"Keep it secret from my sister-in-law before today." At the end of the meeting in the Duke's study room, Qiu Jinglan solemnly requested, "After I leave the city..."
"I'll tell you when I get back!" This is not a difficult matter. Qin Guogong nodded without waiting for him to finish, and ordered everyone to keep silent about Qiu Yilan. He also took the initiative to promise: "My family will take care of Miss Ruan's leaving the cabinet. You can take care of it." rest assured!"
With his prestige in the family, his personal instructions were naturally carried out meticulously.
Therefore, the whole capital knew that there was an urgent news coming from the six hundred miles west. Qiu Yilan was kept in the dark. After Jiang Yashuang returned that day, she was still concerned about: "Duan Rou's matter, what happened to Fourth Aunt?" explain?"
"Get engaged first, and wait for Yongfu to have children in a few years before we get married." Jiang Yashuang rubbed her brows, "Fortunately, she and Xiao Su are not very old now."
Qiu Yilan remembered that Chu Chunxiao was the same age as herself, so she didn't quite agree with this: "In a few years, Duanrou will be twenty, right? Will there be a suitable person by then?"
"Fourth Aunt is very worried now. After Yongfu descends, maybe she won't care so much." Jiang Yashuang said warmly, "I'll try to persuade you then... I can only get this result no matter what I say today."
"Have you gone to tell Third Sister?" Qiu Yilan heard what he said and knew that the most Empress Jiang would give in to was this. She sighed and asked, "Yesterday she went back crying. Now she doesn't know how sad she is. , tell her as soon as possible that things will turn around..."
Jiang Yashuang looked embarrassed: "I forgot!"
Duanrou received urgent news from Liubaili before she finished her story. When she left the palace, she followed Qin Guogong. How could she find the time to send someone to Qiyang County Prince's Mansion to report the news
Qiu Yilan complained: "How could you not tell her in time? What do you think the situation is like in Prince Qiyang's palace? The third sister has endured it for so many years and all her hopes are on Duanrou. What if you think too little?"
At the same time, he called Chunran and Su Helai and asked them to tell them quickly.
After sending them away, Shen Shui hurried in: "Young Master, Young Madam, the twelfth grandson is gone!"
"What?!" Jiang Yashuang and Qiu Yilan stayed together for a while before asking in disbelief, "Who do you think is dead?"
"The twelfth grandson of the Third Fang, the eldest son of the Sixth Young Master." Shen Shui lowered his head and said cautiously, "Just what I didn't have just now."
Jiang Yashuang's face turned pale for a moment, then turned abnormally flushed. He felt that his energy and blood were surging fiercely. He quickly adjusted his breathing for a moment, then suppressed his anger and asked, "How could Zhui'er suddenly disappear when she was fine?"
Not long ago, a nephew died. A few days ago, he had a miscarriage and he didn't know he was a nephew or niece. Now, another cousin died in infancy - all three of them are Jiang Yashuang's blood relatives. Rao, who has always been in a peaceful mood, felt a little nervous at this moment. Blood rushes into the brain!
Shen Shui heard that something was wrong in his tone, and his voice trembled with fright: "My maid, my maid doesn't know! The person who came didn't say anything, and left after reporting the letter!"
"Let's go to the third room and have a look!" Qiu Yilan stood up, but what she was thinking in her heart was: "Did He's silence?!" His grandson! It’s not that he didn’t touch the ground, he didn’t see him, he didn’t have any feelings, he was looking at his six-year-old grandson in front of him—how could he do this? ! Is He still a human being
Jiang Yashuang didn't know the inside story. When he held her hand, he noticed that her fingertips couldn't help but tremble. She thought it was because she felt sorry for Jiang Jingzhui's death at a young age. She shook her hand hard and whispered: "Zhao'er has gone, don't be too nervous." Be sad, so as not to hurt your body!”
Qiu Yilan smiled bitterly and refused to explain.
The couple didn't even have time to change their clothes, so they hurried to the third room. Before they even entered, they heard He's screaming screams!
"Has her affair been exposed?" Qiu Yilan felt happy for a while - but then she thought something was wrong, "Then the third room actually let us in and didn't stop her mouth?" What He did did not matter to the He family or Jiang. Everyone can only keep silent and not spread the news! If discovered, it would certainly not give her any chance to speak.
Although He was crying fiercely now, he was not restrained, which showed that it was not her fault.
Sure enough, when he walked into the courtyard in front of the main hall, he saw Jiang Tianqi, who was wearing an official uniform that was too old to change out of. He was holding a board in his hand and breathing heavily with red eyes. Seventh Young Master Jiang Yayi and Fourteenth Young Master Jiang Yayi Young Master Jiang Yaheng knelt at his feet, hugging him tightly to prevent him from moving!
Not far away from Jiang Tianqi, a shaky figure was also kneeling. The indigo silk shirt he was wearing was now stained with large areas of black. If you look closely, you will find that the so-called black is full of blood stains!
He Shi was holding this man in her arms, wailing bitterly: "You hit! You hit! You keep beating! I directly beat your eldest son to death! Are you satisfied?! Qing'er didn't mean it, but you wanted to kill her on purpose. Son! You still have the nerve to beat him! Why don’t you beat me to death too!”
Jiang Yayi and Jiang Yaheng persuaded each other with snot and tears: "Father, calm down! Calm down! Sixth brother, it was just an unintentional mistake. What is gone is your grandson, who is also his own flesh and blood! You have to pay back If you are angry, just hit us!”
