Splendid spring returns

Chapter 25: Finding Faults

Concubine Liao was even more dissatisfied, and she tried to suppress her anger. When she heard Xin Nian say something perfunctory like "I am afraid, I don't know how to anger the princess", she slapped the table hard and said sharply: " Are you terrified? I don't think you seem to be terrified at all. In front of so many people and in front of me, these lies and clichés are coming out of your mouth, which shows what a presumptuous and perverse person you are? If you continue to indulge like this, is it okay? Come on..."

"The queen concubine."

Xin Nian interrupted Concubine Liao in time, a good girl doesn't suffer in front of her eyes, as a concubine, once the words are spoken, there is no reason to take them back, even if they know it is wrong, no one can shake the concubine's face and majesty.

Xin Nian didn't look at Princess Liao's ashen complexion, and spoke quickly: "I don't know what I did wrong to provoke the wrath of the princess? If it is said that I was punished for these slaves, there is a reason for it. The son will hand over the investigation of the poisonous snake If you deal with it for me, is the concubine going to punish me without even asking? It doesn't matter if I am punished to lose face, but the dignity of the son of the world must always be taken into account. What do you think?"

The meaning of these words is very clear: your son entrusted me to do things, and I did my best. You shouted and killed indiscriminately. Have you ever asked your son's opinion?Have you ever thought about the situation after hitting me?Although filial piety cannot be violated, the three obediences and the four virtues cannot be neglected, right?

Concubine Liao looked at the glamorous and respectful face in front of her, hated her so much, but she had to admit that Xin Nian had the truth.As a mother, she knows how strong her son is.If not, how could this job fall on the other party.

"Listen to you, how can you be justified when you go to war so much? Thanks to you, you still know the word decent. You are afraid that you will be punished to lose face, but these slaves have worked hard in the palace for ten or even decades. Why are you so ruthless? You don't care about their decency?"

After listening to Princess Liao's words, Xin Nian smiled slightly and said: "The princesses don't know something. In front of you, they are naturally willing to work hard, but after leaving you, these daughters-in-law and mother-in-law will change their faces. You see, I will punish you." So strict, but when you came, all of them looked like cockfighting geese, and the Eight Immortals crossed the sea, each showing their magical powers, which shows how perverse and presumptuous these slaves are."

"Perhaps they were wronged, so when they saw the concubine coming, they were anxious to defend themselves. This is also human nature."

Liao said slowly: "Besides, since the princess is here and the servants are here, we can't just listen to my sister's side. Why don't we call people in and listen to what they have to say?"

Xin Nian glanced at Mrs. Liao, without moving his expression, nodded and said, "Okay."

After speaking, he turned his head and told the little girl standing by the door: "Let Mrs. Chen in."

Concubine Liao glanced at Mrs. Liao, saw Mrs. Liao nodded slightly, knowing that Mrs. Chen was a clear-headed and decent person, it seemed that Xin Nian didn't find someone worthless to fool her, so her complexion softened a bit.

Soon Mrs. Chen staggered in, knelt on the ground as soon as she entered the door, climbed a few steps in front of Princess Liao, and before she could speak, she heard Xin Nian beside her say calmly: "The princess calls you to ask questions, you should be honest Answer, don't cry with tears and snot all over your face, dirty the eyes of the princess, don't blame me for kicking you out."

Sure enough, as soon as these words were said, Mrs. Chen immediately suppressed all the crying and howling, flinched slightly imperceptibly, and responded aggrievedly: "Yes. The old slave dare not lose his composure."

Liao's eyelids twitched slightly, he couldn't help looking at Xin Nian, and thought to himself: These daughters-in-law and mother-in-law are not good-natured, they are afraid of her after only two days of work, and they are so dignified so soon?Damn, an aunt, where does she have the qualifications, it's all because of my cousin's confusion.I hope this time my aunt can find out her fault and kill her prestige severely.

While thinking about it, Princess Liao said: "Don't be afraid, tell me honestly, what is Aunt Xin punishing you for?"

Mrs. Chen hurriedly kowtowed and said, "I don't know..."

Before he could finish speaking, Xin Nian said in a drawn-out voice: "Return to the princess well, why don't you know? When I punished you earlier, didn't I say it clearly enough?"

"Yes."

Mrs. Chen trembled twice: "Aunt Xin said, Madam's backyard is cleaned and picked by us in turn every day, and now such a big incident happened, almost killing Madam, it's because of our laziness and dereliction of duty, so we must be severely punished and let us grow up Remember, you must be diligent and conscientious in the future, and do your duty.”

Princess Liao frowned: "Anyway, this excuse is high-sounding, and people can't fault it.

"Then you are really dereliction of duty?"

Liao asked a question.Seeing Mrs. Chen loudly said: "I am wronged! Madam's backyard was not in charge of the old slave. The matter of the poisonous snake cannot be blamed on the old slave."

Mrs. Chen cried out for injustice.Concubine Liao looked at Xin Nian, only to see that her expression remained unchanged, her eyes lowered slightly, and she said indifferently: "Be careful, who would dare to lie in front of the concubine? You said that you are not in charge of the madam's backyard, so have you been there?" ? How many times have you been there this month?"

Mrs. Chen shrank her neck, and said in a low voice, "Then...then I was entrusted by the eldest sister of the Cheng family. In my spare time, let me...let me take care of it for two days, and help her pick some flowers by the way. of."

"That's it."

Only then did Xin Nian look at Princess Liao, and said in a deep voice, "My concubine is sympathetic. Because our mansion used to increase income and reduce expenditure, and gave preferential treatment to servants, we assigned special slaves to take care of the production everywhere. Now the lady's backyard The Cheng family is in charge of it. That woman regards every flower as her own. Even the girls around the wife don’t dare to pick an extra flower and put it in a vase. Go to manage, the people I punished were all those who used to come and go in and out of Madam's backyard."

Concubine Liao naturally knew about this matter, and now she heard Xin Nian talking about it, and it did make some sense, because she frowned and said in a low voice: "That poisonous snake is rare, I think I just ran in, but in the past two days, you have been implicated. Many people, why on earth?"

Xin Nian replied calmly: "At first I didn't want to implicate so many people, but the more I investigated, the more frightened I became. These daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law are colluding with each other, forming cliques, and running rampantly for personal gain. There is nothing they dare not do." If things go on like this, there will be no big troubles, so I simply took this opportunity to give them a good beating, so that they will not dare to be malicious again in the future, and be careful in handling errands, so as to avoid future disasters."

"That's ridiculous, it's all right, what trouble can it cause?"

Aunt Qiu suddenly sneered.Mrs. Chen saw Princess Liao's face was cloudy and uncertain, so she hurriedly shouted: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you know, Ma'am's backyard, the old slaves did their best, but the poisonous snake really did not know when it came in, if we say that we are punished for this, we will admit it. But Auntie is clearly using this as a cover to take personal revenge, and the old slaves have nowhere to sue for their grievances."

"Is that so? No wonder there is such a big commotion and such vicious actions." Princess Liao gave Xin Nian a cold look: "Xin, what else do you have to say?"

Xin Nian was actually convicted of the crime indiscriminately.

Xin Nian remained calm, only narrowing his eyes almost imperceptibly.

Then she suddenly smiled, looked at Mrs. Chen contemptuously, and said leisurely: "You say I'm taking private revenge? I want to ask, why am I threatening private revenge? I'm an aunt who used to live in Qingliang Pavilion, and you slaves I haven't even said a word, what personal grievances do I have with you?"

One sentence blocked Mrs. Chen there.

(End of this chapter)