Chapter 44 Meet the old enemy

After sending Cui'e away, Qin Yunuan went straight back to the room. Copper and Man'er followed. What was cleaning the room was that when she moved into the yard, the maid who was selected together listened to listen to the lotus. She had beautiful eyebrows and narrow shoulders. She looked pitiful, but she was very quickly and rushed to do everything.

"Oi, listen to you go out. It's almost cleaned here." Qin Yunuan gently ordered to listen to He, with a kind smile on her face, but when she waited for the front foot of the lotus to leave the door, Qin Yunuan's face changed. She waited for Man'er to close the door and asked in a low voice, "Can you find out the origin of this little girl?"

It's not that Qin Yunuan was too cautious, but that Dou Qing'e also sent her to listen to serve her when she sewed the crane to the empress, but then, there were inexplicably two more silver needles in the crane she gave to the empress. Now that I think about it, it is impossible to say that this has nothing to do with listening to the lotus.

"The maidservant inquired about the third girl in private," Man'er lowered her voice and said, "This Tinghe only entered the house this year. I heard that it was a distant niece of Aunt Xiu's next to her. She used to work in the big girl's yard before."

"Sure enough, it has something to do with Dou." Qin Yunuan tightened her eyebrows and sent a Fusheng before, but now there is another listening lotus. I heard that Fusheng was married by Dou Qing'e to a 50-year-old horse dealer in the west of the city within two days after testifying for him last time. This horse dealer is easy to gamble, and he also loves to linger in the wind and moon places. I heard that Fusheng is married. He has been tortured to death in the past half a month.

Dou Qing'e, she really has no need to torture people.

"Three girls, why don't we use the last method to send Tinghe out of the yard?" Tong'er said seriously.

"Isn't that too cheap for her?" Qin Yunuan raised the corners of her mouth slightly. Fusheng had never really harmed herself, so she didn't investigate her too much. However, Qin Yunuan looked at the scriptures on the table and the brocade box containing ink. "She is not Xi. Do you want me to copy the Buddhist scriptures? Then I will copy it well and copy it seriously.

In the middle of the night, the light has been on in Qin Yunuan's room. She is quietly copying scriptures. The Buddhist scriptures can really calm people's mind, making people feel clear, peaceful, and can tolerate all the sins and evils in the world. However, in such a deep house yard, even if she is willing to tolerate others, will others let her go? What?

Qin Yunuan held his breath and calmed down. The stroke was smooth and natural, and he happened to pause, as if he was waiting for what was supposed to be this night.

Suddenly, a sharp female voice came from a distance, as thin as a sharp blade piercing the tranquility of the night.

This scream is sad and sharp.

"Three girls," Liao's mother kowtowed the door from outside the door and anxiously reported, "There is an accident in Furong Hospital."

When Qin Yunuan rushed to Furongyuan with a familiar look, several of Dou Qing'e's confidants, maids and housekeeper Xie were already outside the door. In the middle of the night, although they were a little haggard, they did not dare to relax their vigilance. There were seven or eight maids in the yard who seemed to be searching for something, but God Between the colors, it seems that there is always a little fear, for fear that some ghosts will come out of the shade of the trees.

"Father," Qin Yunuan entered the room and saluted Qin Zhi first. "Yu Nuan heard that something had happened to Furong Courtyard, so she rushed over." As she spoke, she stared at Li Qi, whose clothes were a little messy. Her face was like paper, as if she had just woken up from a nightmare. She gasped and nestled softly in Qin's arms. Her lips were slightly open, but she didn't know what she wanted to say.

"Aunt Li, what's going on? But what's wrong?" Qin Yunuan looked at Li Qi's ankles wrapped in gauze. It was a mess everywhere. The candlesticks and hangers fell to the ground, as if they had just had a fight.

After a while, Dou Qing'e came in with someone, looking pale and slightly disdainful: "Master, I have searched everywhere. There is no woman in white mentioned by Sister Li."

Qin Zhi's face was stiff and didn't say anything for a moment, but Li Qi in his arms finally raised his head and said a whole sentence: "Sir, you believe it. When you change your clothes, you really saw a woman in white floating in front of the window. Her eyes were as silent as if there were countless grievances. On her face, It's all traces of scratching, as well as the lotus embroidered on her skirt, which can be clearly remembered.

Li Qi's words are like the underworld around the beam, stiring the nerves of everyone in the room.

Until Aunt Chang opened her mouth, her eyes were mixed with panic and incredible: "The white embroidered lotus clothes, her face was scratched. Isn't this what Aunt He looked like when she died six years ago? It turns out that this Hibiscus Courtyard..."

With a thug, Qin Zhi put the copper basin on the washing shelf to the ground, and his eyes were extremely cold: "I didn't say that. Don't mention this matter again in the future."

"Yes," Dou Qing'e echoed, "These old things have long been concluded. What else is there to say?"

At this time, outside the yard, she ran into a maid in a panic, holding a heavy copper basin in her hand, which seemed to have several clothes stained with water.

"Sir, sir, this is just fished out of the lotus pond in the yard."

