Empress has purpose

Chapter 7
Meng looked at Gu Yunxi suspiciously. It seemed that the three girls still believed in her as before, and even spoke for herself at this time, and what she said was exactly what she had just thought of.

Mrs. Gu nodded, thinking that this was indeed the case, so she said, "Mr. Meng, go back and sit down. You must stop acting impulsively."

Meng shi lowered her head in shame and said, "Yes, mother, my daughter-in-law is impulsive."

Old Madam Gu nodded again, and said, "Go and call the steward of the big kitchen."

Mrs. Meng immediately said: "Mother, just now when Madam Wei mentioned cassava flour, my daughter-in-law immediately asked someone to call Mrs. Zhang, but I don't know why she hasn't come yet."

Mrs. Gu said to Madam Su beside her, "Go and see what's going on. You shouldn't be afraid of being punished and run away."

Madam Su responded and went out. After a while, she led a woman in her 40s who was wearing coarse clothes and came in.

The woman knelt down and bowed to everyone before she said: "Go back to the old lady, the servant has been waiting outside just now, because I didn't get summoned for a while, so I didn't dare to come in rashly, but the servant heard the whole story clearly .And the servants also caught the man who served the third girl cassava flour."

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Gu immediately said, "Then don't bring people in!"

Two young servants immediately escorted a person in, pressed her to kneel on the ground, and retreated out of the door.

Luwu, the maid beside Gu Yunxi, immediately called out a name in shock: "Fentao?!"

Because the maid kept her head down, everyone only saw her wearing maid clothes but didn't see her face clearly, when they heard Lu Wu's shout, they were suddenly surprised.

Gu Yunxi also stood up in surprise, and looked at her in disbelief. At this time, Fentao had already raised her head, with a dirty rag stuffed in her mouth, no wonder she hadn't spoken since entering the door.

Gu Yunxi winked, and Luwu who was beside her immediately walked up to Fentao and took out the rag from her mouth.

Fentao immediately yelled: "Miss, help me, those crazy women actually covered Fentao's mouth with a rag, woooooo..." She even started to cry.

The second girl, Gu Qingwu, was the closest to Fentao, she secretly rolled her eyes: Why does Fentao dare to act coquettishly with Gu Yunxi when her death is imminent?
Mrs. Gu, the boss, hammered her cane heavily, and said sharply: "Shut up! Hurry up and tell me why you want to harm your girl!"

Fentao froze for a moment, her face was still covered with tears, her mouth was opened wide, as if she didn't know what Mrs. Gu was talking about, only then did she notice that there was a whole room of people sitting in the room, all of them Looking at her dumbfounded, she said in surprise: "Old lady, what are you talking about? How could I harm our girl?"

"Bold slave, you don't admit it when you're about to die, why did you put cassava flour in the food of the third girl." Meng also said sharply.

Fentao went to look at Ms. Meng in a daze again, and saw that Nanny Qian winked at her quietly by her side, she still didn't understand, but after a while, her eyes widened in a daze.

Everyone saw Fentao's reaction, and looked at Meng Shi suspiciously, as if to say, why did she look at you? Could it be that you really ordered someone to poison you?

Gu Yunxi was also a little dazed this time, she stared blankly at Meng Shi, her lips moved and said two words: "Mother..."

Meng Shi glared at her resentfully, and said angrily, "Yunxi, why are you looking at me like this? Do you really think that I ordered someone to poison you?"

Is not it?Everyone couldn't help asking in this way.

"Mother, Yunxi didn't mean that." Gu Yunxi said weakly.

"Then what do you mean?" Meng Shi asked sharply.

"Prime Minister, why are you so angry? You dare to treat the county magistrate Ronghua like this in front of me, an outsider, but imagine how the county magistrate would live in the mansion! If you didn't send someone down Poison, this old slave is a little unbelievable! Did the old lady notice the clothes on the county lord? Could it be that the majestic Dali Prime Minister's Mansion doesn't even have money to make new clothes for the ladies? If this is the case, then The slaves should also ask the eldest princess to prepare something for the county master."

In fact, this sentence is regarded as wronging Meng Shi. Meng Shi treats Gu Yunxi very well in the eyes of everyone in the mansion, and has never treated her badly in terms of food and clothing.Moreover, she has always looked like a loving mother in front of everyone, dignified and noble, she has never been so angry, and now this time is also because she was accused of poisoning twice in a row, so she lost her sense in a hurry.

