At this time, Daiyu in the inner courtyard was also woken up, and even Aunt Ye, Zijuan, Xueyan and others were awakened. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAunt Yao and Aunt Du, who were sleeping next door, hurriedly sent the girl to ask what was going on, Daiyu calmed down, and was about to call Zijuan to ask at the door, Aunt Ye had already put on her clothes and got up, she told Zijuan to take care of Daiyu, so she buttoned up her clothes and went out, came to the courtyard gate and asked, "What's the noise outside, what's going on?" ”

When the housekeeper heard it, he knew that it was Aunt Ye's voice, so he didn't hide it, and leaned on the door and whispered everything that had just happened carefully. Aunt Ye was startled, and her anger rose to her throat, and she couldn't help but raise her voice and said, "It's worth it!" The housekeeper hurriedly told Aunt Ye not to make noise, and attached to the door, whispering his thoughts to Aunt Ye.

The housekeeper's idea was not to shout out externally, and internally he only said that Jia Lian's little maid Wang'er had unclean hands and feet, and was discovered by the girl who got up at night. The real situation is best not to tell Daiyu. After all, Jia Lian is the cousin of Daiyu's maternal uncle's family, and Jia Lian has done ugly things in the Lin family, so it is difficult to guarantee that it will not affect Daiyu's reputation.

At this moment, a group of chaotic voices came from the outer courtyard, and the guards on night duty in the post house were also alarmed by the noise just now, and came to pat the courtyard rented by the Lin family with lanterns, and asked loudly, "What's going on inside?" ”

The housekeeper hurriedly replied loudly: "It's not a big deal, I caught a thief!" So saying, he hurried outside. Aunt Ye thought about the housekeeper's words, and knew that if such a thing was rumored, not only would Daiyu lose her reputation, but she could only go to the nunnery for the rest of her life, and even the dead Lin Ruhai would be affected. After tea and dinner, people will not say what kind of punishment Jia Lian should receive according to the law for molesting/molesting the girls of the elders' family during the condolence, but will regard these things as fragrant jokes, and pour dirty water on the Lin family after talking about it.

As she thought, she went back to the house, telling everyone that she had caught a thief in the outer courtyard. The girl sent by Aunt Yao and Aunt Du got the news and knew that the thief had been arrested, so they went to report to their masters. Daiyu in the house was lying under Zijuan's service, seeing that Aunt Ye was still frowning, knowing that there might be something inconvenient to say, and then looking at Xueyan and Zijuan, they were both sleepy and nodded, so she also suppressed her curiosity and prepared to ask again when she was free the next day.

In the outer courtyard, the butler ordered someone to open the door. The people on night duty at the inn did not come in, and stood outside the door holding a lantern aloft there, only to see a vague figure in the courtyard, and the sound of intermittent moaning.

One of the leaders said: "I thought that the security in the city was okay recently, and there were few thieves and pickpockets in the inn, so the brothers relaxed their vigilance and let the thieves turn into the yard, disturbing you, I am really ashamed!" ”

The housekeeper hurriedly said: "It should be said that it is the old man who is ashamed." This thief didn't come in from the outside, he was originally his own servant, and he took advantage of the master's family to have a crooked intention to steal something, but fortunately he was broken by the girl. ”

When the people at the inn heard this, they breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that it was not their own negligence that brought in the thief. The man at the head looked at the humanoid shadow that was still moaning on the ground in the courtyard, and couldn't help but admonish again: "Although it is said that it is a family thief, it is not our turn to take care of it, but I still remind the old gentleman: it is best to send the thief to the government." If you accidentally beat someone to death, you will get into a life lawsuit. ”

The butler nodded yes again and again, took out a small silver ticket of twenty taels from his sleeve and handed it over, saying that he invited them to buy wine and drink. The person at the head resolutely refused to accept it, excused himself a few times, and finally had to accept it, and told the housekeeper a few more words before leading people to leave the courtyard rented by the Lin family and go to patrol other places.

When the housekeeper saw that the people in the inn had gone away, he closed the door and called all the people who had participated in the vigil tonight, and each of them gave a silver ticket of twenty taels. Everyone knew that this was for the sake of not making a noise about what happened just now, so they all kept silent one after another, and even the girl who was frightened was fortunate to keep her reputation.

