Qiao Wei has lived two lifetimes, and has experienced many "I never expected it to be like this", but all of them added up, none of which surprised her as much as the one in front of her. She looked at the other party with burning eyes, her eyes turning The other party looked from head to toe, looked back and forth three or four times, and was sure that he did not admit his mistake, but this is very strange, isn't it? Wasn't this woman punished to guard the mausoleum for the Ji family? Why did you come back suddenly? And it has a big belly.
Look at this belly, it's not been a day or two since she was pregnant. The third uncle visited her several times, but he didn't even notice...
Such a big living person disappeared from Jijialing, why didn't they get any news from Third Uncle
Just as doubts popped up in Qiao Wei's mind one after another, Li Shi beside her was completely shocked by the scene in front of her. Was she dreaming? Or is she dazzled? She actually saw Xun Lan!
Xun Lan was dispatched to Jijialing eight hundred years ago, how could there be a capital city
Look at her clothes, she looks so ordinary that it's almost shabby. Can Xun Lan wear such unappealing clothes after being pampered by Ji's family for so many years
Besides, Xun Lan's child had been aborted long ago, so how could she have a big belly again
But if this person is not Xun Lan, how can this face and the woman next to her who looks exactly like Zhou's mother be explained
Li opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but she couldn't find her own voice for a long time. She tugged at Qiao Wei's sleeve, and Qiao Wei patted her hand. She felt the warmth of Qiao Wei's palm, and she knew that she Not dreaming, not dazzled.
When Qiao Wei and Li Shi looked at Xun Lan, Xun Lan also looked at them, but her eyes only swept lightly on Li Shi's face, and then fell on Qiao Wei's. face.
Qiao Wei looked at her without hesitation, and she also looked at Qiao Wei without hesitation. Both of them looked very calm. It's not surprising that Xun Lan was so calm. She came to the door by herself. Who would she meet? No matter who she is, she already has a score in her heart. Qiao Wei is different. She can maintain an absolute calm face in such a surprised situation. If it is Qiao Wei who has been in for half a year, I am afraid she will not be able to do it.
Zhou's mother opened her purse and poured it down again and again, but only a single copper coin was poured out. Zhou's mother walked up to Mrs. Li with small steps, smiled at Mrs. Li, and said, "Second Madam , we ran out of coils on the road, and we have no money to pay for the car, can you help us pay for it?"
Mrs. Li was so frightened that she lost her mind, and raised her hand to the pomegranate in a daze.
Pomegranate was once pushed into the water by Zhou's mother, and she hated the old woman in her heart. She reluctantly took out a silver ingot and threw it into her hand: "Here!"
Mother Zhou smiled brightly: "Thank you, Second Madam! Thank you, Pomegranate Girl!"
Pomegranate rolled her eyes.
Mother Zhou gave the entire ingot to the coachman, and the coachman accepted it with satisfaction, and helped Mother Zhou take down the luggage of the two of them. No one dared to believe that the former mistress of the Ji family was so down and out that she was even worse than a tramp.
Mother Zhou became haggard a lot, and Xun Lan was so thin that only her stomach was left, which made Li feel sad for a while.
Qiao Wei glanced at Li Shi, this second aunt won't forget the pain after the scar heals, right? He just had a hard time traveling and nothing happened, so he felt so sad.
Mrs. Li also realized what was wrong with her. Didn't she have forgiven Xun Lan, it's just that Xun Lan's appearance is so pitiful that she, as a mother, almost can't stand it.
Qiao Wei smiled lightly, and said flatly: "Oh, isn't this Mrs. Xun? I seem to remember that you went to the fiefdom to guard the tomb, why did you run all the way back to the capital? It was the master who asked you to came back?"
Xun Lan looked at her quietly and didn't speak. Even though she was so poor, she still exuded a fairy air from her bones.
Zhou's mother raised her smile and said: "If you go back to the young lady, the lady...is pregnant, and seeing that she is getting older, she will not be able to ride in a carriage later. Isn't this just before...returning...back?"