"Father, all the mistakes are the son's fault! The son should not have turned his face when the sixth brother and the sixth sister-in-law came with Zhui'er to apologize. Otherwise, how could the sixth brother beat Zui'er? The one who deserves to be beaten to death is son-"
... Qiu Yilan stood at the door of the Moon Cave, looking at the family with twitching lips: "It seems that Jiang Yaqing just returned to Beijing yesterday for business. He came back to stay for a while when he needed time to reply to official documents, and today he beat his own son to death?!"
She remembered hearing when chatting with Mr. Shi that Jiang Yaqing went to the Zhenbei Army when his eldest son was still in his infancy, and he didn't even get along with Jiang Jingzhuo and his son. After finally meeting him, he actually beat his son to death - it sounds like Jiang Yaheng told him when he took his son to apologize to his brother and sister-in-law, and he was so angry after returning...
"It's hard for the two brothers not to have a deadly feud, okay?!" Qiu Yilan looked at the frantic He family and felt chills running through her body, "The one with Shuijin Xiaochan has not landed after all. Jiang Jingzhuo is young, and He Shuijin should know that He is the culprit! There is still room for resolution; but Jiang Jingzhuo has been raised to six years old and is about to go to school! How can a parent forget that?"
Even if Jiang Jingzhuo was killed by Jiang Yaqing by mistake, and even if Jiang Yaheng is desperately repenting now, the mistake has been made. Even if the two brothers don't retaliate against each other in the future, they definitely don't want to see each other again... These two direct brothers , the best result in the future is to go further and further.
And who would have thought that it was their mother He who caused this series of tragedies? !
She stood in a daze, unable to move her feet. Jiang Yashuang also stopped in shock. The two sculptures of the husband and wife stood in the moon cave door for a long time - until Duke Qin came from behind and scolded him with anger, they stepped aside as if they were just waking up from a dream. the way.
"Go back, you have nothing to do here!" After being driven out of the courtyard by Qin Guogong with a livid face, the couple realized that each other's palms were dripping with cold sweat.
"...Go back." At this moment, the two of them didn't want to say anything. They just held each other's hands tightly and returned to their own yard absentmindedly.
Even after entering his own house, he couldn't feel safe because, except for the third room, his peers sent people one after another to ask how Jiang Jingzhui died in infancy.
Only then did they realize that they had gone earlier, and those who had set out later were sent back halfway by Qin Guogong. No wonder they stood in the moon cave gate for a long time, and finally only one Duke of Qin came over.
"How can we talk about such a thing? Besides, my grandfather won't let us get involved. Obviously he doesn't want to cause a big fuss." Qiu Yilan tiredly ordered Shen Shui, "Go... Just say that we don't know!"
Although the Duke of Qin hoped to suppress this tragedy, Jiang Tianqi almost beat Jiang Yaqing to death when he found out that his son had caused the death of his eldest grandson. He and his two other sons fought hard to save Jiang Yaqing's life. It's impossible to hide the commotion that much.
So everyone in the government knew that it had passed the next day.
Only now did Jiang Yashuang and his wife know that what happened was not what they thought yesterday: Jiang Jingzhuo was accidentally beaten to death by Jiang Yaqing. Although Jiang Yaqing did beat him violently, he actually used his hands carefully. Injury to bones and muscles, not to mention life.
However, the father went to the army before the child was one year old. Over the years, although the Marquis of Jibei and Jiang Tianchi often took advantage of the opportunity to exchange official documents, their nephews could take turns returning to Beijing to have family reunions. But we rarely meet each other, so one can imagine Jiang Jingzhuo’s longing for his father’s love!
This time he frightened his aunt into having a miscarriage with a snake. The He family and Shi family had already done some harm to the family. When he saw his father come back, he was about to express his grievances and ask for a few words of comfort. What awaited him was a slap on the face from his father. As the eldest grandson of Sanfang, Jiang Jingzhuo had been held in the palm of his hand since he was a child. He was so young, how could he withstand such a series of punishments
After the beating, he returned to his room and told him not to stay with him that night. The servants only said that he was in a bad mood, and after a few words of persuasion, they saw him picking up things and then started throwing them, so they didn't dare to say anything. Then, sleeping until midnight, the child took the jade pendant tied with his belt and threw it over the beam, hanging himself up!
However, the Jiang family's great-grandson's suicide did not arouse heated discussion in Beijing.
Because in the afternoon of the next day, the Queen issued an edict, His Royal Highness Princess Yongfu of Oubicheng, Jingbo Crown Prince!
This incident alone is not enough to overwhelm what happened to the Jiang family, but the news released at the same time as Yizhi said that the marriages of the five princes and princesses, King Lu, King Cai, King Wei, Princess Changping, and Princess Lexin, have not yet been decided— But it’s enough to arouse the concern of both the government and the public!
The princes and princesses of this dynasty are indeed far less powerful than the previous dynasty, but the title of princess and the status of consort are still attractive.
After all, ambitions come in different sizes. Most families know that they do not have the blessing of being the heir of the country, so they feel that having a princess is worth bragging about. Even in the families of powerful ministers, the prince-in-law can at least make those descendants who have no talent and are not worthy of the title of Yin Feng to be around. Official status, right
For a time, the prices of cosmetics, jewelry, and clothing materials all increased in Beijing. The enthusiasm for marrying the royal family easily suppressed the Jiang Jingzhu matter.
Even Jiang Jingzhuo's mother Shi Shi, under pressure from her natal family, had to wipe away the tears she had cried for her son for many days, dress up, apply makeup, tidied herself up, went into the palace to pay her respects to Empress Jiang, and expressed euphemistically that she had a child. The maiden cousin who has yet to be named has a personality that is very suitable for King Lu.
... Then Qiu Yilan made this sister-in-law hate her—very unjustly!