In the blink of an eye, late in the day, the moon was fading, looking like a machete. Lin Jingmo's injuries were not completely healed, but she moved back to the main courtyard because Shang Shixu never returned home. In the middle of the night, she was suddenly awakened by a nightmare and went out.
Covered in cold sweat, I suddenly opened my eyes.
In the dream, she appeared that morning again. The woman covered in blood put the note into her hand. Xu Zhou... who was Xu Zhou? There was also the woman who fell from the building. I don't know how injured she was.
Lin Jingmo turned over, and when he accidentally touched the wound, there was another burst of pain, and he couldn't help but let out a muffled groan.
Mother Li heard a sound in the inner room, and quickly got up from the soft couch outside, put on a coat, and held a lamp to look.
With a little candlelight, she lifted the bed curtain and asked: "Did the girl touch a wound?"
Mother Li took advantage of the light and helped Lin Jingmo sit up with one hand.
Lin Jingmo asked: "Has your husband come back from the Yamen?"
Mother Li put the lamp on the table, poured a bowl of water and handed it to her and said, "Girl, just sleep peacefully. How you lived in the past is how you will live in the future."
The implication is that they didn't care about timing in the past, so why should they care about it now.
Lin Jingmo took the water and drank it, lowered his head, and thoughtfully opened his hands and counted the numbers: "It's been seven days."
"Seven days are nothing. In the past, my uncle never showed up once every ten days and a half, so why don't we just live our lives as usual?" Mother Li wiped Lin Jingmo's sweaty forehead and continued: "It's late at night, girl, go to sleep." Lin Jingmo replied: "It's not Shang Shixu, it's the woman who fell from the building. It's been seven days since she was injured."
Mother Li sat beside Lin Jingmo's bed and said: "Bah, bah, bah, I don't know where the Sangmenxing came from, and it made you go to jail, girl, and you were injured all over. A good minister's daughter was beaten like this.
They are all beasts without royal laws. If the girl is better tomorrow, I will send someone to inform the minister. If the minister can't control it, he will tell the queen!"
Li's mother and the others didn't know that Li Zheng, who had beaten Lin Jingmo, had already been imprisoned in Zhao Prison by Shang Shixu.
Lin Jingmo shook his head: "This matter is not the most important thing. Firstly, I don't know how the woman is doing now. Secondly, Zhang Renhuai, who hurt people that day, was let go openly and openly. How can such a thing happen in the world? They actually talked about what the minister said.
The son of a family does not need to obey the law."
"What's this?" Mother Lin gently brushed away the broken hair from Lin Jingmo's forehead: "There are more than one or two injustices in the world. The girl was born in a famous family, so her life is naturally smooth, and the people are suffering, how can it be us?
Is it for the women in the courtyard to worry about?"
Lin Jingmo disagreed: "I saw this with my own eyes. What's even more terrifying is that they actually said that I would be responsible for hurting others. There is no such truth in the world. If my husband hadn't come to save me, I'm afraid...
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"My girl, we are lucky to be able to walk out of the prison intact today. Don't mention anything else. The imperial court has so many officials, ministers, ministers, and ministers. They have read so many books, and they may not be able to control the world.
The treatment is so good, everyone wants to climb Gaozhi..." Speaking of climbing Gaozhi, Mother Li glanced at Lin Jingmo subconsciously, and said without complaining: "Even our uncle...has read so-called sage books for so many years.
, they are not very kind to girls, I see, they have forgotten their true intentions after reading!"
"Mother Li!" Lin Jingmo said: "I just said a few words to elicit your complaints about this car. Shang Shixu saved me again this time. Why mention the past again!"
After that, she lay down and turned her back to Mother Li and stopped talking. She was thinking that she would go to the government office tomorrow to find out what happened.
Mother Li had no choice but to sigh, pick up the lamp on the table and lie back on the couch.
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The next day, Lin Jingmo got up early, but couldn't defeat Mother Li, so he took her to the Jingzhao Mansion Office together. When he saw Cui Shang who came to have a massage, he waved to him from a distance.
Cui Shang saw that it was Lin Jingmo, so he saluted Lin Jingmo: "Mrs. Shang, your injury has been greatly healed? I have offended many people that day, so I hope Haihan will do it."
After all, he knew that if he hadn't revealed to Shang Shixu that day that he had captured Lin Jingmo, he might have been in Zhao Prison at this moment, and like Li Zheng, he was casually accused by the Ministry of Household Affairs and executed by Qiu Hou Wen.
Lin Jingmo did not mention what happened that day, but asked anxiously: "Let me ask you, what happened to the girl who fell from the building that day?"
"The girl from that day?" Cui Shang repeated.
Lin Jingmo said angrily: "Should I ask you or you ask me?"
Cui Shang lowered his eyes, a little defensive and a little confused: "Why did Mrs. Shang ask about this?"
Lin Jingmo couldn't help but rolled her eyes at him: "You know that I am Shang Shixu's wife, then you must know who my father is!"
Cui Shang replied: "Lin Yuanzhi, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, is a pure man in the court. He is upright and selfless. He has the world in mind. He does things according to the rules and never shows any favoritism. I think that on the day he was dismissed from the official position, he also arrested the wife for questioning as usual. The person who beat the wife was also
Not me, even if it is Lin Shangshu, he will not punish me for no reason."
Lin Jingmo said helplessly: "You're cruel! Just forget it if you don't tell me."
Lin Jingmo turned around and was about to leave, but Cui Shang said, "She's dead!"
Lin Jingmo turned around in surprise and looked at Cui Shang in disbelief: "How is that possible? That day she...she was obviously still alive!"
Cui Shang said lightly: "That day was that day, and today is today. Maybe she was still alive that day, but today...she is dead. Her body was placed in Yi Zhuang on the outskirts of the city. She had no father or mother, just an ordinary
She's just a singing girl. I don't know how many people like this die every day in Beijing. No matter whether they are dead or alive, who cares about the difference?"
"I will care." Lin Jingmo raised his head, his pure eyes full of anger: "What happened to such a person? Is it his fault that he is in chaos and has no friends? Doesn't he even deserve to be alive?"<
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Cui Shang was frightened by her appearance and was speechless for a moment.
Lin Jingmo continued to ask: "Where is Zhang Renhuai? That poor woman died, but he got away with it."
Cui Shang lowered his head as if to express his acquiescence.
Lin Jingmo nodded understandingly, turned around and left.
Cui Shang said to Lin Jingmo's back: "The reason why I told the whole matter is not because I am afraid of Lin Shangshu, but because I am afraid of Shang Shilang!"
Lin Jingmo turned around and looked at him with confusion.
He smiled softly and said: "The person who beat you that day is called Li Zheng. He has been imprisoned in Zhao Prison. The torture there is not only flogging. I heard that he was tortured so much that he even accepted bribes eight hundred years ago."
, after autumn, he will be asked to be beheaded, and he will learn the tricks of Shang Shilang, and will be demoted... I dare not offend Mrs. Shang."
Lin Jingmo suddenly realized at this moment: Could it be that Shang Shixu had not returned to his house these days to avenge himself?