Chapter 1

Spring of the 23rd year of the Republic of China. Suzhou.

On the morning of March in Yangchun, the continuous haze of several days of drizzle had disappeared, and the branches had been hung early in the morning.

"Chirping" of birds, faint fragrance of flowers, with four weeks of people coming and going to the opening of the morning market, located in a quadrangle courtyard in the suburb of the center of Suzhou, which imitates the characteristics of the former dynasty of the capital, the next people have been busy with the cleaning work at hand, and the rice and coriander in the big kitchen are mixed. The new day begins.

Overlooking the famous "home of Suzhou embroidery" in and out of Suzhou City, there are several small courtyards arranged in an orderly way. Among them are the winding green brick path, with elegant and exquisite pavilions, lakes and pavilions. On both sides are lush and neat flowers and trees. It has to be said that the principal of the Su family mansion is a person who knows how to enjoy and is good at enjoying.

”How about your lady? " Su Tingyi, the eldest grandson of the Su family, hurried forward to his servant girls and servants who saluted him and said good morning. He hurried into a small and delicate courtyard, into a bright embroidered room facing the sun, and asked the two servant girls who were cleaning up the embroidery lines.

Two servant girls looked at each other at the words, which was quite strange. One of them, who was slightly taller, quickly replied with a low eyebrow: "back to the eldest young master, the young lady got up in the morning and took the large Suzhou embroidery that would be exhibited in the future and went to the old master's yard, saying that the young master sent her to go." Later, the tone was low. Looking at the young master's face, it must have been someone else who raised the name of the young master to let the young lady go.

As soon as Su Tingyi's sword eyebrow is selected, he turns around and goes out of the door in a hurry to the courtyard of the oldest old man in Su's family.

Before entering the gate of the courtyard, I heard the sound of frightened voices coming from far and near. Su Tingyi frowns and moves faster.

"Ah Fen, go and tell the master and the young master. I'll go back to my wife."

"Ah!"

With a rush of footsteps, two servant girls in a hurry of appearance and fear came running to the gate from the direction of the old lord's main courtyard.

"What happened?" Su Tingyi calls the two maids who bow their heads and run away without paying attention to them.

"Ah! Master! " The two servant girls seemed to grasp the backbone, almost crying with joy.

"What happened? Did you see the first lady? It's still the old man he... " Su Tingyi asked eagerly, regardless of their impertinence in grabbing his sleeve.

"It is It's the first lady First lady, she... " One of the maids was already frightened, and the other replied incoherently.

After seizing a few words, Su Tingyi stopped asking them, pushed them away and rushed to the old man's hospital. Blamed! It's all because he didn't realize it. If Shuifu had a good or bad result, he would not let go of the mother and daughter, regardless of how much their second aunt was favored.

Thinking angrily all the way, the old man's main courtyard appeared in front of him. Su Tingyi pushes open the gate of the main courtyard, strides into it, and cries out eagerly: "shuibi! Water! "

There was no hall, no side hall, no left wing room. Su Tingyi searched one by one until he came to the right wing room with the curtain half hung. He smelled a fishy smell and stepped in quickly. The curtain was crumbling behind him. The scene in front of him made him sit down.

"Water Water... " Su Tingyi, shaking her hands, stepped forward a few steps, knelt on the ground abruptly, and lay on her knees gently. Her head seemed to hit the corner of the table. A bloody eye was "gurgling" to the outside, bleeding her green and blue clothes, and whitening her small oval face.

"Shuifu, you will be OK. Brother, I'll take you to the hospital. You will be OK." Su Tingyi's face was white for a moment, and she picked up the woman on the ground. While Hu Lun was talking to herself, she hurried to the door.

Along the way, he shouted: "come on, get your car ready." Body shape is not a meal fast to run out, occasionally look down at a pale and bloodless sister, frown tight.

"Mom, do you think she will..." Su Tingyi runs all the way. After passing a delicate imitation rockery, there is a conversation between a mother and a daughter.

"If it's true, it's good to see who is still pressing you in the future." A well-dressed middle-aged lady took the lead in showing her face, with hate in her eyes and eyebrows.

"But the old man won't let it go. After all, something happened to him." A young woman on the 16th and 7th of the year tooted her mouth. He looked a little flustered.

"What are you afraid of. No matter how to investigate, it is also an accident. If there is no evidence, will we still be punished for the accident? Besides, Su Shuifu is dead. Your talent can be appreciated by the old master and your father. Without Su Shuifu, you are the head of the family of Suzhou embroidery. Where will they catch you and punish you from the head? " Your wife shook off her veil, stretched out her index finger and nodded her forehead at her daughter, who was in a panic. She said: "if the old man and your father ask about it, don't let it slip. Remember? As for the picture of the river during the Qingming Festival, send it out to deal with it. "

"I see, ma'am. But I'm afraid of my aunt and brother... " At the thought of his half brother and his mother, who had few words but a serious look, she seemed to be able to see through her mind at a glance - the current master mother of the Su family. Su Shuiyan could not help shivering.

