Qin Hanzhen took Qin Hanzhu with him to tell Niu what happened, and Niu asked Qin Hanzhu in surprise: "How did you notice that dipping sauce?

Qin Hanzhu said timidly: "The little girl waiting in my house, her mother is a daughter-in-law who does sprinkling and sweeping in the yard, I heard what she said, saying that her mother complained, her clothes were dyed red with dipping sauce, and she couldn't wash them, so her new clothes were ruined." ”

Niu nodded: "I see." I mean, they didn't notice the dipping sauce was wrong. The whole family eats spicy food, your grandfather and third sister don't eat so spicy, but they don't like to eat sour food, only your mother eats sour melon sauce. They were also careless. You have to ask the kitchen about this, this dipping sauce is our own unique recipe in the house, and there is no one outside. If someone takes the hot sauce to fake it, it must be taken from the kitchen. ”

Qin Hanzhen said: "Because my grandmother loves spicy food, there are many people who eat spicy sauce at home, so I went to the kitchen to ask, what can I ask? I think it can be seen from this incident that the dipping sauce was spilled at the beginning, and it is estimated that it was really an accident, but someone turned this accident into a man-made one." If it was premeditated, the person would not have prepared the same dipping sauce beforehand. ”

Niu said: "Even if that person can prepare in advance, he may not be able to get the sour sauce, and the family doesn't eat jelly every day, only when your aunt eats jelly, will make this sauce." However, although the amount of food you make at a time is not much, you will not just make just one serving. She thought about it for a while, and felt that it was still because the person who was making trouble behind her back couldn't get the sour sauce. Then the big girls and housekeepers who can go to the kitchen to ask for things can rule out suspicion. Of course, these people had no reason to harm Xiao Feng.

Qin Hanzhen remembered that the only one who had the motive to harm Xiao Feng's family was the golden ring. If it's her...... When she moved in, there was no such thing as sour sauce. It was after the summer, in order to make the pregnant woman Xiao Feng's eat with an appetite, the kitchen ladies specially developed a new recipe, except for Niu and Qin Hanzhen to eat it occasionally, basically for Xiao Feng's alone. Since Jinhuan entered the Yongjiahou Mansion, he has basically been in a state of confinement, and his diet on weekdays naturally cannot be compared with Xiao Feng's, and he should not have eaten cold powder, let alone sour sauce. At most, she's heard people talk about hot sauce. If it were her, it wouldn't be surprising that she wouldn't be able to figure out the difference between the two sauces. But she can't get out of the house, so who will do it?

Regarding this point, Qin Hanzhu once again provided a clue: "When I went to see my aunt, her girl was supposed to stay in the house and wait, but my aunt glanced at her, and she went to guard the door." ”

Qin Hanzhen looked back at Niu, and Niu's was a little annoyed: "Could it be that even the children and girls in the family can be fooled by her?!"

The Niu family got angry, and didn't let Mama Hu or Mama Wei go to investigate, and directly informed the chief manager Zhou Xiangnian. Zhou Xiangnian was born in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and in the past few years, he has mastered the power of the housekeeper, as long as he can satisfy several masters, he will not have any friendship with the people below. Besides, he didn't have a friendship with the children of his family, and he wasn't born a slave.

Zhou Xiangnian went out, naturally he would not be like Feng'er sent out by Qin Hanzhen, just to find a little girl to talk to, and the other party's family claimed that she was unconscious, so there was nothing to do. Zhou Xiangnian directly ordered someone to control the little girl's family, as well as the two stout girls in the Golden Ring House and their families, and then began to raid the house. In the end, he copied a small bag of gold bead jewelry from the little girl's house, worth nearly a hundred taels of silver, which was definitely not something she could handle. The two stout girls had a clean house, but according to their neighbors, one of their brothers, who owed a huge gambling debt some time ago, was approached by the creditor, and I don't know where she found the silver, so she actually helped her brother pay off the debt, not to mention, but also gave another 20 taels of silver tickets, telling her brother to do some small business and stop gambling money. Her brother has been looking for people for the past few days to inquire about any small profits to do, inviting people to eat and drink, bragging, and making people blush.

After a little force, what is the source of the money in the hands of these two girls, and they interrogated it clearly. It was a surprise that the Golden Ring had so many things hidden. Could it be that when she was in Datong as a housekeeper in the past, she filled her pockets? Or did Qin An privately supplement her with these things?

Qin An went back to the barracks to take leave, and Niu couldn't wait for him to come back, so he went to find his daughter-in-law Xiao Feng first.

Xiao Feng was exhausted after giving birth, but after a night's rest, he recovered slightly. She has been recuperating well in the Yongjiahou Mansion in the capital in the past few months, and her physical condition is not the same as when she was in Datong, so she has recovered quickly. But after listening to her mother-in-law's words, she was still confused. She thought she had kept a close eye on the Golden Ring, but she never expected such a mistake.

