Chapter 191 An improper relationship between Sun Meiniang and the servant
“Last words? What are the last words?!” A large group of people asked in unison.
At this time, He Danggui stopped lying on the ground and pretending to be dying. She kicked off the quilt and sat back on the small bench with her stone lock. Her long eyelashes flapped, and her cherry-red lips curved. She thought, “What kind of tricks is Bai Yangbai playing? Isn’t he afraid of backfiring? Ho-ho.”
In the nervous and expectant eyes of everyone, Pan Jingyang hesitated for a while and then looked at the writing materials (brush, ink stick, paper and inkstone) on the corner cabinet. He said, “The last words... I’ll write them down. Please wait a moment.” Walking to the corner cabinet, he picked up a brush and moistened it. Then he wrote down 2 lines with cursive style and then handed it to the nearest Zhang Huan’s wife. He said with a spurious smile, “It’s probably a random note written by a crazy biddy. It shouldn’t be true.”
Zhang Huan’s wife was recognizing those words while saying clearly, “The servant Wu Jiu bragged when he was drunk that he had slept with Second Mistress Luo? He also said that there is a big red flower on Second Mistress Luo’s inner thigh!” Zhang Huan’s wife was shocked after reading it. She threw this paper away and thought, “My oh my! What did I say just now? I said that Second Mistress Luo had an affair with Wu Jiu! I’ll die! Second Mistress Luo will take revenge on me and kill me definitely!”
The main hall was so quiet that there was no sound of breathing, as if the wind stopped blowing here as well.
In the main hall, half of people looked at Second Mistress Luo’s face, and the other half looked at her legs, as if they wanted to use their eyes to make a hole on her skirt to see if there was a “big red flower” inside. This time, even He Danggui, who had been accustomed to Bai Yangbai’s behaviors for many years, also couldn’t adapt. Qianjun, you were so cute.
After hearing the last words of Biddy Wen, the 2 people who responded the most were of course Sun Meiniang and Luo Chuangu. Luo Chuangu looked at Sun Meiniang, as if there were horns growing on her head and flowers blooming on her face suddenly. Sun Meiniang glared at the piece of paper on the ground, as if she was looking at the heartless He Jingxian who had ruined her life.
The red poppy on her leg was tattooed by He Jingxian before she married into Luo’s Family. At that time, she passed out and woke up in pain several times. After her leg was tattooed it, her leg was so painful that she couldn’t walk. When she could walk again, she went to the inn to find He Jingxian. However, he left the inn early. When she saw He Jingxian again, it was the time when he went to Luo’s Mansion to marry Luo Chuanxiong. He rode on a horse in the middle of the avenue, and she stood beside the avenue. When his horse passed by her, his bright eyes saw her clearly. But he looked like a blind man with a poker face. He rode on the white horse superciliously, and gradually left away.
Later, she married Luo Chuangu with this red poppy. She worried about what Luo Chuangu would think, so she tried her best to find out a secret potion that could temporarily conceal the tattoo. In order to buy that expensive potion, she was arrested for stealing the gold hairpin of the legitimate daughter of Sun’s Mansion. She was ridiculed and despised by her whole family. Now, there were people who used this poppy as the evidence and wronged her for adultery!
Seeing Second Mistress Luo who stared blankly, Luo Chuangu couldn’t help keeping his grievance and anger that had accumulated in his heart for many years. This woman didn’t blood after the wedding night. Besides, when she was pregnant with his son, she secretly took medicine and aborted their child. In addition, she was suspected of murdering his dear concubine. Now, she was exposed to have an affair with the servant! Well, what a talented woman Sun Meiniang! What a virtuous wife in Luo’s Family! If the tattoo on her inner thigh was not seen by one’s own eyes, how could anyone tell it? Not long after getting married, she suddenly got a flower tattoo on her inner thigh, which showed that she was not a well-behaved woman. He used to be blind in the past. He should think that she was virtuous!
Well, well, well. What a shameless adulteress! Luo Chuangu threw himself down on Sun Meiniang. He rode on her to press her heart and clutched her neck. He just thought, “Strangle her! Strangle her! Strangle her...”
