concubines are respected

Chapter 35 Doubts
The two servants quickly took care of themselves and left the Yixiang Pavilion. Suxian's master and servant set up joss sticks and paper money in the main hall to worship, and walked to the bedroom.

Xiangcao opened the green bamboo curtain at the door of the room, and Suxian moved her head slightly to enter the bedroom. Everything in the room is still the same. Although her mother has passed away for three years, but fortunately, the room is facing the sun and the light is sufficient. There is no imagination in the room The smell of mold and astringency, the red sandalwood carved couch is glowing with a dark red luster, but the silk curtain on the couch is slightly faded, and it is hung on both sides by the gold and copper tent hooks on both sides of the couch, throwing two soft arcs.

Suxian stood in the middle of the house, turned around and looked around at the tables and chairs in the house. The dressing cabinet, mirror copper, decorative boxes, bookcases, and the incense stand that her mother loved during her lifetime have all been wiped spotless by the servants.All the furnishings in the room are the same as when the mother was there.Only the orientation of the large golden nanmu box in the west corner is slightly skewed, which must be the result of the unauthorized movement of the two servants just now.

Cuiya stepped forward to lean on the big nanmu box, looked it over for a while, and said regretfully, "Miss, look at the bottom of the box, it is really rotten, and even the color has faded to be different from the box, what a pity. "

Suxian squatted beside the nanmu box, took out the silk in her arms and gently wiped the dark green and rusty copper buttons on the box lid, whispering, "When my mother was alive, she often wiped the copper buttons like this. , until the polished luster is clear, alas." At this point, Suxian's tone became more and more lonely, and the weight in her hands increased, and the copper buckle became bright again.

"Second Miss, don't be sad. Now that you have been promoted to the first daughter-in-law, the Second Madam will definitely feel very comforted when she is alive." Xiang Cao stepped forward and gently helped Su Xian and said in a low voice, and then said to Cui Ya, "Cui Ya, help me and move the wooden box back to its original place. Although the wooden box is old, tidy it up and fix it up, it can be regarded as leaving a memory for the second lady."

After speaking, Cui Ya and Xiang Cao worked together to move the heavy box back to its original position, and the bottom of the box rubbed against the bluestone floor to make a rough sound.

"I remember that my mother's favorite clothes back then were all put in this nanmu box, open it quickly to see if the clothes have been damaged." Suxian instructed softly.

Vanilla immediately opened the lid of the box and sorted it out. Inside the box were neatly stacked pieces of colorful clothes, skirts and gowns. Although it has been three years, fortunately, it has been well preserved and there is no mildew. There was a sour smell on the clothes.

"Second Miss is still careful. These clothes have not been taken care of for a long time, and they already have a sour smell." Cui Ya immediately took out the skirt and jacket placed on the top floor, shaking them lightly, and the sour smell became more intense.

"No, isn't that the smell of nanmu?" Suxian Liu frowned slightly, picked up the corner of the clothes in Cui Ya's hand, put it to her nose and sniffed, and said in a low voice, "Panmu doesn't smell like agarwood. , but reveals a quiet light fragrance. As long as the objects placed in the nanmu utensils, no matter how long the time is, they will never have a sour smell. Take a look at the vanilla, but there are strange smells in the box. Things like this will happen.”

While talking, Suxian bowed and took out a few dresses to check the inside of the wooden box.Vanilla also quickly got down, took out the clothes from the wooden box very swiftly, and placed them neatly on the round table beside her.

Soon all the clothes in the box were taken out, but no foreign objects were found inside. Looking at the empty nanmu box, Suxian was puzzled and walked around the wooden box lightly, whispering in her mouth, "It doesn't make sense. ,How is this going?"

"Second miss, the second wife has passed away for three years, and the Yixiang Pavilion has been vacant for three years and no one has entered, maybe it is really because it has not been ventilated for a long time." Cui Ya did not understand Nanmu's characteristics, so she took it for granted.

"No, no matter what, there shouldn't be this kind of smell emanating from the nanmu box." Suxian was not reconciled, and she always felt that something was wrong, so she simply put her hands on the side of the box and turned her head Probe deep into the bottom of the box and take a sharp breath, suddenly a strong sourness rushes straight to the forehead, causing Suxian to cough anxiously, "Cough. Cough. Cough."

"Second Miss, what's wrong with you?" Vanilla patted her back quickly, pulled Suxian up from the box and stood up straight.

"Cough. Cough. This... The bottom of the box smells stronger." Suxian tried her best to endure the uncomfortable feeling in her throat, pointing to the bottom of the box and said anxiously.

"Really? Is there really something wrong?" Vanilla showed doubts on her face, imitating what Suxian did just now, she leaned down and sniffed lightly, and at the same time reached out and knocked on the left and right walls of the box, the thick sound of knocking echoed in the empty space In the bedroom, when Vanilla hit the bottom of the box, the sound of knocking became hollow, "Empty!" Vanilla raised her head in surprise, and said to Suxian, "Second Miss, the bottom of this box is empty!?"

