Chapter 255 People in Tao Yao Yard were excited
Madam Luo was elderly. Although she used lifesaving prescription all the year round to keep her body strong, her spirit was aged. At this moment, upon hearing “rebel” and “It’s on fire”, her two eyes twitched together immediately. She asked in a panic, “What’s the matter? Tell me clearly!”
When Ding Rong’s wife saw that the person standing in front of the corridor was Madam Luo, she immediately changed from running to walking with a limp. She called for help while hobbling, “Help! Madam! Third Miss is planning to rebel! I was ordered by Second Mistress to call her back from Tao Yao Yard. However, as soon as I entered Tao Yao Yard, I was beaten savagely and almost killed half of my life! That’s not enough. The people in Tao Yao Yard also rebelled together. They threw out all the people I took to escort Third Miss, and latched the door. Tao Yao Yard is going to rebel, and be independent from Luo’s Mansion!”
Before Madam Luo made any response, a low chuckle sounded from the side. When Madam Luo turned her head to look, she saw Feng Yang was laughing. Besides Feng Yang, the other side of the corridor was also full of people. There were Meng Ying and Ning Yuan, as well as Luo Baiqian, Luo Baiji and Luo Baiying of their own family. All the people who just attended the banquet were all present. Most of them waited to gloat with bright eyes. What they heard might be not only “rebel” and “It’s on fire”, but also the previous complaint of the Second Branch.
Madam Luo clenched her teeth secretly. These juniors of Luo’s Family all could not took a hint. Not only did they not help cover up the family scandal, but they just rushed out to look on one by one. Wouldn’t they hear of watching other people’s family scandal and honoring their own home?
Sun Meiniang gave a cold glance at Feng Yang. She knew that he and He Danggui belonged to the same team, so she couldn’t help but snort. She asked, “Well, Childe Feng thinks it’s ridiculous for something happening in our house?”
However, this “Feng Yang” is not the other “Feng Yang”. For the hatred created by Bai Yangbai’s “Feng Yang” last time, Chang Nuo’s “Feng Yang” was completely unaware of it. He only roughly knew that the Sun Meiniang and He Danggui had a quarrel. Later, he also helped He Danggui deal with the aftermath, setting the poison powder on fire and sprinkling powder that made skin peel on Sun Meiniang and Luo Chuangu, which made them frightened by smallpox and leprosy.
Therefore, Chang Nuo’s “Feng Yang” had no hatred for Sun Meiniang, but a little sorry for her. So, he politely said with a smiled, “Second Mistress Luo, don’t be upset. I definitely don’t mean to gloat. I just think that Sister He is so well-behaved that she probably can’t do what you said. Is there any misunderstanding?” Did women have the innate potential to treat the same sex as natural enemies? Even if there was no misunderstanding, they would create misunderstandings. Sun Meiniang was aimed at Qingyi. Did she envy the latter’s great prospect?
Sun Meiniang twitched her upper lip indignantly, and she also knew that Shao practiced to write Feng Yang’s name. However, Feng Yang helped He Danggui twice, and also introduced a good marriage for He Danggui. How could Sun Meiniang marry her daughter to such a person who helped He Danggui?
Ding Rong’s wife limped over and cried, “Madam, Second Mistress, when I went to Tao Yao Yard, I said it clearly that I was under the order of the Second Mistress to let Third Miss go to Bao Qin Ge. Unexpectedly, I didn’t see Third Miss. Everyone in Tao Yao Yard is so excited, especially He Dangyou. They threw out all of us like sacks one by one and plugged in the latch again. What else could they be if not feeling guilty? In my opinion, the things dug up in Bao Qin Ge must have something to do with the Third Miss!”
This time it was Luo Baiqian who burst in to laughter. He said in an innocent voice, “One of our servants has surpassed the guards and masters of the Yamen, not only having the ability to settle the case, but also arresting the prisoner! It’s amazing!”
Madam Luo knew that the eldest grandson was sick again, while she had to ignore him at the moment. She just called Luo Baiji to take care of his cousin. Then Madam Luo pointed at the two servants, Zhang Huan’s wife and Li Jiuguang’s wife who were waiting not far away, and ordered, “Go and see where there’s the fire. I just heard someone shouting that it is on fire, but later there is no sound anymore…”
After the two agreed and left, another elderly woman servant hurriedly walked over and whispered a few words in Sun Meiniang’s ear. Then Sun Meiniang’s eyes immediately became bright.
