A group of ferocious bandits moved a small bench and sat around a group of aunts and aunts. It was definitely a very scary thing, and what was even more terrifying was that they were chatting.
"Auntie, why isn't your iron basin working well? It leaked as soon as it was filled with water. I have carried it from down to up the mountain for nothing!"
"Ma'am, your sesame cakes have too little sugar, so they're not sweet!"
"Sister-in-law, you have bought a fake product. Only the first half of the incense on your grave is good, and the second half is full of sand, so it won't light at all!"
A certain aunt: "..."
A certain aunt: "..."
A certain sister-in-law: "..."
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"It's getting late, I should go." Qiao Wei looked at the sun-drenched sky and got up to say goodbye.
Qiniang sent Qiao Wei out of the villa, and said with a gentle smile, "Madam, go, I will take care of the workshop."
Qiao Wei looked at the half-closed door again, and said, "Xiao Wei's family will entrust you. After all, they are in business. Let them work hard, and the workshop will not treat them badly."
Qiniang smiled and said, "Madam, don't worry, they will definitely do a good job."
The bandits who will do a good job are being chased by a group of aunts, aunts and sister-in-laws copying the soles of their shoes. They ran from the east to the west, and then from the west to the east. They escaped an opponent and came again. The next opponent, the opponents not only emerge in endlessly, but also have quite deep skills, pinch, twist, pull, pull, pull! Slap, hit, push, shov, kick! Coupled with the roar of the east lion, shaking his arms three times, it is simply a new mudslide in the bandit world.
On the first day of work, I spent it in dire straits.
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When Qiao Wei returned to Ji's house, it was just after dinner time, thinking about eating something to fill her stomach, but she saw that Yan'er and Chan'er each brought out a tray from the small kitchen, and there were exquisite and delicious dishes on the tray. Usually, the dishes for a family of five are more abundant.
"What day is it today?" Qiao Wei asked.
Yan'er and Chan'er saw Qiao Wei, bowed their knees and saluted: "Young Madam."
Yan'er said happily: "Missy is back, she is talking to Master Second in the back room!"
Qiao Wei asked Bi'er to carry her things back to the upper room, and then she walked to the master's room. Qiao Wei was not surprised that Ji Wan came to the door. Hearing the news about his younger brother, he originally wanted to wait until the younger brother was coaxed well, and then bring him to visit Ji Wan, but with Ji Wan's temperament, she couldn't wait for that day at all.
Ji Wan was conceived in early October, more than six months ago, wearing a high-waisted apricot-colored skirt and a jade-white double-breasted gown. She used to like to dress up the most, but now she only wears a simple snail bun. There is a peacock gold hairpin on the hairpin, which looks simple and elegant, but it does not lose its temperament.
She has not changed much, and it is almost impossible to tell that she is pregnant from behind, but if you go around her and look at the maternal tenderness emanating from her brows, you can easily guess that this is a mother.
When Qiao Wei saw Ji Wan in the past, she felt that she was too ostentatiously beautiful, but today, she found that her temperament gradually overlapped with that of Princess Zhaoming in the portrait.
I don't know if this temperament is too touching, Ji Wan took the hand of the leader, but the leader didn't shake it away. You must know that this guy hates others to touch him the most.
It was rare for him to be so obedient, Qiao Wei paused at the door, hesitated, and decided not to go in and disturb the siblings.
Qiao Wei closed the door quietly, Yan'er came over, Qiao Wei gestured for silence, Yan'er covered her mouth, looked inside, and retreated knowingly.
When the food was hot twice, Ji Wan came out of the teacher's room, saw the light in the upper room was on, pushed the door and walked in.
"Sister Wan." Qiao Wei greeted.
"He's asleep." Ji Wan smiled.
Qiao Wei moved the stool, asked Ji Wan to sit down, then handed over the chopsticks, and said, "Then I'll make him some supper when he wakes up."
Ji Wan praised Qiao Wei once in a rare way: "It's hard work for you as a sister-in-law."
