When everyone saw her come in, their faces moved slightly.

That Zhang's mother and daughter had suffered at her hands, and they couldn't help but change color when they saw her come back. Even the Liu clan is also strong and calm.

Xia Chunchao stepped into the door, and Lu Chengyong stepped forward to see his mother, so he stood aside and asked, "Mother, what big mistake did Changchun make and must send her out of the door?" Liu ignored her, and only nodded to Lu Chengyong and said, "Are you here?" Can you go to the grave? Is your grandfather's grave alright? Not long after you left, it rained, and I was worried that you would get drenched. Lu Chengyong replied: "Mother Lao remembered it, but it's good that she didn't get drenched." The grandfather's tomb has moved around a little and has been repaired. ”

The mother and son exchanged pleasantries, and Lu Chengyong met Aunt Zhang again. When Zhang Xueyan saw him coming, she immediately got up, looked at him and said a blessing to him, and said timidly: "I've seen my cousin." Lu Chengyong remembered what his wife said before, and in order to avoid suspicion, he didn't look at her, only nodded, and returned to his wife's side.

Zhang Xueyan saw that there was no one in his eyes like this, and she couldn't help but feel angry in her chest, and she couldn't do anything, so she had to sit next to her mother again.

Liu pointed to the ground and said: "This girl, it's good to look at on weekdays, but who knows that she is a thief!" Your aunt and cousin came to visit the door today, and they sat for a long time to go, but the hairpin on Xueyan's head was gone. I searched everywhere, but I didn't, so I asked this girl. But she was cunning and cunning, full of sophistry, and did not tell a word of truth. Let's clean people, we can't tolerate such a person who can be a thief, so it's better to send it away. ”

Changchun knelt on the ground, heard his wife's words, and said with tears in his eyes: "Mrs. Grandma is above, and listen to the maid's sù." When my cousin came here today, I only served in the outer hall, and I never went inside. My aunt and my cousin only talk in the inner hall, and my cousin has lost her hairpin, but what does it have to do with me? I came home when I was thirteen years old, and my wife should be in the eyes of him on weekdays. Although I am stupid, I really disdain to steal, and I hope my wife will see it. ”

When Liu Shi heard this, he was furious and shouted: "You slippery, this means that I have wronged you?!" Eat inside and out, commit something that has no master, I should have sent you out a long time ago! As soon as the words landed, Zhang Xueyan said timidly: "Since I came here today, I only sat in the upper room and talked to my aunt, and I have never been anywhere else. After sitting on this day, only the Changchun girl came in and poured tea twice, and no one else came. When I was leaving, the hairpin on my head was gone. I didn't dare to mess with people, but I just talked to my aunt. I didn't mean anything else, I just talked about it in vain, I never thought that my aunt would be annoyed, and she was going to send Miss Changchun, but it wasn't mine. ”

Aunt Zhang smiled and said, "You kid, you really don't know anything, you lose the hairpin, what do you say plainly?" You don't know that your aunt has always been jealous and upright by nature, and she can't tolerate anyone who is a traitor and a criminal and does such misdeeds. I can't compare with those who take the things of the officials to do favors, so that people can say that she is lenient and merciful. After that, she smiled and said to Liu's family: "Sister doesn't have to be busy, I heard that the Changchun girl was bought by her nephew and daughter-in-law, presumably this master-servant relationship is different from others." Although our family is poor, we are not on this hairpin. We don't have to ask people to say that we deliberately caused trouble and instigated restlessness in people's houses. Forgive if you can, it's something we shouldn't say. ”

It turned out that she had been eating wine since the past, and was humiliated and ridiculed by Xia Chunchao in front of her for being poor, lest she be accused of being stingy again today, so she first used words to gag her mouth, and secretly ridiculed Xia Chunchao's hypocrisy and hypocrisy, inviting people to buy people's hearts, so as to force her not to meddle in this matter.