Mrs. Meng didn't care about Madam Wei's accusation of abusing Gu Yunxi, she just kept shouting angrily: "It's the other way around, everyone wants to blame me, the mistress, and don't pull Fen Tao. Go out and beat me hard until she recruits. Qian Momo, go and watch!"

Nanny Qian accepted the order and said yes, and as soon as she took a step, she heard Wei Nanny's voice: "Madam Prime Minister, is this trying to beat you to death? Don't wait until you are accidentally beaten to death again, but there will really be no evidence for death."

Gu Yunxi said softly: "Fentao, what's going on, did you really put tapioca flour in my food?"

Fentao recovered from her stupefaction. After listening to what Madam Wei and Gu Yunxi said, and thinking of Mrs. Jiang who had just been dragged out, she trembled and lowered her head. After a long time, she seemed to have made some decision , suddenly raised his head and said: "Old lady, the servant girl did betray the third girl, and all of this was instigated by one person." After speaking, she raised her head and glanced in the direction of Meng Shi.

Meng Shi was so scared that she immediately retorted: "Do you want to say that this person is me?"

"No, it's not Madam." Fentao shook her head, turned to look at Gu Yunxi, and then at the old lady.

Just when Meng Shi breathed a sigh of relief, she heard Fentao say again: "All this was instigated by Madam Qian next to Madam."

As soon as the words came out, Gu Yunxi's hand holding the tea paused, and everyone was surprised.

"Nonsense, why would I do this!" Qian Momo retorted.

"Because you want to pave the way for the fourth girl and let her be the only prostitute in the prime minister's house! So you secretly bribed me without telling my wife, and asked me to always pay attention to the third girl's every move and report to you." As for cassava She really didn't know about the fans, but she wouldn't say it, and only let everyone think that everything she did was ordered by Qian Momo.

Everyone was shocked when they heard the words, Mrs. Gu immediately yelled angrily: "Presumptuous!" As she spoke, she glanced at Wei Nanny and Gu Yunxi, and saw that their expressions were normal, so she was a little relieved, and her voice slowed down. Mammy said, "Have you any excuse?"

Qian Momo was also a little stunned, but before she could refute herself, she heard her master Meng scolded herself angrily: "Qian Rong, you didn't kneel down yet, you actually sat behind my back for so many things, It hurt my poor daughter to be tortured like this by you." The daughter she was talking about was Gu Yunxi, and Qian Rong was Mammy Qian's real name.

The second aunt said again: "Madam really knows how to shirk responsibility. Does the master not know about these slaves doing things? These four girls are not someone under Qian Momo, why is she risking her life like this?"

Mrs. Gu shouted: "Shut up!" She couldn't help feeling a little more dissatisfied with Second Aunt, and didn't look at the current situation. In front of outsiders, is she going to punish Meng Shi for her crimes?The slave made a mistake and the master made a mistake, but the consequences are completely different.

Qian Momo was taken aback, and immediately realized that Mrs. Meng was planning to give up on herself. After thinking for a while, she knelt down and said, "Old Madam, everything has nothing to do with Madam, it's all arranged by the servant alone. The servant Every time I see my wife treats Mrs. Yuan's daughter better than her own daughter, and when I think of the fourth girl who is still living in another courtyard, I feel bitter for the fourth girl, so for the third girl who enjoys everything in the prime minister's mansion, I will I felt resentment in my heart. That's how I came up with all this, and I asked my youngest daughter-in-law to make incense containing old herbs, to make the third girl sick."

Meng looked at Nanny Qian with tears in the corner of her eyes, and said with a choked voice, "Nurse Qian, you are so confused! I should be nice to Yunxi. It was my decision for Yunwan to live in another hospital, because She is not in good health. The master of Lingyin Temple said that if she wants to survive, she can only be sent out, and she cannot meet her family. You know all this. If you blame me, you should also blame me. How can you spread your anger to Yun Xi."

Qian Momo kowtowed and said, "I know I'm wrong. I'm the one who's sorry for Madam and Miss San, so I'll apologize with death. I just hope that Madam and Miss San don't embarrass Lao Nu's family." She said without waiting for everyone. After reacting, he bumped his head against the pillar in the house, blood spattered on the spot, and died.

Meng Shi yelled: "Wan'er!" She also fainted, but she was actually out of anger.

