Make a long-term worker as an old attack

As if a basin of cold water was poured in during the twelfth lunar month of winter, Xue Tian's whole body became cold all of a sudden.It was clearly the season of unbearable heat, but a layer of goose bumps appeared on her body.

"Zhaoqing... Auntie treats you very well, why... how..." Xue Tian raised her right hand tremblingly, pointing her slender index finger directly at Xue Zhaoqing's face.There was no trace of sadness in the tearful winking eyes, and the deeply hidden eyes were full of panic and resentment.

"Brother! What nonsense are you talking about?! How could mother harm father!" At this moment, Xue Zhaowen, who was in the middle of the ancestral hall, seemed to react suddenly, and exclaimed. It was a ball, just like a freshly kneaded bun.

"It seems that Zhaowen, you don't know how our father fell ill!" Xue Zhaoqing said coldly, but he didn't take another look at Xue Zhaowen, his pair of phoenix eyes still stared at Xue Tianshi, he had already expected Xue Zhaowen should not have known about the murder of his father. One is that this weak brother still has feelings for his father, and more importantly, if his unbearably weak temperament really participated in the murder of his father, he would be so scared that he would be too scared to talk in his sleep. I can tell.

"Mother, mother! Is what he said true?!" Xue Zhaowen rushed over, pulling his mother's sleeve and hurriedly asked, Xue Tian pushed Xue Zhaowen away, although he hated her own son who could not be supported by mud The wall, but the face is full of rage that has been wronged.

"You spitting blood! You say I murdered the master, what evidence do you have!"

"Since Auntie wants evidence, then I will give evidence to Auntie." After Xue Zhaoqing finished speaking, he turned to look at Niu Geng, who immediately sent a ledger and a letter.

"These two in my hand are evidence. This account book is the evidence that you and Tian Degui went to Jiang Langzhong to buy medicinal materials before father fell ill. During those days, you bought a large number of medicinal materials according to Jiang Langzhong's instructions. Ginseng, velvet antler, fish oil, tiger penis and other medicinal materials that nourish yang and nourish the body, I try to make it for my father to drink every day. When others see it, they think you are nourishing my father's body, but if you continue to eat like this for a long time, father However, the more angry his body is, the more anger he gets, and he can get angry at things that are not worth getting angry at first. Uncle Fu, in those days, was my father like this?"

"Back to the young master, indeed, the old slave has followed the master for so long, and has never seen the master's mood fluctuate like this. The old slave thought it was caused by missing the young master, but I didn't expect that there is a secret hidden in it."

"You!" Xue Tian yelled angrily, and continued: "What's wrong with me repairing the body of the master, I am a woman, how can I have the opportunity to learn these medical skills and pharmacology? Even if it is a little too much for the master Now, who can prove that the master's illness is directly related to my giving him tonic?!"

"Don't worry, Auntie, Zhaoqing still has this." Xue Zhaoqing smiled slightly, and took the letter from Niu Geng's hand: "Auntie first read the words on it to see if they are familiar."

Xue Tian took a closer look, and immediately got hairs on her back. She recognized the font, it was Jiang Langzhong's font. People who practice medicine tend to have wild and uninhibited handwriting. Can easily distinguish his handwriting.

A few days ago, that Jiang Langzhong left without saying goodbye, and seemed to have fled from home overnight. At that time, she felt that something was wrong, but she made many inquiries and asked the helpers and apprentices, but all of them were fruitless.Xue Tian couldn't find it, so he had no choice but to stop the investigation. Now it seems that his escape in the middle of the night may be directly related to the letter in Xue Zhaoqing's hand.

"My aunt has seen enough, she should be able to recognize it." Xue Zhaoqing didn't show it to Xue Tian, ​​and directly took the letter back and handed it to Xue Fu: "Please trouble Uncle Fu to read it to the members of the Xue family in the ancestral hall." Listen. Look at my Xue family, how this gentle and kind second lady murdered her husband's life!"

When Xue Fu received the letter, he read it directly, and the letters were clearly displayed one by one.At the beginning of the reading, there were still some voices of discussion in the ancestral hall, but the further you went, the voice became smaller, and until the end, there was no voice at all.

After finishing the letter of belief, Xue Tian and Tian Degui's faces were ashen and bloodless. Uncle Xue shook his beard at the corner of his mouth angrily, and shouted: "Press this woman who murdered her husband and kneel before the ancestral tablet!" !" The two young men stood up immediately after listening to the order, held down Xue Tian, ​​and knelt down on the futon in front of the memorial tablet of the Xue family ancestral hall.

"As for this wolf-hearted man with a foreign surname, throw me out of the Xue family's ancestral hall immediately! My Xue family ancestors would not have seen such a dirty person!" After finishing speaking, the two younger generations were about to chase Tian Degui out, Xue Zhaoqing hurriedly said: "Uncle Grandpa , wait a minute, Zhaoqing still has something to say." Uncle Xue nodded at the two young men, only tied up Tian Degui, and knelt down on the ancestral hall.

"You! You, Xue Zhaoqing, I really underestimated you. If I had known this is the case, I should have let my brother do you! It's not you, a ruthless woman, who said something to let him fend for himself outside ,It’s all you! It’s all you!” Tian Degui was pressed down on the ground of Xue’s ancestral hall by two younger generations. He was already mad and struggling, but he was already in his forties, how could he be worth it? Shang Xue's young son in his twenties.

