Chapter 244: The Scapegoat
The rabbit was successfully poisoned, and this was only the beginning of the process, and the imperial doctor mixed the antidote tea with a curtain of dreams, and Erfu drank a small sip of wine, and the originally shiny silver bowl turned into a black and faint color, and the soup in the bowl also bubbled white as if it were boiling.
"Fourth master, according to the old minister, this is the reason why the master of Guerjia suddenly fainted!" the imperial doctor held the bubbling small bowl in his hand and said loudly.
Song had long expected that this drama would not be able to hide the old bones of the Tai Hospital, but at this moment, looking at the bubbling small bowl, there was still a trace of panic in his eyes, and he grabbed the armrests on both sides of the Taishi chair tightly with one hand, for fear of revealing some flaws.
It's just that what kind of character is the fourth master, those eyes are completely comparable to X-rays, even if the Song family is very successful in disguise, but the starry loopholes still haven't hidden the eyes of the fourth master.
"Master remembers that this wine cup has been touched by the Guerjia clan, and only Song Shu Fujin has touched it.
What is your explanation for this?" The fourth master glanced at the Song clan as if inadvertently, turned the jade wrench on his thumb, and asked softly.
The fourth master's cold eyes blew into Song's bones like the cold north wind of the nine cold days, so that Song finally understood what it meant to shudder.
Song only felt that the green tendons in the corners of his forehead were beating more and more frequently, and he knelt on the floor with a pop, trembling and unable to say a word, but his eyes were full of grievances, which made people feel pity at first sight.
Although this style had been rehearsed countless times in Song's heart, she still couldn't help but panic when this thing came to an end. Forgot all the lines that had been prepared, and slightly hooked the cuffs with his fingers.
"Song, you don't say a word like this. But have you confessed?" the fourth master moved to the side of the Song family, who was kneeling and pretending to be pitiful, like an iceberg, and asked condescendingly.
Just when Song thought she was going to be coldly killed, there was a sudden movement behind her, and she saw Mulan, who had been standing behind her, fall to the ground, with a smile on the corner of her mouth, which was clearly poisoned by a curtain of dreams.
"What's going on?" the fourth master noticed the joy flashing in Song's eyes and asked sharply.
The imperial doctor did not wait for the fourth master's order. quickly stepped forward and grabbed Mulan's vein, and in just a moment, he returned to the fourth master.
"Master Qiqi. The slave and maid have something to report!" After the wooden phone received Song's eyes, he knelt down in front of the fourth master and kowtowed again and again.
"Say!" The fourth master flicked his sleeves, stepped back to the top position and sat down. A pair of eyes looked at Song coldly. Without glancing at the xylophone that was trying to save the sense of zài, he hummed lightly and raised his hand.
Muqin hurriedly wiped the tears that were deliberately squeezed out of the corners of his eyes, and kowtowed: "Qi Qi master, master, the slave and maid have something to report, a few days ago, the slave and the maid saw Mulan and Miyun in the courtyard of Li Fang Fujin meeting in private, but the slave and maid thought that they were fellow villagers and it was not a big deal, so they did not report it to the master and the master." Now I don't want this Mulan to be so bold. ”
"Oh?" the fourth master raised his eyebrows slightly, looking quite interested. Let the xylophone continue.
Xylophone was a little undecided for a while, and peeked at Song, who was still kneeling and pretending to be pitiful, and then said:
"A few days ago, the slave maid suddenly found that Mulan had an extra exquisite brocade box, and she originally thought that it was rewarded by the master, but she didn't think much about it.
When I went out today, I saw her secretly take out a sapphire ring from it and mix it in the master's makeup box, and then I realized that something was wrong.
The slave maid wanted to sue the master immediately, but Mulan said that the thing was secretly mortgaged outside when she had an accident in her family before, and these days the second sister in her family got married, and gave her the money in the dowry, and she redeemed it, so that the slave and maid should never sue the master, otherwise her life would not be saved.
Mulan and the slave maid have been in the house for many years, and the affection is extraordinary, and the slave and maid naturally can't bear to let her lose her life because of these things, so she hid it for her.
Originally, the slave maid thought that this matter was nothing, but listening to the imperial doctor's meaning, Guerjia side Fujin suddenly fainted because he drank wine mixed with dirty things, and the slave and maid could only tell the truth. ”
"Now Mulan's life and death are unknown, what you said has confirmed the charge of betraying the Lord for her!" the fourth master smiled coldly and said softly.
