swear not to be concubine

Chapter 14

It's just that Jian Yan still pretended to be innocent and helpless.

She squatted down, turned around, picked up the green silk booklet at her feet, and flipped through it. Finally, she raised her head with an expression of disbelief: "How could there be so much less? It's just a dress, jewelry, and other things in my daughter's room." Mother Zhao is in charge, and my daughter really doesn't know. Mother calls Mother Zhao over and asks. Where is Mother Zhao? Speaking of which, my daughter hasn't seen her for a long time. Does mother know where she went? ?”

Mrs. Jane couldn't answer. She couldn't say that Mother Zhao was dead.Although Jian Yan knew about these things clearly, she used Siyue and Bai Wei to find out, and Mrs. Jian didn't know about it.

So she hesitated for a moment.Because the expression on Jian Yan's face really didn't look like a lie, and speaking of which, those objects were originally placed in Jian Yan's room for decoration, and those jewelry dresses were for her to dress up. Can't you hide these things by yourself?
Even if Mrs. Jian was beaten to death, she would never have guessed that Jian Yan actually pawned these things.

Jian Yan knows the importance of money.She is an adopted daughter who is not favored by Mrs. Jane, what does she want to do without spending money?Money is guts.

Those small objects, dresses and jewelry are nothing more than dead things, and they are useless to Jian Yan.Change them into silver bills and keep them on your body, so that she will feel more secure when she sleeps at night.And what's the point of losing the jewelry and dresses, Mrs. Jane will buy them for her again.

The expression on Jian Yan's face did not reveal any problem at all, and Mrs. Jian hesitated in her heart.

Could it be that Mother Zhao took these objects, jewelry and dresses home privately?Thinking about how his son dared to eat the price difference when he was selling silk thread, and even dared to blatantly cheat on her of the 1000 taels of silver, it is very possible that Zhao's mother quietly took those back from Jian Yan.

At this time, Shen's mother said something beside her, which strengthened her idea even more.

"During the Dragon Boat Festival last time, Mother Zhao invited her servant to sit at her house. The servant saw that her daughter-in-law was wearing a green shirt strung with treasure fairy flowers, and a golden invertebrate was stuck in her hair. The hanging lotus hairpin, her daughter was wearing a silver-red flower-spread armor and a pair of sapphire pendants on her ears. At that time, the servant girl felt that these things looked familiar, as if she had seen them somewhere before. Come to think of it, aren’t these the girl’s belongings? Speaking of which, I bought the hairpin and the pendant at the Baorongzhai in the city, but I’m old and dim-sighted, and I have a bad memory. I didn't think of it, and asked my wife to punish me."

How could it be that she didn't remember it, Jian Yan thought in her heart, a shrewd person like Shen's mother must have known what was going on at the time.But after all, she and Zhao's mother had been in love for so many years, and there was really no need to tear up her face for her adopted daughter who was not favored by his wife, so she kept silent.But now that she can say this, Jian Yan is still very grateful to her from the bottom of her heart.

Mrs. Jane still trusts Mama Shen very much.She didn't suspect at all that Shen's mother knew about this a long time ago, but she just scolded Zhao's mother: "No wonder her son pays the price difference. It turns out that the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. She herself is like this How can she expect her son to do well? Thinking about it, she died so easily, but it is still cheap for her. She should be sold to such a harsh family and suffer every day. "

The play that should be done is still to be done, so Jian Yan came out with a look of surprise, and asked: "Mom, why is Zhao's mother missing these days, so she is dead? How did she die?"

Shen's mother glanced at her.

She had always suspected that Jian Yan was not as docile and docile as she appeared on the surface.Even a blind person can see Mrs. Jian's attitude towards her these years, how can there be no lumps in Jian Yan's heart?But if you only look at it from the outside, Jian Yan doesn't have any lumps in her heart. On the contrary, she is quite submissive to Mrs. Jian and respects her as a servant. From time to time, she will give her some small items made by herself, but He didn't ask her for anything.Her daily speech and demeanor are neither humble nor overbearing, with a faint smile on her face all the year round, it is impossible to see what is going on in her heart.

Shen's mother sometimes thinks that if Jian Yan is not really a very kind person in her bones, she is probably a person with a deep family background, so she does not dare to offend Jian Yan very much on weekdays.Such a person, even if they are temporarily in adversity, but as long as they get a chance, they will soar into the sky.She doesn't know what will happen in the future today, so she feels that she can't do too much in life and things, and it's better to leave a way out for herself.

It's just that now, seeing the real surprise on Jian Yan's face, she felt a little puzzled in her heart.Could it be that I have misread it?In fact, she is really just a little girl who doesn't understand anything?
Mrs. Jian naturally would not tell Jian Yan the cause of Zhao's mother's death.Now that she knows what is going on with those missing objects, she is too lazy to say anything to Jian Yan.