"How is it possible?" Suxian was shocked, leaned into the box again and knocked hard on the bottom of the box, as expected, there was a hollow sound from the bottom of the box.

"No wonder the bottom of the box is so easy to rot, so the bottom of the box is empty?" Cui Ya whispered, and then said in puzzlement, "But this good nanmu box is something that the master specially sent to the second lady back then. , how could the bottom of the box be empty?"

"Cuiya is right. Father and mother are deeply in love. How could father give mother an empty nanmu box? It must have been tampered with." Suxian said to herself with a stern expression.

Vanilla was puzzled, "But Second Miss, it's just a box. Even if the bottom is empty, the lifespan will be shorter at most. Who would go to such lengths to do such a painful thing?"

"Hmph! If you just hollow out the bottom, it will be painless and useless, but I'm afraid there is another mystery behind the bottom of the box." Although there are only three masters and servants in the room, Suxian's voice is still extremely low , Immediately there was a flash of inspiration in his eyes, and he turned to Cui Ya and said, "Go to the miscellaneous room to get the copper pick and small hammer, I have to break open the bottom of the box to see what's weird inside."

Cuiya responded, and rushed to the miscellaneous room, Suxian raised her hands high and rolled up her wide sleeves, revealing her tender and white arms, it seemed that she planned to do it herself.

"Second miss, how can I let you do these rough jobs, this servant is going to ask the two young men to come back to work." The majestic daughter, who has no reason to use a copper pick to break open the bottom of the box, Xiang Cao hurriedly stopped.

"No, before the truth of this matter comes to light, you must not alarm others." Suxian said with a serious expression, "If you talk about such a trivial matter, it will be hard to overwhelm me."

At this time, Cui Ya had already returned to the room with the copper pickaxe, seeing Su Xian's sleeves up ready, she immediately said, "Second Miss, let me be a servant."

"No need." Suxian took the copper pick and stopped talking to the two of them. Immediately, holding the copper pick in one hand and the small hammer in the other, she skillfully broke open the bottom of the box.

As Lin Suxian himself, he has never done such rough work, but Suxian in his previous life did a lot of it. Breaking doors and tearing things down during actions has long been commonplace. In this life, although physical strength is limited, although the strength is much smaller, the techniques are Extremely skilful.

Accompanied by the sound of jingling, a square gap was quickly broken at the bottom of the box. As expected, the bottom was not only hollowed out, but also scattered with a few white crystals. Judging from the surrounding wood, the bottom of the box was once The cavities in the wood were filled with white powder, but as time went by, the white powder had been absorbed by the wood, and very little was left, and the remaining small amount also formed crystals.

"What is this?" Cui Ya asked in a low voice in surprise, and then she wanted to reach out and touch it.

"Wait." Suxian immediately took Cuiya's hand to stop it, "If you don't know what it is, don't touch it with your hands. Vanilla, go get the spoon and plate."

Vanilla understood, and trotted all the way towards the small kitchen, and came back soon, with a small porcelain plate and a short-handled porcelain spoon in her hand.

Suxian carefully used a porcelain spoon to put the white crystals in the hollow into a porcelain plate, scooped up half of the plate before handing it to Cui Ya who was standing by the side, straightened up with effort and said, "Mother clothes The sour taste on the skin comes from this white crystal dust, but I don't know where it came from."

The three masters and servants sat around the side of the round table, looking at the white crystal powder in the porcelain dish for a long time, pounding it with a small spoon from time to time, but they really couldn't tell who was ugly, and it was getting late in the sky.Suxian had no choice but to order Xiangcao to move her mother's clothes to the closet on the east wall, take a piece of old coarse cloth and cover the bottom of the wooden box to cover the hole, and then tightly cover the wooden box.He also personally stored the white crystal powder in the porcelain dish with oiled paper, put it in his arms, and said to Xiangcao and Cuiya in a deep voice, "You must not reveal half a word about today's affairs, even the old lady can't say anything, but remember?"

Although they couldn't understand the use of the white crystal powder for the time being, Xiang Cao and Cui Ya also understood that this matter was not trivial, and someone must be playing tricks in the dark, and they nodded very cautiously.

After tidying up the bedroom, the three masters and servants went back to Bird Garden with a lot of worries.

　You should have read the news that Sichuan has experienced heavy rain for several days, causing floods.Sujin's hometown is here.Since I was worried about the rainfall all day long, I was completely in the mood to code.Although Su Jin's family lives on the sixth floor, there is no need to worry about the floods, but seeing many bridges collapse and causing casualties, Su Jin is really sad.I saw in the news just now that a third-floor construction board house was washed away by the flood, tens of kilometers away from us, not far from the river. The reporter standing on the other side watched a man on the third floor The same collapsed house was instantly submerged in the raging river, but could not be rescued.Su Jin couldn't calm down for a long time.It's so pitiful, I can only pray in my heart, the disaster will pass quickly!

　　
　
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