Chapter 3 The Sad Cui's Daughter (1)
When her vision recovered, Meng Hui found herself standing in an antique boudoir with a light green and white skirt on her body, and a pair of half-old embroidered shoes on her feet. She obviously had another soul in her body. She guessed that this should be the real master of the body.
Meng Hui knew that this must have been the "soul piercing" that the King of Hell had temporarily arranged to allow her to complete the task.
There was not much information on the wooden sign. She only knew to help the deceased find out the murderer, but she did not know what to do.
"The King of Hell has this ability, why don't he figure out the murderer and then throw the task to me?" She couldn't figure it out, rubbed her drowsy head, shook her doubts and curiosity, and walked to the blurred bronze mirror to take a look.
Her long eyebrows, almond eyes, melon-shaped face looks pretty good, but she is skinny and bone-skinned. She seems to have never eaten a full meal and looks even worse than her orphan.
A memory surged like a tide, and Meng Hui learned that the original owner was a fourteen-year-old girl named Cui Yuzhen.
Cui Yuying, the female ghost who saluted Meng Hui in the Hall of Hell, is the eldest daughter of the Cui Mansion and the eldest sister of the original owner Cui Yuzhen. In addition to these two girls, Cui Yuwei also has a second girl.
The deceased's mother was the original wife of the Master Cui's family. The couple had a very bad relationship, so Cui Yuying, as the eldest daughter, was not valued by her father at all. When she was four years old, Mrs. Cui passed away due to illness. Mrs. Cui married her new wife Wang, and Cui Yuying lived a day worse than that.
In general, the deceased Cui Yuying is a small bitter gourd, and it is all bitter from the skin to the core.
"Without his biological mother, the stepmother is not a good person. She was still killed by a flower-like age!" Meng Hui sighed. In the Hall of Hell, Cui Yuying was extremely cautious, with her eyebrows down and pleasing to the eye, for fear of being attracted by someone.
Meng Hui understood very well that it is normal to have such inferiority complex when he was young in the shadow of being rejected.
Wang has a son and no daughter. In order to disgust the late wife and Cui Yuying, he recorded the illegitimate Cui Yuwei and Cui Yuzhen in his name, so now the Cui family is a legitimate girl.
Compared with the timid and cowardly original owner Cui Yuzhen, Wang is more fond of Cui Yuwei, who is sweet and clever. When she thinks of this second sister, Meng Hui feels instinctively scared by her original soul.
Meng Hui suppressed his fear and planned to find the scene of the three sisters getting along in his memory. As soon as he saw a rough look, he heard a sharp woman's voice coming from outside.
"Cui Yuzhen, you are so brave! My mother asked you to copy the scriptures and go to the ancestral grave to burn it, but you actually instructed the maid to do it!" There was a ruthless voice, and Meng Hui immediately realized that it was Cui Yuwei coming.
Because of the favor of Wang, Cui Yuwei often bullies Cui Yuzhen and doesn't respect her elder sister Cui Yuying. However, after Cui Yuying's death, she closed her door and "sad" for a while, and it was not until a hundred days ago that she regained her arrogance.
When Meng Hui heard her steps approaching, she slipped to the door, lowered her hands and head, and looked like she was looking down.
The women in this dynasty have a high status. Unmarried women can enter the ancestral tomb after their death. However, the ancestral tomb of the Cui family is not close to Beijing. The carriage can be obtained from the carriage before dawn. It will take a while before the fireworks come back.
Wang did ask Cui Yuzhen to copy the scriptures, but did not specify that she wanted her to go in person. Cui Yuwei obviously wanted to find an excuse to bully the original owner.
Cui Yuzhen was weak and had a high fever a few days ago and had half her life. She could barely copy the scriptures and couldn't go out. Last night, she was still kneeling outside the house with a sick body, begging the dead Cui Yuying for forgiveness. She knelt so hard that her knees were blue and purple before she ordered her personal maid to go out for her.
"Follow me to the main courtyard and see that my mother won't punish you to kneel down for a few days in the Buddhist temple!"
Cui Yuwei's originally bright face seemed a little distorted because of her coquettishness and domineeringness. Seeing that there was no one else in the house, she leaned into Meng Hui's ear and lowered her voice: "You still want to go to the Wenfu Flower Club? Can Master Wen take a fancy to you? Don't think about it, wait at home to marry an old widower!"
Meng Hui was pulled out by her wrist and almost fell to eat shit. The memories that just came were messy again.
The only little maid who was guarding outside was only eleven or twelve years old. When she came up to help, Cui Yuwei kicked her away and she didn't dare to step forward again. Meng Hui's wrist hurt, her head buzzed, and she couldn't get angry.
She wanted to press the noisy Cui Yuwei to the ground and beat her, but in order not to reveal her flaws, she could only grit her teeth and continue being dragged away.
On the way, Meng recalled Mrs. Wen, whom Cui Yuwei mentioned. She had a verbal agreement with the late Mrs. Cui, saying that she would become a family of two surnames when the two children grew up.
Wenfu and Cuifu are in a good match. Mrs. Wen and the late Mrs. Cui were handkerchiefs, and they were sincere when they made the agreement. However, later, Cui Yuying became the eldest daughter of her mother and daughter, and she gave people the feeling that she was not worthy of being on the table outside. Wenfu, which is getting more and more powerful, no longer mentioned this matter.
Mrs. Wen had a friendship with the dead Mrs. Cui, and often asked Cui Mengying to visit. This action was originally kind, but it made Mr. Cui, who wanted to use his daughter to climb up to Wen's family, think that there is still hope for the marriage.
It was not until Cui Yuying was smashed from behind and drowned in the fish pond that Mr. Cui gave up on this "verbal engagement".
Mr. Cui was unintentionally going to find out the truth. Cui Yuying was not favored by him. Not only did she die in her family, but it would easily affect her reputation if it was spread. He asked someone to collect the body and buried it in the ancestral grave, claiming to the public that he died of an acute illness.
Five days ago, Mrs. Wen sent a post to Cui's mansion, asking two girls to go to Wen's mansion to relax. When Mr. Cui heard Wang's statement, he became interested in marrying his daughter.
Not only him, Cui Yuwei, who had long been jealous of Cui Yuying's "engagement contract", was also moved. Recently, looking at her third sister with white skin and tender face, her delicate and pitiful face, her hostility is more than twice as great as usual.
Meng Hui, who was sensitive, thought about it and knew that the reason why Mrs. Wen invited the Cui family girl was just because of her face and she would not really consider Cui Yuwei and Cui Yuzhen as her daughter-in-law.
Mr. Wen looks pretty and has a gaze. He is a popular son-in-law candidate in the fifth-rate family in Kyoto. Mrs. Wen can pick up several ladies who want to marry her son, and she looks down on the Cui Mansion, which is on the decline.
Cui Yuwei took her to complain, and she could stay in the mansion on the grounds of being punished and find out the situation and find out the real culprit as soon as possible.
Meng Hui thought that although Mr. Cui hates Cui Yuying, he should be eager to use her to catch up with her, as if he could not be the murderer. Wang hates Cui Yuying, but the two have no interest disputes. Besides, she has to have murderous intentions, Cui Yuying is not even seventeen years old, so Wang is not very suspicious.
Apart from the two heads, the Cui family has only two concubines, a bunch of maids, as well as the original owner and the slightly suspicious Cui Yuwei.
Meng Hui analyzed the moment he came to the main courtyard corridor and stepped into the main room, and suddenly remembered what Cui Yuwei had just said.
Waiting to marry an old widower? What does this mean?
Chapter completed!