In the evening, dinner was served in each room, especially the four rooms.
Aunt Qin sat on Ji Shuang's right, and Qin Jiao on Ji Shuang's left. Ji Shuang gave Qin Jiao a slice of roast goose, and said kindly, "Master Zheng used to be the royal chef of the palace, because your eldest brother likes to eat his cooking." For dishes, I asked Master Zheng, the emperor’s general, to come. Master Zheng’s specialty is roast goose. Refreshing, try it."
Qin Jiao lowered her eyes and took a sip.
"How is it?" Ji Shuang asked with a smile.
Qin Jiao nodded.
Ji Shuang turned her beautiful eyes and looked at Aunt Qin: "My sister talks less."
Aunt Qin said: "She has such a temperament, don't take it to heart."
Ji Shuang smiled and said, "Why? It's better to talk less than to talk less. I can't bear to twitter like Wan Yu all day long."
Aunt Qin smiled.
Ji Shuang began to pick up vegetables for him: "These days are dry, eat more radishes, I remember you have a bad stomach, don't be greedy for alcohol outside, and eat less meat, I didn't ask anyone to make fish and shrimp spicy..."
Aunt Qin held Ji Shuang's hand and smiled slightly: "Don't always worry about me, you can eat by yourself. I'm not in the house these two days, you have worked hard with Xiao Wu."
Ji Shuang poured another bowl of ginseng chicken soup for him: "Why is my son working so hard? Besides, you didn't go away for several days or just one night. I can handle it, but tonight you have to accompany Xiao Wu well."
Aunt Qin paused, then said with a smile, "I know."
Ji Shuang approached him and whispered ambiguously, "Stay with me too."
Qin Jiao ate in silence, as if she didn't notice the ambiguity between the husband and wife.
Aunt Qin glanced at Qin Jiao, with a look of embarrassment, and whispered: "Your sister is still here, be careful."
Ji Shuang touched Aunt Qin's leg with her hand on the table, and said in a low voice, "She's not a little girl anymore, what don't you understand?"
Aunt Qin smiled, and picked up a piece of bamboo shoot for Ji Shuang: "Eat first."
Qin Jiao finished the rice in the bowl with a few gulps, put down her chopsticks, and lowered her eyes and said, "I'm full, I'll go back to the room first."
Ji Shuang looked at her with a smile: "Eat this much? Are you not full?"
"I'm full, thank you... sister-in-law." Qin Jiao stood up and bowed.
Ji Shuang smiled and said: "My family, don't be so polite. I don't think you eat much. If you get hungry later, I will ask Taozhi to make you some supper."
"Yes." Qin Jiao bowed her head in response, turned around and left the room.
"Sanggong, is she really your sister?" Ji Shuang asked strangely.
Aunt Qin stopped drinking the soup and said, "Why do you ask such a question?"
Ji Shuang said sullenly: "Why do I feel that she is not close to you at all?"
Aunt Qin smiled and said: "Brother Liu and Mingxiu are not close either? She is Yaomei. I have been in the capital for several years when she was born, and I haven't seen her a few times in total, and I haven't said much to her. , she should not get close to me."
Ji Shuang complained, "She doesn't get close to you, yet you treat her so well."
Aunt Qin said softly: "We are a family after all, don't worry, I will only treat you better as much as I treat her well."
Ji Shuang snorted, "Be nice to me and leave me all night?"
Aunt Qin put down his chopsticks, held her hand and said, "Good Shuang'er, you just bypassed me, don't mention this again, when I thought of leaving you and my son alone in the mansion last night, my son cried all night , My heart hurts like a needle prick."
Ji Shuang groaned: "Okay, I won't say anything, I'm just complaining, I don't blame you, I know you are good to me and the child, and you won't do anything sorry for us, but... I After all, it's a woman who just gave birth to a baby, fat and ugly, and if you don't touch me for so many days, I will naturally be paranoid."
Aunt Qin said softly: "Then I will make it up to you tonight."
The corners of Ji Shuang's lips curled up, and she snickered for a while, and soon her face sank again, and she asked lightly, "How can I make up for it?"
Aunt Qin leaned close to her ear and whispered something in a low voice, Ji Shuang blushed, and punched him a few times with her fist: "Not serious!"