Qin Zhi changed his face as soon as he saw the lotus-like clothes on a white background. Li Qi hid behind Qin Zi in a panic, pointed to the clothes in the copper basin and shouted, "That's it. The woman I just saw is wearing this dress. Her hair is long, and she is wearing this white dress. Master, it's really terrible. "Oh, my lord..." As he spoke, Li Qi's sobbing voice changed from small to louder, as if he had been greatly frightened.

Dou Qing'e looked at the wet clothes in the copper basin in disbelief. It was impossible. She had just sent someone to carefully search the yard and found nothing suspicious. Or, even if there was anything suspicious, she would definitely let Qin Zhi disappear completely before he came.

Qin Yunuan opened her words leisurely, "Yu Nuan was young at that time, but she also heard from people in the house that Aunt He died very strangely. This time, not long after Aunt Li lived in Furong's courtyard, she saw a woman suspected to be Aunt He, whether it was true or not, but now there are a lot about this matter in the house. It's better to find out the rumors, father, so that Aunt Li can feel at ease and comfort Aunt He's spirit in heaven.

"Three girls, you were still young and couldn't blame you for your ignorance, but do you know that the master was heartbroken for the death of his sister He? Didn't you make the master sad several times when you mentioned it again and again?" Dou Qing'e's words are gentle, dignified, and she looks like a mother-in-law.

"My mother misunderstood Yu Nuan," Qin Yu Nuan smiled and said, "It's just that everything has cause and effect in the Buddhist scriptures copied by Yu Nuan today. Now that Aunt He appears, she must have something to ask for or have some grievances. Why don't you understand her mind is also an explanation for Aunt He."

Li Qizhen trembled when she heard the word "appearance" and grabbed Qin's skirt more and more nervously: "Master, I also heard some rumors after my concubine entered the house, saying that when she died, her face was ferocious, her cheeks were black, and her lips were also strangely blue. This is not like she suddenly died of illness, but it was like being poisoned. If this is the case, Sister He must have a great grievance to complain about.

Qin Yunuan stroked her chest and said, "No wonder Yu Nuan can often hear women's sad crying in Fuxiyuan recently. She thought she heard it wrong, if it's really..." Qin Yunuan paused slightly and stopped. The meaning had arrived, so there was no need to say more.

Dou Qing'e looked at Li Qiqi as delicate as a weak willow in Qin's arms, frowned, and her heart was suddenly unhappy. She snorted coldly at Qin Yunuan: "Now that you have grown up, you can say all these words."

Qin Yunzhuang immediately said, "Yes, my sister was only eight or nine years old at that time. What did she know? Today, she shouted in front of her father and annoyed her father in vain."

Qin Linfeng snorted coldly: "What kind of origin is what kind of style you have. I think you did something wrong yourself before you heard those strange sounds in the middle of the night."

Dou Qing'e's mother and son talked to Qin Yunuan repeatedly. Qin Yunuan only waited for them to calm down and gently blessed her body: "What my mother, eldest brother and eldest sister said are reasonable. Yu Nuan is a junior. Naturally, I don't know the situation in those years. All this should be decided by my father."

Everything was kicked back into Qin's arms.

Qin held Li Qi in his arms and looked at Li Qi's face, which was almost the same as Lian Niang, as if he saw more than 20 years ago. He held Lian Niang's hand and made a vow: "Lian Niang, in order to raise enough money for me to go to Beijing for the exam, you don't hesitate to be a cleaning lady in the brothel. He will be able to win the favor of Qin, and will marry you with eight sedan chairs. Enter the door."

The beauty lowered her eyes and said, "If you pass the exam, you will be a senior official. How can you marry a brothel woman like me? I don't ask for a name, but to stay by your side. If you don't pass the exam, you can come back. When I save enough money, let's do some small business."

After that, he really fell in. When he was proud of the East Street, he was looked at by the Dou family. The Dou family has been an official for generations. At that time, the emperor was afraid of the connections of the Dou family in the court and took the opportunity to transfer the Dou family to Hangzhou. However, the Dou family naturally had a way. The Dou family's son was prevented from entering Beijing as an official, so he married the Dou family's daughter to Beijing. The official is the wife.

On the one hand, Qin's quality gained momentum, that is, the whole family of the Qin family shared glory, and on the other hand, he was waiting for his beautiful mother. He promised her the position of wife, but he was in a dilemma.

In the end, Qin Zhi still married Dou Qing'e and rose three levels in a row in just two years, but he still couldn't forget He Lian, so he took the opportunity to take He Lian back to the lieutenant's mansion with a patrol of the southern flood. He just said that he was the daughter of a virtuous family he met on the road. He was about to enter. Come to the house.

He has been trying to hide and protect He Lian, but he still didn't expect that she would suddenly die six years ago, so suddenly and inexplicably. However, at that time, during the turmoil of the dynasty, he was single-minded on political affairs and did not think about He's death. Although he wanted to trace it down. In addition, at that time, Dou Qing'e had been trying to calm down. At that time, he was not full of wings and could not openly stand against the Dou family, but now it is different.