The concubine's graceful phoenix comes to the world

Chapter 20 The poison scheme reappears (2)
"Just say anything, I'll give you this chance!"

"Aunt Mo Lan, did you see the crested hairpin and the red dress that only a mistress can wear in my aunt's room?" Shangguan Rou got up and asked.

Looking at Shangguanrou with a calm face, Mo Lan knew that she couldn't underestimate the four girls. She could go through this kind of thing without changing her face, so it was conceivable that the four girls were not ordinary people.

"Referring to Miss Si, I didn't see this with my own eyes. It was Madam's maid who said that Madam's favorite crested hairpin was missing two days ago. That crested hairpin is Madam's favorite, and I usually don't want to wear it. Because today is the old lady's birthday, the lady decided to wear it today, but she couldn't find it. As for why she doubted the fourth lady, it was because the second lady's personal maid, Xiangyue, said that she saw the fourth lady by chance the day before yesterday Wearing bright red clothes, with a crested hairpin on his head."

In the Ziyuan dynasty, although concubines were not as important as the previous dynasty, they were very strict with the main wife and concubines. Doting concubines and destroying wives may affect a man's official career.Crested hairpins can only be worn by regular wives and legitimate daughters.In wealthy families other than the imperial family, the crested hairpins only have the phoenix head and no phoenix tail, and most of them are made of gold, silver or jade, while concubines and concubines can only wear sparrow hairpins.If the concubine dared to use or hide the crested hairpin, he could be executed.

"Then Aunt Mo Lan found the Fengtou Chai and the Zhenghong clothes from my aunt's room. Where are the Fengtou Chai and the Zhenghong clothes?"

Hearing Shangguanrou's words, Mo Lan's heart shuddered, and a bad feeling came to her heart, "I searched Aunt Zhao's house, but I didn't find Fengtouchai and Zhenghong clothes. I wonder if Aunt Zhao hid these things in the house." Although there is no physical evidence for the place where it is recited, but the authentication is here, and the servants can only offend."

"In that case, there is no physical evidence for this matter? Since we searched the aunt's house and found nothing, why not search the houses of other aunts, maybe Xiangyue misjudged the person. In this way It is also fair to my aunt, clearing the suspicion of other aunts, and it is also beneficial to father's career, what do grandma and father think?"

After listening to Shangguanrou's words, both the old lady and Shangguanzheng fell into deep thought. After a while, the old lady said: "This matter will be handled according to what the fourth girl said. Yinlan, you take someone to search the second aunt's house , Jin Lan, take someone to search the third aunt's house. Since Mo Lan has already searched the fourth aunt's house, there is no need to go. If today's matter does not come to fruition, I will not let it go! Fourth girl, get up, Just sit aside."

Zijuan stepped forward to help Shangguanrou, and Shangguanrou felt the discomfort in his chest getting stronger and stronger.She drank a glass of water to forcefully suppress the discomfort in her heart.The good show has just begun, how can she leave, if there is no herself, the next play will not be able to be sung.Shangguan Rou caressed his chest and looked at everything in the main hall with cold eyes.

The old lady and Shangguan were waiting in the main hall, seeing Yinlan and Jinlan came back, the old lady quickly asked: "How is it, but did you find anything, did you find the crested hairpin and the Zhenghong clothes?"

Ever since Yinlan and Jinlan were ordered by the old lady to search the houses of the second aunt and the third aunt, the sense of uncertainty in Shangguanxin's heart became more and more intense. She felt that she had fallen into a trap, and she was trapped in it , no matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't get out, and no one could save her.The old lady's question made Shangguanrou's heart tremble even more.

Yinlan waved her hand to let the little maid come in. On the tray in the hands of the little maid who came in afterward was a shining crested hairpin. The whole crested hairpin was made of gold. A good ruby ​​glows red in the sunlight.

Beside the crested hairpin was a bright red dress, on which peony flowers were embroidered with gold thread, and many pearls adorned the collar and cuffs, the pearls were round and smooth, really extremely gorgeous.

When the eldest lady saw the crested hairpin for the first time, she called out, "Mother, this is indeed the crested hairpin that I lost. It was a dowry given to me by my natal family when I got married. This ruby ​​is still My brother found it himself!" Regarding this crested hairpin, Da Furen will never remember it wrongly, after all, this crested hairpin has different meanings to her.

When they saw the crested hairpin and Zhenghong clothes in the tray, the faces of the old lady and Shangguanzheng were very ugly, and now they heard what the old lady said.His face was even more ugly.

"Yinlan, tell me, in whose house did you find this! You are so bold, it's really wrong, wrong!" The old lady was so angry that she coughed repeatedly, and Liu Mama hurriedly handed over tea when she saw this.

"Reporting to the old lady, the phoenix-headed hairpin and the Zhenghong clothes were found in the second lady's room, and the servants also found several treasures in the second lady's room, including a glazed vase, a Wu Daozi's authentic work and an enamel vase." Yinlan lowered her head and said back, thinking in her heart that the second lady might not be able to hide this time, even if the master spared her, the old lady would not spare her.

"You are really bold! I thought you were a person who knows the times, but now it seems that you are a bold person! Stealing the crested hairpin of the mistress, hiding the red clothes that only the mistress can wear, and even daring to hide The things in the mansion, you are really amazing, I want to use the money from my mansion to fill the bottomless pit of your natal family!"

Although the second wife, Mrs. Li, is the daughter of a merchant, the Li family has gone from bad to worse in recent years, and now it has lost its former glory. It is said that the Li family still owes a huge amount of debt. It seems that the Li family wants to sell things in the house. Pay back the money for the Li family.The old lady was annoyed, she didn't expect to raise such a moth!
The old lady looked up and saw Shangguan Rou hesitated to speak, and said: "Your father and I wronged your aunt in this matter. If you have anything to say, just say it. If what you say is reasonable, I will help you, grandma." It's up to you!"

"Grandmother, my aunt doesn't have these things. Why does the maid of the second sister, Xiangyue, say that she sees my aunt wearing a red dress with a crested hairpin? My granddaughter is a little puzzled."

When the old lady heard Shangguanrou's words, her heart was full of doubts. Could there be another story behind this matter?She unconsciously glanced at Mo Lan who was searching Zhao's house.

Hearing this, Mo Lan hurriedly returned: "Reporting to the old lady, the servant only found a sparrow hairpin and an old pink dress in the fourth lady's room. Xiangyue must have misread it. "Although Mo Lan didn't know what the old lady and Miss Fourth wanted to do, she had an instinct that it was right to do so.

(End of this chapter)