Aunt Qin looked at her deeply and said, "I can't be serious when I see you."
Which woman does not like such love words? Ji Shuang's heart was sweetened, and after a while, she pretended to be cold and said: "Then what if you see other women?"
Aunt Qin asked back: "Are there still few women in our house? When have you seen me and glanced at them?"
This is true. Ji Shuang has been married to her husband-in-law for so long, and she has never seen him set his eyes on other women. It's not pretending, but he really despises those women. What mistakes did you make? It was probably the time between Mid-Autumn Festival and Xun Lan: "Oh, you haven't seen it, but you hugged it! You still hug it so tightly that you can't even pull it apart!"
Aunt Qin sighed: "Shuang'er! I drank too much! I thought I was hugging you."
Ji Shuang rolled her eyes and said, "You can't even tell her from me?"
Uncle Qin said wrongly: "I really drank too much, I thought it was you when I was holding a toilet behind me! I almost kissed you when I woke up..."
"You..." Ji Shuang raised her fist, wanting to hit him twice, but remembering the scene he said, she couldn't help laughing again.
Aunt Qin hugged her into his arms, Ji Shuang's eyes moved, and she sat on his lap.
He smiled helplessly: "Shuang'er, I won't be able to eat well if I continue like this."
Ji Shuang wrapped his arms around his neck and looked at him ambiguously: "Then don't eat."
"Shuang'er..."
crunch—
The door was pushed open.
Qin Jiao walked in, and happened to see Ji Shuang sitting in Guye Qin's arms actively inviting pets, her eyes trembled, she quickly lowered her head, pulled the door and backed out!
Aunt Qin looked at the handkerchief on the table, helped Ji Shuang up, and said, "Her handkerchief is left here, I will send it to her."
Ji Shuang was out of breath.
…
The sky was dark and the ink clouds rolled.
Ji Shangqing stood alone at the door of the princess mansion with a jug of wine, looked at the majestic plaque, and pushed open the heavy and rich door.
Mother Gu was sweeping in the porch. When she heard the noise, she came over with a broom. She was not surprised to see Ji Shangqing, because it was thirty years ago that Ji Shangqing met the princess. Since then, the disaster of the princess' life began.
Mother Gu often wondered, if the princess had married the finger pulp as the object of marriage, would the ending be different
Will she give birth to her child safely, and she will be a husband and mother for the rest of her life, without having to part with her youngest son, and without having to say goodbye to her eldest son and daughter.
Gu's mother glanced at him indifferently, and said calmly: "The son-in-law is here."
Ji Shangqing said firmly, "I'll come and see Zhaoming."
Mother Gu turned sideways to make way.
Ji Shangqing stepped up the steps, slipped his shoes, walked up in white footwear, stepped on the clean and clean floor, even the sound of the wind seemed to become quiet, and he slowly entered the room.
The room retains the appearance of Zhaoming when he was alive, and even the half-written brushes she left on the inkstone have not been replaced. The beautiful Qi Luoxiang makes people feel that she is still living in the house, as if as long as I turn around, I can see her sitting on the bed again...
Ji Shangqing knelt down on the mat, poured two glasses of wine, drank them all in one gulp, filled them up, drank them up again, and repeated this until the jug bottomed out and no more wine could be poured out before he got up , staggered out of the princess mansion.
He even forgot to put on his shoes, and stepped on the ground with one foot deep and one shallow foot, top-heavy, and his vision became blurred.
He vaguely remembered the way back to Tongyuan, and walked staggeringly. Suddenly, a figure bumped into him from the side. The figure didn't see him, and he didn't see the other party. The two collided without warning. , fell to the ground without warning.
Ji Shangqing got up drunk, and reached out to grab the guy who was dragged down by him, but when he looked closely, he was suddenly a little dumbfounded.
He shook his head and rubbed his eyes again: "Zhaoming?"
The other party didn't speak, just stood up, saluted him, then turned and left.
He grabbed the other party's wrist: "Zhaoming... Is Zhaoming you? Are you back?"
The opponent struggles.
He hugged him tightly: "You are back, Zhaoming! I knew you would come back... You are reluctant to go away like this... Zhaoming... Mingye is still alive...he is still alive...he is not dead...I will take you to see him …”
The opponent tried his best to break away from his hand, and he stepped forward to catch up, his center of gravity became unstable, and he fell to the ground.
