green bamboo dream

That day was always a taboo in the Lin family. Ever since the eldest lady ran into the old lady's house with disheveled clothes and disheveled appearance, the old lady issued a death order that no one was allowed within ten feet of the main room. 【】

Xia Chu and Chun Nuan stood far away, walking back and forth in fear, for fear that something serious would happen.With a pale face, Chun Nuan anxiously said to Xia Chu: "You said what happened, we have both served the old lady for so many years, when are we going to avoid it so far, could it be that the old lady doesn't trust us?"

"Now is the time to think about these things. You have some brains, don't you? If the old lady is dissatisfied with us, you can just beat and scold us or kick us out. There is no need to think about anything else." No wonder you are not young. As a maidservant, she can only do errands and pass on messages.

Xia Chu held the handkerchief and turned it around for a few times, then suddenly bit her lower lip, and said, "You watch first, I'll go to the latrine."

Chunnuan responded naturally, and added: "Then you go and come back quickly, I feel panicky here alone."

Nodding his head patiently, he left without looking back.

Relying on his familiarity with the back house, Xia Chu chose the shortest path, lowered his head and hurried through several round moon gates, in front of him was a three-bedroom courtyard.

"Ma'am, Miss Xia Chu next to the old lady is here and wants to see you." Mother Liu opened the curtain and came in and bowed.

Cui Shi was flipping through the account book on her dowry shop, and couldn't help laughing: "Why is she here? Isn't this girl very loyal to the old lady? Forget it, let her come in."

Xia Chu thought very clearly, anyway, this matter is so big, the third wife will know sooner or later, why not come to receive this merit first, the old lady is getting older, and she has been angry again and again in recent days, saying Maybe someday it will be..., among the owners of the houses, the third house is the most aggressive, and made up his mind to please Cui Shi, Xia Chu lowered his waist a little more, and said respectfully: "The servant has something to do." Report back to the third wife." She glanced at Mama Liu who was standing by her side, and hesitated to speak.

Cui looked at Xia Chu with a half-smile, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Mother Liu is trustworthy, just tell me if you have anything to say."

After Xia Chu heard it, he didn't hesitate any more, he poured beans out of a bamboo tube and went to find the old lady like crazy today, and then the old lady drove all the waiters away, she peeped and was blinded The two women with pouty faces were tied up and brought in, and so on, as expected of the old lady's most useful maid. Xia Chu's explanation was detailed and organized, and she even described one of them wearing a strip of rose pink. The thread-pick heald skirt is a style for young women.Cui quickly figured out what happened, her heart tightened, and she stood up abruptly.

"Ma'am." Mother Liu looked at Cui Shi worriedly, and couldn't help but speak out.

"I'm fine." Cui's face gradually hardened, showing a faint evil spirit, "You go back first, I know about this, and I won't forget your contribution."

Xia Chu secretly raised his head for a glance, then immediately lowered his head, his heart was pounding violently, and he didn't touch his chest until he walked out of the yard, secretly startled: The third wife was really scary just now, but her eyes seemed to be fighting to the death The fierce man who saw it was terrified.

Cui Shi in the room sneered: "You are really two idiots. At that time, I gave her a way to survive but didn't know how to cherish it. Now that something happened to me, I have to implicate others."

Mama Liu frowned, unconsciously stirring the handkerchief with her right hand, and asked in confusion: "It's been so long, why did that matter get brought up again, wasn't it cleaned up at that time?"

"Hmph, we have cleaned up for her. If she lives a good life from now on, nothing will go wrong, but what can she do if she wants to die herself? I'm afraid she has done something shameful recently." Cui Shi After contemplating for a moment, a ruthless cold light flashed across his eyes: "You let people spread the news first, you only need to leave three or five to spread the word in the house, anyway, it will be silenced immediately, and the meaning is nothing, then Ask a few more trustworthy servants to pretend to be servants of the Jiang family, go to teahouses, go to various restaurants in the capital to gossiping, and just say—" Cui's slender and long Danfeng eyes narrowed slightly, like a proud , The lioness who controls life and death, in order to protect her cherished child, finally showed her bloodthirsty fangs: "Just say, the family style of Ningyuanhou's mansion is not good, and the eldest young lady of the eldest house actually committed adultery with her father-in-law Ningyuanhou, and was punished by Yongpinghou" Madame caught rape in bed."

Mother Liu was too shocked to speak, and stammered: "Ma'am, this... this..."

Cui smiled charmingly, and continued: "It's not over yet, don't just talk about Marquis Ningyuan, I'll count." The delicate and long fingers slightly bent, "In addition to the second master, the bastard of the big house should also be fourteen Well, the second son is only nine years old, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if you add it, anyway, he is also a sister-in-law."

Seeing Mama Liu still standing there stupidly, Cui couldn't help raising her voice: "Time is tight, don't hurry up." The different sternness made Mama Liu's eyes clear in an instant, and she hurried out at a trot.

Mrs. Cui quietly took the cup with the pattern of mandarin ducks in the lotus pond on the huanghuali square table, brought it to her lips and took two sips, the thin silver tassels hanging from her temples gave off a soft halo, and the crystal clear emerald jade hairpin hung down. The flow seems to be in the depths of the pupil, and the hand dyed with Fengxian Koudan lightly swayed the walking steps, making a lingling sound, Xiuyue came in with a small fruit plate, and said with a smile: "Ma'am, it was sent by the third lady." cherry."

