The King's Concubine_The Masked Feast【Complete】(44)
Widow Feng's calculations were working like a clatter.
She told all she knew, and Li's face flushed. She turned around and slapped Yan Jie'er twice: "You dead girl, you only know how to make trouble for me, only know how to make trouble for me!"
Yan Jie'er was beaten so hard that she cried and Hui Niang stood by and watched coldly, without saying anything to dissuade her.
"Anyway, this matter of my in-laws is a burden to your family. You don't care about other things, you always have to look at the child in Yan Jie'er's belly." Widow Feng said with a smile.
This is Li's weak spot, and she will die if she pinches it.
How could Li have suffered such anger before? She glared at Widow Feng and chased Yan Jie'er to beat her. Unfortunately, Widow Feng didn't even look at her. She was not her daughter, so she could beat her as she pleased.
Li was so angry that she yelled at Hui Niang: "Su Hui Niang, why don't you go find your man?" Only by asking Yao Cheng could they know what was going on in the government office.
"Mother, Brother Hong is crying. I'll go in and see." Hui Niang didn't respond to her words. She lifted the curtain and went into the east wing. After entering, she never came out again.
But Li was so angry that she fell backwards. She wanted Yan Jie'er to go, but now her daughter was pregnant, so she had to go there herself. But before she could leave, Yao Cheng came back, just for Feng Heizi's matter.
Widow Feng only knew that Feng Heizi had committed a crime because of silver, and didn't know the details. She also heard from others that her son was sent to prison.
In fact, Feng Heizi's crime was not small. He and a prostitute in Yihong Pavilion teamed up to rob passing merchants. The prostitute found out the amount of silver and whereabouts of the other party, and Feng Heizi led people to rob halfway.
It seems that this is not the first time he has done this kind of thing. He is extremely hateful and never leaves anyone alive, so the crime has never been exposed. But this time, maybe God opened his eyes. The merchant he robbed was hit on the head by a stone and thrown into the river, but he didn't die. He climbed up from the river and reported to the police, which led to Feng Heizi's involvement.
The police caught him in the gambling house, and not even one of his so-called brothers escaped.
Killing and robbing is a serious crime, and the punishment is exile for 3,000 miles at the least and beheading at the worst.
And it was not the first time that Feng Heizi had done such a thing. He refused to say anything, but the prostitute could not resist and vomited everything. Just from the prostitute's mouth, Feng Heizi and others killed no less than three or four people, not to mention other unknown people.
In other words, Feng Heizi was doomed this time.
After listening to Yao Cheng's story, Widow Feng sat on the ground and cried.
At this time, she was no longer as calm as before. She thought her son had beaten someone or stolen someone's things outside, and she never expected her son to be so bold. It was Feng Heizi who got the money every day, but he either spent it on eating and drinking or gambling, and never brought a penny home. Widow Feng was busy working outside to earn money every day, and she didn't notice anything.
Not only Widow Feng, but Li and Yan Jie'er were also scared.
It's all over now, what should Yan Jie'er do?
The eyes of the Yao family couldn't help but stare at Yan Jie'er's belly.
Before, Li and Yan Jie'er mentioned Yao Niang, saying that she was shameless and pregnant before marriage, and Xiaobao was also a wild child who didn't even have a father. Now it's Yan Jie'er's turn to follow Yao Niang's footsteps, which can be regarded as retribution in this life.
Chapter 35
If Yan Jie'er and her baby are not going to be left alone, Feng Heizi can only be fine.
Yao Cheng is a man in the government office, not only Widow Feng, but also Li can't help but pin their hopes on him.
Yao Cheng was annoyed by the two people, and he was not a county magistrate, so how could he have a solution to such a thing. But he couldn't ignore it, so he had to be forced to take care of it.
It was also a coincidence. Jinzhou was close to the border, and whenever the border was in a tight situation, local death row prisoners would be transferred to the army. Just then, such a document came down from above, and Feng Heizi was exempted from the execution in the autumn, and was sent to the border town on a chosen day.
Before leaving, Widow Feng went to see her son off, but Sister Yan didn't show up at all.
Feng Heizi waved goodbye to his mother and set off for the border town. Death row prisoners like this usually go to the battlefield to serve as ashes. Obviously Feng Heizi also understood the reason, so he ran away halfway.
Yes, he ran away.
When the news came back, the Yao family and the Feng family didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
Although Feng Heizi ran away, he ended up with a home that he couldn't return to. He was a fugitive and deserter on the record, and once he was caught, he would be unforgivable.
Widow Feng breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what, it was worse than losing her son. The Yao family was in a dilemma.
Li and Yao Cheng discussed that they had originally planned to abort the baby in Yan Jie'er's belly. They decided to solve the problem as soon as possible while the baby was still young. But this decision was based on the fact that Feng Heizi would definitely die. Now that Feng Heizi had escaped, should he keep the baby or not?
In the end, Yan Jie'er made a decision not to keep the baby!
She would never want the baby, and she was making a fuss at home!
