Chapter Twenty-Eight: What I Stole
"What's your name?" Jiang Li asked lightly. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"The maid's name is Jin Ju, and she used to visit the nine girls in Meizhuang with her grandmother." Jin Ju smiled gently and lovely, not like she was trembling and cautious in front of her master's grandmother.
Jiang Li's face was also kind: "Jin Ju? Isn't it a coincidence that you say this kind of thing, just ten days before we were going back, there was a thief in the house! But no one in the house threw anything, and I wonder what this thief rushed to. Has this ever happened before? ”
Jin Ju thought about it seriously and shook his head, "The maid has only been in the house for five years, and I have never heard of the theft in the house." However, I can help you go back and ask Grandma. ”
Jiang Li didn't want to embarrass a servant, so he coldly reminded kindly: "Then don't tell the wrong word." ”
"Don't dare!" Jin Ju was blessed with a blessing, and took another girl out of the garden with a lamp.
Turning a low wall, the little girl who was traveling with her muttered: "Sister Jin Ju, everyone in the house says that Miss Nine has a temperament with the third grandmother, she is a master who never stirs trouble, and she is cowardly, but I don't think it's like that!" You see that she was clearly aggressive just now, and she made it clear that she didn't believe it, and she seemed to be a fearful lord there! ”
"Ah Li, although you haven't been in this mansion for a long time, for the sake of our sisters, my sister will also give you some heartfelt words. Let's be girls in this house, don't deliberately try to please any master, and don't watch who loses power, just follow someone to step on whom. Let's just do our duty honestly, say everything well, forget about those words that are easy to misunderstand, don't learn in front of the master! Jin Ju said all the way along.
Hearing that Ah Li didn't say a word behind him, Jin Ju taught again, "When I turned around, I only said that the ninth girl asked grandma for the key to the study, one more simple sentence!" ”
Ah Li smiled knowingly in the back: "No wonder every girl in the big room says that Jin Ju can tolerate people, not like Jin Xiang's girl who sells well in front of her master all day long, and tries her best to come up with some bad ideas." ”
The two girls talked all the way out of the Hanxiang Garden.
Listening to the two girls in Yuxuan, they were holding their breath, and when they entered the wing room where Jiang Li lived before, they became angry.
The room was really cleaned up like a snow cave, and there was not a single exquisite ornament left on the red sandalwood shelf, and there was no single color play in the three ear rooms. In the spacious and bright wing, only one of the simple and wide carved step beds remains. The flower sac of Ru kiln on the jade table is still there, a few plum blossoms are inserted in the bottle, and there are still two pairs of calligraphy and paintings of famous artists on the left and right walls.
"Hehe, grandma is looking for someone to clean it up, it's like a ransack!" Xiao Xiangcha exclaimed.
Rao is green pothos couldn't help but be dumbfounded, "Fortunately, Jin Ju mentioned it just now, otherwise I would really think that the girl was robbed in this room." I don't think the grandma's statement is tenable at all, what thief doesn't steal things when he comes? It was clear that they were playing tricks and taking the opportunity to put all the valuable things in the third room into the public school. What do you say that if the girl wants to use it, she will go to the treasury to get it, and if the girl wants to use it, she can only use her own, and the room of antiques and treasures in the lady's lifetime, the girl will become the Jiang family without needing? ”
The pothos was panting with anger and walked around the room dazzlingly.
Jiang Li simply sat in front of the case, holding his cheeks in his hand and said with a smile: "That's fine, I originally liked to be pure, and now I'm not afraid of being remembered by thieves again!" ”
Most of Jiang Li's words were sincere, she thought that she had crossed over, and the things in this room were not hers, and she was fortunate to have it, and she didn't feel sorry for it. As long as there is a life, it is a blessing.
Moreover, for the sake of this life, she thought that if the Xu family really took a fancy to these properties, sooner or later she would have to calculate them. 's mother is the daughter-in-law of the Jiang family, and everything in her lifetime, including people, belongs to the Jiang family, and it makes sense that these things are included in the public school.
If she accepts it, she will accept it, and the ready-made property is dead, and the Xu family will not have much to go even if he is dead. The property in your hands is alive, as long as you keep these industries and spend a lot of effort to make money, a steady stream of silver will flow into your small treasury.
Thinking about the few boatloads of spices that had just been shipped out not long ago, and if it went well, they would soon be able to recover a large amount of silver, Jiang Li felt that there was nothing to regret about losing this room of things.
If something goes wrong with the merchant ship, she won't pay a penny anyway. In the words she confessed to Sixi, as long as the people who went out of the boat came back safely.
She vaguely mentioned everything she had to say in her letter to her father, and whether others could be safe or not depended on their creation. Thinking of this, Xiao Wu's unwavering eyes appeared in front of Jiang Li's eyes.
The green pothos was very angry, and looked back at Jiang Li sitting in front of the desk with his hands on his cheeks and smiling, pulling Xiaoxiang to wonder, "Do you think our girl is stupid from an illness?" This matter was left to the point where she didn't get mad before, and now you see she's still laughing! ”
Xiaoxiang nodded and said, "I'll just say that her temperament is like a different person, and now even you can see it." But that's fine, so that we don't have to be angry with her, she is not angry, which one of us are angry?! ”
The pothos thought about it and recognized it, and went out and ordered the few girls she brought back to wait for the washing.
The next day, the eldest grandmother sent someone to bring the key, and it was the girl named Jin Ju who came last night.
Luluo combed Jiang Li's hair, and listened to the words of Xiaoxiang outside Jin Ju's door, "What the ninth girl asked, I asked the eldest grandmother, and I also deliberately asked the old servant in the mansion to deal with it, like the theft in the house, since the old lady passed away nine years ago, I have heard of thieves in the study rooms in various places in the mansion in the past few years, but I have always heard that no one has seen it with their own eyes." Just like this time, the study was turned into a mess, but I didn't hear that anyone in the house had dropped something. “
"It's weird, it looks like that!" Xiao Xiang's words were full of ridicule.
Jin Ju pretended not to hear it, and continued: "Ten days ago, this time it was different, this time the whole mansion, including the study of the four or three sons, was completely turned over, the strange thing is that there were many servants on duty that night, and it was a big festival, no one dared to take it lightly, and there were people patrolling around the garden all night, but no one found that there were outsiders entering and leaving that night. ”
The two of them stood outside the wing room where Jiang Li lived, and the words passed into Jiang Li's ears word for word.
Jiang Li didn't believe that the study was really a thief, so he asked like that, he didn't want this Jin Ju to really take it seriously, Jiang Li liked it very much, this is a girl who knows and is interested. At that moment, he said to the pothos: "Reward that girl with silver." In addition, I asked her to send a message to my eldest aunt, saying that Jiang Li had no mother, and I was relieved that my mother's things before her death were placed with my aunt. I don't have to take my stuff anymore, so it's just right to be simpler. ”
When the pothos went out, Jiang Li thought in a daze: Is there really a thief? I don't see anything lost, so what is this thief coming to steal?