Time is slow

   Chapter 699 Confession

   After Li Hui finished speaking, he looked at Madam Deng with a worried expression.

   Mrs. Deng's pupils were slightly opened, and she didn't seem to hear what Li Hui was saying, her expression was blank.

   Li Yan, who was supporting Madam Deng, stepped back and bumped into a long table with calligraphy and paintings, making a noise.

   Mrs. Deng woke up like a dream, her eyelashes trembled and asked, "Hui'er, what did you say?"

  Li Hui couldn't bear to see Mrs. Deng's expression anymore, lowered his head and said, "Grandmother, the second uncle is gone..."

   "No? Why?" Mrs. Deng tried her best to keep her composure, but her voice trembled.

  Li Yan had already covered her mouth and cried.

  Her father died?

  The father who once taught her to read is dead? That father who scolded her with a straight face when she didn't study hard was dead? The person who she accidentally bumped into thrush her mother and made her secretly promise to find a husband like her father in the future is dead?

  That...the father who she had missed for more than five years but returned with her beautiful concubine died?

   At this moment, Li Yan was full of sadness, covering her mouth with a handkerchief and crying.

   She hates that person and loves that person. That person is her father. Since then, she and her sister have become orphans.

   "Hui'er, talk to your grandmother, why did your second uncle disappear?"

Li Hui shook his head: "I don't know my grandson either. I went to the yamen with my father to inquire about the second uncle. The gatekeeper said he didn't see the second uncle leaving the yamen, so he went in to look for it, and found the second uncle lying on the desk motionless. , Chenguang stepped forward to take a look, only to find that the second uncle was already hard..."

   "What about now? What about your father and Chenguang?" Madam Deng took a deep breath and asked.

   She can't fall down. She didn't fall down when she received the bad news of her husband's death when she was young, and she can't fall down now!

   "Father was waiting for the adults from the Ministry of Punishment and Shuntian Prefecture to come to investigate the cause of the second uncle's death. Chenguang tracked down the whereabouts of the two servants who went out with the second uncle in the morning, so the grandson rushed back to report."

   Mrs. Deng was silent for a moment after hearing this, and then called out, "Mother Rong."

   "Old Lady—"

   "Let's get someone to... pick up the nanmu coffin that I bought two years ago, and put up a quilt and a shed."

   "Old Madam—" Rong's mother couldn't bear it, tears streaming down her face.

   The worst thing in the world is widowhood in youth, loss of children in old age, and the life of an old lady is too hard.

   "Go, I can't die yet." Madam Deng waved her hand, showing her old-fashioned attitude.

   Rong's mother didn't dare to say any more, so she took orders.

   "Hui'er, ask the steward to accompany you to the yamen, and if there is any news, send it back immediately, especially the news about your third sister!"

   "The grandson understands, the grandson retire." Li Hui knelt down and kowtowed to Mrs. Deng, choked up, "Please take care of your grandmother."

   He doesn't have much affection for the second uncle, but he can understand his grandmother's grief at the moment.

   Don't say grandmother, even the father who scolds the second uncle from time to time is very sad now, if something happens to the third sister again—

  Li Hui didn't dare to think about it any more, and hurried away with the steward.

   Mrs. Deng sat blankly in the main room and sent everyone out except Li Yan.

  The room was very quiet, Li Yan didn't dare to cry anymore, and silently guarded Mrs. Deng.

After a long silence, Mrs. Deng broke the silence with a long sigh: "Fourth girl, grandmother remembers that you are as old as your third sister, right?"

   "Yes, the granddaughter was born in the same year as the third sister."

   "I'm fourteen, not too young. My grandmother married your grandfather when she was your age."

  Li Yan lowered her eyes.

"Fourteen years old, it's time to be sensible." Madam Deng held Li Yan's hand with a rough hand and sighed softly, "Your father, after returning from Lingnan this time, I knew that he would cause trouble sooner or later. I just didn't expect him to kill himself so quickly!"

   "Grandma, are you saying that my father was killed?"

   Mrs. Deng looked outside the door without speaking.

   The second son's return this time is obviously wrong. That Bing Niang is both murdering and befuddling. How could it be an ordinary thin horse? She couldn't guess what the second son was involved in, but she could be sure that it was a misfortune rather than a blessing. She even thought about whether the entire Li Mansion would be tossed away by the second son. The second son ended up like this because he came out step by step, and he can't blame others!

   "The one who can really harm you is always yourself. Yan'er, remember the words of your grandmother, stand upright, and the ghosts will not invade."

   "Yan'er got it. Grandma, where my mother-"

   "Slow down for a while." Madam Deng thought of Liu's, and her expression became even more exhausted.

   Liu lost her husband just after she became pregnant. She wondered if she could withstand such a blow. She was even glad that the second husband and wife had had a cold relationship in the past few months. In any case, there can be no more accidents in the family.

   With the black scarf removed, Qiao Zhao finally saw where he was.

   It was a room with windows open near the roof. There was nothing in it except a low couch and a screen. Even the light came in through the high windows.

   "Miss Li San is very smart, can you guess why we invited you here?"

   "Sorry, I can't guess."

   "Hehe, Miss Li San thinks we are all your fiancé, the champion, or your family?"

  Qiao Zhao calmly looked at the speaker.

   That person had ordinary brows and eyes, and if he was thrown into the crowd, he might not recognize him in the blink of an eye. At this moment, he looked at her without any fluctuation in his eyes.

  Qiao Zhao knew that this should be a dead man, and would never give birth to the thoughts of pity and cherish jade.

   "Miss Li San, I advise you not to take chances. If we ask you anything, you can answer truthfully and suffer less."

   "What do you want to know?"

   "Where are the hand beads, where are you hiding?"

   "Handball?"

   "Don't play stupid!" The person who asked the question raised his hand and slapped Qiao Zhao.

  Qiao Zhao's body was already petite and slender, but his cheeks were immediately swollen when he slapped him, and the neatly combed double buns were scattered and hung by his ears.

   "Miss Li San, we really didn't mean to scare you."

  Qiao Zhao raised his hand and tucked the broken hair behind his ear, his dark eyes looked at the man calmly: "I see."

   "Then give us the hand beads and we'll let you go back!"

  The girl bowed her head silently, revealing her slender neck, as if thinking.

   The man raised his hand and was stopped by his companions.

   "Where is my second uncle?" After a moment of silence, the girl raised her eyes to look at the two of them.

   The two did not expect Qiao Zhao to ask this, so they could not help looking at each other.

  Qiao Zhao smiled: "My second uncle handed me over to you, right?"

  The two of them stared at Qiao Zhao. After a long time, one of them smiled and said, "Miss Li San is really smart. This time she said nothing polite."

   "Since you don't think I'm stupid, will I tell you where the hand beads are?" Qiao Zhao asked with a sneer.

   One of them smiled: "Then it depends on whether Miss Li San can stand our greetings."

   Thank you for the jars and sachets of the God of Wealth for the loneliness of the prostitute emperor, the sachets for Susha Mingshuang, the love ^^, the travel in fantasy, and the peace talisman of Qiu Xiaoqian _87, thanks to the book friends who voted.

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