"The slave doesn't dare to talk nonsense, please ask the fourth master to be clear!"
Xylophone's forehead was already bruised, and her face was full of guilt, which seemed to add a lot of credibility to her words, but this qiē seemed more contrived in the eyes of the fourth master.
He didn't know about the close contact between the Song family and someone in the Eighth Master's Mansion these days, but he was just thinking that the Song family had given birth to children for him, although he didn't keep it, but he still wanted to give her dignity and let her live this life in peace.
Now it seems that he, a man who is decisive in doing things outside, is not as ruthless as this Song family.
It's just that the Song family asked Muqin to say such a thing, and he couldn't pretend that he didn't hear it, and softly ordered Su Peisheng to investigate.
After some investigation, Su Peisheng returned to the lakeside with a sad face.
The fourth master knew that he was afraid that this matter had been escaped by the Song family, so he calmly listened to Su Peisheng go through the things he had just discovered, and asked people to present the same kind of evidence that he didn't know how credible it was, and brought Mulan who woke up after treatment.
Mulan, who had just woken up, knelt beside Song with a hint of confusion in her eyes, and couldn't help but glance at the master Li behind her, and after receiving Li's cruel eyes, her confession began like ashes.
She is just a girl from an ordinary clothed family, and she has been destined to enter the palace to serve since she was born, but fortunately, her family has some power in the Internal Affairs Office, and her family can't bear to let her, a somewhat stupid girl, go to the palace where she eats people and doesn't spit out bones, so she used some hands and feet, stuffed her into the elder brother's office, and sent her to the Song family, who had just become the fourth master of Gege, to serve.
Song is a scheming person, but he has no luck, although he was the first to enter the elder brother's service, but he did not become a celebrity around the fourth master. On the contrary, it was the Li family, who entered the elder brother's office, who directly kicked the Song family into an inconspicuous corner and became a celebrity next to the fourth master.
The high-spirited Song family was unwilling. But as a servant of others, she didn't think so.
Although the master who can't think of the master is not as beautiful as the favored concubine, he is also safe, so that she, a slave who is determined to stay up until the age of twenty-five and get married, is naturally more reliable to follow the Song family.
It's just her idea, not Song's idea.
Since the opening of the fourth master's mansion, the Song family has followed the Wulanala clan to make a grid in the Fu Jin room. I hope to appear more by the side of the fourth master and get the favor of the fourth master, but I don't want to become a servant of people. Her status as a subordinate in the main courtyard can be imagined.
Dirty work, tiring work, and hard work are all piled up on her, and all kinds of sour words have become commonplace. If you happen to bump into the maid next to Chang Fujin, you will not be happy. She also transforms into a punching bag, often with injuries.
When she Mulan was at home, it was also a treasure in the hands of Ama and Eniang, otherwise she would not have gone to great lengths to arrange her to serve in the relatively simple brother office, and the long-suppressed life made her hate the Song family in her heart.
In her opinion, all her misfortunes were brought about by the Song family, if it were not for the Song family's ambition. If it weren't for the Song family's self-deprecation to do the work of serving people, she would definitely not end up like this.
Hit that time onwards. She had been planning how to let the Song family die, so that she would be sent back to the Internal Affairs Mansion, waiting to be assigned to the noble mansion again, so that her family could take her out.
A few years have passed, as a subordinate of the subordinates, she has no chance to leave the mansion at all, even if she wants to find an idea at home, it is absolutely impossible, she can only endure alone.
The Song family took advantage of the pregnancy and left the courtyard of Chang Fujin, she thought that her hard days were finally over, even if she couldn't become the big palace maid with face next to the Song family, but she could always have the dignity of a first-class maid, but the Song family disappointed her again, she told the xylophone to do whatever she did.
She, a first-class palace maid, seemed to have become an ornament, and even the other maids in the courtyard laughed at her behind her back.
By chance, she accidentally found that Mama Yun in the laundry room had the secret medicine left over from the previous dynasty, and found that Mama Yun was already a little stupid, so she cleverly persuaded Mama Yun to help and put those life-threatening things in the laundry pool.
originally thought that the fourth master was not in the mansion, and Chang Fujin ignored family affairs because of his physical problems, and just ended up with all the people in the mansion who had bullied her, but he didn't want to be beautiful, so her calculations came to naught.
Mama Yun became a scapegoat, and she stopped, after all, seeing that those charming and moving masters had become yellow-faced women, the evil breath in her heart came out, but she didn't want the Song family to beat her in front of Niu Hulu Gege, so that the evil fire in her heart came out again.