Madam Luo didn’t like someone whispering in front of her, so she asked gruffly, “What happened again? Or where do you find something again?” Sun Meiniang’s posture was like that of the lawsuit a few days ago. As soon as she came up, she was aggressive and dominant, making Madam Luo question the authenticity of the dirty things of witchcraft. In addition, even if someone really cursed Second Branch with those stuff, Madam Luo felt that there were also several people who were more motivated than the Chuanxiong and her daughter.
Sun Meiniang said with a self-satisfied smile, “Madam, please keep your eyes open this time. There is a witness to testify against He Danggui. Not only is this witness closely related to He Danggui, but also it is the first time that the witness has come here. Thus, what the person say is absolutely fair.”
“Witness?” Madam Luo asked, and everyone present were curious.
Sun Meiniang curled her lips, as if she smugly stole sweet abalone. Just as she was about to speak the witness’s name, Zhang Huan’s wife and Li Jiuguang’s wife had checked it out. Zhang Huan’s wife breathlessly reported, “Something’s wrong. The black smoke comes from the direction of the ancestral hall. There is a puff of dense smoke!”
Madam Luo widened her eyes in disbelief and exclaimed, “This year is the year of fire. I have said repeatedly at the end of the year that you must be careful with fires during the spring, not to mention the important place of the ancestral hall! Who is responsible for guarding and cleaning the ancestral hall?”
Li Jiuguang’s wife continued to report, “Madam, this time it can’t blame the people who guard the ancestral hall. A maid saw that in the evening, Third Miss covered her face and sneaked into the ancestral hall with a small bag! Now the ancestral hall is on fire. Madam, the fire comes really weirdly!”
Sun Meiniang was exultant when she heard that. What a good day! She managed to frame He Danggui before, but failed again and again. This time when she was just watching the fireworks in her yard, a fluffy object came out of the ground suddenly, which shocked her. When she took a closer look, she found the color of the soil was very new, as if the ground was spaded recently. She stepped forward on the ground, and felt that soil was loose. She questioned it immediately and called for people to dig out. Thus, the three moldy dolls were dug out. The cloth was too old to see the original color, with rusty needles stuck on it. The date of birth and eight characters of a horoscope of Sun Meiniang, her husband and her eldest daughter were attached on it. The handwriting on the note was easy to recognize. It was the handwriting of Luo Chuanxiong.
At first, Sun Meiniang was so irritated, while on a second thought, she laughed. She didn’t expect Luo Chuanxiong was so stupid to curse them with such a useless trick. If dolls could curse people to death, then why did she bother to frame others? It was enough to just make a hundred rag dolls. Luo Chuanxiong sought trouble for herself. Sun Meiniang just took this opportunity to let Luo Chuanxiong and her daughter fall into the pit, so that He Danggui could not marry because of the infamy!
Sun Meiniang rolled her eyes and summoned all the hands of Bao Qin Ge to get a shovel and turn the Bao Qin Ge inside out. She did not intend to dig out more things, but just planned to add more evidence to Luo Chuanxiong’s charge. But after finishing searching, she really dug out a small wooden box with a lot of yellowish amulet paper inside. The amulet paper must be something of a certain age.
Sun Meiniang hated and was also glad. What she hated was that Luo Chuanxiong had dealt with her like this behind her back, while she was quite unconscious of it. She always thought that Luo Chuanxiong was a stupid person before. What she was pleased was that with Luo Chuanxiong’s handwriting and the amulet paper, Madam Luo must believe her. Besides, Luo Chuanxiong had been a believer of Taoism for many years, and she liked to take these things. There was no doubt that she did it. In the future, He Danggui could not be protected by her mother and let Madam Luo look at her with quite different eyes anymore.
But it was not enough to satisfy Sun Meiniang. With such a great opportunity, why not seize it and make the two never get a clean slate? So, Sun Meiniang quietly asked Ding Rong’s wife to prepare the joss paper, human bones, and the innards of chickens and fish found in the kitchen garbage, and buried them everywhere in the yard. Then Sun Meiniang asked people to dig them out.