Qiao Wei said politely: "It should." As she said that, she filled a bowl of chicken soup, scooped off the oil on it, and handed it to Ji Wan.
Ji Wan has already passed the sick month, and her appetite is no different from that of a normal person. She took a sip of the chicken soup and found that it tastes good, better than the one in the Duke's Mansion: "I have wanted to come here a long time ago, your brother-in-law's mother is alive and well." Let me go out, and today she went to a relative's house to rush through the door, so I caught a loophole."
It turned out to be sneaking out, this sister is not so courageous!
Qiao Wei said: "Later, Mrs. Guo Gongfu will go back and find that you have sneaked out of the house, what should I do?"
Ji Wan touched her protruding belly, and said nonchalantly, "I won't lose a piece of meat after being scolded a few times."
Qiao Wei scooped a spoonful of steamed eggs for her, and said, "You and your brother-in-law have been married for ten years and finally waited for this child. Mrs. Guo is very careful and caring, I'm afraid she won't let you go easily."
Ji Wan ate the steamed eggs in the bowl, and said: "Don't worry, no matter how angry she is, she will only dare to talk to your brother-in-law, she won't really make trouble with me, she is afraid that I will get pregnant."
Qiao Wei rubbed her belly and said, "It's really a gold medal for avoiding death."
After dinner, the sky was completely dark. Ji Wan wanted to wait until she saw Ji Mingxiu and Jing Yun Wangshu before leaving, but she couldn't wait, so she had to leave first.
Qiao Wei sent her off.
On the way, Ji Wan asked many questions about her younger brother, and Qiao Wei answered them one by one, including Wumingdao's true identity, without deliberately concealing it.
Ji Wan sighed unceasingly, not knowing whether to be thankful or distressed, of course it is good to be alive, but living such a difficult life inevitably makes people feel distressed.
Seeing her tired face, Qiao Wei looked at the pavilion in the garden and said, "Do you want to rest for a while?"
Ji Wan nodded, and sat down in the pavilion with Qiao Wei, recalling her younger brother's experience, she sighed faintly: "So, it was a blessing in disguise for him to be kidnapped by that drunkard to Nameless Island?"
This question really caught Qiao Wei's attention. The leader's experience after being abducted was definitely not a pleasant experience. He was beaten by his adoptive father, bullied by his peers, starved and cold for three days, and he grew up through bumps. Miracle. But if he is not abducted, he may have no worries about food and clothing, but he will become the executioner of the other party against the Ji family.
So which one is easier, Qiao Wei can't tell.
"Is that drunkard dead?" Ji Wan suddenly lowered her face, if she is not dead, she will kill him! Kill him a hundred times! How dare you bully her younger brother like this, I'm getting impatient! And the young couple who bought her younger brother when they had no children, and lost her younger brother when they had children, it's best not to let her find them, otherwise, she will strangle them to death!
Qiao Wei patted her hand: "Don't get too excited, she's pregnant."
Ji Wan took a deep breath.
Qiao Wei said: "The drunkard died a long time ago, and the young couple also died of illness."
That's about it! Ji Wan breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "The proprietress of the tavern you mentioned, I should thank her."
Qiao Wei smiled lightly and said, "Mingxiu has already thanked her."
Ji Wan looked at the crescent moon in the sky, and sighed, "If only my mother was still alive, she will be very happy to see my brother come back."
"The princess's spirit in the sky will also know." Qiao Wei said in relief.
Ji Wan nodded.
Qiao Wei hesitated for a moment and asked: "Sister Wan, Mingxiu suspects that Ming Ye's 'death' was caused by a fake death drug, and the murderer was someone who had the opportunity to come into contact with Ming Ye at that time. Do you have any doubts in your heart? ?”
Ji Wan shook her head: "I can't think of it."
Qiao Wei touched her chin: "Were there many people who could contact Mingye at that time?"
Ji Wan said: "Not a lot. Even though my mother hadn't officially married into the Ji family at that time, she was pregnant with the flesh and blood of the Ji family. After she lost her first child, her grandmother took her into the Ji family to recuperate. In addition to the masters of the Ji family, the maids, my mother's maid, the mother in charge, and three wet nurses, there are twenty or thirty people who were born here."
