Concubine

Chapter 74
Yang Qiuchi stood up and asked, "Zhihui, is this grave really the little maid who committed suicide by throwing herself into a well while pregnant with my child? Her name is Ruolan, right?"

Qin Zhihui nodded. She saw that Yang Qiuchi's wound was fine and his spirits were good, so the stone in her heart fell to the ground.

Yang Qiuchi didn't ask her why she wanted to kill him, the reason is already very obvious.He picked up the knife from the ground, walked silently to the edge of the grave, and began to cut the grass on the grave. Qin Zhihui stood aside and watched without saying a word.

During the bridal chamber, Yang Qiuchi boasted that he could do all kinds of farm work. In fact, he had never done any farm work. Cutting thatch is considered a technical job. It was not easy to cut the thatch. Sure enough, after a while, Yang Qiuchi's hands were already cut bloody by the thatch. Yang Qiuchi didn't seem to notice it. He hoped that this would give Qin Zhihui the impression that he was doing his best to make up for the mistakes he made. .

Sure enough, Zhihui bit her lip, walked over, and snatched the short blade from Yang Qiuchi's hand: "Let me do it." After all, Qin Zhihui is a child of a poor family. She did a lot of this kind of farm work when she was a child, and cutting thatch was very important to her. It was a piece of cake, and later when she became the maidservant of the young mistress of the He family, she basically stopped doing rough work, and her hands became tender again, but she did not forget about the farm work.After a while, all the thatch on the grave was cut off, even the sides of the grave were cut clean.

Yang Qiuchi rearranged the sacrifices in front of the grave, poured a glass of wine, held it in both hands, and knelt down on one knee: "Miss Ruolan, I can't remember the past, I don't know the reason, Since Zhihui came to kill me at the expense of her life, I believe that I must have hurt you deeply, and I am here to make amends." After finishing speaking, she slowly poured the glass of wine on the grave.

Qin Zhihui knelt down and pulled Yang Qiuchi to sit down in front of the grave: "Husband, let me tell you the whole story."

The mountain wind blows Qin Zhihui's beautiful hair, and it flutters: "When I was young, my family was very poor. In order to survive, I was sold by my parents to Mr. He's house in Hejia Village as a maid when I was ten years old. Hejia Village is not far from your Yangjia Village. Far, Sister Ruolan entered the He family at about that time, we two little maids were helpless and depended on each other, Sister Ruolan was two years older than me, and took care of me everywhere."

"Once, I accidentally broke a vase. In the twelfth lunar month of winter, the young lady of the He family asked me to kneel in the snow in the courtyard, saying that she would freeze me to death, and she stuck her head out of the window to scold me from time to time. I just kept going like this." Kneeling in the patio, there was a lot of snow in the sky, at night, I was so cold that I couldn't stand it anymore, and passed out... When I woke up, it was almost dawn, and I was lying on the warm quilt During the day, I was very surprised, so I got up and ran to the yard to see that Sister Ruolan was wearing my clothes, kneeling in the snow for me, trembling all over... It turned out that she had been freezing for me all night. "

"I ran over and hugged her and cried. She was too cold to speak. I took her back to the room, came out and knelt by myself. At dawn, the young mistress saw that I was not dead. She was surprised, so she let me go. That’s how I survived this disaster.”

Yang Qiuchi scolded fiercely: "The He family is really vicious!"

Qin Zhihui smiled wryly, "Sister Ruolan's two toes were frozen off, she suffered a serious illness and almost died."

"Then one day, the young mistress asked me to go out with sister Ruolan to run errands. When we came back, it was already late. We passed by the entrance of your Yang family village. You rushed out of the darkness, smelling of alcohol, grabbed me and went to the nearby wheat field. Li Tuo, I want to..., I was terrified, screaming and struggling desperately, sister Ruolan had already run away, but when she heard my cry, she came back again and hit you with dirt lumps, you rushed to her and threw her I pressed it on the field ridge... At that time, I was still young, so I was frightened, so I ran away and hid."

Qin Zhihui's tears fell one by one, and Yang Qiuchi hugged her distressedly, hoping to give her more comfort.

Qin Zhihui leaned against Yang Qiuchi, and slowly continued: "After a long time, I saw Sister Ruolan limping towards her. I ran out to help her. Her first sentence was to ask me if I was injured. I... "Qin Zhihui couldn't continue, and started to cry softly again.

Yang Qiuchi smiled wryly to himself, why did Yang Mizuo, who he replaced himself, rape women?

"Later, I found out that Sister Ruolan often sneaked out of the He family compound, and it took a long time before she came back. Every time she came back, her expression was wrong and her face was red. I asked her what was wrong, but she didn't say anything. Once I secretly talked to Behind her, I realized that she slipped out to meet you."

ah?Yang Qiuchi was taken aback. It turned out that Ruolan and Yang Wei made friends after she was raped.

"After she came back, I asked her why, and she said that you promised to redeem her and marry her. Later, you were caught stealing from the He family, beat you up, tied you up in the firewood shed, and waited for your family to retrieve money to redeem you."

Yang Qiuchi sighed secretly, why am I so unlucky.

"Sister Ruolan secretly ran to release you. That bloody handkerchief was used by Sister Ruolan to wipe your blood at that time. You took that bloody handkerchief and swore to marry her."

Yang Qiuchi understood why Qin Zhihui would show herself this handkerchief after drinking poisoned wine on the wedding night, before she estimated that she was going to die, so she wanted to let herself die to understand. What she met was the self who had resurrected from a dead body and knew nothing.

Qin Zhihui went on to say: "You escaped from the He family and hid. Afterwards, your mother and the others paid you money, and this matter settled down."

"One day, Sister Ruolan came back from outside with bruises on her face and body. I asked her what was wrong. After begging her for a long time, she told me that she was pregnant with your child and went to find you. You But he said that he had no money to redeem her body, and asked her to find a doctor to take medicine to kill the child, and sister Ruolan refused, so you beat her."

Yang Qiuchi slapped his head: "Why am I such a bastard!" But he said in his heart, it's really bad luck for me to replace Yang Wei.

"Later, the old lady of the Yin family came to visit the He family. He fell in love with sister Ruolan, and said he wanted to take her as a concubine, and set a date to welcome her. Sister Ruolan desperately refused to marry, so she secretly brought a package to find you, and wanted to elope with you. She came back crying very late that day and said that you didn't want to elope with her. The He family found out about you and put her under house arrest in a small courtyard. Waiting for the Yin family to come to welcome her."

Yang Qiuchi was taken aback again: "The Yin family? Is it the Yin De family in Guangde County?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?" Qin Zhihui asked.

Yang Qiuchi always felt that there seemed to be something wrong in it, but he didn't know what was wrong, "It's nothing, just keep talking."

"That night, she told me that since she and you are husband and wife, she should stay the same forever. She will never marry someone else, but you don't want to elope with her, and she can't live anymore. She hates You ruined her, begging me to find a chance to avenge her and kill you, so that I can be husband and wife with you in the underworld."

This Ruolan is so ruthless, Yang Qiuchi thought to himself.

Qin Zhihui looked at the grave, "I don't want to kill people, but how can I refuse? Sister Ruolan saved my life twice, and my life was originally hers, so I deserved to die for her. So I ...I agreed... I originally wanted to persuade her the next day and help her escape secretly, but I didn't expect that she threw herself into the well in the small courtyard and died in the middle of the night..."

Qin Zhihui lowered her head and sobbed, tears falling silently one by one.

(End of this chapter)