I am fish

"Why did you come back alone? Where is my mother!"

When Alai came back to the Xie Mansion with injuries and anxiety all over his body, he was knocked into a daze by Liu Niang's stern questioning as soon as he came up.

"Fourth, fourth aunt didn't come back?"

"I asked you, but you asked me instead. Aunt, who went out with you, where did she go? Don't you know? And what's going on with this face? Did it fall into the pig's nest? It's so dirty Hey! Don't come near me!" Liu Niang held her nose and waved her away in disgust.

A Lai was really panicked, he had no time to argue with Liu Niang.When the fourth aunt left Taoyuan Temple, she asked someone to help carry the basket, which showed that she was indeed going to the Wang family.But the Wang family didn't have it, and neither did Taoyuan Temple. She paid attention along the way and didn't see her.

The refugees rioted in the city, and the people in the city were already in panic. The fourth aunt was quite cautious on weekdays, and she would definitely not take the risk of conflicting with the refugees.Coupled with the company of two monks from Taoyuan Temple, even if they are in danger, they will have the strength to resist, perhaps because they are trapped and difficult to escape for a while.

Quickly shuttled through the inner corridor of the Xie Mansion for the servants, on the way to find her aunt, A Lai had an idea in his mind, and kept finding various reasons for "fourth aunt is safe now".

Pushing open the wooden door, he called grandma, but found that besides grandma, Mr. Yunmeng was also in the room.The two of them stood facing each other as if they were talking about something, when Auntie Xiao turned her head to look at her, her cold eyes like Qingfeng pushed her back a step.

She has never seen such a mother, and...how could she be alone in the room with Mr. Yunmeng?A vague conclusion came to Alai's mind, and he immediately broke it.

Not caring about suspicions, Alai told Xiao Shi everything that happened, and Xiao Shi said angrily after hearing this:

"Why did you search outside alone for so long when something like this happened? Do you know how much time was wasted? You should come back and report immediately after the accident. A large number of people from the Xie Mansion can cover most of Qi County in no time. Now...you are clever when you get into trouble, how can you be confused at the critical moment!"

Xiao has been doing farm work all year round. He has tall shoulders, broad shoulders and dark skin. His facial features have been roughened by the years, and he can still see the shadow of his good looks when he was young.On weekdays, she rarely reprimanded A Lai so severely, but once she got impatient and raised her eyebrows, it was really scary.

Knowing that she was in a hurry, Ah Lai spoke a little more heavily, and tears welled up in his eyes.

"I know I was wrong, mom, don't be angry."

Mr. Yunmeng didn't speak, he waved his fan and planned to leave.

"Mr. Yunmeng, please stop." Xiao called him to stop.

Mr. Yunmeng looked back at her, Xiaoshi was thinking about something, and after a while, he said as if he had made up his mind: "Okay, I promise you."

"Oh?" Mr. Yunmeng raised his eyebrows slightly, as if he was a little surprised.

"However, in exchange, you have to promise me one thing."

Mr. Yunmeng left, Xiaoshi took Alai who was still in a daze to find the mistress together, and wanted to report the matter of the fourth aunt to her as soon as possible.

Helping her limping, sweaty mother, Alai kept persuading her to walk slowly and not to fall.

Seeing the mistress overnight and explaining the matter of the fourth aunt one by one, Yao Shi also felt the seriousness of the situation, dropped the cheese in his hand, and immediately asked the maid to call Xie Suishan to see her, and sent all the parts of Xie's house, staff, The servants are all gathered in the backyard.

Xie Suishan has been anxious all day because of the refugees, and now he is lying on the bed tossing and turning, wondering if the unfortunate county government official outside the door has left.A thumping sound on the door made him bounce off the bed directly, and the servant who sent the message told him what was going on and told him to go see the mistress quickly.

Xie Suishan was upset, he put on his clothes indiscriminately, and rushed to see his mother before the crown was in place.Yao Shi asked him to immediately lead everyone in the Xie Mansion to search for the fourth aunt.

"Be sure to bring her back alive. Otherwise, you know the consequences."

Before leaving, Mrs. Yao took his son and confessed earnestly, which seemed to be a reasonable exhortation under the current situation, but the deeper meaning only Xie Suishan could comprehend.