Taking advantage of this birthday of Guerjia side Fujin, she put the ring dyed with a curtain of dreams and hair-inducing powder on Song's hand, thinking that Song would die of poison on the spot and make the fourth master angry with Song's family.
It's just that people miss hands and horses stumble, and the Song family not only has no signs of poisoning, but even the Guerjia side Fujin who is the birthday star, and even she herself was stained with the poison when she was not paying attention, and suddenly she couldn't hold it and collapsed.
The fourth master glanced at the Li family and the Song family who bowed their heads and pretended to be obedient with special interest, and sneered in their hearts, but their faces did not move, and said in a deep voice: "Since you have confessed it, then the master will not talk much nonsense."
Whether it is your previous murder of the royal blood and royal ladies, or the crime of wanting to poison the Song family today, you will be unable to escape the crime.
But this is a good day for Guerjia to be blessed on the side, and the lord doesn't want to get blood on such a day.
Su Peisheng locked Mulan in the firewood room of Xiaositang in the northwest corner and sent it to the Internal Affairs Office tomorrow. ”
After speaking, the fourth master sighed as if he had put down a stone in his heart, waved his hand to make everyone retreat, detained all those children, regardless of their size, to the front yard, got up and went upstairs to accompany Erfu.
Looking at Erfu's innocent sleeping face like a child, the fourth master couldn't help but be a little distracted.
Throughout the ages, everyone has selfishness.
Even in the eyes of the fourth master, the people in this mansion are much better than those hard-working people outside who work hard for three meals a day, but they have never been satisfied for a day.
Today's incident, the fourth master understands very well that it was the Song family's doing, but he suffers from no evidence, or he doesn't dare to investigate other people too deeply, so he can only end up like this, which is unfair to Erfu.
But as Erf had said, he had to be patient with her, and he didn't want to......
As a last resort, the fourth master doesn't want to be a person who disregards human life.
It's just that now, I'm afraid that both the Li family and the Song family will be sick and killed.
Thinking that the woman who had shared the bed and slept with him had made such a big mistake, he felt that his eyes might as well not be, why didn't he find out that these women had such great ambitions!
Whether it is the Iger who was disposed of before, or the four golden flowers and the immature Wang Gege, or the Wulanala clan who is already the mother of a house, their hands are not innocent, they seem to have two faces, one is as gentle as water, and the other is as ruthless as a poisonous scorpion.
Only Erf is different.
She didn't like those women, and she said it so that he could understand it clearly.
Stuffed in her yard all day long, she can be those people who don't exist, but she never thinks of getting rid of those women.
If the other women are a poisonous snake with a sweet face and a bitter heart, then she is a turtle shrunk in her shell, as if if she closes her eyes, those people and things will not exist.
Such a woman, if he doesn't protect her, she will definitely not be able to survive in this mansion.
"Master, what's wrong with you?" Erph looked at the fourth master in front of him with sleepy eyes, who was smiling more ugly than crying, sat up a little uneasily, and asked softly.
"It's okay, it's just that I've disappointed you again!" The fourth master didn't want to deceive Erfu, even he didn't want her to show such a heartbroken expression again.
Erfu hooked his lips and smiled, nodding slightly, "I read such a sentence in the book, 'people are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves', presumably this sentence also applies to the master, in fact, I just vented, the master doesn't have to worry too much, I will be more careful in the future!"
The fourth master stared at Erfu's clear eyes, looked at it for a moment, and then affirmed that what Erfu said was true, and took Erfu's thin body in distress and made up his mind.
Since Erfu entered the mansion, the fourth master felt that she was too thin, so thin that it seemed that her hands and feet would be broken when touched, and he wanted to raise her fatter, but he found that she gave birth to a pair of children in a row, and she should have been more plump, but she was thinner than before.
Erfu sensitively sensed the fragility from the fourth master, patted the fourth master's back with his backhand, and took a deep breath.
She didn't want all those women to disappear, but she knew it couldn't be.
The concept of a man's three wives and four concubines has been passed down to this day, and there is always some reason, if the fourth master now says that he will send other women away, then she will definitely be demonized by Kangxi Ye and Concubine De Niangniang, and will be eliminated immediately.
It's better to die than to live, she hasn't lived enough...... (To be continued......)
PS: PS: Not good at planning people's hearts, and the heart is very weak.