The wind and the moon

Chapter 17 Difficult to Innocent Fanghun Drinking Poison

Lying on the bed, Meng Yuxuan didn't know whether it was anger, anger, hatred, or pain. All kinds of annoyances came to his mind. He didn't finally fall asleep until the afternoon, and slept until dusk. When he woke up, he saw When Song Yinsheng and Meng Yuzhi were sitting at the outer table playing chess, they knew they were here to intercede for Xia Ningxiang. Looking back, although she still felt that Xia Ningxiang was disrespectful and quarrelled, but after all, a slap couldn't be heard, Meng Yushuang was a rascal first, thinking this way, he was not as annoyed as before, sighed, looked at Mo Yun, saw that he was still asleep, got up and got out of bed.

When Su Pei heard the movement, she hurried in to serve Meng Yuxuan to wash and wash. While serving, she said, "My lord, don't get angry with the servants anymore."

"I've been away all year round, and I've gradually become lax in discipline. I thought they followed me, so they are naturally more informed and reasonable than the maids in other rooms. Let me ask you, are they also like this on weekdays?"

"The maids always make jokes, but everyone knows what to say and what not to say. Ningxiang is the most eloquent. Although sometimes it is too late, but, It is also her lively and refreshing side."

Meng Yuzhi listened outside, and then said: "That's right. If you said something just for her and Shuang'er, you would drive out, regardless of the relationship between master and servant in the past few years. Once you come, it's obvious that the elder brother is too close It's a favor, and secondly, wouldn't it be fair for Shuanger to be punished more severely?"

Meng Yuxuan came out to sit down, Song Yinsheng personally brought tea, Meng Yuxuan asked: "Sheng'er, you are in charge, all people and property are in your hands, what do you say?"

Song Yinsheng thought it over a long time ago, and said: "My cousin's words are certainly reasonable, but the atmosphere in this garden really needs to be adjusted. In recent years, the prince is always away, and the maids rely on the master's favor, and gradually When she became loose, she became more courageous, her temper became stronger, and the rules were gradually broken. Yu Shuang naturally needless to say, like Qi'er, Mei Ling and Mo Yun, if the maids are allowed to talk nonsense, they will see it in their eyes. Yes, if the ears are not clean, it will be greatly damaged. Therefore, we must be strict about the rules here."

Meng Yuxuan drank tea and said, "It's exactly the truth, but it's the same as what I thought. It might as well, let me take my own practice, and after reading the others, I will naturally restrain what should be restrained, and what should be changed changed."

"Cousin, don't worry, I just punished her to go out, but it's over. Why don't you demote her two grades first, tell her to go to another room to do other things, wait for a year or so, and the punishment will be fine." It’s okay to be fined, transferred back, or promoted to another room.”

Meng Yuxuan thought it was very good, so he followed Song Yinsheng's statement, Meng Yuzhi saw that Xia Ningxiang had not been driven out, and that a little punishment would be more appropriate, so she agreed with a smile.

Meng Yuxuan thought for a while, and said, "Ask her to take care of the winter pavilion among the four pavilions of spring, summer, autumn and winter! Su Pei, you go and help her pack her things, and tell him to go there right now!"

Su Pei smiled and took the order to go downstairs.

Meng Yuxuan asked Song Yinsheng about the poisoning of Mo Yun, if there were clues and clues, Song Yinsheng only said that he had sent a few servants to search for some women who managed the kitchen, and asked who came over in the morning His maid, but it didn't work, temporarily separated Mo Yun's food and drink, and his maid, Hua Qiao, was in charge of it, and Yun Kuo was asked to supervise.

Meng Yuxuan nodded, and said: "That's great, let's check again! After sleeping all afternoon, I have to go down and take a look around now. You can accompany me to see Qi'er."

The two agreed, got up and went downstairs, and when they went downstairs, they saw that Su Yu was helping Xia Ningxiang to tidy up her things. When Xia Ningxiang saw a group of people coming down, she came over to thank her, and said that she should correct herself.