"Sure enough, the inn is yours!" Xue Zhaoqing said: "Uncles, when I was in Xi'an Mansion, I was tricked by him to go to Chengcheng, and I met an inn on the way, but when I woke up the next day, my body was covered with blood. All the valuables are gone, the horses are gone, and the entire inn is empty. If it’s just an ordinary inn robbery, why don’t you even want to leave my old nest, it’s that Tian Degui who colluded with the thieves to make me leave my hometown and find it difficult to return home!”

"Why is this so? Zhao Qing, what we heard was that you were hunted down by the imperial court in the Xi'an mansion, and you fled outside, so you couldn't come back." An elder of the Xue family asked.

"Master Huitang." Xue Fu cupped his hands and saluted, and continued: "Since the master fell ill, I have secretly found friends and acquaintances to go to the Xi'an mansion to investigate. After Qingyuan Academy closed, there were indeed officers and soldiers who arrested scholars, but My young master was not on the list. At first I was afraid that the news might be wrong, but after many investigations, I dared to confirm that my young master had never appeared on the arrest list of the Xi'an government. Now this letter has been proven to be false, which is more than enough to show , my young master has nothing to do with the Donglin Party members!"

"Elders." Xue Zhaoqing followed Xue Fu and continued, "It's not just that I'm living outside the home, but since I left home at the beginning of this year, they also cut off the correspondence between me and my father, so as to separate us from father and son. , if we send people to search now, we will definitely find a lot of letters from our father and son!"

"Hmph, hum. You don't need to search for the Xue family, the letter is under my pillow. I believe these things are all done by me." Xue Tian, ​​who was kneeling on the futon, sneered, completely Without the usual gentle look, a pair of resentful eyes looked at Xue Zhaoqing fiercely: "I really should have listened to my cousin. I killed you directly outside Chengcheng at that time, and saved me now that I am here. field!"

Xue Zhaoqing's heart was full of turmoil. When he was a child, every bit of kindness that his aunt treated him with, every bit of kindness and reuse flashed in front of him frame by frame.In the inn outside Chengcheng, he had long wondered why those people didn't hurt him. It seemed that it was because of his aunt's mercy that he let him live.

But the more it was like this, the more Xue Zhaoqing couldn't figure out who the aunt was hating and who she was going to deal with when she was thinking so hard.

"I never hated you. When you were young, you ate and played with Zhaowen. Even though you were not my own, I really loved you. It's just that you blocked my son's way, so I must remove you from Xue." Get out of the house!"

"Just because of this? I have no intention of managing the family property. I have been studying abroad since I was a child, and I only want to test for fame. One day in the future, the fame will increase, and I will serve the court. I don't have everything in the Xue family." What do you want to earn with Zhaowen. Why are you aggressive?"

"Yes, you may not like this little Xue family very much, but in the heart of the master, you, the eldest son of the heir, are irreplaceable. Since childhood, you have been born higher than Zhaowen, and your reading is better than Zhaowen. As long as you are there, there will be no place in the master's eyes according to the text. Don't blame anything else, if you want to blame, blame you for being too clever, too smart!"

"But dad has always been kind to you all these years, and he also taught Zhaowen early on to learn how to manage various things in the house. Why are you still not satisfied?"

"Treat me well?" Xue Tian raised his head slightly, looked at Xue Zhaoqing with sideways eyes, a piece of hair drooped from the corner of his forehead, making his angry face look haggard.

"My natal family was in Lingshui County in the early days, and it was considered a wealthy family. I grew up with no worries about food and clothing, but my father was framed by an adulterer, and he owed a whole lot of debt for nothing. In order to pay off the debt, I So I can only marry into your family as a concubine. Since I entered the door, I have been inferior in every way. Even the meals can only be eaten hastily in my own room, and then serve your family to eat at the main table in the side hall. When your mother was still Well, I am her half maid, she sits, I stand, she rests, I have to serve. Over the years, even the footwashing water has been taken out by me one by one What is the difference between such a concubine and a big girl! And your father, your mother has been away for so many years, why did he ever think about setting me up?! I can’t get up and down in Xue’s house, it’s just a mansion laughing stock!"

"But it was your father who married you back then. Even if you have resentment in your heart, it shouldn't be completely blamed on my father!"

"It was indeed he who married me in, but if your father hadn't seen me in my boudoir when he was playing in Lingshui County, he wouldn't have forced me to marry into your Xue family! I was already I have a marriage contract with someone, but your father forced my father to break the contract because of his wealth and power. At that time, I thought, since this uncle Xue is willing to spend such a large betrothal gift for me, he must have me in his heart. So Married in the past, even though you are a concubine, you shouldn't be too bad. But who knows, once the freshness wears off, your father will no longer see me in his eyes! Your Xue family has so many rules and regulations. , whichever one can crush me to death, that's all, but according to the text, if I can only return to the branch in the future, then the grievances I have suffered over the years will be wasted! Therefore, I I have to plan for my son, I have to think about his future!"

As far as Xue Tian's resentment is concerned, she has nothing to fear or care about until now, and now that the words that have been suppressed in her heart for a long time are spoken, to her, it can be regarded as a kind of release, a kind of relief .