Chapter 12: Cherries
After dinner, Le Yu called Yanwu: "Go wash the cherries out, let's all taste them." The red and tender cherries were extremely sweet, and Le Yu tasted a few and said, "Why is it so sour, forget it, don't eat it, take it." “
Yanwu answered, took the cherries down, and then walked out of the door and couldn't wait to take one and throw it into his mouth, well, it's very sweet, since the girl doesn't eat it, it's mine.
Yanwu is in charge of the key to the tea room, these fresh fruits, dried fruits, snacks and tea leaves are all placed in the tea room, she has done this kind of thing before, but some food, the girl never cares.
She was not on duty at night, and the girl called her to the embroidery of the same house for the night, and she hid in her own house and ate cherries, very satisfied.
Early the next morning, Le Yu took Zhuji and Lingge to ask for peace, and as soon as she entered the Hening Hall, she knelt down and wept, the old lady was startled by her, and frowned and said, "What are you doing early in the morning? I'm not dead yet." “
Le Yu didn't seem to hear it, but cried: "Grandmother forgives her sins, her granddaughter is incompetent, and she can't manage the servants in her house, and grandmother will punish her." “
The old lady frowned, and her mind turned and shouted, "What the hell is wrong?" Le Xian was very surprised, her eyes rolled, and she stepped forward to help Le Yu up, and persuaded her: "Fourth sister, get up quickly, don't touch your grandmother's moldy head early in the morning." “
Hearing this, the old lady was even more unsafe, Gu was so anxious that she rubbed the silk handkerchief in her hand, and Le Yu didn't care, and said straightforwardly: "Yesterday, Miss Miao came to send some cherries, I thought that if there were good things, I would naturally honor my grandmother and father first, so I asked someone to wash them and put them away, because my grandmother didn't eat these raw and cold things at night, so I planned to send them over this morning." Who, who knows, opened the tea room this morning, and the cherries were all gone. “
The old lady was shocked, although she didn't like Le Yu, but she was the princess, and she had always been strict and disciplined in governing the family, and she had never done anything like this. Le Yu is a serious girl master, she stole a plate of cherries and naturally stole the rest, will the reputation of the Xiao family girl be at that time? !
The old lady was furious, slapped the table and said, "Mother Qiu, go, take someone to search the courtyard of the four girls, and you must find this bold man." “
Gu Shi stood up suddenly, and she was usually cowardly and did not dare to speak at this moment: "Slow, mother, you can't search." Seeing that the woman she hated the most dared to stop her, the old lady put away her words and said slowly and calmly: "What are you going to do?"
Gu begged again and again: "Mother, Yu'er is still a girl, how can she lead someone to search the yard? “
Le Yu stayed in the local area, she didn't expect her mother to dare to rebel against the old lady for herself, she wanted to send herself to be a concubine in her previous life, didn't she just hold herself and cry, and didn't dare to say a superfluous word?
Seeing that the old lady squinted dangerously, and her momentum gradually became fierce, Le Yu hurriedly said: "Mother, don't say it," turned to the old lady and said: "Grandmother, mother is just concerned, don't blame her." He immediately pulled Gu Shi and said: "Mother, grandmother is also for my good, wouldn't it be dangerous to have such a slave? Besides, those present are all our own family, and they will not be passed on." “
Le Xian also immediately grabbed Gu and persuaded: "The fourth sister is right, mother is relieved that no one will say it." But he was sneering in his heart, as soon as he turned his head, it would spread that the four girls of the Xiao family were found in the yard by their grandmother for misbehaving, what a good reputation.
The old lady reined in her anger strangely, frowned, and said, "Mother Qiu, you take someone to find the slave and maid who keeps it, and search the slave's house alone." “
Le Yu raised her eyebrows, she deserves to be an old lady, her reputation is bad, she is the daughter of the Xiao family, what can Le Xian and them do? She looked at Le Xian with malicious and surprised eyes, and sneered in her heart, Le Xian was only fifteen years old at this time, not as comprehensive as in her previous life, and she was too tender.
He had to be surprised on his face: "It's Yanwu who is in charge of the key, she won't know that I want to send the elders to do such a thing." “
Yes, it is directly pointed out that it is a smoke pipe. When Le Xian heard that it was smoke, she was stunned. After a while, Qiu's mother turned around, and with the discolored cigarettes and half a plate of cherries, she replied directly: "Back to the old lady, I found the uneaten cherries in this slave house, and everyone has stolen them, and they cannot be denied." “
The old lady looked at Yan Wu coldly, and the disgust in her eyes was clear and clear. Yanwu was brought here before he could figure out what was going on, and when he saw that the cherry thing was down, he was still holding on to it even though he was afraid, thinking that it was just some food, so he stammered: "Return, go back to the old lady, last night, aunt, the girl ate a few and said that she would not eat them and let the slave take them back, and the slave and maid would regret that the cherries were spoiled and eaten." The old lady spared her life. “
Le Yu said sadly: "I mean I don't want to eat it, but the rest is going to be sent to my grandmother, mother, and second aunt, how can you eat it secretly? “
Yanwu opened his mouth and stammered, and his clever appearance had long since disappeared: "The slave didn't know that it was going to be given away, and the girl didn't tell it." He cried out loudly.
Le Yu said coldly: "Yesterday, everyone heard me say that I want to give it to everyone to taste, you said I didn't say it?" said and turned to Le Xian, "The big sister also heard it yesterday, right?" Le Xian had the heart to say that she didn't hear it, but it can be seen that Le Wan and Le Yan are there, so she had to grit her teeth and say: "Yes, we all heard it." “
Yanwu was shocked, and before she could quibble, the old lady had already stopped shouting: "Enough! Have you heard anything of the matter? Is it the matter of giving it away? Has the girl rewarded you? If you don't reward you, you are stealing the master's things, and you deserve to be beaten to death!"
Yanwu collapsed to the ground in despair, and turned her eyes to Le Xian as if she had grasped a life-saving straw: "Big girl, big girl save the slave and maid......"
Le Xian shook off the hand that grabbed the hem of her skirt in disgust, and said nothing with a wooden face. Yanwu didn't dare to say anything more and knelt down and moved to Le Yu, "Girl, good girl, plead for the slave and maid, the slave and maid know that she is wrong, girl." “
The old lady looked at it coldly, as if looking down on a poor ant: "Pull her out and reward her with twenty boards, and then send them out, together with her old son, sell them all!"
She was stupid when a thunderbolt hit the top of the smoke on a sunny day, why should she sell it if she only had a few cherries? Before she could cry, several stout women had already dragged her out, and there was a suspicious puddle of water on the scarlet carpet.
The old lady looked at her in disgust, and some of the girls had already stepped forward to change the carpet, and there was a dull sound of boards and the whining of covering her mouth outside.
Among the masters sitting in the room, except for the old lady Le Xian, only Le Yu still had the same complexion, Gu and Le Yan were already pale with fright, even Le Wan was a little uncomfortable.
The old lady took a deep look at Le Yu, and when the sound of the board stopped, she took the tea, "I'm tired today, let's all disperse." Leyu stays, I have something to ask you. “
Le Yu met Gu's worried eyes and shook her head gently, signaling her not to make any more remarks to anger the old lady, Gu was worried, so she had to be helped out by Le Xian step by step.