The man picked up a stone and threw it at his head!
A bloody hole was smashed into Ji Shangqing's head on the spot.
"who?"
Nearby guards heard the movement.
"Zhaoming, Zhaoming! Zhaoming..." Ji Shangqing grabbed the opponent's leg.
The opponent raised his other leg and kicked him hard on the head!
Ji Shangqing was kicked unconscious, the man scrambled to his feet and flew away from the spot.
Behind him came the anxious voice of the guard: "Master! Master, are you okay? Master! Master! Master..."
…
In Qinglianju, Qiao Wei is braiding Zhu'er's hair. Zhu'er was rejected, and her little heart was hurt by 10,000 points. Qiao Wei tied dozens of little red flowers for her. , but when she saw nearly half of her total area of monkey hair falling off the ground, she wished she could die again!
Qiao Wei put down the comb, and was about to go to the next room to see if the two children were asleep, but suddenly, Bi'er entered the room: "Madam, it's not good, the master is injured! Please go and have a look!"
Is this father-in-law guilty of Tai Sui? Why is he being injured all day long
Qiao Wei picked up the medicine box and went to Tongyuan.
It was a guard named Dong Erhai who discovered Ji Shangqing. When he found Ji Shangqing, he was already unconscious and covered in blood. He tore off his clothes and gave Ji Shangqing a simple bandage before carrying Ji Shangqing back to Tongyuan.
Thanks to his bandaging, Ji Shangqing would not lose too much blood.
Qiao Wei opened the medicine box, took out the medicine and needles and threads, cleaned the wound and gave Ji Shangqing a simple suture treatment.
After finishing all this, he applied gold sore medicine, wrapped gauze, and prescribed a prescription to stop bleeding and reduce inflammation, and asked people to go to the pharmacy to get the medicine.
While waiting for the medicine, Qiao Wei called Dong Erhai: "How did the master get injured? Tell me what you saw at the time from beginning to end."
Dong Erhai said truthfully: "As Young Madam said, Master must have been injured. At that time, I was patrolling nearby and heard Master's voice. I felt that something was wrong, so I rushed over there. When I got there, Master Already injured and fell down, there was a bloody stone next to it, the blood was still hot at the time, I think the murderer might have injured the master with that stone. By the way, the master was holding a shoe in his hand !"
Qiao Wei said seriously: "Bring it up and let me have a look."
Dong Erhai brought the shoes and stones from outside the house.
The blood on the stone has just dried up, and it can be seen that it has not been left for a long time. It should be the murder weapon. As for this shoe, it is clearly a woman's!
The murderer was a woman
Qiao Wei frowned strangely: "Did you hear what the master was saying to the other party?"
Dong Erhai said: "I only heard the voice of the master, but didn't hear the person speaking. The master seemed to be calling a name...but I could hear it too clearly."
Qiao Wei looked at the lavender embroidered shoes in her hand, and said, "Go search the house and ask who has seen this shoe, if you can't find it, let everyone try it on, and call everyone who can wear it to Tong Tong." Come to the courtyard!"
"yes!"
Qiao Wei ordered: "Bi'er, you go too."
"Yes, ma'am!"
…
In the North Mansion, Young Master Qin came out of Qin Jiao's house, crossed the threshold, and bumped into Qin Jiao who was rushing over. Qin Jiao's hair was disheveled, her breathing was disordered, and her eyes were flustered.
Aunt Qin looked at her: "Where did you go just now? I couldn't find you for a long time. "
Qin Jiao tremblingly said: "I... I..."
Aunt Qin looked down: "Why is one of your shoes missing?"
Qin Jiao grabbed the skirt and covered her feet.
Boom boom boom!
Someone knocked on the courtyard door.
Aunt Qin and Qin Jiao followed the prestige and looked over.
Tao Zhi came out with a basin of fifth young master's bath water: "Who is it?"
"Sister Taozhi, it's me, Bi'er, I'm here to ask some questions on the orders of the Young Madam."
Tao Zhi put the copper plate on the ground, walked over and opened the door, and said with a smile, "Sister Bi'er, what's the matter so late?"
Bi'er said: "Master was injured just now, the assassin is the owner of this embroidered shoe, Sister Taozhi, have you seen this shoe?"