Lu Chengyong listened to his aunt's rude words, and when he raised his eyebrows, he wanted to speak. Before he could speak, Xia Chunchao smiled first: "Even if you can't say it, you have already said it, so why say it?" Before we came home, my wife had been tortured for a long time. Since my aunt has this heart, why didn't she stop it earlier? The wife sent someone to call someone to go, and only then did she say these few words that were not salty or light, and what did they mean. After that, he ignored Aunt Zhang's embarrassment, and only asked Zhang Xueyan with a smile: "I heard that my cousin lost a handkerchief at my house before, and this time I lost a hairpin." This is really funny, could it be that my cousin is not in agreement with my family? How can you lose something when you come here? Cousin can remember correctly, it must have been lost at my house? Don't you forget that you didn't wear it? ”

Zhang Xueyan was scolded by Xia Chunchao, her eyes were red, her face was aggrieved, and she said softly: "Cousin-in-law, is this saying that I have nothing to do, and I am lying out of thin air?" I am my aunt's niece, and I have run here, and my aunt treats me like my own daughter. How could I do such a thing that I don't know what to do and what I don't know how to take revenge? Before he could finish his words, he said to Lu Chengyong: "Cousin, I don't dare to have such thoughts. ”

Lu Chengyong couldn't get used to her posture, and he couldn't say anything because of his relatives, so he just said: "Yes or no, you just say it." And no one has wronged you, so why bother like this. ”

Zhang Xueyan unexpectedly had a disadvantageous teacher, and it was boring to ask for a meal, so she had to bow her head and keep silent, secretly calculating.

Aunt Zhang saw that her daughter was frustrated, so she hurriedly said to help: "Brother Yong'er is wrong, it is clear that someone is here to say that Xue Yan has nothing to do and provoke right and wrong. Xueyan is an innocent girl who hasn't gone out, how can she tolerate such slander? Lu Chengyong replied: "Auntie's words are really ridiculous, I haven't heard anyone say that my cousin is provoking." ”

Xia Chunchao looked at it coldly for a long time, and saw that Lu Chengyong was a man, and he was a junior, and Aunt Tongzhang and other sophisticated women couldn't speak clearly, so he immediately said: "That's it, since my cousin has lost something here, I am in charge of the family, so naturally I can't sit idly by." Although a hairpin is not a problem, my family does not allow people to steal and take bribes. Since you said that Changchun took your hairpin, do you have real evidence? If it was really taken by Changchun, whoever interceded, I would definitely not allow her to be at home. ”

Liu listened to Xia Chunchao's words above, and saw that she was like the heroine of the Lu family in her words, and said angrily: "You little hoof, I'm not dead yet, my girl, it's your turn to tie the raft?!" Xia Chunchao blessed his body, smiled and replied: "Mrs. said this is not true, when I didn't come to the house before, my wife was about to send Changchun away, I just want to sort things out now, why didn't Mrs. let me let it go again?" As he spoke, he asked Zhang Xueyan, "Does my cousin have a certificate?" ”

Zhang Xueyan didn't have any evidence, but she was relying on the momentum of the Liu family to uproot Xia Chunchao's henchmen, but she didn't expect these two to come back so coincidentally. Now that he was questioned by Xia Chunchao in person, he was speechless, hesitated for a long time, and had to say: "Naturally, I didn't see anything, but I sat in the upper room and didn't go anywhere else. Is it because the hairpin on my head fell to the ground and was picked up by the Changchun girl? ”

When Changchun heard this, his eyes were broken, and he said, "Cousin, you must also speak truthfully!" Do you want to condemn me if you don't have anything to do?! Zhang Xueyan said coldly: "I'm just telling the truth, otherwise can my hairpin grow wings and fly?" ”

After listening to this, Xia Chunchao nodded and smiled, and said lightly to the Liu family: "I also said that my wife took some real evidence, and she was going to send the girl, but it turned out to be like this!" As the saying goes, to catch a thief is to catch a thief, and to catch a traitor is to double. Changchun is the old man in our family, and he came in to serve at the age of thirteen. If you can't produce evidence and get rid of her today, it will inevitably make people unconvinced, and it will be even more difficult to manage people in the future. Since it was this afternoon, Changchun had never been to any other place. If she really took her cousin's hairpin, it must still be on the left, and she couldn't go far. That being the case, now someone came up, asked my cousin to follow, and searched Changchun's residence everywhere, except for one suspicion. If she really did such a thing, I would definitely not allow her to be at the door of the Lu family. ”

Changchun's heart was upset, and he looked up and said: "But with grandma searching, if there is really half a thief, if the masters don't punish me, my own family will die in this hall!" ”

Seeing this situation, Zhang Xueyan secretly said that it was not good, although she gave Changchun a hairpin earlier as a bribe, but it has been a long time, and I don't know if she sent it elsewhere. Now looking at her like this, the hairpin must not be in her room, how can there be any result when she searches it, but it is just a disciple to make people think that they are in trouble.

