I am cultivating immortality in the Red Mansion

Chapter 43 Don't Smell
This is very strange.

Even Tanchun couldn't help but ask: "Logically speaking, if you are wronged, you must defend yourself. If you don't defend yourself, you must have fear in your heart. Isn't that what the maid is afraid of?"

Qin Keqing thought about it for a while, then shook her head in confusion: "I don't know this, I need her to tell her. I ask myself how I treat her well, so how could I be wronged?"

Jia He asked her: "Where did the auspicious pearl come from?"

"My elders bought it before I got married."

Wang Xifeng was surprised: "Aren't the maids who served as brides the same ones who have served us since childhood? Why do you have new ones here?"

"I don't know this." Qin Keqing shook his head lightly, with a look of deep confusion on his beautiful face: "It was only a few months before we got married, and my father suddenly brought a maid from outside, who was even younger than Ruizhu and the others. As she is older, her rules are very good and she behaves properly and meticulously. I only kept her because I looked at her happily."

Speaking of this, Qin Keqing couldn't help but feel annoyed when she thought of recent events: "It was because I saw her doing well that I left her alone to guard the money, and even boasted in front of her mother-in-law that she was here. , there is no way I can go wrong. Who would have thought, I would get such a result! Instead, I would lose face in front of my mother-in-law." After saying that, he bit his lip and was about to cry.

"Logically speaking, this kind of money shouldn't be stolen." Wang Xifeng pondered, and gave Qin Keqing the handkerchief to wipe the tears from her eyes: "Not to mention that she follows you every day and has a lot of other rewards. , just saying that she was the only one in the house that day, but the money was lost, is very strange."

"That's exactly it." Tanchun answered: "What fool would let something get lost while he was guarding it?"

Qin Keqing held the handkerchief and thought for a while: "But the silver is indeed gone, so what should I say?"

Her question silenced everyone.

After Yingchun thought about it, she suddenly took two steps back and said in a panicked tone: "Since it can't be man-made, then it can't be ghost, ghost..."

"Bah!" Wang Xifeng spat and said angrily: "How can you say such a thing? It should be beaten, it should be beaten. Third sister, come on."

Tanchun smiled and went over to pat Yingchun twice.

Yingchun deliberately said "ouch" several times and shouted to the courtyard: "Fourth sister, come and help me, they are going to harm me."

Xichun snorted heavily and turned away to ignore him.

Qin Keqing couldn't help being amused: "If it is really a ghost, then Xiangzhu is really unjust. Then I would rather be a ghost."

"If it's really a ghost, I'm not afraid." Wang Xifeng raised her finger and pointed at Jia He: "We, the fifth girl, are extremely lucky. The General's Mansion was in such a mess earlier, wouldn't it be nice if Sister He went to it?"

Qin Keqing was overjoyed after hearing this: "If this is true, we will have to trouble Sister He to join us when we worship the moon tonight."

She had also heard about Feng Ziying coming to ask Jia He for help before.It was just that she was inconvenienced and did not show up at that time.Then she heard that the general's palace treated Jia He with courtesy. Now that Wang Xifeng said it, she believed that Jia He was blessed.

During the Qiqiao Festival, there is a custom of worshiping the moon at night.If there is anything unspeakable, night is the most dangerous time.It is naturally more appropriate to have someone who is blessed by your side.

With each word, Wang Xifeng and Qin Keqing decided that Jia Heo's place of worshiping the moon would be in the middle among the girls, and they also said that she would be placed in such a place when the needle was threaded during the competition.

Yingchun was unhappy: "Why can't I mention something weird? Grandma Pianrong can mention it."

Wang Xifeng glanced at her sideways: "I just mentioned it, why do you act like you are afraid of a small family? If she said it so openly and frankly, not only did I not blame it, but I wanted to express my sincerity. Thousands of approvals.”

Everyone laughed.It was only the morning, and there was still some time before lunch, so the girls suggested that they go dry their books and clothes first.This custom comes from the Dragon King drying his scales. The girls said they were going to dry something, but in fact they just pretended to do it. It was mostly the maids and women who actually did it.

The girls gathered together in twos and threes to play.

Lin Daiyu took Jia He to the shade of a tree and asked quietly: "What do you think is going on with the silver?"

Jia He said: "Sister Bingxue is smart and must have had an idea a long time ago. Why bother asking me."

Lin Daiyu returned the pinch she had just received. Seeing Sister Heo gasping for air, she laughed heartily: "I told you to plot against me again." Then she said: "I can't tell what's going on. , but it looks very strange, and I want to know what the truth is."

"Then check it out."

"How to check?"

"Since they all think that the old people in the family will not do this, it is better to first check if there is anyone new to the family." Jia He didn't want to take care of it, but Lin Daiyu was interested in it, so she mused: " It would be much easier to have a list like this."

Lin Daiyu called Zijuan and asked her to find the people around Qin Keqing.

Xue Yan was puzzled and asked in a low voice: "Isn't the head of the house Uncle Zhen? Why isn't the girl allowed to go to Grandma Zhen and ask about this matter?"

Lin Daiyu explained patiently: "Aunt Zhen probably doesn't care about the complicated things in the house. If Aunt Zhen is there, it won't be as convenient as Aunt Xunrong."

Although today's guests are all members of our own family, they cannot be neglected.Qin Keqing was busy making arrangements back and forth.

As soon as she checked whether the books brought out by the mothers were arranged properly, she heard someone say that an axle on the carriage was broken, and the coachman asked for instructions to allocate money to repair or buy a new one.

Qin Keqing went over there to take a look.

Unexpectedly, after walking a few steps out of the inner house, someone suddenly jumped out from beside him, shouting that he was begging grandma to give him some money because the family couldn't open the pot.

Qin Keqing took a look and saw that the man was unkempt, smelly of alcohol and was a well-known rogue servant in his family. He had the favor to the Jia family decades ago and had the nerve to ask for money even if he didn't do anything serious.It seems to be called Jiao Da.

Fortunately, Qin Keqing was not far from the Chuihua Gate, so she hurriedly turned around and walked back.

The servant guarding the door was very discerning. When he saw this, he stopped the naughty slave outside: "Where is the place where you can go in? Come on, hurry up. Grandma is busy and has no time to talk to you."

Jiao Da kept yelling randomly from behind. Qin Keqing just pretended not to hear and walked faster in a hurry.

At this time, the maid Ruizhu came to Qin Keqing to ask for instructions: "The girls in Rongguo Mansion want a list of recent people in the family. Will grandma give it to you?"

Qin Keqing was troubled and felt that this was not a big deal, so he said: "It's not something that needs to be covered up, just give it to them."

Ruizhu took the order and soon handed over the list to Jia Luo and Lin Daiyu.

(End of this chapter)