So this farce ended with the deaths of Nanny Qian and Shi Jiang. Fentao was sold to Ren Yazi because of Gu Yunxi's "pleading" and sent out of the house. As for what kind of tomorrow will greet her, only Fentao is I know it myself.

Meng Shi was in poor health a few days ago, just recovered a little, then what happened today happened again, and she fell completely ill.

The doctor said that she needed to rest, so the old lady used this as an excuse to take back the power of the Meng family, and in order to appease the eldest princess and Gu Yunxi, she handed over the right to manage the big kitchen to Gu Yunxi, and allowed her Follow her to learn how to deal with family affairs, and said that Gu Yunxi is about to get married, and she will get married in the future. It is right to learn these familiarities early, and it can be regarded as compensation for her suffering.

Gu Yunxi readily accepted, because this was exactly what she wanted.

That's right, all of this was planned by Gu Yunxi in advance, in order to get rid of the eyeliner Fentao that Meng shi had placed beside her, so as to hit Meng shi a little bit, and take the opportunity to establish her prestige in the mansion.Although there were some discrepancies from the pre-plan, the overall result was achieved.

The reason why Zhou Shun's family would testify against Mrs. Meng is because Mrs. Jiang was actually a maid who worked as a sweeper in the mansion of Gu Yunxi's mother, Qin Hua, when she was alive. She interceded for her, because she was quite pretty, and after the Meng family married in, she was assigned to Madam Qian's youngest son Zhou Shun by the Meng family. Hit and curse at her.

So Gu Yunxi ordered someone to find her quietly, and asked her if she would like to leave Zhou Shun and Gu's mansion. Jiang thought of her mother's kindness to her, and in order to be able to leave Zhou Shun, she agreed to Gu Yunxi to help her act in such a play. In the play, Gu Yunxi gave her a fake death medicine brought back by Zizhu, and asked her to play by ear, and then Meng stepped forward and kicked her until she vomited blood. Gu Yunxi secretly winked at Jiang, and Jiang received it. Signal, immediately swallowed the fake death pill quietly, lay down on the ground and pretended to be dead.

So these things came to fruition.

Talking about Fentao, a few days ago she specially asked Zizhu to bribe a maid who was not likely to be noticed by others, secretly paying attention to Fentao's whereabouts, and then found that Fentao would carry her back every once in a while. When I went outside the Chonghua Hospital by myself, I was often willing to run to the big kitchen. It turns out that Fentao is actually a glutton, and every time he went to report to Meng, he would go to the kitchen to find something to eat.

Then today, when she learned that Fentao went to the kitchen again at noon, she ordered Zizhu to secretly stuff a box containing tapioca flour under Fentao's bed, and then went to the little maid and asked her to prepare some. Delicate dim sum mixed with tapioca flour was designed to lure Fen Tao to eat, but was caught by Mrs. Zhang who "coincidentally" appeared.

Meng could have pushed everything to the man who was caught serving cassava flour, but the person who was caught was Fen Tao, and Fen Tao was the person she placed next to Gu Yunxi. If she is her real master, no one will believe that the poison was not ordered by Meng Shi. After all, the two witnesses are related to her, and all the evidence will point to her.

So her first thought was to hint to Fentao not to admit it, but she forgot that the people in the room were always paying attention to everyone's reactions.

The only thing that surprised her was that Fentao would actually point the murderer at Nanny Qian instead of Ms. Meng. After thinking about it, she realized that Fentao must have felt that she would not survive, but her family still knew about it. In the hands of Meng Shi, in order to keep her family, she couldn't confess to Meng Shi, so she could only push all this on Qian Momo, she really wanted to put a back on her when she was about to die.Fentao is not only smart, but also really ruthless!So such a person can't stay by his side.

Afterwards, Gu Yunxi told Nanny Wei that she would feel better after staying for a few days, so she went out to visit the eldest princess, and then coaxed Nanny Wei away.

After returning home, I heard from Luwu that Mrs. Gu sent people to search the residences of Fentao and Madam Qian, and they found the box of cassava flour and many gold and silver jewelry. It was rewarded to Nanny Qian, and now Mrs. Gu truly believed that all of this was caused by those two slaves, and she didn't say anything except scolding Mrs. Meng for not being strict.

And Gu Yunxi didn't expect to overthrow the Meng family all at once, but it's still a long time, she has plenty of time to compete with the Meng family.

In just one day, she completed her first step of the plan.

As for the next step, that is...

(End of this chapter)