"Nothing!" Your wife, the second aunt of Su's master, Deng Yun, squints at her daughter. She rubs the handkerchief into a ball. "Go back. I don't think the house will be peaceful these two days. Please stay in the embroidered room for practice. In the national standard competition in the future, the old man will definitely let you go. Don't lose your mother and my face. " Deng Yun squinted at his daughter. If it wasn't for her to find a good wife in the future, instead of being a concubine like himself, he would not be able to raise his head. Would he have worked so hard to plan for her?

Su shuikan's head hung down and gave a light reply. But I'm also worried. Even if I'm not killed, I'm afraid I can't participate in the national standard competition in the future. Well, my mother is right. I'll make good preparations. If I become famous in the national standard competition, the chief of "Suzhou embroidery home" will not be captured? As for the eldest young master of the Wang family, he will definitely choose himself instead of Su Shuifu. After all, the Wang family's preference for Su Shuifu is not that Su embroidery is outstanding! Su Shuichang's confidence made his toes high again. I followed my mother back to my yard.

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The main study of the Su family.

"Pa!" There was a loud noise on the table, and the blue and white porcelain cup broke in an instant. On the throne, it was the old master of the Su family who glared at him.

"Who's lying? Let Shuijin go to our hospital? Although this family is the eldest, I'm not dead yet! " Although the old man is over 80 years old, he is still full of rage.

"Father, calm down!" Su Fanghua, the eldest son of the old man, was in charge of the Su family. He quickly got up from the left side of the old man and bent down to ask for forgiveness from the old man: "my son is busy arranging the national standard competition to be held the next day these two days. I really don't know what happened to Shui Fu. According to my son's thorough investigation, it was Tingyi's big servant girl who went to Shuifu's yard that day. She said that Tingyi was here with her father and Shuifu went to his father's yard. Unexpectedly, there was no shadow of Tingyi and his father, but somehow she would hit the corner of the table and cause more bleeding Well, my son hasn't found out yet. "

Su Fanghua told the old man the truth he had found, but he had doubts in his heart. He would not go out in a hurry without a servant girl, depending on his calm nature. And according to the statement of two servant girls around Shuifu, when Shuifu went out, he also brought the large-scale Suzhou embroidery ready to participate in the exhibition. But after the incident, according to the servant girls and the eldest son Su Tingyi who were on duty in the first two old lords' yard, none of them found this huge Suzhou embroidery. I'm afraid it's not an accident. It's intentional. Just now

"And the servant girl of Ting Yi?" The old man also thought of the twists and turns, and then asked.

"When my son sent someone to find such a servant girl, he had It has fallen into the lake and is dead. "

"Bastard!" The old man clapped the table angrily: "it's an accident. It's a murder! Shuifu, this girl Alas... You hurry and send more people to find out why at any cost. " The old man frowned and ordered his eldest son. At last, he added: "the competition in the future Let the girl shuikai prepare well. In any case, the Su family can't go without anyone. "

"Yes. My son is going to tell her. " Su Fanghua bowed his head and answered.

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"What did the doctor say?" In the rest room outside the operating room of the medical center, a rich lady of about 40 grabbed Su Tingyi's hand and asked eagerly. This is Li Ruxi, Su Fanghua's real wife, who is now the master mother of the Su family. At this time, she looks like an old lady who is usually calm and quiet. Her face is full of anxiety about her daughter whose life and death are unknown.

"Mother." Su Tingyi clenched Li Ruxi's cold hand and called softly, but she couldn't say it, just shook her head.

"Yi'er, what do you mean?" Li Ruxi couldn't help it any more, and tears fell in her eyes. The servant girl who follows him also looks at his eldest young master nervously, hoping that the result won't let his wife despair.

"The doctor said..." Su Tingyi organized the next doctor's words just now, and picked out some words that were not so faint: "the doctor said, sister, sister hurt her head, before the blood stasis did not dissipate, she might be in a coma for several days." This is only one possibility, and the possibility is very small. The biggest possibility is Since then, he has become a living dead man. If he doesn't improve in half a year, I'm afraid When Su Tingyi thought of this possibility, she couldn't help boxing to the concrete wall on her side.

"Master!" Li Ruxi's servant girl saw this and exclaimed.

Li Ruxi looked at his son and listened to his words. He was relieved. Seeing his son like this, he said that he was angry at those who hurt Shuifu. Then he comforted his son: "since there is no danger of life, it is good. The rest, I think, we can't wait to die any more. The servant girl who sent the message died strangely, and the master behind didn't need to guess, that bitch. I'll go back to your grandfather's house tomorrow. I heard that the two sons of Deng's family who are not successful have joined some organizations. They are raising money everywhere the other day Hum, I don't believe I can't catch that bitch. I'll let them bite each other's tails. " Li Ruxi snorted coldly. His eyes are full of frost swords. Dare to hurt his daughter, live impatiently!