Li found a traveling doctor to come back and see Yan Jie'er. After seeing the doctor, the doctor prescribed a few packets of medicine, saying that if she took one dose a day for three consecutive days, the fetus would definitely be aborted. Li paid the silver, sent the doctor away, and happily went to boil medicine for Yan Jie'er.
The reason for this mentality was that if she had found a doctor from a medical clinic, she would have to pay at least ten taels of silver to get the job done. The traveling doctor she found only needed two taels to solve the problem.
But Mr. Li forgot one thing. If it was not necessary, it would not be possible to ask several medical clinics and get the number of ten taels. However, this doctor's number was more than several times less, all because the cheap things were not good.
This medicine is indeed as the doctor said, the effect is obvious. Sister Yan's lower body became red after eating it, but the bleeding continued for five or six days and still did not stop. Mrs. Li couldn't sit still and sent her daughter to the hospital.
When she arrived at the hospital, the doctor scolded Mrs. Li, saying how could she find such a dangerous medicine to take. Abortion is a life-threatening matter for a woman. If you want to avoid damaging your roots, you have to do it slowly. You must not use strong medicine. Because if this powerful medicine goes bad, hemorrhage will result. Sister Yan was showing signs of hemorrhagic collapse. Before she was brought here, she had already passed out due to excessive blood loss.
The doctor finally rescued Sister Yan, but Sister Yan also lost her right to be a mother in the future. The doctor said that the possibility of getting pregnant in the future was very small, as the injury this time was too severe.
Mrs. Li was distressed and cried several times, complaining that she should not save money. In fact, it was not only to save money, but also for the sake of safety, the medical clinic in the county would only administer medicine in front of the patient. Ms. Li felt embarrassed and was afraid that if the situation spread, it would be a bad reputation for her daughter, so she would go to that kind of hospital. Wandering doctors buy medicine in the streets.
Who would have thought that he would be tricked so miserably by that doctor.
But before the matter was over, Widow Feng came to the door and had several quarrels with Mr. Li over this matter. Now that Feng Heizi is in exile, he doesn't know if he will die outside. The child in Sister Yan's belly is the life of Widow Feng.
Now that her life is gone, Widow Feng still wants to fight Li.
It's just that Widow Feng doesn't care about this matter. After all, Sister Yan and Feng Heizi have no words of matchmaking, no orders from their parents, and they haven't even decided to get married. Sister Yan can't be considered a member of the Feng family. It is not unreasonable that she does not want to keep this child and wants to marry again in the future.
But from a human perspective, Feng Heizi ended up like this without even having a queen. The rule of human nature is to treat the weak, especially now that the heir is the eldest. Although Widow Feng returned home in vain, rumors about Sister Yan were spreading outside.
Mrs. Li's plan to marry Sister Yan in the future was in vain. There were probably not many families in Linyun County who would marry Sister Yan.
Yao has become a family affair these days, so he is exhausted, and sometimes he can't even take care of his errands.
There was endless commotion at home, and today he scolded Mrs. Li and Sister Yan before going out to calm down.
As soon as he entered the Yamen, he was called over by the county magistrate.
The sun was rising in the west. Although Yao Cheng was a class leader, in fact, to the county magistrate, he was just an insignificant little guy below.
Could there be another major case in the county?
Yao Cheng thought to himself that even if there was a major case, it would not be his turn to be called by the county magistrate. He had an arrester on his head and the chief arrester would definitely not be his turn.
He went to the back hall of the county government office in confusion, and after passing through the entrance hall, he saw the county magistrate, who always looked directly at the sky and never at the ground, talking to someone beside him.
This man has an ordinary appearance, but his clothes are different from ordinary people. He looks like a military commander from some house. Yao Cheng has some vision, and he can only tell something about it from his unusual clothes, but he doesn't know the details.
"Yao Cheng, come here quickly and salute the king's guard." The county magistrate looked surprisingly friendly. He looked at Yao Cheng with that look that made his heart beat fast. He always had the illusion that he was the long-lost son of the county magistrate.
But his father's surname is Yao and his mother's surname is Li. His mother said that it hurt for three days and three nights when she gave birth to him, and even bitten his father's hand.
Yao Cheng was thinking wildly in his mind, and stepped forward to salute the king guard very cautiously.
Wang Huowei seemed to be a little over the top, he just nodded and did not speak to Yao Cheng.
The county magistrate approached Wang Guard and introduced him: "Wang Guard, this is Yao Cheng. He is smart and capable, and he is one of the best in our county government. I have always admired him, and I am planning to give him to him." He moved up. When you come and tell us that there is a squad leader named Yao in our county government office, the subordinate will know that it is him."
Yao Cheng has never seen the county magistrate behave like this. Who is this guard named Wang? Yao Chengcheng spoke softly and could only listen but remained silent.
Wang Huwei glanced at the county magistrate and smiled: "I can see that Mr. Qian is a man who knows people well and uses them well. Let's get the matter settled soon. I'm still waiting to go back to my hometown for business."
"Yes, yes, yes." Mr. Qian nodded repeatedly and turned to look at Yao Cheng amiably: "It is said that your aunt has entered the palace as an errand?"