doctor knife in hand

There used to be a small kitchen in Wutong Garden, but now there are only two masters and servants, so the kitchen was demolished, and their meals now come from the big kitchen.

Around noon, Ding Xiang went to the big kitchen to pick up Lu Xin's lunch as usual, but today it was strange that the meal hadn't been prepared.Seeing the maids in other rooms leave one by one with their master's food boxes, Ding Xiang couldn't help feeling a little puzzled.

Now Lu Xin is the only one who keeps the filial piety in Ji's family. Her meals are different from the others. They are all vegetarian. The kitchen steward will not neglect Lu Xin in this matter. They are all prepared early, and the cloves can be picked up when they arrive.

Could it be that something happened?When Ding Xiang was thinking wildly, the nanny in charge of the kitchen finally came, and what she was holding in her hand was the usual food box of Wutong Garden.

"Miss Dingxiang, wait in a hurry. I'm really sorry. The Fourth Young Madam has something to do with me, so I got stuck."

As she said that, she handed the food box to Ding Xiang, and said with a smile, "Let the young lady eat slowly, the ingredients of today's vegetarian buns are all different, and they are fragrant. If the young lady eats well, the girl will come to pick it up again." ah."

The nanny in charge smiled amiably, Ding Xiang always felt a little weird, there were too many people in Ji's family who harbored evil thoughts towards Lu Xin, she had to be more careful, so she also greeted: "The nanny is still thinking about our young lady, thank you , it’s getting late, I’m leaving first.”

When Ding Xiang returned to Wutong Garden, Lu Xin asked, "But what happened?"

Ding Xiang shook her head, opened the food box, and while laying out the meals one by one, said what the nurse in charge said. When she put the plate of buns in front of Lu Xin, the master and servant looked at it together.

Lu Xin frowned and reached out to take a steamed bun, opened it, Ding Xiang leaned over to take a look, there was a faint fragrance of vegetables inside, you could tell it was delicious just by smelling it.

Lu Xin thought for a while, her gaze fell on the remaining three buns, and then she opened them one by one until the last one she found was a note folded into small pieces.

The master and servant glanced at each other, and for some reason, a bad premonition suddenly appeared in their hearts.

"Young lady..."

Lu Xin opened the note, and there was only one sentence on it: On the day of the ancestor's sacrifice, his wife will accompany the sacrifice, open the coffin, and bury together.

The meaning above made Lu Xin instantly lose all the blood on his face, and he held his breath in horror, as if he was like a statue in a daze.

Seeing Lu Xin's appearance, Ding Xiang felt uneasy, and asked repeatedly: "Young Madam, what is written on it, why do you..."

Before Ding Xiang could finish her sentence, she saw the note falling from between Lu Xin's slightly trembling fingers. She quickly took it over to take a look, and immediately exclaimed, "What exactly does this mean, young lady!"

Lu Xin's fingers trembled more and more, and her whole body began to tremble. Her lips moved slightly, and finally she closed her eyes and raised her hands to cover her face.

"Young madam, someone must be playing tricks on you. It's not true, it will never be true!" Ding Xiang was flustered, and comforted, "Didn't uncle and young master come here just now? He already told the master, why? It might hurt you too!"

But Lu Jin has already left, the capital is too far away, his own fate is still unknown, how can he manage her?

Lu Xin shook her head, but suddenly heard a thin cry. She looked up and found Lilac who was comforting her sobbing, which obviously frightened her, so Lu Xin calmed down miraculously.

She picked up the piece of paper again, looked at it carefully, and then asked: "What did the stewardess say, tell me word by word."

Ding Xiang wiped away her tears with a handkerchief, recalling and describing the scene at that time.

"Fourth young lady..." Lu Xin didn't have much contact with her, because Ji Chuanming had a relationship with her, so Lu Xin avoided their room whenever he could.

She didn't know if the fourth young lady reminded her of this matter, but why did she tell her?

Seeing this piece of paper suddenly, Lu Xin was indeed terrified, but after calming down, she inevitably had doubts.

Why let her be buried? Not only did the eldest young master not have this idea before he died, he even told the entire Ji family to take good care of her. Why did he suddenly do this?Isn't this disrespectful to the young master?

And is this really true?

