Jin's death surprised everyone in the Jiang family. Naturally, the captain of the ship she chartered was in bad luck - the dignified grandson-in-law of the Jiang family. Even if she was not the Duke of Qin and the Marquis of Jibei, who didn't know that in While the Duke of Qin is still alive, the male branch of Kui County is the one that receives the most attention in public? !
Especially Mrs. Han and Mr. and Mrs. Jiang Tianjun from the male branch of Kui County are still alive!
Mrs. Tao burst into tears immediately after confirming the news: "Poor child - how can I explain this to my sister-in-law, my fifth brother, my fifth son, and my fifth daughter-in-law!"
The old lady has said so. How dare the third house in charge of the house fall behind? Mr. He and He Shuijin's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law knelt down as soon as they entered the door, walked forward on their knees, and apologized prostrately: "My daughter-in-law failed to take good care of my fifth daughter-in-law. I really neglected my duty. Please punish me!"
"My granddaughter-in-law failed to take good care of my fifth sister-in-law, and she deserves death! Please punish me, grandma!"
The three generations here took responsibility for each other and cried... After struggling for a long time, Jiang Yawan, who was accompanying Penglai Yue, was found in the evening. He was told the news of his wife's death in a daze, and was greatly surprised: "When I went out in the morning, I was still How could it be possible?”
"My fifth sister-in-law met me and said hello to me when she was leaving this morning. She was a living person. She just swam in the lake, so why did she disappear?!" He Shuijin cried with his grandmother and mother-in-law on his face, and expressed his apology to Jiang Yawan. However, he was very impatient in his heart: "It's okay to just live and eat in the Duke's Mansion. Now that I'm gone, I've finally been busy through the first month of the year. Seeing that I can relax a little... Here comes the trouble again!"
I can't blame her for being so cold-blooded. She has a harsh mother-in-law, a young son to take care of, and in the middle she has to manage the food and clothing expenses of the whole family. No one who has not reached this position can understand how busy and tired she is. The arrival of the second and fifth bedrooms not only usurped her interests, but also caused her frequent troubles. How could we expect her to have a good face
After all, He Shuijin has never been one to be overflowing with sympathy when hearing about dead people.
"Check! We must get to the bottom of it!" Mrs. Tao said through gritted teeth, "There are so many people in the upper reaches of Jing Lake every year, and there are so many dignitaries among them. The delicate ones will have fits if the boat rocks with the waves. It's okay. How could a boatman of his caliber dare to capsize the boat? Even if the boat capsized by accident, how could the boatman be still alive?”
The old lady actually said this to express her position and attitude - but somehow, Jiang Yawan, who seemed at a loss because of the sudden news of his wife's death, was shocked!
Then his face turned pale!
Mrs. Tao waited for a long time and didn't see him answering. She was quite embarrassed, so she had to take the initiative to tell him: "This matter is because our family is sorry for you, Xiao Wu. You are a good couple and come here. I didn't expect that something like this would happen today!" "
He scolded He Shuijin, "How do you manage the household? How do you do things?! I don't know that your fifth sister-in-law has only been in Beijing for a short period of time and rarely goes out. You even caught her going out for a walk, so you are too busy to do something like this?" Tian Tian goes with her! If you really can’t accompany her yourself, why can’t you send a few smart people to wait on you? If you do this, nothing like this will happen to you!”
Qiu Yilan, who came to comfort her after hearing the news, glanced sympathetically at He Shuijin - the latter knelt down again without saying a word, banging her head three times at Mrs. Tao, and then she cried: "My granddaughter-in-law knows she was wrong. !”
After that, he kowtowed to Jiang Yawan and apologized: "I'm sorry for fifth brother and fifth sister-in-law. Please give fifth brother a lower punishment!"
Ordinarily, even if Jiang Yawan was dissatisfied, Mrs. Tao had already lost face by not answering when she expressed her stance just now. Now that her sister-in-law has lowered her attitude so low, she should say something soft. After all, He Shuijin can't really be blamed for this. As the mother of the house, she has to take care of the livelihood of the whole family. How can she have time to go shopping with her cousin
According to what Mrs. Tao said, knowing that Jin was going out, it was not appropriate to send a few people to follow her immediately - something had happened, so she sent someone to follow her just in case. But when Kim went out, who could have expected that something would happen to her? Did you really expect to let her out
At that time, people were sent to follow the Jin family. They might have been regarded as surveillance! Besides, it’s not like Kim herself has no one to take care of her! Wufang came to the capital with some servants. This time, it was not just one or two servants who accompanied the Jin family to drown in Jinghu Lake. Instead, there were four of them, including two maids and two bodyguards.
As a result, after kowtowing to Shui Jin, and Xin having paid her respects, the pale Jiang Yawan stared blankly at the ground in front of her, dumbfounded and silent!
This situation made Mrs. Tao squint her eyes and look at He Shuijin under her eyes.
He Shuijin understood and kowtowed again, as if he wanted to say something but didn't have the strength to say it... his body tilted and he fainted!
"Young Madam!!!"
Okay, there was a commotion in the hall, and Mrs. Tao took the opportunity to hold her forehead and pretend to be uncomfortable. Naturally, people from around her gathered around to persuade her to go back to her room to rest. So the people in the Duke's Mansion divided into two groups: either they were like Qiu Yilan, who helped the old lady retreat into the inner room; or they were like He Shi, who was clever for once and yelled at others to carry He Shuijin back to the room to settle down. ...In an instant, the birds and beasts dispersed, leaving Jiang Yawan alone in the hall!