Qiao Wei's attention was quickly attracted by another matter: "Did the princess live in Ji's house so early? I always thought that the princess moved back to Ji's house when Mingxiu was five or six years old."
Ji Wan sighed in a low voice: "I only found out later that my mother lived in Ji's house for a period of time when she was pregnant."
Qiao Wei said puzzledly: "Since you have already moved in, why not continue to live? Could it be that the princess even gave birth to a son, and the grandfather and grandmother still disagree with this marriage?"
Ji Wan said with a complicated expression: "Grandfather actually let go that time, and he will officially move into the Ji family's genealogy as soon as my mother gives birth to a child, but something happened to Ming Ye later, and my mother was too sad and moved out of the family tree." The Ji family, the marriage with my father has also been delayed again and again."
Qiao Wei frowned: "How did I hear that the grandfather has always disagreed with this marriage, and the emperor did not agree with it, so the princess and her father have been delayed for so many years?"
Ji Wan hummed lightly: "Of course the emperor disagrees. My mother actually had a marriage with her fingertips as a marriage. Although the marriage was canceled later, the good-looking child in her belly was not born. Only one died, and another died before the full moon. The first emperor loved his daughter, and my cousin loved my aunt, so he didn't want my mother to marry into the Ji family. As for my grandfather, he was not willing to marry the royal family. But both sides No matter how unhappy the parents are, mother and father are still together?"
Mentioning this, Ji Wan sighed unceasingly. Her marriage with Lin Shuyan was not smooth at the beginning, but perhaps she inherited her mother's stubbornness in her bones, and after overcoming all difficulties, she still married into the Lin family.
Qiao Wei nodded with an epiphany: "You just said that grandfather let go when the princess was pregnant. Since he let go at that time, why did he wait another five years before taking you back?"
Ji Wan said: "It seems that my mother had a falling out with my grandfather after Ming Ye's accident."
Qiao Wei said: "So maybe the princess moved out of Ji's house not because she was overly sad, but because she had a falling out with her grandfather?"
Ji Wan thoughtfully said, "Maybe there are two reasons."
Qiao Wei felt that the latter was more likely.
Qiao Wei rested her elbows on the stone table, resting her cheeks and said, "Why did the princess have a falling out with her grandfather? Grandpa is the elder, is the princess the kind of person who has no respect for her elders?"
Ji Wan shook her head: "My mother is very filial, she never puts airs on others, she never considers herself a princess in the mansion, just like ordinary women, those who should be filial to mother-in-law and those who should be kind to sisters-in-law are all ungrateful." vague."
A trace of confusion flashed across Qiao Wei's eyes: "Princess, who is so good-tempered, can fall out with grandfather. Presumably it's something that forced the princess to make trouble... Could it be related to Ming Ye's death?"
"What do you want to say?" Ji Wan looked at Qiao Wei, she felt that there was something in Qiao Wei's words.
Qiao Wei had nothing to say to Ji Wan, so she said: "I want to say, isn't the murderer someone from the mansion? Could the princess guess who he is, but there is no evidence, and I am afraid that the man will continue to harm Ming Xiu or you, so you deliberately fell out with your grandfather and moved out of Ji's house?"
Ji Wan frowned: "Even if things are really as you guessed, but my mother is a princess, does she need evidence to suspect a person? It's not a matter of saying who she wants to kill? Besides, my father had a very good relationship with her at the time. If she really suspected anyone, why did she even hide it from my father?"
This is also where Qiao Wei was confused: "Maybe it's someone... even my father can't doubt it?"
"Who could it be? Xun Lan? Impossible, she was just born at the time..." Ji Wan murmured, a flash of light suddenly flashed in her mind, "Xiaowei."
"What's the matter, Sister Wan?" Qiao Wei looked at her.
Ji Wan pressed her temples, tried hard to remember something, and said, "I remembered something, I'm not sure if it's true, or I just imagined it myself."