He was the one who put the refugees into the city, and it can be said that he is the chief culprit in the current riots.Unexpectedly, the rebellion of refugees would come to Xie's house so quickly, and it was none other than his father's beloved fourth aunt in the concubine who was involved.Father will be back soon, if Fourth Aunt has something wrong with him, how will father punish him?Thinking of the scene when his father beat him unceremoniously with an iron rod when he was a child, Xie Suishan's back felt chills.

The sternness in his mother's eyes made Xie Suishan unable to stand still for a second. He immediately straddled his horse and galloped, followed by his entourage, rushing aggressively into Qi County, where the curfew had already been imposed.When he saw the refugees, he threw his fork to the ground and asked for the whereabouts of the fourth aunt.

A Lai wanted to go find Fourth Aunt together, but before Xiao could stop her, she was stopped by the maid in Xie Sui's house.

"The Eldest Young Master ordered to keep an eye on you, and you can't go anywhere until he comes back."

"Like me? Why?" Alai was puzzled.

"When the eldest son comes back, you can ask him yourself."

Xiaoshi pulled her back and shook his head, motioning for her to stop talking.

"Will something happen to Fourth Aunt?" The mother and daughter sat on the steps of the kitchen, A Lai was full of thoughts, "It's all my fault, it would have been better if I hadn't left at that time..."

"Even if you stayed with her at that time, it wouldn't help. Don't blame yourself."

"But I can..." Thinking that Grandma never liked her showing martial arts outside, and the Golden Cicada Knife must never be used, the words came back to her lips.

"Alai." Xiaoshi patted her head and turned back to the gentle and kind mother she used to be. "Some things are just as good as you can. You need to understand that there are many things in this world that no matter how hard you try. The most lethal The sad thing is, what you have to learn is not to be a hero, but to know how to let go."

Grandma has a secret in her heart.

Since she was sensible, she has lived with her mother in Xie's house, and her mother has never been out of Xie's house except for buying garden tools.But she knows the affairs of the world, and she can tell a lot of anecdotes and strange stories throughout the ages without repeating the same thing for three days and three nights. She also secretly taught Alai martial arts, but she never let her reveal them.

The golden cicada knife is as thin as a cicada's wing, and it can kill people invisible when hidden between the fingers. My mother passed it on to her but she was not allowed to use it.The most common sentence I said to my daughter is:

"Put down the knife to live a stable life."

Grandma is not an ordinary person, and her conversation with Mr. Yunmeng today further confirmed Alai's guess.

A Lai felt a faint panic in his heart.

The life she is used to, the "stable life" that her mother often talks about, may be about to be broken.

Xie Suishan rode his horse for most of the night without stopping, his legs trembling and his waist sore from exhaustion, but there was still no whereabouts of his fourth aunt.

Qi county was almost covered, and only the unexplored wasteland on the eastern outskirts of the city hadn't been searched.There is no one in the eastern suburbs, but it is the best place to do some crazy things.Xie Suishan asked the other slaves to continue searching in the city, and when they saw the refugees, they detained them, and took a team of tribes to the eastern suburbs.

The eastern suburbs at night were even more desolate than he thought.The Buqu pawn lit the torch and handed it to Xie Suishan. Xie Suishan reined in the reins to slow down, and the light of the torch illuminated the darkness of the night.

There was a faint foot behind the frosty haystack and gravel, Xie Suishan asked the pawn to go forward to investigate.

"Master Hui, this is a monk."

"Monk?" Xie Suishan's expression changed, "Is he still alive?"

"I'm out of breath." The pawn flipped the monk's blood-soaked clothes. The corpse under the clothes was in a horrible shape, as if it had been bitten by a wild animal. The flesh on the body was torn to pieces and bones were found in many places.The pawn felt nauseous for a while, and forcibly suppressed the feeling of nausea, when he heard someone on the other side shouting:

"There's a monk here! It's gone!"

Two monks.

Xie Suishan rode his horse for a stroll, but hesitantly did not go forward.

Could it be the two monks who came out from Taoyuan Temple with Fourth Aunt?they died?That fourth aunt...