The night was cold and heavy, and the housekeeper was afraid that Wang'er on the ground would freeze to death, and then cause lawsuits and grudges to the master's family, and let a few people who participated in the beating carry Wang'er to the door of Jia Lian's room, and also threw a bottle of gold sore medicine on the ground. One of the servants said loudly through the door panel: "Second Master of the Jia family, we caught a thief just now, I don't want to be your subordinate." Those of us who are driving the car to keep vigil are a little heavier, and we accidentally injured us, so we will leave you a bottle of gold sore medicine, which will be regarded as an apology. ”

As he spoke, he threw Wang'er on the steps at the door.

Jia Lian took advantage of the drunkenness to molest/molest the girl at night, and didn't want to be kicked out of the country by that kick. When he came into close contact with the cold stone slab, his drunken spirit was gone, and the rainstorm of sticks behind him made him completely sober. Just now he was sitting on the bed in the dark light, his whole body was in hot pain, and he thought that Wang'er was beating him so badly, but he was afraid that he didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and he felt very bored in his heart. At this time, I heard a sound of footsteps outside, and someone stood outside the door and said something like that, and his face suddenly turned purple.

After the little guy finished speaking, he walked away with a few people who carried people over, and it was quiet outside, only Wang'er crouched on the cold steps and groaned. Jia Lian waited for a while, and saw that there was no other sound outside, so he dared to open the door, and dragged Wang'er into the house. In the room where Lin Mo lived next door, the window was dark and gloomy, and Lin Mo in the room had already been woken up, but he heard the voices of Jia Lian and Wang'er, and he didn't light the lights out because he was worried about everyone's faces, and still lay back on the bed and pretended to sleep.

The next morning, Jia Lian had to say that he was sick and stayed in the post house. Wang'er was beaten up by the Lin family's night watchmen, and she couldn't even get up. Jia Lian also received a few sticks on the top of his head, and his face was also broken, so he really had no shame to go out of the room to see people.

When Daiyu got up early in the morning, she heard from the people below that Jia Lian's master and servant fell ill one after another last night, and hurriedly called someone to invite the doctor to come, and then contacted the commotion in the middle of the night last night, and felt even more strange in her heart. asked Aunt Ye carefully, Aunt Ye only said that Jia Lian's servant Wang'er stole something at night, was bumped into by the girl on duty at night, and was beaten. Daiyu was suspicious when she heard this, so she drove the snow geese and purple juan to guard outside the house, and pulled Aunt Ye to ask carefully.

Aunt Ye couldn't hide it, so she had to avoid it and lightly said that Jia Lian took advantage of the wine to entangle the girl who went to the night, and was beaten a few sticks by the night watchman. Daiyu asked carefully again, and Aunt Ye had no choice but to tell all the details. Listening to the whole thing, Daiyu's face turned pale, Jia Lian did such a thing, once it was spread, it would be an insult to the entire Lin family. She walked back and forth a few steps in the room uneasily, and gradually settled down: the housekeeper and others had already covered up the matter, and the servants who participated last night were all born to the family, and they were both prosperous and lossless with the Lin family, so they would not make a big fuss about this matter.

It's just that although everything is pressed down now, there is one place that must be poked out in order to completely get rid of the worries.

She opened the door and instructed Zijuan: "Go to the carriage and get pen and ink, paper and envelopes, and I will write a letter to send to my second uncle." ”

Zijuan hurriedly went to the carriage to find pen, ink, paper, inkstone, snow goose added water and ink, everything was ready, Daiyu settled down, picked up the brush and wrote a letter. In the letter, she first wrote about many things after returning to Yangzhou from Jinling, and then asked about Jia's mother's physical condition, and everyone else in Rongguo's mansion except for the maid and mother-in-law greeted her, and then sealed another piece of paper in the letter, which was densely filled with small characters, and described what Jia Lian did last night calmly and straightforwardly.

After writing, he carefully sealed it in an envelope, let the purple juan press the fire paint, and entrusted it to the person in the post house to send it out urgently.

The reason why it was not sent to Jia's mother, Baoyu and others was because the letters to the inner courtyard had to pass through Mrs. Wang's hands, and as for Daiyu's uncle Jia Yu, he was an extremely selfish and unreliable person. Only Jia Zheng is known as "pedantic and square", and Yuan Chun is in the palace, with the blue eyes of the emperor and the empress with "virtuousness", these two people pay the most attention to the reputation of Rongguo Mansion outside, and they can also understand the danger best. Then there is the inscription plaque of the Grand View Garden in the previous life, Jia Zheng returned to protect Daiyu, and used the plaque of her inscription word for word, reflecting the rare family affection. Therefore, after thinking about it, only by sending the letter to Jia Zheng's hands can it be the safest and most truly valued.