Qiao Wei glanced at her and said, "What's the matter?"
Ji Wan recalled with difficulty: "I can always see myself standing in a big room, which is white, and there is a coffin in front of me, and I say, 'My brother is crying', and the person says to me , 'You heard me wrong, my brother didn't cry'."
Qiao Wei's eyes paused: "Who is that person?"
Ji Wan shook her head: "I can't remember."
Qiao Wei pinched her fingers and looked at her steadily: "Did you really hear the crying?"
Ji Wan said in embarrassment: "I don't remember, I only remember this conversation. I looked at the coffin and said that my brother was crying, but the person said that my brother was not crying. I don't know whether he was crying or not."
"You were only three years old then." Qiao Wei said.
Ji Wan sighed: "Yeah, I'm only three years old, how could I remember what happened when I was three years old? So I'm not sure if this really happened, or I just imagined it in my head."
Qiao Wei said slowly: "You never knew that Ming Ye was still alive, how could you think of such a scene? It must have happened. Think about it carefully, what does the person who told you that your brother didn't cry look like that?" Like? That person is most likely the one who gave Ming Ye the fake death drug."
Ji Wan patted her head, and said distressedly: "I only remember one shadow."
Qiao Wei held back her eagerness and asked, "Is it a man or a woman?"
Ji Wan said: "I don't remember."
Qiao Wei asked again: "Where's the voice? Is it a man's or a woman's?"
Ji Wan shook her head: "That voice... seems to be from a man, and it seems to be from a woman, I forgot."
"Is it indisputable?" Qiao Wei asked.
Ji Wan frowned: "No, I don't know how to describe it, but it's not that kind of male or female voice. It's just that when I think about it now, I really can't remember anything."
Qiao Wei patted her hand: "I understand. You were still young and insensitive to gender and voice. At that time, you didn't judge men and women. After too long, your memory became more and more blurred. If you want to extract it all at once It's very difficult, don't worry, just think about it slowly when you get back, maybe you'll remember it someday."
Ji Wan stared and said, "I hope I can remember."
Qiao Wei held Ji Wan's hand: "Sister Wan, I know why the princess must leave Ji's house. You are the only witness who has had direct contact with the murderer. If you talk nonsense, you may be silenced by the murderer. So the princess moved out of Ji's house forcefully before everything was irreversible."
"Mother!"
Not far away, there was the voice of watching Shu Xiaobaozi, and the two exchanged a look in tacit understanding, ended the conversation, and put on a gentle smile.
Wang Shu ran over with two bird cages in his hands: "Mother, mother, look! The bird I bought!"
Ji Shangqing is a good bird (fourth tone). There are more than a dozen thrushes and parrots hanging in Tongyuan. Today I must take the children to the flower and bird market.
Qiao Wei looked at the thrush in the cage, smiled, and said, "Who picked it? It's so beautiful."
Wang Shu grinned and said: "I picked it! I picked the fattest and biggest two! The taste must be great! Let's braise it tonight!"
The bird in the cage is almost scared to death!
It's fun for people to pick birds, but it's delicious for you to pick birds!
Qiao Wei didn't know whether to laugh or cry, took the birdcage, and said to Wang Shu: "Auntie is here, call Auntie quickly."
"Auntie!" Wang Shu rushed over!
Qiao Wei grabbed her back by the collar and lifted her up, her little arms and legs fluttered in the air: "What are you doing, mother? Let me down!"
Qiao Wei said seriously: "Your aunt has a baby in her belly, talk to aunt properly, don't rush."
Wang Shu fluttered his small arms: "Okay, okay, I'll take it lightly!"
Qiao Wei put Wang Shu down, and Wang Shu really walked in front of Ji Wan gently, took care of her little hands obediently, put her back behind her back, called aunt sweetly, then moved closer to Ji Wan's stomach, He smiled and yelled loudly, "Brother!"
My brother is scared to pee!
Soon, Jing Yun and Brother Liu also came running out of breath. They both had a birdcage in their hands. In fact, they wanted to buy two, but the cages were too heavy to lift!