"Master! Master!"

Xie Suishan was taken aback by the panicked pawn who suddenly rushed in front of him, and when he was about to scold him, he only heard him say:

"My lord! I found my fourth aunt!"

The lights of Xie's mansion were not turned off all night, no one dared to close their eyes from top to bottom of the mansion, they were all waiting for news from Fourth Aunt.

Xie Suishan and his party didn't come back until the sky was slightly bright.Seeing his son returning to the mansion, Yao immediately stepped forward, followed by a group of maids who surrounded him.Alai and her mother stood behind the crowd and looked in worriedly.

Yao Shi and Xie Suishan exchanged glances, and Xie Suishan's tired and sad face could not be concealed.Seeing her son's appearance, she knew it in her heart. When the three pawns moved out from behind Xie Suishan, something tightly wrapped in white cloth, she didn't even look at it, and was already thinking about other things.

Liu Niang, who was standing beside Yao Shi, pointed to the human-like mass on the ground, her fingers and voice trembling like cloth strips in a strong wind: "This, this, this is..."

"It's Fourth Aunt." Xie Suishan answered her with a heavy heart.

Xie Suishan's answer blinded Liu Niang's eyes, she stepped forward hesitantly, and took a lot of determination to remove the cloth.

A ball rolled out.

When Liu Niang looked at the round bead, she had actually set up defenses, but the facts were far beyond her imagination.When she saw clearly that the ball was actually an eyeball, she was caught off guard by a tongue of fire and immediately took two steps back.But it was these two steps that allowed her to see the horribly mutilated corpse of the fourth aunt in the blood cloth.

Liu Niang stared blankly, her eyes seemed to be attracted.When her maid wanted to come forward to comfort her, she turned her head and vomited, throwing up the filth all over the floor.

The accompanying staff said that the fourth aunt might have been abused by refugees before she died.The refugees were so hungry that they ate many children in the city.The fourth aunt was unlucky to meet these gangsters.

Liu Niang burst into tears.

She was already terrified, but when she heard that her mother was still being ruined by those plague slaves, the grief of losing her mother set off a torrent of anger, and she was so anxious that she spun around and stomped her feet, trying to find an outlet to vent .Suddenly she found her target, her eyes sharpened, and she went towards Ah Lai.

"You lowly slave! You didn't protect the master and ran home! Why did my mother die and not you! Give back my mother's life!"

Liu Niang pulled A Lai by her hair and pulled her towards her, kicking and hitting her.

Alai couldn't fight back, so he could only explain loudly: "It was the fourth aunt who condemned me to come back first! Later, when I heard that the beards rioted and went to find the fourth aunt, the fourth aunt had already left Taoyuan Temple! I also went to Wang's house to find her." !"

"How dare you talk back! You lowly slave! You lowly slave! I'll beat you to death right now, and ask you to plead guilty to my mother!"

How could Liu Niang not know that the fourth aunt died on the way to Wang's house.If it wasn't for the fourth aunt who wanted her to marry into the Wang family, why would she rush to the Wang family?It can be said that the root cause of this tragedy is Xie Suishan.It's just that Xie Suishan is the eldest son of the direct line, and he will inherit the Xie family in the future, so she wouldn't dare to discuss an explanation with her direct brother even if Liu Niang had ten guts.All the anger can only be vented towards the servant Alai.

Liu Niang cried and tore A Lai to ask her to pay for his fourth aunt's life. Xiao Shi couldn't do it, so he had to hug A Lai and beat her instead.The surrounding servants looked at each other coldly, waiting for the mistress and son to speak.

Mrs. Yao got a headache from Liu Niang's sharp voice, raised her hand and said, "Okay, what does she look like, hurry up and pull her away." Hearing what the mistress said, the servants hurried up to take Liu Niang away. Tear it off from Alai's mother and daughter.Liu Niang's hair was also messed up, her eyes were swollen from crying, and she was not willing to let go, so she had to be forced to send her back to her room.

Xie Suishan pointed to Alai and Xiao Shi and said, "Shut these two lowly slaves into the woodshed and watch them carefully, and wait for their punishment!"

House slave: "Yes!"