Sun Meiniang wanted to set off fireworks as she was gloating over He Danggui’ embarrassment. Suddenly, she shouted to the servants, “Come on! Tie up this siren!” The servants around her gathered immediately, and one of them was holding the rope that had just been untied from Luo Baiqiong.
Luo Baiji rushed forward to protect He Danggui, and yelled at the crowd in exasperation, “The one who hurts her will be killed!” Seeing that the servants were frightened and stopped temporarily, he turned around and said to He Danggui, “Get out of here, Third Sister. Leave Luo’s Mansion and go to find your mother! I’ll send someone to escort you, and I’m here to stop the pursuing forces!” As he spoke, he showed his weapon—a pair of silver chopsticks. He said to the servants, “Come on, you all have signed an indenture with Luo’s Family. It stated that there is no blame for life or death. Are you ready to die?”
He Danggui knew that his habitual weapon was a pair of Emei Thor
Seeing Sun Meiniang’s look of surprise, the others didn’t understand what had happened, so they also came to look at it.Previously, Sun Meiniang ordered people to take out a pile of joss paper used to worship ancestors as a proof to frame He Danggui. She also asked maids to cut a gap of the joss paper, which meant to leak wealth and yang, and the top stack was printed with cinnabar “Luo’s Mansion Ancestor Worship”, which was the superb joss paper made for Luo’s Mansion by joss paper shop. Sun Meiniang threw the two above into the trash basket and hurried out to direct the treasure digging action.He Danggui on the roof caught the opportunity. While no one was there as maids were looking for paper to wrap the joss paper, she put the joss paper with the word written on it back into the pile of joss paper.Therefore, Madam Luo, Luo Baiying, Luo Baiji, Meng Ying and others who were looking closer now all saw a piece of paper printed with red lette
The scene became embarrassing for a while. Although it didn’t matter what to do with an insignificant foster granddaughter and Madam Luo could sell her if the price was reasonable, Luo’s Family was a scholarly family, and now everyone was in Luo’s Family’s ancestral hall. How could the population transaction be conducted? Madam Luo secretly blamed Ning Yuan for speaking regardless of the occasion, and guessed that he might be disappointed with her granddaughter’s conduct, so that he treated them in this way. Madam Luo was in a dilemma. She didn’t know whether to make this deal or make another appointment to discuss the matter.Maybe it was because that Ning Yuan wore a mask that covered his face, he was so shameless. He said, “I haven’t seen Miss He for three years. She has grown into a big girl. I can see her beauty through a veil. I come here this time unaccompanied by my wife and concubines. I feel lonely during these days. If Madam Luo is not satisfied with selling
Feng Yang grabbed Ning Yuan’s collar and pulled him into the forest behind the ancestral hall. Then he shook off Ning Yuan’s collar and asked in a deep voice, “Are you crazy or I’m crazy? How could you say that? You love her, don’t you?”Ning Yuan slowly smoothed the wrinkles of his collar. Then he chuckled, and looked up at Feng Yang, “That girl is so capable that she gets your support. I just teased her. Why are you angry? Chang Nuo, won’t you like her either?”Feng Yang waved his fan to make himself sober. He took a deep breath and asked, “You teased her? You asked to buy her as your concubine in front of the Luo’s Family, and then asked her to stay with you for the night. You even offered such a high price. Are you sure that this is a trivial joke? What if the Luo’s Family agrees to you for profit? You said that she is your beloved person and you must marry her. Or Am I wrong about your thoughts? And what I have done for three years is not helping?”