Niu Shi angrily said to her: "No wonder you, you were pregnant with a child at that time, where can you care about distraction? Who would have thought that the golden ring was so cunning? is also shrewd, two girls, which one can be bought, which one can't, so that she can see it really. After one was bought by her, she passed a few words for her and did a lot of things, but the other didn't know it. Your girl sprinkled the dipping sauce, and the girl saw it and told the golden ring. Jinhuan immediately asked her to call the rough little girl, who was also the person she had bought beforehand, occasionally running errands for her, going out to buy something or something. The little girl was not scared and ran away at all, but was called by her, and then came back to do tricks, change the oil, change the sauce, I don't want to say more, I feel disgusting when I think about it! Fortunately, they acted in a hurry, leaving a lot of flaws, otherwise this matter would really make them confused!"

After finishing speaking, she pointed at Qin Hanzhu again, and said to Xiao Feng: "This time it's really thanks to the six girls, if she hadn't found out that the sauce was wrong and told the three girls, we would have been kept in the dark, thinking that it was really just an accident." Although her own mother is a bastard, she can still tell the good from the bad. Teach her well, don't let her go the wrong way. ”

Xiao Feng hurriedly agreed, smiled and beckoned Qin Hanzhu to sit down on the edge of the bed, and touched her little head: "Good boy, don't be afraid." What your aunt does has nothing to do with you. You just read your books, go to your sisters' places to laugh and play in your spare time, and don't pay attention to the others. ”

Qin Hanzhu asked timidly: "Mother, are you ...... Will you drive your aunt away......? She did something like that, I really didn't expect. I asked her and she said...... She hasn't done anything, saying that her mother is full-term and will give birth safely, and it's useless to do anything to you at this time. I believed it, if it wasn't for the fact that I found out about the dipping sauce later...... her eyes were red, and tears were almost falling, "My aunt scolded me, saying that I was born to her, and I shouldn't suspect that she was ......"

Xiao Feng hurriedly hugged her, comforted her softly, and said, "You don't have to pay attention to what your aunt says." People who have done bad things will naturally want to justify themselves in every possible way. But the human and physical evidence is here, and it's useless for her to not admit it. You know in your heart that we have not wronged her, but she has wronged herself. So, you did the right thing, don't feel that you are wrong because of your aunt's scolding. ”

Qin Hanzhu nodded tearfully, and then lowered her head sadly.

Qin Hanzhen took a handkerchief to wipe her tears, then took her hand and said, "I'll take my sixth sister to my yard to play." The matter of the golden ring, the grandmother and the aunt discussed it. With that, he pulled Qin Hanzhu and ran away.

Niu said to Xiao Feng: "The golden ring is hateful, but don't implicate the six girls for her." This child seems to be a good one, but I misunderstood her in the past, thinking that the bad bamboo can't produce good bamboo shoots. But since she is a good child, she can't be affected by her own mother. In the past, Brother Qian'er was a burden to his biological mother, but now he can only be a concubine, and he lives alone in the clan, and he doesn't dare to come to the capital. I wanted to pick him up, but his grandfather was afraid that someone would recognize him and ruin his reputation and future. ”

Xiao Feng paused and said slowly: "Brother Qian'er is two years older, and it is time to go home and say goodbye." When he has made a name for himself, who would dare to talk about what he is going to do? It has been so many years since his own mother died, and Datong has long forgotten about her, and presumably the same is true in the capital. ”

Niu nodded: "His mother's concubine is also doing very badly now, and it is said that she is also sick." If even he was dead, then no one would ever talk about that slut again. When the time comes, Brother Qian'er will be relieved to come home again. ”

Xiao Feng smiled and said: "In this case, the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, and there is no need to let people outside know about this matter, how about sending the golden ring to the Zhuangzi in the suburbs and locking it? Of course, not in the Zhuangzi in Changping." The fifth master is a soft-hearted person, so he is afraid that he will see Jinhuan again, and he will be coaxed by her to say a few words, and he will be confused again. ”

Niu snorted: "Of course we can't send it to Zhuangzi in Changping! We will send people back to Mizhi! Our family still has a house in Mizhi, and we also have a Zhuangtian industry." She'd been locked up in the house over there for a few days before, and now she'd been cheaper to let her go back!"

Mizhi is thousands of miles away from the capital, and there are few people in the family who go there, only the stewards there will go to Beijing every year to report the accounts, or when Yongjiahou Qin Bai goes out to travel, passing by that area, he will go back to the old house to rest. If you really send the golden ring over, then your ears will really be clean from now on!

Xiao Feng smiled and said to Niu: "Everything is decided by the mother-in-law. It's just the fifth master...... I'm afraid he will misunderstand that I slandered in front of my mother-in-law......"

Niu waved his hand: "I gave the order, but he didn't accept it, just call him to come to me." What does this have to do with you? You are a person who has just given birth to a child, and you still have to go to confinement, so you can't control all this mess!"

Xiao Feng's heart was relieved, and he hurriedly said: "You need to let the people below keep your mouth shut, even if you send the golden ring away, you can't let Hanzhu be criticized." ”

Niu sighed: "If it weren't for her own mother and adoptive mother, she wouldn't be a good person, and we wouldn't have to worry about it." simply put her in the name of Brother Qian'er's current nominal biological mother. Hengzhu and they were originally siblings. ”

Xiao Feng responded softly: "Let's do what my mother-in-law wants, my daughter-in-law doesn't understand these things." ”

Qin Hanzhu, the sixth girl of Yongjiahou Mansion, has changed again in the genealogical record of her origin.