In fact, Lu Xin already believed it when she received this note. After all, she is a widow with no children, so she doesn't bother anyone at all, except the third young master who doesn't give up!Because of this, the mother-in-law regarded her as a thorn in the flesh, and for the sake of the third young master, it was not impossible for her to die.

There are some things that I don't care about but I don't notice, but once I think about it, everything is suspicious, especially because she is going to take off her clothes soon, but so far no one has measured the size of her summer shirts. Ji's family has custom-made clothes all year round. Change your filial piety, what to wear?The style and color of the previous clothes did not match the widow status, so I must not wear them anymore!

Lu Xin remembered that Ding Xiang asked about it once, but was always fooled by ambiguity.

If it is true, whose idea is self-evident.

Lu Xin no longer thinks about who is right and who is wrong, she just wants to quietly observe the festival for the young master, but even this humble request has become an extravagant wish.

"Nurse said that if the young lady thinks the buns are delicious, you can go to her again." Ding Xiang said.

That means waiting for her to ask.

"Then let's go, we have to find out who made me die!" Lu Xin said with dull eyes.

Ding Xiang took back the almost untouched food box with a feeling of apprehension and fear, forced a smile on her face and said to the nanny in charge: "Mommy, my young lady thinks that steamed stuffed bun is delicious, and I want another one, can I?" ..."

The nurse in charge smiled, "Then girl, come in, the buns are not ready yet, you have to wait for a while."

Ding Xiang clenched the food box in her hand and walked in after her.

The night was thick, and Sanqi tiptoed to the front of the ancestral hall. At this time, most people were already sound asleep, but they didn't expect that the lights were on today, and someone opened the door.

The day of the eldest master Ji Chuanzong's sacrifice is approaching, and the three-year sacrifice is a major event. The living will be obliterated, and the dead will be separated.Therefore, the ancestral hall has been busy in the past few days, and sometimes it is open, but I don't understand why it is so late at night.

Sanqi hid at the base of the wall, watching in the shade, when suddenly someone came over with a box covered with a white cloth, Sanqi hurriedly crouched down.

"Be careful, did you get seen when you came here?" A familiar voice came, Sanqi frowned, and boldly raised her head, only to see Nanny Zhou.

"Don't worry, no one is there," said the person holding the box.

Nanny Zhou looked around, and said, "Put it in quickly, so that no one will find it." She took the lead and entered the ancestral hall.

The boy stooped obediently and followed in.

Sanqi was curious about the things under the white cloth, Ding Xiang told him everything, he had an intuition that it had something to do with the eldest young lady, so he waited patiently.

Not long after, Nanny Zhou came out with her servant, and she told the servant next to the door: "Madam is worried about the young master, and specifically asked me to come and have a look, and close the door if there is nothing wrong."

"Yes, little one, just close the door."

Nanny Zhou nodded in satisfaction, and led the people away.

The gatekeeper slowly closed the two ancestral hall gates. Just as he was about to lock them, he suddenly bent down, clutching his stomach and moaning: "Hiss... my stomach, ah, it hurts..." He looked around for a while, The cat staggered and ran to the toilet.

Sanqi held his breath, he looked at the two closed but unlocked doors, and looked in the direction where Nanny Zhou had disappeared. Everything was silent, only hearing his own voice beating a drum.

He swallowed a mouthful of water with difficulty, thinking of Lilac as if the sky was about to fall, he mustered up the courage to run towards the ancestral hall, quickly opened the door, and slipped in.

Lu Xin didn't sleep, she wore her hair and unlined clothes, holding the rough hairpin in her hand, quietly looking out the window, as if she was waiting for someone.

Ding Xiang stood at the gate of Wutong Garden, holding a lantern in her hand, looking anxiously.

Suddenly, there was the sound of footsteps in the silent night, fast and chaotic, and when the sound got closer, finally Sanqi's figure appeared in sight.

"Sanqi!" Ding Xiang called out in a low voice.

"Sister Dingxiang...cough cough..." Sanqi shouted half out of breath and coughed, he obviously ran too fast, sweat was dripping on his forehead, but his face was pale, he grabbed Dingxiang's hand and said: "Where is the young lady?"

"It's, it's inside..." Ding Xiang's heart sank when she saw his extremely ugly expression.