This abnormal celestial phenomenon shocked everyone, and Madam Luo could not care about Luo Baiqiong. She left her on the ground and ran up to ask He Danggui in a panic, “Yi, what’s the matter? How is the sky clearing up? Is this celestial phenomenon good or bad?”Although Sun Meiniang was frightened, she reminded Madam Luo, “How does she know? She is only a young girl. Fortune-teller Li is waiting in the outer courtyard, let’s ask him to make a divination!”Luo Baiying looked at the bright white sky outside. Although it was no different from daylight, it was more dazzling than the normal daytime sun. She expressed a more sensible thought, “Look at the sky. The sun suddenly brightened is not only in Luo’s Mansion, but the whole Yangzhou City. We don’t have to panic. This strange astronomical phenomenon will definitely attract the astronomy master of the Imperial Court to Yangzhou City and give an official statement. As for the sunny doll in front of the cor
Everyone had different expressions when they heard what He Danggui said. He Danggui continued, “There is a saying, ‘I didn’t kill someone, but he died because of me. There is no greater crime than this.’ Mr. Bao from the academy taught me it.” She also regarded Li Jiuguang’s wife, who was wailing on the ground, as a dead person. She further argued, “Even the magistrate who settles the case in court would ask the coroner to examine the corpse and see if the suspect is capable of committing the crime, in addition to the motive. Madam Luo and Second Uncle are both clever doctors. Why not step forward to see if Aunt Li’s eyes were scratched by external forces? Maybe she was in poor health and blinded her eyes.”Madam Luo then went forward and looked at Li Jiuguang’s wife for a while, and saw that her eyes had no black eyeballs. She looked as if she was rolling her eyes. The blood and tears flowed from the corners of her eyes. Madam Luo grabbed her wrist to feel her pulse, a
“Dead mice?” Madam Luo was pop-eyed with surprise, “Yi, did you put dead mice in the ancestral grave?”He Danggui did not deny it, but corrected it, “It was not me who did it. I asked Xiaoyou to put them. They were not placed in the ancestral grave, but hung in the grove behind the ancestral grave. And most importantly, they were not dead mice, but dead minks, specifically, golden minks.”“You...” Madam Luo was so angry that she couldn’t speak. She finally complained, “What’s the difference?”He Danggui patiently explained to her, “A dead mouse is worth 0.5 wen, while a dead golden mink is worth over 1.4 liang silver. This is the difference. There are twelve small golden minks in total, and they are worth one month of my monthly allowance.”Ling Miaoyi didn’t expect that before she provided more evidence, He Danggui admitted her guilty forthrightly. Therefore, she kept silent for a while, watching what Luo’s Family would do with He
The door was locked with a snap, and a vermilion wooden door separated the two. Hearing Luo Baiji leaving, He Danggui took the food box and went to the second floor. She knew that there was no bed in the Depositary of Buddhist Texts, so she planned to find a futon, sitting in meditation and relaxing until dawn. The foreign Zhenqi in her channel had not yet been refined into her own. She was not very good at this, and could only absorb one or two drops of the essence into her Dantian a day. Her efforts seemed puny.She had to admit that, as a man-made master, she was so different from a real master, and there was a huge gap between her and her enemy Zhu Quan. To avenge herself on the man was so difficult that she wouldn’t be successful without perseverance.On the second floor, there was a person sitting quietly in the ottoman in the corner. He Danggui had expected that he might come to meet her privately, but when she saw him at first sight, she felt a litt
Chang Nuo was surprised, “Do you miss He Fu’s mother? Was she kind to you back then?”He Danggui smiled, “Since they were not nice to their neighbors, how could they be nice to me? I’m just her young stepdaughter. But Zhoushi, after hearing what you said, I really want to see her face to face. If when I drink tea in the Yi Hong Brothel and look downstairs, I can see her running around for a living, I will be really delighted.”Chang Nuo thought for a while, “It’s not difficult. I will ask someone to give money to the servants taking charge of the shackles, and ask them to take the four people to Yangzhou City. In this way, you can have a good look at them.”“Thank you.” He Danggui smiled at the shadow on the other side of the screen.Chang Nuo added, “Just look at them from a distance. They are attacked by the epidemic disease, and their whole bodies are covered with red rashes. It’s terrifying. The outbreak of the epidemic was in