Meng Yuxuan nodded, turned around to go out, but suddenly heard a "bang" sound, stopped walking unconsciously, turned around to see, it turned out that when Su Xi was packing up Xia Ningxiang's usual clothes, a porcelain bottle fell out of the clothes, fell to the ground.Su Pei was taken aback, and hurried to pick it up.Xia Ningxiang was also taken aback, and then asked: "What is missing?"

Before Su Pei picked it up, he saw liquid flowing out from the mouth of the bottle. The liquid was black and had a strong sour smell.Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Ah..." Su Pei suddenly screamed, "Poison!"

This word shocked everyone again, and hurried over to check it out. Sure enough, the liquid that flowed out corroded the ground a bit, and it was obviously poison.Everyone looked at Xia Ningxiang, Xia Ningxiang woke up from the surprise after a while, shook her head, and said: "No, no, not mine, not mine..."

Meng Yuxuan said coldly: "Prince Su, go invite Mr. Han."

Su Pei hurriedly agreed.

No one spoke, just stood stiffly on the ground, waiting for Han Shengluan.After Han Shengluan arrived, he already knew what had happened from Su Pei, so he didn't say much. He pulled out the silver needle, dipped some in it, put it in front of his nose, sniffed it twice, and nodded. The meaning was no longer clear. It was the poison that Mo Yun was poisoned in the morning.

Meng Yuxuan suddenly remembered Hua Nongying's words, "No, I just went back to the building and met Sister Ningxiang. She asked me if I still had the lotus powder that the previous girls shared, and asked me to pack some for her. She said she didn't have any." I put the medicine on the table, put some hibiscus powder in it for her, and then it was gone.”

"No, no, it's not me, lord, it's not me!" Xia Ningxiang fell to her knees and cried, "I don't know who put it there, but, it wasn't me, no, it wasn't me..."

Song Yinsheng, Meng Yuzhi and Han Shengluan didn't want to talk anymore, they just looked at Meng Yuxuan quietly.For a moment, Meng Yuxuan felt that the universe and the world were empty, and that the soul thinking was false, and that the maid who had followed him for many years turned into a vicious and poisonous person. He was heartbroken, disappointed and angry, and rushed into his heart again in an instant. With heavy words and bad words, he only said lightly: "Go!"

"Go?" Xia Ningxiang was taken aback, and knew that the so-called "go" meant to drive herself out of the garden. She only felt wronged, sad, and ashamed, but she couldn't explain anything for a while, so she simply calmed down He said, "Where did the lord tell the slaves to go?"

"Get out!" Meng Yuxuan closed his eyes and said, his voice was still cold.

"The servant said it wasn't mine, the prince doesn't believe it, does he?" Xia Ningxiang stared directly at Meng Yuxuan with wide eyes, and asked miserably.

Meng Yuxuan snorted coldly, his expression was very disdainful, obviously he didn't believe it.

Silent for a while, Xia Ningxiang saw that Meng Yuxuan was silent, but she was very indifferent and contemptuous. She nodded and said, "The only way for a slave to show his will is by death!" As she spoke, she turned around quickly, picked up the porcelain bottle on the ground, and swallowed the contents in one gulp. poison.

"Ningxiang..." Meng Yuzhi and Su Pei both stopped. Su Pei wanted to reach out to stop it, but it was too late.

With a "bang", the porcelain bottle fell to the ground again, and Xia Ningxiang also fell down.

Such an accident, such a situation, no one could have imagined. Seeing her falling to the ground, they looked at Meng Yuxuan with great sorrow, and said miserably: "My lord, after Ning Xiang asked herself to enter the garden, she did not have any double-heartedness. All, love, all, appeal to the king, the prince. The prince, if you don’t believe me, don’t want me to serve you, I, alive, just, just, it’s meaningless!”

Hearing this, Meng Yuxuan was like a thunderbolt from the blue sky. He suddenly woke up. In an instant, the universe reappeared, the heaven and the earth were reborn, his soul possessed his body, and his thinking returned. He suddenly shouted: "Ningxiang? You..." Turning to Han Shengluan, he said anxiously : "Master Han, save her quickly! Save her first, save her..."

