Mother Li looked at the anxious Lin Jingmo, quickly took out her handkerchief, and wiped her face carefully.
But Lin Jingmo asked persistently: "Mama Li, tell me, why on earth did I have to beat her twenty times?"
But Mother Li hesitated and said with a troubled face: "Young lady, you always have your reasons for doing things. Now, you and my uncle are in love, so why bother to delve into this matter?"
Lin Jingmo continued to ask: "Didn't you see the way he just kicked me out? Not to mention beating his own mother-in-law, even if he was beating a normal waiter, twenty sticks would be scary for an old man!
Is this ridiculous? I actually beat my own mother-in-law twenty times?!"
Mother Li excused Lin Jingmo: "Those are all things in the past. Second girl, you have forgotten it. Besides, there was a lot of rumors outside and I have already punished you. What are you going to do now to pursue these old things?"
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"What? Many people outside know about this? Father also knows?" Lin Jingmo couldn't believe his ears. He turned out to be an evil woman who abused his mother-in-law?
Thinking of this, Lin Jingmo couldn't help but hold his forehead and sighed: "Even if it is an old thing, I have forgotten it now, but my mother-in-law has not forgotten that she lived in that shabby yard and was in a mess. She was scared when she saw it.
Shang Shixu has not forgotten the look in his eyes...how can I pretend that nothing happened!"
Lin Jingmo held Mother Li's shoulders with both hands and begged: "Mother Li, please tell me the reason for this, okay?"
Mother Li couldn't resist her, so she told her everything: "I was still living in the Lin Mansion at that time, but I just heard someone say, Miss, you dislike my uncle's low status, and there is a crazy woman. I can't get angry, so I just do whatever I want.
Find a reason to say that she stole your things, and ask the former maidservant to beat her twenty times with a stick, a small punishment but a big warning..."
Listening to Li's mother say these things, Lin Jingmo's head almost exploded...Is this...is this ridiculous?!
Mother Li looked at Lin Jingmo's ugly face and changed the subject, saying: "But the villain feels that there must be something fishy about this matter. The second girl has been watched by the villain since she was a child. Although she is sometimes a little pampered, she is never
If you do something like beating your elders, Mother Li will believe you."
Seeing that Lin Jingmo didn't respond, Mother Li quickly asked: "Girl? Girl?"
Lin Jingmo didn't say much, and just dragged himself to the main courtyard in despair.
She couldn't believe that she looked down on her husband, felt that he was inferior to others, despised his biological mother, and found a reason to beat his mother... Is this ridiculous? Even a random person cannot be insulted like this! What's more, she
Or...she is still Shang Shixu's mother! Is this something humans do?
Back in the main courtyard, Lin Jingmo walked into the bedroom and sat down on the bed. Mother Li was shocked and scared. She quickly poured tea and handed it to her mouth. Lin Jingmo was unmoved and asked again: "Then
What happened next? What happened after I beat...I beat my mother-in-law?"
Mother Li put the tea bowl aside, took Lin Jingmo's hand and slowly moved it, hoping to bring her back to her senses, and said: "Our master heard this and quickly called the imperial doctor to diagnose and treat the old lady.
He beat the girl twenty times, but the uncle begged for mercy and only beat her ten times. The old man felt that he was not good at teaching his son, so he ordered others to beat him ten times, and punished the girl to copy the female virtues a hundred times. That's it.
Things."
After hearing this, Lin Jingmo pouted, hugged Li's mother and cried: "How can this be done? Even if I listen to it now, I feel guilty to death. She must have been in pain at the time, she was already unconscious.
I don’t know, it’s so pitiful, how could I go so far as to wrongly accuse her and have someone beat her with twenty sticks?! Am I still a human being?!”
Mother Li hurriedly hugged her, patted her back, and comforted her: "It's over, it's over, my good girl, we just don't hit her in the future!"
When Lin Jingmo heard this, she felt it was very reasonable. She stood up and said: "Not only will I not hit her again, I will also take good care of her to make up for the wrong things I did to her!"
Mother Li continued to take out her handkerchief and wiped her tears: "Okay, okay, I will provide her with good food and drink from now on! Let's treat her well! Mother Li will also treat her well and atone for our girl's sins!"
Lin Jingmo nodded, hugged Mama Li and continued to cry.
That night, Lin Jingmo did not go back to the side courtyard to live with Shang Shixu, but stayed in the main courtyard where she used to live. She couldn't sleep, so she got up and opened the window and looked outside. When she recalled that she had felt poor,
Aifu actually felt ashamed and ashamed because he was unwilling to let someone beat a poor old woman. He really didn’t understand what kind of person he was before?
After thinking about it, I asked myself: With this kind of myself, why does my husband like me? Am I the woman that my husband loves?
She looked out the window and saw a crescent moon hanging in the sky, like a knife cutting Lin Jingmo's heart...
At this moment, Shang Shixu didn't sleep. He received a secret letter from King Chen and learned that the northern border had been defeated again. The reason was still a lack of food and grass. Summer was about to begin. The two countries had a truce. They must prepare autumn and winter supplies. I hope Hu
The minister can suggest increasing taxes so that King Chen can benefit from it.
Shang Shixu burned the secret letter, and the blazing firelight reflected on his cold face became ruthless. He sat next to the desk and opened the memorial to be presented to the emperor tomorrow, but he was still reluctant to write it.
The years of war could have ended with a single victory, but instead, delays were delayed, taxes were increased, and the people were displaced and miserable. Is this really the right thing to do?
Thinking of this, he took up his pen and wrote: The Minister of the Hubu Yamen Shang Shixian, I would like to report that there is a shortage of food and grass in the current war in the northern border. I will act according to the reason and prepare carefully.
If it is unfavorable, it will be unfavorable for the country. We should carefully investigate the cause and then respond. After the reasons are completed, wait for the edict.
After writing, he sealed the memorial and when he was getting the seal from the drawer, he saw an exquisite gourd porcelain vase. He took out the porcelain vase and played with it in his hand. He remembered that he let Lin Jingmo go in a moment of mercy yesterday and was very angry with himself.
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He couldn't help but ask himself: Why did a trace of compassion arise when Lin Jingmo stretched out his hand to push him, and saved her instead when he should have killed her? Have you forgotten Lin Jingmo's evil deeds? Have you forgotten that she took the
He's threatening himself with his account books? Isn't his life miserable enough?
Thinking of this, he looked at the memorial again: Since he has decided to be a bad person, why is he unwilling to do evil things completely?
He couldn't help but hold the porcelain bottle tightly: this bottle contained the most poisonous arsenic, which was the poison that his mother once wanted to take with him to relieve him before he died. Unfortunately, they did not die, and they lived in pain in this world.<
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Thinking of this, Shang Shixu narrowed his eyes and looked at the porcelain bottle and said, "Then use it on Lin Jingmo!"