The joss paper was used for ancestor worship two days later, and the human bones were quietly bought by Sun Meiniang from the black market a few days earlier. She attached great importance to her pregnancy, hoping to give birth to a son in one fell swoop, so that Luo Chuangu would be under her control in the future, and she would get more than eighty percent of the family property of East Yard of Luo’s Mansion. The Third Branch had been separated long time ago. Sooner or later, they would not basically get a penny and go back to their small home in the northeast. Luo Baiqian of First Branch had become half a lunatic. Besides, he was the son of the concubine, and Madam Luo was not his biological mother. Giving some property to them was the kindness of the Second Branch and grace for them.
Sun Meiniang heard from a man that the reason why she always had a stillbirth was that she had an unresolved murder case. The pregnant woman was weak in Yang. In addition, she was entangled in the spirit of one who was wrongly put into death, so she gradually couldn’t keep her baby. After hearing this, Sun Meiniang was puzzled. She didn’t he kill anyone. Where there was a murder case? Later, she thought that she had induced abortion for He Jingxian before she got married. After she got married, she was tricked by He Jingxian to induce abortion of a formed male fetus again. She wondered if the two children, who could have survived, were killed by her and did not know how to reincarnate because of their young age, so they entangled her.
Then, Sun Meiniang found the man, told him about her thought, and asked for a way to dispel the evil spirits of the two dead children. Therefore, the man told her that there always were dead people in the rich mansion. The Yin was heavy, and it was unrealistic to disperse it completely. It was better to find some human bones and buried them around the house. Those babies’ souls would attach to the bones, and they would hardly to attach to her.
So, Sun Meiniang bought the human bones at a high price and tried the method for half a month. It was really effective. The fetus was much more stable than the several times before. If it could keep like this, she would definitely have no problem with giving birth. She made up her mind that no matter whether the child was a son or not, she must make a proper arrangement so that the child was “internally determined” to be a son.
In this way, ready-made human bones were collected in the Sun Meiniang’s Bao Qin Ge. Now they were just used to frame Luo Chuanxiong and her daughter. The joss paper and bloody things such as the innards of chicken and fish were all ominous things. They could also be explained as a curse when being buried in the yard, which could also be used to frame He Danggui. In this way, He Danggui and her mother both had evidence of a crime. They would fall out of favor together and be expelled from the Luo’s Family. How wonderful!
Therefore, Sun Meiniang pulled the drunk Luo Chuangu to complain to Madam Luo. She said a long list of dirty things of witchcraft, including dolls, joss paper, spells, human bones, and corpses. Of course, Luo Chuangu knew that there was something that Sun Meiniang added. But when he dimly saw that his eight characters of a horoscope was attached to the doll with needles, he immediately felt a pricking sensation. Bah! If Luo Chuanxiong stood in front of him, he would definitely fight her desperately! Although Luo Chuangu and Sun Meiniang even didn’t discuss it in advance, they rushed all the way to the Xin Rong Hall and cooperated tacitly in front of Madam Luo.
Incited by Sun Meiniang, a group of people, headed by Madam Luo and three distinguished guests included, all people marched towards the ancestral hall of Luo’s Family. Sun Meiniang was so happy along the way that she almost burst into laughing. Was He Danggui mad because of the smallpox? In addition to set fire on the ancestral hall during the New Year, even the normal worship of burning paper should be done after the tenth day of the first lunar month. Before the tenth day, it was forbidden to make a fire. If someone didn’t follow this rule, there would be a risk of catching fire in his or her house, which was passed by the people of Yangzhou City by word of mouth. But He Danggui sought trouble for herself. How ridiculous!
As soon as they entered the ancestral hall, everyone saw a girl in green clothes, who had been pinned to the ground by two or three strong servants, from a distance. Sun Meiniang scolded, “Tie her up and bring her here!”
Therefore, the girl was tied up and escorted to the crowd. Her head bent, and she was crying.
Without asking Madam Luo, Sun arrogated to give an order complacently once again, “Implement the domestic discipline. Give her thirty slaps on the face first!”
Immediately, a servant woman came up to slap the girl who was beaten to turn her head to the other side. Her cheek was swollen at once with just one slap. But that face immediately made Sun Meiniang freeze her smile. She was distressed to shout, “Qiong, why are you!”
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