Concubine You Can't: The Evil Emperor Dotes on Qingcheng Concubine

Chapter 14 Catching a House Thief

Ji Zhuyu, who returned to the mansion again, received a huge difference in treatment compared to before.

In the past, she lived in a broken hospital, ate bad food, and had to work with servants.Now she not only has her own courtyard, but also has maids to serve her, and her father suddenly cared about her, and sent people to send a lot of new clothes and gold and silver jewelry. Whether it is reality or a dream.

Ji Zhuyu woke up after taking a nap, and was dressing up under Xuetong's service.

"Miss, do you want to wear this red coral and white jade hairpin, which matches your clothes today!" Xuetong twisted the hairpin and asked carefully.

Ji Zhuyu glanced at the slightly ostentatious hairpin, shook her head, "This hairpin is too ostentatious, you can just wear the white jade phoenix-headed gold hairpin for me." She has never liked luxury, but she should have the appearance But it is indispensable, lest people look down upon it.

Hearing the words, Xuetong was about to put the red coral and white jade hairpin on Ji Zhuyu's hand, her hand suddenly stopped, her face flashed with panic, and she stammered, "Miss, you... remember wrong, the jewelry box There... there is no white jade phoenix-headed gold hairpin."

Ji Zhuyu wondered: "How could it be? When I delivered the things yesterday, I took a look at it. The phoenix head was so unique, so I remembered it at a glance. How could it not be there?"

"It's really not. It's because you remember wrongly, miss. If you don't believe me, take a look."

Xuetong hastily opened the jewelry box, with some force in her hand, with a bang, the jewelry box turned sideways on the dressing table, and all the jewelry spilled out.

Xuetong was so frightened that she fell to her knees and kowtowed again and again: "Your servant deserves to die, my servant deserves to die, please forgive my sin, please forgive my sin."

She knocked over the lady's jewelry box, and the lady will definitely punish her severely.Xuetong's heart trembled uncontrollably when he thought of the knife-sharp eyes when he first met Miss.

Ji Zhuyu saw Xuetong's panic expression in her eyes, her eyes flickered slightly, she helped Xuetong up, and said softly: "Why are you panicking, I won't punish you, it's just a small matter, just take care of it."

"Miss Xie forgives the servant girl."

Xuetong stood up tremblingly, and hurried forward to tidy up the messy dressing table.

Ji Zhuyu said: "Since there is no white jade phoenix-headed hairpin, then you can just choose a simple and elegant hairpin for me."

"Yes."

Xuetong quickly picked out another plain hairpin from the jewelry box, and put it on for Ji Zhuyu.

Ji Zhuyu looked in the mirror with satisfaction, and told Xuetong for a moment: "I will go to the garden with Zhao's mother in a while, so you can stay and tidy up the house. I just moved from the previous house, and many things are still there. Didn't have time to clean up."

Xuetong replied: "Yes, Miss."

Ji Zhuyu called Zhao's mother to go out, then turned around and said: "By the way, there is a small box next to my bed, you should also pack the things inside."

Hearing this, Xuetong forgot to answer Ji Zhuyu's words, and looked towards the head of the bed involuntarily.She has been tidying up this room for a few days, why didn't she know that there was a box next to the bed?
Ji Zhuyu gave her a meaningful look, didn't say anything, and led Zhao's mother away, leaving only Xuetong staring at the bed in a daze, not even noticing when Ji Zhuyu left.

Ji Zhuyu didn't lead Mother Zhao to visit the garden, but took her around the outer wall of Huanxi Courtyard several times, walking straight until Mother Zhao couldn't figure it out, but she didn't dare to ask why, so she had to follow her resignedly.

After walking for nearly [-] laps, Mother Zhao finally couldn't stand the sore soles of her feet and asked, "Miss, where are we going?"

Ji Zhuyu pretended to be mysterious and said: "Catch the thief."

Zhao's mother's expression changed drastically from the fright, and she quickly persuaded Ji Zhuyu to give up the idea: "Miss, catching thieves is not something you can do as a girl, you must not do stupid things."

Ji Zhuyu smiled slyly: "Don't worry, Mother Zhao, I have my own measure."

Ji Zhuyu looked up at the sky, felt that it was almost time, and took Mother Zhao back to Huanxi Courtyard.

Seeing Ji Zhuyu returning to the yard peacefully, Mother Zhao secretly breathed a sigh of relief.The eldest lady has an idea, if she really wants to catch the thief on a whim, she can't stop it.

The master and the servant were about to enter Ji Zhuyu's boudoir when they bumped into a hurried figure inside the room.

"Ah--pa--" screams resounded through the sky.

Ji Zhuyu staggered and almost fell, but fortunately, Zhao's mother behind her had sharp eyesight and quick hands, and supported her, so that she was spared the crime of blooming buttocks.

But the figure on the opposite side was obviously not so lucky, she was knocked out by Ji Zhuyu, and the things in her arms were also scattered.

The sunlight outside the house was just right, and the things on the ground shone like gold, and suddenly they were all valuable jewelry.The person who fell on the ground was none other than Xuetong, the eldest maid of Huanxiyuan.

Mother Zhao was the first to recover from the panic. She looked at the jewelry on the floor and at the person lying on the ground, and said in disbelief: "Xuetong, how dare you steal Miss's jewelry."

This Xuetong is simply reckless, if the young lady hadn't come back early today, Xuetong might have stolen all the jewelry in this house.

Xuetong hadn't recovered from the shock just now, she stared blankly at Ji Zhuyu and Mother Zhao standing in front of her, glanced at the jewelry all over the floor, and was finally awakened by what Mother Zhao said, and hurriedly explained : "Miss, listen to my explanation. I didn't steal these things. I just want to take them out and clean them up. Miss, you must believe me."

In the past few days, the young lady's temper has been touched all over the place. Although the young lady doesn't like to talk, she will never be too harsh on others, and she will never make any unreasonable demands.

It can be said that she is the best master among the masters she has served. She believes that as long as she pretends to be pitiful and begs for mercy, the eldest lady will definitely not pursue her affairs. will punish her.

Xuetong looked at Ji Zhuyu earnestly, hoping that she would treat her lightly.

Ji Zhuyu didn't say a word, avoiding Xuetong's eyes, picked up a small box from the ground, opened the zipper, and inside lay a jade flute with a whole body of jasper. Thin halo, just by looking at it, you can tell that this thing is not ordinary.

Seeing that the jade flute was intact, Ji Zhuyu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, if she smashed this treasure just to catch a girl who stole something, then she would be at a loss.

Taking a sideways glance at Xuetong, Ji Zhuyu said sternly: "Now that there are all the witnesses and evidence, do you still want to deny it?"

(End of this chapter)