Sanqi hurriedly ran to the main house, ignoring the difference between master and servant, opened the door and walked in, then knelt straight on the ground, looked at Lu Xin and said in horror: "Young Madam, Sanqi just walked into the ancestral hall and saw Behind the young master's tablet is... your tablet!"

In an instant, a cold breath hit Lu Xin's heart, and the lantern in Ding Xiang's hand suddenly fell to the ground.

"It's Nanny Zhou. Nanny Zhou led someone to put it in, and it was covered with a white cloth."

The tablet is covered with a white cloth, which means that the damned person is still alive and will soon die. Lift the white cloth...

"Nurse Zhou..." Ding Xiang was trembling all over, "It's Madam... How could she, how could she do this!" She was angry and anxious, and cried.

Lu Xin got the confirmation, but for some reason she didn't feel so sad and afraid. In the past three years, she seemed to know that there would be such a day when Ji Chuanyu looked at her with undisguised greed, when the eldest lady punished her for the first time. When I was alone, I seemed to be heading towards today's result step by step without shelter.

The eldest young master may have foreseen it a long time ago, so she must be taken good care of until she dies.

Eldest young master... Lu Xin held the hairpin tightly, and her vision slowly began to blur. She looked out of the window at night, and for some reason, she seemed to be able to see a tall figure walking towards her slowly, stretching out her hand and saying: "Xinxin, the world is too hard, why not come with me."

She stretched out towards that illusory hand, slightly bending the smile on her lips... It's good to walk together...

"Young Madam, what should we do?" Ding Xiang's cry brought her back to her thoughts, and gradually she couldn't see any shadows, only her hand was alone in mid-air, and she couldn't feel anything.

A cool breeze blowing in from the open window at night broke all hysterical fantasies.

Lu Xin shook his head, and said in a hoarse voice, "I'm a weak woman, powerless, life and death are not in my hands, what can I do?"

"Then we can't just wait to die like this!" Ding Xiang turned around in a hurry, and suddenly had an idea, "Let's go find the young master, isn't he working for the British government, can you save the young lady!"

Sanqi stood up and said, "Yes, there is still time to go now, there are still seven days before the Eldest Young Master's memorial day, if Ningzhou and Jiangzhou are fast, three days will be enough, six days back and forth, just in time!"

"Yes, yes, we're going right away, but how can we get out?" Ding Xiang said as she remembered, "It was the fourth young lady who reminded us, she must be willing to help, we will beg her, no matter what, we must send a message Jiangzhou!"

As they spoke, the two looked at Lu Xin together, but Lu Xin lowered his eyes and said nothing. The light cast a shadow on her face, and she couldn't see her expression clearly.

"Young Madam..." Ding Xiang wasn't sure what Lu Xin was thinking, but as soon as she called out, Lu Xin moved. She walked through Ding Xiang and Sanqi into the inner room, closed the door, and left the room silent. .

"Ding, sister Dingxiang, the young lady..." Sanqi stammered, not knowing what to say.

Ding Xiang looked at the door, her heart sank to the bottom bit by bit, and she shed tears silently, "Young Madam...don't accept your fate..."

Ji Chuanming looked at the time, paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, and looked outside from time to time.

The Fourth Young Madam sat quietly for a while, then suddenly stood up, called the maid to come in, and was about to undo her bun, change clothes and go to bed.

"You won't wait any longer?" Ji Chuanming asked.

The Fourth Young Madam asked the maid to take off the jewellery, wash her hands, and said flatly: "It's been a while since the boy went back to report. So far, there has been no movement in Wutong Garden. My sister-in-law is not in a hurry for this matter of life and death. What am I in a hurry for? I think I've made it clear enough that no one can help her except me, but if she doesn't come, it's resignation to fate. Let's wash up and sleep, don't worry about it. "

Ji Chuanming couldn't be as calm as the Fourth Young Madam, he said: "Why don't I go and have a look, maybe there is something stuck."

"What are you looking at!" The Fourth Young Madam turned her head, stared at her phoenix eyes, and said angrily, "Do you think the matter is not big enough, go over and add some, believe it or not, once you go, all the nasty things will come out tomorrow, I will still Do you want to be human!"

"Then what should we do, big brother..."

"We are already helping her. She accepted her own fate, and we will do our best."