As if afraid that Qiao Wei would not understand, she added in a low voice, "It's not good for a child to be born outside, what does the young lady say?"
Qiao Wei sneered and said, "What did I say? It's not my child."
Mother Zhou muttered, "Look at what you said."
Qiao Wei looked at Xun Lan with a half-smile, but said to Li Shi who was beside her: "Second Aunt, I'm afraid you won't be able to see the wedding dress today, right?"
Naturally, I can't see it. Who would be in the mood to look at the wedding dress after such a thing happened? But it's not about getting married tomorrow, and it's the same if you look at another day. The most urgent thing is to find out what happened to Xun Lan. Mrs. Li asked Shiliu to bring the news to Luomeiyuan, and Mama Rong came to see the situation in person. When she saw Xun Lan's swollen belly, she almost fainted.
Rong's mother is still afraid that she is cheating, so please ask Qiao Wei to feel Xun Lan's pulse. Qiao Wei thinks that Rong's mother is unnecessary. After all, she is a doctor. If Xun Lan has a fake belly, she can easily see through it. Xun Lan should not He would be stupid enough to do this, but since Mama Rong wanted to know, then he would take his own pulse.
Qiao Wei got Xun Lan's pulse, there was nothing to doubt, it was Xi pulse.
Mother Rong broke into a cold sweat and brought Xun Lan and Mother Zhou into the mansion.
Qiao Wei walked behind unhurriedly. Li Shi was actually quite anxious, but it was not easy to leave Qiao Wei alone to follow, that would be too unsteady. She looked at the backs of the master and servant, while Frowning and sighing bitterly: "Xiaowei, what do you think is the situation?"
"I'm afraid she has to ask herself that."
"Is the child your father's?"
Qiao Wei raised her eyebrows: "It should be... right..."
Mrs. Li said again: "Tell your third uncle to keep a close eye on her. Why didn't your third uncle come to hear about the loss of these two living people? Aren't you in the Suxin sect at that time? Suxin sect is far away from you The house is so close, what did your third uncle tell you?"
Qiao Wei shook her head: "No."
To be honest, I can't blame the third master for this matter. Just the night before Qiao Wei and Ji Mingxiu left Su Xinzong, the third master found that Xun Lan and Zhou's mother were missing. Someone went to send news to Ji Mingxiu, but at that time, the Suxin Sect had closed the gate, so the third master thought about going to Ji Mingxiu the next day, but Yu's father had a stroke the next day, and he had no choice but to First accompanied Mrs. Yu back to her mother's house, and when he came back from Yu's house, he found out that Ji Mingxiu had been here and that he was no longer in the Suxin sect.
Missing this time, the news of the disappearance of Xun Lan's master and servant was also missed.
If he had known the news earlier, he might have caught him halfway, so why did he send people to the capital
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There is no way to hide things in the mansion. Many servants saw Xun Lan along the way, and the news spread quickly. When the master and servant arrived at Luomei Courtyard, even the second master Ji Sheng came to join in the fun after hearing the news. .
Mrs. Li saw her husband standing at the door like an idiot from a distance, and watched Xun Lan enter the yard dumbfounded, feeling angry, stepped forward and pinched her husband: "You are also bewitched, aren't you?!"
Ji Sheng was wronged, glared at Li Shi, rubbed the arm that was pinched by Li Shi, and said angrily: "I'll just take a look, look at you pinched me!"
Li's yin and yang said strangely: "What are you looking at? Those women in the yard are not enough for you to look at? Do you want me to give you the pomegranate as well so that you can take over the house?"
"You..." Ji Sheng glanced at Qiao Wei who was not far away, afraid of losing face, he scolded in a low voice, "You women are really... unreasonable! I'm too lazy to tell you! I'm going back to sleep!"
Mrs. Li snorted: "Women's excitement, why are men meddling?"
