The master of the Su family had a total of four wives and concubines. The old lady He Su was his first wife. After three years of marriage, they had two daughters but none of them gave birth to a baby. The master felt a little neglected.
She was afraid that the master would keep an extra wife outside, so she designed her maid to go to the master's bed. Soon the master took the maid as his aunt. The maid also had two sisters at home. I don't know what the maid said to the master.
The two sisters, who came from poor backgrounds, also entered the Su family, became aunts, and flew to the branches.
Although the three sisters were all concubines, they had grown up in the city, were well-educated, and were good at flirting.
Sister, I neglected the old lady.
Soon all three sisters were pregnant, giving birth to an eldest son, a second eldest son, and a third daughter.
After giving birth to a child, the three of them became even more favored, and even became arrogant in an attempt to force them into the palace.
Although the master likes the three sisters, he is also a man of rules. The three of them were disrespectful to the old lady many times. The master looked at his heart and tolerated them again and again. It was not until the three sisters actually poisoned the old lady's porridge that the master finally put them in.
The three of them were all divorced and transferred to the government. Not long after, the three of them were sent to the border areas. No one knew whether they were dead or alive.
From then on, the master, perhaps because he felt guilty towards the old lady, did not take any more concubines, and settled with the old lady alone. The old lady gave birth to two sons within five years - the third master and the fourth master.
After having children one after another, the master's thoughts were all focused on his children, and as he got older, he stopped causing trouble.
In a blink of an eye, the children have grown up. When the third girl was fifteen years old, she went shopping for lanterns and fell in love with a scholar who sold calligraphy and painting. The master originally agreed to the marriage. After all, he was just a concubine, so he had no idea about the third girl's marriage.
Not interested.
But the old lady felt it was a disgrace to her family and objected repeatedly, and even decided to arrange a so-called well-matched marriage for the third girl.
On the night of their wedding, the third girl hanged herself in the room. From then on, evil things happened all the time in the third girl's room. First, the clothes in the third girl's closet flew out and were hung on the clothes drying in the yard in the middle of the night.
On the bamboo pole.
Afterwards, a woman's sad cry came from the house, and candlelight flew around the house.
Others have seen the three girls swinging under the big locust tree in the yard.
After this strange incident happened, the family invited Taoist priests to seal up the third girl's boudoir, and the key was stored in the ancestral hall, so that the ancestors would take good care of the third girl and not cause trouble again.
Now, another strange thing happened in the room of these three girls, which made people panic. The old lady turned pale, holding a string of rosary beads in her hand and kept fiddling with them.
If she didn't do anything bad, she wouldn't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door and beating up the mandarin ducks, causing tragedy. The old lady was probably also afraid that the third girl would come back for revenge.
Seeing how frightened she was, Xu Xiuyi found it pitiful. He had originally intended to come over and talk to her about the succession, but now he stopped talking and stood quietly aside.
After about half a cup of tea, a boy came in and said it was a Taoist priest.
Only then did he see that the expression on the old lady's face softened a little, and she stepped forward and said to the young man: "What did the Taoist say?"
"The Taoist said that there are men's clothes in the third girl's house."
Xu Xiuyi pricked up her ears.
The boy continued: "The master asked us to pull it out from under the bed. It turned out to be a tattered man's clothes, covered with blood."