Sun Meiniang felt that it was difficult to breathe. Looking at the man’s grim fat face, she suddenly remembered He Jingxian’s handsome face and his bewitching smile on the opposite bank at Feast of Qushui Liushang many years ago. The 2 faces formed a strong contrast. She disgusted Luo Chuangu’s face, while she pursued but failed to get He Jingxian, who made her toss and turn. Because Luo Chuangu pressed her heart, her eyes dulled, and she lost consciousness.
Luo Chuangu was still like a demon. He only thought, “Strangle her! Strangle her! Strangle her...”
Everyone stared blankly for a moment, and then they belatedly realized that Second Mistress Luo really got a big red flower tattooed on her leg, otherwise Second Lord would not be so excited. Madam Luo came to her sense firstly. She tremblingly pointed at the crowd and shouted, “Pull Second Lord away! Hurry up!” The crowd rushed forward. Several strong servants took turns but couldn’t pull Second Lord who had very little strength in ordinary days.
Now, Luo Chuangu was like a heavy stone statue. He firmly pressed down on Second Mistress Luo. Ding Rong’s wife weakly rushed to rescue Second Mistress Luo, but her chest was elbowed against by Luo Chuangu. She shouted, “Ouch!” Then she became unconscious.
Madam Luo was shaking with anger. What was all this about? A literacy Luo’s Family with dignified medical scholar unexpectedly had a farce that there was abortifacient in the antiabortifacient. But it seemed that the farce was not messy enough. Now, there was another scandal about the wife in charge of the family having an affair with the servant. Seeing her son was likely to strangle Sun Meiniang, Madam Luo was too anxious. Regardless of this issue–whether Sun Meiniang’s affair was true or not, they had no right to kill the daughter of Sun’s Family. Sun Yanbin, Second Mistress Luo’s young brother, was a fair-haired guy in the Eastern Palace, and everyone tended to butter him up. Who dared to kill his sister Sun Meiniang, who had always been close to him!
Seeing Madam Luo hurriedly scratched the table, Pan Jingyang, who was standing outside the crowd, squeezed in and stunned Luo Chuangu on his back neck with a hand.
At this moment, Luo Chuangu and Sun Meiniang were both unconscious. Luo Chuangu lie on his stomach, while Sun Meiniang rolled her eyes, and there was a bruise on her fair neck. A group of servants and maids talked about the most surprising secret in disorder that happened just now. All the new things heard in the past 10 years were not as amazing as this one.
The last time they were so excited was when Luo Chuanxiong was sent back to Luo’s Family from He’s Family in the capital. It was said that He Jingxian took a dirty beggar into Luo Chuanxiong’s room, and the beggar wanted to do something bad with her. Therefore, Luo Chuanxiong could not stay in He’s Family anymore. She fled to Yangzhou City with her daughter overnight. At that time, Lord Luo Duzhong and First Madam Luo were alive. Lord Luo Duzhong was so angry that he rolled his eyes and fainted when he heard it. And First Madam Luo was so annoyed that she wanted to fall the infant Third Miss to death. Luo Chuanxiong cried and shouted. She seized her daughter back and fled into the garden. Therefore, First Madam Luo chased after them with a feather duster. The whole family was like a mess, which was even more chaotic than the scene that officials confiscated and robbers ransacked!
They working in Luo’s Family really had “the benefits”. It could glut people’s eyes and ears from time to time! Ha-ha!
Seeing some servants were gloating, Madam Luo pounded the square table with anger and sternly shouted, “Get all out of me! Get out of here!” So, a group of servants and maids gingerly left one by one.
Madam Luo was disturbed by this matter. The talented lady Sun Meiniang, whom she carefully selected for her beloved son more than 10 years ago, should be a shameless adulteress.
Originally, the daughter of the concubine of Sun’s Family could not be Luo Chuangu’s wife. At that time, Madam Luo spent a lot of time to persuade her husband to allow the marriage. But when they went to Sun’s Mansion to propose a marriage, Sun Meiniang refused. It took a long time for the engagement.
