Chapter Ninety-Eight: Confession
"The Jade Buddha has been found!" Zhou Huaiyu finished speaking, and stepped aside. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Black clay, colorful brocade, and white jade Buddha appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
Yan's face immediately showed excitement and joy, but then, her face changed, and she scolded the maid on the side: "If you don't hurry up and pick up the Jade Buddha, you will be punished if you put it on the ground like this!" After speaking, she glanced around the faces of everyone around her, including Zhou Huaiyu.
Zhou Huaiyu immediately squinted. The speed at which this old woman turned her face was inevitably too fast, she had just helped her find the Jade Buddha, and immediately stopped saying that she was her good granddaughter, and began to stare at her with her eyes.
Yan did start to blame Zhou Huaiyu in his heart, after all, the first time you found the Jade Buddha, you didn't pick up the Jade Buddha, but still let the Bodhisattva lie on the ground, and when the Buddha blamed it, you had to bear all of it, and it had nothing to do with me!
After Yan finished speaking, the two little maids closest to the Jade Buddha were about to step forward to pick up the Jade Buddha, and at this time Zhou Huaiyu spoke up.
"Grandmother, no. ”
Yan immediately stared at her, if it wasn't for Zhou Huaiyu finding the Jade Buddha, I'm afraid she would have pointed at her nose and scolded her directly. "What can't you do?"
"Grandmother, the Jade Buddha was stolen by the villain, and it has been stained with filthy gas, and what is even more hateful is that the thief buried the Jade Buddha in this dirty soil, which is really disrespectful to the Bodhisattva. Yu'er suggested that her grandmother invite the Jade Buddha back, first punish the thief, and then sincerely burn incense and vegetarian food for 7749 days, so as to eliminate the turbidity on the Jade Buddha and re-enshrine it in the Buddha Hall. ”
Zhou Huaiyu is really nonsense, on the one hand, so that Yan can continue to support her in the future, and on the other hand, it is also to remind Yan that she is a person valued by the abbot master of Reclining Buddha Temple, so she has absolute authority in this regard, so Yan has to consider her words carefully.
Sure enough, Yan glanced at Zhou Huaiyu with a frown, and then said: "Yu'er is really a person who is related to my Buddha, and she thinks so thoroughly, she listens to you." ”
Zhou Huaiyu nodded, turned around and ordered, and then Dong Solstice hugged the Jade Buddha, and the group returned to Ci'an Hall in a mighty way.
At this time, Chunxiao and Xiaozhi, who had been taken to Ci'an Hall, saw that everyone came back, and Dong Solstice was really holding the Jade Buddha they had found, and the already pale faces of the two people were even worse, especially Chunxiao, when the old lady looked at her, she was directly frightened and sat down on the ground.
At this time, even the second and third wives, who had just learned about this matter, could see that this matter was inseparable from Chunxiao, let alone the Yan family, that glance, the reason why Chunxiao was scared like that was because her eyes, when she looked at Chunxiao, were already like looking at a dead person.
What kind of person is Yan, Chunxiao, who is serving her closely, knows very well, she has already seen her end, so she is so afraid.
Xiaozhi, although her face was pale, but until now, she is still standing safely, and even Zhou Huaiyu can't help but admire her determination. It would be nice if such a little maid had been hers in the first place, and had been used by her.
"Yu'er, grandmother believes in your ability, and then you continue to interrogate, you must find out all the people involved in the theft of the Jade Buddha, and you must punish them severely!" Yan sat in the first seat, and stood upright.
Zhou Huaiyu waited for her sentence, and stretched out his hand to point at Chunxiao and Xiaozhi. "You two, are you still stubborn so far?"
Chunxiao shuddered, and was about to speak, Xiaozhi took the first step: "The slave and maid confessed, it was the slave and the maid who heard the third girl say that the eldest girl harmed her and was punished by the old lady, the slave and the maid were angry, so they wanted to take advantage of the eldest girl's housekeeper to make a trip to the eldest girl, so they thought of letting the small Buddha hall be stolen, so that the old lady could punish the eldest girl, the slave and the maid were blinded by lard for a while, and asked the eldest girl and the old lady to forgive the slave and the maid this time, and the slave and maid were willing to serve the old lady and the eldest girl for the rest of their lives to repay the sin." ”
I didn't expect people to be smart and steady, and their mouths were quite slippery. The more Zhou Huaiyu thought about it, the more he felt pity.
"What about Chunxiao, the old lady treats you so well, what did you think about helping Xiaozhi steal the Jade Buddha at that time?"
"Sister Chunxiao didn't know that the slave maid was going to steal the Jade Buddha, and at that time, the slave maid deceived Sister Chunxiao's slave maid into having a nightmare, and wanted to go to the small Buddha hall to worship the Bodhisattva worshiped by the old lady, because as we all know, the Bodhisattva served by the old lady is the most spiritual. Sister Chunxiao brought the slave maid in and was busy preparing offerings for the old lady, so she didn't know that the slave maid had stolen the Jade Buddha. The slave maid is repentant and sincerely repentant, so she doesn't want Sister Chunxiao to be involved by the slave maid, so I beg the old lady to see it!"
Zhou Huaiyu looked at the hand that was standing on the side of the Su clan, which was tightly twisted in the handkerchief, and put it in front of him relaxed at this time, and a slight smile appeared on his face, looking very satisfied with Xiaozhi's answer.
The others watched with a stunned look at Xiaozhi so happily confessing his guilt and taking all the blame on himself.
Chunxiao was even more alarmed, and hurriedly begged for mercy: "Ask the old lady for mercy, the slave maid was deceived by Xiaozhi, the slave and maid don't know about these things, please ask the old lady for mercy!"
Zhou Huaiyu looked at Chunxiao's expression that was almost crying with joy and snorted coldly, "Even if you are deceived by Xiaozhi, do you know that the Little Buddha Hall is the most important place in the entire Hou Mansion except for the ancestral hall and the old lady's courtyard, and you, as the big girl of the Little Buddha Hall, easily listened to her, causing the Jade Buddha to be stolen, don't you have any responsibility?"
Zhou Huaiyu knew that whatever Xiaozhi said and heard Zhou Yunru complain that she had hurt her and wanted to stumble her was nonsense, but he also understood that it was impossible to interrogate anything now, let alone tie up this matter to the Su family.
The whole plan is manipulated by Xiaozhi alone, let Chunxiao open the door for her to steal the Jade Buddha, let the Zuo family's mother-in-law deliberately shake in front of the Su family, and then be assigned to her yard, it is all her idea, Chunxiao and the Zuo family's mother-in-law are hidden in it, and even the Buddha statue is hidden in the back garden, it is estimated that Xiaozhi hid it alone.
"Xiaozhi, let me ask you one last time, why do you want to let the mother-in-law of the Zuo family show her face in front of the eldest lady, and then let the mother-in-law of the Zuo family go to my yard to report the news?"
It's a pity that since Xiaozhi confessed his guilt, he has been kneeling there with his head bowed, not moving, as if he was waiting for death. Zhou Huaiyu sighed in his heart, his eyes deliberately glanced at Su, and the corners of his mouth showed an expression that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.
Sure enough, Su Shi immediately couldn't bear it, "Who knows which crazy this cheap hoof is, Yu'er don't ask again, just send her to the official mansion!"