"Go down." She waved her hand impatiently, and then turned her head to talk to Shen's mother.

Jian Yan bowed to her, answered yes respectfully, then turned around and walked out with Bai Wei.

Still return the same way.But when she walked into the garden, Jian Yan didn't go any further, instead she sat down next to the beauty on the promenade.

"Girl," Bai Wei just came back to her senses at this time, and her heart that was frightened before finally calmed down, but her face was still pale, "I was scared to death just now. Fortunately, No danger."

Jian Yan smiled and reached out to pull her to sit.After hesitating for a moment, Bai Wei also half-sat on the side of the beauty beside Jian Yan.

"What are you afraid of? I said earlier that nothing will happen."

Bai Wei had to admire Jian Yan.Aside from other things, just when Mrs. Jane slapped the table and got angry just now, she didn't change her face, and her subsequent answers were still orderly, leading everything to Zhao's mother.

But those few words of Shen's mother are also the key.If it weren't for her words, I'm afraid it would take a lot of effort for my wife to believe it.

Bai Wei asked Jian Yan: "Why does Shen's mother talk to us? The girl knew that Shen's mother knew that Zhao's mother took things from our house without permission?"

Jian Yan shook her head: "I don't know, it's just a guess. Mother Zhao is an impatient and face-saving person, and she always shows off when she gets good things. Not to mention, her daughter-in-law came here twice We looked for her in the courtyard, and I saw that two of the hairpins on her daughter-in-law's head belonged to me. Mother Shen and Mother Zhao were both mother's dowry maids, and they came out of the capital together. After years, there is always some affection. Besides, Shen's mother is very powerful in front of her mother, and she is very talkative. How can Zhao's mother not win her over? Once, Zhao's mother showed her words in front of me, It is said that Mama Shen would be invited to sit at their house during the holidays. Mama Zhao's daughter-in-law and daughter will definitely meet each other. According to Mama Zhao's temperament that likes to show off, she will definitely meet Let them dress up beautifully, how could they not wear the dresses and jewelry they took from me? Of course, Shen's mother has seen it before, and she naturally understood what was going on when she saw it, otherwise why did she just So clear and clear about the styles of dresses and jewelry that Zhao's mother-in-law and daughter wore on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival? It shows that she knew it well in the morning, but she didn't mention it in front of her mother at that time. But now that Mother Zhao is dead, she brought this up and sold me a ready-made favor to make me feel grateful to her, so why not do it?"

Bai Wei was stunned for a moment, then sighed, and said, "Mother Shen is really a genius."

Jian Yan smiled and said nothing, but she was thinking in her heart, if Mother Shen was not a genius, how could Mrs. Jian rely so much on her?
The snow in the yard has not disappeared, and a few red plum trees are blooming here and there.A camellia tree was planted obliquely beside the rocks on the side, the leaves were oily green, and a few pink camellias bloomed just right.

Jian Yan remembered something, turned her gaze back and asked Bai Wei: "How is the matter with Brother Zhou? He has decided where to go? Go back to his hometown and have a look?"

During this period of time, Mrs. Jian was busy selling shops and houses, but after the incident between Sun Wangcai and Qian Laibao last time, she quickly transferred the woolen shop at a low price.As for the guys in the shop, some were hired, and some were domestic slaves of the Jian family, either waiting to be sold again, or they could redeem themselves with silver taels.

Back then, the nanny brought Zhou Lin and Bai Wei and sold them into Jian's family as servants, so he could be regarded as a domestic servant of Jian's family.Zhou Lin helped Jian Yan a lot, so she naturally wouldn't let him be sold out again.So she asked Bai Wei to bring the silver to Zhou Lin and let him redeem himself, but later Bai Wei brought back the silver as it was, and also brought a sentence from Zhou Lin, saying that he had already saved money. If you have enough money to redeem yourself, the girl should keep the money for herself.

Bai Wei said softly at this time: "Brother Zhou said that when he fled from his hometown with his family, he was the only one left alive in the end. What did he do when he returned to his hometown? So what did he mean? Yes, we went to Tongzhou with my wife this time, so he went there too. He also said that he couldn't see Mother when she was dying, but he also knew what Mother was thinking, and regarded the three of us as her Treat him like his own sons and daughters, and hope that the three of us will be fine. He also said that, to put it bluntly, he actually treats the girl as his own sister in his heart, so it is natural for his sister to go where, what he does Where does my brother go."

Jian Yan was grateful in her heart, and reached out to shake Bai Wei's hand, her tone was low but firm.

"All three of us will be fine."

(End of this chapter)