Said, waved to Qiao Wei, Qiao Wei stepped forward, she took Qiao Wei's hand, and entered the yard with Qiao Wei.
In the main room, Mrs. Ji sat on the main seat with a majestic expression. Mother Rong served tea and stood quietly aside. All the servants were sent out. Only Mother Zhou accompanied Xun Lan, kneeling On the hard and cold floor.
Mrs. Ji looked at Xun Lan's belly with a complicated look on her face. When she first heard that Xun Lan was pregnant and came to her door, her first reaction was that Xun Lan hadn't shed her first baby. The reason why she was so suspicious was because Princess Zhaoming had In a similar experience, Princess Zhaoming was injured by thieves back then, and she lost one child, leaving two in her womb. If Xun Lan was also pregnant with more than one, it would not be surprising that she could still come to the house with a big belly.
But if it was left behind at that time, it would be almost time to give birth now, and Xun Lan's stomach is obviously not yet a month old.
Mrs. Ji didn't rush to ask about the fetus, but said solemnly: "Who told you to leave the mausoleum without permission?"
Xun Lan lowered her eyes.
Mother Zhou said anxiously: "Old madam, don't blame madam, madam doesn't want to do this either, there is really no other way... that's why I made such a bad plan!"
"Did I ask you something?" Mrs. Ji's eyes sank!
Mother Zhou hurriedly kowtowed, and said: "Old madam, even if you kill the slave, the slave will say... You know the madam's temperament. She always knocks out her teeth and swallows them in her stomach. She never hurts when she is wronged." Said, being misunderstood and never refuting... This time there is really no way... It happened so suddenly, we originally wanted to ask the third master for help, but we couldn't pass the news... "
Mrs. Ji frowned and said, "Can't we save it? Can't hand it out?"
Zhou's mother said aggrievedly: "This matter... I have to start from last month, when I accompanied my wife to visit the old man's grave, on the way back, a group of robbers came from nowhere and arrested us..."
Mrs. Ji slapped the mountain table with her palm: "Nonsense! Who in Qiuzhou doesn't know whose territory Jijialing belongs to? Which robber would dare to rob Jijialing?"
Zhou's mother kowtowed again and again: "Your maidservant is not lying... If my maidservant tells a lie, I will tell my maidservant to be struck by lightning, and I will die!"
She spoke with confidence, not like she was lying, Madam Ji couldn't help hesitating, could it be that some robbers really had the audacity to go to Jijialing to make trouble
Mother Zhou looked at Mrs. Ji's expression, knowing that she had listened, and hurriedly said: "After we were arrested, the gang didn't say why they arrested us. The slaves told them that we are Ji's family. The Ji family is very rich, as long as they send us back, the Ji family will definitely reward them heavily, but they seem to not believe it, and keep taking us on the road, not knowing where they are going to take us... One night they drank too much The madam and the servants took the opportunity to sneak out... After we slipped out, we dared not go back for fear of running into that group of people again... That's why we pawned all the valuables on us, hired a carriage, and came bumping The capital is here."
Mrs. Ji's brows twisted into the word Chuan. Mama Rong leaned over and whispered a few words in her ear. Mrs. Ji's eyes flickered and she asked, "Why did you hide your pregnancy from the third child?"
Xun Lan said: "I want to be born, but I'm afraid you won't let me have one."
"When did you get pregnant?" Mrs. Ji asked.
Xun Lan said, "Early February."
Isn't that... when the son was in Ji's old house
Mrs. Ji was not feeling well, so she asked Mother Rong to take Xun Lan's master and servant down, and asked Dongmei to call Ji Shangqing over.
Ji Shangqing probably guessed why the old lady called him, and from the moment he entered the door, his expression was a little reserved.
Li Shi and Qiao Wei were sitting in the outer room, Qiao Wei was drinking tea quietly, Li Shi quietly put her ears on the curtain, she heard Mrs. Ji slamming her fist on the table: "Ji Shangqing, please speak clearly! What's going on here? Didn't you go to investigate the theft of Ming Ye's tomb? Why did you get involved with that woman again?"