Han Shengluan had already prepared the silver needles, and waited for Meng Yuxuan to perch in front of her body as soon as she opened her mouth, but Xia Ningxiang shook her head, as if returning to the light, she broke free from the pills Han Shengluan brought up, and said: "My lord, in the next life, I will serve you!" Then he swallowed.

Han Shengluan stepped forward to feel his pulse, sighed, and said, "I drank too much, and died within a moment."

Meng Yuxuan trembled and took two steps back, Song Yinsheng quickly supported him and said, "Cousin!"

"Ningxiang!" Su Pei suddenly cried out in pain, threw herself on her, and began to cry.

After a while, Meng Yuxuan calmed down, sighed, and said: "Sheng'er, her body was returned to her old lady by Ning Zhi, and 80 taels of silver was given to her family as a funeral fee."

Song Yinsheng took the order and said, "Cousin, you go upstairs to rest first!"

Meng Yuxuan shook his head and said, "Forget it, there's no need to rest. Sheng'er, you deal with it first, Zhi'er, you can accompany me to Mengyu Tower to see Qi'er!"

Everyone nodded and dispersed.Dead to die, painful to painful, crying to crying, sighing to sighing, before you know it, Mengyu Tower has arrived.

Meng Yuqi was flipping through the books on the desk, and when she saw her eldest brother and second sister arriving, she hurriedly got up to greet her, and said with a smile, "I said I'll be at your place later, so you guys will come here first."

The two sat down, and Hui'er served tea.Meng Yuxuan smiled and said, "I've been busy with other things recently, so I forgot to torture your homework. I don't know if you have energy or not."

Meng Yuqi hurriedly said: "Of course there are. A while ago, when I went out with everyone, my sister was limited to writing poems. She knows."

Meng Yuzhi smiled and said: "Well, if you talk about that time, you have indeed improved, but I don't know if you recited a good poem by chance, or if you really gained knowledge."

"Of course it's the knowledge gain. Needless to say, what the master teaches, but what my cousin teaches is very reasonable and useful. The elder sister often supervises my studies, and elder brother Mei always helps me. Even the new Young Master Mo Yun who came here, although he is the same age as me, but his poems and prose are the same as my cousin, and he has taught me a lot."

"Yun'er? What can he guide you?" Meng Yuxuan asked with interest.

"Well, once the master left a broken poem and asked everyone to match it. Although I got it right, I still felt that it was not appropriate. Coincidentally, my cousin went to the second sister's place, and Brother Mei was taking medicine again, so I went to find it. Mo Yun, I told him, after he read it, he corrected two words for me, which was very appropriate, and I told Master the next day, and Master also said that it was really much better than yesterday."

"What broken poem? How did you get it right, and how did Mo Yun accept it?" Meng Yuxuan asked.

"The master's poem is: Pear blossoms rain like oil, moisten red and crisp hands. Willow winds like silk, silk messy white hair. Spring comes as before, people leave and people are empty and thin. The epilogue I took is: Water is called Shuidong Liu, is Zhidao worried? Mo Yun changed the word called to hate, and changed the word not to Chinese.”

After Meng Yuxuan listened, he said silently in his heart: "Water hates water flowing eastward, and the heart is full of sorrow." After reading it, he smiled and said, "Sure enough, it's wonderful. With these two lines in your master's poem, it is like the finishing touch. It’s also deep, and the environment is superb.”

"Yeah. But I don't know where Mr. Mo's knowledge comes from. People always look at him with admiration." Meng Yuzhi couldn't help thinking.

"It is reported that it is taught by Sun Ke, Sun Jianxin, a famous scholar in Yangzhou." Thinking of it, Meng Yuxuan replied, that's all, then thought again: Although Sun Jianxin is a famous scholar in Yangzhou, he may not be much better than Qi'er's teacher, Yun'er To be able to have such knowledge, I'm afraid, I still have more thoughts.