I saw the small and exquisite peacock green glazed blue-and-white fish lotus pattern plate, which is green and lovely, and a small handful of red and bright cherries are just ripe, with crystal clear water drops on it, and a few emerald green leaves for decoration. Just looking at it makes the tongue salivate and the index finger move.

When Cui heard that it was sent by Yulan, she didn't even look at it a second time, and said calmly: "If you like it, just take it and divide it."

A smile bloomed on Xiuyue's face, and she knew that the plate of cherries was free, and the best treatment was to enter the stomachs of these maids, and the wife would never eat them. Aunt Sun's sin.

"Wait, your old man is the concierge. You go to him now and ask me something quietly. Hurry up." Shi Cui called Xiuyue who was about to carry the cherries down, and said carefully: "Just Ask her if any outsiders have entered the inner courtyard recently, ask clearly, don't let others know, and hurry back."

Apparently Xiuyue's father is very talented in the post of concierge, and Cui knew very well that there was a woman who was good at finding rouge and would occasionally be brought in by the nurse of the young lady to make rouge for the young lady. Fair and delicate, with a young appearance, he behaves intimately with Mama Hong.

At this time, Mother Liu had already arranged for someone to come back, and she thought of something after hearing this, and opened her eyes wide in disbelief: "Why is this young mistress so courageous, how dare she steal someone in the Hou's mansion?"

"Okay, after all, she came from a small family, so innocent." Cui waved her hands impatiently, obviously not wanting to hear about that disgusting niece and daughter-in-law again. "Everything is done?"

Mama Liu straightened her back and assured her: "It's done, Madam, don't worry, they are all born in the hands of our house, and they are slippery. Hearing that he is doing things for his wife, he is excited. After receiving the reward money, he ran faster than a rabbit, and the servant uniforms of Jiang’s mansion were not hard to find, and the servant girl ordered them to pay attention to what they say, so it won’t be a mess.” After a pause, he continued. : "Also, there were a few little girls from the old lady's yard who came to inform me just now, but everyone couldn't explain clearly, so the sum of a few people is not as clear as Xia Chu alone."

"It's always better to have more people." Cui leaned lazily on the rattan armchair, and said with a smile: "It's been so long, it's time for the old lady to find out something, and now I'm waiting for the old lady to summon I don’t know if my sister-in-law really didn’t know, or was she fooled by the servants and pretended not to know?”

Not long after, a little maid from the old lady's room came to invite Cui Shi.

Mrs. Cui smiled slightly, helped Liu Ma's hand and walked towards Qingningju, since she no longer has any scruples, let's just start a fight, it's better if the family is divided earlier.

Lin Yuanzhi, who was wearing an official uniform at night, had just returned to the mansion when he was led to Qingning Residence by the woman waiting at the door. As soon as he entered the door, he faintly felt that something was wrong. Sitting at the top with eyes focused, the beads in his hands were twirling quickly. The elder sister-in-law and elder brother stood aside with gloomy faces. fainted.

"Mother..." Lin Yuanzhi gave Cui Shi a questioning look, and hesitated to speak.

"The third one is back." Hearing the movement, Mrs. Shi slowly opened her eyes, showing a helpless smile, and the wrinkles on her face deepened a lot: "Everyone said that Brother Yan and Mrs. Li committed adultery, so sue me Come here for me to be the master."

"What, how is this possible." Lin Yuanzhi's eyes sharpened suddenly, no matter how serious the crime was, he shot at Fan's like a sharp sword: "I don't know what evidence my sister-in-law has, why did she say such a crime?" Brother Yan's words in an unfilial and unrighteous situation."

Cui's cry also suddenly became shrill: "There is no evidence, it's just that damned servant girl's one-sided words, sister-in-law is going to destroy our Brother Yan completely, so if this word gets out, Brother Yan How will you behave in the future?"

Fan shrank a little from Lin Yuanzhi's inadvertent official authority, and subconsciously glanced at Lin Hengzhi next to him, seeing that he had no intention of answering, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "Mother Hong has suffered thirty It's a board, and she still insists that the adulterer is the second young master, but this is not evidence, so she didn't even want her life to frame the second young master?"

"Mama Hong, right? Do you know what my official position is?" Lin Yuan became so angry that he even used an official tone.

"Yes... it's the servant of the Ministry of Punishment." Mama Hong's fat body knelt with all her might, her head and neck were covered with cold sweat, and the huge pain from her buttocks made her face hard to speak.

"Since you insist that the second young master and the eldest young mistress committed adultery, tell me the specific situation now, such as the location of the tryst, when, who will meet you, how often, and as much detail as you can. If there is If you don’t match the numbers at all, then follow me to the Ministry of Punishment tomorrow to see the ninety-nine and 81 kinds of instruments of torture.” At the end, I added coolly: “If you can’t wait until tomorrow, I won’t stop you, but Think about your family and don't let them be your burden."

After hearing this, Hong's mother didn't know whether it was pain or fright. Her body shook like chaff, and she rolled her eyes and passed out.

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