Could it be said that the marriage was wrong, and this daughter-in-law was also wrong? Could it be said that her own assertion had harmed her son’s life? It made him fail to be successful and even made him not have a son when he was 38 years old.
Before Madam Luo got mad, there were nearly 30 people in the main hall. But now, only Shi Liu left here, who was carefully patting Madam Luo’s chest.
That group of servants loved to gossip. And they were specially found by Sun Meiniang. Sun Meiniang wanted them to spread the whole process of interrogating He Danggui. If the matter of Concubine Hua couldn’t deliver vital blows to fling He Danggui down, Sun Meiniang would let these servants talk gossip about He Danggui, which could ruin her reputation and made her be groveling whether in Luo’s Family or her husband’s family! He Jingxian’s daughter deserved to be treated like this!
However, now that He Danggui had not been convicted, while Sun Meiniang was strangled to faint by her husband first. And the reason was the flower tattoo on Sun Meiniang’s inner thigh was seen by a servant! When could a servant see her legs? Tomorrow, Luo’s Mansion would consume 2 jin of tea more than usual definitely, because everyone would talk about this topic until they were thirsty.
But Wu Jiu, who was hundreds of miles away, didn’t know about it. Just because he went back to the countryside and visited his relatives, he was firstly referred to as Run Xiang’s “adulterer” by Ding Rong’s wife. His leg was broken, and he was expelled from Luo’s Mansion. Then he was arranged by Bai Yangbai. Now he had been Second Mistress Luo’s “adulterer”.
After everyone left, Pan Jingyang asked Madam Luo, “Madam, are you okay? Sorry, I don’t know these ‘last words’ are so serious, otherwise I won’t write them out.”
Madam Luo waved her hand weakly and thought, “Now that it happened, there is no need to call to account. Alas, just found a way to solve the current plight first.” Looking at her son, daughter-in-law, and Ding Rong’s wife lying on the ground not far away, Madam Luo felt that she suddenly became older. Why did things turn out like this? Everything was fine in this morning. When she used breakfast, Yi came to pay respects to her and stayed with her lovely for a long time. They talked about what gifts would give to everyone this year...
Everything was fine. Suddenly, Concubine Hua almost had an abortion; the murderer was identified as Yi, who was well-behaved; Yi wore a stone lock with bleeding all over and was dying; her son and her daughter-in-law fought! What was wrong with Luo’s Family? Luo Duzhong, what were you doing in heaven? Why didn’t you come to bless your children and grandchildren!
Suddenly, a tender and warm voice sounded at the door not far away, “Don’t be sad, Madam. Second Uncle was only angry at that time, so he had abnormal behaviors. Now he is under 40 years old, and it’s in his prime of life. Why don’t you worry him about having no heirs in the future? As for Second Aunt, I have no right to comment. Second Uncle is also a real man. He is submissive to Second Aunt, not because he is afraid of her, but Second Uncle has the virtue of liberality, which ordinary people don’t possess. If one day, Second Uncle can’t bear it any more, he will have his decision. Luo’s Family is a good family protected by the heaven. We have accumulated more than 10 generations of good fortune. How can something unfortunate happen?”
These words were as soft as a breeze, which made Madam Luo feel a little bit comfortable. But Madam Luo still shook her head and said, “But, it was me who insisted the marriage between Chuangu and Sun Meiniang on that year. If Sun Meiniang is really a shameless hussy with bad behaviors, will I have face to see my son, and even see his father when I die?”
He Danggui smiled and explained, “Cats hide their claws. You are not an immortal, Madam. How can you predict things more than 10 years later? Besides, we can’t just rely on a sentence written by a lowly woman of Luo’s Mansion before her death, and put such a big crime on Second Aunt. Maybe, everything is just a misunderstanding. We haven’t heard my Second Aunt’s opinion. How can we draw a conclusion on this? If it is a wrong case, doesn’t it fail my Second Aunt’s painstaking management and dedication in Luo’s Family more than 10 years? Madam, please think carefully.”
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