Mrs. Li winked at Qiao Wei, the old lady got angry!
Qiao Wei smiled faintly, can you not get angry? Xun Lan was kicked out by the old lady. The old lady broke the relationship between the two of them clearly, but the father-in-law still dared to get entangled with Xun Lan. Where did the old lady put her face
Ji Shangqing lowered his head and said, "It's all about the son's fault, let mother punish me."
Mrs. Ji pointed at him, her fingers trembling, and said, "Ji Shangqing, don't think that you just plead guilty and it's over! Let me tell you! This matter is endless! I won't let her enter Ji's house! I won't let her come here to harm you again!"
Ji Shangqing said: "Mother, she didn't poison me, it was all a misunderstanding."
Mrs. Ji dropped her glass: "You still believe her?!"
It is true that Xun Lan did not poison Ji Shangqing, it was done by the underworld. In order to drive away Lao Tzu's woman, his own son poisoned Lao Tzu, and "caused" the little beauty to have a miscarriage. Guilt
The guilt this time prompted him to visit Xun Lan on the way to the fief, and seeing Xun Lan's miserable life made him feel even more unbearable...
Oh, man, man!
Mrs. Ji said coldly: "You went to the fief to check the news, but you didn't come back after Chinese New Year. I thought you were really looking for the news!"
Ji Shangqing said: "I am indeed looking for news..."
Mrs. Ji interrupted him: "I mean, you found her on the bed! Why do you have such a short memory? What's so good about her? You can't forget her like that?"
"No, my son really didn't..." Ji Shangqing didn't know how to explain, "At that time, my son..."
"How was it then?" Mrs. Ji asked in a deep voice.
Ji Shangqing's expression was tangled, as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say it: "It's okay not to say it! It's all my son's fault, mother, don't be angry, your body will be ruined by anger..."
Mrs. Ji said furiously: "You still know that I will be angry? You are really afraid that I will be angry, so don't do things that make me angry!"
Ji Shangqing was embarrassed.
"What are you going to do?" Mrs. Ji asked.
Ji Shangqing said without hesitation: "I listen to mother."
Ji Shangqing dared to say a word to keep Xun Lan, Mrs. Ji might have someone drive Xun Lan out immediately, but his attitude is so obedient, it makes it difficult for Mrs. Ji to trample Xun Lan to death. The old lady said: "Don't say that I am unreasonable as a mother. I will not agree with this woman to marry into Ji's family again, even if I am your concubine! But she is pregnant with your flesh and blood. Let her give birth to the child at Ji's house, and send it back to Ji's house after it is born, and you will never want to see her again in your life!"
Ji Shangqing lowered his head: "Yes... my son knows."
Seeing his obedient and obedient appearance, Mrs. Ji calmed down a little, and said calmly: "You step back, I will clean up a yard for her alone, you are not allowed to visit her, do you hear me?"
Ji Shangqing said: "My son heard it."
Mrs. Ji waved her hands, Ji Shangqing cupped her hands, bowed in a proper manner, turned around and opened the curtain to go out.
Mrs. Li hurriedly sat back in her seat, grabbed a handful of melon seed shells that Qiao Wei had smashed, stuffed them into her mouth indiscriminately, stuffed them in, and spit them out again with a pooh!
Ji Shangqing glanced at the two of them.
Qiao Wei got up and saluted.
Li Shi was embarrassed.
Ji Shangqing didn't say anything, and went out with a gloomy expression.
Xun Lan was finally kept. Mrs. Ji was afraid that she would go to seduce her son again, so she specially found her a yard far away from Tongyuan, which was not too far from Qinglianju.
Xiuqin supported Fu Xueyan for a walk outside, when she raised her eyes, she saw a group of people carrying salutes towards the yard, Xiuqin asked: "Is anyone moving in again?"
Fu Xueyan said softly: "I don't know."