At that moment, she opened her mouth and said, "My cousin-in-law is kind, I understand it." However, I am a relative, and I never asked my aunt to check it at home for such a trivial matter. I can't afford it, so I'll leave it at that. As my mother said, although my family is poor, it is not on this hairpin. After speaking, she shook her body and leaned on Aunt Zhang, as if she had been infinitely wronged.

Aunt Zhang touched the top of her head, her mother and daughter were connected, and naturally understood what her daughter meant, so she sighed to everyone: "My children are sensible, and they dare not work for relatives for these little things. Since the nephew and daughter-in-law have protected this girl, this matter will be stopped. Poor relatives like us can't afford to provoke right and wrong. ”

She originally intended to advance as retreat, how could Xia Chunchao not hear it. She sneered twice, and was about to refute it, but Lu Chengyong on the side was already impatient, and said to his face: "The matter has already come out, why should my aunt be so coy." I want to suspect my girl, and I don't let me investigate, and I want to make a mess in someone's house, and I want to give favors and be a good person, how can there be such a reason? ! Xia Chunchao also said with a straight face: "Now this matter is no longer in my cousin's hairpin, if this matter is not investigated, how will Changchun deal with himself in front of people in the future?" Although I don't allow people to steal chickens and touch dogs, I can't let them carry the pot for nothing! ”

Aunt Zhang was choked in front of his wife and his wife, choked so much that she couldn't speak, and her face was red and white for a while. Zhang Xueyan shrank in her arms, her body trembling, as if she was very scared.

Seeing his son's disrespectful words, Liu immediately reprimanded: "Why are you talking to your aunt?" I don't know the slightest amount of courtesy, who instigated it like this! However, she was stupid and unreasonable, and she was only angry for her sister and niece, and immediately said: "Sister and Yan'er don't be afraid, just ask them to search for it, I see that the thief has been found, and this little hoof has nothing to say!" ”

Aunt Zhang was helpless, so she had to force herself to say: "Our mother and daughter have good intentions, but since the elder sister said it, then search for it." But what we find has nothing to do with us. ”

Xia Chunchao was upside down when he heard this, and he was secretly amused in his heart, and he didn't pay attention to the two of them, so he instructed Zhu'er: "Go and tell your sister-in-law Cheng, tell her to bring two proper women and search carefully in the Changchun room." Yes or no, come out and sù a sound. As he spoke, he asked Zhang Xueyan again: "I forgot to ask, what style is my cousin's hairpin?" These big girls in my family, although they are inferior, they also have two pieces of jewelry on weekdays, so it's not good not to get confused. ”

Zhang Xueyan replied in a low voice: "It is a silver hairpin, with gilt on the head, engraved with chrysanthemum patterns, and inlaid with jade, and the hairpin body is engraved with a slip of poetry, hiding my name." When Aunt Zhang heard this, she exclaimed, "Oh, you stupid child, how can such things be littered at will?" Let the ill-intentioned pick it up, and I don't know how to make it bad! Zhang Xueyan cried: "My daughter was also unintentional, but she lost it." ”

Xia Chunchao was tired of seeing it, and only said: "That's it, I'll give my cousin an explanation after I search it." After that, he motioned for Zhu'er to go out and spread the word.

After a while, the housekeeper Cheng brought two women in according to his words, saw everyone one by one, and said to Xia Chunchao: "Listen to grandma's orders." ”

Xia Chunchao asked, "Zhu'er has already made her words clear?" Cheng replied respectfully: "Understood." Xia Chunchao nodded and said, "Now that you know, let's go." Be careful, lest people say that our family is short. Cheng said: "The small ones should be cautious. After saying that, he took the two women, lifted Changchun up from the ground, and went to her room.

And they waited in the hall, and for a moment there was no word. Zhang Xueyan nestled in Aunt Zhang's arms, sobbing lowly.

Lu Chengyong was slightly bored, so he took his wife to sit on the chair next to him, and said to Zhu'er: "Go make two teas, come back from this place, and be very thirsty." Zhu'er went out in response, and Lu Chengyong took Xia Chunchao's hand and whispered to her.

Liu looked at it from above, although he was full of displeasure, but it was not easy to reprimand, so he just didn't see it. That Zhang Xueyan saw it in her eyes, but she was full of resentment.

After a while, Cheng led the two women back and forth, and said in the hall: "The little one has found out, the things and things that are the only one in the Changchun girl's house, and even the favors given by the grandmother and the girl, are all clearly explained, and there is nothing wrong with it." In order to avoid suspicion, the little ones even searched the honeysuckle girl's belongings, but they never saw them. ”。