan looked down at the silver on the table that was covered with a layer of velvet light by candlelight, she smiled bitterly: "But son, Ruan is already yours..."
She was not reconciled, even hated. Hate Gao Lan, hate Gao Fu, hate Meng Qiqi.
It was a pity that Gao Lan and Meng Qiqi had such good luck. That day, Ruan deliberately disclosed the time of Gao Lanhua's banquet to Zhao's house, and wanted to let Zhao's house take this opportunity to remove the two thorns in his heart. Who knew they would come back alive.
Fortunately, the old eyes, the Zhao family bit Gao Lan firmly, so that she still has a chance to take advantage.
So she returned to the high mansion with the determination to die.
If she can't find a good home, then she can only make the water more turbid.
Mrs. Gao didn't know what Ruan was thinking. Rao Shiruan's words were full of doubts, but the hatred in Mrs. Gao's heart had affected her sanity, making it impossible for her to carefully scrutinize every sentence Ruan said. She breathed for a long time, and finally calmed down, and ordered: "I know about this matter, and if you pay off your merits, it can be regarded as a cleanup with Gao Fu. You go and follow Chunlan to get your own betrayal contract, and from now on Go out of the house."
Ruan kowtowed to thank her, and left with the first-class maid next to Mrs. Gao.
Before they went out, Madam Gao gave the maid named Chunlan a wink. Chunlan understood and led Ruan out the door.
After they left, Mrs. Gao leaned back on the table again, with fine lines at the corners of her eyes and two slightly mean eyebrows, which made her face a bit sinister.
She remembered what Gao Xian ordered his servants to do after Gao Lan was captured. Many things are connected together, like a continuous rain curtain outside, and a plan comes to mind. Mrs. Gao smiled contemptuously. She wanted Meng Eqi to experience what her daughter had lost.
As soon as the thought appeared, she called her maid Chunmei and whispered in her ear. When Chunmei led the order to lift the curtain and go out, Madam Gao felt that the stagnation in her heart finally eased a bit.
She closed her eyes again, and there was still mist slowly drifting away from the meditation tea on the table beside her.
After a while, Gao Xian returned to the room, and Mrs. Gao took his coat thoughtfully, and after a few warm greetings, she finally said, "Have you ordered everything, sir?"
Gao Xian glanced at her and nodded: "It's done, we can only see if that one is willing to help after we have shown our loyalty."
Mrs. Gao hooked her lips without a trace.
Early the next morning, Meng Eqi was woken up by the screams of the maidservant. After a while, there was a rustling sound outside. As the movement became louder and louder, Meng Eqi had to get up and go out.
It was still pouring rain outside, and the sound like washing the floor was incessant.
She leaned against the door and grabbed a handmaid who was passing by: "What's going on ahead, it's noisy."
The maid's face turned white in shock: "Miss Meng, don't go ahead, a maid sank in the pond in Xiyuan. It sounds like she used to serve my sister, her name is Ruan. She drowned for some reason, and the maid is going to inform the housekeeper. Come and bring people up."
Meng Qiqi nodded and let go.
Nguyen is dead? The last time she saw her that night was in her room, and she thought Ruan followed Fang Bao away. Why was Shentang suddenly discovered today? And by coincidence, he died in Xiyuan...
Meng Qiqi bit her lower lip and thought carefully, a warm feeling of wrapping suddenly came from her shoulders.
Sheng Jiayan draped his robe over Meng Qiqi, his expression indifferent like the clouds and rain floating above: "Why don't you wear shoes?"
Meng Eqi followed his gaze and looked down, and immediately ran back to the room in great embarrassment.