step by step

Chapter 146
She looked at the two people in front of her with tears in her eyes, and shouted hoarsely: "Why are you doing this to me?!"

"Tianxin, what are you doing?" Zhuo Yibai frowned.

"Yibai, this jade pendant is your personal possession!" Zhuo Tianxin accused angrily.

"What did you say?" Xue Youling panicked when she heard her words, "No, it's impossible!"

Zhuo Yibai took the jade pendant, and after seeing the emblem at the bottom clearly, his expression suddenly became solemn.

"Yibai, why is your jade pendant in the hands of this woman?" Zhuo Tianxin shifted his gaze to Zhuo Yibai.

Hearing this, Zhuo Yibai couldn't help laughing wryly, "This question really stopped me. I only met this young lady once, and we didn't have much contact with each other."

He also had a lot of doubts in his heart. He remembered that he handed this thing to Ye Zhaoyan himself.

In the past month, Ye's mansion has just experienced a turmoil, and he is worried that Ye Zhaoyan is too weak to bother him.
Unexpectedly, this jade pendant fell into Xue Youling's hands.

But the members of the Xue family have clearly been kicked out of Ye Mansion.

Could it be that something happened to Ye Mansion?

"Why do you have this thing?!" Zhuo Tianxin asked Xue Youling sharply.

Xue Youling shook her head in shock, "I picked it up on the side of the road, and it was also by chance."

Thinking of her mother's advice, she dared not tell the truth.

"I picked it up by chance? Heh, do you think we are fools? This is clearly Yibai's identity jade pendant, which is exclusively for the men of the Zhuo Palace!"

"It's really not Mr. Mingxuan's?" Xue Youling looked at her in surprise.

She never thought that her luck would be so bad that she would come to Zhuo Mingxuan with the Zhuo Yibai identity jade pendant!
Seeing the astonishment on Xue Youling's face, Zhuotian snorted coldly, and then said: "Why is this jade pendant in your hands, you obviously stole it! Tell me, why did you lie to us!"

Xue Youling was speechless for a while, not knowing how to answer.

She only felt that her heart was beating up and down, and her mind was even blank.

All her plans with her mother were disrupted!

"What? You're speechless, right?" Seeing that she was silent, Zhuo Tianxin became more certain of her guess.

The servant girls who were waiting on the side also echoed: "Yes, it must be like this, miss, you must not be deceived by this pariah."

"Miss, this pariah looks uneasy and kind, I think he just wants to use this to enter the mansion!"

In the eyes of Zhuo Wang's mansion, this class of merchants' homes is no different from ordinary people, and even the maids in the mansion who are used to seeing high-ranking officials and dignitaries are dismissive.

Xue Youling pursed her lips, and finally gritted her teeth and said: "My mother picked it up, let me send it to the Zhuo Palace!"

"This kind of nonsense can be said!" Zhuo Tianxin snorted coldly, her eyes fixed on Xue Youling, as if she wanted to stare at her face.

"Everything I said is true!" Xue Youling retorted a little excitedly.

"You said you picked it up? Who would believe it?! I think you just want to take the opportunity to enter Zhuowang's mansion?!" Zhuotian was furious, "Do you know what crime should be for stealing the property of Zhuowang's mansion?!"

Xue Youling's heart trembled, and her eyes turned red, "I said! This is what my mother gave me! My mother said that she picked this jade pendant from Ye Mansion!"

"Your mother?" Zhuo Tianxin's voice suddenly rose a few degrees, "Who is your mother? Where did she have the guts to steal from the palace?!"

"She" Xue Youling was about to tell the truth, but she suddenly changed her mind.

"My mother went to visit the Ye Mansion, and happened to see this item in the Ye Mansion's private possession. When she saw the seal of the Zhuo clan at the door, she took it back and asked me to return it to the original owner."

Xue Youling's voice choked up, but it was quite real.

"Hmph, what is returned to the original owner, isn't it just to use this to come to the door to talk about it?" Zhuo Tianxin mercilessly dismantled her, "So, this thing was taken by the people of Yefu? That's right, your mother and daughter With a low status, I have never had the guts to get involved in such tokens even if I think about it!"

While she was speaking, she stared at Xue Youling without blinking, as if trying to find a flaw in her expression.

Xue Youling clenched her fists tightly, suppressing the anger in her heart.

She can't refute, and absolutely can't make anyone suspect her mother.

Zhuo Yibai frowned slightly, and looked at Xue Youling with more inquiring eyes.

He always felt that this girl was a little strange.

"Why are you still standing here, why don't you invite people out!" Zhuo Tianxin ordered.

Several servant girls immediately surrounded Xue Youling and carried her out.

Xue Youling struggled desperately, and shouted loudly: "You can't treat me like this, I came to return things, and I am a guest of Zhuo Wangfu, why should you treat me like this!"

If she was kicked out of the house like this, how could she face others when she went back?
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard the servant girl shouting sharply: "Who knows if you have bad intentions!"

"You!" Xue Youling trembled with anger.

Her heart was full of resentment, she wished she could rush forward and slap that maid twice.

"Send her out!" Seeing that she was being held up, Zhuo Tianxin quickly said.

Xue Youling's heart skipped a beat, knowing that it was all over.

She was carried out of the yard by these maidservants, and thrown at the gate. The piercing pain in her ankle almost made her fall down.

"Miss, are you okay?" Liu Hua helped her up and asked with concern.

"A bunch of ungrateful bastards!" Xue Youling flicked her sleeves, covered her face and cried, "It's all because of this broken jade pendant! If it wasn't for this broken thing that Ye Fu picked up, how could I have suffered so much humiliation?"

"Miss, don't be sad for now, let's find a way how to tell the lady about this and then discuss countermeasures!" Liu Hua comforted her softly while wiping the tears from her face.

Xue Youling nodded, and covered her face all the way back to Xue's house.

On the other hand, Zhuo Tianxin had thoughts about Ye Fu.

Xue Youling spoke without any mistakes, she repeatedly emphasized that the jade pendant was indeed taken by her mother from the Ye family, which meant that the clue was in the Ye family.

Zhuo Tianxin had some vague guesses in his heart, but he couldn't verify them.

More importantly, no matter how much she interrogated, Zhuo Yibai kept silent about why Yupei came to Ye's mansion.

He knows better than anyone what this jade pendant means to them!

After much deliberation, Zhuo Tian decided to take people to Ye Mansion to investigate.

"Yibai, lend me your jade pendant tomorrow."

"What are you doing with the jade pendant?" Zhuo Yibai frowned slightly, he always felt that Zhuo Tianxin treated this matter a little strangely.

"Of course it is to help you identify the thief who stole the jade!" Zhuo Tianxin said with a smile.

Zhuo Yibai was taken aback for a moment, then understood her purpose, "Are you going to Ye Mansion?"

"That's right, I'm going to Ye Mansion to settle accounts with the person who stole the things." Zhuo Tianxin said with a sense of reason, "Are you still afraid that I can't handle this matter?!"

(End of this chapter)