"Go and get the jar of jade dew ointment from my box and deliver it to Shui Jin." As soon as she entered the inner room, Mrs. Tao immediately felt her head was no longer dizzy and her eyesight was no longer dizzy. She also had strength. She waved away the person holding her hand and gave a calm order. Hu’s mother said, “She was kowtowing very hard just now. When I looked at it, her skin seemed to be broken... Don’t leave scars because of this, it would be bad!”
Mother Hu responded, went to pick up the jade dew ointment, and went to the back door to deliver it.
"Grandma, drink some water!" Qiu Yilan could hear the anger beneath Mrs. Tao's calm words - like Shuijin and Jiang Qizheng, they grew up under the lap of the old lady. They had never had any conflicts with the old lady, and they were considerate and filial to the old lady. Mrs. Tao thinks that this granddaughter-in-law is no less important than her unrelated granddaughters.
And how sensible is He Shuijin? It is a natural disaster to shoulder the responsibility today, but there was no complaint or hesitation. The old lady gave a hint, knelt down when asked, kowtowed when asked to kowtow, and asked for forgiveness when asked - this kind of granddaughter-in-law, Qiu Yilan I feel that if it were me, I would definitely feel sorry for her!
Since he was distressed and Shuijin, he naturally didn't have a good impression of Jiang Yawan.
Mrs. Tao took the porcelain bowl handed by Qiu Yilan and took a sip of warm water. She said with a sullen face: "The death of the fifth daughter-in-law is not very right. You heard what I just said outside! Those are all To be honest. Furthermore, Xiaosi and Xiaowu, since they took the two courtesans into the house, their thoughts have been focused on them, and they have the intention of doting on their concubines and destroying their wives. Last time, Xiaowu even gave up his only son for the sake of Penglai Yue! I don’t even care about my heirs! Could it be that..."
The old lady said one word at a time, "Those two things are greedy, they have been indulged in their ambitions by the four and five, and they are still uneasy when they become concubines?!"
What else could a concubine covet, besides the position of a head wife, be? !
"Otherwise, when Xiao Wu came to Beijing, since he knew how to get Xiao Si together and pestered Nineteen to accept their son, it can be seen that he also knows how to deal with the world." Mrs. Tao sneered and said, "How come these two people are even together today?" Not even a step can be taken down by our house?”
Qiu Yilan also found this strange. She had been standing behind the old lady trying to persuade her. Because she didn't cry with her, her vision had been clear. She had seen the whole process of Jiang Yawan's strange expression. She always felt that there seemed to be something going on - and she felt It's not like what the old lady speculated: Jiang Yawan and Penglai Yue worked together to murder the Jin family in order to free up the position of the head wife for Penglai Yue. They were afraid of being seen out, so they deliberately put up an airs to deny it to the Duke's Mansion. Face is a manifestation of a guilty conscience that goes too far.
In that case, shouldn't Jiang Yawan cry more miserably than people like the old lady, or at least have to live and die thinking about Jin's good talent
"Looking at the change in his expression at that time, he seemed to be frightened... However, Jin's body was not there, and he just heard the news of his death. How could he be so scared?!" Qiu Yilan was filled with doubts, "Or was he still frightened by his wife's death? Reminds me of the death of my eldest son?"
Jiang Jingzhan's death is said to be very horrific.
Thinking of Jiang Jingzhan, Qiu Yilan suddenly thought, "Jiang Yawan's eldest son died in Kui County first, which indirectly led to the death of the man in Kui County! He followed him to Beijing with his wife and children, and stayed away That sad place... Unexpectedly, it hasn’t even been a full year, and I don’t even have my wife anymore!”
"He lost his son and his wife, and two things happened to him in succession. Is it just a coincidence?!"
"Could it be that he provoked some people or forces that he shouldn't provoke, so he killed his son first, then his wife, to make him look good?!"
"But who in this world dares to treat the children of the Jiang family like this?!"
She subconsciously looked at Dafang, "Except for the children of the Jiang family!!!"
It's just that we can't do anything without evidence. Qiu Yilan suppressed her suspicion for the time being and listened to the old lady's next explanation: "He is so unyielding, we really can't afford to serve him now! Maybe I have to hide. , let Shui Jin hide for a while! It's a pity that your mother is not in Beijing, and your third aunt and eighth aunt probably can't control the situation... Neither can your seventh sister-in-law! , the funeral arrangements for Xiao Wu’s daughter-in-law have to be your responsibility... Please forgive me and do something for her! After all, you are still the fourth-bedroom daughter-in-law, so it doesn’t matter how much Xiao Wu expresses her anger!
The old lady was angry, and of course she couldn't just hide. "If Xiao Wu refuses to give up with you, don't argue with him yet! If he goes too far, just call him sick or something, let go and let him go." He can take care of his wife’s funeral by himself! I will order a thorough investigation into the death of Xiaowu’s wife, and I will never let this poor child suffer injustice!”
When it is found out that the Jin family was murdered by you and Penglaiyue, the adulterous couple, let’s see how shameless you can be in ordering the death of your wife to fight against our Duke’s palace!
The old lady was furious, but she didn't notice that after the bad news came, almost everyone in the house had arrived. It was inconvenient for her to go out. For example, Huang and Chu Yitong, who had various pregnancy reactions due to pregnancy, also sent The servants made inquiries - only Jiang Yazhao and his wife did not come.
At this moment, the couple was hiding in the room and shivering: "The fifth brother and sister are dead, dead?! Could it be..." Looking at the big room again, "The fifth brother and sister called the nineteenth brother and sister that day, and they just asked about Jingman. …”