CHAPTER 40

The eldest lady glanced at her, blew the tea in her hand, and said disapprerovitically: "Naturally, it's strange." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

She has also seen that Qingyun, when her daughter got married, she also listed their twin sisters in the list of candidates, Qingyun was too lively, so she chose Qingyang's dowry.

Vanilla stood aside and took the teacup, served her breakfast, and whispered: "I don't know what the portrait is about, the slave maid knows that Qingyun has not been out of Yangzhou."

Vanilla didn't dare to say much, for fear of affecting the eldest lady's appetite, so the words stopped.

The eldest lady is shrewd and capable, others can think of her, and think deeper.

She thought, Ji Zhong is the big housekeeper in the house, his position is stared at all the time, the second housekeeper clerk is one of the people who want him to get off the horse the most, and the Chang mother-in-law is the daughter-in-law of the second housekeeper, if there is nothing to do with them, she doesn't believe it, what makes her most unhappy is that this matter has actually caused trouble in the official mansion, and she is really comfortable in the Ji Mansion, and she dares to rely on the name of the Ji Mansion to spread wild outside, a group of things that don't know the height of the sky without beating.

Thinking of this, she glanced at Mrs. Chang, and she didn't move, and ate breakfast unhurriedly, she wanted to see what demons these people dared to make.

"Madam, Mother Liu, they are here", Chun'er, who went to pass the word, whispered.

The eldest lady said in her heart: "It's really fast enough", she swallowed the food in her mouth, raised her apricot eyes slightly, and said dignified and generous, "Let them wait".

"Yes".

Chun'er answered and went out to spread the word again.

Mother Liu, Xiangrui, and Qingyun stood under the porch and waited.

The eldest lady has many children, and it took nearly an hour just to greet her.

Mother Liu and the others didn't dare to be presumptuous, they honestly stood and waited, all of them were anxious and had nothing to do.

Mother Liu's face was pale, she didn't close her eyes all night, and she stood for so long, her body was a little unbearable. In her heart, she hated the Chang mother-in-law even more, she had learned that the Chang mother-in-law took the portrait to show the eldest lady, and she thought that the thing that Qingyun was wanted was done by their man, and she hated the Chang mother-in-law so much that she gritted her teeth.

They didn't wait for the summons of the eldest lady, but they waited for the person sent by the eldest lady.

That person is the elder next to Master Ji, it is true.

Admittedly, after carefully looking at Qingyun, he went to report to the eldest lady.

When Liu's mother saw Cheng Ran looking at Qingyun, she sighed in her heart, guessing that there must be something wrong with her man's side. She was in a hurry, and immediately panicked.

Xiangrui saw her body shaking, so she hurriedly helped her behind her, and said in a low voice and eagerly: "Mother, I don't know what is going on, don't worry about it first."

Mother Liu stood firm, as if comforting herself, and muttered to herself: "Yes, yes, yes, you can't be in a hurry."

Qingyun stood behind them and hung her head, she was looked back and forth by the inquiring gaze, her heart was wronged, and she secretly wiped her tears.

Mrs. Ji was talking to the young lady, and she listened to the herb announcement: "Madam, the old man is indeed here."

"Call him in", Mrs. Ji took a sip of the teacup, her movements dignified and elegant.

The young lady asked curiously: "Didn't my father go out with Bai Wuye from Jinling?"

Mrs. Ji smiled lightly: "I came back yesterday, but I didn't even go back to the inner courtyard, and I don't know what I'm busy with."

Not long after the young lady married into the Ji family, her heels had not yet stood firm, and she was not very well informed, so she didn't know about these things.

She covered her mouth with a handkerchief and said with a smile, "A few days ago, I heard our third lady say that my father quarreled with the fifth master Bai over a poem."

Mrs. Ji smiled and shook her head slightly: "It's a pity that Bai Wuye, that is a reading seed but was forced to do business."

The young lady asked curiously: "Ah, there is still something going on."

Mrs. Ji glanced at her with a smile: "I'll tell you about Jinling another day."

It is true that he walked in and bent down to salute: "Say hello to the eldest lady, please say hello to the young lady."

Mrs. Ji looked at him and asked, "The master sent you"?

Admittedly, he said respectfully, "Yes, the old man sent the little one to pass on the Qian family."

Mrs. Ji raised her eyebrows in surprise, she thought of Qingyun's matter, this is not enough for the master to intervene and ask, is there anything she doesn't know!

Slowly asked, "What did the master pass them to do?"

It is true that he recalled this and said: "This morning, Ji Zhong went to the master with Wen Qian, and I think that Mrs. knew about the wanted warrant"!

Seeing Mrs. Ji nodding, he continued, "Ji Zhong said that the wanted warrant came from Jizhou Mansion, which side of the wealthy family intervened, the wanted warrant said that it was homicide, but his niece never left the mansion, the strangest thing is that Bai Wuye next to the inkstone said that they had seen the person on the portrait on the way here."

The young lady couldn't help but exclaim: "What's going on."

A trace of doubt flashed in Mrs. Ji's apricot eyes, and she frowned and said, "You go on."

"Yes"

Cheng Ran continued, "The little one knew that his daughters were twins, and I heard that one of them said that he was sick and died, so the little one mentioned this matter to the master, and the master suspected that the girl was not dead, so he found the family who gave the marriage to confirm."

The young lady covered her mouth lightly with a handkerchief, blinked her beautiful eyes, and guessed: "Which girl is not dead?"

"Could it be that the news that came was wrong," Mrs. Ji pondered, guessing that someone was playing tricks on it.

Admittedly, he shook his head and looked puzzled: "The family said that they buried the person with their own hands, and guessed that they might have gone at night, and the corpse was hard when they found it."

"Ah, why is it getting more and more confusing" The young lady was surprised, she had never heard of such a thing, and the dignified and beautiful people exclaimed again and again.

Mrs. Ji frowned, her fingers lightly tapped on the table as if she thought of something, and asked Chengran: "What is the child's illness?"

Mrs. Ji suspected that the child was not dead, maybe he was just holding his breath at the time, and was later mistaken for a ghost.

"I said that I had a fever, and I went there within two days", and admittedly continued, "The master also suspects that the child is not dead, and has sent someone to investigate."

Mrs. Ji rubbed her eyebrows, her face tired: "You take them over first, there is some news that is coming."

"Yes".

It is true that they left with Qingyun and Liu's mother, and Xiangrui was also specially sent by Mrs. Ji to follow.

Mother Liu asked Cheng Cheng again and again but didn't ask for any information, so she went to the outer courtyard with a worried heart.

Master Ji was telling Bai Wuye about the strange things he had heard, and the two of them talked eloquently.

Wen Qian and Ji Zhong stood aside and waited, their hearts were full of ups and downs, things were really too weird, and they had no bottom in their hearts.

"Master, it's true that I'm back," He Fei reminded on the side.

"Oh, bring people up" Master Ji stroked his beard and looked at the door, and said to the person sitting opposite: "What about the inkstone, he called him over to recognize it to see if it was the same person."

The person sitting opposite him was named Ji Bai, and he had seen Li Chenyu and Zhao Banblind when he was hiding from the rain on the way to Yangzhou.

Ji Bai raised his chin and motioned for Ximo to call someone, he was quite curious about this matter, he also had an impression of the people he saw in the broken temple at the beginning, and stared at the visitor with interest.

"Greetings to the eldest master".

Mother Liu and the others knelt down and kowtowed, but they didn't dare to get up when they heard the reply, and knelt respectfully.